Argh, tecnhology. Outlook is now auto-capitalizing after a period, including e.g. and i.e. There is a way to turn it off, but only if I buy the full microsoft package—which I already have through work, but not for this particular email. Everything seems to default to autocorrecting your spelling, grammar, choice of language, other people’s choice of language…
Please, world, stop trying to fix me. I’m not as broken as you think.
You may be familiar with my feelings about the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (Septa). Today, they stole another hour of my life. The bus that should have come at 7:30 never came. (I know I didn’t miss it. I was there 14 minutes early). Fortunately the 8:10 came- 10 minutes late. You’re riding Septa, bend over and take it.
Like Tina Fey… a Septa-genarian…
I’m still angry with Paramount+.
They bought the rights to that TV show ‘Medium’… and even though I am paying those no-good-thieving-M@*her-F@*ckers a monthly fee, they are ripping apart every episode at 4 minute intervals with 5 minutes of commercials. 
I wouldn’t mind forecasting how any of that Board of Directors dies…
Very minor rant - I think I may have posted last month about how Dropped’em (mail-order pharmacy, mandated by our insurance) could not say when they’d have my Nuvigil in stock.
As it happens, we can get the 90 day supply at a local Walgreens. I had messaged my healthcare provider about the delays, thinking they’d send in a prescription for Provigil (predecessor to Nuvigil, which is better than nothing if not quite as good) to Dropped’em.
Turns out, they sent it to Walgreens - we had a phone message saying someone had a prescription ready for pickup.
And today, I got a text from Dropped’em, saying “Sorry, too soon to fill!”. Ya think??? I guess they resolved their supply issue sooner than expected.
Some of their shows are great but the app is extremely shitty.
Some of this fault is my own. To meet budget, we took the $6 a month rate. They say that the $12 a month rate has no commercials.
For now.
That’s also what I pay. The commercials can be ridiculous but for half the cost I can put up with them. There are just a lot of other problems with the app, from the unintuitive UI to the glitches I experience frequently. Plus it seems to have a lot of trouble buffering on all my devices despite the other streaming services being smooth.
But so many shows are good so what are you gonna do?
I live in a rodent infested, small, over priced apartment in a bad neighborhood. I took this place because I had to move and had no credit (not bad credit- no credit). It was the only place I could get with no credit and didn’t seem so bad at the time.
I plan to move when my lease is up in a few months. I must look at new apartments and my credit score.
When I first tried Credit Karma, I found that my SSN was already associated with an account. It was a name I didn’t recognize and a phone number I’ve never had. I reported the identity theft to CK and they eventually deleted that person’s account.
I tried signing up with CK again recently. After I entered my date of birth and the last four digits of my social security number, I got a screen saying “Whoops! There was an error. Try again. If the error perists, contact customer support.”
I sent an message to customer support. Then, I found that CK had been sending me e-mails when it gave the error- and not bothering to tell me. One type of e-mail just said ‘welcome to CK!’. The other type said ‘either you already have an account, or somebody has stolen your identity.’ Oh, goody.
At the suggestion of my gf, I tried downloading the Experian app on my iPhone. It turned out that I had already downloaded it. I could not remember my username or password. I tried and tried different variations of the usernames and passwords I rotate through. No go. I tried forgot password and entered my phone number. I received a message ‘this data does not match our records’. I rotated again.
After much frustration, I finally realized I may never have created an account in the first place. I tried that. Success!
According to Experian, my score is 769. Next step, finding out what the hell that means.
I got to bed later than usual tonight. Now, I cannot sleep. If I don’t get a good night’s sleep, I get a headache and nausea. They start out mild and get worse and worse as the day goes on. It looks like I will have to call out tomorrow/today.
It’s “excellent” credit, the range that tops out at the maximum score of 850.
769? wow thats pretty good … i think its still 800 for perfect
nvm ninjaed lol
i would like to spend 24 hours without someone/anyone calling my name because they need/want something
For the new stuff, I agree. Somehow the bills to make them must be paid. That said, it irked me that ST:TOS had commercials too. I mean come on… that show’s costs were paid for 50 years ago!
Now I can have my dinner at 6pm along with my Trek just like I did as a kid.
I got to bed late last night after all the aggrivation with CK and Experian. Then, I couldn’t sleep. I finally dozed off at aboout 4 am. Without enough sleep, I get extreme headaches and nausea. So, I had to call out from work.
In good news, my psychiatrist has moved me from Vraylar to Quetiapine. At least, I think it’s good news. There may be side effects. We’ll wait and see.
Literally the worst app I’ve ever used. It’s comical how bad it is. As long as they’re putting out episodes of Star Trek, though, I’m pretty much beholden to them.
My rant is just… Fuck social anxiety. I am a well-educated woman with a good career, you would think I would have no problem going to the pharmacy to ask a fucking question but I’ve been dragging my feet for two days because I just don’t want to deal with talking to people.
I went in this morning, later probably than I should have, and I was even shaking a little. But I asked my question and I got my meds.
I don’t understand why being a person in the world has to be such a big thing sometimes. But maybe being without my meds for days exacerbated my anxiety. I just took the higher dosage so hopefully it helps with long COVID brain fog. And anxiety.
A new season of Strange New Worlds will be coming out probably next year, they already finished filming it. I will put up with what I agree is the worst app ever for that.
Yesterday I had to deal with trying to get a mail-order prescription refilled. I went to the BCBS website, which handles my prescription orders with CVS Caremark, and while the medication was on my list there was no way to order a refill. It looked like the prescription was showing no refills available, which I found weird because the label on the refill that I had gotten in Mach shows three refills available. I went to the MyUNC website to see if I could order a refill through them, and it was no longer on my list of medicines.
So I call customer service at Caremark, and got a very helpful service rep who said that their records showed that the medication had been cancelled, as if I was no longer supposed to be taking it. I pointed out that this was news to me, and he said he’d put in a request for a refill authorization. Just to cover all my bases, I sent a message to my doctor asking him to check to verify that I was still supposed to be taking it. Later that day I got two messages; one from Caremark informing that was prescription was being filled and I should receive it next week, and another from my doctor confirming that I was still supposed to be taking it, and that somehow one of my other doctors must have erroneously put a cancellation pf it on my record.
Fortunately, I still have enough left to last me until the end of next week. But I could have done without this on top of everything else I’m dealing with.
“I’m a doctor, do you expect me to be careful and pay attention to shit?”
This was part of what confused me. My PCP and the rest of my stable of doctors have always taken the time to listen to my updates on my conditions in their specialties and answer any questions I had about medications, things I should and shouldn’t be doing, etc. I recently got confirmation from my cardiologist that it would be okay if I spent some time in a hot spring when (if) I go to Iceland in August, as long as I don’t overdo it.
Seconded. It’s a good show…