I found some surprisingly pungent black peppercorns in the pantry yesterday; the resulting powder seems to be doing the trick for now. 
On a side note, I got lazy this year and reused some soil from last year. I now have random seedlings popping up in places where I know I didn’t plant anything. This should be interesting!
I have roughly an hour or two of homework, including an online final exam, left for this semester. I have until 9pm tomorrow to do it. I wanted a total goofoff day tomorrow (off from work as well), but can’t have that unless I finish this schoolwork.
I can’t seem to pull together the motivation to get the work done.
Comcast. That is all.
Hey, now. We’ve got standards even in the pit.
You know what Samsung? Fuck you. I freaking loved my phone when I first got it and for the first 18 months of ownership. A couple of weeks back I get this update notice nag screen and ignore it, but the damn thing comes up EVERY TIME I WAKE MY PHONE UP and I can’t just say “later” I have to enter a date and time. I don’t want to update because my phone works fine, and the last time I had an update I lost functionality. After being nagged mercilessly for several days I caved and did the fucking update and now my phone only does like HALF the shit I use it for! Programs don’t run! None of my widgets work! I send someone a picture and several days later they haven’t received it! My battery percentage plummets like it has a dead cell if I don’t restart my phone daily! I can’t add or remove or reorganize app shortcuts on my screen! So yeah FUCK YOU! I kept my iPhone for years after my two year contract was up (and I STILL use it for podcasts and music streaming over WiFi), but it’s like you’re implementing planned obsolescence so I’ll buy a new phone at the first opportunity. I probably will, but it sure as hell won’t be another Samsung!
The literature I find says it is a procedure that’s generally not indicated and indicated “in a very specific type of patient”. The name rhizolysis appears to refer to a whole family of treatments which amount to “killing the nerve that’s in pain”,
Finished it 24.5 hours before deadline. I am now weirded out by having NOTHING school-related to do, after roughly nine months of having homework most days.
Sitting out summer semester, so have no school-related activities until about mid-August. Feels very strange.
What kind of update was it? Lollipop? Try doing a re-install. You can take it to one of your carrier’s stores and have them re-do the update. Sounds like your apps didn’t update, which they should have done after the install. I did it over wifi and it took about 30 minutes, it wasn’t a small change. It really sounds like your update was incomplete. You can’t blame Samsung if you didn’t do a full backup and then blindly did a whatever update without knowing what it was. I always look up what my carrier is sending out, so I knew the last update that wanted wifi was the whole OS Lollipop change. I’m kinda thinking you would have run into this with any phone with the same update.
Have you at least checked the Play store to see if your apps need updates that you maybe haven’t given permission for yet? I had a battery drain issue after the KitKat update. A reinstall fixed it, and actually improved battery significantly after that (that was my GS4. Same phone updated Lollipop with no issue.)
I’ll see your Comcast and raise you a Frontier. Holy Gawd, Frontier is awful!
Since Friday, I’ve spoken to 4 CSRs. We have a widespread outage in my area, with no information on its cause nor any timeline on when our internet service will be fixed - out almost 48 hours Friday/Saturday, “fixed” Sunday, out Monday evening, out several times tonight. (I fully expect that my service will go out again before I finish typing this post.) This is on top of the fact that our service averages about two random outages per month, usually between the hours of 7 and 11 pm, and that it has never equalled even half the speed that we were promised when we signed up. Sigh.
Sadly, nothing else is available where we live. If we were 450 feet further south, we could have the local telephone co-op’s fiber optic internet*. If we were a half-mile north, we could have the service offered in the city (not great, but way better than what we have now.) I actually miss Comcast, if that tells you anything.
Also, my projects for the summer include working on our porches - screening in the back porch, fixing the rails and repainting the front porch. Unfortunately, one of the pillars on the front porch has rotted at the bottom, so now my timeline has moved rapidly - that issue has caused the other two pillars to start leaning, a lot. Gotta replace them nownownow, before they collapse and tear off the roof. Crap. I don’t have the $$$ for this right now, but I sure don’t have the $$$ to fix the porch and the roof. So it won’t be done the way I wanted to, because it has to be done on the meager budget I can scrape up now. Extra-double crap.
And good luck with treatment/pain relief Chimera. Like Mr. bobkitty, my fellow has had ablation treatment recently (albeit in his lumbar and SI joints.) In his case, unfortunately, the pain relief is much more fleeting - two to four weeks seems to be the limit for him. But my mom had surgical repair of her C4/C5 disks in the eighties, after a car wreck, and is still going strong.
*We have the option of paying for the county co-op to run fiber optic to our house. For the low low price of only $10 per linear foot! :eek:
On a mildly good news front, instead of prorating 3 weeks of service like I thought AT&T would do, they just canceled the whole month and zeroed it out, so I don’t have a double payment for old plus new service like I thought I would. One small favor after 20 years. Too bad they couldn’t retain my account.
Radio frequency ablation is the specific procedure, and it’s actually used for a number of issues, not just pain: Radiofrequency ablation - Wikipedia
My computer’s been in the shop for a week with a poser of a problem. Can Windows 10 come out *now *so I can get a new machine? Pretty please?
I start dialysis next Tuesday.
I had HOPED to avoid it, but I cannot any longer.
Logically, I know it’s a good thing. I will feel better (eventually) and, well, it will keep me alive. Literally.
I just hate the thought of being tethered to a machine three times a week.
On the positive side, my diet will expand a fair amount - I will be able to have manna from heaven, aka CHEESE, again! Alas, chocolate is still taboo.
Good luck, MissTake, and I’m sorry to hear about the chocolate ban. I hope this phase of your life is short-lived and that a donor will be along shortly.
Why wait? When Windows 10 comes out it’ll be available as a free upgrade - so you can buy a machine now with 8/8.1 on it, and when W10 comes out (July? August?) you can just apply the free upgrade.
And the information I find from medical sites still lists it as “generally not indicated, there are a few very limited cases where it actually appears to work”.
Fucking ebay.
One buyer sent £3.99 for their item (99p, plus £3 postage) then issued an unauthorised payment chargeback through paypal. Paypal then withdrew over £10 from my account (without giving me a receipt to show exactly how much they took, I just know it was in credit, then had recently received payments of 7.99 and 3.99, then suddenly was at -£0.51 after the chargeback went through.)
The same buyer has now contacted me to complain that their visa card charged them £41 for that transaction, which is why they had disputed it. Well don’t ask me dude, you’ve already made me out of pocket, I never got your £41, and now I’ve lost over a tenner. Take it up with paypal and stop trying to get cash out of me.
Another buyer felt I over charged on postage, so asked for a refund. I granted it (it wasn’t much, no point quibbling over the cost of mailbags/ink/labels etc), and they left neutral feedback anyway. Screw that. Wonder if I can still cancel the refund… might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.
In general I’m a grumpy bitch today and want to tell them all to fuck off.
I don’t like 8 at all and will not allow it into my domicile.
Let us know how you’re feeling, MissTake, after your 1st session. Keep your eye on the prize (a.k.a. CHEEEEEZE!) and hopefully you can put your tethered-to-a-machine time to use for reading, knitting, binge-watching your favorite shows, or whatever your idle recreation of choice might be. I recall an article about some dialysis centers offering overnight sessions: it takes longer (supposedly that’s easier on your body?) but if you’re not a light sleeper you can just [del]multitask[/del] snooze through it.
ETA: came in here to bitch that I started a thread in Cafe Society asking for recipes to make a specific type of meal, and in less than two hours got a threadshitter who’s all “*Hurrrr *you can buy that at the store! Derp!”
I am reduced to taking Vicodin at work to stop from screaming in agony.
This is not something I like doing.