Continuing the discussion from June, no, NOTHING! (Monthly Mini-Rants):
I know it’s a bit early but a new thread was asked for in the previous thread, so I’ll accommodate.
My first mini rant is for my dog. She’s a sweetheart but today she decided she’s going to bark her head off at everything. I had a splitting headache and she would not shut up. She doesn’t even bark that much usually, but today was a bark day.
And I was trying to work. It was really hard to concentrate. Ugh.
Continuing this from the previous month:
This happened to me this morning at 4am! Jolted me awake, and as I lay there trying to decide if the power had gone off and a battery back up was yelling or what, it stopped and never resumed. I remembered your post and realized it was the same thing. So bizarre.
GoComics isn’t working, so I don’t get about half a dozen of the comic strips I read in the mornings. Grump.
One of my smoke alarms started doing the low battery beep a couple of weeks ago. I swapped out the batteries and put it back. Last night, it started again. I pulled it out and checked the batteries. They were still good (obviously, since they were only used for a couple of weeks). I pulled the unit and removed the batteries. Time to call Kidde.
Actually, come to think about it. I think this is the same unit that went off while the remediation crew was cutting the drywall for the water damage. I think I’ll vacuum it out and put it back and see if it starts beeping again.
They’re a life-saving device, & relatively cheap; just replace it. If for any reason you can’t, either afford new ones or physically place them a lot of fire depts will come out with a new smoke detector & install it for you if you call their non-emergency phone #
Comcast decided I wanted paperless billing so they were kind enough to switch it for me. Gee thanks. Ummm, one thing, though - the email they switched it to is not mine & never was mine!
I got my first smart phone, the brand new Motorola Droid 15 years ago. I remember when I got it because it was just before we went away. How cool it was going to be to have the then-new tech of google maps in my hand so we could walk around the city & go from point A to B to C w/o having to print out paper directions (if that was even working on the hotel lobby computer/printer) or go back to the hotel to then set out for C. Android needs (or at least needed back then) a gmail address. I remember sitting there trying to find one that was available. First.last(at)gmail(dot)com (which is where Comsucktastic sent it) was taken. First.MI.Last(at)gmail(dot)com was taken, etc. etc. Took a handful of tries to find one that was available that I liked.
The first guy stated I was on paperless billing but there was no email associated, so they weren’t being sent anywhere, while the second person told me there were being sent to the first.last address that wasn’t mine. She stated that I must have accidentally done such when I logged on. I don’t even have a log on to their system & I haven’t called them in a couple of years.
Flies. Flies all over my damned house. We’ve done all the work to eliminate possible breeding places indoors, but they keep coming, and they’re getting BIG. I hate flies. I hate killing.
I think they are coming in through the windows. We just bought some Ortho spray, we’ll see how that does. If that doesn’t work we are going to have to call pest control. And maybe replace the windows.
Of course. But giving it a quick vacuum and reinstalling it is quicker and easier. If it starts up again, Kidde is pretty good about replacing them.
The Senate pushed Rump’s turd through.
You stated that you think it’s gone off twice for unknown reasons. It may be that there’s some drywall dust on the sensor but I wouldn’t trust my life on that, especially for the relatively inexpensive cost, which may be $0, either thru Kidde or your local FD.
I’m not a wasteful person but certain things should just be replaced, no questions asked.
There is so much bad in that bill. So, so much.
When it all goes to hell in sure they’ll find some way to blame the Democrats.
They’re sure going to try. We need to have heads on a swivel and pound their talking points back up their pants when they do.
That happened to us a bit back. We decided to replace our old alarms. I pulled one down, so I could look up the model number and discovered they had been recalled a few months after they had been installed. One week later, we had all new smoke/CO alarms. The annoying bit was, while the baseplates were the same, the connectors were completely different. Luckily, Mrs Magill and I have wiring experience.
Oh, and speaking of calling the non-emergency number. About five years ago, the smoke alarms went off while Mrs Magill and I were out on our bikes. My son called me and told me. I told him to get himself, his brothers, and the rabbit out of the house, and I rode like the wind the five miles back home. When I got home, it was reported to me that, while the alarms were going off, none of the sprinklers activated, so there was likely no fire. My oldest and I grabbed the extinguishers, and went room to room, feeling any closed doors. We didn’t find anything. I went outside and called the non-emergency number and told them that one of our smoke alarms was malfunctioning, and I did not have the expertise to find it. She said she’d send someone around. Five minutes later, two trucks showed up with lights and sirens on. Eight guys had come. They found the offending alarm and removed it. They then told me I didn’t need to worry about replacing it because there were two others within six feet of it.
I was sitting in my comfortable chair in my living room today. When I got up, I saw a bird stretching its wing, behind a leafy branch perched on my back fence. When I started to walk away, I heard a loud thud at my window. Looking quickly, I say what almost looked like a flip flop bouncing off my window and falling to the ground.
I angrily moved to my back door, opened it and looked out to see who was throwing things at my house. There was nothing on the ground… but the black bird was staring me down from on top of my shed. It seemed pissed and in a moment I knew that it had flown head first into my window. It stared me down, and I stared it down right back before it flew off.
It was too small to be a raven or a crow. All I know is that it was dumb.
And probably sore.
Great title!
Thanks. 
I just want to point out, regarding smoke alarms… I have Kidde brand ones. They were installed in the house when it was built. They were always a pain in the ass though. They’d beep regularly to demand new 9V batteries. More than twice a year, I’ll note. Oh, and they are also wired into the electrical system, so they don’t actually need the batteries to function, it’s just a backup in case of a power outage (which sounds like a good idea to me in theory). So it seemed especially excessive.
Anyway, they’d also go off at random times. Finally, I got sick of the one downstairs, and in a fit of rage I smashed it to pieces (think of the printer getting destroyed in Office Space for an idea of what it was like).
I went to replace it, and found it was very reasonably priced. So I got replacements for all of my detectors. The new ones have been wonderful. They still work, in the sense that if I have a cooking incident and there is too much smoke they will go off, which is what they’re supposed to do. But no more random beeping. That small investment in money and time was so worth it.
It’s also cool that they’re all connected. If one goes off, they call go off. I mean, not cool in the sense that the burned pizza means my whole house is the loudest thing in the neighborhood, but it might save our lives someday.
And the thrilling conclusion:
Yes, the $120 Art Deco product was in fact the LED light and pattern holder. It did NOT come with a stand, which makes the product description a lie, but is more convenient for me because I don’t have to return anything.
I’d like to rate the product five stars but I’m so annoyed by the misleading advertising I’ve half a mind to deduct a star.
Though I gotta admit this is a pretty sweet setup.
And now we know how embroidery was done on the Starship Enterprise.
Had a truly wretched day.
Almost everyone is on vacation and I am running the circus. Not well I might add.
Started off with completely unbelievable coffee making in the morning at work. I put the pod in the Keurig, checked the water and turned on the machine. Walked over to my office for a minute and returned to the coffee station. Discovered that I forgot to put my cup in place and coffee was spilling down into the little tray which by now was overflowing.
I just stood there gazing with a bit of regret at the unfortunate scene unraveling. Spent fifteen minutes cleaning up the mess and went on with my day which just continued to spiral out of control.
I have a new worker who seems immune to any amount of training I provide and today was no different. I had to give her a minor lecture explaining that she needed to take safety and confidentiality seriously. My stomach and mind are in knots over some of the unpredictable things she does. I’ve never had to teach common sense before.
Toward the middle of the day I grabbed a toothbrush and a small travel sized tube of toothpaste and headed for the bathroom. Somehow during this simple process I flushed the travel sized toothpaste down the agency toilet. Said toilet was working fine at the end of the work day. But who knows what lies ahead.
From now on that toilet will have minty fresh breath!
Bonus! 
