Yes there is a reason. You can only whitelist phone numbers. That’s how Nomorobo works.
If you’re trying to say Nomorobo sucks, yes, yes it does. I used to use it. Used to. It’s kind of shitty.
Couldn’t isn’t doesn’t. It evidently doesn’t do that. It could.
Every description of that software I’ve ever read screams “garbage product for clueless customers.”.
I am still waiting for maintenance to fix the dryer and the outlet in my kitchen.
In good news, my beloved knew I would be unable to microwave dinner tonight. She ordered me a pizza from a local place.
I ate almost nothing for breakfast today. I had even less for lunch. I assumed that I would be able to eat maybe two slices. I finished the entire pie.
Im sorry to hear about your friend.
Good bet they don’t have colon cancer and kidney cancer and liver cancer. Rather they probably have colon cancer that has spread so there’s colon cancer cells growing tumors in the kidneys & liver.
What’s relevant about the distinction is that the treatments and prognoses can be vastly different between e.g. colon cancer in the kidneys vs. kidney cancer in the kidneys.
Especially in the era of Dr. Google, getting the details straight can save a lot of fear and heartache.
They’re taking out the kidney when he has his abdominal reconstruction surgery. I’m not sure about the lungs.
He’s going through a lot. And he’s one of those people who withdraws completely when he’s going through stuff. I’m amazed he even told us about it. I guess that says something.
(He does have a wife, so he’s not completely alone. Just relatively.)
Ayup.
Went out to get the mail when I got home, and found a grubby paper envelope. It was from Amazon, and it contained a replacement gift card. 
I don’t know if I’m more surprised that Amazon actually addressed the problem, or that the gift card got here intact. Mom will be happy to have the rest of her Mother’s Day gift.
I’m guessing this is Android? I’ve been pleased with GoneMAD music player, but I only use it for music stored on my phone; I’m not sure how it would handle cloud streaming. They do have a trial version available.
I just woke up from a nap. If maintenance fixed the dryer, they didn’t bother to notify me. I was about to give up and take my wet clothes to the laundromat across the street and dry them there. I thought to check first. That laundromat closes at 8:30 tonight.
Wonderful.
I calmed down enough to have a conversation with maintenance without just yelling at them immediately. I called the emergency maintenance number. I got a recording telling me that this number is no longer active and that I should contact management (closed for the weekend) or put in a maintenance request on the app (I did that hours ago). Then, it hung up on me.
It has been a very aggravating week. This has not helped.
If it’s in your budget and you have space, buy a drying rack. We’ve had the same one for 25 years and use it for delicates now but also used to use it to save money in an apartment where we didn’t want to pay for drying. We could get a couple of loads on it, easy.
Yes it’s Android. I really don’t know how anything works when it comes to this stuff. There’s a couple of mystery computers in the basement, one is the “server”. It’s not so much streaming as a means to copy only what I want, but all that we have is there? My husband has overlapping but different taste in music. But when I’m offline, all the music is on my phone. In theory. I think it’s a VLC problem with the files on the phone but I don’t know for sure.
We also have three different WiFi which are all the same but not the same (the printer only works on two of them) and my husband has Linux doing…things…on every computer. I married a geek.
You know, I’m going to pit myself here for my previous post about the drying rack. You are going through a lot, the problems in your building are real, your mother’s health is concerning and your level of stress and fatigue are valid. My response probably seemed dismissive and whatever your sister does to just always “be right” even if she’s missing information, and that isn’t helpful or very sympathetic of me.
I’m sorry for that. I hope you get things sorted out soon. And I’m happy for you that you felt productive and chipped away at some of that sorting you’ve been needing to do. That’s a win, and a good day, I think!
Oh thanks. Honestly, when I read the words drying rack I immediately wondered- how much do these things cost? How much room do they take up?
I actually have some free space now. My cousin is coming in the next few weeks to give me more free shelves. I need to order another $40 Furrino book case from Amazon. The first one was great. I should probably order two just to be on the safe side.
Tomorrow, I need to measure some space in the bedroom. Based on that, I will be ordering a table and some chairs. I want to be able to have friends over for dinner and gaming.
So, a drying rack could work.
Sometimes it’s just a question of finding out or remembering something exists especially when overwhelmed! I’m glad you didn’t read it as dismissive and it might be helpful.
They’re great! But until you have one, you can put your clothes on hangers and hang them from the shower curtain rod. Give each item a good hard shake or two to unwrinkle them before you put them on the hanger. Smaller items like underpants and socks can be clipped to hangers with cheap wooden spring clothespins, or laid out on towels spread across a table or couch or bed. .
I was Googling, and it seemed like it could work. A one time expense of $20-$40 beats paying roughly $3 in quarters per load every two weeks.
Then, I remembered something. I had to move out of my first apartment due to the discovery of two kinds of toxic mold. My beloved only entered my second apartment twice- to help me move in and to help me move out- and only wearing a great deal of PPE. She remains convinced that most of my possessions are somehow still covered in invisible mold spores which for some unknown reason have not turned into visible mold in all the time my stuff was packed away.
If I were to get drying rack and routinely have wet clothes in my apartment, she would panic. As I very much want her to feel safe and welcome in my apartment, this would be very bad.
Talk it through. Perhaps use it as an emergency back up (and for delicates, which tend to be small and don’t retain much moisture), in a room with windows open…
We have had more moisture problems in bathrooms than in any room where our drying rack is. Our clothes from the washing machine aren’t dripping wet; they are damp after the spin cycle.
The clothes hanger on the shower curtain rod suggestion (or a clothes line if you can hook one up somewhere) will do just as well.
There is more risk of mould from leaving wet clothes bunched up in a machine or basket while waiting for a dryer than there ever could be from spreading out clothes on a rack to air dry.
A friend in the UK (a country known for “damp”) dries most clothes on a rack for a family of 4 and they have no issues.
I threw out over 95% of my wardrobe when I fled my first apartment. I own one suit, with formal shirt, and matching tie and handkerchief. It is dry clean only. I store it at my beloved’s in Jersey.
I still have not bought a new pari of khakis. I do own a few polo shirts. Everything else is t-shirts and jeans. I own maybe four hangers.
I don’t know if I could convince her. She is generally reasonable. But she is highly germophobic.
At the risk of falling into “telling you what to do without all information” territory;
I think this is something the two of you can plan together. You strike me as a very “rules-based” person, as in, you like having clear guidelines as to how to proceed with things. I can be like that too (and explains why I hate cooking but love my job…!)
Forgive me if this sounds condescending, I’ve had a few beer and I routinely author step by step test plans for a living…break it down to goals/objectives and conditions to apply to meet those goals.
So, what do you want to achieve?
Dry clothes that have already been washed but are now wet.
What are the options to do that?
Dryer or air dry. Dryer is preferred.
The dryer is not available for [reasons beyond the time of waiting for another load to finish]. What happens now?
Wet clothes stays bunched together and at higher risk of mould especially in warmer/humid months or clothes are spread out to air dry which reduces that risk (though does not eliminate it as much as a dryer) and also achieves the original goal.
What tools are needed to do that? How can we mitigate concerns?
A drying rack, clothes lines, clothes pins (etc, explore solutions). To be used only when the dryer isn’t available. To be used in this room, with window open. Only for 1 load to avoid too many items bunching and staying moist.
Without a dryer available, I maintain that you have a bigger problem than a drying rack can cause. While we used it as a primary way of drying things for years, that doesn’t have to be your solution. Explore the tools available to you, map it out and find a process that you and your partner can accept given the difficulties in your past.
Typically people hang their spin-dry clothes in the bathroom, close the door, and open the window and/or turn on the exhaust fan. Same as you’d do after a shower to remove the moisture.
I knew I forgot something! The bathroom has no window. There is one window in the bedroom. It has an AC unit installed in it. There are a few windows in the living room and attached kitchen. Several of them will not open. One comes out of the track if opened. None of the windows that open have screens.
I started bugging maintenance about fixing my windows and putting in new screens before I moved any of my stuff here. They have not done anything.
OTTOMH, the only repairs that have been completed are-
My clothes had to be run through the dryer three times to get dry. Somebody on the SDMB said that the filters and hoses needed to be cleaned. I put in a maintenance request with all that information. It was fixed the next day.
The keypad on my door wouldn’t let me in. Nobody had told me that there was a separate emergency maintenance phone number to call after hours. I had to spend the night at a relatives. Maintenance changed the battery on my keypad first thing the next morning.
My mailbox has never locked. It hasn’t even had a door for months now.
A friend smelled gas while I was moving in. The gas company confirmed a leak, shut off the gas to the oven, and told me I would need a new oven. I informed management. They said they would replace the oven immediately. I said that would be great. Could they also fix my mailbox, make sure all the windows open safely, and put in screens?
I never got a reply.