Thanks good to know, I will ask the dealer to deliver my car after they’ve evicted the ghost in the machine that’s causing intermittent display issues. it’s less than a month old and been at dealer’s 2x already.
And after mulling it over and pow-wowing with the cpa we realized the power of the traditional IRA which will allow us to reduce our income and pay ourselves rather than the IRS. It sounds like kick the can down the road but whatever works right now is all we got. SIlver lining is the July 15 deadline that gives us some time.
Much less dire but still annoying is the sudden disappearance of all the hair elastics in the house, I blame the cats, yet I wanted to try the easy no sew bandana face mask trick.
I was sitting here yesterday, thinking about what’s going on, and it occurred to me that it might be a good idea at some point to get a small freezer for the basement in case this goes on and on and on. So I went to Amazon to check them out. First off, it would seem that everyone else in the country had the same idea before I did, because the shortest lead time for delivery is July and most of them are just plain sold out. Same for Lowes, Best Buy, Home Despot, etc.
But the thing that really toasted my pickle was that many of the third party vendors on Amazon have tripled the prices on their freezers. A 9 cuft freezer that should sell for about $300-400 is going for $1300 or more. I thought Amazon was supposed to stop vendors from ripping off customers. None of the other businesses I mentioned have jacked up prices.
I’m getting ready to go to Kroger for a grocery pick-up. It will be my first personal contact with someone in 11 days. I hate that my anxiety is through the roof over merely interacting with one person in a parking lot. I’ve got all my supplies in place and a detailed plan for getting the food from the car to its respective holding areas. I’ve got a mask. But the thought of being close to someone is making me wish I hadn’t scheduled this. If I’m this anxious now, how am I going to feel after another month of this?
I’m having a blepharitis flare, I think, and my right lower lid is really, really painful. There are a couple of plugged glands making lumps on the inside of the lid. Feels like someone hit me.
It’s time to flip out. When he does this, you hurl the plate on the floor hard enough to shatter it. Repeat ad nauseam. You’re married: he should show you respect and deference when you make a reasonable request.
Definitely tell mom to shut up, and also tell her she raised a rude insensitive moron who keeps eating off your plate even though you have repeatedly asked him to stop.
I would simply make dinner, then eat mine in the kitchen away from everybody else, leave theirs plated up on the counter. Put the leftovers away neatly [if you make enough for leftovers, sometimes I do, sometimes I make just enough to plate for everybody there - depends on what I am making.] Otherwise, make 3 equal plates, and give them each their own. Or you could do what a friend of mine does, she likes hot food, he likes bland food so she dopes hers up with hot sauce and he doesn’t take her food anymore =) Simply make your solo meal and make it something he doesn’t like or is allergic to. He and mom are free to cook for themselves =)
I’ve spent most of my morning waiting for the order tracking database to refresh so I can finish entering information for an order. I won’t be signing it off anytime soon, as two of the part numbers are invalid (I repeatedly told customer service this before the order was officially entered, but apparently it’s easier for Engineering to fix this after the order has been entered?). Unfortunately, I still have to enter the information, along with notification as to why I won’t be signing it off. Accessing this database is a pain when working from home, but last week wasn’t so bad; it would only freeze for a few seconds when changing records. I guess it’s seeing very heavy usage this morning; switching records results in a delay of a minute or two.
Had a little scare yesterday morning. The dogs wanted out at six am as usual, and as I was walking around the yard with them I saw what looked like vehicle lights over by our neighbor’s house. They are in their early 80s and it would be odd for them to be going for a drive so early.
Walking toward their house, I got close enough see that the vehicle was an ambulance, and it was leaving. I immediately assumed COVID19, and that was even more scary when I remembered that my gf had taken them some eggs from our hens last week.
Turns out it was a false alarm. The woman had awoken with severe vertigo, her husband thought she’d had a stroke, but it turns out she hadn’t.
My driver’s license expired this year on March 19th. I was expecting this so before the 19th rolled around, I took a day off work to go to the DMV to take care of business. Except a plague happened and the same day I took off work ended up being the first day they decided to go to appointment only for DMV matters. Okay, no big deal, I’ll make an appointment and the first available appointment ended up being not too long after it expired. It’ll be okay though because the state is waiving late fees.
But then the plague happened to me* and I couldn’t go. And I promptly forgot about the whole thing until today, my first day back at work after getting sick. I’m driving around with an expired license and now I have anxiety about it. And I definitely can’t get it fixed for a while because now the DMV is closed.
I couldn’t get tested so I don’t know if I actually had COVID-19 but it sure looked like it.
Ontario has extended all driver licences, car plates, health cards, and anything else due to expire indefinitely until the state of emergency has ended. Income tax and property tax filing and payment deadlines have been extended, and I got an email from the library to let me know my library card had been renewed automatically with no need to visit the (closed) library.
My last cat food and litter was online order and curbside pickup - pet supply is now reclassified as a non-essential business, but allowed to stay open for delivery or pickup only.
My last grocery run was at 7:00 AM for the senior’s shopping hour, and the store was controlling access, with every customer given a shot of hand sanitizer and a disinfectant wipe of their cart handle before being allowed in. The aisles were marked for one-way traffic, with signs reminding you to stay 6’ apart everywhere. Only every second cash was open, and we were required to line up, with carefully marked safe distancing, and were directed to a cash only when the previous customer had finished.
My only regret is that my gaming group, which has been meeting weekly for almost 45 years, is suspended for the duration. We’re looking at working out an online session, though.
My 14-year-old dishwasher bit the dust just before my parents were in town for the holidays, so I went without a dishwasher and with company in the house for a few weeks. With the kids coming over, six adults generate a hell of a lot of dirty dishes in a single day. It sucked, but we survived.
I had arranged with our out-of-town landlady to buy one myself from Lowe’s after the holidays so I could use our military discount (deducting the cost from next month’s rent), have it delivered and she would hire a handyman to install it. Went to Lowe’s, bought the cheapest dishwasher they had in stock and scheduled delivery for a week out. Day before delivery they called to inform me that they had to reschedule delivery because turns out they didn’t actually have my new dishwasher in stock and it’d be another week or so before it came in from another Lowe’s. Oh, HELL NO! It’s now going on two months without a dishwasher and I’m tired of doing dishes at the sink in the goddamn 21st century.
Next day, I marched myself right back into Lowe’s and insisted that they sell me the next model up that they actually did have in stock at the same price as the one I had bought with my military discount and it needed to be delivered by tomorrow! Since I’m not an asshole, I magnanimously gave them the opportunity to fix the error and ended up with exactly what I asked for without a fight. The next model up is a Frigidaire with pretty much the same lack of features as the bargain basement GE model I originally bought. No matter, as long as I can wash my dishes while I’m in bed. They even managed to schedule a delivery time that was immediate and convenient for me. Great! By the next day I’m patting myself on the back, bragging to my landlady about my decisive command of the problem while I accept delivery, call the handyman, watch him install it and I’m back to my life o’ leisure.
Fast forward to yesterday, the dishwasher broke. The arm is no longer deploying. I’m back to washing dishes by hand and after a lengthy phone call with Frigidaire, my husband reports that due to COVID-19, they will not be sending anyone out to repair this 3-month old dishwasher as it’s not considered essential. I get it. Do we really need to risk spreading the virus just to get my dishwasher repaired? Not really, and it’s not like I don’t have loads of time on my hands since I’m furloughed, but for the love of Pete, it’s only three months old! I was not expecting this and I simply don’t like it. Harumph!
Perspective. I gots it. But I’m glad I got this off my chest.
A few days ago, I got an E-mail from the library in the town in Georgia where my parents used to live. They informed me that my library card is now extended and that I now have access to their online collection.
I’m fairly certain that the pets would consider getting fed an essential.
Not far off of what’s happening here in Beijing. But most places are not accepting cash or card. They require paymetn via cellphone app (WeChat, Samsung Pay, QQ Pay, AliPay). The other difference is that to enter any store, mall, office, etc., you have to get your temperature checked first.
Send me a PM. If your group is into card games, I have an idea on how to make that work online or by conference call/conference video call, but it requires one person more than the ones who get the cards dealt to them.
Or, she could swap places with me. We have a very nice, functioning Bosch dishwasher that is only about a year old. I am the one who washes dishes in our household, but I very much prefer doing them by hand. My gf worries about the dishwasher seals “drying up from disuse” so she regularly tells me I need to use the dishwasher more often and I pretty much ignore her advice.
kayaker, you’d be surprised how many things you can clean in a dishwasher besides dishes. Are you really in PA because I’d be happy to let you wash my dishes if you were in Oregon as long as you promise not to bring me coronavirus.
As to paper plates, I usually lean towards reusable things whenever I can so as not to contribute to the landfill problems. I don’t think I could bring myself to using disposable plates just to get out of doing an undesirable chore. I’ll be fine sucking it up and doing the dishes by hand. My spouse and I have agreed to do them together, so that’s maybe a good thing (we’ll see). The worst part is trying to arrange to get it fixed during a pandemic and, to add insult to injury, after dealing with the fiasco of getting it just three months ago.
kayaker, I wouldn’t expect that to be a problem with a Bosch (heck, my Whirlpool dishwasher can sit idle for two weeks with no issues), but lower-end dishwashers do have a tendency to seize from disuse, requiring you to turn the pump/motor by hand.
Day one back in the office hasn’t been too bad – mostly contacting people at home to say “hey, do you want to work on this thing now, or can it wait until Friday?” The one document control employee currently on site has been throwing a fit about the new digital signature system though; seems she can’t edit, stamp, or sign a document once it has been through the review process. I agree that this is an issue, but yelling at every engineer who walks by isn’t going to solve the problem.
