Be glad there wasn’t a stiff left in the room!
And back to last month’s AT&T debacle: they now say that the only way to fix the screwed-up service address (which is, right in one system and not in another) is to basically set up a new account, including a credit check and a multi-hour outage). To clear up AT&T’s 8-year-ago fuckup.
I noped that option. MIL is likely moving soon, and FIL, whose name is on the account, died 10 days ago. I did not disclose this to AT&T.
We’re planning on transitioning the number to Google Voice once MIL moves, and just keeping the internet for a while since we’ll need it while selling the place.
Hopefully the residents of the other address won’t make any changes to their account in the meantime.
LOL. Stuff, obviously, and the town is Florence. Though there are actually quite a few instances of finding dead bodies under hotel beds (we did not dare look).
In what is getting to be a regular sized rant- My psychiatrist and I are trying to find a replacement for Concerta/methylphenidate. He prescribed Stratera a few days ago. He warned that urinary retention might be a side effect. I got that the first day I took the Stratera. I kept taking it hoping the urinary retention would subside. It has of course gotten worse. I will have to call my psychiatrist and schedule a sooner appointment to try a new drug. My job was kind enough to put me on unpaid medicla leave. That was back in January. I want to be functioning again and get back to work. I feel broken and useless.
I first read it as “Flatulence, SC.” The rest of the post seemed like it would fit.
I’ve had relatively good experiences with Choice Hotels in the past, I mean, obviously you’re not going to get much in the way of frills because their hotels are so cheap, but for the most part they’ve been comfortable and clean. Comfort Inn in particular, as you mention, is usually pretty good.
I have never stayed at a Sleep Inn though, and maybe those are all hellholes.
You’re going through Rx stuff. That doesn’t make you broken, or useless. You’re a human being trying to get help, that’s all.
Well, this one was… I mean, we didn’t feel unsafe or anything, just grossed out.
It came up as 2.5 stars, which Priceline assigns based on features (such as pool, breakfast etc.). Reviews suggest the breakfast is sparse-to-nonexistent, I wouldn’t have dared go into a pool there even if we’d had a) swimsuits, and b) time. I didn’t care that the carpeting was kinda shredded at the transition from room to bathroom - at those prices you don’t expect perfection.
Arguably the lowest-level place I’ve ever stayed was an America’s Best Value Inn, in Page, Arizona. Seriously bad maintenance - had to be careful walking along the balcony to our room, lest we trip on the indoor / outdoor carpeting which had plenty of holes in it; holes in the wall/door (inside only, didn’t go all the way through) etc. IIRC, at least that place was clean. And if we’d liked the towels, they helpfully had a price listing on the inside of the door (no thanks, sandpaper is cheaper at Home Depot). Reviews of other ABVI locations suggest our experience is not unusual.
LOL!
We actually like Florence as a destination when doing this particular drive, at least northbound; it’s a bit over halfway. northbound, there are a LOT of hotel options on the exit we usually use; there are restaurant choices (admittedly, mostly fast food). We actually came very, very close to moving there about 30 years back, when my husband had a job offer at a local university. For various reasons, I’m glad he didn’t take it, but it’s a pretty good stopping point for anyone travelling I-95, being the biggest thing for several hours in either direction. We’ve stayed there at least a half dozen times - different hotel each time.
I totally get this. I have a cataract in my right eye ( possibly two ) which causes blurriness and double vision when I try to read. I’m pretty sure it cost me my last job as I couldn’t read as fast as I used to. Two Dr.s have noted it/them and I have a referral to see a specialist to have it/them removed by laser. When I called and made the appointment in mid January, the soonest appointment was at the end of March. ( Joy )
I have been told by other people that cataract surgeons often take 2-3 visits to make sure the cataract is ‘big enough’ for surgery. If that’s the case, it might be done and I might be all healed and ready for work by… Christmas…?
Ho-Ho-Ho
Because I have often traveled alone with a dog, I’ve gotten to know the inns and outs of Motel 6 and Super 8, the two budget chains which allow dogs without a giant fee tacked on. It really pays to read the customer review sites. Often there will be two Motel 6’s in the same town, but one is the biker/drug selling/hooker Motel 6 and the other is the family Motel 6 which is much cleaner and quieter. No way to know which is which before booking except those reviews.
( doesn’t the sound of your shotgun discharging scare your dog?) /s
Unsolicited advice from a former hotel employee here: never ever ever use those online booking sites like Priceline or Expedia. First because if you have a room like the one @Mama_Zappa had it’s much harder to get a refund because you have to go through the site you booked it through. Book it through the hotel or chain site and they can give you the refund right then.
Secondly because you’re more likely to get a room like @Mama_Zappa had. We would always give the Expedia-Travelocity-whatever people the worst rooms.
That’s the advice I received when I used to go to the same hotel every year to visit my daughter on the opposite side of the country. The proprietor assured me that I could call the hotel or its parent company (in his case, Choice Hotels) and get a better rate. And I’d be much less likely to have an experience where I got the wrong sort of room or there was a reservation problem. (Though luckily neither of those things ever happened.)
I take it y’all have never experienced Family Inns of America…specifically, the one in Gatlinburg. We stayed there because of their pet policy, and their military discount (we were meeting some Air Force friends and their pup for the weekend). We even managed to score rooms with an adjoining patio, which turned out to be just wide enough for one person to walk on at the time. Classy. Other fun features of the room: towels suitable for reading through; unsecured outlets popping through the ragged carpet; an iron that had clearly been used for cooking; a microwave with most of the door’s outer layer broken off; busted tiles around a hot tub that was somehow nicotine brown [we didn’t use it]; and more questionable wiring around the gas fireplace. The outdoor pool had an interesting green color; I think there may have been an indoor pool, which would explain the interesting growth on a set of windows on the ground floor.
Freeport, ME does this. I’ve seen the mini-plow; it’s cute.
So I accidentally doxxed myself on Reddit. I was on an official help forum for a company I am a customer of, and they posted in the thread I created to request my name and address through modmail. I replied with that info, thinking I was sending a modmail (because I got it in my inbox) and didn’t realize I’d be posting it publicly!
Of course, I deleted within minutes when I realized what I did, but it’s already archived in at least one database that keeps deleted posts (thankfully, it was short, so it didn’t hit even more). I’ve requested the dev of the database remove that info and I’ve deleted my Reddit account (I’ve had it for years, anyway; just too lazy and intertia-ed to actually do as suggested and cycle my account for privacy). But until then, my name and address is still there, online, even if in a relatively obscure place.
I guess I have no choice but to hope for security by obscurity until and if the database removes the post (though if anyone has any better ideas, let me know!). I’m just still irritated with myself that I did such a dumb thing, and that this one little mistake is so exposing.
McDonald’s is not a healthy place to dine - but at least in recent years, you could get some healthier options if you wanted: their salads (topped with grilled chicken) were not too bad, and they had grilled chicken sandwiches.
I don’t know if they’ve gotten rid of these entirely, or just in the South, where fried chicken might as well be the national dish (since it’s not nearly as divisive as the type of barbecue you like).
Or maybe even just at the one we stopped at the other day. They had no salads. No grilled chicken. Basically just burgers and fries. I glanced at the menu item called the “Cardi B Combo” thinking that maybe this meant heart healthy (hint: it did not, and my husband informed me who Cardi B is… not quite the family-friendly image McD’s usually tries to project).
So I wound up getting a cheeseburger and nothing else. Phooey.
eta: I just googled it - and they got rid of all that healthy crap 3 years ago.
Here’s an article about it.
The old “wait 'til it gets ripe” is fortunately no longer a thing.
Some doctors DO try to postpone it, however - as with the doctor I’d been seeing for years, who first diagnosed me. I met the criteria the first time I saw her about the problem, but she wanted to be conservative… 3 months later when the problem had noticeably worsened, she insisted on waiting another 4-5 months - and by then, my intraocular pressure had worsened (partly due to the cataract) which meant another 3+ months before she’d even do the pre-op stuff… at which point she tried pawning me off on a doctor 25 miles away because she claimed I really wanted the results only Lasik would give (hint: I did not).
I went to another doctor, closer to home, and who offered laser-assisted surgery, within a month - a full year after I’d been diagnosed, and my vision had at that point worsened to the point where I would no longer drive at night. He started the pre-op testing almost immediately. It was another 2 months before the procedures, but that was just because it took that long to fit me into the surgery schedule.
Thank You!
< Hope! Typos annoy everyone, even me, when you can’t see well out of one eye. Working on a computer screen, competing against perfectly healthy 20-somethings, is nearly impossible. >
To be optimistic, possibly now that you are in the system glide path the follow-up/final appointments may be coming out of a different availability pool.