They also apparently hunt people for sport! Jolly good!
Also I’m very American and only ever spell it “grey”. The word “gray” looks wrong to me. That’s just a weird quirk and I know I’m not objectively correct.
A Song of Melted Ice and Fire
I have my computer, monitor, and modem/router all plugged into an APC SmartUPS which provides reliable uninterrupted stable power and, incidentally, is plugged into an outlet behind a heavy desk loaded with crap that’s almost impossible to move.
So today I come into the room and it greets me with a bright red light. Looking closely, the light means “replace battery”.
Fair enough. The battery is probably around five years old now. But damn! I can’t even just order the battery for delivery because an important part of this process is properly disposing of the old one. So I have to (a) buy a new battery online, and (b) drive one hell of a long distance to drop it off and get the new one, and (c) schlep the heavy new one (2x 12v batteries glued together) up the stairs and install it. And until I do, this thing with the beaming red light is going to beep at me every few hours. With all the other fucking things going on in my life right now (don’t ask!) I need this like a hole in the head.
Thanks… but i goofed !
AFAIK, prey & pray are the same here (UK) as there (USA).
Whoosh!! 
No wey.
Doesn’t help on tracking, but you can arrange your apps into folders, at least on an IPhone and I assume Android. I’ve got “Food”, “Travel” and “Finance” currently.
You can have folders on Android as well. But I have a firm policy, apps are for my convenience, not yours. If it’s rarely used or even worse, one-time use, then no way I’m bothering to take the time to download & set it up.
In this case, it saved me a whopping 50¢, which I ended up getting anyway when the cashier borrowed someone else’s phone.
A Mixed Bag Of Rants And Good Things
I switched psychiatrists The receptionist for my last psychiatrist was always rude, surly and incompetent. I left a message after work saying that my pharmacy had not received the prior authorization the office had faxed and would not give me my medication. When I called the office, the receptionist ignored the message and said I could pick up my medication. I tried explaining why I couldn’t. He kept interrupting me and talking over me. I was a frustrated mental patient without the pills I needed. After a while of this, I snapped and yelled at him to stop interrupting me. He then shut up and let me talk. At the end of the conversation, he said I was “a f@cking piece of sh@t” and that I should never “f@cking call him again”. Then, he hung up. Perhaps, maybe, I was wrong to yell. My excuse is that I was a frustrated mental patient who was trying very hard to get my pills and that I had been days without them. What is his excuse? Frankly, if you cannot handle angry patients you should not have a job that requires you to answer the phone when they call.
I was running out of other medications, I called the first psychiatrist listed on my insurance company’s website. The receptionist for that office is much easier to deal with. I was worried what the copay would be. It turned out to be zero. I will be sticking with the new psychiatrist.
I will still do everything within my power and within the law to make the old receptionist’s life miserable. But I will not be going back to Dr R.
I switched pharmacies. The old pharmacy never answered their phone. Literally not one time out of all the times I called did they answer. When Dr R tried to call in authorization, he pressed the ‘are you calling from a doctor’s office?’ button. He kept calling all day. They never answered. My new pharmacy is right by the Target I buy groceries at. I don’t have to make an extra trip to get there. For reasons I don’t understand, a 90 day supply of pills costs less than a 30 supply from the last pharmacy. Yes, for the same medication and the same doasge,
It turns out that my copay for therapy should be zero as well. It was $180 per visit before. It appears that I didn’t give them all my insurance information at that time. So, I will be starting therapy again. This place sends plenty of reminder e-mails so that I won’t forget appointments.
I am finally dealing with Medicare parts A, B and D. Since I started working and lost Medicaid, the government has been taking $182 a month out of my social security check to pay for Medicare. I have health insurance through my employer and may no longer need Medicare. I meant to deal with this during the time I lived in my second apartment. That was a terrible terrible time and I got nothing done.
I visited the bank to get my sister’s name taken off my account, and to have her made the beneficiary in the event of my death. She bullied me into adding her to the accounr. I never wanted her on it. I do not need her to manage my finances. I very strongly do not want her to have knowledge or control of my finances. To get her name removed, she has to be present. The person at the bank said if we coordinated so I was at a branch in PA and she was at a branch in Florida at the same time, possibly we could do it over a tele conference. I was surpised to learn that she also needed to be present to be made beneficiary. Hey, if I want to leave somebody my money that is MY business and MY decision! They don’t even need to know about it until they receive the check.
I did get two rolls of quarters though. I need those to do laundry.
I am back on all my medications. I feel back to my usual self. I don’t seem to be having impulse control problems, anger issues, massive anxiety, intense sugar cravings, chills or other fun symptoms anymore.
I duct taped my spare whiteboard to the fridge as a To Do list. I have started work on most items on the list. One of those items is to order a new cable for the luxury headset with microphone my SIL gave me. I found one on Amazon. I sent my Gobhi a link. She told me that the listing did not say Prime on it and was not eligible for free shipping. I found a cable that was Prime. She ordered it and had it shipped to me. It didn’t work properly. It turns out I failed to read the entire description and need a special cable. Ah well.
I have not weighed myself lately. I am sure I gained a few pounds during the last few months as a result of stress and being without my medications;.
It has been quite the rollercoaster.
Damn! Husband called to tell me a hawk took one of my chickens. Maybe two, if he didn’t miscount. Hawks gotta eat, that’s okay. But I hope they’re not going to make a habit of it! I was just starting to see a good number of eggs.
I just found a rabbit that was killed next to my driveway. There was fluff/fur ( and feathers? ) in a two foot circle around the body. There was only one entrance wound that I saw: a two inch wide circular hole by the right rear hip…and there was no exit wound. For an animal killed as lunch, not a lot was eaten.
For a minute, I thought a neighbor shot it… but even a .22 would have gone through and out the other side. Also I would have heard something. A pellet gun wouldn’t have made such a wide hole and air-guns are illegal in this state. I guess it was a hawk.
The PD would not send animal control to take the body; they said drop it in a trash bag and put it out with the trash so that’s what I did.
It’s a shame that an adult rabbit had to die for what appeared to be two bites of food.
Yeah, my last chicken died when a fox took her head. I’m like, okay, but…at least take the rest for later!
I’m sorry… but at least that was quick.
Q: do hawks leave circular holes? Do foxes…? /Curious
Me and my Gobhi went to a party this past weekend. Due to past events, she made a post in the event page on Facebook asking anybody who was sick or who had very recently been sick to stay home. The woman the post was intended for (Gobhi did not actually name her in the post) showed up anyway. She was likely still contagious. She did not wear a mask, practice social distancing or do anything else to avoid getting anybody else sick. My Gobhi is now exhausted for no apparent reason and has a bad stomach ache for no apparent reason. She may have gotten the bug from the woman who should have stayed home.
You’re right… foxes do carry away food & this is breeding season.
That does sound odd. Maybe it was an animal that killed the rabbit, began eating and had to run away for some reason?
I know from documentaries that during salmon spawning season there are so many that bears will catch one, eat the brains and roe and then throw the rest away. But, this does not seem to be a case of a predator just taking the choice cuts.
When you said you suspected a hunter, I briefly considered a hunter with a bow and arrow. But an arrow to the hip would not kill anything like instantly. The hole from removing the arerow would not be two inches wide.
I’m going to bet the predator was interrupted by a larger / different threat during the post-kill feeding. Nature is generally pretty efficient about that stuff.
I may have limited my scope: what if it was a fox or possum or racoon or groundhog or rat? Or what if the hawk killed on the ground, was flying with it, and another hawk forced it to drop it? The fur circle confuses me though as that means it was in a fight on the ground.
Also I cant imagine any weapon that would leave a 2 inch hole, a two foot wide fur circle, be mostly silent, but not penetrate through the other side of a rabbit. (I may have mis-spoke about the hip; it was right in front of the hind leg’s knee.)
Maybe I was just over reacting that one of the floofy dumb bunnies that I make fun of that scoot around our yards was killed and that I had to dispose of it. Even the lowest of asshole neighbors wouldn’t stoop that low. That would be like some asshat killing Dung_Beetle’s chicken over the price of eggs.
My ‘system’ has been digesting ‘funny’ for a while. It hasn’t been pleasant.
Tonight as Rump was entering the capital, I had regrets.
I should not have had for lunch that home-made burrito of spinach leaves, slices of cheese, and spicy chili re-heated in a microwave and washed down with on sale beer.
I felt a horrible rumbling… and I left the table.
I dropped my jeans, sat on the commode… and then it started. Dear God, I was blasting out like a Starfleet ship at Wolf 359! It was volley after volley after volley and I wasn’t stopping The Dominion at all! After the end of a 1/2 hour, I felt 5 full pounds lighter and proceeded with the necessary endgame cleaning.
When I walked out, I realized that I had missed the whole first half hour of Rump’s speech… a shame.
But… had I? Looking at the TV set… low and behold… Rump had been dropping deuces all over Congress, SCOTUS, the Federal Government, all the State Governments, all the people of America, all of our allies, and ( with the exception of Putin and Kim Jong Fat-Boy) the entire World!
I couldn’t believe that his ass, though extra fat, wide, and flabby… could be so full of crap to have accomplished that task. He was like that monster in that great post WW2 Danish-American film… except that he used his ass.
What was the name of that film again? ‘Rectillicus’…?
Anyway, it was at that point that I decided to watch “DareDevil” instead.
Imagine… a Super Hero who is a lawyer and follows the letter of the law? Escapist fantasy sure… but I was safely ducking the spew from the Orange Poop Chute…
I deleted this
Might’ve been disturbed and flew off.
I came upon a tiny hawk that took down a duck in the driveway. I startled it and it flew off never came back for it.
I think my cat’s wound was from a hawk or eagle. Circular chunk taken out of the right thigh