OMIGARSH! Are you KIDDING? I kept revisiting that thread to follow the drama, thinking “The kid can’t be that clueless.” Looks like I was wrong.
That’s a shame, I’ve taught (and raised) wonderful kids who had that “naive slacker” thang goin’.
Yanno, digs, “clueless” is a very good word. He’s a nice young man, an excellent student and when he worked for me, he showed up on time, he was presentable and he did what he was told. Some 23 year olds are younger than others, though. He didn’t get it until I compared what he did to breaking up with a girlfriend and then wanting to get back together when he got done sowing his wild oats.
He was pretty upset when he finally did get it figured out because he was expecting to get half of last semester’s tuition reimbursed now to help pay for next semester and now he has to tell his folks what he did and why they are going to have to foot the full bill.
I really do wish he had listened to me in the beginning, but there really isn’t much I can do now.
Tony came home from the hospital on Thursday. Nobody was really sure what was wrong with him, but hospitals aren’t good places now so they wanted him to try different things at home. That didn’t work, so he’s back in the hospital and I’m back to bribing nurses to not bludgeon him to death with a bed pan.
Hi flatlined, thank you for asking about Shiva.
Yes, I brought him home yesterday, and the break did me good. Probably helps that I’ve been able to hop up and feed him on demand, and I’m trying harder to keep him stuffed at all times. I’ll look into the wok-shaped bowls. I’m also thinking of getting one of those bowls that only opens when the cat wearing the tag gets near them, but first I’ll have to find out if he’ll even wear a collar with a tag. He’s been 16 years without, and I’m planning to take pictures if I go ahead with the idea. If he’s amenable, I can put out a dish of dry food that he can nom on as he pleases without screaming for food. If they have those dishes that keep canned food safe I might try that, too.
I’m sorry to hear Tony is still unwell. I missed what put him in the hospital to begin with, though. Poor man. My issues with Shiva seem peanuts compared to his troubles.
Meantime, Dung Beetle, how are things going with the lawsuit? Is the lawyer taking good care of you? Insurance lawyers can be real sharks when it comes to protecting the company’s money, so they tend to represent the client (read, you, your husband, and maybe your son) well, or so I found when I was sued for $5 million for a fender bender by a woman and her ambulance-chasing lawyer. (Not kidding about the last, the lawyer in question apparently had a reputation for this, and it wasn’t a good one.) You’re already overstressed, so I’m not surprised at your reaction to your boss’s request. Just keep it documented and document what you do in trying to fulfill it and you’ll be okay. Let it distract you from the stress from the lawsuit. 
The electricity just went out here in Tucson. The power company says 7000 homes are affected. They estimate the power won’t be back on until 6:30. This sucks.
The electricity just went out here in Tucson. The power company says 7000 homes are affected. They estimate the power won’t be back on until 6:30. This sucks.
Does a bear Schlitz in the woods?
<ducks and runs>
The lawsuit grinds inexorably onward, but there’s no news yet. I have been clinging to your words for comfort, seriously. I don’t have any experience with this sort of thing.
Thank you for asking!
Hey, **cochrane/B], you ever get power - and crucially, air conditioning - turned back on? I consulted the Oracle of Google and was informed that y’all hitting 100+ temps out there. 
It’s about Phoenix, not Tucson, but nevertheless I dedicate this song to you:
Toyota of Southern Maryland just sent me an email reminding me of my service appointment for my Toyota Highlander. Except I don’t now have nor have I ever had a Highlander. Or a Toyota, for that matter.
I went thru this nonsense a year or so ago when someone with my name purchased said vehicle. There are adjacent Toyota and Hyundai dealerships owned by the same person, and I guess they share a database, because I did buy my Sonata there 8 years ago. That’s the only explanation, since it’s not a matter of a common email like gmail or yahoo - I use engineer.com, which I’ve never seen anyone else use.
Regardless, I lost track of how many times I emailed the service manager and the salesman and the general manager asking them to stop sending me crap that was for another woman with my name. It did stop for a while, but here we go again. Yeah, not earth-shaking, but it still pisses me off! It should piss off my name-twin, too - she’s been missing all sorts of notifications.
Or, you know, she is happy to not have the extra email to delete (assuming she is someone who can keep track of when she needs to go in for service).
I used to get emails from the Oyster card and also for some pre-school in the UK. Probably the same woman. I just put a filter in my gmail to delete them all.
Now I have to add one for Priceline. Seriously, people, is it too much to ask that you learn YOUR *OWN *EMAIL ADDRESS correctly?
Yeah, the power came back on about two hours later. It was too late to use the stove to cook dinner, though, so we got drive-thru food from Burger King.
Neither did I, when it happened to me. IIRC, I talked to my insurance agent a few times and they were very reassuring, telling me basically to let their lawyer handle it because that’s what they’re for. I think my suit wound up being settled for $20K, and the insurance company covered it.
You can always call your insurance agent and just tell them you’re feeling anxious and would appreciate some information on how suits like this are handled and what, if anything, they’re expecting. I bet you get reassured, too.
Your rate may go up a bit but it shouldn’t be onerous, and you can always make your son pay the difference! Plus after a few years it’ll be dropped from your record and your rates should go back down.
Mrs Magill is feeling feverish and has an itchy throat. We’re hoping it’s from watching the news too much. Her temperature is technically normal, but since she has Graves’ Disease and is missing 2/3 of her thyroid, her temperature runs low.
Fingers crossed it’s nothing.
Oh, my GOD with the flies! I watered a patch of dirt with flower seeds/seedlings and various flies settled on the wet clay-ish dirt immediately.
Moved up here to Michigan after thirty g-d- years in north Texas, and was informed that - due to winter stuff - roaches aren’t nearly the issue up here that they are down south, but that mosquitoes remain problematic. Okay.
So where are flies in the grand scheme of things, Michi-dopers? Because I could put a tiny saddle on some of these big fuckers, and there is a rainbow of large, small, blue, green, bumbly, fast, large, small corpses accumulating in my window screens.
Sorry to say even on a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan black flies may still plague you.
Ah, but you won’t notice them because you’ll be busy throwing up.
Cite: My dad, Naval Veteran, who claimed he and other Navy vets never got seasick except on the ferry from Milwaukee to Michigan.
Oh, gawd yes, and those little f’ers HURT when they bite too!
Not-so-dearly loathing the brown truck “delivery” guys today. Today, I had a package out for delivery, which was already late. DH reports that the tracker map showed my package IN OUR APARTMENT COMPLEX, when it suddenly left back to the depot, won’t be delivered until tomorrow. Tracking claims “weather or natural disaster”. Weather was nowhere near bad here today, and news sites have a remarkable lack of mention of any major issues in the area that could reasonably be expected to impede a delivery.
Also some side hate for stubbornly stupid callers who refuse to believe that they might be locked out of a website for too many failed logins, while they are talking to that site’s tech support, who is looking at the history of failed attempts and the Blocked flag, and a restaurant that closed just as I parked in front of it (looks like Doordash wanted my money more than they did).
The first time I was involved in a lawsuit, I was a total mess despite knowing that my insurance company didn’t want to pay out and had lawyers trained to save them every penny. The second time, I wasn’t so upset because I knew the County didn’t want to pay out and had lawyers…
Until the courts shut down, company I work for got sued on a regular basis and I went to court on a regular basis because I didn’t trust any of them with my documents. It became a bother rather than a worry.
That was a long way to say I’m sorry, Dung Beetle. I forgot how scary this sort of thing is when it happens the first time.
You know how everyone talks bad about lawyers cause they do all sorts of double talk and loopholes and shit that would never occur to normal people like you and me? Well, they are right, lawyers do all that stuff and more…but your insurance company is paying them to do it for you!