Oh jeeebus is “SASE” just not something people recognize? Am I old? I thought that’s how people mail things to each other, but I just got 2 back to back messages from people who were very confused as to how I’d know where to mail their items.
tip-tapping away by phone, but why would you care?
Probably not anymore. Who uses snail mail these days for actual letters?
My first world rant: I can’t login to or use FB at the moment. It was working, now it’s just doing nothing. Down for everyone claims it’s just me. Pinging google shows some dropped packets and a slow response. Pinging Comcast shows no drops and fast response. SDMB is also responding nicely. Guessing one or more hops have developed issues, and this is irking because I happened to be messaging with a friend when the issue developed.
I had to think about it, but for the last 17 years I’ve used them in other languages. Last time I used one was just a few months ago, to send some paperwork to the water company.
I do remember the acronym from when I lived Over There.
I had a crown put on last Monday and the injection site is still killing me, and it’s pissing me off. It’s made worse by the upper respiratory infection I caught from my husband which is radiating pain down my throat and the side of my neck, but luckily ibuprofen is enough to combat it.
Also, the morning I had surgery to remove my tumor last week, I decided I’d work out beforehand in case I wasn’t allowed to for a while after. That was really stupid. I threw my back out doing planks with improper form because I’m a moron. Also, I’m getting old. Anyways, I was hardly able to put my own pants on before the surgery, but still got to have it done.
The silver lining - the doctor was generous with the local anesthetic, so I felt nothing. And the combination of my back and my face distracted me completely from any pain in my arm so that feels great! Also, the back is calming down, as is the infection and the injection site pain. I just hate when all that shit happens at the same time and combines to make me feel incredibly old.
Update on my rant. Chatting with Comcast on Twitter reveals that there is an “unplanned service interruption” in my area, and they’re working to fix it. Could be sorta out until after 5 p.m., which is annoying. On the plus side, customer service was pretty danged responsive and now at least I know. Also, it isn’t an issue for all the service, just some of it. Kinda weird, that, but I’ll take having at least some of the net accessible rather than none!
I guess I should thank my DIL for taking down Halloween decorations and putting up Thanksgiving decorations. I’m not big on either, but at least I don’t have early Christmas.
HGTV is running Christmas commercials. There’s a good rock station in Philly that I used to listen to, but I got out of the habit a few years ago when they started Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving. Switched to the local all-news CBS station and never looked back.
I came in to rant about the Xmas commercials, but I’ve been beat to the punch. I do appreciate that they seemed to have waited until after Halloween to start running them, but then they segued straight into the “only a few days left” commercials. Hard for me to get into the “most wonderful time of the year” mood when it’s still 70 degrees out (in Massachusetts!) and I’m still raking leaves and planting bulbs.
Also, it doesn’t matter when they run them, I will never delight in any commercial in which loving spouses drag their delighted other halves out to the snowy driveway to reveal a luxury car with a big damned bow on it. I mean, how does that even work? “Hey, honey, I emptied our savings to buy you a Lexus without consulting you on brand, color, style, or options. Pretty romantic, huh?”
Actually, there were ads for Christmas lights running before Halloween, with the little added post script of “Oh, yeah, you can get them in orange for Halloween”.
Well, apparently you can only buy white cars for Christmas presents (presumably to better show off the bow), so that part of the problem is sorted.
Anyone considering becoming an expat please be forewarned that in any deal involving money transactions, taxes, visas or just all law generally, you will get screwed on both ends. So I pay all my Japan taxes like everyone else, plus a bit more for things that only foriegners need to do (like visas etc), and I pay maximum capital gains tax in Australia because although I’m a citizen, I am not a resident, so must pay maximum. Yes, you heard it, I pay maximum tax in my country because I do not reside there and do not use any government functions.
People always talk like a root canal is the worst dental procedure…in my experience, a root canal is a damn walk in the park compared to a crown. It was a month between the placement of the temporary and the installation of the permanent crown, and I was pretty much in constant pain (which was dismissed as “oh, your bite is off”). And for some reason, the tech decided it would be a great idea to rinse the permanent crown with ice cold water…the pain from that didn’t wear off until the next day.
Fraudulent iPad update: as expected, a FedEx driver showed up yesterday with return labels that would have delivered the iPad to an address in Brooklyn. The driver was actually familiar with this type of scam, and was already a bit suspicious of the labels because the word “Apple” had been randomly inserted after the address.
Same gripe I’ve had every year for the last 3-4 years, but if you absolutely must be a slacktivist, at least do it right. This is Movember, not “No Shave November.”
Update: As expected fridge had to be replaced! They came yesterday, brought new one, and removed the other. But, the delivery people told me they replace this model a bunch! Great! My old fridge I had for 20 years, it still works. Mr.Wrekker has it in his shop now full of beer and fish bait. Woe is me!
The cheap little fridge I bought over 40 years ago when I first moved into my own place is still going strong in the basement keeping soft drinks, extra milk & eggs, beer, etc. cold. The big expensive ones in the kitchen seem to last an average of 10 years before they crap out.
So it seems, I am now gonna say something my Daddy used to say: 'They don’t make ‘em like to used to’ . It’s true, you do turn into your parents!
Speaking as a dad who despairs of ever clearing the bar set by my own father, I can attest that: A) yes, you do; and B) no, they don’t. 
Nothing wrong about turning into your parent if they were good ones.
I cannot program our programmable thermostat to save my own freezing arse life.
It is 34F outside right now and the temp’s expected to drop through tomorrow.
I do NOT have the patience to figure out this crappy thing, minute by minute, hour by hour. Plus there’s 2 of them. Did I mention that I’m freezing even though I’m wearing multiple sleepwear layers?
OTOH my husky has already been in/out multiple times, LOL.
Ah, thermostats. There’s one just outside my office - I’m not sure how much of the building it controls, but I know that someone set it for 69° and it was freekin’ FREEZING in here this morning, with cold air still blowing. Meanwhile, it’s in the low 40s and rainy outside.
I’m sitting here in a heavy sweater (yes, I bumped the a/c up to 73°) and my office mate, who never complains about cold, was complaining about cold. He was afraid to change the setting. Screw that!!
I don’t mind wearing a sweater, but when my hands get frosty, there’s my limit. I don’t type in gloves, thanks…