My ex-wife made that error… the really good (and expensive) Smeg washer had to be replaced, the electronics board was ruined.
She was still my wife then, so I did not complain about it too much… but it still rankles.
That is an interesting perspective and one I had never considered.
I have hot zones of confusion about some thing as well.
I keep a bottle of dish soap by my washer to pre treat stains and once in awhile I just automatically find myself squirting it into the machine instead of the liquid laundry detergent.
I moved it for good now so I won’t have that criss cross of product confusion.
Why do I even bother to put appointments on Outlook calendars? I retired two plus years ago from a legal secretarial job. I worked for five attorneys, and I put their appointments and reminders on both their paper calendars and on their Outlook calendars, with pop-up alerts programmed to come up a day ahead of time to remind them. They still would walk past my desk and ask “When is that thing I have to go to tomorrow?”, and then act miffed when I had to call up their calendar on my computer and tell them. I did not and could not keep the schedules of five people flawlessly memorized so I could instantly recall them when asked.
Now a certain husband is doing the same thing. His vax appointment is carefully calendared along with a pop-up reminder a day ahead of time, telling him the day, place, and time of the event. He still asks me “When is that thing I’m doing tomorrow?”.
I feel like I’m back at work.
Looks around sheepishly
After yesterday’s bubble disaster in my bathroom I go to work and spill my coffee all over my desk.
My large desk calendar is obliterated.
Liquid even spilled into my pencil well inside the desk.
And on the floor.
Took me an hour to fully clean up this wet carnage.
Was able to locate another desk calendar, tear off January through August and reschedule September through December events.
I just had an idea for all the hand/laundry/dishwasher soap people: Buy different formats for each! We have Dawn for Dishes at the sink, a pump for hand soap, PODS O’ SOAP for the dishwasher, and a big box of powder for clothes (oh, and a spray bottle of SHOUT for stains).
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Be sure you catch it before the agitator kicks in (if you’re drying them with a spin cycle, you’ve gone too far)!
Don’t complain -
& yes, it did stink when I got home last night. Left it where it was until this morning so that I didn’t feed the neighborhood critters. Usually it’d be crows but this one would probably have been the turkey vultures.
Is this just what getting old is like?
It’s week two of the new schedule, getting up a measly hour earlier than usual, and I’m still half-dead. My brain hardly works today.
But be proud of me, I have started a weekly meeting with my fitness instructor every Monday at 8am. Just getting it out of the way as soon as possible, lol. It was a good workout but I’m going to be in serious pain this week. Still, it was all worth it for the massage gun (it was incredibly painful because I am so tense, but that’s going to get better, right? Right?)
Next week starts my son’s evening social skills groups. I’m trying to find ways out of the heinous commute, or to make it all more bearable. I found a Starbucks five minutes from his therapy place. Maybe 4:30-6:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays will become Mom’s time to drink hot chocolate and work on her novel. Or at least work on that reading backlog.
I hate driving in the dark. I have to go see an eye doctor to get some upgraded lenses before that shit starts happening.
Your situation is definitely worse.
I also feel like I am coming down with something today - I hope it isn’t Covid but it sure feels like it. I caught it last year around the same time.
Sore throat, cough, chest tightness, headache, malaise.
Just glorious.
Ugh, printers. My Brother laser now refuses to print a .pdf via the Windows print spooler. I can print one from my phone, USB stick, or Dropbox link on the printer itself just fine. But via the vastly easiest and most convenient way? Nope.
My dishwasher is downstairs and the washing machine is upstairs.
Talk about compartmentalizing.
Micro-rant. I’ve gone to the ER twice and a diuresis clinic over the past two weeks to get treatment for severe edema. That’s not the rant, though. Every time the doctor changes the number of Lasix pills I’m supposed to be taking during the course of the day, and for some reason this means a new prescription gets sent to CVS. Since the old prescription is still on the record, CVS then sends me a text informing me that they are unable to refill the new prescription because it’s too soon since the prescription was filled. A little thing, but it drives me nuts because I already have prescriptions for other medications that need to be filled, and I keep thinking they’re referring to those prescriptions.
On a positive note, I’ve lost ten pounds in the past week because of the medication changes.
Tonight our TV crashed three times. It’s probably 5-7 years old and it hasn’t been working well lately. My husband was looking into software updates at least as a quick fix before we can find a replacement. It appears we may have found the issue - Sony has been withholding software updates unless we agree to them harvesting our data.
Fuck you, Sony. And fuck your ridiculous user interface while we’re at it.
I’m not even convinced this will fix the problem.
I had my annual physical done last week. Had blood drawn. The lab results came in Friday and there were a couple abnormal readings. That’s happened before but has never been a problem. When I got up today (after noon) I saw that I had a message at 8:18 that I had an appointment at 8:30 and please arrive at 8:15. Then another that said my appointment had been changed to 8:45. Then a message that I had a new lab test ordered.
I got online to check the patient portal and figured out that they had run a new test on the blood this morning because of one of the abnormal readings. Somehow that had triggered the new appointment messages. There was a note that I needed to have another lab test done on October 8 and to print and bring the attached document to the lab. I assumed the blood draw would be at the doctor’s office but nowhere did it say that. And why would I need to print and bring in anything since they were the one who ordered it? Then I called to make an appointment and was told I could just come in anytime that day.
Patient portals are a great way to get access to your health information. But why can’t they make things a little more straightforward? Would it be so hard to just send a message that because of an abnormal result, I needed a new test done at the office and could come in any time? Instead I was looking under “test results” and “visit summaries” and “clinical notes” just trying to piece together what had happened. I finally found the test request under “recommended actions” which was on the “health summary” page. It was very frustrating. And I used to work in a hospital system I.T. department. The one this clinic is part of. They recently changed to Epic and I’ve got some thoughts for my friends who still work there.
My browser is telling me that over 100 of my accounts have a security breach and my password is compromised.
The thing is, many of these had their passwords changed recently, because I was told that those passwords were compromised via a security breach.
So either (A) my browser is full of shit and giving me false information, or (B) all of these web sites (most of them major web sites) have such shitty security that it takes no effort for a hacker to breach their info and if I change these passwords, they’re just going to be compromised again shortly.
Either way, why should I waste my time in trying to change any of them?
100 accounts? That’s nuts. Why, I barely have 95. Give or take a handful.
Over the past 25 years or so, 100 accounts averages to 4 a year. I’ll also note that consists of most of the total saved accounts I have. There aren’t many it says that aren’t being reported as compromised, which again seems incredibly suspicious.
So I’m minding my own business late this morning driving to a medical appointment and suddenly hear a terrific bang behind me. Turns out, some asshole had carelessly changed lanes, causing the car beside and slightly behind him to smash right into him. They must have been doing a pretty good speed because the damage looked quite extensive.
I just thank my lucky stars that the accident was right behind me and not in front, because it looked like traffic was backed up behind the mess and not getting through and I would have missed my appointment. Worse, I could have been the innocent driver that the asshole cut right in front of.
The ultrasound was a worse ordeal than I was expecting due to having to schlep a long distance from the parking lot and then up and down stairs (I hate elevators), and the procedure itself took longer and was more annoying than most ultrasounds, so instead of proceeding to another location for an X-ray as per my previous rant, I proceeded directly home and made myself a nice martini. The X-ray can wait. As I often say, there are few things I hate more than having medical care inflicted on me, but as I age some of these procedures are becoming inevitable.
I get occasional notices about needing to change passwords similar to what you mention.
I recently found a to do list of mine from circa 2023 with the notation “change passwords”.
Apparently I never even got started on it back then.
We travelled over the past 2 weeks. I noted that my phone often had trouble updating the maps (we were using it to navigate). Some of that was in an unpopulated area of upstate NY so I thought little of it.
I was on a work call and kept getting dropped after a minute. That was driving around Toronto - where one would expect decent cell coverage.
The issue persisted throughout the weekend - basically, if I didn’t have wifi, I was stuck.
Returning home (Ontario to Vermont to Virginia), the problem persisted - never had more than 1 or 2 bars and even then I couldn’t make calls or get to the internet routinely. We wound up using the car’s built-in nav - which is better than nothing but can be…. odd (like the time it insisted we were in Lake George, NY…. not the town, but the actual LAKE).
Tried doing some troubleshooting. Reset all my connection info. No joy. Popped the SIM out and back. Briefly got 3 bars, which immediately went away. Next thing to try would be a full factory reset, which would hose up a lot of things I need for work. So I guess it’s time for a new phone - which is annoying, as I really like this one and otherwise really don’t need a new one. It is 3 years old, a Samsung S22 Ultra with the S-pen.