For an electric dryer, probably not a big deal (and the added moisture and heat in the winter potentially a win). Gas dryer is venting CO in addition to heat/water, so definitely contraindicated.
For one load it’s not a big deal, & if it’s an apartment that you don’t care about it may not be the biggest thing but it does introduce moisture into the environment, especially concentrated where it comes out which could cause mildew issues.
It’s not uncommon for banks issue debit cards right there on the spot in the branch; don’t know what her bank is but have her call them; she might have a new one in hand a few minutes after walking in.
A local art gallery had some paintings from a series by an artist that I really want. Some of the paintings were around $1000, so I was hoping that some day I could work that into my budget. I just looked for the artist online and found some things for sale, but the prices have gone way up, so I’m afraid this dream will never happen. 
This is not a rant but is about several things I have posted in Mini Rant threads. I have made several posts about my favorite thread. For a while, I was worried that these posts were signs of a loss of impulse control. I realized they were something else. When my Uncle Max was dying, I became obssessed with fixing a table he owned. The project was thoroughly unimportant. It became the focus of all my time and energy. This is a pattern for me. At times of great stress, sadness and anxiety I focus on one small and unimportant task and devote all my resources to it. In this case, it was an SDMB thread.
I am not sure whether this obssession is better or worse than a loss of impulse control. I am not sure what to do about it. It now looks like my last therapy session had a copy of $180 because I did not give them the proper insurance information. It looks like the copay should be $0. I have sent an e-mail to the billing department to confirm this. If they confirm that I have no copay, I will schedule a bunch of therapy sessions.
She’s going there today to get cash; maybe they can do it then. It’s a smaller CU in a smallish town in Vermont, so who knows if they have the equipment. When she called, she was told it would take a week to send to her.
I might have her see if she can get a Visa gift card there (one of our credit unions does that), which would make paying for some of her travel miscellany a little easier.
My grump of the day: we’ve been told we HAVE to upload photos to our work Teams profiles. My WAG is that it’s an anti DEI thing. I hate doing that anyway. And about 2 weeks back, I tripped over my own feet, bumped my head on the drywall, got a bit of a goose egg (within the hairline)… and a few days later the bruise appeared - right on my forehead. I guess the underlying leaked blood migrated - I’ve had that happen with sprains etc. in the past.
So I get to take my photo looking like a battered woman. Or I suppose I could find a random photo online somewhere and claim it’s me - nobody there has ever seen me in person!
Why is it that every single time I get a new prescription from my doctor, the pharmacy states online that there is “. . . unclear or missing information - we are awaiting clarification from your doctor, but this may take some time.” Then I must go to the pharmacy (easier than calling and waiting on hold), grill them for the reason, then call my doctor’s office and tell them to get off their cans, and then continue to call and call for the next several days to get it all straightened out.
The worst time this happened is when I had Covid and needed Paxlovid ASAP. The pharmacy gave me this crap, my doctor’s office insisted they had talked with the pharmacy about the issue, but the pharmacy still wouldn’t fill the prescription. I ended up taking my husband’s prescription of Paxlovid, because he was only lightly sick with Covid and I had it far more intensely. I still see my prescription for Paxlovid one year later with “pending” and “need more info from your doctor” listed underneath it.
It’s actually easier for a small institution to do it than a large one. Each branch needs (at least one) physical card printer, + some in reserve somewhere for if when one breaks, the time/effort to do whatever their security procedures around blank cards, etc. Much less overall cost for a small CU than a large national bank with hundreds/thousands of branches.
A couple of my cow-orkers have cartoonized versions of themselves, or their pet, or… Submit something & wait for them to come back & say that isn’t good, by then you should be less battered.
…& have you reported yourself to the PD for domestic battery?
You know that old saying “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”? I say submit a photo of yourself in a Halloween mask.
Or a carefully composed photo of your hands, or, as our esteemed @ThelmaLou does, the back of your head (or somebody’s well-coifed head).
Last year I was having a similar problem with CVS, except it was with both existing and renewal prescriptions. Sometimes CVS couldn’t seem to get the refill from the doctor and sometimes there was an issue with filling a prescription with existing refills. Going to the store was a problem for me, so I was resigned to having to try to get a pharmacist on the phone. They’ve finally managed to get their act together, and I’ve been able to get my refills the past few months. I’m waiting to see how long that lasts.
My mini-rant. When Apple TV had their free weekend last year I set up an account to check out some shows I’d been interested in watching. With one thing and another I hadn’t gotten around to actually setting up a subscription until today. I went to the website and verified that my account was still functional, and tried to sign up for the free 7-day trial and give them my payment info. Except that when I clicked on the “accept free trial” button all I got was a blank pop-up window. I finally got into a chat with a customer service rep, and after a bit of back and forth to verify that I did have an account it was suggested that I try using a different browser. Sure enough, I’ve found yet another website whose account system refuses to recognize Firefox as a valid browser. Using Chrome I was able to set up an annual subscription.
In good news, I finally remembered where I left my spare whiteboard. I duct taped it to the fridge and I now have a To Do list.
On the list is taking my sister’s name off my account (She ranted about how hard it would be for her to get the money in the event of my untimely death) and have her made beneficiary in the event of my untimely death. I called Wells Fargo. I have to go in person to have her name removed from my account. It cannot be done over the phone or on the web site. I can have her named as my beneficiary by mail. But, the letter has to be notarized. So, I will be making a visit to a local Wells Fargo this weekend.
My sister, long story, also has about ten thousand dollars of my money. A few years back, my phone wouldn’t charge and I couldn’t even call 911. My Mom panicked and insisted on paying for a new phone and a plan. I had assumed that she was still paying a monthly fee for the plan (she can afford it). Last visit, my sister informed me that she was the one who had been paying the monthly fee. I had never asked her to do that. I didn’t want her to do that. Had she informed me of this fact before she started paying the monthly fee, I would have sought an alternative. She estimates that she has spent about two thousand dollars over the past two years paying my monthly fee. Rather than argue, I will have her take that amount from the money she is holding and give the rest back to me.
This is all to keep my sister out of my affairs. When Mom and I visited her in January, my sister said she was sick of being responsible for everybody else. Planning where we went in our spare time was entirely up to me (I searched ‘thrift stores near me’ and we went to a lot of thrift stores. Mom and I love thrift stores!). Where we went for dinner was entirely up to me. My sister did not bother to inform me that all planning was my duty until after I arrived. If she doesn’t want to be responsible for my finances, her name does not need to be on the account. There were other reasons for her to hold my money. They no longer apply. If she doesn’t want to be responsible for my money, I can just deposit it in my account.
Rant #2
Tonight, the new Night Court is on. For reasons I don’t understand, my reception is terrible tonight. I tried rescanning. This made things worse. bah
Rants related to my data HDD (not system drive, thankfully, which is an SSD). I had trouble copying a large file from it, and Event Viewer was reporting IDE controller errors, although that could mean almost anything. I ran a full CHKDSK and it found and reallocated three bad sectors.
I consulted with ChatGPT which has increasingly been praised for its usefulness in the tech arena. It gave me some common-sense general advice, but after I informed it of the drive operating temperature (51C) and the fact that it had over 45,500 power-on hours (equal to 5.2 years of continuous operation) I could almost feel the robot’s shock and dismay, and it started wagging its little metal finger at me, and spoke thus under the heading “Final Recommendation” highlighted with a big red dot:
Replace the drive ASAP. Your HDD is already well past its typical lifespan, it’s running hot, and it’s starting to show real signs of failure. While it might keep running for a while, there’s a high risk of sudden failure, which could result in total data loss.
Do you have a backup in place? If not, I’d strongly recommend cloning the drive or backing up important data immediately before it degrades further. A new HDD (or even better, an SSD) would be a great investment for reliability and performance.
So I’m in for a bunch of hassle and expense as I’ll definitely be replacing it with an SSD.
Anecdotally, my 10+ yo desktop has an SSD and an HDD. The SSD crashed and was completely unrecoverable. I really need to backup my HDD, I guess.
A Mini Rant And An Anti Rant
Presumably, the cancel eachother out.
A long time friend on Facebook (I have known her and her husband since before they had kids. Their oldest kid is about to enter college) made a post asking for a polite discussion about what is going on with our government. One of her other Facebook friends (I will call her L) not only defended Trump and Musk, but was wildly enthusiastic about them. She made many claims. I asked for evidence to back up those claims. L responded to me by leaving a laughing emoji on my posts and then replying with personal insults. This continued for quite a while. I kept repeating my requests for evidence. L would say that I was attacking her. She would then insult me and say that I should just use Google as it wasn’t her duty to prove her claims. My friend finally broke in. She explained that I was not attacking anybody and that if you make a claim, it is your duty to provide proof. L learned nothing from that. I continued to ask for evidence. L continued to leave laughing emojis and insults. Eventually, my friend told us both to just drop it.
A few hours later, L replied to one of my comments with more insults and three screenshots from her phone. I did check out the screen shots, Rather than evidence, they just show statements from Musk making unsupported claims about the ‘waste’ he eliminated.
That is the rant.
The anti rant is, now that I have been back on all my medications for a while, I was not overcome by anger and was able to restrain my urge to respond. Instead, I copied L’s post and pasted it in a Facebook message to my friend. I added ‘You told us to drop it. So I did. She did not. I am not responding to her only because you said to drop it and it is your page’.
My friend made a later post about pain medication not working. I am not sure exactly what the source of the pain is. But, that would explain why she has not responded to my message. In the mean time, everybody in that thread (except L) knows that L has drunk the Kool Aid, has no debating skills, and seems to lack critical thinking skills as well. I can stifle the urge to interact with L and wait for my friend to feel better and deal with the situation.
You have a history (based on your posts) of engaging w/ people on social media who have differing views from you & then not letting it go. Trump won because he got more votes, which means there are lots of people out there who don’t have the same beliefs/values as you do. Frankly, the way you go about getting them to change their beliefs is all wrong - demanding someone provide proof? Maybe you should schedule an appointment with Dr. Rick from Progressive.
My rant is Verizon is still doing it. I filed *another* complaint with the state regulator yesterday but I expect this one to go nowhere as well. In our area it's common to have a ±2' wide grass curb strip between the street & the sidewalk. This is where the cable boxes sit. When someone calls up for Fios, they real quickly run a line from the box to the house, right over the sidewalk & don't mark it in any way, no cones, no flags, no taping it down. It's winter! It's dark after work, go out for a walk or a run or to walk the dog & you come across what is essentially a mantrap, a black wire, at night, that is installed in the ground but is loose enough to get a foot underneath of it.
& somehow I managed to disable the HR on my Garmin. It’s back on but there was a lack of HR data last night on my workout & for sleeping, which means a loss of points from the work health tracker thing. First world, I know, but still…
I have a prior history with L. As I said she has truly drunk the Kool aid. Her beliefs might be changed when the face-eating leopard eats her face. Maybe. Short of that, she is immune to reason or facts.
I did not demand. I repeatedly asked, firmly but politely, for L to provide evidence to back up her claims. Her initial response was ‘I am not doing your work for you. Look on X.’ I repeated my request for evidence. She said that clearly I didn’t have a real job and lived in an apartment over my parents’ garage. It went on like this. She did eventually provide a link to an article. The headline was about how USAID had failed in Haiti. I read the whole article. I responded with a quote from the article in which the author admitted he did not know how the overwhelming majority of USAID projects in Haiti had gone, how the funds were spent, or if they were successful. He went on to conclude that USAID in Haiti had been a massive failure and waste of funds. I pointed out the problem with him admitting the evidence did not support his conclusion. I also pointed out that the article was only about Haiti and that USAID operated in many other countries. L reacted to my post with a laughing emoji. She then replied with more personal insults.
There are, at least I hope there are, people who voted for Trump who can be reached by the proper techniques and their minds changed. L is most certainly not one of those people.
Every time I break a bone (well, it’s not THAT often, but it has happened at least 3 times as an adult), I get a letter from my insurance saying, essentially “Pretty pleeeeeease. is this the fault of someone else so we can sue 'em?”. And my reply is always “no”, but I really want to say “No, I’m just a complete dumbass”.
I bought a Plague Doctor mask a couple years back. Our project has an annual call around Halloween, where there’s a mini costume contest. I can never find that mask in time for the calls.
I hate to tell you but, yeah, you demanded proof from her
What is the difference between asking and demanding?
How can you conclude I demanded proof based only on the details I have given in this thread?
Based onlyon the details given in this thread, you would not let it go, and kept at it long past the point where it should have been clear that you would not receive a satisfactory reponse. While you’re technically in the right by the rules of debate and common sense, you’re in the wrong by social conventions.