Shingles SUCKS! That is my December rant.
I really gotta make some time to get that vaccine.
That must be one of those new fancy plug-in hybrid Priuses. I thought a conventional type hybrid just gets moderately better gas mileage than a pure gas-powered car, just due to energy capture through regeneration, and even then only in stop-and-go city traffic. We have “hybrid” city buses here and their diesel engines are always roaring and belching fumes.
For true. You have my sympathy.
What’s worse than finding a dead mouse on the kitchen floor? Finding half a dead mouse on the kitchen floor. Apparently one of the kitties wanted a rump roast for dinner…
I’m going to add a rant for my Wife (she does not post here). But it pisses us both off.
Now this is a professional office. Real Estate appraisal for the government. About 10 people.
The boss said that everyone would be getting Thursday afternoon off for Christmas. That’s cool. Sign on door put up saying they would be closed that afternoon.
But then the boss got exposed to someone that tested positive for COVID, so the boss needs to quarantine herself. And, so, boss says now that no one gets that afternoon off.
What a shitty management ‘style’. It’s vindictive. Some people made plans and where looking forward to going home early.
I decided to order some Christmas presents from Costco yesterday evening. (They usually deliver in 2-5 days, so I wasn’t ordering too late.) They had a nice Christmas basket (well, actually, a “tower”) of chocolate goodies that was $10 off.
So I order 4 of the chocolate gifts and one cheese-and-sausage basket for the niece who prefers that. Go through the rigmarole of assuring that each gift will be sent to the appropriate address, with my custom message of “Merry Christmas! Love, Aunt Anny and Uncle Bob”. (Mini mini-rant: Costco’s software doesn’t allow any special characters, so have to type out “and” instead of using an ampersand.)
Get it all set up, click Purchase, and now they tell me they have only 3 of the chocolate towers. Grumble. Find a nice fruit and nut combo to send to one couple. Double-check the addresses and messages. Click Purchase.
Now they tell me they have only one chocolate tower. Grumble again. Set up to give 2 more recipients the fruit-nut thing. Click Purchase.
Oops. They are all sold out of the chocolate tower. Try to send that couple the cheese-and-sausage basket, since they’ll be out of town over the holiday and I don’t want the fruit to go bad while the package awaits their return. For some reason Costco, who knew that I didn’t want multiple chocolate towers to go to the same address, now insists that the 2 cheese-and-sausage baskets go to the same address.
I end up placing the order minus one cheese-and-sausage basket and then place a separate order with just that.
I thought I could order the 5 presents in about a half-hour. Ended up taking me an hour and a half.
Fuck FedEx. Claiming a package has been delivered when nothing has shown up should not be a Christmas tradition. I will say that causing enough damage to a package that it’s declared “undeliverable” is an interesting touch. (And of course the damaged items are now out of stock, so I’m now waiting on a gift card that may not even arrive in time.)
That’s unprofessional and petty. It’s like there’s a child in charge.
There’s a difference between being a boss and being a leader.
One year I had a lot of field mice getting into the house, which Shiva considered the Best. Toy. Ever.
One morning, I came downstairs to the BACK half of a mouse.
Erk. 
You both should team up, you can put them together and have a full mouse.
What’s worse is discovering an almost-dead mouse as you’re putting on your shoe.
No, as I think back to a time long, long ago (and far, far away, in a short-term rental I was in once) the worst is seeing a mouse clambering up the shower curtain as you’re having a shower.
I don’t remember all the precise details of how I dealt with it, but I do remember taking advantage of the presence of a bathtub and a great deal of water. The mouse’s bath also involved soap, shampoo, conditioner, toilet bowl cleaner, and anything else I could find. In the end, the carcass I disposed of was undoubtedly the cleanest drowned mouse ever.
A hearty FU to Matylda Kaczmarek eydgddjrjehejekrkf@gmail.com
She is asking me via email to verify the purchase of a chandelier being shipped to Wassau, IL (I don’t live in IL, nor do I know anyone there I would be sending such a thing to).
I guess I need to watch my credit card for a couple of days to make sure it doesn’t show up there (high enough charge that I’ll get an alert if it goes through). The email is signed “Team Paypal” with an 800 number. I assume this is a phishing attempt so will ignore it.
I think I have a Paypal account, but it’s been years since I used it, so not sure how to verify nothing real is hitting that. If I remember correctly, it should be tied to a CC so if I watch those I should be fine?
Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse.
Frankengerbil…
Awkward situation here. I just got a message from the manager of a local animal shelter I support with donations. We got Kizzy there a few months ago.
The shelter manager messaged me because someone used me as a reference for adopting a dog. The manager said she was going to assume a friend of mine should just get a green-light for adopting, but she wanted to do everything by the book.
Well, it turns out my friend is a nice person in general, but her interactions with animals have all ended badly. A ferret jumped out of her car window on the highway. A dog ran off and was never found when she returned home drunk from a party and never closed her door. A cat jumped into the dryer she was loading and died. Another cat ate mouse poison she’d put out in her basement.
I haven’t seen this friend since before COVID. The shelter manager said she’d come up with a reason to deny the adoption without implicating me.
All of that gives me the horrors. REALLY glad the shelter manager did her due diligence!
Yikes. It almost sounds like the animals aren’t so much victims of her ineptitude as escapees. Maybe they’ve got her measure better than you do. 
A gerbil in Frank! 
In all likelihood this is nothing. PayPal doesn’t have to be tied to a CC, mine comes out of my checking account via routing like a check. Just keep an eye on your accounts but I can pretty much guarantee you that with a throwaway email address like that, there is no chandelier, nothing being shipped, and nothing charged to your account. If there was actually any sort of purchase and this was coming from an actual business, they wouldn’t be using an email account that looked like a cat walked across a keyboard.
I get those sorts of bogus notices all the time that are obviously fake, and there has never been an actual charge on any of my accounts.