One thing Kansas City, MO has managed to do right is greatly cut down on this foolishness. The street and water departments (mostly) coordinate, and if the gas or electric company come by and tear up a recently repaved road, they have to repave the whole block and full width.
@Folacin That’s awesome. I wish the utilities in PA would come up with something similar but it’s all such a jurisdictional maze. Maybe when I retire I will make this one of my projects to explore.
BTW I visited your city several years ago and loved it.
Just got a call that my sister, who I tended to for 3 weeks in Albuquerque earlier this year, has not been able to make a go of it back in apartment life. Is back in the hospital til we can get the Medicaid thing sorted out and get her into a palliative care facility. Upshot is, while I can do the Medicaid thing online, in the next couple weeks I’m going to have to fly back to Albuquerque to clean her stuff out of the apartment, her storage unit, and figure out what to do with her car. Probably a week’s worth, time I have to take off from a job that I just started last week. Don’t know how that’s going to go over, but I did make them aware of the situation when I interviewed for the job. I guess I’ll see how it goes. I do it for my sister because I’m the only family member who can, but damned inconvenient.
Micro-rant. Some of you may be aware of the trials and tribulations I had trying to get my passport, which eventually required the intervention of my Congressperson to resolve. Shortly after receiving my passport I received, as promised the documents I had submitted with my original application and the new birth certificate I had submitted by registered mail after I was told that the one I had mailed to them in June was never received. (By the way, it turned out that the birth certificate that I had submitted with my original application was, indeed, a “short form” which did not have the required info.)
So last week I received a mailing from the passport office. It contained a certified copy of my “long form” birth certificate. This had to be the one I had mailed to them by regular mail in June, which they swore they had never received. I don’t know if it magically appeared from behind the file cabinet where it fell instead of being processed. In any case, fuck the passport office for the aggravation they caused me. And thanks once again to Congresswoman Valerie Foushee, who will have my vote for any office she runs for in the future.
I suspect they’re as swamped and understaffed as the IRS. I had to get a passport a couple years ago during Covid and they were really understaffed. I too had a screw-up that took ages to rectify (couldn’t prove my married last name due to misspelled marriage recording at the county).
WHY was I hearing CHRISTMAS music while eating a fast food lunch on SEPTEMBER 2?
Costco has had Halloween stuff out since the end of July. WTF? I expect Thanksgiving this week and Christmas 10/1…
Last week I went with my wife to a store and they had Thanksgiving decorations for sale. Can’t remember which store it was.
I griped that it was too early, she shrugged,
Me and the woman I love went to my new apartment today, to clean and see what needed to be done. She cleaned everything mopped all the floors, scrubbed the sinks, scrubbed the bathtub and toilet, cleaned the inside of the fridge, and even cleaned and wiped all the shelves in the kitchen cabinets.
We found that one of the windows cannot be opened. Several of the windows are missing screens. Several have broken screens. Management left two copies of the mailbox key on the mantle. The key fits in and turns the lock on my mailbox. Part of the lock is broken off and the mailbox does not lock anymore.
But the big thing is this- They painted the apartment after the last tennant moved out. That would be great except for one thing. They failed to cover the coaxial outlet plate when they painted. The socket I need to plug a coaxial cable into to get Comcast internet has paint all over it. The threads on the outside are completely filled with paint. The center where that needle thingy needs to go is completely stopped up with paint.
I am surprised at the rest of the stuff on the list. It should have been checked. It would be quick and easy to fix. But what kind of idiocy is required to not cover a cable outlet when spraying paint on a wall?
That sucks but it’s a $3 dollar solution–get a new outlet and it’s 5 minutes to connect…
Asked the bakery guy to special make me some choc chip zuccinni bread for this week.
Now I realize I am not able to afford it. Hoping someone else will purchase it.
Jeez, at least call back & let the store know, so it doesn’t go to waste.
If you order food & then decide you don’t want it, they won’t sell it until it’s expired, because what if you show up anyway?
I considered that. But when the cable at my last apartment needed replacing, the technician had to remove a very long wire and then snake another from the outlet in my bedroom to whatever it connects to outside the building. I strongly suspect that the ruined outlet is attached to a long cable beyond my ability to replace.
Its at the farmers market. Good idea, I will contact him.
My takeaway from your ordeal is this - why do (some) states even have these (I was born in Ohio, they don’t have short form BCs)? If they aren’t adequate for things like getting passports, what on earth is the point of these things? If they didn’t exist, you wouldn’t have had to go through all this mess.
Mmm, stale candy!
Now, that’s a Go Fund Me I could get behind!
And if I were a friend of yours and heard about this after the fact, I’d say "WHY didn’t you tell me? I would’ve bought you one, or split a loaf with you!"
Ha! The 2 small loves are 5 dollars. Its a great bakery. He makes pumpkin choc chip too!
I hadn’t even realized that the birth certificate I had been using for all those years, and which had been accepted both by the TSA to qualify for for preCheck and by the state of NC for my RealID was a “short form”. I’m also irked that when I went to the County Clerk’s office to file for the passport that they hadn’t verified that the BC I had presented was sufficient for the passport office. Apparently the fee they collected was only to collect my paperwork and send it on, not to review the application and other paperwork.
At least now I once again have two certified copies of my full BC in case I ever need to send someone else a copy. And while I was at the IL records office I also got copies of my Marriage License and my late wife’s Birth Certificate (which I was certain I already had but was unable to locate).
I think you are now duty-bound to plan more travel, even if it is just to Canada, to make all your effort worthwhile!