Thanks. (And that goes for everybody) It is sort of a relief. I think I’d rather be boiled in oil than do sales again!
It’s 66 outside, I should be able to shut down the A/C, right?
Not a fracking chance. ALL the windows are open and it’s 78 inside. Not a curtin is moving. Somewhere, a power company exec is cackling with glee.
And if by some strange chance we DO get a slight breeze, I’m sure the skunk clan is waiting…
Fuck my job situation! I know it’s a problem that a lot of people are going through but I just needed a bit of a rant. Some (not all) of our work is going to another company, so there won’t be enough jobs for all of us. Some of us will almost certainly be laid off. Then we got a notice that we had a few more weeks before it happened, but the reprieve was short lived. Just a few days later, it is starting - the amount of work is rather rapidly evaporating. I don’t see how we can keep going on like this much longer without the cuts starting. It just majorly sucks to have to look for a job right now and just to have no idea what will happen and when. When will the axe fall? I can’t count on being one of the few who doesn’t get cut, so here I go a job huntin’. 
And the skunks have fired the opening volley.
That whining noise you hear is a buildings worth of A/C’s firing off at once.
Anyone know where to rent a fishercat?
Evil bastards - for using chemical weapons.
I could have sworn I heard someone in the attic again but the camera didn’t pick up any motion. I think the raccoons have hacked my wifi network.
My wrist still hurts. I am mildly entertained by the medical word for what happened. Fell On Out Stretched Hand. Somehow being able to tell people that I have a FOOSH injury seems to make it more fun.
Offers **The Vorlon **some moth balls. Scatter them around the base of your place. They fired the first shot.
Being an attendant on u-scan is it’s own form of hell. The public’s ability to use it is about 60/40. Herd shopping (where 10 people shop for 1/2 basket of groceries) and fantasy shoppers (I’ll fill up a cart and then decide what I do and don’t want at checkout) are the norm. Yesterday, I added a new form of customer to the heap. We are in an affluent area, convenient for local and visiting celebrities. They generally wear their sunglasses in the store, with a hat pulled down low. So my new guessing game is celebrity or douchebag. Anything to kill the time.
If they’re both do you get bonus points?
I’m very unhappy with the way my simple skin surgery has turned out.
I had a basal cell carcinoma next to my mouth excised. The dermatologist prescribed a pain medication which no one told me was not to be taken on an empty stomach, so I spent that evening in the emergency room on morphine because of the excruciating stomach pain. The morphine made me vomit.
Over the next couple of weeks, the stitches came unraveled and had to be redone. After they came out, the wound opened and it’s still open almost four weeks later. Then the dermatologist put me on “wound care.” It would have been nice if someone had told me to not stretch my mouth open to eat a hamburger or an apple, but again, I wasn’t informed.
I went to another dermatologist because by now I had lost all faith in the first one. This one is prescribing a different course of treatment for caring for the wound, which is trying to keep steri-strips on it (they come off in a day or so) and antibiotics. The wound is weepy and I’m worried that I’ll forever have an open weepy wound on my face.
I’m reading about wound care centers and wondering if I ought to go to one of these. But they’d probably laugh at my worry over a 3/4" incision when they have to deal with far greater wounds for diabetics. I just don’t know what to do anymore.
I think I’d go to a wound care center, teela. You have a wound that’s not healing and I think that’s what they are for. I had a similar simple skin surgery and the wound was healed in just a few days. Four weeks is too long; go to the experts. It doesn’t matter how big the wound is; infection can get in through a tiny hole after all.
Teela, were you putting something on the incision? That sounds a lot like what happened when my mother got her ears pierced – one of the piercings started to get infected, so she started slathering on the Neosporin. The piercing ended up turning into a weepy ulcer…the infection was gone, but she was so sensitive to the Neosporin that it basically caused a skin breakdown.
(It’s all better now…she doesn’t even have much of a scar.)
I’ll say the same as someone forced to use them. I hate the damn things, but have to use them after midnight at both of the grocery stores I use after work. One of them at least has a tare function so I can put groceries directly in my bag as I go. The other one, I have to put everything on the scale and then bag after, with the thing repeating “please take your items” at me the whole time.
Then there was the day I tried to use a coupon for a free item and got the blue screen of death. After I had processed everything else. They had to shut it down and opened a regular register and did the whole thing over again, but in half the time without the stupid scale and some kind of extra processing power for the coupon.
Stinkbug season has begun. I just saw one crawling on the outside of my window screen. Time to get the broom and start knocking those bastards down again.
Doctor 1 instructions: First he had me put on Aquaphor, then later when it became an open wound, switched to “Bionect”, an open wound ointment, and cover it with a bandage.
Pharmacist: Wanted me to leave the wound uncovered so it can dry out and heal.
Doctor 2 instructions: No, don’t use Bionect, it’s too acidic. We’ll put on Steri-strips, which will keep it closed for “about a week.” But the strips stick on for only a day or two.
This is why I’m confused. Meanwhile, I look at the FAQs on a wound care center website, and it says to cleanse the wound with sterile saline solution and then keep it moist and covered. It doesn’t say what to keep it moist with.
They’d rather deal with a small incision while it’s small, rather than have you wait until it’s huge. Seriously. If it’s worrying you, and if it’s not healing, then it’s better to try to deal with it now.
I went to a large multi-family garage sale yesterday and found the replacement stroller for twenty bucks that I wanted. That’s nice. However, I feel the need to explain about garage sale rules that some morons don’t get.
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You’ve it had for a year. You are NOT George Washington or Lady Gaga or J.K. Rowling or Brian Boitano. The fact that you used the item for a year does not it more valuable. Is that clear? So when you want to sell me a down blanket that I know you paid for $150 for, do not price the damned thing at $175, you fucking idiot.
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Do not sell broken stuff, moth eaten items or stained items. I don’t give a shit it’s a dyson that you paid $500 for. It’s a broken vacuum cleaner now and basically a pile of junk that may or may not be repairable. It probably isn’t worth $50. My husband and I laughed at you.
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If the item is really that valuable, sell it on eBay or at a consignment store. Do not expect people to have $500 in cash on hand to give to you. You’re someone trying to get rid of some stuff, not a credible antique shop with a return policy and a certificate of authenticity. And don’t yelp at me after I accidentally touch it while reaching for something else.
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Please lock up all rabid animals while I’m on your property at your specific request. I was almost nipped by a dog yesterday who came out at me with no warning and so was my toddler. You’re lucky nothing happened to either of us because I would sued your ass off if it had.
This is a garage sale. Your aim to should be to declutter and make some money. It is not an opportunity to sell your junk to people at overinflated prices. Have a brain and do some planning first. Go to the bank and get $300 in twenties, tens, ones and fives if you can. Do not scowl at me because all I have is a ten and you don’t have change this early in the morning. Group items together so I don’t come across a fragile glass vase when I’m looking through baby clothing. Research prices online so you don’t whine when I tell you that book can be bought on Amazon for less than the six bucks you want for it.
In short, don’t be an idiot and we’ll both benefit.
Some damaged items still have salvage value. However, if an item is not working, it should be labeled as such. I’ve sometimes been able to restore things that aren’t working just by taking them apart, cleaning them, and putting them back together again. I’ve always had this knack. Some people actually make some pretty good money by doing this. Chances are, though, the vacuum IS a pile of junk…and worth no more than $10.
I’ve also bought moth-eaten or stained items, just for the fabric. I know that a lot of quilters do this. Again, though, the seller shouldn’t price the item high at all.
In fact, I mostly agree with you, garage sale prices are sometimes quite unreasonable.
No skunks around here, but the pollen count is so high I have to leave the A/C on even though it’s only about 72 out. I start sneezing the minute I go outside, and I have yet to meet an allergy pill that doesn’t make me sleepy. Even the allegedly non-drowsy stuff.
That and the noise and dust and smell of hot tar from the parking lot repair crews working 6am to 9pm every day for the last week. Seriously, the parking lots were in desperate need of repair but that’s gotta be a violation of some sort of noise ordinance. They should be just about done, there’s not that many parking lots in this apartment complex.
I’d love to see a cop too! Especially for those drivers who don’t even UNDERSTAND the rules of the road in this state and stop for school buses WHEN THEY DON’T HAVE TO AND AREN’T SUPPOSED TO AND SCREW ALL OF US UP BEHIND THEM!! For crying out loud - I"m all for obeying the law - really - IF YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.
Someone remind me that when I move, I should NOT live down the street from where the school’s busses are stored. Sigh.
That always makes me kind of chuckle at garage sales - how overpriced some people think their junk is. If it’s old, broken, used-up, whatever, it just isn’t worth that much.
Also, put prices on all your damned stuff. I don’t want to have to ask the price for every little thing I look at.
In my neighbourhood, it’s the school zones that are blowing everyone’s minds. They were driving slowly through them all summer, when school wasn’t in session and they weren’t in effect, and now they’re tailgating me badly through them now that school’s back in and they’re back in effect. Sheesh. I don’t have kids, and somehow I manage to know how to obey a school zone!