You’re apparently married to 1.SiL, or a close relative thereof… So far 1.Bro’s marriage is surviving, but they certainly provide a lot of “perfectionist person who won’t or can’t do something keeps cirticizing the one who’s doing it” material; we thought Dad and 1.Bro were perfectionists, then we met her. Bonus points when she criticizes him for not doing something they had both agreed he would not do. Does your husband also have this thing of having The Plan… (which is being followed)… The Plan… (which is being followed)… The Plan… (which is being followed)… and then when The Plan is at 98% completion he gets The (New) Plan and everything must shift instantly? I hope he doesn’t…
I did try coating the greenie with some hairball gel, which he loves. He licked the gel off and left the greenie behind.
Then I tried feeding the pills to him in greenies taken from a fresh packet. THIS time he scarfed them down. Guess the prior greenies didn’t have enough odor left to entice him. <sigh> And that’s even though I’ve been GOOD about resealing the package AND I keep the package in an airtight container.
Oh, well. He ate his pills. He got fed. All good now.
We’ve purchased several appliances from Lowe’s over the years. Other than a dryer (which I picked up using my little utility trailer) every delivery has been a nightmare.
A dishwasher was the incorrect make, a washing machine was dented, a range scratched/dented, and yesterday a refrigerator arrived and when I inspected it (still on the truck) there was a problem with the freezer door hinges. I refused the refrigerator yesterday, as we refused all the other dinged/broken appliances over the years.
In every case the truck driver/delivery guy was sympathetic, saying that many of their deliveries take multiple attempts. Well, sorry, but taking a day off of work to be home for the delivery and then having to take another day off until they get their shit together is too much.
No more Lowe’s appliances. Ever. And it’s a shame, because they have decent selection and good prices.
Sicks Ate had similar problems with Lowe’s delivery (as mentioned in the bathroom remodel thread). We did order a toilet from them but we’re having it delivered to the store and we’ll take it from there * fingers crossed *
Best of luck with your toilet! (never thought I’d type those words)
I love my cat, I really do, but she’s developed a very obnoxious tendency to sit in the bedroom window and wail at us around 1am. She almost sounds like she’s frightened, but there’s nothing going on to justify it. She does figure out getting over to me for snuggles after a minute or so of coaxing. She’s otherwise behaving normally (for her). 9yo spayed female Siamese mix, apparently healthy.
Maybe she sees something dangerous (to her mind) outside? We had a cat that would yowl frequently at night when we thought there was no reason. And then one night we spotted a raccoon in the tree beside out garage. We finally had to keep the window shade over the window that faced that direction pulled down all the way to keep her quiet.
Fucking AMEX. Getting a new corp card. Need to confirm it online (as opposed to thru a phone call). However, to register, it needs to be a unique username with very restrictive covenants. Including it must
[ul]
[li]start with a letter, [/li][li]Be between 5-20 chara,[/li][li]it must not have any special characters[/li][li]COntain 1 letter & 1 number[/li][/ul]
This means you can’t use an email & any of the first five usernames I’ve tried are already taken. I dont want some random @#$%& username that I won’t ever remember. :smack:
(& no, I’m not at home to log it into my password manager, either.)
Does your password manager have a mobile phone app? Mine does. Assuming you have a mobile phone, this might be an alternative.
I really wish the guy three houses down would either move or get a different car. He lives with his mother, and I’m glad that he is employed, but he leaves for work every morning at 5:30. That would be fine, too, but the guy drives a Challenger SRT. He doesn’t rev his engine, but just starting that thing and letting it idle for a few seconds wakes me up every single day. He’s very good about just idling away from the curb and staying as quiet as possible (his mother would kill him, otherwise), but that car is a beast by nature.
I like getting up early, but not that early. More importantly, I’ve really gotten used to waking up naturally since I retired. No alarms, just the sun coming up and the birds tweeting. But now its BOOM-rumblerumblerumblerumble every weekday. Nothing to be done about it, other than hope that he decides to move. Just wanted to vent a bit.
Interesting on the restrictions re letter / number. At first I thought you were talking about the password. Aside from the letter/number thing, none of the others seem that crazy.
I have a default user name that I’ll use for on-the-fly stuff like that. Sometimes I’ll preface it with the website name or similar - e.g. ‘xyzzyAmex’, ‘xyzzyBankofAmerica’ etc.
I run into oddball password roles from time to time, including wildly varying length restrictions, limits on just which special characters you can use (and the subset is different from site to site) - that, I think, is something to do with preventing SQL injection attacks.
And sometimes the sites don’t disclose the rules - years back, I needed to change a work-related password. The instructions were “14 or more characters” and nothing I tried worked. I finally called the help desk, and a) there were only certain special characters, and b) despite “14 or more”, the real length was 'EXACTLY 14".
And another site, it didn’t say the length (or I did’t notice it). Let’s say they limited it to 12 characters. I’d put in something like Password123456’ (which is 14), I’d confirm it, the two would match, and the website said all was good. Only, when I tried to log in, it wouldn’t work. Took some digging, but as best as I can tell, it would ignore the extraneous characters and store things as if I’d entered ‘Password1234’. Needless to say, when you encrypt that, it doesn’t give the same result as if you encrypt ‘Password123456’ and it didn’t match.
And a couple months back, my company instituted a policy that all Windows passwords had to be 14+ characters “this is to encourage using a passphrase”. So next time mine expired, I went with something akin to “Four Score @nd Se7en Years Ago”. I checked it carefully. I wrote it down. It worked… for about 48 hours.
Then I was locked out of my computer. Couldn’t get past the bootup decryption phase; when the help desk got me past that I couldn’t open Windows itself.
I had to ship it off to our tech support - 3 states away - and lost nearly a week of working time. The person at our help desk said he’d heard of several incidents of the password change failing like mine had. Probably because of the spaces. Which means there’s a bug somewhere, if Windows can’t figure that out and either handle it, or prevent it.
And this is why, when I document ANYTHING that requires a password, I talk to the developers to get the exact requirements for a password from them. And then I test the software to see if what they told me actually works. If the software is internet-accessible, I test that, too. In both cases, I tell them to put password requirement information next to or underneath the password field to ensure that the users know what’s needed.
Almost nothing infuriates me more than having to guess at what is required for a password. Even more infuriating is being given password requirements and having them turn out to be wrong.
Can’t you use <firstnamelastnamenumber>? Like joeblow7. Or are all permutations taken? Or am I being stupid?
No, & it doesn’t matter anyway because T-Mobile sucks ass. It used to be the security question was the last four of your SSN; but Noooo, that’s something you could remember. They changed it to a six-digit number, which of course I can’t remember what I had to make up on the fly many months ago. Four digits could be the last four of your SSN or the last four of your childhood home phone, yanno, something one could remember, but what the 'ell is six digits? They can’t pull up my account, so now I have no service where I am (international) & can’t even upgrade my plan until I get back home & can go into a TMO store. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Except there’s really no point because I’m going to Verizon when I get home as they have significantly better coverage.
I came here to complain about needing to get a new door, but got distracted by the password discussion. Password security is the bane of my existence.
At work, we have a password for each and every program I use (6). Not a single one of them has the same security features, so the password for 1 program cannot be used for the others. Some of the programs require new passwords every 6 weeks, some every month and 1 every 3 months, so I can’t even use the same base for them all because of the time lag. The security code to get my messages off my phone is taped to the bottom of my phone, same as everyone else’s security codes. I am not the only one who has their computer passwords taped to the bottom of their keyboard.
If some tree-hugger was smart, they would break into the main office building and steal all of the notes taped to keyboards and phones and backs of monitors. They wouldn’t even need to use them to bring a rather large company of evil land-raping oil guys to the knees for at least half a day.
Oh, yeah, the door. Ralph, the big hairy puppy has outgrown the kitty door going into the catio. He used to be able to get on his belly, push with his back legs and squeeze himself through when he needed to use the litter box. Due to having a cat litter box train him, he never really got the hang of going out the dog door into the yard.
Today, we came home and found him stuck. He had been alone for about an hour, so I don’t know how long he had been stuck, but he did pee on the floor and himself.
Ralph was well and truly stuck. We really tried everything to get the poop pup out, including me using my BB’s beard trimmers to clip fur so we could put butter on him and slide him out. Beard trimmers don’t hold up very well against hairy dogs, so that also didn’t work.
Finally, my BB used a hacksaw and was able to cut diagonal slashes into the corners of the kitty door to allow some flex. Seeing as how the kitty door was installed into an exterior security door, no flex happened. Poor Ralph couldn’t see anything that was going on and was crying in fear by then, so my BB cut through the door and finally managed to get the poor pup loose. Ralph promptly rant to the litter box and pooped in it.
We need to get a new door, a smaller kitty door, new beard trimmers and a dog trainer who will come to the house and convince Ralph that big dogs pee outside.
Ralph has been washed, disaster area has been cleaned and I’m on my second glass of wine.
Then there was the website that would only tell you the password rules one at a time.
Enter new password.
password
Must be at least 14 characters
passwordpassword
Must contain a capital
PasswordPassword
Must contain a number
Password123456
Can’t have more than two incremental letters or numbers
ad nauseum
Seriously? Just list all the requirements at the beginning ya frickin idgit.
ETA: Sorry flatlined. I’m a bad person. I laughed. Though I am sorry pupper was distressed.
For things like that, I’ll often pick a memorable phrase and use the first letter of each word to pick the number on the keypad. Say your phrase is, “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids”. The answer to your six-digit security question is now: 778235.
NB: I have never used this number as a passcode for anything. YMMV. It won’t matter to you because you’re moving to Verizon services. You may still want to switch to a password manager that has a phone-based app for situations like this. My cat is screaming at me again, how is this my life?
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Why can’t they tell you their inane rules ahead of time? :mad:
I use historic dates, specifically picking some which aren’t too terribly popular.
One of the reasons I want to get rid of my mortgage (and thus, of the bank that holds it) is their security features. They’re crap, including that there are several all-numeric passowrds of varying length and their site doesn’t tell you which length the one you need for that specific spot is. And if you pick something such as 4598, 45982, 4598271, any of the password fields will let you type in any of the lengths but only accept the right one. But it’s a pretty big deductible, so no shutting it down yet.
Have you considered moving the litterbox to the outside. Maybe after you convice the canine that he has his very own box, then you can move it to the back yard.
And deny yourself all the fun of that? Be glad it doesn’t have one of those cutesy level indicators, letting you just blindly type in whatever you think is a good password, then the thing tells you “Extremely weak; try again”.
Speaking of password security features, didn’t the guy who came up with those nifty rules recently apologize for their uselessness and attendant frustration?