I have never worn a bra. While I’m fairly overweight (though I’ve been slowly losing it lately mostly via dieting) it has never gotten to the point where I needed a bra.
(No Bob from Fight Club going on here.)
Fell on my back in Feb on black ice.
So got a uti last Friday ( none for 7 months yay!) And took 3 days of nitrofurantoin.so went to urgent care and found I had a fever and still nitrites in urine. So they sent me to e.r. where the team insisted on placing a tube in my arm just in case.
So then the e.r. refused to let me drink anything.
Got a scan and no kidney stone ( back pain).
So the nitro wasn’t working this time so now I must take bactrum, hopefully no side effects. I have a compression fracture and will go to p.t.
I needed to log onto the website of my health insurer. To log on I give username and password and it then sends a text to my mobile phone for 2FA. I receive the text and enter the necessary code on the website, which it accepts and tells me I’m logged in. On the next page, the website refuses to let me continue because it says there is a problem with my account namely:
we do not have your mobile phone number.
That is all. Very mini-rant, I accept.
I switched to a new eye doctor this year; after the initial appointment confirmation texts and ‘welcome to our office’ emails, I suddenly stopped receiving anything. When my mom received a confirmation email for my appointment at her email address, I knew something was up. It turns out that the new place had either initiated a records transfer from the previous office, or they used the same record-keeping system and everything got combined. They also had my old landline listed as my main contact, meaning that all of their texts had started going to that number. It was easy enough to sort everything out in the office, but I still can’t figure out why they had Mom’s email address.
Records can get weird. The Wake County BOE once sent a notice to my parents’ address for my ex-wife twenty-five years after we’d split up. I tried to let one of the few mutual friends we had left know, so she could contact her, but it turned out she had burnt those bridges, too.
Occasionally (maybe every 2 months or so), we order a pizza from the
pizza shop round the corner…
We always order the same thing.. (9" beefeater with extra sweetcorn and
green peppers, and onion rings if you must know), so I just click on the
re-order button.
About 6 months ago, they had some offer/promotion in which the onion
rings were free !!
Ever since then, when I’ve reordered, I have gotten free onion rings !
But then, last night… they noticed !! - after I’d placed the order, I got a phone
call telling me there was a problem and I hadn’t been charged for the onion
rings, so I’d need to pay extra when I collected !
Oh well, I had a good run.
They have some amazing software, where they can text you without knowing your number!
I’m drowning over here with two federal grants and suddenly I’m asked to attend a full day conference with one days’ notice. I’m here, it’s cold, and I don’t know shit about the topic because I’m far from the right person to be here - it’s mind-numbing detailed logistics about food distribution for six straight hours. My CEO thought they would talk about grants because she ignored the six times I explained to her it was temporary funding and their last round was their last round. So two hours of driving, nothing to do with grants, paperwork I can’t fill out because I don’t have the requisite knowledge, and one less day to work on my actual fucking deadlines.
I hate that. I’ve been forced to drive for hours and waste a day for nothing when I had something else important to get done, because someone insisted. I know that feeling of frustration and powerlessness because nobody will listen to me. Knowing I’m right and proving I’m right doesn’t do any good because nobody cares and I needed to be there “just in case”. I feel for you.
I believe I ran afoul of a scammer on Amazon. Amazon has guarantees and eventually made it right so I’m not mad about it, I have my money and everything, but it was still annoying.
I have a laundry basket that broke (it’s over 10 years old so it’s inevitable). I wanted to order a replacement, and found a nice smallish one at a decent price. The main reason I wanted the basket was just to transfer laundry between my washer and dryer quickly and easily, so a smaller one seemed ideal.
When I ordered it, it said it would take a while to arrive, but that was fine with me because it wasn’t urgent. I ordered it on July 17, and it said it would arrive July 28-29. Okay, that’s fine.
I place the order, and the next day it says it shipped! Great. Looking forward to it.
The 28th rolls around, no delivery, but it’s okay because it should arrive tomorrow. Then on the 29th, instead of my item, I got an email from Amazon.
Your package is on the way but running late. We’re sorry for the delay.
Now expected by August 2
Okay… Again, it’s not urgent, but now I’m getting worried about it. On August 2nd, when I checked the tracking info on Amazon’s web site, it said that if the item doesn’t arrive in the next 24 hours I can request a refund if I’m tired of waiting. It has a USPS tracking ID, and when I look up the item on the USPS tracking web site, it says:
Pre-Shipment
Pre-Shipment, USPS Awaiting Item
July 18, 2025
So on July 18, when I was told it “shipped”, it didn’t ship. They just started the process of shipping it. Clearly, if USPS is still waiting to pick up the item, this thing ain’t coming.
The next day, of course nothing arrived, and nothing has changed at the USPS site. So I’m definitely asking for a refund. I go through the process of requesting a refund on my order, and on the last page before I submit it, it says that I will be provided a label to ship the item back.
Needle scratch on record. Hold on. How the fuck can I send back an item they never shipped? I want my money back because I paid for something I never received and already waited extra days.
So I go into the help page of Amazon to try to figure out what the fuck I’m supposed to do here. They have a link about what to do when an item is delayed. They recommend contacting the seller if it was sold by a third party (which was the case here). I went back to my original order and clicked the seller link, and it took me to the seller’s profile. They have a 0% rating, with two comments:
“It says delivered but FedEx says someone who doesn’t live here and someone who doesn’t live on our street signed for it. We were home when it says delivered but nothing arrived. When we report a missing package to FedEx they say wrong address.”
“you took my money i waited over a week for it and you bever even shipped it”
(Copied and pasted verbatim.)
So, yeah. This is looking like a total scam. Both comments were placed in the past week no less. Sounds exactly like my situation.
Also, on the seller’s profile, there is a link to their storefront on Amazon. When you click that, it takes you to a page that says:
No results for .
Try checking your spelling or use more general terms
Um… That doesn’t look good.
I click on the “Contact the seller” link from my order, and it takes me to an automated assistant, and that assistant says that I can’t contact them because Amazon will handle any customer service requests for this purchase. WTF. I just followed all of their instructions and it took me in a circle.
I got fed up and just requested to chat with customer service. I referenced this purchase and they connected me to a guy named Hector. I told Hector the situation… The item is late, the USPS tracking shows it wasn’t even sent yet, I received an email that I can request a refund now, but when I tried to do that it said I needed to send back the item (even though I have nothing to send back). He looked at it, he said that everything I said seems to check out, and he’d be happy to give a refund. He asked if I wanted a refund to the original purchase method, which can take 5 days, or a gift card balance which takes 2-3 hours. I said I order stuff from Amazon all the time, so I’ll be fine with a gift card. He said done, it will show up soon. I thanked him and that was that. It was maybe a 5 minute interaction and I was pretty happy.
Except that hours later, when I checked my Amazon gift card balance, there was nothing there. But I thought, maybe there’s a delay, I’ll give it some time.
The next day I checked, still nothing. It has been over 24 hours at this point, I think I’ve been patient enough. I contact Amazon customer service again, get a new guy. I explain what happened and that Hector said I’d have a gift card balance in 2-3 hours but it hasn’t shown up in over 24 hours. This time, the guy said that the item was “lost in shipping” (which doesn’t match what USPS says but whatever). He promised that I’d get the credit in 2-3 hours as the other guy did, except one thing different is that after I was done with this chat, I got an email from Amazon saying my refund was processed. And when I checked my account, that money is there in my gift card balance.
So good for Amazon. They stand by their purchases and make it right. It was a pain in the ass to get there, but at least I got my money back. Oh, and if I go back to the page I ordered that basket from, it has a different seller and higher price. (The new seller has almost 300 ratings and is at 86% positive with 4.4 out of 5 stars.)
I ended up ordering a completely different basket for about the same price that the original purchase of the old basket was, except it took 1 day to arrive, and it actually got here, and it’s perfect for what I need it for.
Feel better.
Just sat through a 90-minute meeting that could have been an email.
First we went through the new handbook. Large chunks were read to us. We all have the handbook. We can read it ourselves.
Then we got introduced to the new organizational website/app we’re using. We need to know how it works, but at the end, the presenter told us that she’d email us a technical document that is much more comprehensive and streamlined than the presentation she just gave. So why did we need the presentation?
Then people asked stupid questions. And I won’t be eating until after 9.
It’s the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and while I don’t mind most of the writing, I’m really tired of morally certain people in the comment sections of articles who are sure that the bombs were worse than anything else. They always seem to have no idea of the state of the war throughout Asia, the fact that the US had already been firebombing for months, that the experience in Okinawa was fresh, and that there was already famine in Japan. People have been arguing the decision for 80 years now. But here come these people with their post Cold War viewpoint saying it was immoral because they were nuclear weapons. No idea of possible casualties on both sides, civilian and military. No understanding that the alternative was conventional bombing and firebombing and ground invasion. No idea of what might have changed if the Russians got to take territory in either mainland Asia or the Japanese islands. Nope, just nukes bad. And I swear they seem to think both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are these massive no-go zones like the area around Chernobyl and not thriving cities.
Okay, I’m done. Anyway, it’s not the opinion but the sanctimony of these people that annoys me.
Quoting myself for context …
The new tablet arrived a couple days ago. I finally had time to mess with it.
As expected, it’s a slightly different size (mostly thicker) & the power port is in a different spot than my old one, so my old docking station is e-waste along with the old tablet. And of course the keyboard it comes with has moved a couple of the keys around, so the muscle memory needs to change.
The migration was absolutely painless. Turn it on, log in with my MSFT account, and a couple hours later all my files, settings, favorites, etc., are in place.
The only “aw shit” that took only a few minutes to resolve was the keyboard. It’s Bluetooth and for some reason the PC could not see it. Eventually I broke the code of das blinkenlichten that the keyboard wasn’t in pairing mode. Overcome that obstacle, and pairing was instant. Yaay!!
Win11 is slightly different, but I’ll adapt soon enough.
On the 1 to 10 difficulty scale, this is about a 1.
My city is removing their rainbow crosswalks. Pretty shitty news, but then all news is shitty these days. The disturbing part was my husband’s comment about “Why do they have to politicize everything? This is just a public safety issue!”
…Uh, no dear it’s really not. I’m shocked he would think that.
“I didn’t see the crosswalk, Your Honor, because I’m colorblind!”
If you ever have had the opportunity to dive into the MUCTD there are exacting standards for just about everything in & around roads. If its nonconforming it can cause confusion as to what it really is &; therfore, potentially accident / injuries.
Agreed, but I have a hunch this isn’t just about public safety.
True; especially with your governor, but then the city could have read a proclamation, or hung flags, or ___. Think of the waste of man hours, at both the city & state levels for the lawyers & bureaucrats to go back & forth, plus the time if the public works guys going out to paint it twice, plus the cost of paint. A complete waste of resources by the city for a feel good thing.
Has anyone caught The Gay because they walked on a rainbow crosswalk, or did they get hit by a car while jaywalking just to be safely away from that dangerous crosswalk? 