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I changed my phone number a few weeks ago and have been getting several calls for the former owner of said number. Most are the typical wrong number interactions, but a few have been truly annoying.
I have started answering all unknown calls with my standard ‘blocked number/ obvious telemarketer caller’ greeting of “Congratulations! You’re on the air!” This is usually followed by a short silence, then a click. I did keep one ‘Windows Repair Specialist’ on the line for a few minutes. When he finally understood I was claiming to be a radio station, he asked me to dedicate a song to his grandma in Texas. That one was fun.
Today I answer the phone with “Congratulations! You’re on the air!” and hear the normal short silence. Then a male voice says, “This is Anthony with the {state} Attorney General’s office. Is this Momof Andrew?”
He laughed when I explained my unorthodox greeting, and we settled the issue he had called over, but I still feel like a moron.
::headdesk::
Yeah, I’ve read that some brands are losing efficacy as fleas develop immunity to their specific insecticide combos. I checked my cat’s white parts (where they’re easiest to see) a few minutes ago and didn’t find a single one, so I’m hopeful.
If nothing else the DE will eventually kill 'em off.
Wrong thread.
Um, I’m not sure of the specifics but I’d guess that he wanted to go beyond a CBC and get more detailed info re my liver. It read like Japanese to me though. :o
Ugh, I’m so sorry, aruvqan. As someone who’s had way more than her share of pneumonia over the years, I remember the coughing. Opioid cough syrups did nothing for me. Nada. The best cough supressant was a medicine called benzonatate (Tessalon Perles). Non-opioid and dirt cheap. Non-sedating for me so I can also take them during hackhackhork* allergy season, if I need to. It is prescription only so might be worth asking your doctor (who’ll know your medical history and all, IANAD, etc.)
Also, sit in a bathroom with the totally hot, steaming shower. Like, long enough that you need a book or phone. Helps hugely, if you didn’t know. You can then have a productive hackcough gunk out"HEY!" moment or two.
Best of luck.
Two of us at work have had to explain to Bosette that “gasping for air” doesn’t equal “burping”.
Today starts the three-day funfest known as “Quarterly PI Planning” at my employer. We have three exciting days of Agile Methodology planning. Since a bunch of our dev team are in Nepal, we start at 7 am today, 6:30 am tomorrow. Which is fair; we don’t want them to stay until 11 pm.
The issue I have is that we have a LOT of “rituals” that could be handled via a formal email. While I love our product development director, do we need an hour to hear what our plan for the next three months is? It always comes down to “fix broken stuff, retain clients, and get new clients. Innovation is good, we’re going to do some.”
I’m Scrum Master for my team. They will not change the name to Scrum Mistress
. I tried. (That’s not a complaint, I just think it would be amusing.) Scrum Master gets to lead the team in the PI Planning process. I chose this short-term, was let off because it’s a time-suck and I have 25 years experience, and was put back on when our project manager was let go. As Scrum Mistress, I get to corral four very smart people and try to keep them on task. Being very smart, they tend to go down rabbit holes. (I can have that issue myself but have learned to stop and let it go until later.) One person pays no attention and has no shame so I always have to repeat half of what I’ve just said. Bless her heart.
And then I get home (at a reasonable hour, to be completely honest; my boss is totally fair about following the “we are only working emergencies” rule from the company) and I’m exhausted, so I shower, eat, and go to bed. Then I start all over again the next day. At 4:30 am.
To add to the fun, the head of the Dev Team that my team works with is being very, very, very nit-picky because we aren’t doing things exactly his way. His VP has told us that our way is fine but Dev dude doesn’t like that. He does things like says it takes a day to *update *a Visio flowchart demonstrating logic. :dubious: It took me two hours to *create *one and I’d never used Visio before. He’s been updating these Visios for years.
Dev dude is also under the impression that we do our regular work AND PI planning (which takes 8 hours daily and is exhausting; even my extrovert colleagues are exhausted). So he kvetches that he needs answers this second, even though if he finished the work now, no one would be available to pick it up.
I love 95% of my job. I don’t like this because the Project Management folks keep all the “rituals”. I’m an atheist. I don’t like ritual just for the sake of ritual. And Dev dude gets on my last nerve on a regular basis. Their team works for us, and my team lead has tried and tried to have a forum where they can explain why they need something the way they do. We don’t get valid reasons.
TY for letting me vent; work issues are always boring for everyone not involved. I know I have it good in my work life, but this really annoys me every quarter.
That’s fantastic. I am totally stealing it. :D:D:D:D
:smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
I’m so sorry. OMG.
Went back to the eye doc yesterday, got another diagnosis – don’t remember the clinical name, but basically eczema of the eyelids (+ inflammation, causing tear ducts to plug, triggering blepharitis attack). Eye doc was a little miffed I went to my GP for an appointment, but hey, it’s not my fault it’s so hard to get an appointment at eye doc’s office without a last-minute cancellation like I snagged.
That’s not my rant. Eye doc gave me a prescription cream that sounds like it’ll actually do something, unlike the eye drops the GP prescribed which did nothing but make things worse. Walgreens, however, was “oops, we’re out” and didn’t bother to mention this until I had to fight my way through the auto phone system to speak to someone. And then, I had to suggest that maybe they could see if another store had it in stock.
But, Thing 1 had to go store-by-store, asking me which one I’d like to check (Bowles Ave store? no. Tesson Ferry store? no.). So I had to make him put Thing 2 on, who actually knew how to use their system to find the closest store with it in-stock… 20 miles away. sigh
So I’m getting relief today, instead. Thanks, Walgreens.
Vacation was perfect, until the trip home. Greyhound was supposed to leave at 2 PM and arrive home at 8 PM, 6 hour express trip with one rest stop.
Bus FINALLY left a bit after 4. The driver wasn’t familiar with the bus transmission (there’s more than one?), which led to quite a few whiplash-inducing jerky starts and stops. Apparently, one of the cargo doors didn’t get latched, which led to it flying open on the freeway, resulting in the driver stopping and backing up to collect some bags that fell out. The 20 minute rest stop (just enough to stretch your legs, have a cig, and grab some McDonald’s) took over an hour, and we didn’t pull in to the Minneapolis bus station until just after midnight. Latest pickup for the dog sitter was at 10, which was well within any reasonable expectations for delays, given the initial itinerary, so I had to wait until Monday after work to pick up my puppy. Not a big deal, and actually worked out a bit, because something I ate earlier in the day made me sick, so I was throwing up in the toilet from the moment I got home. Oh yeah, and the driver shut off the A/C about 30 miles short of the border.
Picked up the pup the next afternoon, and took her home. Filled her water bowl as soon as we got home, and she was so thirsty she drank the entire thing immediately (about a quart), which led to her puking a few minutes later and heading right back to the refilled bowl. Spent the evening keeping an eye on her and introducing fluids slowly. Trying to do that with a puppy that doesn’t understand why you keep picking her up and taking away her water when she’s so obviously thirsty is NOT fun.
It’s taken me until today to calm down enough about the entire situation to post reviews and write a complaint. Bleh.
Wish I could take it, it and I don’t quite see eye to eye [I like breathing, it seems to want me to not breath:(] Since I already do opioids for pain, cough suppressants aren’t really an option for me.
I have been doing the menthol inhalers, adding it to my vaporizer and chugging tons of hot mint, lemon and ginger tea.
I love the Vicks inhaler! Or a homemade one from my local hippie drug store.
It’s not drugs, it’s herbal, and it works. Until I get too much menthol way up in my sinuses and it’s like jalapenos up there.
I use it for stuffiness from allergies, too.
Well, fuck.
I just got “reduced in force”. Last day is August 25, which is 3 days after my 5th work anniversary.
I really did NOT need my life to get this interesting again.
I actually love the smell of the Vicks inhalers or vaporub, or the old school little bottle of liquid that you would put in the little cup in front of the output of the old steam humidifiers. I spent enough time with respiratory issues growing up that it really is a smell from my youth.
I’m trying to get rid of stuff prior to a move, including selling my old (empty) fish tank.
Someone was supposed to come collect it yesterday, but messaged me 20 minutes after the latest time he was supposed to be here saying he’d got stuck at work, and wasn’t going to be back 'til really late, please could he get it tomorrow instead?
It’s tomorrow. He should have been here an hour ago.
I’ve pretty much just sat in for two evenings being bored, and I still have an unwanted empty fish tank. Bah.
87 page CV…?! :smack: Who the fuck do you think you are, Doctor Ego?
And if you MUST send me your masturbatory hagiographic biographical masterpiece, would it be so much trouble to bother to orient it neatly and organize it in a sensible manner? :mad:
I swear to all that is holy, you are deserving of an FDA audit of proctological proportions. Twice. :mad:
Just when I thought they’d finally decided to leave me alone, I just got another call from those assholes at the law offices of Joel Cardis. They’ve apparently been bugging people with debt collection calls since 2005. As mentioned in another thread I started, they were calling me once a week for a while. This moved me to check my credit report and look for the required letter in the mail. Nothing on both.
I also hate them for being good enough at their “job” that this latest iteration of their phone message actually got me wondering again if there might be something to this.
Five weeks with this gout attack!! At least I can walk withhold assistance now.
Anyone else read that as ‘goat attack’?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from a baaaaad condition.