Can you contact your credit card company directly and have them reverse the charge?
According to the Illinois Dept of Public Health, the processing time for mailed in requests is 12 weeks from receipt of the request, which would be too late. Besides, according to the application since the records are considered confidential I need to provide proof that I am entitled to get it. Unfortunately since I had previously legally changed my name all my IDs are in mt current name. (I had provided my only certified copy of the court order with my passport application, and as far as I know they had no problem with it.)
I just texted my sister to see if she can help. I’ve already bought a (I believe) nonrefundable airline ticket, so I am not happy about this.
That’s just crazy. I had to get my birth certificate from Illinois several years ago, and with the expedited fee, it was here in a matter of days.
That’s what I thought when I saw the option for expedited processing. Maybe I just misunderstood something.
What’s really annoying is that before I moved from Chicago to NC I went to every records I could think of to get certified copies of every document I thought I might need - my and Patti’s birth certificates, our marriage license, her death certificate, and the court order for my name change. I even have both of my parents’ death certificates (and possibly their birth certificates, too).
I’m having a real hard time getting work done.
The one-two punch of long COVID and ADHD. Same old problems getting started on things, now with new and improved analysis paralysis and overwhelm.
I’ve been taking Zinc and NAC for several weeks and no improvement so far.
The only thing I really can do right now is things that require movement. So I guess a shower and housework.
This really sucks.
My son had his last soccer practice of the year yesterday. They decided to have a parents vs kids scrimmage. I figured I’d be smart and be the goalie. No need to run around and have a heart attack. Turns out my regimen of driving long distances for work (when I’m not behind a desk) and playing video games has not prepared me for even that level of effort! I ache pretty much everywhere. Damn kids are fast and kick the ball hard!
I feel your pain.
I know people who saw BOTH the eclipse five weeks ago AND the Northern Lights. It sucks not to be them when you got to see neither, like me.
My slightly more shame-filled story is that I could have seen the Northern Lights, but a bunch of people convinced me I wouldn’t be able to see them, so I didn’t go outside.
Next day at the wedding one of my cousins shows me stunning pictures he took a mile away from my house.
And I missed the eclipse too, because I was too busy worrying about what to do with my son and didn’t get a pair of glasses. We watched it on TV.
I woke up at 4 am and could NOT get back to sleep. Luckily, I go to sleep to an audiobook, so I just laid quietly and listened to… Murderbot. For four hours.
Turns out I’d gotten a cortisone shot in my knee yesterday, so I looked through the side effects. Oh, look, insomnia! I’d gotten shots before with no problems, but this time I got a bunch of them.
All was waaay below 2:30 tonight. Yay me! Of course I wanted to go before my meeting tonight but didn’t get to go until afterwards. Now I’m home & need to study for test tomorrow night but I want a beer to celebrate workout but I’m also tired so should go to bed & do none of the above. Mebbe iffn I sleep on the book I’ll learn it all by osmosis???
Like shoe, it’s a huge bucket list item for me. Unfortunately it was cloudy wherest I twas. except for 2-4 am; twasn’t cloudy then some people took some awesome pics. I needed the sleep this past weekend anyway I’ve been burning the candle at both ends & the middle.
I also drove 1000 miles to see a sky so cloudy we couldn’t even tell where in the sky the sun was…& this weekend’s photo shoot looks to be cxl’d due to precipitation.
If it makes you feel any better, depending on where you are seeing the northern lights could have been hit and miss. Some people here in Eugene sat and watched for hours and and saw nothing, others did see something, and still others saw norhing but did get good photos with their phones or purpose-built cameras, imaging devices being more sensitive than human eyes.
A friend near Portland, a lousy 1.5° north of here went out to walk his dogs and there were the northern lights.
Another friend near Seattle saw the curtain effect.
The overall shape and position of the affected area doesn’t favor the PNW. Prople in the upper Midwest at the same latitudes had better chances.
Originally the class was supposed to go thru next week but we were told this would most likely be the last week. I was expecting a written & a practical test; only had a written. Don’t know if we’re having a practical next week or if we’re done. Since he told us we wouldn’t be there, I’ve made other arrangements. Don’t know yet if I need to try to undo everything & go with Plan C or not. Hopefully we’ll get an email tomorrow telling us we’re done. If we have to go next week when we got out two hrs early tonight Imma gonna be pissed!
Separately, I officially got an email that my weekend plans for a photo shoot are cxl’d; not at all surprised given the forecast & it was the right decision. Already have my refund & won’t be spending on hotel, gas, tolls & food but I’ve been wanting to do this for literally, years now. Every time I can make it, it gets weathered out.
I is also a dumbass; I was asked to work an event Sat morning but couldn’t because of above travel; now that that’s off I called him & said I could help out if he still needs me so now I gotta be there at dark:30 Sat morn.
Harrison Butker and his “commencement address”.
I don’t watch football.
Apparently he’s a kicker but I really have no idea who he is.
I have no connection to the college he spoke at.
He was not speaking to me and presumably the graduates are adults and can respond for themselves if they are offended.
But if you didn’t see it, here is an excerpt of what he said:
"For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment, Butker said. “You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you, how many of you are sitting here now about to cross the stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world. But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”
And I shouldn’t let it get to me but it makes my blood boil. If someone had said that to me when I was receiving my undergraduate degree in chemistry or heaven forbid my MD, I don’t know what I would have done. We have come so far integrating women into STEM degrees and professions and to be told that your true vocation is to stay home and raise children??? I have such hatred for someone I don’t even know.
What are these “tests” you’re talking about ?
Well, our home remodeling project is moving on. The roof is done and the porch/deck is coming along. A guy working yesterday told me he’s nervous about his coworker who was arrested causing trouble. Apparently he thought his boss should post bail so he could work, but that didn’t happen.
Like a fucking soap opera.
How much trouble can he cause, sitting in jail and waiting to get bailed out?
I think someone eventually did bail him out and now he’s all pissed off that his boss let him sit in jail a few days. He isn’t working.
The contractor has a bunch of jobs all going (as contractors do) and now he’s short handed.
Food expiry dates. Why would you use ambiguous two-letter month abbreviations such as MA and JN? Why not use the universally recognized three-letter abbreviation, or an unambiguous two-letter one (JR, MR, MY, JE)? Not that JE is an ideal solution, but is space really so right that they can’t manage three letters?
As a female engineer, it made me absolutely furious. And I’ve known for decades that I didn’t want a thing to do with babies or children…being a homemaker would have been hell for me. Society or ‘wokeness’ or liberals or whatever didn’t brainwash me into this; I figured it out for myself. I was amazed that students didn’t revolt right there during the speech, then I read that the speech was given at some Catholic school, which explains a lot.
That fuckwit really needs to stick to kicking though.
Shit, that pisses me off and I love being a Mom.
I’ve had my share of women who believe I’m only working because I have to, though.
I mean yes, I have to, but I would choose to if I didn’t have to. A giant chunk of my life’s meaning comes from my career.
What a condescending shitty thing to say to women.