whatever you do, do not Rule 34 this phrase…
you’ve been warned
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Mine occasionally leaks.
My mailbox door broke and fell off. Not fixable. I need to replace the mailbox but haven’t gotten around to it
I was supposed to take 2 doses of Ivermectin 2 weeks apart. The pharmacy is fighting me on the second dose, saying I’ve hit my annual limit.
I don’t know if this is true, but I blame COVID idiots for trying to buy up all the horse dewormer to fix their respiratory illnesses.
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Working from the place we stay at when we go visit family and the Internet here compared to at home is like 28.8 dial-up to DSL or cable. Which, it might really be 28.8 dial-up from the source here. It’s good for about 6 hours, then dies for a while.
Ordered a dishwasher from a big box store.
Opened a store credit card to get $100 off. Ordered dishwasher. Closed card.
Delivery date arrives - no delivery. Got an email that our payment didn’t go through and we need to call the store. Call them, they say to update payment. They’d only put a hold on my card, it wasn’t charged when I ordered.
Go to website to update payment - system error, payments cannot be made. Call Customer Support at 800-XXX-XXXX.
Call Customer Support. They cannot help. I have to go to the website chat function.
Go to website chat. They cannot help. Please call OUR bank to ask why YOU the customer cannot pay us. Here’s the number.
Feeling ridiculous, call the number. “Welcome to XYZ credit card! Enter your card number.” This isn’t even a credit card I’ve ever owned.
Call the store again. Say if I can’t pay them, we’ll just cancel the order. SUDDENLY they can do a cancel/re-order over the phone.
Brought up the $100 discount ready to fight for it, they immediately agreed to apply it even though I’m not using the store card. Excellent, I’ll get 2% cashback on top of $100 off.
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Coparenting as a foster parent with bio parents can be frustrating, and not always just in the ways I would have guessed.
We made a deal with foster son that if he saved up $200 of his chore money, we would get him a ps5 for Christmas. His birthday is in March, so if he didn’t make it in time for Christmas, we would do it as a birthday gift. My sister has a ps5 that she has used two times and was looking to sell for $300 (probably for coke money…), so we asked if he would be cool with that and then we would use the money we had planned to spend on a brand new ps5 on games instead. He agreed.
His dad got wind of this and decided that he was going to contribute to the ps5 also. Alright, that’s fine, we can put more money toward something else for him, get him a few more games.
Well today he told foster son that, good news! He got paid more money than he expected so now he is going to pay for ALL of the ps5 and foster son would get his money back. But of course he still needs us to use our connection to get the $300 ps5, wrap it, and bring it to the visitation Saturday so dad can give it to him himself. He completely took over this whole gift and process.
That wasn’t the arrangement we had. And now we are stuck scrambling figuring out another gift for him in time for Christmas. And what lessons about saving did he really learn from this?
I’m so annoyed, and also recognize that his dad gets so few chances to show up for his son. But, it would be a far better gift for him, imo, to save that money and put it towards finding a place to live so he can get his kids back, not blowing it on something his son wants.
So, time to start scrambling for Christmas, which we celebrate on the 24th, so we have 5 days to figure this all out.
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Good luck!
Mini Me finally told me today (after months of me asking) what she wants for Christmas.
(Up until now it was stuff like “for you and Daddy to not get divorced”, “for you to be happy because you’re the best Mommy ever” and stuff which is all very sweet sentiments, but not helpful! And, uh, can’t get her the ‘not getting divorced’… one day she’ll understand but that day won’t be in 2023.)
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That’s true. But it’s nice that the dad cares, and is trying to help his kid, and isn’t blowing the money on crack.
Best wishes. And good for you for being there for that family.
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I saw Easter candy for sale at the grocery store tonight.
www.fatbraintoys.com, imo.
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Does it make a good Christmas present?
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I had to relocate my laptop/monitor setup to the kitchen table today: the monitor now doesn’t work. 
ETA: OhFFluffS!!! Stoopid hub unit that hooks my laptop to the monitor wasn’t getting juice!!! 
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Not necessarily.
But stopped clock is right twice a day. Only if it’s analog. A digital clock, with AM/PM indicators, or a digital clock set to 24 hr time would only be right once a day.
Maybe they are trying to get rid of last year’s stuff.
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Odd. About a week ago I was watching news on TV and some random person being interviewed about an incident said the “once a day” version. I figured he just remembered it wrong, and that may still be the most likely explanation, but I see he could have been right.
OTOH, a broken digital clock may have no display and never be right.
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That’s pedantic even by my standards!
I suppose if you had an analog 12 hour clock that lost, say, 1 minute a day… if it started out at the right time, it would next be right in, what… roughly 2 years???
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This guy clocks.
Should have expected as much from a guy who said this:
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You guys…This is exactly why actuaries are labeled as dorks.
You’re all huge nerds. It is declared.
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Busted my butt all week with a diet so clean my colon is squeaky sparkling, and lost less than a pound.
Meanwhile my husband “snacked a little less” this week and dropped a pound.
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