It’s a long game.
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Same, my neighbors also have a leak. I talked to them and they say it is on the city’s side of things. They came out and did… something. The leak appears smaller but there is still a puddle that hasn’t gone away in two weeks.
Forgot my wallet at home… didn’t realize until I’d driven 17 miles to an appointment that I couldn’t pay for. Now I have to drive back to pay. 
My fault… I pulled my credit card to pay taxes yesterday and obviously neglected to put my wallet back in my purse.
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Further annoyed thought. My bank has a branch 0.4 miles from where the appointment is, and I have a photo of my DL in my phone, but they won’t take the photo of the DL for ID, so I can’t withdraw the money either.
One time I was out walking the dogs, I saw water bubbling up in the grassy area between the sidewalk and the road (some gpts may refer to that as a verge or a parkway, yet others may refer to it as a parking strip or tree lawn).
I knocked on the guy’s door just as someone (who happened to be his adult son) was coming out the door. I said, “Dude, I think your sprinkler sprang a leak.” We all went down and looked at it and collectively said “That’s weird.” Having already exceeded my capabilities as a handy man in this regard the dogs and I headed on home.
The very next day I was walking the dogs again and owner guy (not the son) happened to be outside and inquired “Hey, weren’t you the one that notified me of the leaking water and then just walked away without doing anything else?” (He may not have said that second part.) I replied, “Ja, you betcha.” He said, “The grandkids left a hose running in the backyard.”
The water obviously made its way to the front yard, slid under the sidewalk and, not being able to go under the road asphalt, popped up just short of the curb.
Wow that’s kind of funny and a heckuva lot easier to fix than a leaking sprinkler system.
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I was accidentally included on an email exchange with an external party where a life insurance policy claim was being discussed, including very personal health information, and I feel very uncomfortable being in this back and forth.
I emailed the internal party who accidentally copied me on the email, but there has been no attempt to remove me from it.
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You must have a similar name to someone who belongs on the thread.
I had that happen once where I was copied on some very sensitive information that I was definitely not supposed to know. You did what you could. If it continues I’d make a phone call / or try to catch them on your internal instant messaging service.
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happens ALL THE TIME.
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today is day 2 of the main sewer line work in my house. not outside the house where it connects to the city. i mean basement stretch from where all the outflows connect at the base of the main stack to the clean out at the edge of the house. jackhammers took out the floor and today they cut out the offending pipes.
non-annoyed part - I am super impressed w how neatly these dudes work! lugged the concrete blocks up and have barrels of the dirt carefully stacked in the basement.
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I have the same first+last name as another guy that works in P&C insurance. One time I got copied on an email meant for him. He was doing an onsite visit that required him to get some sort of US government security clearance. The email had tons of confidential personal information, including SSN.
Of course I let the person know who sent the email, and she was a bit mortified she had sent me that info.
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I mean the more sensitive it is, the more care I expect the sender to exercise in checking the names. With HIPAA more care should go into this message than apparently did.
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Oh good, I get to sign up for another year of free credit monitoring …this time courtesy of at&t.
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Heh, there is a bug (or at least there WAS… maybe it’s fixed now) in Outlook where it saves the sender and timestamp down to like the hundredth of a second and the contents of the message. If the recipient has an archived message saved on the server that matches all of that info then they retrieve the message. One piece of info that is (was) NOT archived is the recipient.
So what this meant in my personal life was that when the SOA sent out FAP login information to the scads of people that registered before they actually had FAP ready to go for the first time, when they were finally ready to give us our usernames & passwords they obviously did a giant mail merge-type thing and send to hundreds of people all at once. And they must have ordered the recipients by last name.
Because my BFF and I had last names that are pretty close alphabetically, and were both in that transition wave cohort that was waiting on the SOA for months to start FAP.
Well we each initially got our own logins no problem. But then when our employer archived those emails every detail matched so she all of a sudden had my user name and password!
IT was intrigued and researched… two other employees were in that same waiting on the SOA for their login cohort. But their emails were sent more than one one-hundredth of a second apart so they each had their own proper emails archived. Only my BFF got the wrong one… mine!
Fortunately it didn’t cause any problems. She was already done with FAP and she was my BFF so she wasn’t going to, like, submit a POS Final Assessment so I’d have to redo it or anything. But she absolutely had the power to do that, so it was a pretty material security issue. (Fault lies with Microsoft, not SOA to be clear.)
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Oh, and the reason for this is to save space. If the company sends out an all-employee email saying “great 2023 everyone… bonuses are coming out Friday” they don’t want to save 1,500 identical copies of that message. It doesn’t matter if I get your copy of the message… we both received identical messages.
But when the contents are a mail-merged username & password it’s obviously not ok to save space on those. I assume they’ve fixed it by now but it doesn’t come up very often so I’ve had no opportunity to test it.
i have a friend (an actuary) and a client (another actuary) with the same first and last name.
i once sent client data to the friend. he was professional enough to delete it.
I have TPAs send me loss runs and member health data unsecurely sometimes and I just scratch my head
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Names are more common than is apparent. I spoke to a life company once about someone with an unusual name, one I’d never heard of. That got us nowhere. When I have them a date of birth, that narrowed it down to 27 people. Same uncommon name, same dob.
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Who knew there were some many people named Lobster out there?
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Couldn’t find my AirPods Pro. Had been working outside in the yard but I always notice if one falls out. Anyway, later that day or maybe the next, I couldn’t find them. I have a usual spot where I keep them but they’re not there. Search using Find My. Told FM to make the buds yell at me when I’m in connection distance. Nothing. I can see them on the FM map but I can’t tell if they’re upstairs or down. Searched for days. Never quite sure if they’re inside or outside the house.
Rats
Hey, Costco has them on sale (2nd Gen) for $212 including tax and 2 years of AppleCare, regularly $249 w/o AppleCare. Stinks to buy them a second time, but whatever. I buy them.
You guessed it. A few days later I find the original pair in their case on a shelf in the office. I have no idea why they didn’t alarm using Find My, plenty of battery left.
I’ll keep the new ones and maybe give the old ones to one of the nieces or nephews.
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I might not have the details correct here, but I’ve never let accuracy get in the way of a good story…
Wife is a nurse in a nursing home. The state recently visited doing an audit (or whatever it is they call it). A bunch of Hippie (no, autocorrect) hippo (again, no) HIPAA-protected-data needed to be sent to the auditors. They said “oh, just email it to us” and my wife was all like “aw hell naw ! That’s not secure, you blithering idiots!”
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