Buffy ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vonnie, is big-name lecturer still going to show?!
One of our staff is driving him down from VA. Hopefully he'll be able to enter the building. While the complex is in a lockdown, I think you can enter if you have a proper ID.
OK, I'm gonna start walking now. Hopefully to come back in one piece! (Seriously though, it sounds like things are now resolving, but everybody is so confused right now, I don't know what will happen.)
holy Yikes! Vonnie. Safety!!
What a tragic thing.
smonster, you asked about Paypal fees. Does this help?: [link]
Yikes, Vonnie. Be careful and stay safe. How horrible.
SuziQ just updated Facebook saying her surgery went well. So that's good news.
javachik, I just checked TaskRabbit out and it's in Seattle--I've bookmarked it!
Ack, Vonnie. Be safe.
I am overloaded with house and work stuff and it was so great to post "come pick up leftover paint and fluorescent tubes and take to appropriate disposal agency" and have someone DO IT immediately for a bit of cash. Now I am sitting here thinking of more Taskrabbity things. Maybe Hec could sign up with the service - it seems an easy way to make cash doing jobs you pick up as you wish. I plan to use it a lot.
HMOG. I am having my couch issue taken care of right now.
brenda, you've used it before, right? I either learned about TR here or on Twitter.
meara, you will love it!
I love that I put in a max amount that I'd be willing to spend for the task to be done, but that amount isn't shown to bidders. I put in a max of $60 for the paints task and someone did it for $25. The whole process is SO easy. And the taskrabbits are screened, etc, so I feel fine and safe using it. Certainly a lot safer than using Craiglist.
I wish Taskrabbit was here, too. There's a small business called "The Occasional Wife," but I haven't looked into whether they contract stuff out, or hire people, or only take what they can do.
OMG, the LA unemployment claim phone system is a nightmare. I went through at nine least levels of phone menus with no human, and if you hit "0" it just repeats the menu. So now I'm trying to get it straightened out from the NC side, where I was on hold for about 15 minutes but got a person. Death is not an option, bureaucratic style.