I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Calli - Sep 10, 2014 9:20:57 am PDT #13251 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Your library may have Consumer Reports access. It might be worth calling them to ask.

In me me me news, after weeks of no interest, I had two different requests for an interview at exactly the same time this Friday afternoon. I chose the interview for the full-time job in western Michigan instead of the four-week contract position in Raleigh. Thus proving I'd rather move hundreds of miles than deal with I-40 rush hour traffic.

ETA: And now I have another interview for an IL job. Things seem to be picking up, thank goodness.


omnis_audis - Sep 10, 2014 10:26:34 am PDT #13252 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Sign that its been too long since I've read a book. Looking at the top of the page, to see what time it is, as if it was an iPad or something.


Connie Neil - Sep 10, 2014 10:30:56 am PDT #13253 of 30002
brillig

Silly single-use items.


Burrell - Sep 10, 2014 10:49:13 am PDT #13254 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Yay, Calli! Sending lots of job~ma.

Our crawlspace creeps me out something fierce. Haven't been down there since dad sent me when I was a kid.


askye - Sep 10, 2014 4:48:42 pm PDT #13255 of 30002
Thrive to spite them

I don't understand my comcast bill. I just got one, which I need to find (unless I already got rid of it) saying I owed nothing!

Now I have a bill that says both that I haven't made any payments, have a past due amount AND have a current balance of -60.64.

It seems that I have a credit on my account. The automated system says my last payment was in July but the statemtn showes a payment in August. I actually made 2 payments and I can see both of the payments so I should have credit for both of them.

Now I have to wait until Friday when I can call them during regular business hours. I'm not looking forward to that.

Tying this into crawl space talk, when I was having connection issues Comcast suggested there might be a splitter somewhere, if there is it's under the crawl space area for the mobile home and there is no way I'm going under there. THe new modem and router fixed it, but I was all Nope Nope Nope Nope.


brenda m - Sep 10, 2014 4:51:31 pm PDT #13256 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

It should be an easy resolution. Those notifications are automated and go out if you haven't made a payment and or have a balance that is not zero. The system isn't equipped for having credits since it's not a common thing.


Hil R. - Sep 10, 2014 5:13:09 pm PDT #13257 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My Comcast bills have always been weird. When I've had changes in my service, the next several months were all totally different on the bills.

One of my friends has talked me into learning to play Magic: the Gathering. Which means I'm going to the game store tomorrow to get a starter set. Any tips for asking for what I want without sounding like a doofus?


Connie Neil - Sep 10, 2014 5:33:26 pm PDT #13258 of 30002
brillig

Tell them you want a Starter deck. Magic is happy to make it easy for beginners to get hooked.


askye - Sep 10, 2014 7:53:20 pm PDT #13259 of 30002
Thrive to spite them

And I realized that there might have been a package stolen. I have a mail box that's in an industrial style mail set up - everyone has skinny slots. And there are larger lockers. This past winter they put notices in everyone's mailbox saying they wouldn't be using the lockers any more because of theft issues.

I don't check my mail every day because it's usually just junk mail, but when I checked -there was a key to a locker. Which was empty. Actually all of them were open and empty. I didn't order anything and no one has notified that they sent me anything, so now I'm going to take the key to the post office and ask if they can figure it out. Or at least return it.

My parents usually let me know when they are going to send me something and use either UPS or FedEx so they don't have to deal wtih the lines at the post office.

Connie is right - just tell them you want a starter deck and the shop will get you hooked up. Once you try it and see if you like it you can go for booster packs and ask advice for getting those.


EpicTangent - Sep 11, 2014 7:55:24 am PDT #13260 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Happy Birthday, Trudy!

And just in case your Mom happens to be lurking about to see this, Happy Birthday, Kara!

Not really here. Working very hard. No, really.