I can't believe I let the provocateuse domain registration run down to the last month! IDIOT. I am under-utilising it, but I do know that would disappear faster than velvetedge (WHICH ISN'T EVEN BEING USED) and even though it's a pittance, it's a profit pittance. So--re-upped for five years, and entered into my task manager which will one way or another not be around in five years.

I'm going to kill this washer repair guy. Guy #1 came out Saturday, didn't know how to do the repair, even though he's allegedly trained by Samsung to do it. But I appreciate that he didn't try to do something he didn't know how to do, because it could have fucked up the washer more.

They send out Manager today, and he looks at everything -- the washer is still taken apart, from when Guy #1 was here and took it apart. Manager says, "I don't know if I can put this back together, because I didn't see how it came apart." Which is fair, but, really? YOU'RE A REPAIR GUY. THINGS COME APART.

I offer to pull up the schematics online for him, and he says "No, if I can't do it, Guy #1 will come out Saturday and do it."

I say "We're going to be out of town then."

Manager says, "Well, he'll do it SOMETIME."

You know what? That is BULLSHIT. Guy #1 can't fix it, Manager can't put it back together, Manager doesn't want to look at the actual schematics THAT I CAN SHOW HIM, Manager doesn't give a crap about servicing this in a timely manner.

BULLSHIT. I can't even deal with this.

Can you talk to his manager? Damn, that would really piss me off too.

I think he is THE manager. It's a small shop.

I hear a power tool downstairs, so I'm hoping he can do his fucking job and put the washer back together. I'm resisting the urge to tell him this is a learning experience.

My mom just told me that she found a bunch of savings bonds that people gave me for my bat mitzvah that she had forgotten about. So I'm now $1400 richer, and also wondering what else is just sitting around somewhere.

also wondering what else is just sitting around somewhere.

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I like lamb, though I tend to have it in forms that are mixed with something else. Never had goat. Have had a few buffalo burgers.

Love lamb, love buffalo, love moose. Cannot eat goat, but will happily nom on all forms of goat dairy - goat milk, yoghurt, cheese, butter - all good. (Which is good, because cow milk and I do not get along any more.) The goat milk from TJ's is very good, very mild. Much tastier than almond milk.

Seriously love lamb, though. M and I cook it more often than we cook beef.

I searched my last name at that link, and got one hit for my father, one for my mother, and one for a cousin who died several years ago.

I tried the unclaimed property thing and it was a MASSIVE pain - I don't know how much money I'm missing, but it's a dividend in my mother's name, listed under an address I had ten years ago. (So in order to claim it, I would need to prove that my mother lived at that address. Which, since she didn't, is not really all that possible.)

I really like lamb when it's fixed right (usually by Middle Eastern restaurants or me), but it's a lot easier to do badly than beef, so I'm hesitant to order it out at most places.