I'll try to dig it out of the pantry tomorrow.
Patron: That girl is a witch. Mal: Yeah, but she's our witch.
'Safe'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Nov 03, 2016 1:35:55 pm PDT #756 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Dana - Nov 03, 2016 1:55:38 pm PDT #757 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I have escaped Comcast, and now they're trying to chase me down. First they claimed I didn't return the equipment. $190 fee for that.
Now it's an early termination fee on the contract. The person on the phone explained to me that because I moved out of their service area, I have to pay a $160 fee. I tried explaining to her that contracts don't really work like that, or no one would ever sign a service contract.
Now I'm waiting on hold for a supervisor. Estimated time, 15-30 minutes.
Jesse - Nov 03, 2016 2:18:23 pm PDT #758 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Comcast is the worst.
I found a job that is kind of the opposite of what I've been telling myself I wanted (smaller org, mostly), but reads like it plays to my actual strengths and not all the things I think I should be better at. But I just re-read the posting, and it says 7 years of experience in an academic setting is required. I definitely don't have that. Apply anyway? I guess I'd better. I can fluff up my resume to play up the academic stuff I have done.
Dana - Nov 03, 2016 2:19:58 pm PDT #759 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yes, apply anyway.
The supervisor, who the rep swore would just tell me the same thing, actually understood what I was saying and got the damn thing refunded. Fuck you one last time, Comcast. At least until we move again.
-t - Nov 03, 2016 3:21:07 pm PDT #760 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Apply and fluff.
You're giving me flashbacks, Dana. Comcast tried to hit me with an unreturned equipment fee for something I never actually had, but i had to go in to the office for some other reason and while I was there a human being looked at my records and said "oh, it says right here you never had that equipment, let me get rid of that fee". Such a weird combination of annoyingly byzantine and absurdly easy.
Connie Neil - Nov 03, 2016 3:23:55 pm PDT #761 of 30002
brillig
My town fortunately has another option to Comcast, though slightly more expensive. I've been pleased with them.
Jesse - Nov 03, 2016 3:32:40 pm PDT #762 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, that was a pain in the ass, but at least it's done?
sarameg - Nov 03, 2016 4:06:45 pm PDT #763 of 30002
Whhhhyyyyy is my skin freaking ouuuuut.
Steph L. - Nov 03, 2016 4:28:50 pm PDT #764 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Can I just say that having a political tweet go viral gets you the best art projects from everywhere. (No. Really not the best. NOT the best at all. Block block report report gahhhh)
Also I'm trying to not imagine my happy laugh if all those people RT/liking would buy a book.
So, a local, non-Buffista-adjacent friend just posted that Tweet on FB, and I piped up to say I know you and ohbytheway, you should check out her books. Two minutes later my friend replied "I'm looking on Amazon right now while I wait to see Dr. Strange."
My work here is done.
JZ - Nov 03, 2016 4:40:50 pm PDT #765 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Whine whine whine: After two diligent hours, I have floundered my way through most of the state propositions (need to research 52, which I don't understand at all and am bitterly angry at because why do we bother sending people to Sacramento to do this stuff for a living if they force helpless voters to wrestle with crap like this?, but I think the rest of them are more or less sorted out) and made it to SF Proposition C (we have A-X and then RR thrown in just for fun) before I ran out of steam.
I'm starting to get that looming-AP-exam doomy feeling that I did not miss one bit when it faded away decades ago.