Fingers crossed on the grandma possiblity.
I'm practicing backing up the Bus, while I wait on a call for a pick up.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
Theodosia - Sep 26, 2019 4:52:07 am PDT #11856 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Calli - Sep 26, 2019 5:28:52 am PDT #11857 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Go Grandmatization!
I had an initial video interview for a job I might want yesterday. I think it went well? Hard to say. Anyway, I'll find out next week whether they want to bring me up for a face to face one. If not, well, my current situation isn't bad. It's just a few hundred miles further south than I'd like.
Katerina Bee - Sep 26, 2019 5:59:01 am PDT #11858 of 30019
Herding cats for fun
Today I will go to Half Moon Bay and visit everyone who flew in for Dad's memorial tomorrow. I still feel very calm and very sad. Perhaps I'll lose my shit at Thanksgiving remembering how glad I was to see him last year after his adventure with bowel obstruction in Montana.
Scam alert: I received a call from the Ascension Group looking for "the responsible party" about his estate. Apparently these are carrion vultures trying to get survivors to pay bills they have no need to pay. As if Dad left debt instead of savings. Good thing my sister and stepmom are savvy enough to check them out and decline to speak to them. So FYI in case anyone else has to deal with this.
msbelle - Sep 26, 2019 6:37:01 am PDT #11859 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
No YOU woke up to identity theft and fraudulent accounts.
Apparently I'm not allowed to go more than a week or so without an anxiety attack.
Just tried to put a fraud alert on my credit report with Equifax and I could not pass their questions to verify my identity. JFC!!!!!!
Jesse - Sep 26, 2019 7:04:07 am PDT #11860 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh no, msbelle! What an enormous PITA.
-t - Sep 26, 2019 7:11:03 am PDT #11861 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh. I'm glad this happened AFTER you bought your house, though!
-t - Sep 26, 2019 7:16:00 am PDT #11862 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It looks like the one thing I did yesterday before I found out all our tools were messed up was wrong, and by my mistake not the tools. I can't figure out how exactly what I think I did wrong gave the results I now have, but I think I can fix it without getting to the bottom of that....
Gudanov - Sep 26, 2019 8:12:20 am PDT #11863 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry Dana, health insurance issues sucks. Sorry, msbelle, dealing with fraud sucks.
With the news, I'm trying not to keep peeking at Twitter and keep working on parsing strings into time.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2019 8:17:31 am PDT #11864 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Perl's Date::Parse module is seriously one of the most versatile pieces of code I've ever come across. It can deal with pretty much any unambiguous date or time string you throw at it. It just works.
bennett - Sep 26, 2019 8:31:10 am PDT #11865 of 30019
msbelle - my experience is that once you buy/refinance a house, all kinds of scams and problems show up. The mortgage lenders cheerfully sell you information to anyone who asks. Good luck dealing with them.