I keep getting "someone in your family recently stayed at (some hotel)" and blah blah.

I don't know what spam calls I'm getting, because I have a spam blocker. But I do know the number has gone from 1–2 a week to 6–7 a day. They show up on my phone as "potential spam" and I don't answer. I figure if it's a real person who really wants to talk to me, they can leave a message.

I don't hear past the first recorded word, but my sister got 3 'your social security number has been cancelled' calls in one day last week.

Timelies all!

We have Caller ID, so we don't answer if we don't recognize the number. Sometimes it even says Spam? before the ID.

In not spam news, thanks to USPS informed delivery, I'm now impatiently waiting for my mail to be delivered so I can find out why the IRS is sending me a letter.

I'm trying not to catastrophize until I read the damn thing, so I've limited myself to a few minutes of freaking out and getting my tax returns handy.

I get the car warranty and the social security ones all the time (at least, if I pick up, which I usually do because I also get work calls)

Dinner is becoming a major ordeal and a big clusterfuck. The airfryer is kind of dead.. it still works but the latch that keeps the basket and the handle together is broken and I didn't realize that until I started cooking so I'm having to very carefully juggle taking it out. And since I picked a recipe for a larger air fryer I'm having to do things in batches.. it's supposed to be boneless country ribs and I bought bone in by mistake so I'm hoping it will cook right.

And then I mentioned making stuffed peppers as a side (vegetarian ones) but decided not to since M wanted to make baked potatoes and corn and I didn't want to try and juggle something else but I ended up makign it anyway.And I was trying to flip between 2 recipes on my phone and mis read the pepper one.

First it was way to damn complicated and required using a saucepan, stock pot, and a skillet and an insert for the skillet to put the peppers on to steam. But I used half the amount of rice by accident so it's very very very cheesy. I have no idea if it will taste good. I decided the peppers were cooked enough, the rice is cooked so I just wiped out the skillet I sauted onions in and then filled the peppers, put a lid on it and let the residual heat do any more cooking.

Its supposed to be 1 cup of uncooked rice and 2 cups of grated cheese. But I accidenntlly did 1/2 cup of uncooked rice.

I have to answer my cell since calls to my work number are forwarded. On my landline (yes, I still have one) I can ignore all but my parents and the building com/buzzer system.

I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the caller, but I've been getting a lot more calls (that I don't answer).

I mean it's obviously the political season.

Unrelatedly, xkcd on a subject near to all our hearts:

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