OK, so I shouldn't be allowed to have carpeting... and I really live it anyway... especially on stairs where I'm constantly going up and down with beverages. Having said that, we rent, so it is my lot at the moment.

Does anyone have opinions on steam cleaning carpet services? Good idea? Just rent my own at the grocery store? Even worth it at all? It's looking pretty rough right about now...

My dad got a handheld carpet stain remover thing a while back, it was marketed for dealing with pet messes but might also be good for beverage spills? Especially on stairs, something smallish to spot clean seems easier.

I am finishing this week still feeling very strongly that I do not know what my job is anymore, so that's nice. Consistent, anyway.

Sophia, a friend if mine who is disabled but still wanted to get involved in something started going to local cemeteries and cleaning old stones—and researching the people. Locals have been really happy with her work here:

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My brother is doing okay. It nice that we have people inside keeping an eye on him. The service today was NOT what I would have planned—two hours outside/inside visitation, and a half an hour service inside. The posted “masked optional” instead of required, like I wanted.

Dad could be cremated yet (COVID backlog) so we couldn’t so graveside.

We were masked so I’ll just have to test us all when we get home.

Christopher was harassed for wearing a mask inside to pick up our carry-out pizza for dinner. Is it wrong of me to hope that woman gets it? Ugh.

Back at the hotel with a bottle of wine. And no people but us.

As someone who has taken out a lot of carpet stains, it should definitely be good for beverage spills. I've taken paint out of the carpet.

A perk of the new job is seeing bug reports titled like this one: 'Cannons not firing players as expected'.

ION, we got a new dog. He's a 10 year old German Shepard mix named 'Odin' who was abandoned by his last owner.

{{{Cashmere}}} Wine + solitude, whew

Aw, doggy Odin!

askye, honey, no. It's illegal not to be paid for hours worked. You can't stop your colleagues from doing it, but don't you start!

Is it wrong of me to hope that woman gets it? Ugh.

For you? This week? Fuck no.

I had to have it out with a bank today. I have my main accounts, that I use, at one bank but have two accounts (savings and checking) at another. I started this to have a back-up in case SOMETHING AWFUL happened with my main bank. However, since I pretty much leave the accounts at my back-up bank alone, if there isn't any activity for a length of time, they consider them abandoned property and turn the money over to the Treasury. Obviously, I don't want that to happen, so I have to act. They send a letter for each account and, in theory, I can return the letter with some fields filled out and take care of it. But that doesn't work (hasn't in the past). Got the letters back in late July/early August and went in to the bank to straighten it out. I had to go in person because (1) returning the letters/forms doesn't seem to work and (2) they'd sent the letters to my old address, they were returned with a sticker that the forwarding order had expired, so they put the letters in their original envelopes in a new envelope with my current address and sent them on (I get my bank statements at my current address and they obviously have it, so I don't understand why they're sending them to my old address). Those arrived, I went to the bank's office in August, thought I'd cleared things up and had the accounts reactivated. I'd asked about getting a functioning ATM card and the man I dealt with said that I'd have to wait a few days for the accounts to register on their system as active. Called back a few days later and the person I'd dealt with was gone - no longer with the bank. Spoke with a young woman who was very put out that I didn't have the account numbers to hand and, after about 40 minutes on the phone, convinced her that I was the owner of those accounts and she grudgingly said that she'd send me a card and there'd be a PIN number sent in a separate envelope.

Nearly two months go by, no ATM card has arrived and I receive another pair of letters announcing that my accounts will be classified as abandoned property and given to the Treasury. Same as before - they'd been sent to my old address and the bank had put them in new envelopes with my new address. Ended up spending an hour walking over to the bank, dealing with a banker, trying to get it straightened out, checking to verify they had my actual address and get an actual ATM card and then walking back to my office. With a functioning ATM card, I can make minor transactions and keep the accounts active ... he said he'd have me sent a card, had me set a PIN and, with any luck, this will stop happening. I'm hoping that I can keep this from happening again ... but they're sufficiently screwed up that I'm going to wait and see.

What a mess, Toddson! Can you set up an automatic one dollar transfer from regular bank to backup bank every month or similar to avoid all that?