Jayne, you'll scare the women.

Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


Cashmere - Oct 08, 2021 11:57:23 am PDT #9818 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

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.


Gudanov - Oct 08, 2021 12:10:42 pm PDT #9819 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

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.


-t - Oct 08, 2021 12:11:17 pm PDT #9820 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

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


-t - Oct 08, 2021 12:11:58 pm PDT #9821 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, doggy Odin!


amyparker - Oct 08, 2021 12:16:03 pm PDT #9822 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

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!


Trudy Booth - Oct 08, 2021 1:11:55 pm PDT #9823 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

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

For you? This week? Fuck no.


Toddson - Oct 08, 2021 1:35:44 pm PDT #9824 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

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.


-t - Oct 08, 2021 1:59:09 pm PDT #9825 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

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?


Sheryl - Oct 08, 2021 2:14:57 pm PDT #9826 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Woke up several times last night, so I’m more tired than usual.


Toddson - Oct 08, 2021 2:17:31 pm PDT #9827 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

-t thanks, but I don't think the bank #1 to bank #2 transfer would work ... they seem to be pretty much non-compatible (and I'm nervous about that kind of thing)