When I first worked at the Belk here I had a woman come to pay her store credit card bill. Only it was for Dillards. I told her she was in Belk and she tarted to argue with me about it .

Also that Dillards is 3 stories and all the other departments stores are 2 stories. So I had one woman accuse us of taking off an entire floor when I told her there wasn't a 3rd floor.

ION E is going to visit for a few days. He is currently in Greece with a school based trip. 2 years ago he went to Italy. So far this year he has been to Key West for a Boy Scout camp, somewhere ele for a camping trip with the group similar to Boy Scouts and this trip. I think there is one more thing he was going.

Next month he turns 16!! And can get his license. I can't believe he is 16. Almost.

And Mom is sick right now. Not Covid , the flue or RSV according to the test she took at urgent care. Some other virus

E doesn't get here until Aug 1 . So she should be fine then.

I've had to submit a request to remove the Activation Lock.

Update: Apple has denied my request to remove the Activation Lock.

Fucking hell. Thank god they have so many protections to prevent laptop theft. It's actively stopping me from using the laptop.

Reads like something that could happen to me.

Come on, Apple, act like humans are involved in the process somewhere

Unfortunately, I could forget what store I'm in by the time I get to the checkout counter. I'm completely able to go to the movie theatre, pay for my ticket, get snacks, find my seat, start watching the previews... and kind of forget what movie it was I am going to see.

In retrospect, I should have suspected ADHD was at play.

I hear you on that, Theo.

Doesn't usually happen to me in stores, but def have had that in the theater.

I used to do that in bookstores in the mall. B Dalton and whatever the other one was looked too much alike.

I just got a special report in my inbox from the New Yorker lending credence to Biden stepping down.

"Since the debate, I’ve asked nine doctors—including an internist, geriatricians, neurologists, and a neurosurgeon—to reflect on President Biden’s health. Most of them are, politically speaking, left of center; they practice in different parts of the country and range in age from their thirties to their sixties. They were careful to stipulate that they couldn’t diagnose the President from afar, and none wanted to be quoted by name. But almost all of them were concerned about the possibility that Biden’s symptoms might go beyond a gradual, aging-related decline, and could potentially be attributed to something more serious, such as a meaningful cognitive impairment or neurodegenerative condition. Most felt that an evaluation for neurological disorders would be reasonable. One neurologist, who practices on the West Coast and identifies as a Democrat, told me that Biden’s debate performance troubled a large number of her colleagues. “All of us had a gut reaction that this is not normal,” the neurologist told me."

B Dalton and whatever the other one was looked too much alike.

Walden Books? They totally looked alike, yeah.