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11th July 2018, 07:03 AM
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My pickup has been down for a couple days, forcing me to ride MAX to work. I should use public transit more often, but yesterday reminded me why I don't: there was a guy riding the train, talking to someone I assumed was a friend. When "friend" exited at the next stop, guy keeps on talking. And talking. Talking about being stabbed in the chest and dying. Not menacing anyone or shouting or waving his arms, just sitting there quietly talking about how dying isn't such a bad thing. As people exited the train, the level of external noise died down, and other riders began to actually hear what that dude was saying. And they began to give him a wider berth. He exited the stop before mine.
It's one thing to be sitting next to the stinkiest person on earth. It's another to be sitting next to someone who talks on their phone, like no one else is around. Or listens to crappy music on headphones so loud you can hear it. But the people who talk to themselves, they make my skin crawl. 
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#55
11th July 2018, 02:53 PM
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what is MAX, train system? don't make me google!
my minirant is the garbage vehicle people smashed my garbage can. the customer service rep was nice and had clearly had this complaint before: it's all my fault for not using their container which is much bigger than I need* and more expensive, but if they smash that one they replace it. mine they have been treating pretty roughly as long as I've lived here and it had two cracks in it that I mended with duct tape in a lovely bright pink. but today I think they drove over it, its pretty flat and now has huge cracks/openings. since my service includes "4 additional bags" apparently I can put the smashed can out on the curb with up to 4 bags, um, on the side and they are - please god - going to have to get out of the damn truck to pick them up. I really hope it annoys them. so, really more of a rave....  * seriously, there is NO good option for someone who doesn't produce a family sized amount of garbage. it makes me want to start my own "take everyone's stuff to the dump" service just to spite their asses 
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11th July 2018, 04:05 PM
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I found out that our local waste company actually DOES have an option for smaller sizes, if you use their cans, which I do now that the truck grabber ate my 32 gal Rubbermaid. You can get their 30 gallon container with an insert that makes it a 20 gallon can and saves me about three bucks a month. Alternately, instead of having the trash picked up every two weeks, which is standard, you can opt for once a month and that cuts it down even further--my neighbor does that. I use the compost bin for my yucky food trash and recycle everything I can, and with my one 13 gallon trash bag for the two weeks plus two weeks of kitty litter cleanings in individual poop disposal bags (which are biodegradable, I do what I can!) I have just enough room in the bin for trash. It does burn my ass that they've cut down considerably on what's considered recyclable due to China no longer wanting to be our landfill but they don't even consider going back to trash every week and in fact they've been charging us MORE to recycle less and a lot of our recyclable stuff goes to landfill. So fuck them, big plastic shit's going in the recycle bin whether they do the right thing or not.
Oh, and Tri-Met is the overall public transportation department, and the MAX is the train.
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11th July 2018, 04:59 PM
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Good god, this must be the fourth telemarketer we've gotten today! So much for the fucking "Do Not Call List". And half the time it's a robocall, so you can't even tell them to put you on it.
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11th July 2018, 05:36 PM
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The do not call list doesn't work because the vast majority of telemarketers use predictive diallers that just dial numbers in sequence until someone answers, then it kicks it over to the next available agent in line. Since they're not actually calling YOU specifically, they're just coincidentally (!) dialling your number, the do not call registry doesn't apply. Those predictive diallers used to be illegal but what with the current mania for deregulating everything that's gone up the spout. This is why I don't answer any number that isn't in my contacts, and anyone who doesn't leave a voicemail message will never hear from me because I'm gonna block that number. Not that it does any good since the telemarketers are also spoofing numbers so they look like they're calling from a valid real person's number but it makes me feel better.
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#59
11th July 2018, 08:54 PM
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Okay, so fuck the big-city dog rescue shitsticks. We country rubes aren't good enough to adopt one of their fucked-up dogs because we actually plan to let it run and gambol and cavort across 3.4 acres of open field, and go wade in the irrigation ditch, and fetch sticks from the pond in the off-leash dog park down the road! Oh, no, no, no, no, that will not do at all! Sixty-pound yellow Lab MUST be confined indoors for most of its life, allowed outside only to poop and pee in a SAFE AND SECURE fenced area from which it can never escape, and allowed beyond the fenced area only when on an approved leash!
Shit, man, I volunteer at the local state prison ... they don't even treat convicts that bad! Fuckem!
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11th July 2018, 09:00 PM
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Do you not have shelters with labs or lab mixes in them? They're pretty common where I'm at, and more reasonable in their requirements than rescue orgs. I ran into similar trouble finding Fluff Pup - no small dog rescues wanted me to adopt because I have *gasp* kids who might break the dog. Shelters were all full of lab and pit mixes, but I didn't want anything that big.
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11th July 2018, 09:01 PM
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11th July 2018, 10:25 PM
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Some of those rescues are full of fucking idiots, you have my sympathy. Lessee, the dog is out of the high kill shelter where it would already be dead so any home it gets is bound to be better than that--but some of them just can't see that. Ridiculous. Too bad you aren't in Sacramento because the Bradshaw shelter has free adoptions right now, or in Texas, where there's a high kill shelter that gets an incredible number of super cute doggos who aren't gonna make it out.
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12th July 2018, 05:53 AM
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Back when Petfinder wasn't a miserable site to navigate (ye gods, it loads so miserably slowly!), it was easier to determine if all of these pups were being hosted by whackadoodle rescue orgs. But there are 47 lab/lab mixes listed in a 100mi radius of interest.
If I had that much room for zooming, I'd get another aussie. I like Fluff Pup just fine, but Zoe was a fun dog.
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12th July 2018, 06:18 AM
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12th July 2018, 08:01 AM
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I am sick and god-damn tired of my fucking obliviot neighbor and her live in niece.
Yet again, my recycle bin was not emptied because lazy bitch niece parked at the bottom of MY driveway and was in too close proximity to my recycle bin. My disposal company uses the automatic trucks. The thing is, she was not parked there in the morning, but obviously moved her car back after I left for work. I called the disposal company this morning and they explained what happened AND they sent me a picture to prove it. My choices were to pay extra for them to come out and empty it, or wait two weeks and have to bag up any thing that won't fit in the recycle bin. The garbage company has not emptied either my garbage or recycle on several occasions now because of this stupid lazy bitch. The thing is, we have covenants and she is not supposed to park on the street. She is supposed to be parking in the driveway of the house she lives in. The homeowner won't let her because the car leaks oil. So, it's fine for her POS to leak oil at the bottom of MY driveway, but not in her driveway. Fucking bitch. As I write this, I just want to bitch slap her. Of course, I won't. I'll be walking over to see her when I get home and produce the picture. I will also inform her that her niece's car will be towed the next time it's at the bottom of my driveway. I'm fucking done. I had to put up with my husband ranting and raving ALL night last night because of this shit. It sucked and made for an unpleasant evening.
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12th July 2018, 09:29 AM
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And don't get me started on plastics recycling! (Too late.) I had two bags of plastic grocery bags that I was driving around, trying to locate a recycling station (like they used to have outside of every grocery store) for weeks before learning about the Chinese boycott. The helpful clerk at Trader Joes told me to dump it with my household garbage, because it'll be buried underground.
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12th July 2018, 09:36 AM
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@taters sometimes parking on my street is so tight that people have MOVED my recycling bins to up on the curb make space for their car.
I came home from work at 1 am to discover my can of yard debris, still full, next to a nice looking Prius. That driver would wake to find their nice-looking Prius covered with my compost.
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12th July 2018, 09:38 AM
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I pity all you people who have recycling problems. My county and the one I used to live in both have trash-burning power plants. Although we do recycling, too, pretty much anything they don't have a market for (except metal and glass) gets turned into electricity instead. And anything that incorrectly winds up in the trash, same. Most things that there isn't much of a market for it's because turning it into electricity is more cost-effective, and actually better for the environment, anyway.
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12th July 2018, 09:55 AM
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I would love it if some enterprising soul would set up a trash burning plant, that would be the tits. Unfortunately, in the west we mostly use hydroelectric, which is cheap and trying to compete with that would likely not be economically feasible. It'd be a lovely project for the city, though, but the city council is much too stupid to even think of it.
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12th July 2018, 10:55 AM
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12th July 2018, 12:05 PM
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I dug around a little and saw that. I've never seen an animal shelter only have four dogs! Interesting country/region observation.
When I adopted Kitty, it was from a very rural shelter in WV. They had plenty of homeless animals but not much in the way of foot traffic, so they had an arrangement with different organizations in the 'Burgh (about 1.5hrs away). Animals would be rotated out to various urban outlets to get more eyeballs on them and increase their chances of adoption. But then this was back in the dark ages, the infancy of the web. He was such a cute, tiny little ball of fluff. . . then he became obsessed with pissing on our waterbed.
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12th July 2018, 12:20 PM
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Is the Denver/Castle Rock area too far for you to travel? Because the Buddy Center has a crapton of dogs, quite a few of which are lab mixes and there's even a purebred cattle dog in there--few people will quibble with adopting out a herding dog onto acreage, in fact it's preferred. Also a few hound mixes--you seemed open to those.
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12th July 2018, 03:30 PM
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They reported it to their phone company, but apparently the only option is to block the numbers one at a time. They refuse to contact the FTC or file a complaint with the state.
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12th July 2018, 04:17 PM
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I love the Denver Dumb Friends League in general, they are the same people as The Buddy Center. I have heard very good things about them.
this German Shepard had been there a month!!
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12th July 2018, 04:24 PM
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12th July 2018, 04:39 PM
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SS denied my application for disability. the arthritis in my dominate hand makes doing anything difficult - has anyone noticed I don't post much anymore? it hurts to type. So, am appealing, was advised I need to go and complain to my doc more (I'd avoided it 'cause they really can't do anything for it). so, today, my hand is throbbing. enough.
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12th July 2018, 04:54 PM
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I've been advised that to try this first appeal w/o one, can appeal again and use lawyer if needed. They think 'cause I've got a degree and had a professional position that I can still work. They've not 'splained how to do that w/o using my dominate hand.
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12th July 2018, 04:58 PM
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I noticed you not posting as much, but you’re far from the only one who wandered away from us losers. Sorry it’s because of a bum hand instead of a fabulously more exciting life.
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12th July 2018, 05:08 PM
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12th July 2018, 06:00 PM
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That sucks, wring, but you're not alone--I've heard that basically nobody gets it on the first go 'round and the fuckers are hoping you give up or die. That sounds harsh, but at my age I've heard all manner of stories from friends regarding their parents who get their disability awarded months after they died. I hate those eligibility assessment fucks, I really do.
In the meantime, how about installing a speech to text app on your computer? That way the only typing you need to do is corrections and that can be done with your dumb hand pretty easily.
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13th July 2018, 03:38 PM
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Good news: Neighbor had an arborist over for an estimate on tree removal just now.
Bad news: the tree I was worried about isn't much of a risk compared to the much larger maple 10 feet beside it ( there are a lot of trees over there) that is dead up the center, significantly woodpecker damaged, and also leaning toward my house. The arborist is alarmed, doesn't have the right equipment to get to it, and recommended another tree service that does. He came over to talk to me separately after talking with Neighbor. He didn't want to alarm me, but said to make sure Neighbor gets it removed within the month as it's an immediate safety hazard.
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13th July 2018, 04:48 PM
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I hope that tree situation resolves with no ill feelings or property damage. I'm glad it's finally being addressed.
My biggest bitch with life is a mild headache, and the fact that my finances are in limbo again. Sometimes I think everyone should have my problems and I should have a feather in my ass.
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13th July 2018, 05:21 PM
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Whoa, Solfy, I'm sure that took your anxiety level to about an 11.5!
 It was good of the guy to tip you off, though, so you can be appropriately aggressive about lighting matches under their asses.
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13th July 2018, 06:41 PM
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I feel better knowing that Neighbor understands that the trees need to come out and how very serious they are. Now I just hope they follow through on it.
I said as much to Husband, who said, "Well, I wouldn't try to force them to have them removed." Oh, sure. Put people's lives at risk because we wouldn't want to make the neighbors do something they don't want to do.  The neighbors are nutty but not malicious. I have more hope now than I did a week ago that they might not be completely negligent. I have a bit of a sad this evening. One of Eldest's good friends is moving out of state tomorrow. They just moved here three years ago. She's a super nice kid and came over to say goodbye. I'm sorry to see her go, and I'm sure Eldest is, too. They're having one last spontaneous sleepover at Friend's empty house tonight (I was surprised her parents didn't object). Last edited by Solfy; 13th July 2018 at 06:47 PM.
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15th July 2018, 05:40 AM
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it doesn't seem like much to rant about after Solfy's potential killer tree problem but I thought Bunny was OK to be loose in the house as long as she is getting walked after every meal and, therefore, pooping when I get get at it before she does.
but despite yesterday evening's sweaty walk and poop, I found brown stains on the living room floor this morning.... 
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15th July 2018, 09:38 AM
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sadly, I have seen butt-scooting boogie marks and these were not those.
no, she ate the poop. 
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15th July 2018, 08:40 PM
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I've mostly completely switched from cymbalta to viibryd. But I find myself...pissy lately. Like... Mad about my life. I suspect I need something to regulate dopamine and/or norepherine.
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17th July 2018, 09:34 AM
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I hope they find something for you, raventhief. I want off of Cymbalta, and I even had my checkup from the neck up today, except not. My councilor is in training today, and no one told me about cancelling my appointment. So I had R take me down there for no reason. We did get gas while were out, but there was no reason to drive 12 miles for it. Gah. It's not the first time this place has done that to me. I'm rescheduled for late in the month, but I may run into refill complications. Gah. It's not easy, being crazy.
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17th July 2018, 11:11 PM
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I fucked up today. For reasons. I can see myself doing what I did and how I felt and say - oookay, where is the disconnect here? How is it you know what you know and still do what you did? The only answer I can think of is that I was going for a National-level asshole competition. Seriously hoping not to make it to the Internationals.
ps, no-one was injured or arrested, but lordy did I make an ass of myself. Would like to buy the remarkably patient person a gift card but expect he would rather never see me again.
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18th July 2018, 05:49 AM
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18th July 2018, 10:51 AM
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I'm about to go into a mandatory cyber-training class. I've heard that the gist of it is "don't click on any suspicious links or email attachments", which is a practice I already follow.
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