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Training classes like that one are a big reason I'm good at crochet--I went through a 7 week training for my last job and it was excruciating so I started bringing yarn and a hook with me and ended up making like five hats, six or seven scarves and couple pairs of fingerless mitts by the time we graduated. I enjoyed it so much I've been making crocheted winter Solstice gifts annually for the last seven years since then! See, sometimes some good comes of boring mandatory training sessions!
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18th July 2018, 12:58 PM
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18th July 2018, 01:39 PM
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As mentioned upthread, my biggest client is moving. The IT moving starts tomorrow. I got off the phone with their POS vendor about an hour ago:
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18th July 2018, 02:18 PM
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Seven years sounds like a long time to blow off updates. (or whatever MAPI is). Incompetence is painful to all who encounter it. The actually incompetent never seem to feel the same pain.
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18th July 2018, 02:47 PM
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I'm so sorry about your disability and your disability benefit being denied. My sister, who was obviously disabled, still went through an organization that submits the applications for you. The person there both knows exactly what to write and has the respect of the local department, unlike everyone else who the department just Knows is scamming. Where I lived before 2 appeals were necessary for almost everyone, with a lawyer or specialist. Jeez - you've paid for this every year! And this is the last problem you need.
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18th July 2018, 04:50 PM
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what sign did you steal, Stormie? and why?
the fucking heat goes on and we have UNHEALTHY air quality today due to a big fire by Yosemite. worst air all year, so far.  I don't even want to walk Bunny around the block but I have to for pooping reasons. at least neither of us smoke....
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18th July 2018, 05:41 PM
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awww I'm sorry . . .I had to get a HEPA filter when we had the big fires becuase the smoke made me right sick. I hope you both manage OK . .
You know those folding sidewalk signboards in front of businesses? I took it. One person inside was nice, but another goaded me when I was near the edge, and over I went. Sign was on a street with a number of homeless and moderate people, said MDMA treatment eliminated PTSD symptoms, I know the work and it is not true. I hate lying about medical treatments to vulnerable people, and MDMA can be bought . . . ecstacy, molly, whatever. I imagine some desperate person with PTSD reading that, buying some MDMA, and ending up in big trouble. I snap when I think someone is hurting a person or animal and doesn't care. It's been a year or two so I am really disappointed
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19th July 2018, 03:58 AM
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I'm glad you shared the details, stormie. I was trying to picture it and couldn't. I've had my mazzo moments myself. It's embarrassing but not fatal. Don't beat yourself up too bad. At least you didn't assault them with the sign.
 On Tuesday, Phoenix takes off the gloves and gets fucking hot. 115° F / 46.1° C.  Days like that it's hard to remember why we live here.
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I know for a fact you can do it on a manhole cover, tried that as a teenager in the blistering Sacramento summer. Never actually tried it on the asphalt but I'm quite sure that would work too.
We were having some fairly hot weather but the marine layer kicked back in--that's the PNW air conditioning system! Get a good pressure differential between the coast and the high desert and it sucks that cooler air right up the rivers along with a bunch of low clouds. The clouds burn off around early afternoonish and it's enough to keep the temps about 20 degrees lower than if it's sunny in the morning. I'll take it--the cloud cover also helps a tiny bit with flammability in the forests so that's good.
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19th July 2018, 01:45 PM
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Unfortunately, the news crews take the expression "It's so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk" literally. They always do it concrete, not asphalt or metal. Did you eat the egg?
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19th July 2018, 02:50 PM
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ah . . . it has been beautiful here. Warren and I just had a nice walk. Blue skies, little breeze, nevermind. Let's just say I won't be using my free entry ticket to Arizona any time soon.
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No we did not. We had many instances of food bedecking the street out by my house, such as the time we scored a huge bagfull of ripe pomegranates and spent the afternoon slamming them on the ground to get them open and spitting the seeds all over after squidging the juice out of them. The cul de sac looked like a suburan abattoir after that one. The egg was, to coin a phrase, small fry after the pomegranate incident.
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Well, shit! Back in the cardiac ward with afib this time. Not life threatening but needs to be controlled. They’ll try a series of med strengths thru the night and tomorrow and then kick me loose. Sure hope Medicare covers it.
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20th July 2018, 04:46 AM
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20th July 2018, 07:11 AM
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Thanks, I’ll check it out. We’re tinkering with meds today and should be good to go by afternoon. This is a highly praised cardio group ... only CU med school gets higher marks in RMW. Feeling great now.
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MIL cycled through at least three different meds before she found one that worked to keep her out of AFib. The one she settled on has been working really well, but has scary potential side effects (pulmonary fibrosis) so she’s carefully monitored.
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20th July 2018, 01:21 PM
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I'm back in Michigan for my summer vacation! ...However the first few days of the trip have been disasterous. Between drama of a subject I won't disclose and anxiety and autism quirks, my body and mind have been utterly exhausted, and I would just like to get to the good part of my trip now.
 Chompin' the anxiety meds like chiclets isn't very good for conserving money... But it's what I need to do for the moment to be even remotely functional. It doesn't make me feel good to be taking my meds so frequently, and while they're here under my name for scenarios just like this one, it just makes me feel upset. Usually I don't have to do this at all, it's been a while since i've had to. But past trauma has been brought up and it won't leave until i'm in the second leg of my trip.  On top of that, I have to take a 3 hour car trip with my grandparents, who both are... Absolutely... Just. I have no words for how disgraceful they are for so so many different reasons. Said grandparents do not believe in my anxiety or my autism either, and simply think i'm just 'quirky'. For an example, I was explaining why I had to duck out early from a sleepover I was supposed to attend, and he was genuinely confused and asked, "Okay, but... If you can do all things through Christ, then...?". Yeah. I already have a history with road trips, and it's not the best. Considering they are the most manipulative people on earth and had brought the trauma me and my younger brother re-experienced to light, I am not looking forward to this road trip. I only have myself and my brother on that 3 hour stretch. It scares me half to death, but I have no choice. Wish me and my poor brother luck.
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Good Luck and Godspeed to you and your brother in your travels.
I had a go round with the teenager, then with the teenager's dad it wasn't fun, but it cleared a lot of air. Everyone has a much better understanding of each other's position. All over dogshit and why can't the owners of said Dogs clean up after them? They will from here forward is the agreement. T and J will rake on Saturdays, the Teenager's day for turd patrol is Wednesday. same as movie night in case anyone wants to stroll the grounds.
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My mother drives me crazy! AAAAAHHHH!!! We don't have a good relationship mostly because she's a tornado of complaints about all the things that she cannot (but could at least fucking try to!) fix. She rarely calls me and if she does, I assume it's out of some social obligation like "mothers should probably call their kids sometimes" and not because she actually cares about anyone but herself. But lo and behold, if she fucking needs something, then she is all over me. Sorry, Mom, but if anyone is getting a new phone anytime soon, it's me. Not you, whose phone I pay for in addition to part of your rent while you lay around and tell me about all the health problems that you cannot even try to research on the iPad that I bought you. My only wish in life is that my children do not ever think about me the way I think about my mother.
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Woo hoo! Trees of Death are being removed in 3 weeks. Crossing my fingers that none fall before then.
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Slightly ironically, last night while I sat on the porch a tree service truck (neither 1st guy nor 2nd guy) pulled up in front of our house and asked Swimmy if her parents were home (he didn't see me sitting on the porch). I assumed he was there to talk to Neighbor. Turns out he was looking for the neighbor on the other side of our house. They want one of theirs removed and another trimmed. Whole lot of tree stuff going on. Last edited by Solfy; 20th July 2018 at 05:54 PM.
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@Senpai I wish you all the luck in the world. Here's a word though:
You actually had the persistence to find something that helped you when you need it, and managed to get your hands on it. I know that's not easy. It is, in fact AWESOME! You are using that thing - which happens to be medicine - when you need it. AWESOMER! It doesn't mean "I'm (insert sef-destructive words here) that I have to use these drugs". What it means is you understand and accept yourself well enough to prepare for times when you don't feel well, and when you don't feel well, you take sensible action to feel better. It's called responsible self-care, and it's a good thing, even a rare thing in the whole world of us who need it, which is everyone. YAY YOU!
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Yeah, I'd rather have it come down with a crew and equipment around and I know it's a possibility than to have a stray hard gust of wind come along at 0300 and have a tree hit the house while everyone's sleeping. It might still fuck up the house, but nobody goes to the hospital and there's a lot to be said for having someone else's insurance paying to fix the damage.
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@Senpai: Where in Michigan? I'm in Mason (just south of Lansing).
mini rant: I'm poor, retired, spend most of my day reading on my kindle. I'm on waiting list for about 18 books (through 2 libraries), read about a book a day, so anyhow, I once again bought a 'bundle' of books on kindle (something like $3 for 8 books, last time it was $0.99 for 6 and felt I overpaid). So I didn't learn. Am on the first book, the bad guy has kidnapped the heroine, and tied her up. In chords.  Maybe F#?
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Set up the printers for my client today. Brand new $600-ish HP MFP dealies. HP puts the software on a CD inside the box, 'cos they apparently think it's 1998 and people still have optical drives in their computers. I had to dig an old laptop out of storage, since it was the only computer on site that actually had an optical drive.
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I've used the CD drive on my laptop ONCE, to look at some old family photos. And I've had the thing for half a year now.
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I use the DVD drive on my machine to watch $3 DVDs I get at Big Lots and Walmart. I've got all the MIB movies, several Ahhnold ones, and most recently, I got 'Mad Max' and 'Thunderdome'. My brother got a new Mac for his birthday, and he's sending me the old one once he wipes it. If it doesn't have a drive, I've got a USB DVD-drive I bought for my last (Netbook) machine that I can still use. Optical drives are a necessary function on computers. So much so that they sell USB ones you can connect on an 'as-needed' basis.
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Anyway, I'm on a medication that keeps my heart slowed down and, as long at it stays that way, it'll stay in sinus rhythm. We may have to tinker with the dosage but at my age I'm not going to be involved in any activity (training for marathons, etc.) that'll trigger the afib again. Aging will cause me to need stronger meds, eventually, and there's the possibility of ablation again, although that's riskier and tougher to do. For now the medication is holding me steady and I'll talk to some local people to help me wrap my head around needing a pill every day for the rest of my life.
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I fucking hate group work in classes. I recognize that people need to know how to work with others. I resent having my course grade tied to the two other guys and one asshole that the prof saddled me with. (I also suspect it's merely a ploy for the instructor to have fewer papers to grade.)
Chaz*, the asshole, writes like a fifth grader. Chaz switches tenses mid-sentence. Chaz doesn't know the difference between "it's" and "its" or "to" and "too," and even changed my reference to IT (it's an Information Technology class) to "it's" in one of our four case study papers, which made no sense and still managed to be grammatically incorrect. Chaz offered to provide us with info regarding the company he works for to serve as the case study for our final paper. This was during the first class, before we knew Chaz was a buttmunch. Chaz then refused to provide us with any info, refused to be available for group calls discussing the paper, and blew off the one call we finally managed to schedule two days before the project was due. He failed to give the guy doing the economics section any of the economics info he needed. He failed to work on his assigned section of the paper until after 9:00 tonight. It's due at midnight. But wait! It gets better! Chaz finally decided to work on it, asking the rest of us how long his two-page assigned section needed to be. (I already wrote one page of it, because I have learned the ways of the Chaz by now) Chaz wrote two measly fucking paragraphs of the >10pg paper. Two paragraphs that made no sense in the context of the paper. And then! The best part! At 10:00, Chaz told us, "My girlfriend is an English Major I am going to have her read the whole thing and edit it before we submit it as well."  I texted back that his girlfriend is not in this class, I am a professional proposal writer, it's due in two hours, and I will edit it. At fucking 10:53, while I was deep in the middle of editing the pile of crap that was dude in 66 minutes, that we've had six weeks to work on, Chaz texted the group asking, "What else can I help with".  I did not respond. Nothing I wanted to write would have helped the situation. *Not his real name, but it's an anagram.
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2) Wrapping your head around needing a pill every day? Dude, it is so not a problem. Hope you don't tussle with the idea long. @Solfy . . . ok, the idea of grading fewer ghastly papers is tempting *shakes self* but the group project thing is mostly designed to get the students to learn more by helping each other. If class is not huge we usually figure out who is doing what. I do suggest telling your prof that you are frustrated by Chaz' lack of contribution and empty promises (which are worse), which the remaining team members attempted to fill in for work Chaz did not provide. You might ask not to be paired with him again. Last edited by stormie; 23rd July 2018 at 12:03 AM.
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