Looks like we could use an open thread!
I’ve been feeling kind of blue for a couple of days, so I don’t have much to say, but I can put up an open thread!
So… am I the only person who mistakenly ordered not one but two gifts from Amazon, and inadvertently had the gifts shipped to my house?
Yutsano
I’m sitting at work getting paid to do a lot of nothing right now. It could be worse I guess.
EDIT: FRIST!
Alison Rose
Don’t feel bad about that — one year, I was ordering something for myself near the holidays, but forgot to change the shipping address which had defaulted a friend’s since the last time I’d ordered on the site was for her birthday. I didn’t even notice it until I got the shipment confirmation email. So then I had to text her and be like, “Uhhhh…….can you mail this to me when it gets to you??” Thankfully it was something small.
It’s been very rainy here for the past few days and I am really hoping it continues through NYE, to hopefully cut down on the assholes setting off fireworks until 2 in the damn morning.
Qrop Non Sequitur
I bought five gifts to split among the four cousins I was expecting at Christmas and myself. Then my fifth cousin came home from out of state.
Fortuitous.
JPL
Water Girl, sorry you have the blahs. Life has been good on my end, but I do have a head cold. It’s amazing how many boxes of tissues one can go through.
Alison Rose
Also too, fuck Bibi and his posse of putzes:
Netanyahu’s New Ministers Have Very Strict Ideas About Who Is a Jew (NYT gift link)
They’ve blathered about this shit before, that Reform Jews aren’t real Jews and all that shit. But this still makes me angry. Also, it’s fucking stupid. Nazis don’t give a shit what synagogue we go to, they hate all of us. And I don’t understand the point of wanting to shrink the community down as much as possible. Fuckers.
raven
@JPL: I’m nervous as a cat crappin ground glass! GO DAWGS!!!!
WaterGirl
I have to say, I am enjoying the “Jack E. Smith” twitter account. @7Veritas4
JPL
@raven: GA should be playing TCU. bah humbug
WaterGirl
@raven: I thought that was supposed to be as nervous as a goose shitting peach pits.
My old boss accidentally said that on a hot mic on the day of his wedding.
WaterGirl
@Qrop Non Sequitur: Except now you have to re-order yours!
WaterGirl
@JPL: Sorry to hear that. Are you confident that it’s just a cold?
Qrop Non Sequitur
@WaterGirl: I decided to reorder two of them, at least. They were board and card games. I got a lovely opportunity to try them.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Heh. :-)
twbrandt (formerly tom)
Unfortunately, it looks like Andrew Tate’s infamous pizza box had nothing to do with his arrest, which is a pity because it’s such a good story.
I had never heard of Andrew Tate until yesterday; with any luck, I’ll never hear of him again.
mali muso
Aww, I’m sorry to hear that you’ve got the blues. This time of year is always a little weird, I think. The days are too short, the holidays are over, but the new year isn’t yet upon us. Just…blah. Any Korean spas nearby? I can recommend a visit to lift your spirits. :)
JWR
@WaterGirl: Lol! I just looked, and there’s one more there:
MomSense
I did not get good news about my back. Seeing a sports medicine doctor on Monday. I have had to argue and push at every step to get some help.
FastEdD
It has been a pretty rotten week here too. On Xmas I had a “date”-or at least somebody to spend the day with. Got her a present she wanted, brought her family food because she didn’t want to cook. She stood me up and didn’t even call me back. Fed her dinner to the dog.
Tuesday I drove to the cemetery and showed the dog the plot where “Mommy” was. Tried my best to get through the services. I’ve been crying my eyes out so much that they hurt. I kissed the coffin before they lowered it. I told my partner I’d see her again someday but I don’t really believe it. It is just something you say to keep yourself from going crazy.
I’ll spend NYE with my ex because I don’t want to stay home. At least the dogs will have fun.
Next year has to be better. Even boring would be an improvement. TKU WaterGirl for letting me vent. Hoping for Cole to feel better.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Yup. I tested negative for Covid, and although I had chills early on, my body temp has regulated now. I tested again today because of the new variant just to make sure. Thank you for asking.
trollhattan
@Alison Rose: Have felt that Yitzhak Rabin was Israel’s last, best hope for achieving detente and lasting peace with the Palestinians. Now, it seems like gloves off WRT settling the entire West Bank.
If only princling Jared had fixed it during his four years.
ian
@Alison Rose: David Ben Gurion called Menachem Begin a “Nazi Jew”.
Netanyahu is the successor to Begin, and Mr. Ben Gurion’s description of his political movement is still pretty spot on.
surfk9
Things are really looking up at casa surfk9. Mrs Surfk9 is retiring and today is her last day. She was supposed to retire fifteen months ago but got held up over student loan forgiveness. That’s all taken care and now it’s off to retirement!
Qrop Non Sequitur
I had such faith in him too…
Baud
@twbrandt (formerly tom):
It was always a fun but far fetched theory.
JPL
@FastEdD: That sucks!
JPL
There’s always good news!
Bloomberg headline on my phone alert:
“Tesla CEO Elon #Musk has become the only person in history to erase $200 billion from their net worth.”
from Mastadon
eachother
All the battery posts and busses on my dead battery are shellacked to prevent corrosion and a decent contact for charging.
eclare
@raven: I asked downstairs, how do you have tickets to the championship?
Yutsano
@trollhattan: When Rabin was assassinated I had this pitfall in my stomach worried that a Palestinian had done it. When his assassin turned out to be an extremist Jew, that pit changed to despair. Israel learned the wrong lesson from Rabin’s killer. Instead of rejecting that vision somehow Israel wanted even more of that. This is not going to end well.
eclare
@FastEdD: Oh gosh I am so sorry for your loss.
And getting stood up, that is so infuriating and wrong.
FastEdD
Thank you.
pat
@FastEdD:
Condolences on your loss. I hope the doggies can bring some level of comfort (and love) into your life.
kalakal
@FastEdD: I’m so sorry, how rotten of your ‘date’. Fingers crossed next year is good to you
JPL
@Yutsano: this
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl:
I think I like that guy!
Geminid
@Alison Rose: I think the two Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) parties won about 19 of the coalition’s 64 Knesset seats. They drove some very hard bargains with Netanyahu when forming this government. I read that at one point they were demanding that the electrical grid be shut down on the Sabbath.
This demand was apparently a bargaining chip. Israelis will still have electricity on the Sabbath, but as you say longstanding rules regarding the Law of Return will be thrown out.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: About your back, was it bad news or no news? Hopefully the sports medicine doc will figure it out.
CarolPW
@FastEdD: I am so very sorry for the loss of your love, and for the asshole that stood you up.
An ex spouse can be good company especially in tough times because they know you very well, and if you are still speaking the split probably managed to get rid of some of the sand in your drawers that caused it. Lots of people here to talk to at almost all hours, so you can have a type of company. Doesn’t entertain the dog though so seeing the ex is probably good.
UncleEbeneezer
Well, last week I had a dinner at a restaurant with friends planned for my birthday. Reservation was for 9, maybe 10 people. Ended up just being me, my wife and one other friend. I knew some people were only tentative and would likely miss it but it still really pissed me off to have so many people bail. It’s one of the never-ending frustration of having my birthday two days before Christmas. Unless you have family nearby (and like them) which I don’t, it makes it damn near impossible to have any significant party/outing for your birthday.
Then yesterday I went to try and use a Visa gift card that one of my students’ parents had given me and it was expired. It was probably just an honest mistake of something they re-gifted (fine by me) and didn’t realize it had expired. Still disappointing though since I was gonna treat us to dinner.
Grumpy Old Railroader
So I found a Fruit Cake on Amazon rated 2 stars but realized I do not have John Cole’s home address so unable to ship it.
WaterGirl
@FastEdD: Now I’m crying with you. Not much consolation, I know, but at least you know we care. So very sorry for your loss. Not something you just get over.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Glad to hear it!
WaterGirl
@surfk9: Congratulations!
SpaceUnit
Since it’s the last day of the year in finance I finally took a look at my portfolio (been avoiding it for about six months).
It’s a goddamn disaster. This has been the worst year on Wall Street since 2008. I should just go stand out in the street with my pockets turned inside out.
Ken
The good story wins, always. Look what happened to Richard III after Shakespeare, or Antonio Salieri after Amadeus.
surfk9
@WaterGirl: Thank You! I have been retired for seven years and always felt bad that she had to still be working.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: I’m sure the gift card giver would be mortified if they knew! I’m sorry for your disappointing birthday.
WaterGirl
@Grumpy Old Railroader: I do have Coles address, but I cannot be bought.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: Tomorrow is another day?
CarolPW
@Alison Rose: It’s pretty clear that if a person is not recognized by the orthodox they don’t care if [immoderate phrase omitted]. They don’t give a damn that the Nazis consider that person a Jew, and since they won’t have to give any of them citizenship they can wash their hands of whatever happens to them somewhere else. They have become Pontius Pilate.
CarolPW
@UncleEbeneezer: You share a birthday with my sister.
zhena gogolia
@MomSense: Oh, I’m sorry. I sympathize — the back can be such a pain, literally.
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
I guess so.
At least you didn’t say jump, you fucker.
kalakal
@surfk9: Congratulations! I have a bit under 3 years to go. Mrs kalakal has been enjoying a life of indolence for 2 years now and I am so jealous :-)
mali muso
@UncleEbeneezer: Ugh, that sounds like a real downer. My daughter’s birthday falls on Thanksgiving week (sometimes the day before Turkey Day), and I’ve resigned myself to throwing her party weeks before or after the actual day, since you can’t rely on anyone showing up otherwise.
lollipopguild
@Alison Rose: It’s purity run amuck. The joke on the Christian Evangelical side is that you have people who want their church to be so pure that no human being would qualify to be a member.
kalakal
@Baud: never let the facts get in the way of a good story
dexwood
@surfk9: Yay for Mrs. Surfk9. Mrs. dexwood retired a year ago today to join me in a life of decadence and debauchery, er, retirement.
Cmorenc
@Yutsano:
netanyahu forgets that israel has to win *every* conflict with hostile arab/iranian etc states, they only need to win once. He does benefit, however from the fact that the palestinians are as much an inconvenience as a truly committed cause to most other arab states, and well, expedience too often rules over principle.
lollipopguild
Montanareddog
@Ken:
Or Senator Ranse Stoddard, the man who did not shoot Liberty Valance.
Nicole
Feeling warm fuzzies tonight toward our mail carrier, who kindly knocked on my neighbor’s apartment door to let her know Amazon via LaserShip (boooooooo) had left a massive pile of packages in the lobby of the building…. three doors down from ours and they’d been sitting there for days (the carrier recognized my neighbor’s name, which is somewhat unusual). The letter carrier walked my neighbor to the building and let her in so she could recover all of our stuff.
Not the first time the letter carriers who deliver to our block have fixed an Amazon delivery screw up for us. The actual Amazon delivery folks are pretty good, but when something is being delivered via LaserShip… ugh. I cross my fingers and hope for the best.
Geminid
@Yutsano: And then about 8 years later, after he had broken with the Likud party on the issue of a two state solution, super-hawk Ariel Sharon was laid low by a stroke. Sharon might have had a chance to put the Camp David accords into being, but after him no one in the Israeli Right was willing and no one in the Center had the clout to carry out the accords.
The suicide bombing campaign during the second Intfitada pushed peace further out of reach. It achieved none of its goals by killing over 600 Israelis, but it knocked the props from under the Israeli Left. The pro-peace Meretz party entered this century with 12 MKs but struggled to stay in the Knesset afterwards. This last election saw them miss the 3.25% threshold by one tenth of a percentage point and they are now out of the Knesset.
The anti-Netanyahu parties actually were about even with his in the vote November 1st. But Meretz and the Arab party Balad gathered 6% of that vote between them and were blanked. What might have been a 60-60 result was instead a 64-56 win by Netanyahu’s 4-party coalition.
pat
All religions: A bunch of people (ahem, men) telling other people what they can do…
eclare
@Nicole: What is LaserShip? Is it a third party carrier?
Geminid
@Ken: As the man said at the end of the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: What does down, must come up? :-)
WaterGirl
@Nicole: Dare I ask what LaserShip is?
Ken
@Montanareddog: I’m thinking we have a Medium Cool with BGinCHI topic here.
mrmoshpotato
@JPL:
Why?
dmsilev
We had ten for dinner yesterday, a very belated Chanukah celebration. Plus two dogs: my parents’ toy poodles and my cousin’s Doberman mix. Despite the vast size difference, they got along great and had a lot of fun playing together. Good times.
And I set what is probably a world record for nerdiest possible gifts by giving my niece and nephew and cousin’s kid some electronics kits: a microcontroller, a breadboard, a bunch of parts, and a project book. They’ve all aged out of things like Snap Circuits and this is sort of the next step.
(and yes, some actual requested gifts as well. I’m not a complete monster)
Montanareddog
@Ken: you’ve got me thinking now!
ETA: of other examples, I mean
WaterGirl
@Ken: Print the Story?
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: I have always loved Jen Psaki for saying “I am not a monster” in one of her first press briefings.
UncleEbeneezer
@mali muso: Im seriously thinking of just picking a random day in Spring/Summer to hold celebrations in the future.
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
That’s what I’ve been telling myself. One has to ride it out.
BlueGuitarist
Love all y’all
have had a headache for a month
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
https://youtu.be/vDqULFUg6CY
CaseyL
My end-of-year is about as low key as you can get: I have no plans to go out, and the weather is sucky anyway.
I’m glad to see the end of 2022, though in truth it’s getting a bad rap. Most of the really awful things (like a Covid resurgence) were baked in, because humanity has handled the pandemic about as badly as it possibly could. The other ongoing awfulness, in the economy and the climate, are also baked in because humanity is just no good at saying No to itself, and even less good at saying No to rich people.
And a lot of good stuff happened, like President Biden’s bullet list of legislative successes and the GOP failing to catch its predicted Red Wave, neither of which were “baked in,” but required a lot of hard work by a lot of people.
I’m not at all happy that two close friends, and Mom, have had extended hospital stays in the last month (Mom is having hers right now). But its hard to separate that from the fact that they’re in their 70s and 80s. It’s a blessing they’ve been able to enjoy good long lives, and joyful retirements. But no one gets out alive, and the best one can hope for along those lines is a peaceful departure while sleeping. An accelerating decline is the price of admission for most of us.
The hardest thing for me is realizing that their latest health setbacks are less likely to be ones they bounce back from; that anything which was a bump in the road previously could be the end of them this time. I don’t know how to deal with that.
Which kind of circles back to that whole “saying No to itself” and what is or isn’t baked in. We’re bound to see more stories about society paying the price for allowing oligarchy to exist, and the whole ecosphere paying the price for humanity’s inability to live within its environmental means. It’s the same accelerating decline, but writ on a much larger scale.
….Well, this turned out to be a cheerful comment.
Sorry.
Happy New Years, anyway!
WaterGirl
LaserShip. Let’s play who wrote these blurbs that came up on Google.
blurb #1
blurb #2
eclare
@UncleEbeneezer: That sounds like a great idea. Call it UncleEbeneezer day. Who doesn’t want to go to a party in the spring or summer?
Geminid
@WaterGirl: Print the legend!
WaterGirl
@Geminid: Oh, right!
eclare
@CaseyL: Thank you for such a thoughtful comment. I agree with you 100%, and I am still an optimist going forward. Here’s to 2023!
Obligatory: Go Vols!
Montanareddog
@Ken: i have thought of one myth that ought to be true.
The British vulgar gesture is two fingers, the fore- and index fingers facing towards the antagonist.
During the Hundred Years War, the English military superpower was their longbow archers.
The myth is that if the French captured a longbowman, they would cut off those two fingers so they could no longer draw a bow, and before a battle, the English archers would make the two-fingered salute at the French lines.
West of the Rockies
@FastEdD:
So sorry… that sounds brutal. Hopefully next Christmas will be much better. Perhaps as George Michael sang, next year you’ll give your heart to someone special (and deserving).
trollhattan
@FastEdD: Sounds like hell on earth and I’m very sorry you had to endure it all. Things get better but it takes a whole lot longer than decent people should have to endure.
Best wishes for 2023.
Phylllis
@surfk9: Congrats. I have six months to go, and I’m ready. Hope y’all have lots of great plans going forward.
Alison Rose
@ian: I don’t really love that term because it’s too close to how putin and lavrov and all of them talk about Ukrainian Jews (and the rest of us). But I understand what it means in this context.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@SpaceUnit:
If you don’t like answering, it’s fine, but how close are you to retirement? The reason I ask is because with time your investments should recover. I assume you’re invested in total stock and bond index funds in a retirement account such as a 401k, correct?
It’s important to keep in mind that the US stock market has been in a bull market for the last 10-12 years, the longest in history, so of course a 20% drop is the worst performance it’s had since 2008 (can’t remember how bad the COVID crash was, but the recovery was super quick). It certainly didn’t help that bonds took a crap, though less so, thanks to interest rate hikes.
If you’re still contributing, you could look at it this way: lower prices mean likely higher future returns and stocks are on sale. Yields on bonds are also going up.
Sorry, my guy. I’m a saver too, and it’s not fun watching your balances go down
eclare
@CaseyL: And I’m really sorry about your mom. I went through that with my parents a few years ago, and it’s just something to endure.
Reaching out on Balloon Juice and with friends and relatives helped.
Alison Rose
@pat: Incorrect. Reform Jews do not tell other people what to do. Which is probably part of why the Orthodox don’t like us.
trollhattan
Soggy California is soggy. We are receiving lots of rain and the ground is saturated like it has not been in years; thus, runoff!
Case in point: the Sacramento River at downtown Sacramento has been loafing along at about 5 feet msl for months and months and, well, pretty much all of 2022, today included. It is predicted to jump to 24 feet New Years Day. Monitor stage is in effect anytime it reaches 27, but that’s not in the cards. Which is fine because too much of a good thing is too much.
narya
@FastEdD: I’m so, so sorry. That’s a lot of misery piled on top of itself, at a time of year that can be difficult under the best of circumstances.
SpaceUnit
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I’m still a ways from retiring. And I’m confident that the markets will eventually recover, just as you’ve suggested.
It’s just been a bad year for investors.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@CaseyL:
Sorry about your mom
JPL
@mrmoshpotato: GA is number one and TCU was in a weak conference and should not be ranked higher than OSU or even Alabama. IMO
Nicole
@eclare:
Yeah, it might just be an NYC thing; I don’t know. But they quite frequently drop off packages here that have an address nowhere close to what’s printed on the label, and often drop our packages off somewhere else (with no photo, unlike the actual Amazon delivery guys). I checked the buildings on either side of us, which is usually where they end up, but LaserShip outdid themselves this time.
mali muso
@UncleEbeneezer: You totally should! Maybe sometime in mid January when people are in the doldrums.
Nicole
@WaterGirl:
Oh my God, that second one is gold. GOLD, I tell ya. Yeah, they’re really terrible. I like getting the emails from Amazon when something is delivered and I REALLY like the photos of the package sitting in the lobby or outside my door (or in the next building over’s lobby once time, which, oops, but at least I was able to recognize where it was). LaserShip… does not do pictures. So, you get the email saying your package is delivered and… maybe your package is there, maybe it’s not. Who knows?
eclare
@Nicole: Outside of the USPS a lot of those third party last mile delivery services are awful.
Yutsano
@CaseyL: You got my digits sweet spirit. You feel free to get a hold of me whenever.
Except in the next two hours. It’s professional torture night.
JPL
@CaseyL: During these difficult times, you need to take care of yourself. It’s easy to say, but hard to do.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@SpaceUnit:
That’s a good to hear. And tell me about it. I feel really bad for recent retirees and those nearing retirement. Bonds really didn’t help very much this time.
I Bonds and TIPs have been some of the few investments that have held up this past year
Kathleen
@MomSense: Sorry to hear that. I hope you get some answers and more importantly relief from the pain!
eclare
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The advice that I have read says that any money that you think you will need in five years should not be in stocks.
Nicole
@eclare:
Truth. I’m so glad the USPS got out from under that ridiculous pension funding requirement; I think the USPS, overall, does a very good job, and I hate whenever the right-wing media starts up “Do we still need a Postal Service” concern trolling.
eclare
@Nicole: So true. The USPS is so dependable.
A good friend and I both used to work for a package shipping company. We now use the USPS.
Steeplejack
@surfk9:
Congratulations to the missus! 🥂
Matt McIrvin
@Alison Rose: If American Jews can’t even regard Israel as, theoretically, the Jewish homeland, because the State of Israel says most of them are not real Jews… won’t this go very badly for Israel?
Have they thought this through, or have they just decided that their only true ally in the US is the Republican Party anyway?
JML
I’m actually feeling a little better from this dreadful journey through COVID. Still coughing too much and too hard, but it’s noticeably less frequent, the fever is gone baby gone. I still had to ask a friend to come up and shovel me out, though, because I’m still too wiped out too do more than move slowly through the house. It’s nice to have friends that will drive up and shovel out a snowdrift that’s blown up in front of your front door and garage so you can get out again…and so things like packages can be delivered. I hate having to ask for the help, but pride ain’t worth it.
JPL
@Nicole: The USPS distribution center in Atlanta is messed up and that alone should be enough to fire DeJoy. I’ve had packages arrive and then be rerouted to vacation in various cities. One time it was ten days in TN. TN is not a big tourist spot, so not sure what was going on. The latest one was to IN. Amazon offered to refund my money, but the TN vacation was worth the wait. It was a x-mas gift for a son and had the cost went up $50.00.
Omnes Omnibus
I solved a problem today that saved a client $28K. I fixed something that someone else had done. Today, I didn’t even have to use my AK.
eclare
@JML: You have a great friend. Glad to hear that you are better, but I am sure it’s frustrating to take so long.
WaterGirl
@JML: The progress must be encouraging! It’s good to ask for help when you need it.
Most of the time friends are happy to be able to do something to help.
Nicole
@eclare: My stepmom sent me to the post office for her on Dec 22 to mail a package and the worker behind the counter said to me, “Eh… 80% chance it’ll get there.” I said, “When you say ‘80% chance it’ll get there’ do you mean by Christmas or at all?” He laughed and reassured me he meant by Christmas. I told him it was no worries if it arrived after the 25th, but it got there on the 24th anyway. :)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@eclare:
I’ve heard 10, but yes, money invested in riskier assets should be long-term positions. Other more conservative, short term instruments like savings accounts and money market funds should be used for short term goals, like saving for a house
SpaceUnit
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Yeah, most of my investments are in managed funds, and I was hoping that they’d outperform the overall market. But they got murdered.
With interests rates on the rise we’d have been better off putting everything into a money market account.
Kathleen
@Nicole: I agree with you NIcole.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Even saw the lights on the Goodyear blimp, and it said OO is a pimp.
Kathleen
Sorry you’re feeling blue, WG. Hope you’re doing some serious self care such as favorite tea, coffee, chocolate, treats, books, etc.
JML
@WaterGirl: yeah, I’ve had quite a few friends asking if I need anything and offering to help, which is nice. My friend wisely brought his teenagers with him to shovel, so it a) went more quickly, and b) kept him from lifting more than he needed to. At least I was able to make sure that the batteries were charged for my little snow thrower so he could use that too.
And it’s very nice to to see actual progress after days of just not really feeling any better…and coughing so hard I wanted to vomit. Feels like I might have turned a corner. Maybe a quiet weekend will finish this off.
Matt McIrvin
@SpaceUnit: We just took out a CD. I haven’t done that since the 1980s!
SpaceUnit
And now my clothes dryer is on the fritz. The power went off in my neighborhood about an hour ago while I had a load going. The power came back on but now the dryer just keeps starting and stopping.
It’s brand fucking new. 2022 can kiss my ass
ETA: Xcel Energy can too.
SpaceUnit
@Matt McIrvin:
Yeah, a simple savings account would have beaten the markets this year.
WaterGirl
@JML: Fingers crossed. Even if you do a bit of up and down for a few days, hopefully the downs will be minimal and the ups will be more progress.
Kelly
Back when I was single and childless I always volunteered to be in the office and on call over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I prefer to spend my free time when crowds are small and it endeared me to my co-workers with family. It was always quiet.
Citizen Alan
@Omnes Omnibus: By AK, do you mean yout assault rifle or the Killing Curse?
Citizen Alan
@SpaceUnit: have you tried unplugging it completely, letting it sit for 10 minutes or so, and starting it back up? That worked with mine when it appeared to be busted after a thunderstorm. Resets the chip inside.
CaseyL
Hugs and thanks to all for the kind words and warm wishes. They do help!
@JML: Very glad to hear you’re emerging from the Covid tunnel! And thank goodness for good friends.
WaterGirl
@Citizen Alan: @SpaceUnit: I will second the “unplug it and wait 15 minutes” suggestion.
The dryer repair guy told me about that when he was here 3 years ago.
SpaceUnit
@Citizen Alan:
@WaterGirl:
Thanks guys. I’ll give that a try. Couldn’t find anything in the manual’s troubleshooting guide.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: Don’t get impatient and plug it back in too soon! :-)
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
Okay. I can chill.
daize
Water Girl, I’m sorry to hear you’re feeling blue. It’s hard. Thinking of you, and hoping things get brighter for you.
And to answer your question… I had ordered a birthday gift for my brother to be sent to his house, but found it wouldn’t arrive in time (Dec 29th). I cancelled it (I thought) and ordered a second. Well, both are here because I am an idiot and selected the wrong address.
Kayla Rudbek
@Yutsano: today was busy for me as it was the end of the quarter. But I was finished as of 7:30 pm which is a lot better than I would have done at my previous job.
eachother
@UncleEbeneezer:
Happy Birthday Uncle Ebeneezer!
Gvg
@Nicole: this is interesting. I wonder if they are here in Florida because tonight I did not get my Amazon package that they said was delivered and there was no photo which was unusual. I also have a nearly new doorbell camera that showed no one came to the door so I called amazon instead of waiting and they are sending a replacement. Normally they say wait a day, but evidently they do argue with cameras. The bad thing is for some annoying unexplained reason it will take a week to get the new garbage disposal I wanted installed before my vacation was over. Work will be super busy and tiring for the next month.
WaterGirl
@daize: So I am in good company!