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LizKat said:
Hah, I've wondered that a million times about OS upgrades or big system updates sometimes too. I always figured there's some sort of algorithm on the estimate-making, but then some experiential real time modifications. Like certain items get flagged in a looksee pass, like "oh man she has some pile of iTunes libraries there" but then later on in the nitty gritty, "yeah but half of them haven't been touched in in a year and a half".
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May have peaked too soon using the i-heart emoticon on the previous post about Kim; they are both pretty funny unless of course the beauty salon he's at belongs to a mortician.
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It took around 5-6 hours in the end. I kind of understand when its over the internet as your internet speed fluctuates a lot, but when you are on a hard wire it should be a little easier to predict. At least I'm all back up and working and defiantly ignoring those update icons for a bit!
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Spent the weekend working, reading, playing boardgames.
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Think these would be my favorites for at least a tryout: the Sushi-Go Party, and of course Exploding Kittens. Last time friends of mine tried out any board games though, they had not only an old and fairly decorous feline who properly saw his duty as snoozing away 22 out of 24 hours, but a recently adopted mama cat with three little drape climbers who thought climbing coffee tables was just as much fun. Oy.


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Exploding Kittens

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Okay, I'm letting myself have a meltdown. My new complex doubled my sewage, pest, and trash. They don't accept checks, so they want me to pay with my bank account to not have a fee. If only it was easy to grow money, we'd buy a house. I literally put away every excess penny we have but we're still down income.

I guess I'll be human and cry.
 
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Septembersrain said:
Okay, I'm letting myself have a meltdown. My new complex doubled my sewage, pest, and trash. They don't accept checks, so they want me to pay with my bank account to not have a fee. If only it was easy to grow money, we'd buy a house. I literally put away every excess penny we have but we're still down income.

I guess I'll be human and cry.
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Hang in there. Hopefully there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
 
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Septembersrain said:
Okay, I'm letting myself have a meltdown. My new complex doubled my sewage, pest, and trash. They don't accept checks, so they want me to pay with my bank account to not have a fee. If only it was easy to grow money, we'd buy a house. I literally put away every excess penny we have but we're still down income.

I guess I'll be human and cry.
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Take them rolls of pennies! They will like a check.
 
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Septembersrain said:
Okay, I'm letting myself have a meltdown. My new complex doubled my sewage, pest, and trash. They don't accept checks, so they want me to pay with my bank account to not have a fee. If only it was easy to grow money, we'd buy a house. I literally put away every excess penny we have but we're still down income.

I guess I'll be human and cry.
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Sure hope you'll be able to get that house someday. It's not easy... new one or old one, they cost a lot and then they cost more a day at a time forever. Still it's equity (after awhile!) and feels better than just pegging out rent checks.

I can empathize all the way around, but certainly with the rate hike part. My trash hauling rate went up three months ago without advance notice --a rate hike and a tipping fee hike passed through to the customer-- and there's no competition for the route so it's pay up or haul it yourself. The old monthly rate was almost $25 w/ tax and now I guess it's almost $30 with their hike plus a hike in the tipping fee they passed through to customers.

OK so I noticed the other day the most recent postcard bill for the trash didn't have a zero prior balance. I hadn't noticed the rate change.... and they hadn't even bothered to inquire yet via email (they have that address) why I hadn't paid them the new rate the last three months!

I guess their idea of real money isn't the same as mine because I owe them like 12 bucks from back billing. That's real money enough to me as I peg out the sum of the current and the past due money this month. I'll feel like I'm getting a bargain in June...

Well at least they didn't go full Sopranos on me and "double your garbage back" if there's some kind of problem between them and a customer.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
I dare say. But these issues predate the Covid-19 crisis. It’s not a training issue either. It’s just some of them don’t care!
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I’d take Sugar over Trump any day of the week. Friend of mine used to work for him. But (obviously) didn’t report to him or anything like that.
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I did report to Lord Sugar back in the late 1980's at Amstrad. Trump is a fool, Sir Alan is a tough uncompromising shrewd businessman, ruthless but fair. Oh, and the trade mark finger pointing was not new for The Apprentice he was doing that back in the eighties!

Now its reminding me of the meetings on the top floor of Brentwood house during the PC2000 hard drive and controller debacle. Shudder down my spine................
 
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Wondering, as you do, if I should either start using social media less, or remove private mode and just go more public. Thus generating more 'conversation'.

Not sure why this even popped into my head. But...
 
Wondering what social media is all about. Have never ever used Facebook, Twitter or any of the others (which I can't name as I have no idea what they are). Skype and WhatsApp only for messaging and video chats with the family.
 
Social media is sort of starting to be more about trying to leave social media, apparently. Just saw some piece today online about people in Facebook who leave groups, end up posting less, finally quit posting and just lurk for awhile, then just pull the plug and deactivate accounts.... except now w/ the coronavirus and the self-isolation or imposed lockdowns, people who never took that final step are tending to reactivate their FB participation after all. Only because there's so little opportunity for real social interaction.

The piece is partly a review of Joanne McNeil's new book, Lurking.

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The Rise of the Lurker

We don’t quite leave social networks we don’t trust. We stay for the friends who still post. We lurk.
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I ditched Facebook 10 years ago a couple weeks after setting it up. They changed their privacy statement; I actually read it, and said, uh, no... and bailed.

Twitter I use like a set of bookmarks to my newspaper subs, letting them point me to what they happen to consider a feature the hour or day and then going from there on my usual journey through the rest of that edition as I please.

But occasionally on Twitter I start following some reporters or writers, then Twitter throws one of their infernal "liked-by" posts (belonging to the feed of someone I follow) into my feed and I might follow that account and suddenly I'm following 243 setups and loathing most of what crosses my view of my own timeline. So then time again to ditch them all and follow my bookmarks for awhile. Nothing particularly social about any of it if you ask me.
 
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Zenithal said:
****ing mosquitos.
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Not around here yet. Haven't even seen a housefly or more than a couple Asian lady beetles, which is fine w/ me. Wouldn't mind weather that would encourage them though, gee.

On other hand that may be coming right up. We're in the process of migrating from winter (last Sunday it snowed again enough to bring out the plows) to flood season; currently supposed to collect up to 3" of rain overnight and tomorrow. I hope that's an estimate that will get lowered by a speedier move of that system through the area, else I'll be setting up to pump out my cellar.

Telling myself that all this is not about my fantasy last weekend of sticking pins into a voodoo doll that looked suspiciously like a snowman. I never was any good at voodoo. Chalk that up to cultural appropriation, I suppose.
 
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I never joined FB. The whole purpose of it seems to be to mind your data. Oh you joined a photography group? Here’s a link to an online course or product I have no interest in.
I only have two family members left that I don’t live with. I use the phone to contact them. They don’t even do messages etc.
Friends are either the phone, message or email.
Mrs AFB is on FB. But that’s the only social interaction she has with anyone pretty much as she doesn’t work or have any family.
 
Re social media, I have never seen the point of FB, and never had an account, but I use Twitter much as @LizKat does, to keep in touch with what writers, commentators, political people, historians - and others of interest to me - have to say.

Sometimes, I will be directed to a source or article or piece of writing I would not have encountered - or read - any other way.


Zenithal said:
****ing mosquitos.
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Amen to that. A heartfelt and profound amen to that.

Mosquitoes and I could be classed as one of those.....asymmetrical relationships; they love me and I loathe them.
 
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Speaking of tiny critters that bite, sting, puncture, or whatever, it’s that time of year, again, for me to treat several sets of clothing with permethrin spray, to ward off ticks.

Past time, as it turns out.

A couple of days ago, after working on a tractor in a pasture known to be a hangout for such critters, my SO and I removed a dozen ticks from my person. A dozen.

She, of course, has the good sense to avoid going into that pasture, except for in the dead of winter.

Someone had to do it.
 
Honestly, you would think the Government would have an automated (yet verifiable) setup, to process unemployment payments.


Today is officially one month, and I continue to wait. Certainly not saying I am alone in this. Merely thinking the Government, of all the group of people, should have\had a better setup.

So, we wait...
 
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