Sorry about Sunny!
The exact same thing happened to my parent's golden retriever when we lived in Seattle, I loved that dog!
If it helps, all dogs go to heaven. :-)
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I'll also do a table dance, if you want. But only because you're grieving, otherwise you gotta pay, just like all the other bees.
Huh?
I can't believe Freehold and I are actually agreeing over something!
we can agree on things! Now run around the block!
And to add injury to insult, the final vet bill for Sunny's care was almost $1080. I was able to borrow the money, but I have to repay it. So that is another bill on top of my already tight budget. yay. However, it was worth it to give Sunny a chance. Plus they allowed us another chance to say goodbye to him before he passed away.
JESUS CHRIST! What the hell is wrong with that vet?!
RIP Sunny. You were such a good boy and a good friend to me, my wife, her BF, and all the dogs. You will be missed. I love you my little face licker. May you be in a better place, Biscuit # 3. Biscuits # 1, 2, and 4 will miss you. I know I will.
Sunny died at around 7:30 am on Monday, 9-24-2018. The vet tried their best to save him.
Edit - Sunny was a 20 pound tanish dachshund mix who was around 4 or 5 years old.
*Waddles over to Sharoth's and offers turtle-hugs to the entire family*
So sorry for you and the rest of the house-hold Sharoth.
4-5 years is far too young for a good boy and a fixture of the family.
I'll also do a table dance, if you want. But only because you're grieving, otherwise you gotta pay, just like all the other bees.
I KNEW IT!
I know I'm due to Axis.
I knew it!
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I know I'm due to Axis.
Are you also Bold As Love?
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I can't believe Freehold and I are actually agreeing over something!we can agree on things! Now run around the block!
I have been running around the block. I bought a type C USB charger yesterday on the recommendation of the store personnel(I even showed him my phone), then found out it doesn't fit my phone, so today I had to go and get it exchanged, running all the way to save time.
Then I went to get NTUC vouchers for my company events prizes, then ran a subway station distance, in my office shoes, to the next subway station to get my gloves(which I can use my phone while wearing them) for my US trip. Don't want to freeze my paddy paws off while taking fluffy critters. All in about 1h 30 min.
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And to add injury to insult, the final vet bill for Sunny's care was almost $1080. I was able to borrow the money, but I have to repay it. So that is another bill on top of my already tight budget. yay. However, it was worth it to give Sunny a chance. Plus they allowed us another chance to say goodbye to him before he passed away.JESUS CHRIST! What the hell is wrong with that vet?!
I don't know but I've heard from one of my cousins taking a dog to a vet costs more then visiting a doctor...
It may just be usual rates for all I know.
I can't believe Freehold and I are actually agreeing over something!we can agree on things! Now run around the block!I have been running around the block. I bought a type C USB charger yesterday on the recommendation of the store personnel(I even showed him my phone), then found out it doesn't fit my phone, so today I had to go and get it exchanged, running all the way to save time.
Then I went to get NTUC vouchers for my company events prizes, then ran a subway station distance, in my office shoes, to the next subway station to get my gloves(which I can use my phone while wearing them) for my US trip. Don't want to freeze my paddy paws off while taking fluffy critters. All in about 1h 30 min.
excellent!
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And to add injury to insult, the final vet bill for Sunny's care was almost $1080. I was able to borrow the money, but I have to repay it. So that is another bill on top of my already tight budget. yay. However, it was worth it to give Sunny a chance. Plus they allowed us another chance to say goodbye to him before he passed away.JESUS CHRIST! What the hell is wrong with that vet?!I don't know but I've heard from one of my cousins taking a dog to a vet costs more then visiting a doctor...
It may just be usual rates for all I know.
So, that's quite an overstatement, but most doctors take insurance, and most pets aren't insured.
When our clueless eating machine kitty suddenly collapsed and we had to take her in to the vet for a 3-day panel of blood work, x-rays, and the like, the bill was over $3000, just to be told, "Yeah, she's not going to live more than another 2 months."
However, had it been a human being, the bill would have been closer to $250,000 for the same work. (NobodysWife spent 10 hours in a shared room in a hospital with NO lab work or anything else and the bill was $42,000. Impus Minor's broken arm (less than 3 hours in the hospital total) was $31,000.)
The insurance and medical industries combine to be one of the vilest institutions in the U.S. At least with the vet, they're actually charging what it costs, rather than inflating it 50-100x.
I know I'm due to Axis.
Hopefully the deepest, darkest sub-basement of Calistria's divine realm on Elysium, as it would probably be the only place I could indulge in my *ahem* peculiarities…
Though a house in Axis and a job in the Maelstrom (or the Boneyard), pendling back and forth, seems much more likely ^^'.
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Open question(s) to the group:
(1) Does your office use Slack?
(2) What the heck good is it?
As far as our team can tell, Slack is a two-ton rhinoceros that does everything poorly:
- It's a chat app, but it takes (quite literally) more than 10x the resources of any other chat app
- It's a social messageboard. Whoop de do? And again, such a massive program to do such a simple thing...
- You can post files for other people to look at, but they can't edit them nor mark them up, so what's the point?
Yet there are people our organization who swear by it, as if they've never seen IM or bulletin board programs before (let's see... my first BBS was in... 1980 or so???). I asked NobodysWife, because her team uses Slack extensively at work, and her response was, "My team likes it because we can send silly .gifs to each other via IM."
Not exactly a sterling recommendation.
So yep. We're all sitting here, totally baffled.
OK, yeah. I have one program running for IMs and a browser tab open for our messageboards. Yet between the browser and the IM client, I'm using less than 1/3 the resources that Slack does.
WTH do people love Slack so much?
Copious bribery? I've never heard of Slack, and it seems like you could accomplish pretty much everything it does through Hangouts.
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Our campus runs on Google Drive. Everyone has a chrome book. And we're entirely paperless... all student forms, records, etc.
Now how *secure* is it? No idea, but I'm betting a twelve-year-old could crack it if they wanted to.
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Coworker let another crew use our mini bobcat so a little while later we get a text from the boss "it's not turning right or left, belches out black smoke then dies, wtf!" coworker texts back "did they try the throttle?" boss replies "Yeah, never mind" I'll bet lunch for a week that Big (Slow) Pete was involved.
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Sharoth, I am so sorry. Even a full dog life span is always too short, and for that to be cut early is the worst.
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Coworker let another crew use our mini bobcat so a little while later we get a text from the boss "it's not turning right or left, belches out black smoke then dies, wtf!" coworker texts back "did they try the throttle?" boss replies "Yeah, never mind" I'll bet lunch for a week that Big (Slow) Pete was involved.
we need some stats for Big (Slow) Pete. He is the PERFECT NPC.
It's gotta have the signature fisherman's hat with the three flaps.
It's gotta have the signature fisherman's hat with the three flaps.
should he be a quest giver or a source of information?
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Today is the last Tuesday before I turn 51. Or, as I like to think of it, my third 17th birthday.
wow.
And I thought nobodyshome was old!
Today is the last Tuesday before I turn 51. Or, as I like to think of it, my third 17th birthday.wow.
And I thought nobodyshome was old!
My 51st birthday is already in my rear-view mirror...
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Why?
To create an artificial "growth curve" so that the owners (with the most stocks) get the greatest possible profit from the IPO.
So it's quite literally, "I'm going to lay off a few hundred people so that at the IPO I get $50 million instead of $10 million."
The fundamental evil of this is beyond unspeakable to me: "I'm going to take the people who took a risk and joined my company pre-IPO, and helped me build something so marketable that investors are chomping at the bit for it, and I'm going to throw them under the bus so that *I* personally can profit."
Just...
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Today is the last Tuesday before I turn 51. Or, as I like to think of it, my third 17th birthday.
You're approaching Tribal Elder territory!
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Today is the last Tuesday before I turn 51. Or, as I like to think of it, my third 17th birthday.wow.
And I thought nobodyshome was old!
Nobody's Home *is* old.
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My 51st birthday is already in my rear-view mirror...Today is the last Tuesday before I turn 51. Or, as I like to think of it, my third 17th birthday.wow.
And I thought nobodyshome was old!
All I see are broken bodies and debris in my rearview mirror.
Perhaps I should look through the windshield...
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To all people who work in service and support: No matter how bored you are, take a moment to double-check the sender's question and your response.
I've praised Global Megacorporation's HR department in the past, but my rep is on leave so I had to send to the general list. And hoo, boy!
NobodysHome: Hello, HR! I need to know whether xxx is covered under our vision insurance. I've been to sites yyy and zzz and I didn't find anything about it, and I'm assuming that means it's not covered, right?
HR: Dear NobodysHome: Thank you for asking! This other procedure is indeed not covered. I don't know about your procedure. But you can follow these links to sites yyy and zzz for more information.
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So yes. I got an e-mail that you would assume came from a poorly-written bot, except she signed her name and everything. And her answer was basically, "I don't know. Check the two sites you've already been to."
Y'know, sometimes silence is better than stupidity.
Today is the last Tuesday before I turn 51. Or, as I like to think of it, my third 17th birthday.
Egads! You're soon be a gentleman with graying locks then ^^
(as apposed to this turtle…I'll be a gray haired reptile by my mid 40's ^^')Congratulations are still in order though!
*Waddles over to John and gives him a turtle-hug and a glass of scotch*
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Best/Worst Line from Last Night's Dinner:
NobodysHome: Do you know Deady?
Choir Director: What's his last name?
NH: I forget... but I know it's French-Canadian.
CD: His last name is French-Canadian?
NobodysWife: Yeah! His mom was Ms. French and his dad was Mr. Canadian and they hyphenated.
CD: Oooooooh....
NH:
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So, last night was get to know your kid's school night where we had to get to and from their classes by ourselves to hear about what they do in school.
We went to the first three classes and skipped the rest.
Just like my senior year!
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Honestly, it was quite worthless as it was just a ten minute power point presentation on their class without any real interaction, so whatever, we didn't miss much (besides trying to get parents to sign up for the various trips).
So, last night was get to know your kid's school night where we had to get to and from their classes by ourselves to hear about what they do in school.
We went to the first three classes and skipped the rest.
Just like my senior year!
bad captain yesterday!
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It was just a glorified timeshare sale presentation without the free golf clubs, I regret nothing!
Impus Major : Is it OK if a bunch of my friends come over this afternoon? It's not like I invited them; they're just following me home.
NobodysHome: Is "Mr. Follow You Home" with them?
IM: Yes, he is.
NH: I guess it's OK, then.
I got a few white hairs in my late twenties, freaked me out.
It's mostly kept to the beard since then.