They are pretty solid tools actually. I don't think I favor one brand really.
>.>
Lets just not talk about it.
-_-
You might not be the only one.Bendy Red Sonja arrived today.That sounds naughty.
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>.>I might have a thing for redheads...
Certainly not.
She has a rather alarming grimace, ye olde lamellar bikini, axe, shield, sword, and what is described as a 'partisan spear', but looks more like a corseque to me. She can't sit down, poor woman, unlike Super Punching Action He-Man (RIP), or most other citizens of Action! Town!
I'm trying to find a good chicken chow mien recipe. Mostly the sauce really everything else is pretty much put in what I like.
Eh I'll probably just play it by ear.
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Coworker doesn't think we'll get to putting in the fence today.
That sounds like a challenge to me.
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Of course first I have to build a road through the mud.
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And put in four 800 pound steps by myself.
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And put in four 800 pound steps by myself.
This sounds like a job for SUPER CAPTAIN YESTERDAY!!! TM
Why doesn't he have that alias yet... wait does he?
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Why doesn't he have that alias yet... wait does he?
Don't ask me. I'm not going to go diving through his profile to find out. Once you see that s^&* you can't unsee it.
Well, this doesn't quite count as a full "summer", but yesterday was about 79° F, and today it's up to 83° F with a TON of smoke.
For us Bay Area pansies, that's some miserably hot weather...
Yesterday, central Illinois hit 87°F with 95% humidity. Today it's going to be much better. 85° with 92% humidity. In early-mid October. That's not right. That's just not right.
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Real superheroes don't wear capes.
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Yesterday, central Illinois hit 87°F with 95% humidity. Today it's going to be much better. 85° with 92% humidity. In early-mid October. That's not right. That's just not right.Well, this doesn't quite count as a full "summer", but yesterday was about 79° F, and today it's up to 83° F with a TON of smoke.
For us Bay Area pansies, that's some miserably hot weather...
it really, really isn't. Global warming. Ugh.
Today we went back to normal: Foggy/overcast with a predicted high of 69° F.
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So... wow, Chase... wow...
We are a credit card company's wet dream: Tens of thousands in purchases on a single card per year, frequently carry a balance, and extremely loyal to a single card. And all you have to do is provide decent customer service.
So Chase has done that for many years... up until the point we just got an Amazon card because we figure we're spending enough at Amazon that the discount is worth it.
The Disney card is in GothBard's name. The Amazon card is in my name. So I contacted Chase:
"I'd like to access both cards from the same online account."
"We can only do that if GothBard is a secondary cardholder on the Amazon account."
Oh. Oops. I forgot to add her.
So I spent 10 minutes on the phone with a card representative and added GothBard, then re-submitted my request.
"Sorry. Since GothBard isn't the primary cardholder, you can't do that."
So in one fell swoop, Chase is telling me that:
(a) The first rep lied to me
(b) Their IT staff is not capable of handling married couples
(c) The second rep didn't give a s***.
To be blunt, my credit score is high enough that I can get a new card from any bank any time I want. I've giving them one more phone call to fix it all or I'm canceling all my Chase cards.
It's not rocket science. Provide customer service or lose lucrative business. I just don't understand why so few companies understand that.
Good lord. Fourth consecutive day of rain.
NobodysHome's Bad Idea #3842:
Yelling, "Run, Forrest, run!" at every jogger who runs by in the middle of the street instead of on the sidewalk.
Good lord. Fourth consecutive day of rain.
I feel your pain.
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Sometimes, it's just hard not to be snarky at your co-workers.
I have a co-worker who loves meetings. At noon my time. It's the *only* time she ever schedules meetings.
I've talked to her. I've asked her whether her schedule is so tight that noon is the only time she's free. "Oh, no; I just find it easier for me."
So I asked her to please stop with the noon meetings unless she really can't find any other time for the other attendees. She's totally ignored me, and today we're yet again meeting at noon.
It's gotten so bad I've even complained to my manager about it, and she agrees that the meeting scheduling is more than a little inconvenient.
So I may be heading in to the meeting with a bit of a bad attitude.
What can possibly go wrong?
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Sometimes, it's just hard not to be snarky at your co-workers.
I have a co-worker who loves meetings. At noon my time. It's the *only* time she ever schedules meetings.
I've talked to her. I've asked her whether her schedule is so tight that noon is the only time she's free. "Oh, no; I just find it easier for me."
So I asked her to please stop with the noon meetings unless she really can't find any other time for the other attendees. She's totally ignored me, and today we're yet again meeting at noon.
It's gotten so bad I've even complained to my manager about it, and she agrees that the meeting scheduling is more than a little inconvenient.
So I may be heading in to the meeting with a bit of a bad attitude.
What can possibly go wrong?
I have the same problem because we have a lot of West Coast people on the team who complained loudly that 8am was just way too early. So they moved a daily meeting to 11am Central/Noon Eastern. And we have FAR more Central and Eastern time zone people than we do Pacific. Yet here we are, 3+ years later. And then they want to have follow up meetings for specific issues directly after the daily 11/noon meeting. And then my boss asks me why I didn't clock out for lunch.
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Well, I consider this to be "barely politics", but spoilering anyway:
Sometimes, it's nice living in an area with seemingly-educated voters. Then the election results come out and I'm disappointed all over again. But events like those yesterday always cheer me up.
As I mentioned during the primary, Buffy Wicks is exactly the kind of candidate I despise: Glossy hi-res flyers in my mailbox every day, all of which showed her with famous Democrats I should recognize (the Clintons, Obama, Sanders, etc.) and lots of sloganeering, "Buffy Wicks: A Progressive Candidate for Modern Times", without a single policy statement. Maybe an occasional, vague, "I'll fix our school system and solve the homeless problem," but not a single, concrete, "Here is what I plan to do."
Nothing but shiny, brainless flyers associating her with famous people.
And she won the primary by a landslide.
*SIGH*. Really, voters? Is that all it takes to sway you?
So she was having her town hall for the upcoming November election, having already spent millions (or even tens of millions) on the primary, and she had the gall to say, "I am not beholden to any corporations or special interests."
I am delighted that the entire crowd laughed in her face.
I am disappointed that she will almost assuredly win. Without ever once even hinted at any kind of concrete platform.
*SIGH*.
EDIT: Full disclaimer: You can go to her various web sites and get some actual platform statements, but I am skeptical that many voters actually do that. I expect a candidate to get their message out to the people, not expect the people to go to their web site to find out about them. Just old-fashioned, I guess.
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If I were a bit older, I would totally run for office.
...I don't actually want to get elected. I just want to see how far I could take the joke. Because who can pass up discussing their 2020 vision for the country? It's a goldmine of pun material.
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If I were a bit older, I would totally run for office.
...I don't actually want to get elected. I just want to see how far I could take the joke. Because who can pass up discussing their 2020 vision for the country? It's a goldmine of pun material.
just for that, I would vote for you and get you elected.
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I plan on starting my political run in 2020 with a few simple rules:
(1) I will refuse to mention any other candidates or answer questions about them. My entire focus will be on *my* vision, and answering questions about *it*.
(2) I will refuse ALL political donations, even from family, and rely entirely on "free" media to advocate my candidacy.
(3) I will not join a political party. Period.
My bet is that I don't even get past the citywide election, but it'll be fun to try to run as a principled, honest candidate. How could I possibly win?
EDIT: OK, there's also that I'm ludicrously conservative for Albany/Berkeley, and that might sink my chances right there, but compared to what passes for "conservative" these days I'm a flaming liberal.
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Fritzy, light em up. We will show NH the meaning of "flaming".
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About another hour, barring disaster, and I can go home to an all-organic free range gluten free bourbon.
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Non-political tirade, and I'm not going to spoiler it.
The vending machine said "Hot Tea".
You know what it did not say, at all, anywhere?
"Hot Cinnamon Chai Latte"
Do not respond to me that "chai" is a form of "tea". If you want to give me chai, you need to tell me it's chai before I push the buttons.
Vending machine can go to H***. Vending machine can die in a fire. Flaming vending machine can be launched by a catapult into a sturdy brick wall.
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Sometimes, it's just hard not to be snarky at your co-workers.
I have a co-worker who loves meetings. At noon my time. It's the *only* time she ever schedules meetings.
Maybe that's when she's at her full powers?
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Geez. It's like the phone people and the online people are from different worlds.
Online person: "You need to set up GothBard as a secondary."
NobodysHome: "OK. Done."
Online person: "Not good enough. Can't do anything. Goodbye!"
So, I spoke with someone on the phone. It turns out that when you apply for a credit card, even if you're married, unless you explicitly list that person on the application they are not legally liable for the account. And no, you can't add them later.
So when GothBard set up the Disney account, she didn't include me on the application because we don't bother with such things. When I set up the Amazon account, it didn't even ask me about her.
But since the accounts are now established under separate SSNs, we cannot link them, even though we're married.
Weird financial legal stuff.
But at least the guy was willing to walk me through the whole thing and explain that they didn't have a way to add legally liable parties to an existing account, and that's why we couldn't link the accounts.
I'm sure I could bring in a lawyer who could walk Chase through doing it, but meh, I just created a second online account. No big deal once someone actually took the time to explain to me what went wrong.
But the online people? Useless.
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Because of a miscommunication between coworker and boss I had to take out two steps after I'd set them, coworker grumbled that we should just go with three because there was no way I'd get them that perfect twice, fifteen minutes later him and boss both said "I stand corrected!".
I had all four steps in by 10:45.
I shall wait until after the DemogorgonZombieVampireocalypse before I seize power run for office.
Less bloodshed that way.
Non-political tirade, and I'm not going to spoiler it.
The vending machine said "Hot Tea".
You know what it did not say, at all, anywhere?
"Hot Cinnamon Chai Latte"
But chai is a form of-
Do not respond to me that "chai" is a form of "tea". If you want to give me chai, you need to tell me it's chai before I push the buttons.
Vending machine can go to H***. Vending machine can die in a fire. Flaming vending machine can be launched by a catapult into a sturdy brick wall.
....
G@**+&n f%%$ing rain.
Geez. It's like the phone people and the online people are from different worlds.
Online person: "You need to set up GothBard as a secondary."
NobodysHome: "OK. Done."
Online person: "Not good enough. Can't do anything. Goodbye!"So, I spoke with someone on the phone. It turns out that when you apply for a credit card, even if you're married, unless you explicitly list that person on the application they are not legally liable for the account. And no, you can't add them later.
So when GothBard set up the Disney account, she didn't include me on the application because we don't bother with such things. When I set up the Amazon account, it didn't even ask me about her.
But since the accounts are now established under separate SSNs, we cannot link them, even though we're married.
Weird financial legal stuff.
But at least the guy was willing to walk me through the whole thing and explain that they didn't have a way to add legally liable parties to an existing account, and that's why we couldn't link the accounts.
I'm sure I could bring in a lawyer who could walk Chase through doing it, but meh, I just created a second online account. No big deal once someone actually took the time to explain to me what went wrong.
But the online people? Useless.
due to identity theft issues, online people are very touchy about any changes to accounts.
due to identity theft issues, online people are very touchy about any changes to accounts.Geez. It's like the phone people and the online people are from different worlds.
Online person: "You need to set up GothBard as a secondary."
NobodysHome: "OK. Done."
Online person: "Not good enough. Can't do anything. Goodbye!"So, I spoke with someone on the phone. It turns out that when you apply for a credit card, even if you're married, unless you explicitly list that person on the application they are not legally liable for the account. And no, you can't add them later.
So when GothBard set up the Disney account, she didn't include me on the application because we don't bother with such things. When I set up the Amazon account, it didn't even ask me about her.
But since the accounts are now established under separate SSNs, we cannot link them, even though we're married.
Weird financial legal stuff.
But at least the guy was willing to walk me through the whole thing and explain that they didn't have a way to add legally liable parties to an existing account, and that's why we couldn't link the accounts.
I'm sure I could bring in a lawyer who could walk Chase through doing it, but meh, I just created a second online account. No big deal once someone actually took the time to explain to me what went wrong.
But the online people? Useless.
There's "touchy" and there's "being useless".
The phone guy and the online person gave me the exact same answer.
Except the online person's response was:
(1) Add GothBard as a secondary to your account.
(2) You did? Well, still not good enough. Too bad! Nothing you can do!
The phone person's response was, "OK, let me see what's going on. Ah, I see. You can't do that because you're the primary on one account and your wife is the primary on the other, and you didn't add each other."
All I wanted was an explanation. The phone guy gave me one.
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Geez. It's like the phone people and the online people are from different worlds.
Online person: "You need to set up GothBard as a secondary."
NobodysHome: "OK. Done."
Online person: "Not good enough. Can't do anything. Goodbye!"So, I spoke with someone on the phone. It turns out that when you apply for a credit card, even if you're married, unless you explicitly list that person on the application they are not legally liable for the account. And no, you can't add them later.
So when GothBard set up the Disney account, she didn't include me on the application because we don't bother with such things. When I set up the Amazon account, it didn't even ask me about her.
But since the accounts are now established under separate SSNs, we cannot link them, even though we're married.
Weird financial legal stuff.
But at least the guy was willing to walk me through the whole thing and explain that they didn't have a way to add legally liable parties to an existing account, and that's why we couldn't link the accounts.
I'm sure I could bring in a lawyer who could walk Chase through doing it, but meh, I just created a second online account. No big deal once someone actually took the time to explain to me what went wrong.
But the online people? Useless.
I am sorry, but there is a very valid reason for that. In the event of a divorce or death, that is to try and "protect" other people from taking on debt that does not belong to them. That rule saved me from some debt from my ex- after the divorce.
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The Rainbow are getting better at making friends. This has the semi-unfortunate side effect of making miniboss fights into jokes.
due to identity theft issues, online people are very touchy about any changes to accounts.Geez. It's like the phone people and the online people are from different worlds.
Online person: "You need to set up GothBard as a secondary."
NobodysHome: "OK. Done."
Online person: "Not good enough. Can't do anything. Goodbye!"So, I spoke with someone on the phone. It turns out that when you apply for a credit card, even if you're married, unless you explicitly list that person on the application they are not legally liable for the account. And no, you can't add them later.
So when GothBard set up the Disney account, she didn't include me on the application because we don't bother with such things. When I set up the Amazon account, it didn't even ask me about her.
But since the accounts are now established under separate SSNs, we cannot link them, even though we're married.
Weird financial legal stuff.
But at least the guy was willing to walk me through the whole thing and explain that they didn't have a way to add legally liable parties to an existing account, and that's why we couldn't link the accounts.
I'm sure I could bring in a lawyer who could walk Chase through doing it, but meh, I just created a second online account. No big deal once someone actually took the time to explain to me what went wrong.
But the online people? Useless.
There's "touchy" and there's "being useless".
The phone guy and the online person gave me the exact same answer.
Except the online person's response was:
(1) Add GothBard as a secondary to your account.
(2) You did? Well, still not good enough. Too bad! Nothing you can do!The phone person's response was, "OK, let me see what's going on. Ah, I see. You can't do that because you're the primary on one account and your wife is the primary on the other, and you didn't add each other."
All I wanted was an explanation. The phone guy gave me one.
iirc from my time in the field, online people cannot give answers like that because of those same issues.
I have skipped online service in multiple arenas for that same reason.
I get my best results talking to someone in person.
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Thanks for the clarifications (eliminating the quoting because it's getting big), and especially Freehold's explanation that online people might not be able to give such explanations, but online person had one additional step that is really my huge beef: They said, "Add GothBard as a secondary user", as if that would be easy.
I called in, and specifically said I wanted to add GothBard as a secondary user, and the first phone person said, "No problem."
It wasn't until I'd gone through two online people and a phone person that the second phone person said, "No; you can't add secondary users, just additional users."
That's a lack of training on the part of some of the service reps, and an out-and-out wrong answer that wasted my time from one of the online ones, and a complete lack of clarification from the other.
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Gotta love Gothbard.
Her response to my complaints about my co-worker's eternal lunchtime meetings?
"Set all of YOUR meetings to HER lunchtime, and say it's the only time that works for you."
Passive-aggressive vengeance! Whee!
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Non-political tirade, and I'm not going to spoiler it.
The vending machine said "Hot Tea".
You know what it did not say, at all, anywhere?
"Hot Cinnamon Chai Latte"
Do not respond to me that "chai" is a form of "tea". If you want to give me chai, you need to tell me it's chai before I push the buttons.
Vending machine can go to H***. Vending machine can die in a fire. Flaming vending machine can be launched by a catapult into a sturdy brick wall.
Doooon't buy tea from a vending machine.
Please, I beg of you. Even if you are American, surely that's a step too far?
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I bet I could get into political office in France.
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I bet I could get into political office in France.
You don't bathe and you can surrender in under 1.86 seconds?
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I bet I could get into political office in France.You don't bathe and you can surrender in under 1.86 seconds?
Ironically, these are the same requirements for running for office in Oregon.
Thanks for the clarifications (eliminating the quoting because it's getting big), and especially Freehold's explanation that online people might not be able to give such explanations, but online person had one additional step that is really my huge beef: They said, "Add GothBard as a secondary user", as if that would be easy.
I called in, and specifically said I wanted to add GothBard as a secondary user, and the first phone person said, "No problem."It wasn't until I'd gone through two online people and a phone person that the second phone person said, "No; you can't add secondary users, just additional users."
That's a lack of training on the part of some of the service reps, and an out-and-out wrong answer that wasted my time from one of the online ones, and a complete lack of clarification from the other.
also iirc, some companies have the online version of themselves be different from the non online version legally, so the online people may not even be aware of what the company proper is able to do, or even CAN do. To put it in terms you may understand/prefer, the online part of company is a console, the company proper is a computer.
Non-political tirade, and I'm not going to spoiler it.
The vending machine said "Hot Tea".
You know what it did not say, at all, anywhere?
"Hot Cinnamon Chai Latte"
Do not respond to me that "chai" is a form of "tea". If you want to give me chai, you need to tell me it's chai before I push the buttons.
Vending machine can go to H***. Vending machine can die in a fire. Flaming vending machine can be launched by a catapult into a sturdy brick wall.
Doooon't buy tea from a vending machine.
Please, I beg of you. Even if you are American, surely that's a step too far?
freehold buys tea and coffee from japanese vending machines.
Woot.