So....

[Victory Sabre]

Played poker last night and took 5th, for a gift certificate at the VFW. Sitting home today, remembering that just a short week ago I was in paradise, no, not Key West, but South Padre Island. It was in the upper 70s there. Back home it's low 30s (though yesterday pushed 60).

So looking forward to summer, after my brief taste of it.

[Aria]

I managed to get some New Balance shoes at Sports Check for 39.95 even though they were marked 59.95! SCORE!

Other than that, I'm a bit fatigued today but I've got a fair amount of cleaning done. Spring cleaning, wee.

[Chromatix]

Remember that bike trouble I mentioned? It's fixed now. The shop opened the freewheel and cleaned it.

The same shop, and the same freewheel, which I'd asked to open and service back when I had the winter tyres fitted - y'know, while they had the wheel off.

Yeah - they didn't charge me for not fixing it, but it *did* cause me a heck of a lot of trouble because they didn't listen to my instructions the first time. Or the second time.

[Food Lady]

If I take a Tramadol in the evening, I'm up and down half the night.

Huh. It knocks me out. Sometimes I have a weird dream, but that happens without a trammie also.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I guess I'll join. I've been in pain for most of the day and it's at the point where I feel like taking a second opiate. I rarely take them and if I do it's one or a half of one. I am so glad I'm off tomorrow.

If I take a Tramadol in the evening, I'm up and down half the night. But I need to take the Etodolac so at least my shoulders will stop burning like the muscles are tearing apart. Damn bursitis.

And as soon as I finish my chocolate cookies and milk, it's off to bed. My alarm is set for 4 a.m. so I can get to work by 6.

Is it the weekend yet?

[Food Lady]

I guess I'll join. I've been in pain for most of the day and it's at the point where I feel like taking a second opiate. I rarely take them and if I do it's one or a half of one. I am so glad I'm off tomorrow.

[Dreamstalker]

As part of the Great Goodwill Purge of 2016, mom went through my gaming stuff in the living room. And got rid of some consoles and games. I'm not too mad about the Dreamcast (I have 2, the one she took was a recent yardsale find and actually didn't work) and I can replace a few of the newer games, but...

...my pristine copy of Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is now missing "You need to keep better track of your stuff."...noted, but not helpful. The game was on the shelf, now it's not. Interestingly, that's the only game I own that I do not have the respective console...so because I don't/can't play it it was OK to donate?

Welcome to the realm of social engineering. The right amount of authority and just the right level of panic and you can make anyone do what you want them to.

I almost got Shithead to tell me everything I needed to know about accessing the admin rights for SCO. Setting was an error that he had never seen before; I had and knew exactly how to fix it (not complex at all) but wanted to see if he knew enough about the system as he claimed (could he figure out that I was asking to do stuff that a non-tech should have no reason to be asking about). He had the helpdesk on the phone walking him through the process to get root privileges, and was relaying the information to me...then D showed up and put the brakes on that. I could have not only used that information to accomplish something Shithead wanted me to do anyway, but also could have done some damage if I wanted to. Now I have the operating manuals, but nothing to let me use them.

[Lady Legira]

So would it be weird to mention my lover to my partner who currently doesn't know his own name? Partner is epileptic and has seizures which cause retrograde amnesia. He remembering more about me and the context but not about himself yet. He knows about my lover when he's ok but it just seems a bit odd at the moment (I'm poly bi in a V currently)

In other news he's less depressed because he can't remember who he is. Silver lining I guess... Also my life continues to get weirder.

[AnaKhouri]

Well, this morning I was supposed to drop my car off for an oil change/checkup. I would have had to walk up to my son's school to pick him up after, but no big deal, the weather is nice and I like walking. BUT. This morning he is coughing like someone who smoked for 40 years (he is prone to sinus infections). Cancel oil change, keep him home from school and call the pediatrician. Get an appointment at 12:45. 12:30 get in car with Khan and Mal, and it doesn't start. Cancel doc appointment, call auto care place. They close at 5 but I can have it towed later, they have a drop box for keys. Urgent Care is open until 8, I can take kid there tonight. I call husband and he immediately starts freaking out and asking me what I want him to doooo (it's hard for him to make decisions sometimes) so I tell him to be home by 6, which should give me time to call AAA and get the car towed, and take kid to the UC. I feel terrible because he has a lab meeting on Friday (he usually works 70+ hours the weeks he has lab meeting) but what else can we do? Hopefully the car will be fixed by Wednesday morning and we can pick it up before kid goes to school.

Also today I noticed my cat has pulled tons of fur off her right haunch and leg, I need to get her a vet appointment but I cringe at the thought of chasing Mal around a vet office. Hopefully they can get my car done in two days so I can book her in, Internet says likely cause is dermatological. I'd hate for her to be itching or hurting any longer than she has to be.

[RootedPhoenix]

*hugs blaquekatt*

[lordlundar]

He was damn good at it too, he managed to get in all the "OH MY GAWD" implications without actually sounding overhyped. (I, er, may have been paraphrasing for effect. )

Welcome to the realm of social engineering. The right amount of authority and just the right level of panic and you can make anyone do what you want them to.

[BlaqueKatt]

well waiting on a new debit card, and dispute forms from my bank, because mine was compromised somehow. My sister's partner of the last decade plus, just dumped her for an ex(she lives with him, and thanks to rideshare companies she can't make enough driving cab to rent anywhere).

Oh and I just got a call yesterday that my mom is probably going into hospice care, and I'm 900 miles away.

So yeah.

[Valentinian]

Sounds like someone who went to the Shady Mechanic School of Making Money. You know, the one that suggests tons of repairs and the like you don't need, in the hopes you won't realize that you don't need them?

He was damn good at it too, he managed to get in all the "OH MY GAWD" implications without actually sounding overhyped. (I, er, may have been paraphrasing for effect. )

And then after all the decision-making had happened and things were signed, my husband (who was leaving this mostly up to me because he went back to work this week and is kinda exhausted) turned around and told me "Yeah, I heard some stuff about them being kind of shady and trying to over-sell people on stuff they didn't really need, but I didn't want to influence you one way or another."

HONEY. HONEY LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU ACTUALLY KNOW STUFF RELEVANT TO THE CURRENT SITUATION I WANT YOU TO INFLUENCE ME BEFORE I SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF OUR MONEY FFS.

[Kogarashi]

The second guy who came out, on the other hand, was all "OH MY GOD this is TERRIBLE"

Sounds like someone who went to the Shady Mechanic School of Making Money. You know, the one that suggests tons of repairs and the like you don't need, in the hopes you won't realize that you don't need them?

[Valentinian]

That sounds like what happens to Calgary every, oh, 3 years or so... My condolences.

Thanks. We're sorting it out OK, and we were already vaguely planning to replace the laserlite "some time soon", so it's not as bad as it could be!

Unless you listen to Second Quote Guy, that is. Y'see, the first guy who came out to quote for repairs was pretty calm about it, sort of "Yeah, we can fix this no problem, here's some $numbers. "

The second guy who came out, on the other hand, was all "OH MY GOD this is TERRIBLE you can't just patch this because your roof is in TERRIBLE shape, you need a COMPLETE ROOF RESTORATION and then we'll paint it and blah blah $BIGGER NUMBERS oh and if you accept right now we can give you a discount but if not $EVEN BIGGER NUMBERS also your insurance company probably won't pay for it because they'll look at the state your roof is in and conclude you haven't been doing maintenance. "

Called the first guy back to see what he would quote for a full roof restoration (which was another thing we were thinking about having done, so we were okay with the idea), and his response was basically "...no? Uh, you don't need that yet? There's not enough moss and stuff up there to worry about, and if you pressure-wash your roof you'll actually damage the tiles. I want your business but I don't want to rip you off. "

Soooooo yeah guess who we're going with.