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Wed, 14 January 2009 18:38  |
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Rants, various
Smooshes!
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9945 is a reply to message #9939 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 18:53  |
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And here they can’t even get a new credit card into the feverish hands of someone who is burning up++ with the desire to buy roses.
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No kidding. Don't they want money? It always amazes me how slow places can be when they're supposed to be helping you spend money so they can make money. So counter productive.
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# Superior phone queue robo voices tell you where you are in the queue:
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Really? Obviously I don't spend enough time waiting for my turn with a Real Person. (Hee.) I didn't know they did this now. But that's nice of them. *fascinated by small things*
Smooshes!
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9950 is a reply to message #9939 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 22:02 |
 skating librarian
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Hmmmmm,
I too have been waiting for a credit card, and an ATM card. It has felt weird to go back to cash and checks for the last few weeks.
However, it was cool to go on-line to the new credit card account and see all those zeroes. Even though I pay it all off every month, to have zeroes everywhere feels so clean.
I hope your plants are enjoying their stay on the sofa ... are the hellhounds jealous ?
From what I have been reading about grow lights, one's plants have to be so close to the bulbs/tubes to get enough light for blooming & fruiting, that I think there's more risk of the light fading before it gets to the plants than from faded fabric. But of course internet info is unreliable.
One of my winter games this year is designing an earth-sheltered passive solar greenhouse with a root cellar and space for holding things frost free (like dahlias etc.). Since it all depends on winning the lottery (which I do not play) I throw in extras like collecting enough spare heat for radiant flooring in the coldest part of my house, space for a winter clothes line, and automatic shutters for the glass surfaces.
It's going to get to eight below zero (fahrenheit) tonight. I'm so glad I don't have an outdoor thermometer!
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9954 is a reply to message #9939 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 22:55 |
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# Superior phone queue robo voices tell you where you are in the queue
All the better to try and stop you swearing at them because (*gasp*) they care about you. **snort** Over here they really only have one voice do all these robo-voice-phone-things. That woman must have a full time job!!
No, no, I’ve got the sofa problem licked. You put a tarp over the sofa and then a plank on the sofa seat and . . . I told you! New sofa shaped plant stand!
Hehe. Well thought out!
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9957 is a reply to message #9939 ] |
Thu, 15 January 2009 00:27 |
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Diane in MN
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And nobody has explained to me just how my original credit card was ‘compromised’ in the first place.
Could be the same reason my CC was replaced, because it had been used somewhere that might have been hacked. Or that had been hacked but they couldn't be sure which customer account data might have been stolen. It took my bank 7-10 days to get a new card to me; this was within the promised time frame, so I didn't have to call customer service and nag them about it.
*** Where it’s actually fairly chilly
Speaking of fairly chilly, my Maine brother called me today and said he had to ask the Mainer's inevitable winter question, "Cold enough for ya?" Oh, you betcha, I said. It is 15 or so below zero F as I write this and the wind chill, bad now, could reach -45 overnight. The Alpha Bitch has enough sense to run out and run in at a gallop after doing her thing. The puppy goes out, sniffs around, tries to pick up several feet at once, can't, sits in the snow because his feet are cold, etc. etc. You've heard the phrase "too cold to snow"; he seems to think it's also too cold to pee. I take him out on lead so I can keep him moving until he does something, then get him in fast.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9980 is a reply to message #9939 ] |
Thu, 15 January 2009 18:14 |
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I had to run to the post office today. It's only a couple minutes by car, but on the way out to the car I thought I was going to *die* of cold. I was absolutely sure my hands were going to freeze off. And going inside the warm post office (where they have central heat - swoon!), then back out to the car was miserable. It wasn't warm in the car, but the wind! The wind *bit* through all my clothes. Urgh.
It was 25F. Certainly not as cold as others are getting, and we have no snow (sigh!), but man. I am not leaving this house again until it warms up. I want it at least 30F!
*hugs radiator* *misses central heat*
Smooshes!
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9990 is a reply to message #9939 ] |
Thu, 15 January 2009 19:09 |
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Susan from Athens
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My sympathies for the frozen ones. We went from 5C (cold for Athens) to 14C overnight. My sister went swimming in the lake at Vouliagmeni today (OK she's nuts, but there were plenty of other people there: before you ask, no, I didn't go, I was at work). It's a lake next to the sea, that has medicinal waters but which also communicates with the sea, so the water is saltier than normal lake water.
I think we are having a local weather phenomenon called the halcyon days, which come towards the end of January or start of February. The halcyon (alkyonis) is a mythical bird that is supposed to nest on the sea waters in midwinter, and the mythical gods granted it these days of calm in the winter so that it could nest in peace. But the funny thing is these beautiful calm days happen every year.
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Rants, various [message #9997 is a reply to message #9994 ] |
Thu, 15 January 2009 21:15 |
skating librarian
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I remember January in San Antonio. I was at a library conference. The convention center, where, being on the governing council, I had to sit through endless meetings full of procedure and devoid of substance, had no heating system.
Those of us from the North, who had arrived with coats and gloves, were the lucky ones.
I was astounded that there were public service announcements telling people to keep their pets indoors, that temperatures below freezing could kill them. At first I thought "well, duh!" but after a few days in an unheated city I was saying to myself, these folks really don't "get" cold.
That was the trip where I learned that a "gringo taco" is a tortilla with PB &J on it!
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| Re: Rants, various [message #10005 is a reply to message #9958 ] |
Fri, 16 January 2009 01:15 |
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Diane in MN
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| AJLR wrote on Thu, 15 January 2009 03:31 |
Goodness, Diane, that type of temperature must be quite a shock for a puppy experiencing it for the first time. Is he horrified or fascinated (or both)?
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Well, he's a puppy, so he's silly. Not silly enough to be fascinated, but silly enough to ignore it in favor of rooting in the snow or looking around, then suddenly realizing that he's FREEZING and his TOES ARE GOING TO FALL OFF, which is when the attempted levitation starts.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Rants, various [message #10032 is a reply to message #10003 ] |
Fri, 16 January 2009 23:32 |
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| Jeanine wrote on Thu, 15 January 2009 21:54 |
Well, I live in South Florida. I won't gloat over the fact that it's in the fairly balmy 70's even though it might actually drop to the 50's overnight.* But you have to appreciate my office - they haven't turned down (or is that up?) the AC despite the change in the weather. SO we are actually running the heaters in our offices (at least I am) and making the hot chocolate and tea to combat the fact that even though it is pleasantly warm outside it is actually cold enough to hang meat in our offices...
so much for being environmentally friendly. Sigh.
*I should mention that I'm originally from CT and I love cold weather so don't bother getting all snarky now...
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I'm originally from Hawaii. When we moved to Indiana, I had a very hard time dealing with the fact that the library was COLD during the summer and HOT during the winter; yet people were wearing lightweight, short-sleeved clothes inside during the summer (indoor temps around 70F) and warm woolens during the winter (indoor temps around 80F). I was the opposite; I would wear layers so I could put on my sweaters and jackets inside the building during the summer months and peel down to lightweight short-sleeved blouses during the winter. And people told ME I was crazy!
Now I'm in the Florida panhandle, where tonight's temperature is currently around 30F and expected to go down to 24F in the wee hours. Hard freeze warning is in effect for tonight. Yes, here in the South people have to be told. One of the TV stations had a report about the fact that the homeless are refusing to go to the local Rescue Mission to take shelter and stay warm for the night, even with a "no questions asked" policy for the night, so the Rescue Mission people have been handing out blankets.
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