Things that frustrate us all
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Trying to access my mom's old Twitter account via her new phone... 
And I can't find out her old accounts email since her old phones touchscreen stopped working. So I had to help make a new account to see if she can get any help.
And I can't find out her old accounts email since her old phones touchscreen stopped working. So I had to help make a new account to see if she can get any help.
As much as I love living in Arizona, sometimes this fucking summer heat is a real pain in the ass. On these hottest days you almost literally can't spend more than 5 or 10 minutes outside after from about 10AM - 6 or 7PM. We have to get up at 4:30 in the morning just to get outside before it's to hot to walk the dogs. And we used to get a lot of nice days in the spring and fall, but the last few years we've been seeming to jump quicker from hot to cold and vice versa.
But in the long run, I'll still take this over places where it gets freezing cold.
But in the long run, I'll still take this over places where it gets freezing cold.
Ditto what JD said. Spring and Fall seem to be getting shorter.
As a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, I can attest to the effects of climate change. I was talking to a customer the other day about the weather and, once, there was a time when we used to get snow in the lowlands as early as late-October/early-November and that was a good thing, because that meant a good snowpack for an early ski season and water for the reserviors for the crops in Spring/Summer. Now, the snow in the mountains seems to come later and later and the ski season gets shorter and shorter.
In the Summer, you could count on one week in late-July/early-August where the temperature would shoot up to the upper eighties/low nineties for a few days, then drop back down again. The last few summers, the temperature has risen to the high eighties/low nineties and stayed there for weeks on end. That coupled with the smoke from the wildfires in Canada drifting down to envelop the Puget Sound region in stagnant air, makes for some very uncomfortable days/evenings.
In the Summer, you could count on one week in late-July/early-August where the temperature would shoot up to the upper eighties/low nineties for a few days, then drop back down again. The last few summers, the temperature has risen to the high eighties/low nineties and stayed there for weeks on end. That coupled with the smoke from the wildfires in Canada drifting down to envelop the Puget Sound region in stagnant air, makes for some very uncomfortable days/evenings.
Did I share this story before? FedEx tracking says my package was delivered even though no truck ever came by. I go outside and it's next door. Not only that but packages for two other addresses were discarded there too. One package was for across the street, but another package was for several blocks away!!! What was going on? Again, no truck ever drove by.
Wonder if they dropped it at the wrong address and the person saw it and just dropped it off, not realizing its several different addresses.
As a corollary to this, my fiancée the other day swore that a package had been delivered to our house, because Amazon said it was delivered, USPS said it was delivered, but no matter how many times and how far around the front and sides of the building I looked, nothing was there.
Well, turns out it was delivered while I was out doing some errands, but my stepson, who has a strange habit of opening all the mail and packages that arrive--regardless of to whom it's addressed--grabbed it, opened it and just stashed it in his room because it wasn't anything he cared about.
For us, it's UPS, who will drop packages that require a signature—like my wife's expensive insulin pump supplies—without knocking or ringing the bell.
And every time they do, a genuine miracle takes place, because my wife, who's at work across town when they arrive, always manages to sign for them.
And every time they do, a genuine miracle takes place, because my wife, who's at work across town when they arrive, always manages to sign for them.
I had a TV marked as delivered several stops before the driver actually got here. No UPS truck had come by, so my first thought was that it was delivered to the wrong address so I was already online filling out forms. Turns out he had just marked it off super early.
UPS is the worst!
There were a few years here where they got so little snow up in the mountains that the big ski resort up there had to make artificial snow, just so there'd be enough for people to ski.
Hard disagree. FedEx is the worst, at least in our experience. My wife regularly orders wax for candles from a company in Florida. One time it took months to get to use because it went to Maine not Idaho.
Other times it gets delivered with no notification, or indication that it is out for delivery. We cannot count on delivery dates because FedEx never honors them.
So frustrating.
Argh. OK, they all suck.
I think most of them have improved, get a text or email with a time slot and you can tell them a safe place if not in.
Although as I've worked from home permanently since covid I think I've become all our neighbours safe place.
Although as I've worked from home permanently since covid I think I've become all our neighbours safe place.
I don't quite understand the point of UPS when the US Postal Service actually delivers the stuff faster. I thought the whole idea behind UPS was that they were faster and more efficient than the post office?
Don't really have much experience with FedEx so I can't judge them.
Don't really have much experience with FedEx so I can't judge them.
Day One of a new diet.
*hugs*
Day One of a new diet.
I wish you luck. Staying on a diet is always tricky. Hope you get the results you are after.
