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rhubarbodendron said:
Same here. I turn 60 in a few weeks but have to work till 67.
Bought a cheap and somewhat crappy measuring tape, took it apart, reassembled it the other way round and use it as a countdown. Every day I snip off a cm. Only 26.2 m to go (2620 days). Sounds way better than "7 years" :D
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Unless they decide to screw around with retirement ages :(

I've got a way to go yet, but am hoping to see if I can bring it forward.
 
I hate windstorms. No matter how well I secure things something blows away and pisses off a neighbor. Bade enough that I'm on the tail end of recovering from illness but now to wander the property and clean stuff up. Ugh. And I don't sleep with windstorms either. Makes me a nervous wreck.
 
is your property rented or do you own it? In the latter case you could perhaps plant a hedgerow along the borders. The twigs would catch anything that gets blown away, and if you plant pretty flowering shrubs your neighbours might be inclined to agree to the project.
I love storms! Though I am a very light sleeper I sleep through storms like a baby.
Maybe earplugs would help in your case?
 
rhubarbodendron said:
is your property rented or do you own it? In the latter case you could perhaps plant a hedgerow along the borders. The twigs would catch anything that gets blown away, and if you plant pretty flowering shrubs your neighbours might be inclined to agree to the project.
I love storms! Though I am a very light sleeper I sleep through storms like a baby.
Maybe earplugs would help in your case?
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It's our property but haven't been able to afford the hedgerow yet. We get strong southwest winds off a local mountain from time to time. But, it's 5 acres so I doubt the neighbors will help :)

Also, earplugs don't help because I feel the rattle since I sleep close to the window. It's just a quiet disconcerting effect to me, and I've had it for a while now.
 
Noticed some more mouse droppings. Cat isn't doing its job. Ordered one of the electric mouse traps. Expensive, but safer for the cat, much more reusable, much less mess, more humane for the mice, etc. it arrived today, I went to put in batteries, and I guess one had gone bad and leaked acid all over the others. Whole bag of them ruined. Wasteful.
 
I use mechanical traps that catch the mice alife. Meshwire tunnels with a flap at both ends that close by a spring that can be adjusted in its force. My captives then may join me on my way to work and I release them in a fitting spot.
Never heard of an electric trap! How do they work?

For bait I recommend chocolate: once had a mouse that desparately tried to get into the closed trap :lol:
 
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rhubarbodendron said:
I use mechanical traps that catch the mice alife. Meshwire tunnels with a flap at both ends that close by a spring that can be adjusted in its force. My captives then may join me on my way to work and I release them in a fitting spot.
Never heard of an electric trap! How do they work?

For bait I recommend chocolate: once had a mouse that desparately tried to get into the closed trap :lol:
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Mine is a victor brand. Another popular is owltra. It has the bait inside it and the mouse goes through the opening, triggers infrared sensors, and electrocutes them. Light flashes on top so you know it is full, you take it outside and dump the body, clean, refill bait
 
I had to renew a parking permit via a state office. I filled out the form but found that I couldn’t scan and fax or email it. Had to send it to a P.O. Box, or go to one of five offices, spread out inaccessibly in our city. Figured I’d use the mail option.

I had to locate an envelope: I hadn’t mailed a letter in years. I found a couple of old ones in a desk drawer.

I had to get a stamp. my wife handles these. She says that they’re “Forever” stamps, but I’m skeptical. I’ll bet that due to inflation, the rate must be Forever + 50 cents by now. We’ll see.

I wasn’t about to print the address by hand. Again, I haven’t had to takes notes or write by hand except on rare occasions lately, and if the post office people couldn’t read it, that wouldn’t be good. So, I typed the address into a computer file. It looked good.

I was about to take a chance and try to get the computer-connected printer to print on an envelope, but found that my envelope was too wide to be placed in the tray. I guess that you’d have to rotate the image somehow and feed it through the long way, and that was a bit too much to orchestrate. So, I printed the address on plain paper, or rather I tried to. It only printed partial lines, although the diagnostic routine said that the black cartridge was okay. Several ink-head maintenance options didn’t help. As a last resort, I went into the word-processor file with the address, and changed the color from default (black) to dark blue. This time, it printed something readable.

Next, I had to scare up some scissors, and try to trim out the vital part as neatly as I could. I couldn’t find any suitable glue or paste, but did have transparent tape, so I used this to attach the paper label on four sides. I kept clear of the upper right corner of the envelope, as the postal people don’t like it if they can’t cancel the stamp.

I didn’t trust the old glue on the envelope, so I used tape here as well to seal it. The stamp seemed to stick on its own, so I’ll hope.

That was enough work for today. I plan to take it to the post office tomorrow. No way would I leave it in a box for pickup.

Welcome to the future!


(Don’t bother to tell me: I’m aware that there are bigger problems out there! ) ;)
 
Huge personal ethical frustration of mine: why, why, why, why do mental health professionals (psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, etc.) ever feel it is appropriate to be in a sexual relationship with a client? Why? How does that enter your brain that this is an ok thing to do?

And no, I'm not talking about normal, every day people ending up in a relationship. I am talking about providers, who have had training on boundaries, transference/countertransference, and appropriate contact. So, why would you ever decide to engage in a sexual relationship with a client and invite that liability? :brickwall:

Fuck. People are so annoying.
 
I thought one of their biggest rules was that you don't do that kind of stuff? I didn't think they were supposed to have any kind of relationship, even just a friendship, with patients.
 
JD said:
I thought one of their biggest rules was that you don't do that kind of stuff? I didn't think they were supposed to have any kind of relationship, even just a friendship, with patients.
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Theoretically? Yes.

Yet, doing a state based association's training and a dual trained lawyer/counselor says the top corrective action taken is inappropriate relationships.

Seriously!?! :brickwall::censored::censored:
 
You mean that's the thing they have to take corrective action for the most often?
 
I've had three customers this week that have credit cards with Chase Bank. Each one had their card declined because of an insufficient credit limit, and the customer had to spend upwards of half an hour on the phone with customer service trying to get their credit limit raised. One customer today had his card declined because he went to lunch while his car was being serviced, and the lunch bill of $20-30 put his credit card over the limit to pay for the repairs to his car. He had to call Chase to get his credit limit raised by $1000 so he could pay for the tune up. If he hadn't bought lunch, his card would still have been under the credit limit. Don't bank with Chase.
 
Fucking prank callers, that’s all. My bf's cat was missing, posters were put up, posts were shared in several groups about the missing cat and one wanker called him said he found Endy dead, she was ran over bij a car and he was a vet. My bf was devastated, and boom one day later the cat was found alive and well and is now back at my bf's home. He reported the pranker to the police, we're both livid at the pranker but relieved Endy was found, what an emotional 24 hours.
 
JD said:
You mean that's the thing they have to take corrective action for the most often?
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Administrative corrective action, i.e. lose of license, censure, suspension. And it cuts across all genders and orientations, ages and degree type.

Can invite civil penalties for malpractice.
 
Flat tire this morning and it's not fixable - and with an all wheel drive vehicle, you can't replace just one if they're under a certain tread depth, so I'm going to have replace all four.
 
Two screechy old harpies at my store accused me of accusimg THEM of shoplifting.

The snag is, I never fucking SPOKE to them.

At least my boss listened to me. Wanted my side of the story.

Seriously tho. How the hell could anyone accuse somebody of shoplifting without speaking to them? What was I supposed to have used, Semaphore? :lol:
 
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