WTF-Beta

They come in here because I leave the doors open to get air flow; without doing this I would be roasted alive. It's the start of the rainy season but there's been no rain to speak of yet. And, so, there's been few mosquitoes yet. I had mosquito bites all over me last summer to the point my skin itched and burned all day and night. I'll be moving in maybe less than a week, so, I don't have to experience that again. I tried mosquito spray but had an allergic reaction. I tried a mosquito net over my bed but it wouldn't stay in place. I tried fly paper but it didn't get many of them. I have a chemical free spray (eucalyptus based) but I don't like it. I'm to the point where I want the mosquitos to just get it over with, draw blood, and leave.

He's all over the map (pun intended).

@jon-nyc said:

Sorry you’re going through that Daniel.

Thanks, jon. She actually did get the the service for the new place today. It starts on Wednesday. I have to insure the breakers are turned off by Wednesday morning to prevent a power surge. The cashier's check was sent USPS tracking on Saturday to the buyer's agent. I have papers to sign. My car should arrive any day now from NY (the Bronx, lol). I bought it after seeing an ad at Cars.com. It was last driven in Montana but it's got only 24k miles, 1 owner, and clearly it was garaged. I don't have the car yet but it's insured. So it won't be long now.

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Got to love his eccentricity.

I wanted to run away from home. Typical childhood stuff. I knew it was a daydream and was never so dumb as to do it.

I got good news today! I will have power on at my new place starting Wednesday. This will be my first home.

It's interesting how your perspective of life can change over a long, long time.

I'm moving to my new home. Running away from it would be so absurd!

"Tweaking" isn't a behavior exhibited after someone has done "drugs." It is specifically a reference to meth. This guy sounds stupid to me. It seems he was on a fool's errand of some kind. I wouldn't vote for him or for anyone else who had written anything similar to his 3rd rate "comic poetry."

The idea of them giving a peace prize is ridiculous.

Yes, it reminds me I feel old.

I've had many such reminders lately.

I had a trip and fall in the dark on concrete. I landed on my lower left rib cage with my hand protecting my head. I tore and pulverized muscle tissue from my left shoulder to where my ribcage ends. The palms of my hands are bruise. My left hand bend backward to a severe angle.

I've been in pain for a week and counting. It's so wrong to realize that my almost uncanny ability to catch myself when I fall can only last for a finite number of times moving into the future.

My trustee and I had what I'll call a difficult conversation on Saturday, all the result of the fact she created a needless drama that was mind boggling in the pointlessness of it.

I did what I was asked to do when I was asked to do it. She refused to follow one note of explicit instructions (again, she asked for a list of explicit instructions containing agreed on information sought) the reason being she wanted to do it a different way.

She didn't think to get a bank check and take care of it when she was at the bank on Saturday, and was remiss in not buying physical checks for the trust account, as it turned out.

She then insisted on me giving her information I didn't have so she could use the bank's auto generating check feature.

She told me she was not going out of her way for me again (it never happened in the first place), berated me about my situation (completely inappropriate), and accused me of metaphorically beating her ("I'm not your punching bag") in a way that was bizarre, not at all apt, and offensive.

I had to run down some facts with her and tell her to keep her judgmentalism and accusations to herself in the future.

I used nicer language but with the same meaning.

She's 15 years younger than me; she has the time (apparently) and the energy to act this way.

We agreed on "next steps" (if barely) but she can't be talking to me this way. It can't be "a thing."

She'll know what it feels like to be 60 when she gets here. She's in for a rude awakening.

Hahaha!

@bernard I noticed the list of their corporate partners. It reads like the list of the corporate entities backing my investment portfolio. This ubiquitous corporatism having infiltrated almost every aspect of our society is unfortunate and when it can't be escaped directly, private- public partnerships are there chasing people down in the way that Alice was famously chased down by the cards. I like football (soccer) much better than American football (which I loathe) but I'll join your boycott with pleasure not that they'll care about the money I wouldn't have spent in the first place.

My first thought was-- more creative than what?

I still don't think the term-- "artificial intelligence" is well enough defined and still think this new term is problematic.

@bernard Why?

Data centers are wrecking havoc on our natural resources, our democratic system of local self-government, our environment, and the health of our citizens.

Do you see what I did there? I wrote a post that required a. a brain, b. the ability to use it, and c. 11th grade English writing skills.

No. B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. required.

You're welcome. NNTTM.

Can we haz football instead of football?!

Oh kai?

Thx. Bai.

I was going to say good luck with that!

I don't know about this one, of course, but there were a lot of places like that Hawaii. Always, you could smell the mold by about the time you got 10' from the front door.

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Maybe it's always been this way?

Maybe I didn't think about it because I was brought up in a privileged middle class, in a prosperous mid-century time?

It's very possible. It's probably even likely.

I hope these people have to pay damages one day to this rightly aggrieved father.

They seem to have acted more as a gang than as elected officials.

"But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated."-- Mik

Good grief.

I love the disclaimers in listings- some of these pictures might be AI (I forgot the words they use).

Well, that's just stupid. The potential buyer will see the place in person!

Love these threads. ️

1- no
2- no
3- yes, but I'd spend the same money in the UK instead
4- no
5- no

I like houses to have vertical facades. I'm not a fan of "organic architecture."

Thanks!