It’s like finding a fly in your cup
Makes you holler and shout like a pup.
My head’s not on straight
‘Cause I took the bait.
I just don’t know when to shut up.
Don’t shut up, you idiot Goat.
Now don’t go and act like a stoat.
You must make words now,
You must give us some "WOW"
Or we’ll cast you adrift in a boat.
You could cheat with your poetry fine
You could cheat just like I do with mine.
Google is your friend
Google till the end
And get yourself up with some rhyme.
@f00l I probably could do it
If I put my mind to it
but I’m so sorry to say
my mind’s done run away
even if it comes back
this forum’s talent I’ll lack
Came across this blurb from The Economist. Baby goats instinctively search for their mother’s milk, only to be removed from her immediately to be bottle fed. The milk is for cheesemaking and this human trickery gave English the word kidnapping
So, it appears that some previous owner thought it a good idea to vent the dryer straight into the crawl space. It’s like a lint house of horrors down there and a fire just waiting to happen. So I was ready to take on venting it but the concrete foundation goes all the way up so now I have to accomplish drilling a 4" hole directly thru concrete!
Blame!!!
@mfladd If it’s foundation, I wouldn’t punch out that big of a hole. Is there a different routing that the dryer can take? I’d do a long run with booster fan (Tjernlund or Fantech) versus compromising the structure any day. And any night.
@narfcake Ack!!! I am at a loss for this one!!! Why is nothing ever easy. I guess if it was they wouldn’t be exhausting it into the crawlspace.
Blame! @2many2no Blame!!!
@mfladd Is there an easier way, like using a shop vac to clear what’s there now, then installing a large lint trap at the end of the vent? You may have to clean the trap every month or so, but it beats drilling through concrete.
@OldCatLady That was also a thought. But accessing the crawl space every month is definately not something I would look forward to and does not alleviate the problem of the dryer adding moisture to the crawl space. I fucking hate crawl spaces! But this is what happens when you are hardly above sea level.
@mfladd Can you extend the stupid vent and run it outside? You may have to run the shopvac on the vent regularly - from outside. Don’t forget to package the lint and sell it to survivalists; you could make a fortune.
@mfladd Around here dryers just vent through the wall… if your laundry room has an exterior wall, could you install a vent in the wall and just seal up the hole going into the crawlspace?
Edit: the goat was thinking the same thing at the same time, but I’ll leave this here anyway.
@narfcake Electric dryer. There is what can only be called a small pump house attached to the shed. There is a big hole that smashed out of the foundation for access. I will have to get a pic of that for you because it is funny.
@mfladd Your concrete foundation has no vents spaced every 8-10 feet? It should!
Coring a 4" opening through a 8" concrete/rebar foundation is a major job.
Can you vent up to the attic, dropping it back down through a soffit or something??
@daveinwarsh Considered a roof/soffit option. I would really prefer not to vent upward. Yeah, it’s weird about the vents. There are only two vents on each side of the front of the house. But there is the opening the connects to the - what I would call a small pump house (don’t ask me why) connected to the back of the house. @narfcake this where I will pull you in too.
Then I could connect directly to 4" smooth duct pipes. The other problem I found is the location of the dryer does not allow a lot of space to the back of the wall. The corrugated duct they were using is ripped and crushed against the wall. To remedy this I will use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H5ZXYQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
I think this option is the best, and easiest. Thoughts?
@mfladd That vent - had one in a rental I lived in. Be sure to clean it regularly. It clogs more easily because it narrows. Nice fire hazard (my mom once had the dryer catch fire due to lint - burned up all our clothes as she had the dry ones folded on top of the dryer).
@mfladd The close vent for dryers works OK, gives more room as the dryer sits closer to wall. As mentioned, make sure air flow stays good. Never vent with that cheap thin-wall flex-dryer vent ducting. Use solid metal 4" duct taped together (don’t use screws to catch lint) using the aluminum tape. If you need to, the thick flex duct works, but will build up with lint easier.
If you’re going through block (& the block isn’t filled with concrete), you could rent a 4" hole saw and punch through with a clean round hole. Hang on to that drill! Hope it all turns out OK for you.
ps… How long will the run be?
pps… If it vents very close to ground level, make sure your vent has some kind of rodent-proof screening…
Of Podcasts I’m not a big fan.
They don’t really fit in my plan.
I’d much rather read it
Than hear someone speak it,
But I listen to tunes when I can.
Somehow it must be my fault that everything is audiobooks, podcasts, and shit set to autoplay. I much prefer to read, often with music in the background.
I do like to listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered, but that is partly because I despise drive time DJ’s. They won’t shut up and play a song and they’re blathering is disturbing.
Am on the go / in the car a lot. That’s why podcasts and audiobooks are so wonderful. I don’t know when I last turned on the radio.
Also you can multitask. Clean out your refrigerator or whatever and push your brain at the same time.
I can’t do very highly technical or mathematical material by audio tho; technical journalism by audio is fine.
I mean I can’t “read” high level math that way, or I haven’t practiced enough to master the art.
There are sight impaired people who have done ok at higher abstract math (grad level), so it must be possible to learn using listening as the input source, with great practice. They used to listen to lectures (often recorded them) and have Braille textbooks.
But I have not mastered this.
Summer if the podcasts conversations can be wonderfully relaxed and insightful. Good things can happen in them. It’s an art form to itself.
It will work for you if the day comes when you find some subject (often a “curiosity” or “keep updated” type topic) that is best delivered by podcast.
Good Podcasts are kinda similar to longer in-depth magazine articles, or the relaxed conversations you might have with a knowledgeable person. The topic has to fit the delivery method. Then it works.
@f00l shark culture you say. Well this weekend I saw Sharkspeare. A syncronized swimming shark themed tribute to shakespeare. Yes it was just as odd and awesome as the description sounds.
My daughter received a wOOt refurbed LG Gizmo watch/phone for her birthday a couple of days ago.
My 7yr old son who also wanted one decided to have a conversation with Alexa about it. We said what are you doing? You have to be careful with that thing.
Today I received a text that my silver fitbit watch will be delivered tomorrow!
I have since added a purchasing pin.
Blame!!!
@mikibell Funny you brought that up. I have noticed my Alexa activate from commercials but not order anything. I also have had my google browser activate and look up things before - I couldn’t figure out what was happening until around the third time and noticed a google commercial was one. It’s all a conspiracy.
On that note I am in Va. Beach and had to got to Chesapeake today and thought about you. I also just finished a chunky monkey waffle cone with Jimmies from the boardwalk - yummy!
@f00l He wasn’t even being wonderfully evil. He was just having a conversation with Alexa that he wanted one too I would be having a rather different conversation with him than we had if that was the watch he ordered.
He would be saying:
@mfladd heheh I told my friend that I was going to send you to him for help – he was fine with it. Then the glee in his eyes made me wonder what secrets of mine that he might share… BAD IDEA!!!
@mfladd Sorry about that, I had to turn off voice purchasing too as a precaution.
My grandson thought it was funny to keep asking Alexa to read Moby Dick, which she is glad to do, but it drives everyone crazy.
@Kawa Done. You should advertise this poll at the beginning of a new product page and explain what it is for, and that it is only 2 questions. You may be surprised.
Or you can ask @woodhouse or @dave if meh can make a special place for it for a day or two.
Big EXPENSIVE blame for you! I ordered a sofa, with legs that were 4-1/4" high so Roomba could clean under it. It finally arrived, with legs that were 3" high, and not as shown in the catalog. (Everything else is perfect.) The store is in frantic conversation with the factory. When they find (or make) the proper legs, they can come out and replace them. Vendors do not want this customer to be unhappy. Until then, it’s a goatly problem.
The store has put in a parts order for the correct legs, which they will come and swap out, and the factory is investigating to see WTF happened. I don’t have to start the global thermonuclear war routine. I did offer to analyze their assembly process in person, but they declined.
So, I wasted an hour yesterday and more time tonight trying to install a new soundcard into my other computer- thanks @2many2no. Apparently Asus decided it was a brilliant idea to relabel the front audio panel socket as AAFP, instead of panel (which definitely is there, and what I grabbed the cable from last night).
Your fault that I got loose in the open air produce market again. WTH am I going to do with all this stuff? Japanese yams, kiwi fruit, ladyfinger bananas, tomatoes, cukes, and rambutan.
@RiotDemon This is next to a weekend flea market. Vendors carry produce for local Caribbean, Oriental, Asian etc. restaurants primarily, but happily sell to anyone. I have no idea what half the stuff is. Today I saw four separate varieties of eggplant. I think.
@OldCatLady You can eat the bananas straight (they’re wonderful). But here’s an alternative if you’ve got access to a store that’ll sell you spring roll wrappers, slice up the bananas into long fingers, put them on the wrappers, sprinkle brown sugar on, wrap them up, and fry 'em.
The original Filipino version also includes jackfruit, but it shouldn’t be necessary.
@Kawa Luscious! I do have access to spring roll wrappers and the market has jackfruit. There are perhaps ten vendors plus the fish tent and the canned/boxed goods stalls. There is no chance the bananas would make it to the pan. I peel them, I eat them.
/8ball Should each second-hand woot shirt I find/found this month count as an unblame? Without a doubt
/8ball Do I give bonus unblames for AA shirts? Yes definitely
/8ball How about catshirts? It is certain
/8ball Can the count wait until next week? Yes
Five were the odd ones I found in my usual thrift store jaunts. The rest was in a one single stop, filling two carts:
I think I know the Wooter that donated them – and I don’t think I’d ever find that kind of count again unless I donate out a bunch of mine, then repurchase them.
/8ball Do I extend such shirt find unblames to next month’s goat? My sources say no
I didn’t get a good view of the eclipse and couldn’t find someone to share glasses with me.
I’m having no luck finding an apartment. I thought I found a great one, went back a second time and noticed a bunch of water damage in the ceiling. Brought it up and was basically told “pfft that’s not water damage” but I know what I saw. Also looked them up on the city government site and saw a bunch of heating issues in the winter, tried to bring it up and they denied it too. So yeah, I’m bitter and you get the blame. If the place had been in better condition it would have been a great fit for me too. Sigh.
@2many2no Yeah or @Kawa could have the experience I had - buy high (right before the crash), sell $54,000 short after 35 mo on the market (during the crash). Yup a really good idea.
DaNiece (a little kitty cat, 16 years old), had two seizures late yesterday afternoon. We got her down to the vet’s office. She was panting badly.
They gave her oxygen and she pooped (which was the reason for earlier health problems, some sort of really nasty intestinal thing) and she came out of it. She’s on phenobarbital at this point.
Now we wait and see. The vet mentioned “brain tumor”. She had seizures back in February that weren’t as bad as these two, so that’s almost six months between. I’m not going with tumor. We had one cat that seized when he heard certain kinds of sounds. Like vinyl blinds clacking together when a breeze came through.
She’s on phenobarb now. I hope this takes care of the problem. We had two very frightened humans and one very scared kitty.
@lisaviolet I’m sure there’s blame here, but as mean and reckless as I am, I would never send seizures (or any other illness) to a kitty, or a puppy, or even a goat.
I’m gonna break protocol here and deny all fault for this one.
@2many2no Thanks. She’s had a tough year, for sure. The office manager was carrying her around and rubbing kitty’s face while we waited to pay the bill. She was smitten with our old kitten.
@lisaviolet I am so sorry about your kitty. I hope it is just old age and not something serious. I have 3 that are 16 and vet bills are out of sight with their (mostly) age related issues. Hard to see them that way. Poor babies (yours and mine).
@Kidsandliz Thanks. We have the best vet, been going to him for thirty years. He has an associate now and I think she’s a cat lover, gives us a lot of discounts.
Last Monday we took Rocky in and found out he has cryptcoccus fungus. Fortunately, it’s manifesting in lumps at this point. On his back and one of his back toes. So, he’s on meds. Probably for a year because this is a hard thing to get rid of.
The clinic owner took two or three x-rays and comped them.
Yesterday, the associate (she’s been working with DaNiece since her problems started this year) didn’t charge for the exam. We only had to pay for the bloodwork (damn good, it was) and we got a 10% discount on that. And we paid for her meds.
I heart our vets.
The aging process certainly isn’t any fun. I hope yours are doing okay.
@lisaviolet of the 16 year olds, all three are hyperthyroid, one is also diabetic (in remission) with stage 2 kidney failure, one also has asthma (likely from that moldy leaky shed I had to live in for a while - I have lung issues from that as well) and major arthritis, the third one is slowly losing teeth… Yet all three of them are still happy cats, engaged in the world around them… but I am thinking at least one isn’t all that long for this world…
@Kidsandliz DaNiece is also hyperT. She’s been on meds for years now. Her brother Richie had it as well, but it hit him harder than her and we lost him to heart disease. Horrible to watch.
@2many2no UNBLAME. I wanted a new lighting kit for my ceiling fan. Have you seen what they want for simple lighting kits purchased separately? Bastards. The kit I wanted was approximately $46 on Amazon and elsewhere. Clicked on other sellers and Amazon Warehouse had it for $8.62, yes…$8.62! Product came in perfect condition, just a beat up box.
@mfladd Oddly, my fan light kit has started coming apart, so I need a new one. I just picked up one in HD, against my will, but I can return it. I would appreciate a link to the one you got.
@OldCatLady It matters what brand your kit is and whether lighting attaches with center or two offset screws. Mine is a Hunter. Hunter and Casablanca are interchangeable. Mine used the two screws and took 10 min. to change over.
@mfladd The Hunter housing attaches with four screws, and it has four lights (three is fine for me); what would that be?
However, I have another fan in another room with a lighting kit which I have always loathed. Well, it will feel really good when it’s all done.
@OldCatLady It’s not the housing. I have the same
Look to see if there are two screws right where the light attaches to the housing right at the bottom.
@mfladd It’s only 14 years old. So are the others. Fine, I’ll get a whole new fan and light kit. If one is crumbling, I’m pretty sure the others are motheaten inside too. All are different models, of course. I never have liked the DR chandelier, either…
@OldCatLady looking at the picture you posted I don’t see the amount of space taken up I would expect from a fan that was designed with a separate light kit in mind, the assembly looks too compact. I’m guessing this fan might have been a pre-configured one which allowed them to make it more low profile at the expense of upgrading.
@2many2no You’re dodging the bullet on the actual operation so you’re gonna get the blame for the fact that pre-op isn’t scheduled for 2 weeks and the actual operation is a further week after that. X_x
I went to get the paper this morning and walked into a spider web that some spider fucker had spun across the front door. I’m still picking webbing out of my hair. Gaaaaa.
/giphy spider webbing in face
@sammydog01 I’m the tallest person in my house, so I’m ALWAYS the one to walk through spider webs. Back patio, side garage door, between the pool deck and the tree… Always me.
My son is taking the exact same high school chemistry class my daughter did the year before last. Except instead of using the $140 book I bought for her they are requiring me to purchase a digital licence of the exact same fucking edition of the exact same fucking book for $85. And since I ordered it late I have to pay $12 in shipping fees. How much does it really cost to ship a digital book? Is it a code printed on a ten dollar bill? Fuckers.
I guess @2many2no gets an unblame. I scored a BoC for the first time in awhile, and since it unlocked free shipping, I found a catshirt that I liked. @daveinwarsh named the BoC ‘Out of Sight, Out of Crap’. I know better than to expect much from the box.
@2many2no I had Wootstalker watching for me, and just happened to be online at the right time. One of my early BoCs had a Letter. Shortly after that, a new 32" HDTV arrived. Hard to top that.
@2many2no One last unblame: A month ago, Amazon stopped letting me buy Kindle books and audiobooks at the listed price. The email ad said I could pay $1.99 but when I went there, it was always ‘this item is not available for sale’. Their support was not helpful. Today I discovered that Kindle thought I lived in the UK. I changed it back, and now I can buy ebooks again. I had many expiring $1. credits which could only be used for ebooks or music. Buying like mad. Blame/unblame.
@2many2no as best I can tell amazon.co.jp is something of an island unto itself. Whereas my normal Amazon account works on the UK site, for example, it doesn’t seem to login on the JP site.
Double blame. One for this month’s goat, another for tomorrow.
Potter, a cat, went to the vet this morning. A drop off. His kidneys are toast. They gave him fluids and sent him home because they didn’t have the time to put him to sleep today.
He’s stumbling around, occasionally yowling because he can’t drink (not sure why, but he hasn’t been drinking for a few days).
Thank you. We had no idea, it really just hit us hard in the face. Did not see this coming. I thought he was constipated. Seriously. “No, he’s dying and it’s miserable for him” was not what I thought I’d hear.
We’re making the right choice, we’re taking him in in a couple of hours. We’ve had cats with kidney problems in the past, I’m an old pro at subQ fluids (a couple of cats got them for years), but the time for fluids has passed. Last night, he cried. It was awful. I don’t know if from pain or frustration.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with the symptoms of kidney failure, but my vet explained years ago, since the toxins are building up in the body, it’s like being drunk. And even though Potter got fluids before we brought him home, he can hardly walk. He stumbles. Which made it doubly frightening to see him down by the pool. Somehow, he managed to navigate a cat door during the night.
Anyway, it’s sad, but we gave him a good life, a life he wouldn’t have had if we’d not taken him in.
This morning he’s outside, laying in the cool grass. We’ve seen this with other cats who knew they were sick. Like they walk the yard to say goodbye. One last time.
On the night I took Bella in for her final breath, I was reminded of the same – “She will be gone, but you already gave her life for many more years than if you didn’t take her in.”
I’ll blame you for starting your own blame thread when I went through the trouble of making you one…
@Thumperchick 2 blame threads? That means double the blames!
@Thumperchick You be the judge. Leave the one you think best, delete the other.
It’s my fault anyway.
@2many2no Nooooo! Leave both up, @Thumperchick!
@Thumperchick Considering, 2 threads is appropriate for this GOAT.
@2many2no There’s just 2many2no which to leave up, so both can stay.
@Thumperchick I’m heartbroken.
Where’s the love?
@2many2no
Congratulations, Bitch!!!
(or, uhhh, I’m sorry??)
@mfladd The cold never bothe…
What am saying?
/giphy I hate the cold
@2many2no There, there little GoaT. I am sure someone here with the skillz will knit you a sweater for the cold, DARK (hint, hint) month ahead.
@mfladd What’s really messed up is that the sweater was made from the goat hair that was shaved off this very goat.
@daveinwarsh That goat wouldn’t be so happy if it really knew where it was going.
@2many2no WHAT?
I thought he was taking the goat on a wonderful goat-vacation!
@daveinwarsh Ah yes, nothing better than a boy and his goat…
Welcome.
Sorry if you went to that other thread first.
It’s my fault @Thumperchick is fast. (In the forums.)
I see what you did on that other thread. You WANTED to be goat. (snicker).
@Kidsandliz Not really. As you know, it’s hard to find the time to do it, but being a little snarky gets you in trouble fast around here.
So ultimately, it’s my fault I’m in this mess.
/youtube ain’t nobody got time for this
@2many2no snarky gets you every time!
/giphy snarky
@2many2no Of course it is your fault. You’re now the goat! Duh (grin).
@2many2no
A limerick shortage there was
And limericks give me a buzz
I will blame the Goat
Who needs to use soap
Until limericks come just because!
@f00l
It’s like finding a fly in your cup
Makes you holler and shout like a pup.
My head’s not on straight
‘Cause I took the bait.
I just don’t know when to shut up.
@2many2no
Don’t shut up, you idiot Goat.
Now don’t go and act like a stoat.
You must make words now,
You must give us some "WOW"
Or we’ll cast you adrift in a boat.
The goat is 2many2no.
For all of August, you know.
The blame will be placed,
The goat’ll answer, post haste.
Now blame that goat for something or go.
@daveinwarsh OK, I blame the goat cause I’m not a poet and I do know it! Now I’ll go…
@mehbee
Never give up trying,
You don’t have to be a poet.
Just put one word after another,
Kind of “Edgar Allan Poe” it.
@mehbee
You could cheat with your poetry fine
You could cheat just like I do with mine.
Google is your friend
Google till the end
And get yourself up with some rhyme.
@f00l I probably could do it
If I put my mind to it
but I’m so sorry to say
my mind’s done run away
even if it comes back
this forum’s talent I’ll lack
@mehbee My mind has run so far away that if it ever came back, I probably wouldn’t recognize it.
Just cleaned up some spam
One year probate is normal
Oops, I gave one one.
Came across this blurb from The Economist. Baby goats instinctively search for their mother’s milk, only to be removed from her immediately to be bottle fed. The milk is for cheesemaking and this human trickery gave English the word kidnapping
So, it appears that some previous owner thought it a good idea to vent the dryer straight into the crawl space. It’s like a lint house of horrors down there and a fire just waiting to happen. So I was ready to take on venting it but the concrete foundation goes all the way up so now I have to accomplish drilling a 4" hole directly thru concrete!
Blame!!!
@mfladd I thought you liked drilling (some things at least).
/giphy drilling
@OldCatLady check out the drilling!
@sammydog01 More my style.
@mfladd If it’s foundation, I wouldn’t punch out that big of a hole. Is there a different routing that the dryer can take? I’d do a long run with booster fan (Tjernlund or Fantech) versus compromising the structure any day. And any night.
@narfcake there is no way to vent except thru the foundation
But I need to take better look to see if I can actually cut thru the rim joist.
@narfcake Ack!!! I am at a loss for this one!!! Why is nothing ever easy. I guess if it was they wouldn’t be exhausting it into the crawlspace.
Blame! @2many2no Blame!!!
Come fix my dryer vent!
@mfladd Is there an easier way, like using a shop vac to clear what’s there now, then installing a large lint trap at the end of the vent? You may have to clean the trap every month or so, but it beats drilling through concrete.
@OldCatLady That was also a thought. But accessing the crawl space every month is definately not something I would look forward to and does not alleviate the problem of the dryer adding moisture to the crawl space. I fucking hate crawl spaces! But this is what happens when you are hardly above sea level.
@mfladd Can you extend the stupid vent and run it outside? You may have to run the shopvac on the vent regularly - from outside. Don’t forget to package the lint and sell it to survivalists; you could make a fortune.
@mfladd
Just drill a hole into your skull and vent the dryer there.
So much empty space. And so much safer that way.
/giphy hole in head
@mfladd You could drill through the foundation, but you’ll get no satisfaction that way.
Most dryer vents are routed outside through a wall above the foundation. How far is it from the dryer to an outside wall?
@mfladd Around here dryers just vent through the wall… if your laundry room has an exterior wall, could you install a vent in the wall and just seal up the hole going into the crawlspace?
Edit: the goat was thinking the same thing at the same time, but I’ll leave this here anyway.
@djslack @2many2no No exterior wall. Middle of the house.
@mfladd
/giphy "blow it out your ass"
@mfladd Well, I’d say that sucks, but since it is a dryer, it probably blows.
@mfladd
/giphy call a professional
@sammydog01 Giphy I hope you never change.
@mfladd Move the f***ing dryer to an outside wall. Where do your neighbors have theirs?
@mfladd Middle of the house is not unheard of; you’d just have a longer run.
How do you access the crawl space?
Also is your dryer gas or electric?
@narfcake Electric dryer. There is what can only be called a small pump house attached to the shed. There is a big hole that smashed out of the foundation for access. I will have to get a pic of that for you because it is funny.
@OldCatLady It is not even a possibility in a house this small.
@2many2no Or sucks? Depends upon which end of it you are on.
@mfladd Pics would be good for what might or might not work.
@narfcake K, possibly tomorrow after work if time allows.
@mfladd I have the solution to your problem:
@2many2no Haha. At least I have the backyard space for that.
@mfladd Your concrete foundation has no vents spaced every 8-10 feet? It should!
Coring a 4" opening through a 8" concrete/rebar foundation is a major job.
Can you vent up to the attic, dropping it back down through a soffit or something??
@daveinwarsh Considered a roof/soffit option. I would really prefer not to vent upward. Yeah, it’s weird about the vents. There are only two vents on each side of the front of the house. But there is the opening the connects to the - what I would call a small pump house (don’t ask me why) connected to the back of the house. @narfcake this where I will pull you in too.
I think I came up with a plan. The vents are are connected to blocks like this in the foundation:
They do not have a 4" opening, so a 4" rectangular vent is not a good option. So I found these but they are only sold on UK sites. With this kit I would only have to chip out only one web of a block.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIELE-Wall-Vent-Kit-Vented-Tumble-Dryer-Hose-External-Outlet-Pipe-White-Cowl-4-/381078764802
Then I could connect directly to 4" smooth duct pipes. The other problem I found is the location of the dryer does not allow a lot of space to the back of the wall. The corrugated duct they were using is ripped and crushed against the wall. To remedy this I will use this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H5ZXYQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
I think this option is the best, and easiest. Thoughts?
@mfladd That vent - had one in a rental I lived in. Be sure to clean it regularly. It clogs more easily because it narrows. Nice fire hazard (my mom once had the dryer catch fire due to lint - burned up all our clothes as she had the dry ones folded on top of the dryer).
@Kidsandliz Yup. At least I won’t have to wiggle around the crawl space to clean it.
@mfladd The close vent for dryers works OK, gives more room as the dryer sits closer to wall. As mentioned, make sure air flow stays good. Never vent with that cheap thin-wall flex-dryer vent ducting. Use solid metal 4" duct taped together (don’t use screws to catch lint) using the aluminum tape. If you need to, the thick flex duct works, but will build up with lint easier.
If you’re going through block (& the block isn’t filled with concrete), you could rent a 4" hole saw and punch through with a clean round hole. Hang on to that drill! Hope it all turns out OK for you.
ps… How long will the run be?
pps… If it vents very close to ground level, make sure your vent has some kind of rodent-proof screening…
@mfladd I wish I read this earlier… There is an easy solution.
/google indoor dryer vent lint trap water
Everbilt Indoor Dryer Vent Kit-TDIDVKHD6 - The Home Depot
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-Indoor-Dryer-Vent-Kit-TDIDVKHD6/203626526
Pretty much any home improvement store is going to carry it. Vents right next to your dryer so you can empty the lint easily and refill the water.
Makes the laundry room warm though.
@RiotDemon Thanks. I am going to update when I figure this out. But it is good to know about this product.
@2many2know
Of Podcasts I have way too many
Should I even be listening to any?
I must blame the goat
My head’s full of bloat
And yet I am still quite the ninny!
@f00l
Of Podcasts I’m not a big fan.
They don’t really fit in my plan.
I’d much rather read it
Than hear someone speak it,
But I listen to tunes when I can.
Somehow it must be my fault that everything is audiobooks, podcasts, and shit set to autoplay. I much prefer to read, often with music in the background.
I do like to listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered, but that is partly because I despise drive time DJ’s. They won’t shut up and play a song and they’re blathering is disturbing.
@2many2no
Am on the go / in the car a lot. That’s why podcasts and audiobooks are so wonderful. I don’t know when I last turned on the radio.
Also you can multitask. Clean out your refrigerator or whatever and push your brain at the same time.
I can’t do very highly technical or mathematical material by audio tho; technical journalism by audio is fine.
I mean I can’t “read” high level math that way, or I haven’t practiced enough to master the art.
There are sight impaired people who have done ok at higher abstract math (grad level), so it must be possible to learn using listening as the input source, with great practice. They used to listen to lectures (often recorded them) and have Braille textbooks.
But I have not mastered this.
Summer if the podcasts conversations can be wonderfully relaxed and insightful. Good things can happen in them. It’s an art form to itself.
It will work for you if the day comes when you find some subject (often a “curiosity” or “keep updated” type topic) that is best delivered by podcast.
Good Podcasts are kinda similar to longer in-depth magazine articles, or the relaxed conversations you might have with a knowledgeable person. The topic has to fit the delivery method. Then it works.
@f00l no podcasts are fun
Not for every topic under the sun
History is best because history is our story
Science is ok but math gets gory
And now it is late, I am not sleepy, and I am watching Shaknado 5: Global Swarming
Blame!!!
@mfladd
Congratulations. You need a little high culture.
Are there really 5 of these? Shakespeare would be so pleased and proud at the evolution of art, language, and culture.
How many Beverly Hills 90210 alumni are in the various casts?
/giphy "flying shark"
@mfladd I will take the blame, but this behavior (much like chastity) is it’s own punishment.
@2many2no You’re telling me. I couldn’t take it anymore and switched over to River Monsters.
@f00l shark culture you say. Well this weekend I saw Sharkspeare. A syncronized swimming shark themed tribute to shakespeare. Yes it was just as odd and awesome as the description sounds.
@CaptAmehrican
I believe you.
@f00l http://baltimore.org/events/fluid-movement-presents-sharkspeare
Unblame:
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/reversible-octopus-mini
Blame: I’m $12 poorer now.
@narfcake
You are evil.
I might have to be poorer also.
Dammit.
/giphy poor
@narfcake Why is the purple side frowny?
Shouldn’t that be the blue side?
@Barney, please answer this conundrum.
@narfcake
@Barney come see what evil @narfcake did.
I blame @2many2no.
@2many2no
Yes. You are right. PURPLE should be smiley.
I blame you. And @narfcake. And Teeturtle
/giphy purple smiling
For @Barney
@2many2no @f00l @Barney
Happy purple.
I dunno, maybe today is a purple frowny day.
@Barney aww it should be purple smiles for you every day
❣
@Barney Once in a while you need a frowny day to properly appreciate the smiley days.
My daughter received a wOOt refurbed LG Gizmo watch/phone for her birthday a couple of days ago.
My 7yr old son who also wanted one decided to have a conversation with Alexa about it. We said what are you doing? You have to be careful with that thing.
Today I received a text that my silver fitbit watch will be delivered tomorrow!
I have since added a purchasing pin.
Blame!!!
@mfladd hehehe whether real news or not…didn’t you read/hear this story?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/1/7/14200210/amazon-alexa-tech-news-anchor-order-dollhouse
@mfladd Thanks for reminding me to turn voice purchasing off.
@mfladd
Too bad your kid is too young to be a properly evil adolescent.
Audemars Piguet
Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph 44mm Mens Watch
$40,457.00 at Amazon
Free shipping!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00RBWPSIO/ref=mp_s_a_1_34?ie=UTF8&qid=1502329284&sr=1-34&refinements=p_36%3A2661616011&pi=SL140_CR0,0,140,180_QL70
@mikibell Funny you brought that up. I have noticed my Alexa activate from commercials but not order anything. I also have had my google browser activate and look up things before - I couldn’t figure out what was happening until around the third time and noticed a google commercial was one. It’s all a conspiracy.
On that note I am in Va. Beach and had to got to Chesapeake today and thought about you. I also just finished a chunky monkey waffle cone with Jimmies from the boardwalk - yummy!
@f00l He wasn’t even being wonderfully evil. He was just having a conversation with Alexa that he wanted one too
I would be having a rather different conversation with him than we had if that was the watch he ordered.
He would be saying:
@mfladd heheh I told my friend that I was going to send you to him for help – he was fine with it. Then the glee in his eyes made me wonder what secrets of mine that he might share… BAD IDEA!!!
@mfladd Don’t forget to go under the boardwalk. That’s the one the song was written about.
@mfladd Sorry about that, I had to turn off voice purchasing too as a precaution.
My grandson thought it was funny to keep asking Alexa to read Moby Dick, which she is glad to do, but it drives everyone crazy.
@2many2no
/giphy "fire ants"
@f00l
My yard is full of ants.
They make me want to dance,
When I get to close
They bite my toes.
Don’t get them in your pants.
@2many2no
I blame you because @narfcake really piled onto you in the other, previously abandoned, blame thread.
@f00l It was only 5 blames!
@f00l Somehow I got that notification.
I had to go through the thread to get all the overdue blame.
/giphy the job’s not done
I blame you that we don’t have enough responses yet for the GISHWHES toothbrush poll.
@Kawa Done. You should advertise this poll at the beginning of a new product page and explain what it is for, and that it is only 2 questions. You may be surprised.
Or you can ask @woodhouse or @dave if meh can make a special place for it for a day or two.
@mfladd Honestly, I’ve been busy and it’s due very soon, so I’m just calling it a wash. Wish I’d had more time to advertise it, but. Meh.
@Kawa
/image I voted
Unblame, we have good weather today for my sail bike run tri raising money for handicapped sailing.
Big EXPENSIVE blame for you! I ordered a sofa, with legs that were 4-1/4" high so Roomba could clean under it. It finally arrived, with legs that were 3" high, and not as shown in the catalog. (Everything else is perfect.) The store is in frantic conversation with the factory. When they find (or make) the proper legs, they can come out and replace them. Vendors do not want this customer to be unhappy. Until then, it’s a goatly problem.
@OldCatLady
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01FN4KGD8/ref=zg_bs_3732271_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&ref
@sammydog01 For the amount I paid, Bassett can bloody well hand-carve four legs in the correct style and height.
@OldCatLady Those Bassettards!
Before computers and robots did everything, many products actually came as advertised. Now, for reasons I fail to discern, not so much.
Hope they fix you up soon so Roomba can get those last few square feet posted online.
The store has put in a parts order for the correct legs, which they will come and swap out, and the factory is investigating to see WTF happened. I don’t have to start the global thermonuclear war routine. I did offer to analyze their assembly process in person, but they declined.
@OldCatLady Get them to throw in a couple of arm covers for your trouble. You have them scared.
@sammydog01 Arm covers and two throw pillows came with it. Any other ideas?
So, I wasted an hour yesterday and more time tonight trying to install a new soundcard into my other computer- thanks @2many2no. Apparently Asus decided it was a brilliant idea to relabel the front audio panel socket as AAFP, instead of panel (which definitely is there, and what I grabbed the cable from last night).
@dashcloud Uh…
Just use the onboard sound. Surely it’s 7.1? That should be good enough to keep people from sneaking up on you.
Anything else can be fixed in post.
OK, OK, my fault.
Welcome to the club, fucker. Sorry I’m late.
@Pavlov
/image thank you
It’s actually my fault now.
Your fault I pulled some floating rib muscles yesterday moving boxes to get at something. Double your fault that it is still killing me this morning.
@Kidsandliz Sorry, that’s my fault, I should’ve hired a strong kid to help you.
I hope it heals soon though, because in two short weeks…
/image big strong boy
it’ll be someone else’s fault.
@2many2no not mine…
@2many2no
/giphy "your fault"
Details to follow when I feel like it. Or when I think of something. Or something.
@f00l Something is my fault?
What a relief! I thought everything is my fault.
Your fault that I got loose in the open air produce market again. WTH am I going to do with all this stuff? Japanese yams, kiwi fruit, ladyfinger bananas, tomatoes, cukes, and rambutan.
@OldCatLady so jealous. Still haven’t found rambutan anywhere here yet.
@RiotDemon This is next to a weekend flea market. Vendors carry produce for local Caribbean, Oriental, Asian etc. restaurants primarily, but happily sell to anyone. I have no idea what half the stuff is. Today I saw four separate varieties of eggplant. I think.
@OldCatLady Throw it in a pot and make soup?
@OldCatLady I just saw that my WMart was carrying rambutan. What the hell is it like?
@sammydog01 Hmm. Banana kiwi yogurt lassi for breakfast sounds good. Thanks!
@OldCatLady What kind of market doesn’t have steak?
Oh yeah, produce. But why?
Wait, that’s my fault too.
@OldCatLady You can eat the bananas straight (they’re wonderful). But here’s an alternative if you’ve got access to a store that’ll sell you spring roll wrappers, slice up the bananas into long fingers, put them on the wrappers, sprinkle brown sugar on, wrap them up, and fry 'em.
The original Filipino version also includes jackfruit, but it shouldn’t be necessary.
/image “Filipino turon”
@Kawa Yum!
@Kawa Luscious! I do have access to spring roll wrappers and the market has jackfruit. There are perhaps ten vendors plus the fish tent and the canned/boxed goods stalls. There is no chance the bananas would make it to the pan. I peel them, I eat them.
@thismyusername I don’t know why he seems so surprised.
@2many2no Am I the only one with a dirty mind? Blame!
@OldCatLady I’m just holding the horns…
/8ball Should each second-hand woot shirt I find/found this month count as an unblame?
Without a doubt
Yes definitely
It is certain
Yes
/8ball Do I give bonus unblames for AA shirts?
/8ball How about catshirts?
/8ball Can the count wait until next week?
@narfcake
/8ball Are you being very nice today, 8ball?
It is decidedly so
@f00l It’s been pretty normal practice, actually.
What I haven’t been doing was unblaming @2many2no on days when catshirtswoot is selling a catshirt. Like on a Caturday.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/giphy Caturday
So here it goes, @2many2no:
Unblame, Unblame. Unblame, Unblame. Unblame, Unblame. Unblame. Unblame.
[takes a deep breath] …
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Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame …
[one more breath] …
Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame, Unblame …
Five were the odd ones I found in my usual thrift store jaunts. The rest was in a one single stop, filling two carts:
I think I know the Wooter that donated them – and I don’t think I’d ever find that kind of count again unless I donate out a bunch of mine, then repurchase them.
/8ball Do I extend such shirt find unblames to next month’s goat?
My sources say no
@narfcake
Great Googly Moogly!
That is a lot of
unblameshirts!Do you wear every one of them at least once?
@2many2no Eventually? They’re “sleep shirt sized”, so they can double as blankets or towels or something.
@narfcake Holy shirt. Are you at least going to identify the shirts by title?
@OldCatLady I’ll post the catshirts later. A full list is unlikely, though.
@OldCatLady Here are the 14 catshirts.
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/catffeine?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/makin-bread?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/meh-christmas-and-a-crappy-new-year?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-mrowr?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/cat-nouveau?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/greetings-from-the-internet?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/kittentar?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/computer-work?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/cat-signal?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-divine-prrrrrrrrrportion?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/7-daily-sins?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/missing-pizza?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/epic-hairball?ref=meh_com
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/death-by-kitty?ref=meh_com
@narfcake Envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy. Sigh.
@narfcake I really like the cat nouveau one
@Kidsandliz I actually didn’t have that one – nor 7 daily sins, missing pizza, or death by kitty.
(Yes, I do not have every catshirt that catshirtswoot offers.)
I didn’t get a good view of the eclipse and couldn’t find someone to share glasses with me.
I’m having no luck finding an apartment. I thought I found a great one, went back a second time and noticed a bunch of water damage in the ceiling. Brought it up and was basically told “pfft that’s not water damage” but I know what I saw. Also looked them up on the city government site and saw a bunch of heating issues in the winter, tried to bring it up and they denied it too. So yeah, I’m bitter and you get the blame. If the place had been in better condition it would have been a great fit for me too. Sigh.
@Kawa I would have shared my glasses with you. Sorry about the apartment. Sucks.
@Kawa meh should have sold eclipse glasses - custom with meh on them!
@Kawa Apartments are overrated. Buy a house.
Then you’ll have more than plenty of blame to spread around.
Some could even be my fault.
@2many2no Yeah or @Kawa could have the experience I had - buy high (right before the crash), sell $54,000 short after 35 mo on the market (during the crash). Yup a really good idea.
@Kidsandliz See, just what I mean.
Few things in life come with the amount and variety of blame that you get with the privilege of home ownership.
@2many2no
I Blame You that there’s no total eclipse doing a Twofer for Tuesday.
@f00l Don’t worry, I’ve got this covered.
The next North American total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024, right across Texas.
So save your glasses, see you then.
@2many2no You get major blame for this. It’s not Florida’s fault.
@OldCatLady Yeah, I sent those clouds away from Missouri, so I guess it’s my fault that they ended up in Florida.
That in no way changes the fact that Florida is just weird.
@2many2no
/giphy Florida man
@narfcake Where did he find the snow?
@OldCatLady
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/giphy Like anything Florida man makes sense
@narfcake I know, I know.
DaNiece (a little kitty cat, 16 years old), had two seizures late yesterday afternoon. We got her down to the vet’s office. She was panting badly.
They gave her oxygen and she pooped (which was the reason for earlier health problems, some sort of really nasty intestinal thing) and she came out of it. She’s on phenobarbital at this point.
Now we wait and see. The vet mentioned “brain tumor”. She had seizures back in February that weren’t as bad as these two, so that’s almost six months between. I’m not going with tumor. We had one cat that seized when he heard certain kinds of sounds. Like vinyl blinds clacking together when a breeze came through.
She’s on phenobarb now. I hope this takes care of the problem. We had two very frightened humans and one very scared kitty.
I blame @2many2no.
@lisaviolet So Sorry. I hope all turns out well.
@lisaviolet I’m sure there’s blame here, but as mean and reckless as I am, I would never send seizures (or any other illness) to a kitty, or a puppy, or even a goat.
I’m gonna break protocol here and deny all fault for this one.
I do hope kitty and humans are all fine.
@lisaviolet
Here’s hoping she gets better.
@2many2no Thanks. She’s had a tough year, for sure. The office manager was carrying her around and rubbing kitty’s face while we waited to pay the bill. She was smitten with our old kitten.
@narfcake Thank you.
@lisaviolet I am so sorry about your kitty. I hope it is just old age and not something serious. I have 3 that are 16 and vet bills are out of sight with their (mostly) age related issues. Hard to see them that way. Poor babies (yours and mine).
@Kidsandliz Thanks. We have the best vet, been going to him for thirty years. He has an associate now and I think she’s a cat lover, gives us a lot of discounts.
Last Monday we took Rocky in and found out he has cryptcoccus fungus. Fortunately, it’s manifesting in lumps at this point. On his back and one of his back toes. So, he’s on meds. Probably for a year because this is a hard thing to get rid of.
The clinic owner took two or three x-rays and comped them.
Yesterday, the associate (she’s been working with DaNiece since her problems started this year) didn’t charge for the exam. We only had to pay for the bloodwork (damn good, it was) and we got a 10% discount on that. And we paid for her meds.
I heart our vets.
The aging process certainly isn’t any fun. I hope yours are doing okay.
@lisaviolet of the 16 year olds, all three are hyperthyroid, one is also diabetic (in remission) with stage 2 kidney failure, one also has asthma (likely from that moldy leaky shed I had to live in for a while - I have lung issues from that as well) and major arthritis, the third one is slowly losing teeth… Yet all three of them are still happy cats, engaged in the world around them… but I am thinking at least one isn’t all that long for this world…
@Kidsandliz DaNiece is also hyperT. She’s been on meds for years now. Her brother Richie had it as well, but it hit him harder than her and we lost him to heart disease. Horrible to watch.
@lisaviolet Sad.
@2many2no UNBLAME. I wanted a new lighting kit for my ceiling fan. Have you seen what they want for simple lighting kits purchased separately? Bastards. The kit I wanted was approximately $46 on Amazon and elsewhere. Clicked on other sellers and Amazon Warehouse had it for $8.62, yes…$8.62! Product came in perfect condition, just a beat up box.
All ways check Amazon Warehouse!!!
@mfladd Oddly, my fan light kit has started coming apart, so I need a new one. I just picked up one in HD, against my will, but I can return it. I would appreciate a link to the one you got.
@OldCatLady It matters what brand your kit is and whether lighting attaches with center or two offset screws. Mine is a Hunter. Hunter and Casablanca are interchangeable. Mine used the two screws and took 10 min. to change over.
Go to other sellers and you will find a few available from Amazon Warehouse for $9.01.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ILFD0M6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@mfladd Hunter here also. Thanks! I guess unblame to @2many2no.
@OldCatLady Yay! Good for you. The lighting looks awesome with the glass bells I purchased. $9 well spent for this.
Check the lighting for center screw or double screw. If it is center I might have another one for you.
@mfladd The Hunter housing attaches with four screws, and it has four lights (three is fine for me); what would that be?
However, I have another fan in another room with a lighting kit which I have always loathed. Well, it will feel really good when it’s all done.
@OldCatLady It’s not the housing. I have the same
Look to see if there are two screws right where the light attaches to the housing right at the bottom.
@mfladd If there are screws anywhere else, I can’t find the silly things.
@OldCatLady Is this one of the screws holding the light portion on?
hmmmmm…is that an older ceiling fan? You are going to have to remove the four screws remove that piece and see what is inside.
There is this one too for $14 “warehouse” but you can see it also has the two screws.
https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Fan-99146-Fitter-Brushed/dp/B00ILUVAKA/ref=sr_1_14?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1503699647&sr=1-14&keywords=hunter+fan+light+kit
@mfladd It’s only 14 years old. So are the others. Fine, I’ll get a whole new fan and light kit. If one is crumbling, I’m pretty sure the others are motheaten inside too. All are different models, of course. I never have liked the DR chandelier, either…
@OldCatLady looking at the picture you posted I don’t see the amount of space taken up I would expect from a fan that was designed with a separate light kit in mind, the assembly looks too compact. I’m guessing this fan might have been a pre-configured one which allowed them to make it more low profile at the expense of upgrading.
Monarch caterpillars are stupid. No wonder their population is decreasing.
@2many2no You’re dodging the bullet on the actual operation so you’re gonna get the blame for the fact that pre-op isn’t scheduled for 2 weeks and the actual operation is a further week after that. X_x
@jbartus 3 weeks? ugh…
@mfladd indeed.
@jbartus Why do your doctors want you to suffer so long?
Are they hoping the problem will resolve itself?
Or are they trying to figure out how to squeeze more money out of a stone?
@2many2no I’m not sure that they do since I’ve not been in any pain. IDK why it’s gonna be so long. Might be for the reason you said, IDK.
@jbartus Well, good luck. Hope you’re fixed soon.
@2many2no me too.
I went to get the paper this morning and walked into a spider web that some spider fucker had spun across the front door. I’m still picking webbing out of my hair. Gaaaaa.
/giphy spider webbing in face
@sammydog01 That usta happen to me all the time when I lived in Miami. Ick
@sammydog01 I’m the tallest person in my house, so I’m ALWAYS the one to walk through spider webs. Back patio, side garage door, between the pool deck and the tree… Always me.
@sammydog01 Spiders are your friends (with a few exceptions.)
@2many2no Spiders are DEAD if I see them inside.
@OldCatLady Don’t ever kill these:
Wolf Spider
They help rid your home of pests and don’t spin webs (no mess.)
They do act aggressive and are fast, but rarely bite and the bite is not dangerous (although can be painful.)
My son is taking the exact same high school chemistry class my daughter did the year before last. Except instead of using the $140 book I bought for her they are requiring me to purchase a digital licence of the exact same fucking edition of the exact same fucking book for $85. And since I ordered it late I have to pay $12 in shipping fees. How much does it really cost to ship a digital book? Is it a code printed on a ten dollar bill? Fuckers.
@sammydog01 Does the license expire after a year? One of mine did.
@OldCatLady Yes, one year. They’re fixing that pesky used book sale problem.
@sammydog01 It was rather irritating that my books were usually more than my tuition, even though I bought as many used books as I could.
It seems the textbook racket has really gotten out of control since then.
@sammydog01
I actually hate the textbook publishers and the schools/universities that collude with them.
I guess @2many2no gets an unblame. I scored a BoC for the first time in awhile, and since it unlocked free shipping, I found a catshirt that I liked. @daveinwarsh named the BoC ‘Out of Sight, Out of Crap’. I know better than to expect much from the box.
@OldCatLady I got a power bank/speaker combo in my last boc.
@OldCatLady Ooh, and a Stanley Kramer DVD box set. That was nice.
@OldCatLady Glad it worked out for ya.
@sammydog01 Sweeeet!
@OldCatLady It’s been quite a while since I scored a BOC.
I don’t seem to have the patience to wait on one any more.
They are fun to get though. Good for you.
@2many2no I had Wootstalker watching for me, and just happened to be online at the right time. One of my early BoCs had a Letter. Shortly after that, a new 32" HDTV arrived. Hard to top that.
@OldCatLady very nice!
Blame because meh didn’t sell a catshirt today.
Double unblame because meh didn’t sell a catshirt today.
@2many2no One last unblame: A month ago, Amazon stopped letting me buy Kindle books and audiobooks at the listed price. The email ad said I could pay $1.99 but when I went there, it was always ‘this item is not available for sale’. Their support was not helpful. Today I discovered that Kindle thought I lived in the UK. I changed it back, and now I can buy ebooks again. I had many expiring $1. credits which could only be used for ebooks or music. Buying like mad. Blame/unblame.
@OldCatLady
/giphy high tea
@OldCatLady
Books are good.
Cheap books are better.
eBooks are excellent, because they take up less room.
(I love my Kindle.)
On a side note, how can I make Amazon think I’m in Japan temporarily so I can shop on Amazon.jp? And will my Prime still work there?
@2many2no as best I can tell amazon.co.jp is something of an island unto itself. Whereas my normal Amazon account works on the UK site, for example, it doesn’t seem to login on the JP site.
@2many2no YouTube has some ideas:
@jbartus
https://www.amazon.co.jp/In-English/bie=UTF8&node=1094656
@jbartus @2many2no
http://cdn.halcyonrealms.com/japan/how-to-order-from-amazon-japan-a-detailed-buying-guide/
@OldCatLady @jbartus Thanks.
Now I may need to find a region-free Blu-ray player.
(Does that even exist?)
@2many2no
Oops, too late.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/seiki-region-free-4k-up-converting-blu-ray-player
Meh…
@Barney Dang, that was cheap, too!
It’s still $115 @ Amazon ($49 refurb’d)
@OldCatLady good to know I was right about the accounts being separated. Thanks for the link.
Double blame. One for this month’s goat, another for tomorrow.
Potter, a cat, went to the vet this morning. A drop off. His kidneys are toast. They gave him fluids and sent him home because they didn’t have the time to put him to sleep today.
He’s stumbling around, occasionally yowling because he can’t drink (not sure why, but he hasn’t been drinking for a few days).
Tomorrow, it’s the end.
@lisaviolet I’m sorry.
@lisaviolet So sorry.
@lisaviolet
That hurts. I’m so sorry.
@lisaviolet Oh no. I’m sorry, and we’re all grieving with you.
@lisaviolet
I am so sorry for you and your furry friend.
@Thumperchick @OldCatLady @f00l @2many2no and @narfcake
Thank you. We had no idea, it really just hit us hard in the face. Did not see this coming. I thought he was constipated. Seriously. “No, he’s dying and it’s miserable for him” was not what I thought I’d hear.
We’re making the right choice, we’re taking him in in a couple of hours. We’ve had cats with kidney problems in the past, I’m an old pro at subQ fluids (a couple of cats got them for years), but the time for fluids has passed. Last night, he cried. It was awful. I don’t know if from pain or frustration.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with the symptoms of kidney failure, but my vet explained years ago, since the toxins are building up in the body, it’s like being drunk. And even though Potter got fluids before we brought him home, he can hardly walk. He stumbles. Which made it doubly frightening to see him down by the pool. Somehow, he managed to navigate a cat door during the night.
Anyway, it’s sad, but we gave him a good life, a life he wouldn’t have had if we’d not taken him in.
This morning he’s outside, laying in the cool grass. We’ve seen this with other cats who knew they were sick. Like they walk the yard to say goodbye. One last time.
Thank you all for your support.
@lisaviolet sniff.
On the night I took Bella in for her final breath, I was reminded of the same – “She will be gone, but you already gave her life for many more years than if you didn’t take her in.”
You’re always the good Lisa.
@narfcake tears…
@lisaviolet Soooo sad!!! I am so sorry. Your poor kitty and you.
8:59, Goodwill is about to close, and one more shirt. Unblame!