I Am Angry Today Because . . .

[Blake]

I got drunk yesterday and I think I lost my bag. I did everything right( I only bought out enough money for six beer) and then a guy I know repaid $50 that I had lent him so instead of six, I had 14 plus six scotch and cokes. And I hurt my knee and grazed my left hand. Drinking is a complete waste of time and money.

 

[AnnaMarie]

More doublespeak and runaround from the Government.... as many of you know, Teddy has been fighting for disabilty for 4 years now. Well, we finally won that battle in June. We have now been waiting for 2+ years of back pay from the feds. It has beens months now, so I placed a couple calls yesterday, first to our lawyer, then to Social Security.... I was literally on hold for 45 minutes waiting for them....when I finally spoke to a SS rep, he said, we weren't going to see any money until things were reviewed by a judge, before our lawyers got paid, before the feds checked to see if Teddy owed any money to Feds.... yadda yadda yadda...

Which is completely opposite what our lawyers had just told me.
So, needless to say... poor Teddy was so very upset yesterday.... he just feels this nightmare is never ending...

Thank goodness I have enough reserve for the both of us... I decided to call our lawyer back today and tell them what I was told by SS... the case worker for his lawyer said she couldn't understand why the feds were holding up his settlement payment and she was going to make some calls to SS today to see what the heck was going on.....

I used to think Uncle Steve only came up with scary sh*t.... the federal government has him beat by a long shot....

Sorry, just venting here..... it just seems to go on and on and on....

I hope this gets straightened out quick.

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

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[Agincourt Concierge]

I hope this gets straightened out quick.

thank you for that ... but it's the government..... red tape madness

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

I got drunk yesterday and I think I lost my bag. I did everything right( I only bought out enough money for six beer) and then a guy I know repaid $50 that I had lent him so instead of six, I had 14 plus six scotch and cokes. And I hurt my knee and grazed my left hand. Drinking is a complete waste of time and money.

sorry about all that

 

[GNTLGNT]

thank you for that ... but it's the government..... red tape madness

 

[Neesy]

I got drunk yesterday and I think I lost my bag. I did everything right( I only bought out enough money for six beer) and then a guy I know repaid $50 that I had lent him so instead of six, I had 14 plus six scotch and cokes. And I hurt my knee and grazed my left hand. Drinking is a complete waste of time and money.

What was in your bag? Do you have to replace ID and stuff like that?

Next time slow down - save the $50 for a rainy day!

I am suspicious of someone who would pay back 50 at a pub - it's almost like he was asking you to "buy a round" or something like that

Sorry to hear about the loss of your bag (or is "I think I lost my bag" just an expression over there?) Does it mean you lost control? My hubby has weird sayings that I did not understand at first, as he is from the UK

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Wrote my Mac tech an 8-step plan for trying to recover lost photos, including visiting a friend who has some of my pictures on his computer, followed by this:

Okay, I called Phil and he can't even get his computer to turn on and is attempting to contact the last guy who messed with it. If he does not succeed by, say, 7:00 p.m. tonight, is it all right if I proceed with the other steps described in my previous email, skipping the one of checking Phil's computer, or will something awful happen?

Also, this is maddening. My iPhone has drunk the iTunes and iPhoto Kool-Aid. They all hate me and are determinedly out to get me. When I met Phil in the store the other day, I entered his information into my iPhone contacts and mine into his (I think his is an iPhone because it said "iPhone" rather than "mobile phone," but maybe that proves it's not.) I KNOW after I pressed "Done" that his information WAS on my phone at least, because I CALLED him after that and HE ANSWERED. What's more, the information I entered on his phone must still be there as he knew it was me (unless he just guessed).

So today when I go to my iPhone contacts to call him, all the other Ws are there, but PHIL IS NOT. I checked under the P's to see if it got smart and put him under there, but HE IS NOT ANYWHERE! The ONLY way I was able to call him today is by going to "Recents." (If the phone was really trying to Gaslight me, it should have deleted all record of that call, but no--I was too smart for it this time!) So I called Phil and this time wrote all his contact information on a piece of paper! I entered it again with same result--the other day Phil showed up among my contacts and today he did not! So I shut the phone off and turned it back on. This time, of course, it demanded not only my passcode but hair and blood samples and fingerprints to prove it was REALLY ME, but finally I got back into my phone and entered the contact a FOURTH TIME with the SAME RESULT! There is no "Save" or anything else to enter other than "Done," and HE IS NOT SHOWING UP!!!

Rant over. Now off to Google who else the wretched thing has done this to and what they did about it.

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

Wrote my Mac tech an 8-step plan for trying to recover lost photos, including visiting a friend who has some of my pictures on his computer, followed by this:

Okay, I called Phil and he can't even get his computer to turn on and is attempting to contact the last guy who messed with it. If he does not succeed by, say, 7:00 p.m. tonight, is it all right if I proceed with the other steps described in my previous email, skipping the one of checking Phil's computer, or will something awful happen?

Also, this is maddening. My iPhone has drunk the iTunes and iPhoto Kool-Aid. They all hate me and are determinedly out to get me. When I met Phil in the store the other day, I entered his information into my iPhone contacts and mine into his (I think his is an iPhone because it said "iPhone" rather than "mobile phone," but maybe that proves it's not.) I KNOW after I pressed "Done" that his information WAS on my phone at least, because I CALLED him after that and HE ANSWERED. What's more, the information I entered on his phone must still be there as he knew it was me (unless he just guessed).

So today when I go to my iPhone contacts to call him, all the other Ws are there, but PHIL IS NOT. I checked under the P's to see if it got smart and put him under there, but HE IS NOT ANYWHERE! The ONLY way I was able to call him today is by going to "Recents." (If the phone was really trying to Gaslight me, it should have deleted all record of that call, but no--I was too smart for it this time!) So I called Phil and this time wrote all his contact information on a piece of paper! I entered it again with same result--the other day Phil showed up among my contacts and today he did not! So I shut the phone off and turned it back on. This time, of course, it demanded not only my passcode but hair and blood samples and fingerprints to prove it was REALLY ME, but finally I got back into my phone and entered the contact a FOURTH TIME with the SAME RESULT! There is no "Save" or anything else to enter other than "Done," and HE IS NOT SHOWING UP!!!

Rant over. Now off to Google who else the wretched thing has done this to and what they did about it.

sorry you are having such a time......

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Update: my friend Phil called. The guy who last messed with his computer came over, got it to turn on, and found the hard drive empty! Phil has no idea what happened and will enlist technically inclined relatives before if necessary trying a professional. Obviously whatever hates me in my computer has gotten to Phil's! I hope I have done him a favor by this.

I went over all my Facebook posts on these issues and added #firstworldproblems.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Update update: Changed a few iPhone settings, entered Phil again, now he's there--turned phone off and on again to test it and he didn't disappear--got it on the FIFTH try!

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Continuing the story: Phil got his computer working, but the pictures he had of mine date only as late as July 2011 and the problem seems to have occurred quite some time after that. Software for memory card recovery did not work as my card has been reformatted and reused several times. I don't know if some more sophisticated system might work on it. Of course my tech left town for two weeks and now I am trying to set up a time with his assistant to run software recovery on whatever we haven't already tried.

 

[not_nadine]

Angry and very sad. Pedals the bear.

Spoiler

Was found shot. First day of bear hunting season. Oh no. Very upset. Why did they not take him in? Who would do this? Sorry to upset anyone. He learned to walk upright with injuries. There was a petition to help him.
Wildlife people said he was doing fine. Leave him be. Who would do this? Bastids.

 

[not_nadine]

Sorry to upset anyone with that last post.

 

[Spideyman]

RIP Pedals. I will refrain from my thoughts concerning the "blank" who shot him.

 

[Blake]

What was in your bag? Do you have to replace ID and stuff like that?

Next time slow down - save the $50 for a rainy day!

I am suspicious of someone who would pay back 50 at a pub - it's almost like he was asking you to "buy a round" or something like that

Sorry to hear about the loss of your bag (or is "I think I lost my bag" just an expression over there?) Does it mean you lost control? My hubby has weird sayings that I did not understand at first, as he is from the UK

I had in my bag: 1) a pullover or a sloppy Joe( a type of light jumper) 2) a novel, a western novel 3) a few pens 4) some medication . I recovered my bag when I went back to the establishment. I asked the bar guy if they found a blue backpack and he said 'yeah, we saw you leave. You were just sitting at the bar real quite, and then you just got up and walked out and left your bag sitting near where you were sitting so we took it behind the bar. But next time, be more careful because someone will pinch it." But I lost my mobile phone that night( when I stumbled crossing the sidewalk). It was a cheap phone but I had to put a block on the SIM and get a new SIM and use the new number. I don't blame the guy who repaid the money as he was doing the right thing. He can't be responsible for my own actions, although I did borrow twenty off him so instead of being owed $50, I owed $20. I sought of worked out a system now that prevents these incidents occurring. They reckon the scariest guy in a bar is the guy that sits down the end all by himself sipping on drink and never talking to anyone. I did have a problem a few years ago when an American rap band( all African Americans) were playing at the club and I was sitting with drinking friends and when I have a few I talk politics and I was raving on about Obama and how he hadn't done anything for the average African American, and I heard someone say behind me say 'what's this honky know about us' and then another said 'hey, he might be right' and they were like the road crew setting up for the band. They were all right guys.

 

[not_nadine]

RIP Pedals. I will refrain from my thoughts concerning the "blank" who shot him.

Poor Pedals. I feel so bad.

I have my own thing personal thing about hunters. First off, I don't get how you can look at a living thing and kill it. Now, I know all about population and control and all that.
But thing is , we are invading them, building houses where they lived.

And besides that, my beloved dog, Clancy McGhee - was shot by a hunter. He was just out back, ran into the woods. Probably was after a squirrel. He was fawn colored.

Ok, sorry - I will stop.

 

[pegasus216]

I read that about Pedals. Very sad indeed.

 

[shaitan]

Some jackass got a hold of our credit card number again. No financial loss to us, but we're getting new cards mailed to us and now need to update Amazon and a bunch of other accounts yet again. Pain in the arse, I tell ya.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

The Photos app gave me such grief, preventing me from updating a Facebook album from last year--well after the dates of the images iPhoto managed to lose--that with wailing and gnashing of teeth I texted my tech, who is out of town, and began to import the photos YET AGAIN--I claimed going through this half a dozen times, but it may be more. He finally told me to skip both apps and use Image Capture, and I emailed him this:

Here are attachments to be used as evidence against that criminally stupid worthless crummy lying skank of an app, Photos. The first picture (with AGAIN!) shows how it bald-facedly claims no knowledge of over 2,000 images which have been REPEATEDLY IMPORTED into its careless clueless depths. The last picture shows how it does indeed seem to have added about 2,000 images after the import, and those in between list the files it claims are unreadable although I must have imported this SAME DANG CARD at least half a dozen times. Sometimes the apps accept all images as fine, other times they claim some have issues.

The attachments following these show the same thing for iPhoto which may be preferable to Photos but not by much.

Image Capture also had problems with about 50 of the images on this card.