This....best wishes PatInTheHat.
I Am Angry Today Because . . .
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Hey that's okay, you ain't, and besides, I'm an open book, covered in dust and dirt back in a deep darkest corner maybe, but open none the less.
I mean I really prefer to be more cheery and positive than po'd, but today I'm just more pissed off, well, more than usual
...it's been coming, but I should be gettin' my horns some dehornin', when I get out of this hell hole I'm livin' in, in a couple days
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All right, I went over every order I placed with Amazon.com this year and I think I figured out what happened. I ordered the one thing which was out of stock. Then I ordered a replacement which was less but I ordered something else with it so the total came out to $6.05 more than the original order. When I saw the charge for that one, I thought it was for the first one, which must have never been charged in the first place as it did not show up on my account...so I was confused. Thank goodness it was just me and not a mistake by the bank or credit card fraud!
Glad you have found/solved the problem.
Pat... damn it. Damn it, damn it, damn it. Wish there was something that could be done to help out. Damn it. (((hugs)))
PatInTheHat , I'm sorry about your struggles. You, of all people, definitely deserve better! I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers that things will start to look up for you.
Two DVD's that I ordered were in Jersey City, NJ for a couple of days, and when I checked on them this morning, they are now in Washington State!
I live in Delaware, just below Jersey. WTH is wrong with the Jersey post office to send those packages clear to Washington?? Made me angry.
I live in Delaware, just below Jersey. WTH is wrong with the Jersey post office to send those packages clear to Washington?? Made me angry.
After putting it off as long as I could, I sat down and did some math to arrive at an approximate ballpark figure of how much more I am worth dead than alive, and the answer is, a lot. This whole problem would be solved if God gave me a fraction of the talent of Stephen King, and his ability to apply the talent. I do not blame Steve for this, but I am quite provoked at God!
I'm angry today because I found out that a good person has cancer (again) and will likely choose not to treat themselves with a substance that has a 90% chance of completely erradicating their cancer without the harsh side effects of chemo, which has a much less likely chance of curing them. Little angers me more when people KNOW about the cure for cancer but don't use it. I understand why, but I despise it. I eagerly await the day when people can freely cure themselves.
Sorry about your friend! Of four people whose graves or memorials I tend, three died of cancer! One had liver cancer caused by hepatitis C, and now seeing a hepatitis C treatment advertised on TV, I wonder how long it has been available and whether it might have helped.
PatHat, you're going to have to change your circle. I know that can be hard. I learn a long time ago to not expect much from others, that way I am seldom disappointed. It is hard to find people that will do the right thing. They really don't know any better so I've learned to depend on the power of 'Me'.
Up until recently, VERY recently, there has been very little to treat Hep C. There are now maybe two? different types of drugs that can actually help. My mother was diagnosed with Hep C several years ago and earlier this year was able to take one of the new drugs. Her most recent blood tests showed her without the Hep C virus. Cured? They don't know for sure yet. Time will tell.
Edit: She has also been diagnosed with Cirrhosis, so that is an added complication. But that hasn't progressed much recently. So maybe the drugs would have helped your friend.
That's all I've been doin' darlin', depending on just me for more years now than I care to count...got no circle, and now it's just me, oh yeah, and two felines, but they never veto.
But I'm also just stupid enough, and probably too old school enough, to believe in the power of the handshake, and keep a promise to live up to one's side of a deal.
And ya know it's bad enough when it's not kept because of just plain laziness or ignorant apathy, but it scorches my ass, not justa little, when it's being flat out lied to, and being sold out, for nothing but making a little easy money.
(((PITH)))- only love and green lights.
My friend knew for years that he had it, (due to intravenous drug use when young), but it wasn't common knowledge until the cancer was diagnosed. He passed away five years ago--I guess I am thinking of him more as his birthday is today--anyway recently I dreamed I was telling him about these drugs and asking if they would help in his case, or did it depend on the particular case and its stage of advancement? Anyhow, what kind of gets me is hepatitis is supposed to be sexually transmitted--he was married for many years, long enough to live to baptize a grandchild. As far as I know his wife remains perfectly healthy, and I guess if she does have it she is smart enough to be aware of the drugs and whether they may benefit her. Also my uncle had it (among three other fatal diseases!) and my aunt was in constant contact with him and as far as I know never contracted it. Yet I believe his brother also had it, which is pretty strange.
Thanks! Is it not strange that (if I recall correctly) my uncle and possibly his brother had hepatitis C but my uncle's wife did not? I wonder if he and his brother were both exposed to the same thing, or caught it at different times by different means.
Pat in the Hat, I hear ya--this is really maddening!
Today I received a Facebook message from someone wanting tree work done asking why I wouldn't recommend a certain tree trimmer. I had put on a group that I wouldn't, but anyone wanting to know why would have to PM me as I wasn't posting the details on a group. So this woman PMed me and I took a good 30 or 40 minutes typing out the whole long sad frustrating story with the full orchestration and five part harmony. While I was typing I was thinking about that Stephen King story, you know, where the jerk neighbor's tree crushed the other guy's boathouse, 'cause on account of this jerk it could have happened to my garage. It turned out so good I was thinking of posting it here. So I proofread it and hit post. At the bottom of the post appeared the message "This person is not receiving messages from you now." I had noticed she had a couple of mutual friends but didn't see who. So I thought I'd contact one of them to tell her I did try to reply but something went wrong, so she would not think I just ignored her.
When I tried to go to her account to identify the two mutual friends, her account was GONE! If she did it on purpose, that was pretty rude, asking me a question and then removing her account like an hour and a half later before I could answer! If Facebook did it, I thought, well, I still have my reply, but when I went back to the conversation, my reply was GONE, with the notation "You cannot reply to this conversation."
So if she did this purposely, she's on my list, too!
Today I received a Facebook message from someone wanting tree work done asking why I wouldn't recommend a certain tree trimmer. I had put on a group that I wouldn't, but anyone wanting to know why would have to PM me as I wasn't posting the details on a group. So this woman PMed me and I took a good 30 or 40 minutes typing out the whole long sad frustrating story with the full orchestration and five part harmony. While I was typing I was thinking about that Stephen King story, you know, where the jerk neighbor's tree crushed the other guy's boathouse, 'cause on account of this jerk it could have happened to my garage. It turned out so good I was thinking of posting it here. So I proofread it and hit post. At the bottom of the post appeared the message "This person is not receiving messages from you now." I had noticed she had a couple of mutual friends but didn't see who. So I thought I'd contact one of them to tell her I did try to reply but something went wrong, so she would not think I just ignored her.
When I tried to go to her account to identify the two mutual friends, her account was GONE! If she did it on purpose, that was pretty rude, asking me a question and then removing her account like an hour and a half later before I could answer! If Facebook did it, I thought, well, I still have my reply, but when I went back to the conversation, my reply was GONE, with the notation "You cannot reply to this conversation."
So if she did this purposely, she's on my list, too!
Actually, Facebook could have lost her account (though I've never heard of them accidentally deleting ANY account), she could have deleted it, or she could have blocked me, but blocking me within an hour and a half of asking the question, before I had time to even see it, let alone type a word in reply? PRET-ty darn weird! I have NEVER been blocked by ANYONE on Facebook! It lets you know when one of your friends leaves and in every case it was because the person closed their own account!
See, what I'm thinking is this person spoke to someone who said something CONSIDERABLY worse than the reason the tree trimmer himself gave me, for not working for us, which was so minor as to be laughable! Then she just took their word for it and blocked me without even waiting to hear my side of it!
See, what I'm thinking is this person spoke to someone who said something CONSIDERABLY worse than the reason the tree trimmer himself gave me, for not working for us, which was so minor as to be laughable! Then she just took their word for it and blocked me without even waiting to hear my side of it!