Online forms that ask you for specific information, and then won't take what it asks for. I've entered every possible combination of the alphanumeric codes required separately and together (both ways round) and still it asks me for a valid code.... I checked with the supplier of the codes as to which bits I needed; I entered what they told me, and still it won't take it.
I have gone back to online form owner to ask if I can do this another way... ie mail them the details!
People who leave 'stuff' outside closed charity shops, even when the windows of those charity shops have been cleared of goods and have notices posted up saying they are closed for the duration, that they are not accepting donations, and please not to leave anything outside the shop,
@Roseofsharon, I do not know if this will help you, but when we had the same problem at our church thrift store I called the local paper and asked them to do an article about the problem. They pointed out the cost of taking away trash people had left, things ruined setting out in the rain and not useable. The good the shop did for the community and how stuff left outside meant less we had to help others. It seemed to help a lot for a year or so.
TICTH the Evil Daystar. It's 26C today and due to get worse. Indoors is stuffy, outdoors is unbearable as there are no clouds and the sun hurts my skin. Fortunately lockdown means I don't have to put up with human Salamanders telling me how lovely it is.
Would it make you feel better to know that here in the Phoenix area it's supposed to reach 43C today? (That in addition to Trump coming here.)
Not really. That heat would kill me, and I don't mean metaphorically. My ideal is 20-21 with at least 50% cloud cover. I drink but it gives me relief for a few seconds. I can't take any more clothes off without causing acute visual discomfort to everyone else. What can I do?
We own a movable air conditioner. Not the most eco-friendly of devices, but it does help cool things down. It was very useful a couple of summers ago, when we were using our west-facing box room as the office.
I am in full support of KarlB.
Even with the help of the sea breeze I can only function before 09:30 and after 18:30 at the moment.
At least we are over the longest day, and the sun will, slowly, be getting a smidgeon less time to torment us.
It is just above 100F 40 C here today. The dog and I get up at 6:30AM finish walk and outdoor watering by 8:00 I do minor chores and am pretty useless until 7:30 PM when I do laundry, cleaning and such. I just nap between 1 and 3 with air conditioner going and a small fan. Thankfully we get breaks in this during the summer and it cools off at night.
I'm starting to melt just reading those temperatures! I heard from friends in Fredericton that it was in the mid-30s there last weekend, and I was very glad to be in cool, gentle Edinburgh!
Having said that, I've just looked at the Met Office website, and it's to go up to 24° on Thursday, which is Too Hot.
My comfort zone is a good frosty day around 0°C, and anything above brings out the worst in me. It was in the 30s until today, which has been a little easier, in the low 20s, but with rain, so horribly muggy. The thing that works best for me is lying on the bed under the ceiling fan - a heavenly invention, and better than air conditioning. Persons who use compression stockings and suchlike are to be avoided right now - we are not nice to know.
I bought a mosquito net with the idea of supending it over my bed and spraying it with water to evaporate and cool the surroundings. It was no good, being synthetic and water resistant*. I need a lot of muslin. I have a peculiar lighting fitment from IKEA with two leads like trolley bus wires crossing the room, and my bed, and five directional lights between them**. It would be ideal to hang a coathanger with wet muslin from, if I could find the muslin. I have loads of thin sheets, but too heavy I think.
*Last seen protecting the bramble from the birds.
**https://s.ecrater.com/stores/54622/542615cc29187_54622b.jpg Something like this, with the lights spread across the width of the room, and the sphere on the ceiling. I've changed the halogens for LEDs. No prongs. Not my choice. I was going to change it, but the position for the pendant would mean I couldn't see into the wardrobe the other side of the room.
Anyway. Muslin. The company Mum used for that sort of thing has gone.
I'd like to consign to Hell the technology that is trying to update Windows on my PC. It shuts everything down, begins the long slow process, and stops at 91%. Always at 91%. It did it again yesterday; all I can do is shut it down, give it time, and hope it is still working normally.
I bought a mosquito net with the idea of supending it over my bed and spraying it with water to evaporate and cool the surroundings. It was no good, being synthetic and water resistant*. I need a lot of muslin. I have a peculiar lighting fitment from IKEA with two leads like trolley bus wires crossing the room, and my bed, and five directional lights between them**. It would be ideal to hang a coathanger with wet muslin from, if I could find the muslin. I have loads of thin sheets, but too heavy I think.
Please be exceeding careful where moist fabrics are close to wires, bulbs, plugs, switches etc!
The thoughts needed on that have been thought. Worry not. Hence the coat hanger. I did think of draping over the wires, which appear to be plastic coated, but am not going down that path. I have plastic coathangers,
Break my fingers and put out my eyes O God, that I may refrain from responding to a Facebook post. And thank-you for the blood pressure medication. Amen.
In the US, or here? (Not that that's relevant. As you say, why? To which the answer might be 'The Good Guys With Guns protect the People from The Bad Guys With Guns'. Yeah, right.)
Meanwhile, TICTH (though being stuck in a traffic jam might do the trick) all those who flocked to the beaches of Southern England today, resulting in a 'major incident' being declared in the Bournemouth area: https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717
Yes, people are fed up with lockdown, but with cases of Covid-19 rising in several countries, perhaps the feeling is 'let's live [and sunbathe] while we can'...after all, Boris says it's our patriotic duty to go to the pub, so let's start now by pooping, weeing, and strewing beer cans, all over our beaches. The world's going to fry in a year or two, so why worry?
Bishops Finger beat me to it. Brighton and Hove (Hove in particular today) subject to all the horrors he lists in his CTH.
The rest of the world is astounded by our stupidity.
When that happened at Bondi Beach the temporary fencing came out, the beach was locked off and police, council rangers and [I think?] some army reservists enforced the closure. A few days later, sure enough, a virus hotspot bloomed in neighbouring suburbs. Fortunately our leaders are listening to the scientists.
I noticed on the local news last night that young persons gathering in a noisy fashion on the front at Hove has happened in previous years, to the concern of local residents, but not to the interest of the news media.
TICTH the university’s new process for students registering a disability, which is making me very cross indeed. I have sent an email expressing my opinion, as a lecturer in disability studies and a disabled student.
There's an area of grass - Hove Lawns, between a street and the seafront.
I was in college at Clacton when the Mods and Rockers had a do there. All I saw from the library was two scooters driving north. And then driving north again. And possibly a third time.
No sat-navs in those days, obviously...Hove is south of Clacton, no?
Meanwhile...
Dear Lord.
Please let all those who want to defecate in public on a beach be afflicted with severe constipation until they reach home, and can pebbledash their own toilet.
Radio Scotland had a program this morning on this very topic. 😳. For those so inclined.... it is worth a listen although I didn’t know whether to laugh , cry or try to find my eyebrows.......
Judges take notice; force the offenders to listen many times and then write an essay
Question, if I may: Are there restrooms at/near the beaches where it happened? Not excusing the behavior. But IME, depending on how the beach and upper area are structured, a restroom can be quite a hike away--generally, uphill, trudging on sand. I can see how someone might be desperate enough to stay put--especially if a child is involved.
TICTH amateur fireworks. It's currently 11:00 on a Saturday morning, a week before Independence Day. So why is someone in my neighborhood setting off firecrackers*? (At least I assume that what they are. I hope it's not a shooting.)
And why, in the name of all that is holy, did the Kiwanis Club leave a pair of sparklers at everyone's front door last week? It's illegal to sell them to minors, but apparently it's o.k. to leave them where a child might find them before their parents? Not to mention, we have not had rain in 103 days.
I took my sparklers to the Household Hazardous Waste drop-off yesterday. I might have saved them for November 5, but burning them then would have been illegal.
(*Certain types of fireworks are legal, but they may only be used from
June 24 to July 6, and from December 24 to January 3. My city tried to ban them several years ago, but the State of Arizona said we couldn't.)
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I have gone back to online form owner to ask if I can do this another way... ie mail them the details!
Not really. That heat would kill me, and I don't mean metaphorically. My ideal is 20-21 with at least 50% cloud cover. I drink but it gives me relief for a few seconds. I can't take any more clothes off without causing acute visual discomfort to everyone else. What can I do?
It won't get really hot until August.
The Gulf water is 87 (30.6C) now, but we sane people are not going to the beach.
Even with the help of the sea breeze I can only function before 09:30 and after 18:30 at the moment.
At least we are over the longest day, and the sun will, slowly, be getting a smidgeon less time to torment us.
Having said that, I've just looked at the Met Office website, and it's to go up to 24° on Thursday, which is Too Hot.
*Last seen protecting the bramble from the birds.
**https://s.ecrater.com/stores/54622/542615cc29187_54622b.jpg Something like this, with the lights spread across the width of the room, and the sphere on the ceiling. I've changed the halogens for LEDs. No prongs. Not my choice. I was going to change it, but the position for the pendant would mean I couldn't see into the wardrobe the other side of the room.
Anyway. Muslin. The company Mum used for that sort of thing has gone.
Please be exceeding careful where moist fabrics are close to wires, bulbs, plugs, switches etc!
I don't know where you are, but there's plenty on Amazon UK, mostly already cut to a fixed length, but some by the metre.
Just why......
Meanwhile, TICTH (though being stuck in a traffic jam might do the trick) all those who flocked to the beaches of Southern England today, resulting in a 'major incident' being declared in the Bournemouth area:
https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717
Yes, people are fed up with lockdown, but with cases of Covid-19 rising in several countries, perhaps the feeling is 'let's live [and sunbathe] while we can'...after all, Boris says it's our patriotic duty to go to the pub, so let's start now by pooping, weeing, and strewing beer cans, all over our beaches. The world's going to fry in a year or two, so why worry?
Buy a Beer and Booze on a Beach for Boris!
and
Way too close to people I love
The rest of the world is astounded by our stupidity.
What's the attraction of Hove seafront, in particular, over that of its eastern neighbour?
In My Day, Yoof were seen (if necessary) but not heard.
Goodness me. Yes, indeed - I had forgot.
Takes me back to my Yoof, that does...
(Reading about it in the papers then, I mean)
'Broken deckchairs'! It was war! The end of civilisation as we knew it!
I was in college at Clacton when the Mods and Rockers had a do there. All I saw from the library was two scooters driving north. And then driving north again. And possibly a third time.
Meanwhile...
Dear Lord.
Please let all those who want to defecate in public on a beach be afflicted with severe constipation until they reach home, and can pebbledash their own toilet.
Thank you.
Amen.
Well, the biggest-selling newspaper in the UK is the Daily Mail (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/19/daily-mail-eclipses-the-sun-to-become-uks-top-selling-paper) and it has the second most popular newspaper website (https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_news_websites/) with twice as many FB followers as the Guardian (most popular newspaper website), so it's not impossible that quite a few of those on the beach are Daily Mail readers.
So what's happening to this country could plausibly be people following what the Daily Mail says.
Radio Scotland had a program this morning on this very topic. 😳. For those so inclined.... it is worth a listen although I didn’t know whether to laugh , cry or try to find my eyebrows.......
Judges take notice; force the offenders to listen many times and then write an essay
Thx.
Er, well, yes... anyway.
And why, in the name of all that is holy, did the Kiwanis Club leave a pair of sparklers at everyone's front door last week? It's illegal to sell them to minors, but apparently it's o.k. to leave them where a child might find them before their parents? Not to mention, we have not had rain in 103 days.
I took my sparklers to the Household Hazardous Waste drop-off yesterday. I might have saved them for November 5, but burning them then would have been illegal.
(*Certain types of fireworks are legal, but they may only be used from
June 24 to July 6, and from December 24 to January 3. My city tried to ban them several years ago, but the State of Arizona said we couldn't.)