Random Rants
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Yeah I feel like writing a very sternly worded letter
I have simmered down but definitely had some fight-or-flight energy. I'm usually the easygoing one but this time my wife had to play good cop and defuse the situation. Anyway, I won't be using those guys for any future plumbing.
While I'm here, another ass move that happened of late. It is almost unheard of for us not to receive a piece of mail, even a useless one, once a day. We didn't get any for five days, so I called the post office to find out that our (serially incompetent, misdelivering, often showing up at 10PM) postman marked our house as vacant. Our house is quite obviously occupied, with a manicured lawn (we're selling the thing after all), cars parked there, both of us always there as we work from home, dogs looking out the windows and barking, and we even saw the man when we were working on the yard. When his supervisor asked where he sent the mail, he said that we didn't have any. For five days. When we just closed on a house and are under contract on this one. Absolutely impossible. And very worrisome, since I am positive there are sensitive documents that we were supposed to have received.
I feel like this is mail tampering and a federal offense. I don't understand why a postman would even be empowered to declare a house vacant. I would issue another sternly-worded letter, but who would pick it up?
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Sorry to hear about all this @mclaincausey . Maybe too late now but the USPS Informed Delivery app (or soon to be just website service) is actually pretty good at minimizing the risk of this happening, as you can see any mail to you scanned automatically at the service centers. Maybe something to look into.
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Thanks for the tip @babyknight I do use the equivalent for UPS
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Yeah I feel like writing a very sternly worded letter
I have simmered down but definitely had some fight-or-flight energy. I'm usually the easygoing one but this time my wife had to play good cop and defuse the situation. Anyway, I won't be using those guys for any future plumbing.
While I'm here, another ass move that happened of late. It is almost unheard of for us not to receive a piece of mail, even a useless one, once a day. We didn't get any for five days, so I called the post office to find out that our (serially incompetent, misdelivering, often showing up at 10PM) postman marked our house as vacant. Our house is quite obviously occupied, with a manicured lawn (we're selling the thing after all), cars parked there, both of us always there as we work from home, dogs looking out the windows and barking, and we even saw the man when we were working on the yard. When his supervisor asked where he sent the mail, he said that we didn't have any. For five days. When we just closed on a house and are under contract on this one. Absolutely impossible. And very worrisome, since I am positive there are sensitive documents that we were supposed to have received.
I feel like this is mail tampering and a federal offense. I don't understand why a postman would even be empowered to declare a house vacant. I would issue another sternly-worded letter, but who would pick it up?
In the lead-up to the election (when the PO was being messed with to the max) we'd get mail like once every 3-4 days, and it would always come in a rubber-banded bundle. I didn't really mind, it seems like a pragmatic way to deal with throttled capacity. The situation above, though, is quite another thing.
I got tick bite like a week ago, now the area itches. No rash or anything but worried about experiencing the horrors of Lymes disease. Damn my lazy self staying on the acursed east coast!
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you should have definitely went to an urgent care and gotten the dose of the doxycycline. @tvenuto -
Dude for those of us on the east coast that frequent wooded areas we'd never go off the antibiotics if we did it for every tick bite
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It's supposed to be in the 40s F this weekend in Shitsburgh. I wish I was at home… I could be wearing my IH robe and or my 17 🥺
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It would be awesome if climate change made it cold in our region all year round. I'm not sure what the long term implications of this would be… But at least I could wear ultra heavy stuff all the time besides jeans.
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It was nuts in the Great White North this past week. On Thursday, I turned on the air con in the morning and during the day. I had to turn the heat back on overnight to Friday. We actually had snow through out early part of Friday ???
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Anybody here get homesick when they are traveling? I'd love to be able to give my cat a snuggle for about 15 minutes and make a good cup of coffee, and open my mail right now.
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@Filthy:
Anybody here get homesick when they are traveling? I'd love to be able to give my cat a snuggle for about 15 minutes and make a good cup of coffee, and open my mail right now. [emoji30]
I share your pain… our new house is delayed and we handed over the keys to our old one 10 days ago. We’re living at my in-laws cabin which is nice, but I find myself grieving for the comfort and familiarity of my old house, while not having the pleasure and excitement of my new one.
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Wait, I just read you said delayed… What happened?
Oh, the contractor is running behind... What a pisser
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@Filthy:
Anybody here get homesick when they are traveling? I'd love to be able to give my cat a snuggle for about 15 minutes and make a good cup of coffee, and open my mail right now.
It's interesting to read this now because I have whatever the opposite of that is, and I'm betting some other people do as well.
Last night my wife and I went out to a restaurant (and sat inside and got served) for the first time since the start of the pandemic, with no kids. We just sat there in silence for a few minutes, looking around the room that was definitely not our house, listening to noises that were definitely not our children. After we were done eating we just…got up, and didn't have to do the dishes.
So I guess the lesson is too much of anything can be stressful. I'm reminded of the Tony Robbins TED talk, about the 6 human needs (the whole thing is good, but the needs come up at around 10:00).
Those of us who have been hanging at home have too much certainty, yourself on the road constantly has too much uncertainty.
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Yeah I spend a good 8 months a year away from home.
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If I fell asleep right now I could get 38 minutes
It is going to be a long hellish day for me. 
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Mike. Ive had 2 jobs that required >80% travel. The thought of doing that these days is haunting
Goosehd. Dude. Yer suppose to post pics of bikes all sparkly! Lol
Alex. Agree. I’d fuck a MF up fer that.
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You can smack them with that blackjack Mike
