Time to move our fake dead crow. The 5 am wake up racket has to be nipped in the bud.
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Chronic insomnia is no joke…
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Rakuten, you’ve lost this customer. No cash back unless you use Rakuten-specific coupons is a dealbreaker, since I have yet to actually see a decent Rakuten-specific coupon code. Our long relationship is, sadly, over.
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It’s just a matter of time. 
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Well I messed up. Something I threw away turned out to be rented. So I’m on the hook to buy it…
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maybe, just maybe, POSSIBLY, it isn’t that I don’t INVITE them, or don’t invite them CORRECTLY, or haven’t MADE the EFFORT enough. MAYBE they are insensitive jerks, or maybe they just don’t like me, or maybe I am boring beyond measure. But I am PRETTY SURE it ISN’T my imagination and I am ALSO sure I am NOT oversensitive. It would be so nice if we had ever learned to listen to each other,if any of you ever listened to me, but that ship sank long ago. So yes, it makes me sad, and I am giving myself permission to feel sad. You guys did this to me.
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Yesterday I worked at the NYC primary for mayor, city council, and other NYC offices. Very long day (5am to 10ish pm depending on how long it takes to close up) for crappy pay but I feel I was helpful explaining ranked-choice voting and it was fun saying hello to neighbors and making new friends among my fellow workers. Come Election Day in November (again all NYC elected offices on the ballot), I’ll do it again! And maybe someone in office will pass away or be indicted (not so rare an occurrence, lol), there will be other working opportunities before then.
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Dear Lap Swimmer Guy in Lane 4
Just a helpful suggestion. No one looks good in a white Speedo swimsuit. There is a reason they are always on the sale rack.
(Hint: they become see through when they get wet)
Sincerely,
The Ladies in Lanes 5 and 6
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I wonder how much good could be accomplished with $76 million. So many people fed or housed, medical care provided…
Or a wedding in Venice. 
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Hon, you didn’t ask me about bringing our friends’ boat back from Massachusetts. I don’t care if we get half the price if you manage to sell it. And now you’re struggling, figuring out how to list it on a site. Good luck with that! I just want the thing out of our front yard.
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Well it’s great that I got a rare 25% off coupon. I hoped to use it to buy a couple to several things, but everything I want is and has been sold out for days. BOO on you!
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You are a household appliance. You have a simple task:
Take something dirty and make it clean
Take something wet and make it dry
Keep something at a temp that if I eat it at a later time I don’t get sick or die
Take something and heat it to a temperature until I tell you to stop
Take badish water and make it betterish
Toast, broil, heat, reheat or fry until I tell you to stop or you come to a limit set by me
Now, none of these actions should demand the use of an APP…none should require a Wi-Fi connection not one of these needs an overlord collecting data on when I ask a stupid home appliance to do its simple binary FARGGING task.
I will not install an APP so that I can ‘access additional features and learn more about my appliance. I will not scan a QR code so that I can give you all the details of my life in order to activate a warranty.
Just stop with this crap
Oh higher power help us if we ever have a real energy grid problem. A simple home generator will still leave some of us staring at our ‘smart’ appliances wishing for the 1970’s version of their ancestors.
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People love to complain
They are unhappy when you do the same. You are supposed to have a perfect life where nothing goes wrong.
But theirs….
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She said YES! So I now officially have two FDILs!!!
She had no idea it was coming! Yep both side of the family including a sister from across the country just came to visit their alma mater for her bday! 
Edit - obviously I’m excited. It should be OFFICIALLY! I fixed it. Sheesh. I know I’m the typo queen but still
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OH, FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD. Sheesh.
Please, please, please, please, please - next step, get the next step, and then the next - good things often come from the bad…prayers going up!
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Ugh! On Friday I slid my bike off a temporary berm into a ditch. Adrenaline must’ve been on my side, because my injuries could’ve been so much worse - inches from shattering my ankle and inches from shattering my elbow! The 70 pound bike (1/2 my body weight!), was on its side, halfway in the ditch. I apologized to the bike and in one heave I dragged her out, and was sure she’d never make it. She did, and so did I. Although my right foot could hardly take any pressure, I rode the 4 miles home (3 without pedal assist as the battery ran out!). Once home I immediately cleaned a gouge I had on my shin, (I had made a tourniquet using a tissue and a neck gator to stave off the bleeding!) Slathered arnica on the prominent bruises, sent my love to buy some arnica pellets, iced, and lay down, leg propped. I couldn’t bear weight on my right foot, and was thankful I have a cane, so I hopped around if I needed to move. I was quite sure the next day (Saturday) would be worse. I was surprised when it wasn’t. Arnica seems to have calmed the bruising, I was able to bear weight, and surprisingly, I didn’t ache from head to toe. I laid low, until 5 when I decided I needed to ride, even a short distance (you know, the get back up on the “horse” thing). I rode…18 miles. It was freeing.
I wish I’d have taken pics immediately after. But this is this morning. I’m in no pain (unless I press on the bruising), and I’m happy to say Loosy (a variation of Lucy, the orange-haired love of my life!) is scratched up but riding me around like a champ!
My tour starts in 3 weeks, and my trip in 2. I may need to wrap myself up in bubble wrap until then! Sheesh!
On a positive note, I rode my personal best, 33 miles!
And if you’re wondering, yes, I wear a helmet…all the time!
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