we don't even separate anything, just dump it all in the can. I cannot fathom that there are people on the other end sorting my recyclingQuote:
Originally Posted by ctg492
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we don't even separate anything, just dump it all in the can. I cannot fathom that there are people on the other end sorting my recyclingQuote:
Originally Posted by ctg492
There aren't, at least not many. This article from Popular Science about single stream recycling explains how it works:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...rate-junk-type
Bad experience with Clark shoes: bought a lightly used pair of clogs at a nice consignment shop. Looked in great shape. Wore them today and in the space of 300 yards they literally fell apart - the heel came off one, the soles separated on the sides, then the heel came off of the other one. I shuffled back to my car and came home and threw them in the trash.
Googled "Clark shoes falling apart" and there were hundreds of complaints going back at least 7 years.
What the heck? Clarks used to be very good shoes but I'm posting here so others may take heed.
Trolls who bait, driving in the snow.
I understand Windows 10 is going to be foisted on us whether we want it or not, unless we check our settings and change them, if necessary.
This may be the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
I am so ready to give up on having house mates lately. Not that he has done ANYTHING wrong. It's just that he hasn't left the house in two days and it's beginning to wig me out having a human presence here 24/7. So in addition to the chaos of my work schedule and the crap it is causing in my life outside of work, I have to deal with someone elses random (and do I really mean random - I have NO idea when he is going out or coming in or taking a shower in the one bathroom I have, or cooking). It's not helping that this is the hardest winter ever that I am going through mentally and physically; I just want to be alone in my own house so bad...
April cannot come soon enough! Okay, rant over, I must remember that the rent money I get from this funds a lot of fun things in my life (however, having the extra income tax-wise it is not as good as I had originally thought). So going forward, I will either take a nice long break from renting my extra room or just deciding that I don't feel like doing it anymore. Some days it feel like the lack of privacy just isn't worth it...
SQ, when one is used to living alone, having someone there living independently is a big shift. Hang in there; only a few more weeks and you're free, free, free at last. :) At least you are being somewhat compensated for his presence.
Thanks Steve! And it WAS and IS my choice to do this in the first place, but it just goes to show ultimately how much I really crave my own space. However, he is a really nice and very interesting guy, and totally opposite from the last guy who paid me rent for four months and was hardly ever here! At least "J" will be going out of town for mid-winter break for over a week so I can get some respite :)
I am attending the worst Go to Meeting ever on a new software monitoring system we have to employ in the classroom and I am ready to quit even part-time--God, this place is SO DUMB and teaching has become a torturous Orwellian exercise in futility--Never, ever, did I want to be Big Brother, much less suffer under Big Brother.
God I hate this job, even on a part-time basis.
any prospects of changing jobs?
Working on it, but need the part time income!Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
Arrived at my tax preparers office at 2:50 pm for a 3:00 appt. Proceeded to wait til 3:20 pm because the client already there decided to chit-chat during her time (I could overhear the conversation) while the accountant was trying to do her taxes. Tax preparer kept deflecting and trying to keep on point, but Chatty Kathy continued to update her on her entire life happenings in 2015.
Please socialize with your tax preparer on your own time so all of the clients scheduled after you get our full appointment too. (I'd even seen a letter in the newspaper from a tax accountant asking the same thing: it's his busiest time of the year and his clients are booked for an hour. He doesn't have time to spend 15 minutes just catching up on the miscellany of your life, and do your taxes at the same time.)
Eyerolls. Here we are in gardening season and a new gardener at our Community Garden spoke up at a recent meeting because she had "learned that harsh chemicals were used last year on the patio area!" and she is upset and stressed about that.
Yes, Roundup is my friend. And while I am not the culprit who used Roundup on the patio area, I do sometimes use Roundup on my bed on the backside of the community garden, away from their precious vegetables. So I stood up in the meeting and said that a well aimed systemic treatment saves lots of manhours and I don't think, given the lack of proximity to the vegetables, its a big deal for me to use. However, I will try to curb that use.
So, at the garden work day I showed her the brick patio area and congratulated her on taking over that weeding job. Since Roundup (a five minute job) is out, she will be the one who can apply "alternative" methods. Hope she is ready for those hours of work.
A few minutes later she talked about her hatred of ants and how she had exterminators make the maximum number of treatments allowed in her old digs.
O-------kay. I guess those insecticides must not be "harsh chemicals."
Me, IVe got a pet Daddy Longlegs spider living under my microwave oven and he runs out to snatch little unsuspecting ants when they crawl across the counter. While I really do not mind ants if they arent the biting kind, I dont like legions of them, and I think word of his presence gets around the ant colony.
lol at letting her take over the patio area, bet it won't look as good as last year!
Making plans with a friend:
Me: Looks like the long weekend is open, let's meet up on Friday.
Friend: okay, sounds good, what do you suggest?
Me: Lunch Friday?
Friend: no, I'm going out of town and I don't know when I'll be back Friday. Might be able to be back in time for dinner.
? didn't think this piece of info might be relevant? oy vey, trying to plan a simple get-together with people!
Winter coming back after a really nice last week! On the other hand, it was still light out at 7:30 driving home, and we have robins in the yard.
Saturday it actually got up to 70 degrees in my area! So...such a lovely day--I spent most of it preparing beds and weeding, cleaning up winter debris. Got some carrot and parsnip seeds out and put in a few small beds.
Next morning: I take my cup of coffee out for a stroll and curses!!!! Squirrels had demolished my veggie beds, frolicking around and planting peanuts that ^&%@#$ neighbors feed them.
I had a fleeting thought of covering them with chicken wire while I was planting, but hadn't done it. Lesson learned.
The tree rats need to die. Nasty, destructive creatures.Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
I apparently have as labral tear in my hip. Took about 8 doctors and tests to figure it out.
Just when I'm wanting to get out and climb mountains and tear up my yard, too
Grr.
my mother is driving me batty, I have become her "bitch about everything" person. Trying to get her ready for my brother's wedding has taken days worth of time, she is 4'11" and wears a 3 x with ginormous boobs. Took her out once shopping to see a personal shopper. She can try on two dresses and then she is done, I get that, she is sick. So I ordered an onslaught of dresses, she can try on one a day if she wants. Her feet are so full of fluid, Zappos has not one pair in her size. The dresses for the most part look bad. All of this makes her rant and rave and then cry. I pick up the pieces and keep ordering. Never a thank you, more of an I have to push her because the wedding is coming up and she has to find something and get it tailored. So she's mad that she is pushed.
I am her tech support like I know what the hell I am doing. Spent 3 hours on the phone with Apple after an 1 hour hold time. My day was shot yesterday. No thank you just "you didn't get all my apps back"
I try to stick my head in her room when she is not asleep to visit because her world is basically her bedroom and I figure she is lonely. It inevitably devolves into a convo of all the ways I could be a better person, parent, adult child, etc. If she asks how I am and I am honest, she doesn't want to hear it. So I am always "great".
I love her, she is the person I am closest to in life, I get she is dying and feels like shit, I get she needs a person to vent to but she never even acknowledges that I have become that person and she is sorry. I feel guilty even complaining about her here. The worst is watching her treat the other people in her life totally kind and as if they were human with feelings.
Oh Freshstart, You have my sympathy. I have not a single bit of advice except to remember all you are saying...she's dying, angry and you are there....Any possibility of pretending she says thank you and I love you at least once a day...say it to yourself? Do not feel guilty for expressing your feeling here.
thank you. No matter how bad it is, we always say "I love you" at night. I know she loves and appreciates me, I also know she is frustrated that I got sick and never remember conversations and she has to repeat them. I know I am her PITA, too. It just gets really old sometimes.
Not that this in any way compares to Freshstart's situation described above (I am so sorry you are having a hard time of it, but bless you for being there for her in her final days)...
I just looked at my back calendar pages and realized I haven't had two days off in a row since mid-February. I am in the I have to last "one more day at a time" phase this morning. The week started out okay work-wise, I even had two decent night's sleep in a row. Then I had a mid-shift yesterday at noon, but woke up at 5am on the dot as if I was going to the opening shift. Well, I couldn't get myself back to sleep so I got up and got quite a bit done before work. Did the shift, got off at 7pm, but didn't allow myself to go home because I made a commitment to myself to try and go out and be social for once. Well, in the time it took to get my drink order in at what used to be my favorite local bar, and by the time I got said drink, I had already devolved into a bad mood. I didn't know anyone there, the music hadn't started yet and I just feel so left out of the daily life that goes on with out me. It reinforced the fact of how much I have lost since I've been working at this job, the crushing social isolation that I am feeling (yes, even hermits and introverts can feel completely isolated).
I got home at 9:30pm, grumpy as hell and tired, and was asleep probably by 11pm. Then I woke up at 3am for a few hours, tossing and turning and ruminating; at some point I fell asleep again, maybe around 6:00am and slept until 8:30, when my housemate woke me up by singing at the top of his voice "Oh, Joyous Morning"... NOT. I am grumpy, confuzzled, achey, and discombobulated from the chaos of my life. And I have to go to work at 12:00. Then tomorrow I am back at 6am, then the next day back at 12:00.
I talked to the guy who does scheduling (again)the other day but I just don't think there is too much I can hope for there at this point. It is what it is, and if I can't handle it, I am free to leave the job. Right now all I want to do is to somehow hang on until I get to my vacation in June, one day at a time.
staying til June to get a paid vacation makes sense but maybe they would give it to you in a check if you quit sooner? Or maybe use the next two months to update your resume and start looking at possible other jobs that are available so you kind of know what might be out there when/if you quit after your vacation
I get a big bank of paid time off in mid-May, which will allow me to take this three-week vacation fully paid. I am SO NOT going to forfeit that when I am this close!
Okay, trying to pump myself up to do excellent customer service today. One good thing is that I am usually okay mentally by the time I have punched in and gotten started; it's the hours of dread leading up to having to actually get myself there. I though about calling off earlier today, but it is too late now. I have to remember that I MUST get in a certain number of service hours to get that PTO windfall in May before my vacation. I am NOT going to tempt myself just because I am grumpy today...
3 weeks is great, I'd stay, too!
I'm going to write a peeve from the POV of DH:
I am annoyed with DW, Iris Lilies. Yesterday the winds were at 45 miles per hour here in the city, nearly a record for winds with no associated storms. When she was working in one of our gardens she let the gate blow open and closed and open etc. That tore up the hardware. Now I have to fix it.
And then yesterday she parked the car under two trees that are full of dead limbs. The city hasn't removed these trees even though we have made multiple requests.
She has no common sense!!!
I am annoyed with recycling. It is just hard. I have been recycling since before everyone cared, even had a compost bin at a couple places. But the recycling dumpster is in another parking lot and I carry down purse, laptop bag and lunch everyday. I don't have another hand to work with. So I express this to 2 people and they both respond basically that it doesn't matter, the stuff doesn't really get recycled or it has a low impact. I know they are trying to be supportive however it felt more de-valuing after years of my environmental focus. Cloth grocery bags, bring lunch in re-usable containers with a cloth napkin and my own utensils, running camp with a 'low landfill' plan, etc. I just hate throwing this stuff in the trash,
Recently when I was going through dumpsters looking for a package that was stolen from my front porch, I found a cardboard box with my neighbor's name on it in the trash dumpster, not the recycling dumpster. She is young. I suppose I would be Gladys Kravitz to complain and "educate" her on dumpster etiquette, so I won't. But what the hell, I;m not convinced that young people are any more careful about recycling than old people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoe Girl
Yeah IL, one person was older (my mom) and one was younger. For my mom there is that little rub of irritation from years of hearing that pretty much everything I did was wrong. It really only comes up when she visits, we use lots of paper towels, disposable napkins, I finally got her to stop bringing plastic table ware and disposable table cloths when I have several fabric ones and table settings for 10. Then there is the soap pumps in 'disposable' plastic pumps when I have perfectly fine bar soap for the bathroom, and it only takes a paper wrapper in the trash. I don't bug her about wasteful ways at her house, but when she visits I don't want stuff that is going to take a year to use up and to not be in my environmental focus because somehow she thinks I am poor or deprived,
Argh more of a rant than I thought.
My rant/peeve is that PBS no longer shows programs as long as it used to. It used to hold on to shows a bit longer and I could catch up. Now they seem to cycle them very quickly. I missed last weeks Granchester episode....now I have to watch episode 2 without seeing episode 1. Quick! Too quick!
If I said to you, "Recycling is a waste of time and money." You might be angry with me. But you of course know there are different types and processes of recycling. And you should also know that not all people can be trusted to do what they say they are doing with recycled materials especially if there is a public tax or subsidy involved. So naming something has nothing to do with knowing anything about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoe Girl
There are differences in efficiencies between materials. Aluminum is perhaps the best material to recycle because it has a relatively high value. The rest of the stuff is worthless and costs energy to handle. Then you have different methods....voluntary delivery, buy back and curbside as well as dumping in landfills and all have different degrees of value and some of no value and even more costing more energy and creating more environmental damage than just burying it in a landfill.
In fact, the best methods of recycling that addresses inorganic and organic differences hardly exist because no one is making money on them.
And so, you could say that very likely becoming dissappointed with another persons lack of care in discarding recyclables is merely an exercise is mental snobbery and that likely your well intentioned recycling is of no greater benefit to the environment than your neighbors dumping everything in the trash. That is unless you have personally traced the downstream path of your discarded recyclables and verified its return to usefulness, you make many assumptions that have no basis in knowledge or science.
As in everything there is a great difference between having an understanding and knowing. Now you can throw almost everything in the trash and sleep with a clear conscience.
I am angry because the car I bought new and now has 73,000 is burning oil. GM 4 cylinders have a known problem of the rings going bad and letting oil bypass.
We can't find any leaks, nor can the dealership. They are trying to tell me that adding 3 quarts of oil between changes is not excessive and will only result in fouled spark plugs. I will have to say I've lost all respect for the brand and the dealership.
ToyotaQuote:
Originally Posted by Tenngal
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Williamsmith
Toyota of the "sludge-o-matic" transmission? Toyota of the exploding air bags? Toyota of the sticky power-window switches? Toyota of the faulty airbag cable, seat rails, and starter?Quote:
Toyota
Umm-kay.
There was a point, maybe 20 years ago, when one paid the price for a Toyota and got an unexciting boringly dependable car which sold at a higher price than the competition -- but at least was pretty near bulletproof and you could get some of the price premium back at trade-in/sale time. That Toyota no longer exists. They still may be above average in reliability (well, Scion doesn't seem to do all that well, but they're dead now), but Toyota is far from bulletproof now and they recall cars by the millions just like so many other manufacturers.
Maybe the only brand I could recommend as trouble-free is Rolls-Royce. But most of us can't afford those. :~)
If you consider Consumer Reports a reliable source , Toyota receives top billing in almost every category across the board. I have owned the following makes.....Datsun, Nissan, Toyota, Chrysler, Dodge, Chevrolet, Pontiac, many Fords, a few Hyundais, and a Subaru. My Toyota Tacoma is quite bulletproof and the best of them all.
+1 on Toyota.
I had Hondas or Toyotas for many years, and then dipped my toe back in to the U.S. auto market by buying a 5 year old used Ford station wagon. A few months later I had to replace the gas tank which had started leaking. The gas tank. On a 5 year old car.
Couldn't return fast enough to Toyota.
Had all my Hondas to well over 100,000 trouble free miles. Last one was just to 200,000 when it was totaled in an accident involving a semi. One before that was totaled in an accident hubby walked away from with only a bruise. They are reliable, long lasting, and safe little cars. One of them, four or five cars ago, is still on the road and was passed down in a family of 5 kids as the kid car.
Two Hondas in the garage and plan on keeping them forever or until a really special safety device comes out as hubby loves his right side camera right now.
Went to a garage sale yesterday where everything was donation only. Nothing was marked. I HATE THAT!!! Tell me what you want. I was looking for cookie scoops and the woman said she had some of her mothers that she would part with. She came out with two...1 and 1 1/2 inch scoops made by Pampered Chef.... exactly what I wanted. I asked her how much and she said just put what you feel in the donation box for her mother who is in assisted living. I put in what I thought I would pay at a garage sale and came back later with a dozen chocolate chip cookies I had baked using the scoops for her mother. I'm thrilled with the cookie scoops but not sure if I gave enough. Rant and peeve in one!