Oh, God! Why are you reading this?

My trash company has a state of the art computer systems, but unfortunately that was in 1988. I have yet to be able to log into my account. Their computer does not recognize my password. So when I try to change my password, there's a box that wants my "current password". Now, how in the hell can I enter my "current" password if the password I thought it was, doesn't work? The trash site is so old that when you try to log on, there's a map of the Easter USA and you have to click on near where you live- using a zip code is way too advanced for their computer to grasp.
You'd think a New Jersey based trash company would have stolen a better system.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I have yet to be able to log into my account. Their computer does not recognize my password. So when I try to change my password, there's a box that wants my "current password". Now, how in the hell can I enter my "current" password if the password I thought it was, doesn't work?
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If I hadn't seen that "trash company" and read this, I would have sworn you were talking about PPL. I opened an online account with them... oh gosh, must have 15 years ago, or whenever they started offering it. So now I thought I'd start paying online again like I do most other bills. Get in there and put my account number in... they won't access my information for me because they need to send me a confirmation code either by email or text.

I haven't had that email OR that phone number in a decade and a half! And they can't prove I'm me. Why the heck would someone other than me want to pay my electric bill?! Grrrr. Every time I've tried (including via phone call a few times years ago), I ended up frustrated and just sent a check. They couldn't use the phone I was calling with... had to be the one on file. Maybe by now they've hired some workers who actually know what they're doing (or at least speak my language?)
 
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Harold, the turkey
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I finally got to add a pic of Harold, the turkey, who lives in a tree in my backyard. Yesterday, he was walking around his tree. I don't know if it's a "he".
This is what irks me about computers. I tried to email this from my phone to my computer so I could post it. I had it all ready to send the email, from my phone and there was NO "send" icon. I get these computer instructions and it'll say just click on, say, "SAVE",
AND THERE'S NO FRIKKEN SAVE ICON.
 
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There's always a catch. I am doing really good adhering to diabetic diet. But the catch is I feel chilly a lot. That's one of the symptoms of a "low" sugar level. For a diabetic it's "low", but normal for a non-diabetic. I wear a sweater, and still I get chilly. I don't want to be one of those old geezers with the thermostat set on "broil". But I'm getting there.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
There's always a catch. I am doing really good adhering to diabetic diet. But the catch is I feel chilly a lot. That's one of the symptoms of a "low" sugar level. For a diabetic it's "low", but normal for a non-diabetic. I wear a sweater, and still I get chilly. I don't want to be one of those old geezers with the thermostat set on "broil". But I'm getting there.
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I’m curious about your daily diet.

It’s a constant struggle for me to maintain my numbers but I have to admit that I don’t try as hard as I should.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I’m curious about your daily diet.

It’s a constant struggle for me to maintain my numbers but I have to admit that I don’t try as hard as I should.
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At 10 PM, I could eat through an entire grocery store. There's nothing to chew on that doesn't have carbs. GRRRRR.
And when I go off the diet, I don't mess around-then I never met a carb I couldn't eat.
 
Last night, there was slight dent in my diabetic diet. I won't say I pigged out, but 'oink'.
Today, I'm looking for a weather man to beat up, or at least harass. 10 days ago, I was supposed to have 7-9 inches of snow, and another 4 inches. I switched everything around rescheduling appts, etc.. I have a bad back, so I just can't hop out of bed and shovel snow. I have to be well rested and have no big exertion 3-4 days before a snow day. Then I'm down for the count for about 3-4 days, after. I figured out a schedule to be able to get out and shovel snow.
There hasn't been one damn snow flake.
 
Things that go through my head before I fall asleep:
Why did we invent Santa Claus? Every parent makes a big deal about Santa when the kids are small- under age 7. Older kids won't swallow the story. What is it that makes parents act like there's this fictional guy, who brings presents?
Why is it every few years that some "Professor Somebody", or other, launches a no holds barred "scientific" attempt to find the Loch Ness Monster?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Why did we invent Santa Claus?
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Maybe you'll be able to sleep better tonight if I assure you we didn't invent Santa, but St. Nicholas was a real person... Greek bishop who lived and was kind to the children many centuries before we were born. :giggle:

Can't answer the Professor Somebody part... maybe he'll find Nessie soon and will then put a 🧦 in it? Sounds as if you have a wonderfully active and inquisitive mind... always a good thing!
 
I was wondering what the new sign of having lots of money is. I'm not talking about the super wealthy, but in the neighborhood. When I was a kid (1950s), it was if you had color tv-ooooooh!!!! Later it was a big screen tv- then a flat screen tv.
????????
I must have really teed off the Weather God. Yesterday, I went outside, in the freezing cold, and chopped through 2 inches of ice on my deck. And my car was frozen under the same layer. It took me a long time to chisel the ice from around the windshield wipers. Now, only 12 hours later, it's all melting. And the snow & ice probably won't make it through to tomorrow.
All hail the great and powerful Weather God.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I was wondering what the new sign of having lots of money is. I'm not talking about the super wealthy, but in the neighborhood. When I was a kid (1950s), it was if you had color tv-ooooooh!!!! Later it was a big screen tv- then a flat screen tv.
????????
I must have really teed off the Weather God. Yesterday, I went outside, in the freezing cold, and chopped through 2 inches of ice on my deck. And my car was frozen under the same layer. It took me a long time to chisel the ice from around the windshield wipers. Now, only 12 hours later, it's all melting. And the snow & ice probably won't make it through to tomorrow.
All hail the great and powerful Weather God.
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Silly question … with all that ice, why would you want to go anywhere?
 
I never used to paid much attention to weather reports, other than snow or no snow. But trying to coordinate doctor appointments so they are between storms is a challenge. 10 days ago, Sunday was supposed to be well above freezing, so I made an appt. for Monday. Now, there's a snow event on Saturday into Sunday. On Thursday, we were supposed to have 21 inches of snow, now, it's down to 6.
I think instead of "ACTION WEATHER!!!!", we get the damn groundhog.
 
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I never used to paid much attention to weather reports, other than snow or no snow. But trying to coordinate doctor appointments so they are between storms is a challenge. 10 days ago, Sunday was supposed to be well above freezing, so I made an appt. for Monday.
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Same with grocery pickup for me as with your doc appointments... watched the weather all week and waited until there was a clear day with all the snow and sleet taking a break. So yesterday was supposed to be clear and even a little warmer... oooh, great! I'll make my pickup for Friday morning! Wouldn't ya know it, I got up and there was an inch of snow. Crud! No sleet though, and I was past my cancellation window so I said to heck with it and picked them up hoping the roads would be okay.

More snow/sleet coming tomorrow. And Sunday. I am so tired of it. Soooo, I will turn my thoughts to 🌷🌷🌷🌷
 
I'll be 79 in a couple of months, and my back tells me if I'll be able to shovel snow that day. About 2 weeks ago, I made a Dr.'s appt. for Monday BECAUSE the weather app, said there would be no snow on Sunday, nor Monday. Today, there's a Weather advisory for 12 inches of snow for the weekend. Yeah, weather stuff is hard to predict, so why have a 10 day forecast?

I live in the sticks, and I remember waking up after my first snowstorm. Nothing was plowed. It was just one great big huge unbroken swath of snow from my house to my neighbors. I thought if I had a heart attack the only way EMS could get to me was by helicopter. Talk about feeling isolated.
Would I give up the grief, and back breaking work to deal with getting dumped on by snow for Miami?
Nope.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Would I give up the grief, and back breaking work to deal with getting dumped on by snow for Miami?
Nope.
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I wouldn't either... not even a question. Wonder if we'll be singing a different tune by the weekend, though? That 12" you mentioned might be a generous estimate and on the low side if the one weather model I saw is correct. But hoping it's just having brain fog this morning. 😲
 
Today, finally going for my MD appt. I've been trying coordinate snowstorms and appts. I've switched appts, several times due to SUPPOSED storms that never showed up. The problem is getting snow off my car. My back will say, "Oh, you're not doing that, today". He always wins.
On TV, the weather channels are always having "the storm of the Century" every Tuesday. One prediction was 21 inches of snow, so I switched appts, and not one snowflake fell.

30 MINUTES AFTER I WROTE THAT^
My doc's office called, he can't make it in because of icy roads. I'm rescheduled for Friday
 
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Because of nerve loss from my back problems, I have to catheterize in order to go. Got a call saying there was a problem with my monthly supply. When I called back, it was one of those totally automated systems. It was one of those "press 1/press 2" types. After pressing my fingers off, I got to talk to an actual person, who was using a genuine Buzz Lightyear toy microphone. I told him my problem. He said, "Something, something, transfer you to" Hummmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I had to keep putting in my name, etc., over and over. There was one question. It said if you are from the US in any other state other than Alabama, press 2. If you live in Alabama press 1. ?????? Finally, I got a return call and it was nothing important.
I hate those automated systems, they are not very good. I hate when they give you choices, but none of them are why you called them.
 
I'm trying to figure out what I can complain about, or what wonderful things I'm doing. I got nothing. February is a boring month. Winter is about over, and it's just hanging around. February has holidays nobody pays much attention to. February is Black History month, but 30,000 Black history TV specials kind of kills that. I have a podiatrist appointment on Friday, other than that I'm free for the month. It's too cold to do anything outside and I'm bored as hell inside.

Later.........
Yeah. I found something to gripe about. When I was logging off Google had a site for "Seniors over 50" groups. Duh!!!!! Who ever heard of a senior in his/her 40s?
 
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