How do I get NORMAL bathroom sink aerators? The seal on the old one failed after like 20 years. Now I’m trying to get another “normal” 2.2 GPM aerator. But those are illegal contraband in California! I could only get this crappy 1.5 GPM aerator that’s noisy and takes forever to do anything. Ace Hardware won’t sell me one. Amazon won’t knowingly sell me one. So I bought an unlisted, unmonitored, gray-market aerator on Amazon. It scares my wife Megan, the water flow is so strong!
I’m looking for recommendations for good American mid-size, mid-priced sedans. (or maybe a not-sporty SUV or similar) My 88 year-old mother may be shopping for a new car lease. Recommendations?
Facebook is rapidly becoming crappier. Zillions of ads and promotions of groups and crap you don’t want. I use Fluff Busting Purity and it makes it much more tolerable. Install the extension here and set the options. It only works on a real computer, not a phone, so I uninstalled FB from my phone. Going to the toilet is now fun again! The photo is the home page of my FB Purity settings.
It also helps to Snooze or Unsubscribe from groups that don’t help. I unsubbed from them all.
If this keeps up, I’m going to have to connect with my friends the old fashioned way again… email, text, and (dare I say) phone calls!)
I just have to vent. I’m dealing with scammer problems in family accounts on a weekly basis now. It’s cray-cray. In the last 8 months I’ve handled:
– 5+ credit cards with typical “what’s this weird charge?” fraud
– 4+ “my relative got scammed into signing up for this fraudulent thing”
– many crises averted with relatives asking “should I sign up for this fraudulent thing?” (I’m so glad they called!!)
– 2 “why is this otherwise legitimate insurance so much more expensive than it should be????” One insurance was double the cost, one was 8 times more expensive than it should have been!!!
– 1 “my relative is courting a pig butchering scammer because she’s lonely.”
All of the red flags are there but it takes a steady hand and many careful words to resolve every instance! I’ve only actually cried about it once but am getting ready to do more of that.
Props to American Airlines on our recent trip to Florida!
The day before the flight, they sent me a message asking if we wanted to change to a better flight:
There was a flight that was actually a bit faster than our original plans and got in earlier! I picked the flight and then realized to my horror that the seats were all split up! I panicked; I had fucked up; we were going to have 3 middle seats all over the plane… with a 9 year-old! Ugh! But then an hour after I booked the crappy seats, I got an email and they had put us all in a row! Phew!
Arriving in West Palm Beach, I got a message saying that our luggage had gotten on the wrong flight! Happily, they delivered the bag to us at our house the next day by courier!
Abigail was in a play! The Girl Who Left Home To Find The Shivers!
Find her in several scenes starting at the 23 minute mark! The lead role was split among 3 actors, and she was one of them!
The play is based off the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”.
Directed by Lew Williams and Assistant Directed by Lee Sonko.
This was the product of the fall 2024 after-school MASEP Drama class at Madera Elementary in El Cerrito, California.
