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Good morning:-) Shout-out to Fantod for picking up on a deleted-user thread being bumped. I missed that one. Remember, "Deleted_User" is just that. On Twitter, it's a legit handle, but here on DS? They're lnog gone, and their posts are usually far out-of-date, which renders much information in them suspect. E.g., we know more now than we did in 2010 about (pick anything).
And thank goodness! It's Friday!
Or, as I'm calling it, FRY day. We hit near 100*F for, oh, the next 10 days... In a row... with high humidity... Call me when it's October? Yikes!
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My life's entertainment value is high today.
Me to US Department of State person: "What defines a long-form birth certificate."
The drone: "It has to have your parents' names on it."
Me: "So what's wrong with mine? IT has that, and their signatures."
Drone: "Let me transfer you."
Me: "Don't..."
*dial tone*
I call back...
Me after waiting 20 minutes on hold: "Hi, I was talking to ..."
Recording: 'Please visit this website andorder copies of your birth certificat eto resolve your problem."
Me: "You're nota human voice."
So I call my county of birth.
Bored Drone: "Visit htis website, please." (same website)*click*
OK, I give up. I visit website. OMG. I had no idea states contract out to this company when you request copies of documents.
*jawdrop* What the hell're they doing in the county courthouse where I grew up, playing checkers? Hello? Not much going on, you can bloody well answer the phone and mail copies to me yourselves! I know who you are! Literally! The county records clerk is a kid sibling of someone I went to school with. Yo! WTF?
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Yeah. Meanwhile, this company/website makes huge money off... doing what county clerks are paid to do. Wait, what? *headscratch* I am too old for this crap, y'all. And too old, apparently, b/c I don't see the sense in that system at all. Ever.
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Then I overheard Hubby calling to get a copy of his birth certificate for our passport apps: "OK, spell that website again..."
I yelled out the spelling.
Hubby set down the phone and said, "You're kidding."
Nope. One site to rule them all, and in the database bind them? (If you get the reference, you get extra cookies!)
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The puma is off to prowl. Mom sees her doc today, and I have umpteen loads of laundry since we had to mop up the water and stuff... Yep, great for that sciatic and fibro, right?
Purrfect day to all!
REPOSTED TO PUT IN SPACES B/C DS IS EATING PARAGRAPHS AGAIN
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Welcome to the Perseid meteor showers, the "biggies" usually every year. (The Leonids beat 'em one year IMHO).AND today much of the northern hemisphere will see 5 to 99% solar eclipse. How cool is that? Your best bet is to be in the UK or norhtern Spain, where totality is excellent before sundown. Me, I'll get a super duper tiny itty bitty slice of it, so little that it won't be noticeable. New...
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I'nm exhausted. This doxycycline thing has ripped me apart and I'm eating crackers and water. I can't take (anything) or eat (anything) except saltines and toast and maybe unbuttered watery mashed potatoes. Are we sure the cure isn't worse than the possible disease?!?!And a week to go. ***Fun cures that WERE worse than the disease:ARsenic. Popular against STDs, which just compounded misery...
Autumn, I agree, wholesale shopping and fibro do not mix!
Pam, I'm with you in waking up not feeling refreshed today. I hope you can get some rest and feel better tomorrow.
Kel, yay for mom being back home, I hope she gets her strength back little by little. Sorry you are in a flare, take it easy.
Puppy, good luck figuring out those electrical issues, yikes... and I hope you manage to stay out of the heat.
Miki, yay for a slow day. I hope you get to go to the concert.
Twins, you're stretched so thin lately... ugh! Maybe you can get one of those glasses to wear at work that make it look like your eyes are open when you're actually napping. lol
I don't like the sound of that sizzling, Wonder. Yikes
Mystic, I hope your muscles can clam down. Do you use muscle relaxers? Tried a bath soak?