Oh nice! What site was that from?

dcjobs.com


Gonna check on it right now


I thought that was a little weird

Hmmm.... and we still have not received our invitation ......

I haven't finished them yet!!!!!

THe envelopes are still with the calligraphy guy getting addressed!

And I'm still tying ribbons on the invitations themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool. I've now bookmarked floridajobs.com. Thanks.


Okay, that totally messed with my head. I did a refresh because I'd been sitting on the page for so long because I was busy doing other stuff. The above message popped up and I thought "What the... ? Have I gone back in time?"

hehe

Blah, blah, blah.... I feel unloved

Wow!!

Glad I'm not on drugs.

lol

Well, we are off to kmart to return the vacuum we bought yesterday.

When we got here one of the first things I did was turn on the washing machine, I half filled it and left it as I wanted to clean it before using it, so I wander away and come back - to a flooded floor. Use lots o paper towel, clean that up, Mike fixes the connection - ok.

After cleaning, I put in some wash, no problem. Go to dry them, no heat in the dryer, long story short, replacement dryer is installed yesterday evening. So wash is getting done!

Umm, now the airconditioning isn't working.

This is not a vent, just a statement on the state of machinery here

Yeah, that disclaimer's in there just so you didn't have to post this in the Vent thread.

Tell broken-apartment-guy to give you some free rent time! (And a roll of paper towels.)

So would that be FOK as an acronym?


Yea Gods, what is it?


BRAVO!!!!


Rest assured Trailmix, we like you.


Yes, if it's one place we all belong, it's in an institution.

Feel better. Jeez, the things I do for my Sister.

Oooh good luck on the admin job!

I really want to quit my job in teaching and go work for a humanitarian organization. Apparently I never want to make money....

And, btw, I'm FREAKING OUT b/c Patrick's interview is Friday and we got a letter from the consulate last week saying our petition had expired and were we still interested in continuing with the visa process....wtf is that about?

WHAT?! They're supposed to automatically extend active cases. It says so in their freaking policies and procedures. For freak's sake. Freaking untrained freaking people. freak

You just want to be invited to my gourmet soirees "boy"....

Well I emailed apartment guy an hour ago re lack of airconditioning, haven't heard back. << again, statement of fact vs vent.

Exchanged the vacuum.

Anyway, I have been patient so far re apartment stuff, but I feel I may be getting angry soon

I want to know when they're turning on our air conditioning too!!!!

What's up with your air conditioning??

it's off!
the condo building hasn't turned it on

warm air comes out when i turn it on

Wow! Now I understand the - it's too warm here comments you have been making - sorry must have missed that post.

Well that's just wrong! To quote krikit - For freak's sake!

####!!!

=)

I've got the ceiling fan going in the bedroom and a desk fan going in the bedroom

and I can't even open the windows cuz all the pollen gets in and then Oliver can't breathe!


aggghhh!

i thought yesterday you would have been happy if he couldn't breathe? lol

run to work, read vj real quick, find a coffee pic, post it in here, run to another building, get a caseload of computer connectivity frustration.......that's my day

OMG
I totally forgot about that!

Good Morning to all.

Well since Charles didn't do this, I know he will say got really busy as soon as I got to work today......

I just love how everyone in this forum chips in without being asked.

and i was just looking for a coffee cup
g'morning everyone.

Good morning everyone, just sitting here waiting for George (air conditioner guy) to arrive. It is 23 degrees and humid here this morning.

For your viewing pleasure, a picture of the St. Louis arch from our car. We had a running joke in the car about making a list of all the things we drove by, like the Mount Rushmore (exit) - oh and the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, which I would have actually agreed to go and see, however it was a mile off the highway and that's too far!!



I also wanted to stop in at Fairbury, Nebraska, where my Grandmother and here parents were from, however that is an hours drive from my Sister's house, so also didn't visit there. We can always visit on a drive back to Calgary as then it would be in the correct direction

Krikit, did you see this!!

Florida Woman Finds 8-Foot Alligator in Kitchen

OLDSMAR, Florida — A Florida woman found an 8-foot long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night, authorities said.

Sandra Frosti, 69, said the alligator must have pushed through the screen door on the back porch and then walked through an open sliding glass door at her home in Oldsmar, just north of Tampa.

probably cuz it's so hot,

tile floors are looking pretty good to me right now too!

The CORN palace?

I have that same picture of the St Louis Arch, only from the opposite direction!



Oh my GOD. Can you imagine?! What the hell is on the floor behind it? Did it flatten the Raggedy family or somethin'?

wow, crisis averted all because of my OCD

About 2-3 days ago, I made a payment of $600 on our credit card (we just charged our honeymoon to it)..

Most of the time, it gets posted on the website in a day.

So I've been stalking the page and nothing...


So today, I pulled out the last statement just to take a look and noticed that the Account # on the bill was different from the one listed on my Bank's Bill Payments Page...
Suddenly I remember that Oliver had lost his credit card about 2 months ago!!! and we never changed the info in our ebilling page!!

Then I do more checking.. that's weird. I made a payment 2 weeks ago and that got posted.

Decide to call Customer Service for our credit card.

THe $600 got posted to our old account!!

holy crap!

After being on hold for about 10 mins, the agent made her way back and managed to move the money over to our actual credit card!

PHEW!
that was scary

Whoo! Good catch, Liz!

So for all of you folks that have driven through South Dakota, did you stop in at Wall drugs??

Oh and George is here, he got here around 10:05, he has just gone off to get a filter for the air conditioner - it doesn't have one currently. Oh and it was frozen....why? well because no filter and no cleaning = radiator completely frozen.

at least you'll have something by the end of today..

=(

The aircon is back

Nope. Been through South Dakota by bus (it wasn't too bad, one time the guy next to me was a murderer) and by auto. Saw all the signs (Sturgis, Mount Rushmore, etc.) and I kept thinking, "it must be Hell to have a breakdown out here." Let us never speak of South Dakota again.

You mean this?

Was that the prison bus?

The one thing I really hate about the American banking system is the lack of regulation that allows this to go on. In Canada because banks have to be chartered to operate, they bend over backwards to prevent this kind of thing. If you've ever cancelled a credit card then you know how vigilant the banks are. In the US the onus is always on the customer. It might have been a nightmare but you averted disaster. I'll bet you'll check next month's payment a little more closely to make sure the right account gets credited.

Yeah U.S. banks are weird!

First of all Mike needed a pin number for his card, in Canada we would just swipe it at the counter - here, they are mailing it to him. I signed up for online banking - all good, then, of course I want to pay bills online - so they are mailing me an activation code.

hmmmmmm

No it was Greyhound, although I bet the prison bus would have been more comfortable. He was nice guy from Red Lake Reservation (Chippewa/Ojibwa) served time at USP Florence and was on his way home. Poor Ashinabe got murder two when it should have been involuntary manslaughter at most. Since the incident happened on a reservation it was under federal jurisdiction. Upon release the the United States Prison system gives a bus ticket home to the individuals who are released. On another occasion met a nice guy outside of El Paso (they just let him out of La Tuna) who had shared a jail cell with Andrew Boyce (The Falcon from The Falcon and the Snowman) and was in the cell next to Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald. This guy was in prison for trying to traffic a million dollars worth of cocaine. You meet the most interesting people on the bus (usually students, military and people who can't afford to or just won't fly.)

We have a phone

So I ordered this phone, unlimited calling in the U.S. and to Canada for $20 a year (first year with shipping etc actually works out to around 50 some dollars)

Magic Jack

let us know how that magic jack works. I saw a few people in the OT have had and like it