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    Darnell got a reaction from NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    1. No
    2. Not near 200, at all. Stop it, these constant rounding exercises, near page 150.  You do it on each thread.  Math is important and infallible, you treat it otherwise, here.
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    Darnell got a reaction from NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    Food ingestion rules vary by household. Since now there are two households, there are two sets of rules. 
     
    However, Halloween Candy is sacrosanct, and now you have to pick up the pieces from that breakage. 
     
    I sense she won't listen to your advice and input, so stop wasting time with it.  Yank the tablet usage is awesome, as he is using it there, unsupervised [as she is quite lazy on parenting, based on what you've written these last 3 months].
     
    Be the Dad when he is there,  step up other times when there is some medical issue outside of your home
     
    That's it, yo.  Otherwise? To attempt to manage his time and him, when he's not with you? She could get litigious and do nasty things. 
     
    If you have time and money for a therapist, take him. 
     
    I should write tonnes here about co-parenting, but since it's her, it would be a waste as she's not able to understand, much less do, that. Part of that failing is culture,  part is her personality.
     
    Good Luck, and Godspeed!
    [No toilet seats were repainted during the writing of this missive]
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    Darnell got a reaction from Dashinka in More than 175 current, former law enforcement officials endorse Joe Biden, slam Trump as 'lawless' president   
    175 is a decent number. They tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on and so on. 
     
     
    Next thing ya know, lots of LE supporting Uncle Joe.  
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    Darnell reacted to nullaccount234 in SSN Howto   
    Relevant update for SSN applicants who are not immediately issued their SSN. SAVE goes completely electronic, meaning that the G-845 paper version is abolished by June 1st, 2018.
     
    https://www.uscis.gov/news/save-goes-completely-paperless
     
    Credit @Alabamak1. Hopefully this means that people stuck with manual verifications (like, frankly, the two of us) will have quicker processing in the future.
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    Darnell reacted to NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    You just figured out you have a garage sale purchasing issue? LMAO
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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    Remember I was complaining that my last car, the low fuel warning comes on late, with like 18 miles range left to empty? 
    Well Lexus heard the complaints all right, now the low fuel warning comes on with 10 miles to empty...
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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    Yo man I can't believe all the theme park view rooms at the Grand Floridian, all rooms and suites, are all booked solid through September of next year...
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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    It's the moon fest, happy moon fest...
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    I got my new car on August 1, it had 80 miles on it. Now it has like...78....
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    Darnell reacted to Ontarkie in Rante Macabre   
    Last night I finished a 3000 piece Where's Waldo puzzle. 
     

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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    Leasing commits the next owner of your house to the remainder of the lease. 
    My friend in Staten Island has a 20 year lease on his panels. 
    But his electricity is basically free, and he gets an incentive on property tax. 
    And I'm not sure if he got a break on income tax....
     
    New technology is unfolding where the solar panels resemble shingles on the roof.
    And produces more electricity for the area covered. 
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    Darnell reacted to Cyberfx1024 in Rante Macabre   
    So I don't know if anyone remembers months back but I posted about me putting in my packet for a retroactive purple heart back in January for what happened to me in Iraq. Well due to Covid it took almost 8 months for the Marine Corps to look at it. So the news I got today was that I am approved and will be awarded for a Purple Heart due to suffering a TBI from when the vehicle I was in got blown up. I literally can't tell you how relieved I was when I got the news because helps validate the injury I got back. Which at the time the military really didn't think or do anything about TBI's from IEDs at all. Even though that was the sole reason for so many deaths and injuries in that theater.  
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    Darnell reacted to Ontarkie in Rante Macabre   
    Sadly ADD has nothing to do with it.
    Sure doing the calculations is helpful. The Hillbilly does it too. That is his prerogative and he's the only one who puts gas in the truck. Now there has been twice I put gas in the truck ok maybe 3 times in our 12 years here. I don't bother with the numbers
    I would say you have OCD with the way you take over. I am bad at that too and it's my fault when the Hillbilly doesn't read my mind when I want him to do something. Because I always told him I got it and do it myself. So yes you did just that being OCD and doing it all. She ran with it. Heck I would too. 
    If you're worried about Mini you can do his clothes but please for the love of all. Do not get suckered into doing her clothes. You can always teach him how to do his own clothes and he can sneak loads in to keep his nice and clean
     
    Fingers crossed for Thursday.
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    Darnell reacted to cdneh in Rante Macabre   
    Nonsense. Strikes me as pretty selective ADD. Her ADD seems to me to pertain simply to things that she does not enjoy, or has no interest in, or that she can hoodwink someone else into doing for her.  She is about to run headlong into 'freedom' and I think most of it is going to come as a complete shock.
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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    My car warns you that there's no gas by stopping. 
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    Darnell reacted to NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    She doesnt need to calculate mpg or mileage. Just needs to learn how to read the gas guage.  Maybe walking to get gas a time or two will trigger the ability?  But you enable her never to remember these things by doing them for her. 
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    Darnell reacted to SAT in Rante Macabre   
    I'm gonna call PETA on you! And send naked women to your front yard! (Hillbilly would like that)
     
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/10/28/coconut-milk-chaokoh-monkey-labor-peta-costco-walgreens/5918418002/span widgetspan widgetspan widget
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    Darnell reacted to NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    Got a new phone. Not sure I like it. Apple is weird. 
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    Darnell reacted to Ban Hammer in Rante Macabre   
    one post removed for
    8.   Please don't push your political and religious beliefs here.
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    Darnell reacted to Eric-Pris in 90 Day Fiance -- season ??? [merged threads]   
    Yeah, it's messed up.  But it turned out well, she arrived in the US with the baby some time ago.
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    Darnell got a reaction from John416 in SSN Howto   
    I've written something up for a SSN Howto - please have a read, make comments. At some point, I'll refactor, ask for it to be pinned here.
    Thanks !
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    SSN Info for K-1 visa Holders and CR/IR Visa Holders
    K-1 Visa Holders
    Regardless of your Marital Status, you are allowed to apply for a SSN.
    You have a particular time window in which to apply -
    starts 2 weeks after POE date and ends 2 weeks before the I-94 expires.
    Why are these start/end dates important?
    2 weeks after POE date, the SAVE database MIGHT have you in the system.
    SAVE is used by SSA clerks to validate you are eligible.
    2 weeks prior to I-94 expiring, SSA won't accept the application, as the validity date to
    receive it will pass by the time it's mailed out to you.
    How to apply:
    Get into your local SSA office, bring your passport and I-94 and a birth certificate. The birth
    certificate is optional, but some SSA staffers want to see it. Fill out the SS-5 form there, use
    your visa name (regardless of marital status) then
    --ask the SSA clerk to look you up in the SAVE system via VISA NAME and/or A#.
    ---If the SSA clerk can't find you, withdraw the SS-5 firmly, and come back in a week.
    ---If the SSA clerk can find you by VISA Name but not A#, or vice versa, you need to get to a CBP secondary inspection office and FIX YOUR SAVE RECORD with a CBP staffer (see http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/contacts/deferred_inspection/overview_deferred_inspection.xml for the local office address). Don't bother with using a telephone, just go to the office. No queues, no lines, no waiting, just go. If the CBP staffer is confused, ask for the shift supervisor - tell them you have issues with your SAVE record..
    ---If the SSA clerk CAN FIND YOU, YAY! Go through with the SS-5 application. Come back the next day, and ask for the SSN. Note the physical card will be mailed out, but you can have the NUMBER the next working day.
    CR-1/IR-1/CR-2/IR-2/IR-5 Visa Holders
    'ticking the box' on the DS-230 is sorta teasing to any Visa Applicant.
    The SSN may get processed, it may not get processed - it just depends on the clerk doing the
    data entry work for the 'intake' on the casefile once yer wife handed it over to any POE
    staffer. I know, the tick box was ticked, there's a reasonable expectation that 'something will
    get done' based on that tick box...
    But -
    if it's been more than 2 weeks past the Port of Entry Date,
    then there's a good chance that the SAVE database system has synched up,
    and
    any SSA clerk, at the local SSA office, can find her in the SAVE database.
    Ya won't know till you try. Suggest you go in person, bring -
    --yer foreign spouse
    --yer foreign spouse's passport
    --filled out application (can get those at the office, too)
    and apply.
    Whilst at the SSA office -
    Ask any clerk to look her up in the SAVE database, in the VISA name and A#.
    If they can't find her by EITHER ONE (name or A#) - go away, do not allow the application to be
    accepted, come back in a week - SAVE system doesn't have her, yet.
    IF any SSA clerk mumbles 'need DHS/USCIS electronic verification' - do not allow the application to be accepted - come back in a week - SAVE system doesn't have her, yet.
    Although SAVE database is useful for 'status checking' at the SSA office (by the SSA clerks) -
    many of them are not trained on how to use it. If you get blank looks or mumbles, ask for a
    Supervisor, and ask the Supervisor to 'look her up' in SAVE.
    If she is found via A# but the VISA name is stored wrong, in SAVE, you'll need to do something else, with the SAVE unit, to get it changed.
    It's a hassle, sure, but suggest you do change it to proper spelling of 'VISA NAME' prior to SSN issuance.
    More SAVE INFO -
    http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextchannel=1721c2ec0c7c8110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextoid=1721c2ec0c7c8110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD
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    Darnell got a reaction from janet3 in Rante Macabre   
    She's in Arkansas - if'n she needed anything, she'd walk down the road a bit and barter for duck geese ...   
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    Darnell got a reaction from Cheburashka34 in The RNC Thread   
    I like how the RNC delegates actually voted for their candidate at the convention.  OTOH, the DNC delegates had no voting whatsoever.  I still expected a sideways walk-on from Hillary, but that's a different topic
     
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    Darnell got a reaction from Nature Boy 2.0 in 90 Day Fiance -- season ??? [merged threads]   
    I was still hoping to see Asuela's F-I-L pound him into the sand and send him back to the Island.  It could happen, still.  It'd be awesome. 
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    Darnell got a reaction from Dashinka in The RNC Thread   
    I like how the RNC delegates actually voted for their candidate at the convention.  OTOH, the DNC delegates had no voting whatsoever.  I still expected a sideways walk-on from Hillary, but that's a different topic
     
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