It took me 3 ½ hours last Tuesday to find the $5 discrepancy on my credit card. And it turns out they had put my $5 payment toward my interest for March. Since that was when they finally caught up to not having charged me interest for February (February being a short month is apparently beyond the capacity of their programmers to allow for), how was I supposed to spot the difference? And about the same time, they tried to tell me I was late with my payment when I was three weeks ahead. Growl. Next year, I will wait to make my March payment till March 2nd.
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When you decide it’s time to stop complaining about things in your life, you do get tested.
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This is from a few years back, but I just saw it last Wednesday. Chimps can learn to “cook”.
Animals keep getting cannier about living among humans.
Corruption and bigotry are alive and well in Europe, too. Jeez, here’s another one.
New York City’s water delivery system is undergoing a major repair.
And the secretary bird has been identified in an 18th dynasty temple carving in Egypt.
Oh, it’s a bad thing to let fat people dress well. I mean, if you don’t make them dress in ill-fitting hand-me-downs and bulletproof polyester, how are they going to be convinced they need to actually look good?
I’ve added the Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project to my list of organizations to donate to. If I didn’t faithfully read Cheers and Jeers, I would not have known about it.
Archaeology has come to Woodstock. Who’d’a thunk it.
A bourbon warehouse in Kentucky partially collapsed. The extent of the damage is uncertain at this point.
The gibbon skull found in a Chinese tomb is from a variety that has long been extinct.
I wonder if the catering staff for United Airlines knows the phrase “can’t win for losing”.
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I was going to take my grandkids to the Central Library on Thursday and out to lunch afterward, but we ended up postponing till Friday. The reason for this is that the neighbor who retired from working with my daughter broke her arm several months back and it hasn’t been healing. It was decided that my granddaughter should go to the woman’s doctor with her and find out what the woman should not be allowed to do till her arm heals. Yes, an adolescent girl has better sense than a woman my age.
The trip to the library and lunch on Friday at Pastini’s was fun. The attempt to pick up my granddaughter’s house key from the friend’s home where she had left it was a total bust — the friend wasn’t there and her mother didn’t know where she’d put the key. Yes, indeed. When you decide it’s time to stop complaining about things in your life, you do get tested.
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Saturday was my monthly chiropractic appointment. I feel good. She didn’t take the next two books from the In Death series, which I have been lending to her — she says they’re remodeling their house and she doesn’t want to risk losing my books. I think I may end up telling her “this too will pass” till the end of the year.
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I’ve been working on a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle over the last week. I did finish it on Friday, but it took me a couple of hours to find the final piece, which had managed to hide itself deep under the table when I dropped it a couple of days earlier. It’s a cartoon rendition of clocks in, on and around a cabinet. Many, many, many clocks.