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Why was she born so beautiful
Why was she born at all
Because she had no say in it
No say in it at all

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(realise that may look a little creepy to non Aussies but it’s an odd thing we sometimes sing after HBTY)

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In Toronto for a Jays game today, after which I arranged to watch the Raptors game at a friend's. I have a bad habit of leaving stuff behind, so I double-checked that I had everything when I left for the two-hour drive home: wallet, laptop, book, hearing aids, all there. When I got some drive-through close to home, everything in my wallet looked rearranged...I'll be making a return visit tomorrow.

Go wild and tap yourself several sub-$100 purchases!

I bought Twitter this morning.

That little misadventure above ended up costing me $300 for a new windshield; caught a pebble on the highway driving in to get my wallet back.

Onward...Went to Waterloo tonight to see a movie, a movie I've seen approximately 30 times. Just before it was about to start, I realized my keys were missing (meaning every key I own; I keep them all on the same chain). Retraced my steps six times between the theatre and my car, parked about 90 seconds away. Not there--I had one of those War Amps tags on there, so I'm assuming someone picked them up and dropped them in a mailbox.

Took a cab home to St. Marys, an hour away: $125. On the way, I arranged for an emergency locksmith. Turns out the woman who owned my house before I moved here three years ago had a dead-bolt on the front door on loan from Fort Knox: took the guy 30-45 minutes to get the front door open. ("Crazy lock"--he said "crazy lock" under his breath a dozen times.) That, combined with the fact that it was after-hours emergency service = $350. The cab driver was great--he waited the whole time to drive me back to Waterloo for my car--so though we'd agreed on $75 for the return trip, I gave him $150 and then another $25 out of guilt. $650 for the night.

I don't post everything that happens to me in the course of a week here--I'd be on here all the time. I'm getting to be a menace to myself every time I leave the house.

I've locked myself out before and the locksmith guy took literally 2 seconds to get in and charged me 80 quid. which felt expensive until i realised the alternative was being locked out longer.

(but of course i didn't have the cash in my flat so he had to drive me to nearest bank)

this time last week i figured I'd just pop out for some milk, save me having to go out to get some before breakfast the next day. shop was 10 minutes away but in my rush i didn't take any money so had 10 minute walk back to get money, 10 minutes back to the shop and another 10 minutes back to flat. second time I've done that this year.

I locked myself out of the brownstone I was living in years ago while just grabbing the paper. I was standing there in my boxers. Unthinkingly, I put my hand through one of the panes of glass in the door to unlock it. Cost about $200 to replace (in 1993) and my hand was cut up pretty badly. Odd what standing outside in one's underwear does to one's critical thinking skills.

One suggestion I heard and follow is to make a copy of your car key that doesn't have the plastic bit on the end (so it's flat) and keep it in your wallet. This has saved me from needing a locksmith at least once, and also my sister once.

Drink some coffee guys

One suggestion I heard and follow is to make a copy of your car key that doesn't have the plastic bit on the end (so it's flat) and keep it in your wallet. This has saved me from needing a locksmith at least once, and also my sister once.

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My solution was to get a magnetic key hider. There is a metal ledge behind the bumper you can stick it on top of and it will stay safe there. For that key, I just have a metal replica that will get me in the door but won't start the car. Then I have a copy of my chip key hidden in the car. I know where it is, but it is somewhere non-obvious for thieves (not that anyone would want to steal my 2007 Ford Fusion).
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I've heard about those magnetic key holders but I figure thieves have too, and it's a pretty quick operation to feel around the bumpers.

Drink some coffee guys

― calstars

fucking hell yesterday after two weeks of being too fucked up to brew a new pot of coffee living off mountain dew i tried to drain the pot of cold brew yesterday morning when i woke up. ok first i realized i put the fucking stopper in backwards when i brewed it _again_, and then i fucked up entirely trying to push it out so it could drain, pushing out the filter as well. mmmm mmmm mmm, unfiltered coffee! then i was like, ok, i have more beans, i'll grind some. except that i forgot to put the lid on the receptacle for the grounds, so bam, i ground coffee all over my floor. ok, it's fine, sweep it up, top off the beans, give it another shot, pour in a cup of water... wait. i lost count. that's _three_ cups of water, not two. FUCK.

anyway my day was a complete fucking disaster yesterday. if i seemed to be doing poorly, that was a big part of it.

I didn’t say make some

I was reading a review of some KN95 masks on Amazon and thinking “I feel seen! Someone else had the exact same bad experience with these masks as I did -- I guess I’m not alone after all!” And then realised I was reading my own review from last month.

lol <3

haha

lol, well, maybe the mask experience was yours alone ct, but your review experience was not unique because yo tambien. more than once.

And then realised I was reading my own review from last month.

Hahahah I did the same thing looking at a lovely fuzzy sweater on a clothing website I buy from regularly. "ooh that jumper looks nice" I think, "and its got some good reviews... oh wait thats my review". I'd already bought said jumper.

Lol

Sitting in O'Malley's, drinking a piña colada, look around into the mirror and go, Oh ffs.

not sure if this isn't one for the backward steps thread, or whether it's just bad ux, but i feel like an idiot for being incapable of learning.

there's a tweet, under the tweet there's a word balloon with 260 next to it, the number of comments on this tweet. i click on it to read them... and up pops a box for me to add my comment. you have to click the (tiny, unobvious) time above the text, the '1hr' or whatever, to read the actual comments. (or is there a better way?)

Don't you just click anywhere on the Tweet (anywhere that isn't another thing like a link, profile name etc) and it then 'goes to' that tweet, then scroll down to see the replies?

but like you say if the tweet is a video you just get the video player, no replies. and if it's a link to a web page it just takes you there. it's not always obvious, they all look like pictures, and sometimes it's 90% unclickable

I have struggled with this in the past but just tried and clicking on the line at the top (tweeter/tweet time) works for me, it's not that tiny in my app.

I made myself a bowl of cereal (if you're interested: bran flakes, raisins, milled seeds, blueberries) and was just finishing the last mouthful when I thought 'shit, that was milk'. I haven't drunk milk in over 15 years because lactose. I will refrain from liveblogging the results.

do you usually have a subsititute for milk on yr cereal or do you usually just not have cereal?

just been using water recently cos milk kept going off. My brother told me he had cut out milk a while back and some things had cleared up for him. He may have been just adopting a kitten which he would never have been able to do a few years ago because allergies which he then found out may be a milk allergy which i assume is lactose intolerance. Had some symptoms he described in telling me about giving that up that I've experienced so have been meaning to cut down on milk but did love cereal with it in .
Will see.

do you usually have a substitute for milk on yr cereal or do you usually just not have cereal?

After years of not having cereal (other than porridge w/ water), I've only recently tried Oatly on bran flakes and it's been a revelation. I make it for my kids all the time though, so yeah, hoping that explains away the madness.

nb, other than feeling a bit sick, I've not had too much of a reaction.

Milk freezes really well, we Canadians have the luxury of milk bags of course but theoretically you could freeze small amounts in ziplock bags or similar to have a constant unspoiled source

Somebody was saying that milk had been frozen without telling the customers which lead to milk going off faster when it was thawed presale.
Which apparently contributed to its going off so frequently. I've tended to buy 2 litres then find a large part of it has gone off either because the fridge door had not been closed properly or despite it actually being closed.
But did seem like a good opportunity to check out if going milk free did clear up things that had been bothering me. Sore throats etc

So freezing milk again is a bit too much effort.

my fridge (and local supermarket fridges according to a note on the door!) couldn't really cope with the recent high temperatures. i've switched to 2 pints at a time so it's not hanging around so much.

Eyedrops up the nose, hayfever nose spritzer in the eyes

First socks, then shoes

Chuck reminds me of that story about the guy reaching in the medicine cabinet for hemorrhoid ointment and choosing the superglue by accident

i mean it could solve the main problem

Chuck reminds me of that story about the guy reaching in the medicine cabinet for hemorrhoid ointment and choosing the superglue by accident

argh sorry

Unless you're John Rambo or something, who keeps superglue in their medicine cabinet?

It's an urban legend.

Last month we got off a train in Edinburgh with two children, two suitcases, two tote bags, a small rucksack and a buggy. Totally forgot about the large rucksack, with raincoats for Scottish Highland weather and my good camera and sunglasses, until an hour later. Luckily got it back the same day after two bus rides to the station and back, 20 mins each way. Today we(*) left a rucksack with my wife's wallet in on the luggage rack of a train in London. Just on the way to pick it up from the terminating station one hour away.

(*) I, obviously.

And today I lost my wallet in a supermarket car park. Found it later well hidden in the car boot but not before cancelling all my cards - which meant we couldn't pay for anything as my wife had cancelled hers after rhe bag incident above (and her google pay was linked to my card!!) and we didn't have any cash, luckily her dad was there to buy ice creams and parking.

Honestly I know looking after kids can max out your mental capacity at the best of times but I am getting worried about my brain.