The Kracken ate my Lunch Complaint Thread
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Was wearing a heavy drizabone raincoat but still got soaked on location just before dawn yesterday,got real cold and by lunchtime was running a fever and by last night was a basket case :lol: Had a flu shot a couple of weeks ago so should bounce back pretty quick will just have to stay quiet until then. Iz hard to stay quiet :lol:
Oh, cool. I've got a heavy drizabone raincoat. Picked it up in '95 when I was in Sydney. Don't see them often here in the US. But I have to say, it's like wearing a cargo tarp.
something with a tiki bar, martinis, and bikinis?
wuh ohs :shut: :lol;
oroborosusses eat their own tails
Starbucks has a smore frap which I just enjoyed.
The Devil you say! :vampire:
Day 1 of "bland life". :blank:
One cup of coffee, then tea the rest of the day. Soup for lunch, breakfast is bacon and toast (buttered).
The medicine is working, unhappily, I was told for the first few days my digestive system will "misbehave". It sure is! :shut:
Grind, gurgle, twitch, gurgle, burble, etc.
Noisy, but I did wake up this morning without acid stomach for the first time in week. :cheese:
Could be worse.. shrug..
sweet baby rays's bbq sauce, more sugar than a hand full of jellybeans.
Most BBQ sauce is sugar, so that it caramelizes when cooked and give it that nice glaze. I could never find a BBQ sauce that would be "healthy", now I make my own. Le sigh. :blank:
jelly belly beans theyz here
You haz goodies! :cheese: :coolsmile:
Just a quickie. All my utilities were shut off yesterday. Laptop and phone need a recharge. I'm at the Y right now. Housemate and I are fine, both are experienced primitive campers.
Will be back when I can. If I can come with with $3600 utilities will be turned back on. Hah!
$3600, holy crap!!! :ahhh: :ahhh: :ahhh:
I hope things work out for you... {{{{{{{{ Annie }}}}}}}}
$3600, holy crap!!! :ahhh: :ahhh: :ahhh:
I hope things work out for you... {{{{{{{{ Annie }}}}}}}}
:bug: they can do that? can't they work out a payment plan?
:down:
prayers with you, you be home soon.
Great lighting!
Dana
My sandwich was so horrible today I threw it out. It was the worst sandwich I ever had.
...and it's HFCS which is why I don't buy it (as well as most of the "big name" and store "house" brands).
I usually get Stubb's or Guy Fieri both which use molasses and cane sugar.
...3,600$? and I thought we had it bad here where everything is electric. "Cheap abundant" Hydro power? That's a legend these days as most of ours is now coal and oil generated. Electric heat is so inefficient and most of it is that old poorly designed baseboard rubbish where the elements are always conveniently located underneath a large single pane glass window. One can easily rack up 200$ or more a month just to heat a place during the winter .
Strangely, water bills have become high here too and our rubbish removal got cut to once every two weeks when the city implemented a composting programme (the waste volume of which does not equate to the missing week worth of pickup) . Of course, the bills weren't reduced when the service was.
I have been fortunate that the basic utilities were included in my rent. Dreading having to pay those on top of a (most likely) higher rent when I move. Can't find anything, not even a studio under 750$ a month (add at least another 150$ for the basics of power water and rubbish on average) which for most low income people like myself, is a lot.
...3,600$? and I thought we had it bad here where everything is electric. "Cheap abundant" Hydro power? That's a legend these days as most of ours is now coal and oil generated. Electric heat is so inefficient and most of it is that old poorly designed baseboard rubbish where the elements are always conveniently located underneath a large single pane glass window. One can easily rack up 200$ or more a month just to heat a place during the winter .
Strangely, water bills have become high here too and our rubbish removal got cut to once every two weeks when the city implemented a composting programme (the waste volume of which does not equate to the missing week worth of pickup) . Of course, the bills weren't reduced when the service was.
I have been fortunate that the basic utilities were included in my rent. Dreading having to pay those on top of a (most likely) higher rent when I move. Can't find anything, not even a studio under 750$ a month (add at least another 150$ for the basics of power water and rubbish on average) which for most low income people like myself, is a lot.
I've never known anyone in an apartment being responsible for paying for city water and sewer service. That's usually the property owner's responsibility. Same for trash and recycling. I am a homeowner so I do have to pay a water bill. But the only expense related to trash and recycling is the cost of the official city trash bags, which is about $2 per bag. We put it out every other week, so that's about $4 a month normally.
Dana
Complaint: Well, I have to make a call to Utah. I just got an email saying my PC+ membership has expired. I put money into my store credit to pay for it, and before it was due. The money is still sitting there. I have enough stress without this. >:-(
Dana
Did you spend the money on a membership, or just put the money into your store credit?
Edit: I know Daz will automatically charge my CC when membership is due, but I've never tried doing it automatically though store credit.
Did you spend the money on a membership, or just put the money into your store credit?
I was just going to ask the same thing
I've never known anyone in an apartment being responsible for paying for city water and sewer service. That's usually the property owner's responsibility. Same for trash and recycling. I am a homeowner so I do have to pay a water bill. But the only expense related to trash and recycling is the cost of the official city trash bags, which is about $2 per bag. We put it out every other week, so that's about $4 a month normally.
Dana
...the previous place I lived in (a rented house) we had to pay all basic utilities - Power, Water/Sewer, and Rubbish/Recycling (along with oil as the house had an oil furnace). In Portland, the city contracts rubbish/recycle removal to private firms which in turn bill customers on a monthly basis. This hits homeowners and many renters alike. Several apartments I looked at assessed a flat monthly fee (in addition to the rent) for water and rubbish/recycling.
Another real racket here are the nonrefundable fees/deposits. Application fees can be as high as 75$. Then there are the nonrefundable "cleaning" and "damage" deposits even though a tenant is usually required to clean the unit before vacating (to the state it was at when he or she moved in) by terms of the rental contract. Basically it's "free money" that the landlord/management company pockets on top of the high rents they charge. Since the recession, it has basically become a rental property owner's market here with regards to rental rates and what is included. There are also no rent controls at all (that went away thirty years ago).
True, we are not San Francisco or New York, but with lack of a real industrial base (since the demise of the timber industry) housing costs here are exceeding what the average person can afford. Wait lists for "low income" housing (and it isn't always that much less than the full rent in many instances) are often over a year or longer as developers are loathe to build anything that doesn't generate a high return. Many clean affordable apartments in the city underwent gentrification into "vintage living" expensive apartments and condos or were simply demolished (case in point the old "Civic" near the stadium here) and replaced with an upscale "chic" highrise. The big 1BR unit I used to have in the old uptown/Northwest area cost me about 360$ a month. It is now close to 1,000$, and it is on the inside of a building with a "U" shaped floor plan so the "veiw" is of the apartment windows across the way.
I was just going to ask the same thing
It is how I've been doing it for over a year. It was an arrangement I made because I don't know from month to month whether I can keep it up, things are kind of extremely tight. I took a chance on the quartlery when there was a sale discount on it. I was told it would automatically withdraw from PayPal at renewal time and I didn't want that, so she said to cancel at PayPal and just be sure I had the money in my store credit before the renewal date. I did. When calling, the automated system says, "If you know your party's extension please dial it now, or you can press zero to speak to an operator." I did that, pressed zero. Help desk person put in a ticket and said to call back because he isn't sales, they can take care of it more immediately. He said don't press zero, just wait. Well, I just did that...it comes back and says, "Your call could not be forwarded. Please try again later." No hold? No elevator music? And it's getting later in the day. It must be 4:16 there. Do they leave at 4:30? He couldn't transfer me to another party, either. Not a very good phone system.
Dana
To update things:
I called again and pressed zero again. It is not even someone on site that answers, it's an answering service. She said all she could do is put in a help request. So, there's no way to actually talk to someone there. They used to be much better than this. Without knowing an extension, I'm set adrift in a sea of know-nothings.
:down:
Dana
I've never known anyone in an apartment being responsible for paying for city water and sewer service. That's usually the property owner's responsibility. Same for trash and recycling. I am a homeowner so I do have to pay a water bill. But the only expense related to trash and recycling is the cost of the official city trash bags, which is about $2 per bag. We put it out every other week, so that's about $4 a month normally.
Dana
...the previous place I lived in (a rented house) we had to pay all basic utilities - Power, Water/Sewer, and Rubbish/Recycling (along with oil as the house had an oil furnace). In Portland, the city contracts rubbish/recycle removal to private firms which in turn bill customers on a monthly basis. This hits homeowners and many renters alike. Several apartments I looked at assessed a flat monthly fee (in addition to the rent) for water and rubbish/recycling.
Another real racket here are the nonrefundable fees/deposits. Application fees can be as high as 75$. Then there are the nonrefundable "cleaning" and "damage" deposits even though a tenant is usually required to clean the unit before vacating (to the state it was at when he or she moved in) by terms of the rental contract. Basically it's "free money" that the landlord/management company pockets on top of the high rents they charge. Since the recession, it has basically become a rental property owner's market here with regards to rental rates and what is included. There are also no rent controls at all (that went away thirty years ago).
True, we are not San Francisco or New York, but with lack of a real industrial base (since the demise of the timber industry) housing costs here are exceeding what the average person can afford. Wait lists for "low income" housing (and it isn't always that much less than the full rent in many instances) are often over a year or longer as developers are loathe to build anything that doesn't generate a high return. Many clean affordable apartments in the city underwent gentrification into "vintage living" expensive apartments and condos or were simply demolished (case in point the old "Civic" near the stadium here) and replaced with an upscale "chic" highrise. The big 1BR unit I used to have in the old uptown/Northwest area cost me about 360$ a month. It is now close to 1,000$, and it is on the inside of a building with a "U" shaped floor plan so the "veiw" is of the apartment windows across the way.
Well, you are talking about renting a house, not an apartment. That is very different. But for apartments, at least here, water is not usually a utility that the renter pays. For that, there would have to be three separate water meters for a three apartment building. Usually that is not the case. Electric, yes, unless it's stated as included in the rent, the renter has his own electric account. The apartment we lived in before we bought our house had heat, hot water and cooking gas included in the rent. We paid electric. Water was never mentioned.
As for security deposits, as they are called here, the law states that they must be refunded upon the renter's departure, as long as they left the property undamaged and clean. I thought it was a federal law, but maybe it's a state law.
I sure don't want to go back to apartment living. Thus one of the stresses. Apartments I've checked in the newspaper a couple of years ago, in a good section of town, cost as much as my mortgage payments monthly. And my mortgage payments include an escrow for real estate taxes and homeowner's insurance. So it would actually cost more for rent than for my actual mortgage. How can people afford that?
Dana
...sadly some of us have no choice but to deal with it. The alternative is a "cardboard condo" under a bridge and a market trolly to hold your. stuff.
I've never had "clean" enough credit to purchase a home (thanks to student loans I had trouble paying back) let alone an income that could support mortgage payments and interest, along with annual property taxes as well. At my age and with my arthritis, I also no longer can do a good deal of the normal upkeep myself, which would mean paying even more to have others do it for me.
Yeah renting is for the most part akin to flushing the money down the loo as all you have to show are receipts and there is zero equity. to build on. However that is part of the lifestyle of the underpaid and impoverished which is a growing segment of the population these days.
Most of the time I joke about the hitting the Megabucks Lotto, but lately the odds for landing a steady "living wage" job these days don't seem much better.
kracken would eat it, like mikey, eats anything, even poprocks
...and it's HFCS which is why I don't buy it (as well as most of the "big name" and store "house" brands).
I usually get Stubb's or Guy Fieri both which use molasses and cane sugar.
gonna go with ranch dip tnite. :)
kracken would eat it, like mikey, eats anything, even poprocks
Hmm poprocks might taste better than my sandwich.
ninos
so if the 4th dimension is time, and the 5th dimension is time squared
need a d-hopper
wrinkly wrinkles in time