Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.

Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


aurelia - Mar 10, 2013 12:43:04 pm PDT #14285 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

What do you need it for? Tax prep, or general budget and asset management? I don't know how much the different tax softwares differ at the entry level--I use Turbo Tax just because I used it last year.

I mostly just want to be able to give receipts categories and notes so that I can use reports to find my deductibles. I do the tax forms by hand because the time I tried Turbo Tax it just made me want to cry.

It looks like I should give mint a try. I do still have my ancient version of Quicken on my old laptop if I hate everything else.


Amy - Mar 10, 2013 12:47:16 pm PDT #14286 of 30001
Because books.

The snake oil thing, while annoying, you might just have to put up with

I don't know. Is there any way you can firmly, but kindly, tell her that it needs to be a quiet time, and that all of the new information is stressful, since your main objective is pain management? You might also mention that you've tried several different treatments, and for now this is what works.


Hil R. - Mar 10, 2013 12:51:46 pm PDT #14287 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hmm. I think Elizabethans did use a lot more sugar than people in earlier times, but I think it would still be a pretty small amount compared to the average person now. Also, sugar would have been mostly for the upper classes -- it was too expensive for lower class people.


flea - Mar 10, 2013 12:54:11 pm PDT #14288 of 30001
information libertarian

My beef with mint is is thinks it is "smart" and imports my bank transactions and automatically codes them. But it is actually pretty dumb and codes a lot of stuff wrong, so I have to check almost every transaction. It *cannot* macth checks at all, even for unusual amounts. And for some reason it thinks every $20 ATM withdrawal is a check made out to my niece. I mean, once we wrote that check, but I cannot teach it not to keep on coding it that way.


flea - Mar 10, 2013 12:58:38 pm PDT #14289 of 30001
information libertarian

We are having a nice dinner, and the kids have dressed up to be our waitstaff, and Casper has written out our menu. Dillo is practicing standing with a "towel" (napkin) over his arm. He also just said he was trying to be as fancy as the Olive Garden, so I guess we need to take them out a little more.


Hil R. - Mar 10, 2013 12:58:45 pm PDT #14290 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I could be wrong about the sugar thing. I'm looking at this 1593 cookbook, and there's sugar in a lot more usually-savory dishes than I'd remembered from recipes from that era. [link] Without measurements, though, it's hard to tell.


Typo Boy - Mar 10, 2013 1:02:19 pm PDT #14291 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

ita,you have to manage a lot of people. It looks she is one of them.You will need to remind her Wed, Friday and Sunday morning. Next nurse might be worse so just living with that and including the triple reminders to her might be something. Expecially if she can be texted. Sounds like you need to regularly call your neuro too to make sure you get your pain meds.


-t - Mar 10, 2013 1:02:43 pm PDT #14292 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh good lord, I have had a load of towels sitting in the washer for an hour and a half but never started the cycle. It is to laugh.


Typo Boy - Mar 10, 2013 1:03:55 pm PDT #14293 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Totally not right,but it sounds like your other choices may be worse.


§ ita § - Mar 10, 2013 1:07:52 pm PDT #14294 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I found that taking a couple months worth of records and identifying all the common misleading transactions with mint cleared it up going forwards pretty well.

Amy, it will take me some gumption getting upping to do that, because it is all she talks about that's not directly related to the medicine she's administering. She's aggressive, and I'm weak. Today is the fifth visit, and she's challenging me about not having followed up on anything yet.

Buying colloidal silver on the internet and self-administering by IV? Christ, why do I even need to tell her I'm not going to do that?

But I have to nut up to do something, so I'll square my shoulders for next week.

I have to assume the woman in this proposal video [link] wept the whole way through, because I don't know any of those people, and it made me cry.