08-25-2015, 12:44 PM | #26341 |
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PSA: When cleaning out and defrosting a freezer, do not put frozen Pops in a basket on the bed. They melt fast and one will leak.
Though soon the sheets and mattress pad will be clean soon and the freezer is organized. For those of you that are curious, our chest freezer is in our bedroom. The bedroom is right off of the kitchen. |
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08-25-2015, 09:56 PM | #26344 |
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08-29-2015, 09:13 AM | #26345 |
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New Orleans is not all below sea level. K landed as a 3 and the levees were supposed to hold for that. My cousin's neighbor, who stayed because of pet birds, saw dry streets in Lakeview right after the storm passed, then the canal wall failed. He barely made it.
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08-29-2015, 09:27 AM | #26347 |
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And the first forecast that showed it coming here and strong was the 5pm Friday forecast. I know. I check NHC at 10 and 5 everyday when there is a storm.
I was having and early dinner and movie with girlfriends and the restaurant had a TV set to the news. What had been supposed to hit elsewhere as a 1 that morning was coming to us as a 3. It would go up to a 5 before returning to a 3 at landfall. I could only point at the TV and say, f**k!" Again, this was 5pm Friday. We had until Monday morning. |
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It appears that we have dodged two more (Ignacio and Jimena), but there's yet ANOTHER forming up in the eastern Pacific just south of Baja. Typically those are the ones that head our way.
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09-01-2015, 12:03 PM | #26349 |
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this seems like a safe place to post this
My mom asked me to go through the old pictures. It is not a big deal but I find it rather ironic that I have NO pictures of me and my father when I was growing up. There is only one of him from when I was a kid and he is in costume.
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09-01-2015, 12:47 PM | #26351 |
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Yup, Kilo went by last week and the tropical depression that will be named Kevin when it becomes a storm is predicted to head north then swing back on Baja. Ignacio and Jimena will/are head NE a few hundred miles north of us. Last week there were three Cat 4 hurricanes in the Pacific at the same time. That's the first time since recording began that that's happened.
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My mom is being suckered by a romance scammer and there's nothing I can do about it. I've tried, of course, including providing her with evidence, but despite the fact that she initially seemed to be in full agreement with me that he's a dirtbag, she's still talking to him and lying to me about it.
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When I told her, she seemed disappointed (naturally) but she seemed to accept it. However, she's still talking to him. She doesn't know I know that, and she's flat out lied to me about it. But if I tell her I know she's lying, she'll change her passwords and then I won't be able to keep an eye on things. (She has me set up her devices for her, so I have her email and cell account logins. I won't apologize for snooping - she's my mother and trying to keep her safe trumps my usual sense of ethics in this area.) The guy has since changed his profile pic, but he's still using a stolen photo of Mr. Ciocan, just a different one. He claims to be contractor outside of DC. He says he's originally from Germany as a way to explain his accent. She's been emailing him, but he only communicates with her via Facebook and phone. His email is just a gmail address, but since he never writes to her, I can't even nab a header for any possible info nuggets. A search on the email address nets me nothing so I imagine it's new and only being used to encourage trust. His phone number is a Pinger voip number, so he has a Wash. DC number but could be anywhere. I reported his profile to Facebook, but that probably won't do anything. She's also opened a PayPal account within the past couple of weeks. What really, really, REALLY steams me up is finding out that when I send her links showing proof that the photos are stolen, she emails the links to him. WTF??? Based on timestamps, he then calls her and says goodness knows what to explain it away. I feel helpless. As of yet, he hasn't tried to reel in, but he's working up to it. I know how these guys operate. He'll say he's coming to see her but "something" will happen on the way and he'll need money. But until he actually does something like that, law enforcement can't do anything because, at the moment, he's basically just catfishing her. The Romanian PC is the only one that can take action over the photos, so that doesn't help me here. If I confront her, I could lose my ability to keep an eye on things and she'll either deny it or defend him. I know her pretty well. Arrrrgh!!!! |
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