Before Ann and Jen left for Martha's Vineyard, Jen brought me some chicken she had poached. I put the chicken and liquid into a skillet, added frozen peas and carrots along with some egg noodles and let it cook while I fed Thatch and Stella. Then I added a bit of cornstarch to thicken the broth, and I had a very tasty dinner.
Listening to a Nazi era thriller called March Violets by Phillip Kerr. It's pretty good. It tries a little too hard to be hard-boiled, but I have laughed a few times."I heard all of her words in my fly."
It’s like BK said, you can’t lower your guard for a moment. I order some records at frankly absurdly low prices from a link George provided. Immediately after placing the order, my Spidey senses tingle. Why not before I placed the order? Well they very cleverly had a timer on my cart and I’d lose my “deals.” I look up the Big Lots thing on the web and what comes up is a record discussion where people are saying that can’t be legit. The other thing that comes up are posts about people posting these fake Big Lots sales on the web and people getting ripped off. Quickly I call my bank and close that card and they are sending me a new one. Ok, minimizing damage.What do I get today? Two calls from my bank trying to verify info from me. Takes me a minute on the first one to get suspicious, but I hang up. Call bank and they say, well, it’s one of our numbers. No action is required by you.Just get another call, this one less professional, could barely pronounce the bank name. Gets a little snippy with me. I call my actual bank fraud number, and this time they’re like, yeah, people do spoof our number. So now I don’t know if they have even more of my info. Can’t damn win.
Wow, Rodz. Hope it’s all straightened out quickly.
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~~~AVOIDING THE SCAM VIBE$~~~ for DR Rodzinski and DR George!!!
Is it time for a Greater Tuna reboot?
Olivia Hussey has died. She was a lovely Juliet.
The library at Trinity College, Dublin.
Can you tell us which DR is going to win the $1.2 billion MegaMillions tonight?
From the Internet: Billy Wilder featured the song "Isn't it Romantic?" in many of his films, not because he liked the song, but because he got a good deal when he originally licensed it. Wilder said, "I'm cheap". Some of Wilder's films that feature the song include: The Major and the Minor (1942), A Foreign Affair (1948), and Sabrina.
Quote from: MichaelG on December 27, 2024, 08:44:09 PMQuote from: singdaw on December 27, 2024, 07:28:05 PMCan you tell us which DR is going to win the $1.2 billion MegaMillions tonight?My sister-in-law gave us all tickets. I guess I better check!I read it wrong - I actually won the $2 prize! I wonder if will cost more than that to collect it from California.
Quote from: singdaw on December 27, 2024, 07:28:05 PMCan you tell us which DR is going to win the $1.2 billion MegaMillions tonight?My sister-in-law gave us all tickets. I guess I better check!
It's a pain to collect a lottery award out of state. I think I'll just mail it back to my sister-in-law if she wants to deal with it.
Then I'm afraid I went down a very large rabbit hole that had to do with illustration art. Back around fourteen or fifteen years ago, I got a couple of home grown collector's guides from a guy who was doing them back then - one for Gene Pressler, as it had a painting I own in it, and one for Earl Christy, an artist I like. I never went back to his site, but after perusing the two tonight for the first time since I got them, I read that the guy had passed away and his son made PDFs of all twenty-six guides he'd done. So, I downloaded all of them and looked through each. They're invaluable.
