lucius septimius 8/3/2021 5:48:30 AM

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Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 5:59:40 AM

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In #1 lucius septimius said: I'm just emotionally worn out.  

Good morning. And why is that?

lucius septimius 8/3/2021 6:09:05 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

Mom, being endlessly jerked around about going up there to take care of her, worrying about finances (the humongous bill I'm due from the ER that I can't pay), worrying about the kids, trying to "reinvent" myself as the lawyers told me I was going to have to after they destroyed my life.  Nothing big.

As Jordan Peterson said, anxiety what happens when you don't know where you are and have no idea what to do.  Your body is pumping out adrenaline in preparation for immediate action but you can't take any meaningful action so it just gnaws away at you.   And I've been living like that for so long I can't remember what it's like not to have my heart in my throat 24/7.

vxbush 8/3/2021 6:29:22 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 3:

I honestly wish there was something I could do to help. From this distance and with my nonexistent budget, all I can do is pray for you. 

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 7:21:26 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 3:

I get it.  Take things one day at a time, and focus on what you can improve. 

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 7:27:28 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5:

In fact, Ace of Spades had a very good quote on this subject just yesterday:

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 8:46:35 AM

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lucius septimius 8/3/2021 9:24:58 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 7:

Not really, though the last bit of advice is rather daunting.

Meanwhile, trying to get a car ready for number 2 son -- he's supposed to get his license today.  We did the test last week but his mom hemmed and hawed about taking him to get the license.  

lucius septimius 8/3/2021 9:25:53 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:

Next step is insurance for him.  Yet bigger piles of money I don't have.  Part of me just thinks "just run up all the credit cards to the max then declare bankruptcy."  I mean, that's what government does, right?

vxbush 8/3/2021 10:00:31 AM

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In #9 lucius septimius said: Next step is insurance for him.  Yet bigger piles of money I don't have.  Part of me just thinks "just run up all the credit cards to the max then declare bankruptcy."  I mean, that's what government does, right?

Yes, but no one has come to the US government (yet) and said, "No more credit cards for you." They do that to people. A friend of mine had to declare bankruptcy and can't have any credit cards now. Life is very hard when you can't have a credit card, now that so much had to be purchased online because there isn't a local place that provides it anymore. 

lucius septimius 8/3/2021 10:10:59 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 10:

Oh, true. I was mostly joking.  

buzzsawmonkey 8/3/2021 10:12:07 AM

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In #10 vxbush said: A friend of mine had to declare bankruptcy and can't have any credit cards now.

Odd.  I remember hearing some years ago about someone who'd declared bankruptcy and was inundated with credit card solicitations afterwards. Why?  Because you have to wait a number of years before you can declare bankruptcy again, and so the credit card companies knew that it would be years before this person could stiff them.

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 10:20:03 AM

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In #8 lucius septimius said: Not really,

(Mostly I was just going for the juvenile double-entendre, but, okay.) 

lucius septimius 8/3/2021 10:27:20 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: (Mostly I was just going for the juvenile double-entendre, but, okay.) 

Would have worked better had it been a Whitman quote.

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 10:35:21 AM

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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: and so the credit card companies knew that it would be years before this person could stiff them.

Well, of course, he can still just not pay them, again.  And given that they'd then be unsecured creditors of someone who's broke, that seems like a rather odd strategy on their part. 

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 10:37:18 AM

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In #14 lucius septimius said: Would have worked better had it been a Whitman quote.

I don't recall Rodney Dangerfield offering the hot English professor in Back the School the chance to meet him in private to "help straighten out my Whitman", but if you say so... 

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 10:56:11 AM

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In #10 vxbush said: Life is very hard when you can't have a credit card, now that so much had to be purchased online because there isn't a local place that provides it anymore. 

Debit cards can be used as credit cards. Just keep a separate account so if the card is compromised, you wont get your primary account sucked dry.

Bank gives me some advantages for having a debit card, and they were perfectly willing to tie it to just a specific subaccount. If I want to use it, I use their phone app or website and transfer money to that account.  (But NEVER use the bank app or website on public wifi. Use phone's data connection.)

doppelganglander 8/3/2021 11:03:09 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 9:

There's nothing wrong with asking him to get a job and pay his own insurance, gas, and other expenses. It's cheaper to have him on your (or his mother's) policy but the policy documents show the premiums for each car separately. 

lucius septimius 8/3/2021 11:14:38 AM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: I don't recall Rodney Dangerfield offering the hot English professor in Back the School the chance to meet him in private to "help straighten out my Whitman", but if you say so... 

Ahh -- I never saw the movie so I didn't get the reference.  I was just thinking you were referring to the "shadowy future" of which Whitman was well acquainted. 

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 11:16:37 AM

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In #19 lucius septimius said: Ahh -- I never saw the movie

And here I thought you were an educated man

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 1:21:29 PM

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Pentagon police officer killed in attack outside Department of Defense headquarters

Not a whole lot of information, except it occurred in the Pentagon Metro station.

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 1:30:01 PM

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Iran suspected of carrying out hijack off UAE coast

Iranian-backed forces are believed to have seized an oil tanker in the Gulf off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, three maritime security sources said, after Britain's maritime trade agency reported a "potential hijack" in the area on Tuesday.

Two of the sources identified the vessel as the Panama-flagged asphalt/bitumen tanker Asphalt Princess in an area in the Arabian Sea leading to the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's seaborne oil exports flow.

Iran's Foreign Ministry had earlier said reports of security incidents involving several ships near the UAE coast on Tuesday were "suspicious", and it warned of any effort to create a "false atmosphere" against the Islamic Republic.

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 1:34:12 PM

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Cuomo is a slimy sexual harasser

JCM 8/3/2021 2:06:26 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 22:

Almost like they know The Presidents wants the nuclear deal more than anything else.

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 2:58:55 PM

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Biden says Cuomo should resign following damning sexual harassment report

From one harasser to another

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 2:59:42 PM

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In #24 JCM said: Almost like they know The Presidents wants the nuclear deal more than anything else.

I'm not sure Biden knows what he wants. 

buzzsawmonkey 8/3/2021 3:50:39 PM

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It's interesting, but on FB a whole lot of reflexive Trump-haters are all-in for demanding that everyone get down with the vaccines...that were developed under Trump, and which exist only because of Trump.  So...they hate Trump with a white-hot passion. yet demand that everyone everywhere take the vaccines that he oversaw development of.

Can someone explain this to me?

JCM 8/3/2021 3:54:34 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:

Remember how many (D)s said they could never trust a vaccine developed and rushed out under Trump?

buzzsawmonkey 8/3/2021 4:01:27 PM

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Reply to JCM in 28:

Not really, but likely a lot.

Occasional Reader 8/3/2021 4:04:07 PM

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In #27 buzzsawmonkey said: Can someone explain this to me?

Oceania has NEVER been at war with Vaccineasia.

JCM 8/3/2021 4:16:50 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 29:

Off the top of my head the ones I recall, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Cuomo, AOC....

Kosh's Shadow 8/3/2021 4:27:20 PM

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Impeachment witness Vindman: If Trump had been removed, 600,000 Americans wouldn't have died of COVID

I think it would have been more like 6,000,000

The Democrats were saying, no worry, party in Chinatown, and Trump's travel bans were raaaaacist.

And we'd be waiting another 5-10 years for a vaccine

JCM 8/3/2021 4:47:29 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 32:

Warm moist numbers pulled from a dark warm moist place.