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    So right in the middle of the tornado and us being in the basement...right in the middle!...I received a text that a cc purchase was made of over $950! Not me so I took the time from hunkering to lock my card. I was on the phone on hold for a representative from citi for 45 minutes yesterday. That is unreal for citi. I wonder how many folks they have not working or sick, and if everyone is having cc issues. I read that hackers are taking advantage of the virus. I'll be getting my new card today or tomorrow. Now I have to redo all my bills for the new number. I just did this not too long ago. I keep forgetting to use the virtual card number option. I just have a strong feeling it's either my box of tp that's coming...or one of the vape stores...with poor security.

    Me and the cat slept like babies last night since we didn't the night before without power. Ahhh I love a fan running at night when I sleep.

    Oh and top of the morning to ya! :)
    Glad you got the card straightened out. Sucks it had to happen then.

    Glad you got a good nights sleep:)
     

    FranC

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    Sorry for the hacking. One thing I recently learned is that hackers have cc numbers, don't necessarily use them right away. They wait for an opportune time like this virus, so it may not be recent purchases at all.
    Yup, you can get hit anytime.
     

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    Sorry for the hacking. One thing I recently learned is that hackers have cc numbers, don't necessarily use them right away. They wait for an opportune time like this virus, so it may not be recent purchases at all.
    I've read the same thing. It's a fairly new card so it didn't take them long. It's just weird that the purchase was made in Georgia and the tp is coming from Georgia. But you are right...you will never really know. I didn't have any cc issues until I started buying vape gear in 2012. I remember that time when every vaper was having issues back then.
     

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    I'm glad your wife is okay and back home swiftly @dennism and she didn't get hurt tremendously horribly (well it does sound rotten) and she didn't have to stick around too long.

    I hate going on about the Virus formerly Known as COVID-19 as I am fairly certain it will be, but some of these regs make no sense at all-- if your wife had gone and had to stay a long time I would have FLIPPED my lid as a spouse, etc. For her to go and stay a short while and return, the risk is hardly doubled if you had BOTH gone.

    But don't mind me, although I find Public Healthcare fascinating, indeed and always have. I might have majored in it but you can't have Public Health and Community Health without meeting up with way too many rats. I don't care for them.

    I don't think I am going to be employed much longer. I had one email interaction with my boss and it made me stabby. I also got email from my new FAVORITE doctor he is a gay man who also worked on reservations and like, lived in Florida and he is CRAYZEE smart and funny. He is one person who ever complimented an outfit I ever wore. LOL. We liked each other a bunch. He has been sending out gloomy emails about healthcare workers dying of covid and covid stories which, while I just congenitally am not sure I agreed with him on but I'm sort of an "eh," do what you want within reason" type gal, and his latest Covid story contained the tag, "Dr. Evil I apologize... I know you and I disagree on this but I feel the need to do it." Right there for everyone to read.

    It really made me want to email, "Dr. F., like just listen from a person whose been here a LONG time, Don't Go There With Dr. Evil, he will turn your life into an unnecessary.... horror show." Like, I might call him with a warning that says, "Get out now" or something, he doesn't deserve to have happen to him what could happen, which is you enter the funhouse and like, twirl for a while until you are dizzy and poor and tragedy stricken."

    I swear to God, if there were a way to sort of like, jump ahead 8 months via some sort of predictive statements people make to you on your first day, when you are wide eyed and innocent... to when you scuttle off like a freaking wet cat with your tail between your legs. Although he's NICE the new doc and is sensible but like, I was the nicest person to him while there, and he and I shared a certain form of intelligencia, I just kind of want to say do not make my same errors. Although he appears pretty chill and able to handle himself, he is just too nice. He got me in trouble by sending me all this stuff to do and whatnot, etc.

    So yeah have not heard from my sister yet, but I'm going to have to not go back, regardless. For a woman who goes ON and ON about how she "carefully crafts" every email, my boss sure cannot FUC:censored:ING read. I sent her something and like, she returned an email that was either PURPOSEFUL if she crafts every email or made me look bad, I wanted to email "Can you comprehend the written word? My saying, "I am about to call out for tomorrow" does not merit the response "PLEASE CALL OUT DON'T TELL me with the phone number in GIGANATIC followed by "They have to notify 100 people so like don't tell ME."

    So, things will be happening I guess, and regardless of what my sister says, I am aiming to get my boss fired if nothing else or more, via things deserved. I mean, she ADOPTED this ADHD kid and was moaning about like, "I SO wish I could overmedicate him sometimes I can't take it." I mildly replied, "Really? That is a shame, my kid had ADHD and I couldn't wait for vacations and weekend so he could be himself. I love ADHD kids, they're so creative and fantastic and funny and free thinkers and spirits, etc."

    Then I was like, "Maybe that's how you feel when you belong to a weirdo church that strongly PRESSURES you into adopting so they have more weirdos for the fold" but I did not say that part. I mean, obviously.

    I AM in a black hate mode, but I can't go back I sort of have a feeling based on the RATHER dour reception I received to my FMLA request, well, I fairly sure they were getting ready to fire me on Monday morning but I don't know if I should feel grateful or happy about that, or whatnot. It's just a mess, all of it, and if I have to move more than one more time in my life I am going to deliberately spontaneously self combust, I am sure there's a trick to it, really.

    I did yoga, it was fairly easy and muscle memory made it so it did not hurt but I was given vague nebulous ideas about where it was going to hurt... tomorrow.
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    I've worked in dysfunctional places like that. Getting out really is the best way to go. Fixing it was never going to happen.

    You escaped, now enjoy your freedom. Take them for as much money as you can and let the rest go. This should be a happy time for you. Plotting revenge is just going to keep you mentally tangled up in their mess. A year from now you will just be happy you got out when you did.

    Wishing you the best whatever happens.
     

    englishmick

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    I ordered my raspberry ingredients from BCF just before their sale. I guess my order got caught up in the rush. The shipping label was created on Fri and it's still sitting there. On the bright side my lemon flavor samples are flying through the system.
     

    FranC

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    I've worked in dysfunctional places like that. Getting out really is the best way to go. Fixing it was never going to happen.

    You escaped, now enjoy your freedom. Take them for as much money as you can and let the rest go. This should be a happy time for you. Plotting revenge is just going to keep you mentally tangled up in their mess. A year from now you will just be happy you got out when you did.

    Wishing you the best whatever happens.
    That is great advice:thumb:
     

    FranC

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    I ordered my raspberry ingredients from BCF just before their sale. I guess my order got caught up in the rush. The shipping label was created on Fri and it's still sitting there. On the bright side my lemon flavor samples are flying through the system.
    I would suggest you email them. I ordered Saturday and I have shipping.
     

    englishmick

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    I would suggest you email them. I ordered Saturday and I have shipping.

    I'll probably wait a few days. I expected it to be a bit slower than normal. My order had to go by Fedex Road because it included some Orange Cream which has restricted shipping because of alcohol content. Like a 4oz bottle of flavoring is going to spontaneously catch fire in the hold of a plane because it contains a few grams of alcohol. A 1oz bottle is fine though.
     

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    I'll probably wait a few days. I expected it to be a bit slower than normal. My order had to go by Fedex Road because it included some Orange Cream which has restricted shipping because of alcohol content. Like a 4oz bottle of flavoring is going to spontaneously catch fire in the hold of a plane because it contains a few grams of alcohol. A 1oz bottle is fine though.
    That’s just silly.
     

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    Wife is home, dislocated and fractured right shoulder.

    Good to hear that she got sprung, but that seems like an extreme way to get you to vacuum. :facepalm:

    Hope the recovery is swift!

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    I have the downstairs bathroom stocked for now and dd has a partial pack upstairs. The 24 pk I just found at WalMart will be for upstairs. I’m still keeping my eye out to grab more of the decent stuff when I can find it. I’d like to get a little ahead on it cause it hasen’t gotten any easier to find.
     

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    I've read the same thing. It's a fairly new card so it didn't take them long. It's just weird that the purchase was made in Georgia and the tp is coming from Georgia. But you are right...you will never really know. I didn't have any cc issues until I started buying vape gear in 2012. I remember that time when every vaper was having issues back then.

    I've gotten hit a few times on my debit and credit cards. The strangest one where someone used my debit card number to get a ride from Lyft in the middle of the night on a Saturday while I was sleeping. I'm guessing that someone was drunk and entered their card number wrong and it just happened to hit on mine.
     

    FranC

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    I've gotten hit a few times on my debit and credit cards. The strangest one where someone used my debit card number to get a ride from Lyft in the middle of the night on a Saturday while I was sleeping. I'm guessing that someone was drunk and entered their card number wrong and it just happened to hit on mine.
    Mine has only been hit once (knock on wood) but it was for a pricy kids yard play set. Easy to fix with a call to the company and a new cc.
     

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