The Happiness Thread

Found a Mega Millions lottery ticket from three weeks ago in my front yard, and it turned out to be a winner. Just $1, but it's a dollar I didn't have before.

 

How to get rich: Plant lottery tickets in your front yard. You'll raise a crop of winners in a matter of weeks!

 

I'm glad the people have given Sanders a platform to discuss things for such an audience. "Congress doesn't regulate Wall St. Wall St. regulates Congress." Love it.

 

I'm leaving my old life behind soon. If everything goes according to plan, and up till now that seems to be the case, I'll be leaving the country in January and I won't return. I can't wait

 

I've left my old bathroom behind! Woohoo! Finally the bathroom is renovated!

Next up: the kitchen. Ten times the work. Gotta have a sit-down with the contractor to get comfy with the budget and schedule. Hopefully that will happen later today.

 

Are you allowed to post pics? I love reno photos.

 

Whoo! My favorite Youtube channel, Lord Scatsbury, has returned! Now the hilarity and randomness of his Skyrim videos can resume.

 

Awesome.

 

Hooray you can use caps in thread titles again.

 

I watched the Star Wars trailer 12 times today. Needless to say, I am a very happy nerd.

 

The uncut version of version of my uncle's band's [may have mentioned he's a song writer/singer] finally made it to youtube. I saw it live anyways. But feeling ridiculously pleased cause at 1:55 minutes the camera pans in on the crowd --- took me a minute to realize why one of the girls in this snapshot looks remarkably familiar.

 

Tomorrow I get help to box parts! I got totaled (both the car and me) so I move slowly and not for very long. I know, I know, not exactly moving, but if I was a snail, I'd be...average.

"Box parts? What body parts?" a thread reader asks.
"Well among other things, yes, body parts too," I say calmly.
"Oh...my...god...I'm calling the cops!" forum moderator picks up the phone and dials 911.
"Car parts! Body panels, hood, doors, fenders," I say shaking my head.

Yes, I have car parts, lots of them, so many that I could build two cars from them. I havent seen the couch in about a year. Ovens and low humidity storage in fridges are great places for water pumps, oil pumps and break calipers too. Yes, I have a problem, but I love my cars! So I am really happy that I am getting help. I never got to box and inventory the parts since the accident. I am very OCD, everything is in excel by part number and location in my tiny place.

Smiles casually,
AB

 

Impressive. I want to set up something similar to store my cameras and lenses.

 

If only the stuff was that small. You don't realize how big a hood or car door is until it encroaches space next to your bed.

 

Choices have consequences ;-)

 

Indeed they do. One of them being less women folk tend to come by...but I'm a married man, I dont call one of my cars the wife for nothing.

 

I've been warning sellers for a couple years now about a buyer on eBay that scams sellers by claiming stuff arrived damaged and he wants a partial refund without returning the item. I sold him a new sealed board game and he tried to claim it was opened and resealed. But then I found out he told lots of sellers the same thing. So I started collecting names based on the feedback he got and left people and recorded dozens of scams.

Anyway, for the longest time eBay just ignored complaints but when someone would contact me and tell me he tried to scam them I'd send them the list of sellers he'd said the same thing to that they could send to eBay along with their complaint.

Finally, hooray, after doing this for years, eBay finally did something! Yay! He can no longer give negative feedback to sellers that refuse to give him refunds. They might have done more, I won't find out for a couple more days what all eBay did. But I feel vindicated.

 

eBay has got to realise that their business is built on trust. Buyers and sellers have to trust each other. If this kind of abuse is allowed to stand or gets worse, people will stop using eBay. I have already been put off becoming an eBay seller because of some horror stories I've heard from friends who are sellers. (A couple of these have stopped, because of exactly this kind of bad treatment from buyers.) I just don't need the hassle. (Mind you, I don't need the hassle of traipsing to the post office every day, either.)

The trouble with eBay's feedback system is that, once given, feedback can't be changed. If a buyer pays up front, promptly, etc, then the seller is likely to give them 5-star feedback. If several weeks down the road they pull this kind of trick, the seller has no recourse via the rating system. Surely this is a simple thing that eBay could do to alleviate this problem. Allow sellers (and buyers) to change feedback? And for pity's sake, give them a few more characters to use, so they can be more specific about a problem.

 

Woo! Got some clay, got some sculpting tools, now to look up basic sculpting videos and prepare myself for a new creative hobby!

 

Two classes finished and two A's. Criminal Investigation and Policing in America done. Criminal Justice 101 and Criminal Law left to go.

 

Awesome! Keep at it!

 

I've earned my good grades by sitting in the front row and wearing a short skirt.

 

Sadness via Happiness--The fact that I am happy for peanut butter cups is rather sad.

 

*Just shakes my head and laughs*

 

I made every crabby police officer smile today while at work.... so glad I am amazing.

They think I'm crazy because I wear heels every day and I greet them with a big smile every time they come back to the PD.