@Link the Writer *hugs* Thread: The bf and I are going back home tomorrow, and we'll both be going back to work on Monday. August is nearly over.
https://www.nextadvisor.com/blog/how-cybercriminals-can-use-your-cell-phone-number-to-steal-your-identity/ This person also edited their security settings so as I couldn't access their page - only connect with them on msn - which could suggest they're trying to prevent me from checking for evidence of a clone profile. I could be wrong, but on the other hand...
Having read that, I'd tell you not to believe everything you read on the internet and to the chill the **** out - nearly all the ways people can use your mobile number for identity theft require you to be an idiot, no one can steal your account etc just by having your number At the end of the day you need to decide whether you are serious about meeting people via meet up. If you are, you need to give them your contact details, because no one is going to trust you, or want to meet with you if you don't show a basic level of trust in them. If you deem the risk of giving our your number too high then you may as well forget about meeting new people .. you'll be secure, but lonely. You could also set up a ghost number via Skype and divert it to your phone, and give that out - however establishing your account will require you to share your real number with Skype (who will then put it on a database which if you are paranoid about these things you might also fear being hacked) I've given my mobile number to literally hundreds of people socially and thousands professionally, its also listed on my email signature. Nothing bad has ever happened. In addition there are far easier ways to get someone's mobile number (along with other information) for nefarious purposes than posing in a meet up group.
So, we have no faith in DPD, so my bf has decided to instead send my stand mixer to a collect shop a short drive from our home, plan our route to go there on the way home, and collect it ourselves. This has been the worst courier experience we've had so far. I think the fact that the driver failed to find our landlord's shop on the main road that took the biscuit.
Funnily enough, my experience of sending things to Canada has been fine. We live in a road behind a small parade of shops and drivers seem to be running old Sat nav systems so they don't find it.
Trying to print out some stuff for class tomorrow. Printed about half of it, and the printer ran out of paper. Beep beep, error message, out of paper. Okay, reach for the spare...fuck, completely out of paper, Mrs. A must have been using it while I was on vaca- Beep beep, error message, out of paper. Click "okay" because I'm going to have to pop down to the store to get- Beep beep, error message, out of paper. Got it, click "okay," check one more place where I might have some spare- Beep beep, error message, out of paper. Scream at the computer, cancel the job in the print queue, I can go back to it lat- Beep beep, error message, out of paper. Unplug printer from power strip.
I've become an expert at finding the pinger or speaker of needy beepy things. It's amazing what a drop of crazy-glue will do to bring peace to my world.
My wife has been complaining about a sore throat too. I got her some throat soothing tea, but she says it tastes so bad, she’d rather keep the sore throat. Whose idea was it to combine lemon, ginger, and licorice?
You forgot the last step: Take a shotgun and open fire on the damned thing. But seriously, I know your pain. D: It’s like the printers know exactly when you need to use it the most to fail at everything possible.
I discovered that video some years back, and had forgotten about it until now. Cheers @Iain Aschendale !
Me and my left boot have an ongoing disagreement. I want the insole that it came with to stay where it was originally intended, so my foot feels comfortable and properly supported. My boot has other ideas! Maybe I should simply go barefoot. Fuck footwear. Who needs it anyway!
The headphone jack on my iPod is broken and it'll take the repair guys two weeks to get a replacement because it's an old model. I use music to keep control of my PTSD so this is a bit more awkward than it sounds.
I'm not sure this qualifies as a first world whinge. It's a legitimate problem. I hope it gets sorted soon!
Maybe a bit more First World-specific: I'm struggling to concentrate tonight and it's really screwing with my win rate in World of Warships.
