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VisceralRealist said:
I get those spam group chats as well, though recently the spam texts have been the most generic, one of two varieties:

1. Fake job offers.
2. Random texts that say things like "Hey, we haven't talked in a while".

The latter kind are the newest type, and very strange to me. It's obviously spam because although I don't have the numbers of everyone I know memorized, no one I know would ever text me out of the blue without mentioning my name. It doesn't say "Hey, Eden", I delete it and ignore it.

I'm not sure why this specific type of text has been more common for me lately, but it's certainly annoying. But it's true my phone number out there a lot over the years. Starting to regret that now... :confused:
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I’ve gotten the latter type, and it’s usually some pretty girl (or somebody purportedly a pretty girl) wanting to talk at length - forever.

Why? Not readily apparent. But it’s probably not for good purposes.
 
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I am OK with text message appointment reminders from medical practices for two main reasons:
  1. The messages confirm I have the correct time and date and help me avoid missed appointment fees.
  2. Most practices are tightly scheduled. Anything that helps keep staff and professionals on schedule, so that I have less chance of being affected by another patient being late or a no-show, is fine by me.
 
My big problem is that Governments, Banks and others all say -- don't answer calls or reply to or read messages from unknown or blocked numbers.

Then... when Government agencies, Banks, Medical agencies (Doctors, Hospitals, etc) contact me, it's always from unknown or blocked numbers.

My own Doctor, when sending me a message gives me a link to an unknown bit.ly link, and I have to put in my private details before reading the message.

My bank, when they want to ring me up, call from an blocked number, then ask me for my details before talking to me. And when I complain to management about this, they can't understand why I can't tell the difference from them calling me from an unknown number and asking for my details and a spammer calling me from an unknown number and asking for my details. And we give these people our money to look after...

In Australia, Political Parties are exempt from anti-spam laws. Guess who makes the anti-spam laws...
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
My big problem is that Governments, Banks and others all say -- don't answer calls or reply to or read messages from unknown or blocked numbers.

Then... when Government agencies, Banks, Medical agencies (Doctors, Hospitals, etc) contact me, it's always from unknown or blocked numbers.

My own Doctor, when sending me a message gives me a link to an unknown bit.ly link, and I have to put in my private details before reading the message.

My bank, when they want to ring me up, call from an blocked number, then ask me for my details before talking to me. And when I complain to management about this, they can't understand why I can't tell the difference from them calling me from an unknown number and asking for my details and a spammer calling me from an unknown number and asking for my details. And we give these people our money to look after...

In Australia, Political Parties are exempt from anti-spam laws. Guess who makes the anti-spam laws...
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I'm so with you there. I thought it was me being a grumpy old man, protesting about giving my personal info, to someone I don't know. I usually push them to give me, something unique that isn't revealing my security, like the last transaction detail.
If there was a way, for those who call you, to provide a secure code, that I can authenticate through a government app, that would we awesome. For instance, they call me, I open an authentication app, and send a code to the service requesting my information, and they read that code back to me.
 
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My computer mouse blew up this afternoon. No, I'm not kidding. It made a loud pop and when I took out the batteries, they were smoking and sizzling. They actually burned my hand, and left burn marks on my desk and on the carpet where they fell. Quickly grabbed oven mitts and took them outside. Went this evening to get a new mouse, and also gave me the excuse to get a mechanical keyboard along with it. The combo was very expensive, but I've wanted a mechanical for a long time, and hopefully this new mouse doesn't explode. As I checked out, the cashier couldn't stop laughing when I told her the ordeal. It is kind of funny without context.
 
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My night out last night is very much on my mind. A group of friends and I went out for dinner. Some I hadn’t seen or spoken to in 25+ years.

Some people you pick up right where you left off. Others you scratch your head wondering what you ever had in common.

Now thinking about the long drive home this morning.
 
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Sat today, in my car, at an intersection of a fairly major road in Perth, Australia, whilst the 4WD in front of me, waited for traffic in both lanes to be free, so they could drive across both, to the right turn filter across from it. It was a busy morning, and sat the waiting for almost 10 minutes.
Makes me so cross, that no consideration or insight into the holdup they caused.
 
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Madonepro said:
Sat today, in my car, at an intersection of a fairly major road in Perth, Australia, whilst the 4WD in front of me, waited for traffic in both lanes to be free, so they could drive across both, to the right turn filter across from it. It was a busy morning, and sat the waiting for almost 10 minutes.
Makes me so cross, that no consideration or insight into the holdup they caused.
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I was driving back home the other day and had two bad experiences:
  1. At a major intersection, I was stopped at a red light. A car swerves in front of me and runs the red light. I almost got hit.
  2. At the intersection between a busy street and a less-busy one—I was turning left on the latter from the former. All the traffic turning from the less-busy street to the busier street gets a green arrow, but not vice versa. Since I had no arrow, I had to wait for at least 5 cycles of lights in order to turn left.
I honestly hate driving, but it's one of those things you just have to do (at least in my area).
 
rm5 said:
I was driving back home the other day and had two bad experiences:
  1. At a major intersection, I was stopped at a red light. A car swerves in front of me and runs the red light. I almost got hit.
  2. At the intersection between a busy street and a less-busy one—I was turning left on the latter from the former. All the traffic turning from the less-busy street to the busier street gets a green arrow, but not vice versa. Since I had no arrow, I had to wait for at least 5 cycles of lights in order to turn left.
I honestly hate driving, but it's one of those things you just have to do (at least in my area).
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Yep, stuff like that is why I picked up a dash cam for my car (plus if it happens to catch a meteor strike…BONUS!!!).
 
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Taking care of my wife (she’s getting older and dementia is slowly setting in) and sleep schedules; she likes sleeping days and I have to work days. Had to take today off to sleep the afternoon.

But I did get the gutter shields cleaned off this morning when it was too warm but not hot, at 8 am. I don’t like hot weather and it doesn’t help with sleep. No A/C, either.
 
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Just back from 4 days in Glasgow. Still struggling going away on my own. Great to begin with but now I just feel lonely. Best part of the trip was getting some work done on Monday on my work laptop!

Going up again at the end of September. Need to plan some trips from there before I go. Up the the Highlands, Balmoral etc.....
 
Played a friend's Nord Stage 4 "hammer action 88" tonight. Let me tell you, that is about as far from hammer action as you can get. It felt super plasticky and just absolutely awful. Keep in mind, this is a $6k instrument. Thought about buying an Electro to take up to Wisconsin with me, ended up getting another Yamaha. Nord sounds are 10x better but to be honest, over the years I've concluded that the sound is the least important part. I cannot escape Yamahas (though I'm not complaining because I'd rather have that than a Nord with awful action).
 
Day 3 being on prednisone for this ..
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Due to removing these from our 20 year on-off wildflower fields
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Here’s to 2026 looking like this again, here’s late 2010’s / early 2020’s look
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@mtbdudex been there, can feel your... well, not pain as such.

For me it was from clearing regular English ivy from a sort of thicket area in a previous home. Any time I did yardwork after that experience, I made sure to wear long sleeves, gloves, and never ever shorts. Even so, I still would use some isopropyl cleaning up after being done outside, just to be sure.

And hope you can get some sleep, prednisone kept me up late.
 
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M4th said:
@mtbdudex been there, can feel your... well, not pain as such.

For me it was from clearing regular English ivy from a sort of thicket area in a previous home. Any time I did yardwork after that experience, I made sure to wear long sleeves, gloves, and never ever shorts. Even so, I still would use some isopropyl cleaning up after being done outside, just to be sure.

And hope you can get some sleep, prednisone kept me up late.
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Yea taking 4 a day wires you up!!
Ramps up the metabolism, got 1/2 sleep last night.
Typically I wear long pants / shirt, but this time it was upper 80’s f and humid, I was drenched in sweat digging those roots out. Still wore leather gloves of course. I’m so amazed at the strength of the roots, like 1/4” root strong as steel pulling it out, literally it tears sod from 3” below!!
For past 2 months was applying glysophate on the field, to kill them. My bad thinking the roots would not affect me as they touched my bare skin. Every time coming in I’d wipe my skin with cold water and soap solution.. obviously not worked well.
Now I’m gonna rent a rear tine tiller for 24 hours and turn over the soil, to make sure all roots destroyed, as I was attacking the main huge tap root systems, it’s like an alien invasion!
Then, with my heavy zero turn Exmark mower will flatten the soil, and re-apply glyphosate to anything the sprouts thru this fall.

Wildflowers reseeding will be early spring 2026, with “fresh clean soil”.
 
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