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BikerChick's avatar

I’m watching baby Hamza (finally asleep after a few hours of fussiness, shots yesterday) while my

son participates in day 1 of OCD camp.

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CynthiaW's avatar

I hope it works out really well for your son.

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IncognitoG's avatar

Wishing the best for your yungin, btw. Pretty encouraging that he owned up to the problem, apologized, and admits he needs to change. 🤞🤞🤞

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Jay Janney's avatar

C’mon! At Hamza’s age that’s a lot to expect of an infant! 😡

Cut the baby some slack!

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Jay Janney's avatar

Friends of mine with young children were streaming the movie "Up". I explained it is fortuitous that Rick Astley failed in his attempts to purchase the IP to it, else they wouldn't be able to stream it.

I think the young kids had been wearing them ragged, as they were not amused....

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LucyTrice's avatar

Now moving to escape election news is something I can relate to!

Moving to an alternate reality in which talking to people my age leads to lots fewer conversations about parental care problems stemming from the fact stubbornness increases its inverse proportionality to short term memory and cognitive coherence would be even better.

No, I will never be like that. The decision has been made. And the genes can just hush.

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Phil H's avatar

From the mothership: Moar David French:

Worth Your Time II: 'The Far Right Doesn’t Own ‘The Lord of the Rings’--David French

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/opinion/maga-tolkien-lotr.html?unlocked_article_code=1._00.n6Tq.D69NpeVpUC1Z&smid=em-share

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CynthiaW's avatar

Our new organization bank account is having trouble receiving Zelle payments, so I need to go over there when it opens and find out what's going on. Technologies!

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Brian's avatar

I'm treasurer for a charitable org and we have a small business account. I was surprised to learn that Chase allows Zelle only for personal accounts. Don't know why it's that way but it would be very convenient for the payments I make to apartment complexes, utility companies, etc. for the people we help.

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CynthiaW's avatar

I'm glad you mentioned this, because it wouldn't surprise me if Brenda said, "You should have picked a different bank!" and I can say, "It wouldn't make any difference!"

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BikerChick's avatar

I’m experiencing deja vu.

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Phil H's avatar

I wish more people used Zelle. It works through your existing bank account, unlike Venmo, which functions separately and so requires you to hand over your SSN.

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CynthiaW's avatar

Some people like it, but I have no idea how to use it and, more importantly, why it's not working for more than half our participants who have tried it.

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LucyTrice's avatar

State Employees Credit Union does not participate in Zelle.

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CynthiaW's avatar

I understand that many credit unions don't.

It turns out the problem is that the bank doesn't have Zelle for business accounts. They were surprised that any of the payments went through!

A small business support specialist is supposed to call me to talk about other options. The girl in the local branch thinks that, because we're a non-profit, there should be some method we can use at no cost.

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Brian's avatar

I answered this above before seeing this one. Our org banks with Chase and our options are online billpay, ACH transfers, or paper checks.

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CynthiaW's avatar

We have South State Bank. We'll work it out one way or another. We're not going to have a lot of money coming in, except during August/September, when we collect fees from the participants.

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LucyTrice's avatar

That would be great. Good luck with it!

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CynthiaW's avatar

Thank you. Learning experiences!

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Phil H's avatar

Since it works through your bank, your bank has to use it and implement the interface to it. I imagine that makes a difference. It’s supposed to be possible to send money via Zelle to anyone in the US with a US bank account, but I’m not sure how that works for nonparticipating banks.

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M. Trosino's avatar

She can just send me a check via USPS for any amount she chooses, and I'll be more than happy to run on down to town and deposit it into my bank account myself and just eliminate all that technological hassle...

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Phil H's avatar

Luddite! 🤣

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CynthiaW's avatar

I have no idea, but I will find out.

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Phil H's avatar

Good morning. Hti the 90s yesterday whne we were at the state fair. Then it rained last night. Today cloudy but hot and likely moroe rain sometime today or tonight.

The mothership is reporting on the large prisoner swap between Russia nad several Western countries, that freed 3 Amercans (WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marin Paul Whelan and Radi Free Eurpoe reporter Alsu Kurmasheva) along with several Russian dissidents, in return for several cautpred spied and a Russian murderer held in Germany,

The TGIF headline at FP is "The Global Gayborhood". Not sure yet what's that about.

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CynthiaW's avatar

"The Global Gayborhood" is sort of a tagline of the Grindr gay hookup app, which has been blocked from the Olympic Village in order, they say, to keep athletes from oppressive countries from using it and getting in trouble back home.

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Jay Janney's avatar

You realize that's a fun comment, but there's no way a straight such as myself can explain how I know that without, you know, questions about how I know that. 🙄 Being a nerdy academic, there's many things I can claim I was looking up for class (such as the number of marijuana plans a medical marijuana user typically needs in a year), but not this...

"someone on social media out of the blue explained it", just isn't gonna cut it...

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CynthiaW's avatar

I know this only because they explained it in the Free Press article.

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BikerChick's avatar

I knew LaBash would fall flat with TGIF audience. His anger shows through, Nellie has more lightness in her writing.

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CynthiaW's avatar

I see that some of the Free Press subscribers have formed offshoot groups on Substack ... kinda like this one, but probably not as friendly and fun.

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CynthiaW's avatar

I thought he was okay, but I don't think he's funny. When he started his Substack, and everyone was saying how great it was, I thought it was meh: excessively wordy and kind of potty-mouthed.

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BikerChick's avatar

I enjoyed him most when he wrote for “The Weekly Standard.” I think he, like me, is disgusted with so much that’s going on in politics and the culture. He struggles making it funny. Imagine that!

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Phil H's avatar

It never would have occured to me to question the sexuality of a mother of ten. 🙂

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CynthiaW's avatar

Well, I identify as Queer because it doesn't mean anything.

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Wilhelm's avatar

I identify as hillbilly (sub-Ozark, not Appalachian). But I don't wear eye liner. Not this minute, anyway.

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LucyTrice's avatar

I saw that too and read it and still have no idea what it is about.

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The original Optimum.net's avatar

Good morning. Gonna be another hot one. Gotta do my hike soon.

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IncognitoG's avatar

Two words: portable airconditioner.

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Phil H's avatar

Either the portable A/C or its power source would be a huge load to take hiking.

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The original Optimum.net's avatar

Isn't air conditioner two words all by itself?

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IncognitoG's avatar

But then the math wouldn’t work!

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The original Optimum.net's avatar

Fake Math!

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CynthiaW's avatar

Good morning. As many people have observed, "Wherever you go, there you are."

It's hot and humid already here.

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IncognitoG's avatar

Morning. There’s a soundtrack for that.

https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg?si=jt6ia65VT_fMYVZ9

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CynthiaW's avatar

Good song. Great hair!

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