I had surgery today and couldn’t pick up my meds at the pharmacy because my insurance uses AWS somewhere in the billing process. We had to pay out of pocket and pray we get reimbursed because they’re expensive. This took 6 phone calls to find out and overall, sucked. I didn’t think AWS going down could affect my damn insurance.

Kinda.

Mostly no but high school bullshit pops up every now and then. Just lame drama. It’s usually one person who is known to “be that way” and starts petty conflicts, or is overly controlling and not collaborative, takes everything as a personal attack on their authority, spreads gossip, whatever. It feels like high school when all I want to do is do the work and go home.

I’ve had at least one at every workplace I’ve ever had. In wildly different industries.

The strategy of ignoring them like you would in high school doesn’t work because you have to work with this person so it’s about creating paper trails, CYA files, minimizing interactions, and otherwise just dealing with frustration.

Don’t they just jack up the prices in the 60 days prior so they can show “discounts” which is just the regular price or even higher?

Edit: oops this meant to be a reply. Anyway yeah put groceries on sale.

Yes! It was a huge deal. It was mind bogglingly cool at the time.

Open a free brokerage account now and buy an index fund. Only index funds and even if it is $20 or $4 a month keep investing in index funds. Fidelity has several with no fees. Google what an index fund is. Don’t ever gamble on a regular stock, it’s basically gambling and not worth it.

I thought I was too poor for the “stock market” but I was an idiot and now I’m a much older still-broke idiot who is never going to get to retire.

Also start saving for retirement now. Open a Roth IRA and fill it with index funds.

I know this sounds ridiculous and stupid and not fun but seriously preparing for your financial future is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself. I wish I had.

Don’t be me kids.

Huh. They didn’t give my partner a choice when they got a colonoscopy.

So my partner literally had a colonoscopy this week.

I don’t know how to do spoiler tags and they often don’t work on my app anyway so WARNING: GROSS.

You drink a special laxative and chew these special pills to empty everything out and, critically, you know when you’re clean when your poop comes out identical to pee. Translucent yellow liquid. The instructions have a color chart and everything.

Uh oh!

If I’m right you are late 30s to early 40s. Either Elder Millenial or the last vestiges of Gen X. A Xennial if you will.

What?!

Iron range?

Is that what reddit looks like now??? Gross.

Maruchan, without question.

Seconded

2 things that piss off the funeral industry

1. Aquamation/water cremation/alkaline hydrolysis
2. Human composting

Both are legal in my state. You should join the fight if they aren’t legal where you are.

Both are cheaper than burial. With aquamation you get back a bag of cremains just like with cremation. The only difference is instead of fire they boil you in an alkaline solution.

With composting it turns people into literal soil. You can take that back or donate it to a charity that is repairing a forest.

I second the Lemmy user who suggested Caitlin Doughty and the Order of the Good Death.

Edit: spelling

Slightly more expensive than aquamation but still cheaper than burial.

Beer if you count the sip my dad gave me as a toddler.

Plum rice wine if you count my first real underage drinking experience.

My first legal drink was rumple minze.

Bad decisions all around.

Ok. Calling me out like that. It’s fine, I deserve it.

I store everything “temporarily” because “I’ll sort it later” on the Desktop.

It’s never later.

I know! It was the best.

Pill bug mostly. I think I heard potato bug once or twice. PNW USA.

I thought he was great and very believable as a dork in Peggy Sue Got Married.