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[N_LaRUE]

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Today was stressful but for reasons other than work and weather.

Thankfully it got settled but now I need to go on a trip and miss a day of work.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Yeah I saw that. No surprise there. No clue at all about climate change.

No surprise about the spelling mistakes either.

I wish I could post the reply he got from a comedian explaining it to him. It's funny but not suitable for here.

Here in the Trump White House, common sense and proper spelling are optional.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Today was stressful but for reasons other than work and weather.

Thankfully it got settled but now I need to go on a trip and miss a day of work.

Same old ****, just a different day on this end.

 

[worldspy99]

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Caught the flu.
Going to be out for a couple of days.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Same old ****, just a different day on this end.

I need to head back to my local department because I have to go to the capital about my residency. There was a misunderstanding with some paperwork so now I need to correct it. We have to go in person.

The good thing is that I'm going to get a letter about my residency card being in process that will cover me for three months. They should have given this to me when I put my application in. It's likely the residency card will be ready by March or sooner but we don't have plans to return until March.

So even though this trip is a right pain it will offer some peace of mind because we've been stressing about this damn thing for weeks now.

Plan is to head back on Sunday and return Monday. So just an overnighter. Lots of driving...

Another good thing is we can pick up some items for the move to the house. We had limited space when we came to Versailles but this time we're leaving the cat at home so we'll have loads of room.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Caught the flu.
Going to be out for a couple of days.

Bummer. I've avoided it so far. Apparently it's running rampant in France.

 

[libra89]

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Caught the flu.
Going to be out for a couple of days.

Oh no, I hope you feel better soon.

 

[libra89]

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Ew, it looks like both of my classes will have group projects. I hope that I'm wrong but I'll find out a little later. I knew about one but not about the other.

It is confirmed. Welp. On the flip side, we have a lot of PhD students so hopefully they will be better.

 

[Laura Knotek]

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Caught the flu.
Going to be out for a couple of days.

I hope you'll feel better soon.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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What a slog.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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What a slog.

It's a nice way to end your work day to come in to a blown transformer that leaves you without electricity.

 

[Laura Knotek]

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It's a nice way to end your work day to come in to a blown transformer that leaves you without electricity.

I hope the power is restored quickly.

 

[libra89]

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I hope the power is restored quickly.

I second what Laura said. Not cool and it's also too cold for this.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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I second what Laura said. Not cool and it's also too cold for this.

Well, we will see what happens. My G7 is fully charged, so I'll swap to it in the morning if the current isn't back on by then.

My powerbank can charge a phone or two as needed.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Well, we will see what happens. My G7 is fully charged, so I'll swap to it in the morning if the current isn't back on by then.

My powerbank can charge a phone or two as needed.

Well, the lights are back on. Only took 6 hours from the time of the accident to now (2PM-8PM).

I'm grateful. Now hopefully the apartment will warm up too. Slowly but surely.

 

[libra89]

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Well, the lights are back on. Only took 6 hours from the time of the accident to now (2PM-8PM).

I'm grateful. Now hopefully the apartment will warm up too. Slowly but surely.

Thank goodness! So glad to hear that. I hope it will warm up soon.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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There are people in public housing without heat or hot water in this Polar vortex. While they could use the hot air from the dude at 1600 Penn Ave to stay warm, it just highlights the disparities that exist.

I have a client at work dealing with a bad case of mold - to the point where she and her adult children are sleeping in the living room in a 3 bedroom apartment because mold is in all 3 bedrooms. Because she is in public housing, it's been a fight to get her repairs. So she had a blow up this afternoon and chewed me out - due to her anxiety being through the roof (and understandably so, with all this stress). Didn't take it personal, but we had to talk about quite a few things. Of course there is a ton more to this story I'm leaving out.

The thing that annoyed me (and the client) was why a social worker working for her landlord told her to go to a warming shelter because she has low heat (pretty much no heat) in the apartment. All because the landlord cut a program where they used to supply tenants with emergency heaters.

So my resource challenged and health challenged client has to travel to a warming shelter where that travel stresses her health and resources, or just stay indoors with the bone chilling cold and mold in her apartment.

Some choice, eh?

While the warming shelter technically was an option, how it was presented who have gotten anyone hot under the collar.

She is just one of thousands of people living in ****ty conditions, scrapping to pay their rent on time and providing for their families. And for what? To be seen as a throwaway by power brokers and elitists. So when I hear the GF's mother's new husband (old baby boomer) talk some of the same junk Trump does (he does know Trump too), I just roll my eyes.

It's depressing as **** but fight on we must.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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There are people in public housing without heat or hot water in this Polar vortex. While they could use the hot air from the dude at 1600 Penn Ave to stay warm, it just highlights the disparities that exist.

I have a client at work dealing with a bad case of mold - to the point where she and her adult children are sleeping in the living room in a 3 bedroom apartment because mold is in all 3 bedrooms. Because she is in public housing, it's been a fight to get her repairs. So she had a blow up this afternoon and chewed me out - due to her anxiety being through the roof (and understandably so, with all this stress). Didn't take it personal, but we had to talk about quite a few things. Of course there is a ton more to this story I'm leaving out.

The thing that annoyed me (and the client) was why a social worker working for her landlord told her to go to a warming shelter because she has low heat (pretty much no heat) in the apartment. All because the landlord cut a program where they used to supply tenants with emergency heaters.

So my resource challenged and health challenged client has to travel to a warming shelter where that travel stresses her health and resources, or just stay indoors with the bone chilling cold and mold in her apartment.

Some choice, eh?

While the warming shelter technically was an option, how it was presented who have gotten anyone hot under the collar.

She is just one of thousands of people living in ****ty conditions, scrapping to pay their rent on time and providing for their families. And for what? To be seen as a throwaway by power brokers and elitists. So when I hear the GF's mother's new husband (old baby boomer) talk some of the same junk Trump does (he does know Trump too), I just roll my eyes.

It's depressing as **** but fight on we must.

Sadly this kind of thing happens in the UK as well. Not sure about France. France has very strict tenant laws.

In the UK as a landlord you can install these pay per use electrical meters. The idea is that people can put as little or as much as they can on the meter to use electricity. Once the money runs out you have to put more money on it. This requires going to a shop that has the system to pay for this available.

The whole idea is to prevent clients from going on a proper tariff so they don't end up behind on payments. However this pay per use is more expensive.

Also landlords don't need to fix anything (they should but they don't and there's really no one checking things), including mould issues, which is a big problem in the UK. It usually comes down to the landlord in what kind of experience you have renting.

This whole rental culture is pretty crap.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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So I've read that parents that decided not to vaccinate their children in Washington state are freaking out wondering how to protect their kids from the measles outbreak.... If only there was a reliable scientifically proven method of preventing these horrible diseases, with the possibility of eradicating them entirely....

Oh wait!

Humanity depresses me sometimes....

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Snowing again.