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[amd]

Not sure what's wrong with my multibar soap cutter. My beer soap unmolded beautifully at lunch (usually I unmold at lunch and give it some air time before I cut when I get home) and was ready to be cut early. My multibar cutter is crooked! Somehow the wires are out of line with the grooves so I got through the top part of the soap until the wires hit the edge of the cutter, so I had to slide the wires into place to fit into the grooves, resulting in wonky shaped bars. Once I got everything cleaned up, I checked out the cutter itself and I can't find the issue. the frame doesn't seem to be twisted or bent, the bolts on the wires are not loose. I'm going to have Chris look at it when he gets home tonight - he's the guy who designed and built it, after all, so he should be able to fix it. Stupid wire cutter, making my beautiful beer soap bars look all wonky. (and it is a beautiful soap! I am so pleased with myself. The bar cutter, not so much.)

 

[Lin19687]

OMG PAPERCUTS !! HATE THEM... and WHY is it that they Always are in the worst spot.

 

[Misschief]

Papercuts... a hazard in my day job (I work in a print shop). Best thing to do? Clear nail polish. It stings like crazy for a second or two but once sealed, relief!

 

[earlene]

Well that is interesting, Misschief. Maybe I'll buy some one of these days to keep in the medicine cabinet.

 

[SaltedFig]

I can smell acetone

 

[Misschief]

I can smell acetone

In the nail polish? Or in removing the nail polish? If the latter, it wears off within a couple of days and no acetone is needed.

 

[SaltedFig]

@Misschief There was a massive fire that started before dawn the day before yesterday. The black smoke cloud went for miles and shut down roads and everything. It took them a day and a half to mostly put it out and a few hours ago a storm started to roll in (it looked like a storm), only it was just a wind change ... and my normally beautiful air smelt like that when I went for a walk this evening. I'm not even on the map in this news article. If it was like that here, 2 days later, it must have been truly awful for the people living closer.

 

[Misschief]

@Misschief There was a massive fire that started before dawn the day before yesterday. The black smoke cloud went for miles and shut down roads and everything. It took them a day and a half to mostly put it out and a few hours ago a storm started to roll in (it looked like a storm), only it was just a wind change ... and my normally beautiful air smelt like that when I went for a walk this evening. I'm not even on the map in this news article. If it was like that here, 2 days later, it must have been truly awful for the people living closer.

Ah... Hopefully no one was hurt. Smoke in the air is not fun; we've had weeks of it here from the forest fires. Thankfully, it's cleared up a lot and we have blue skies.

 

[SaltedFig]

@Misschief - it started before dawn, so there wasn't anyone inside (thank goodness - the place was huge!)

I'm glad your forest fires are clearing up (I've been following what you all have been writing - they sounded really bad).
Blue skies must be so welcome!

 

[Misschief]

@Misschief - it started before dawn, so there wasn't anyone inside (thank goodness - the place was huge!)

I'm glad your forest fires are clearing up (I've been following what you all have been writing - they sounded really bad).
Blue skies must be so welcome!

They are indeed. I'll even take the gray skies, as long as it's clouds.

Thankfully, no one one was hurt. Things can be replaced, people can't.

 

[SoapAddict415]

Grrrrrr [emoji34][emoji35]! Amazon just told me that I still don't have the order that should've been delivered Monday because they lost it between yesterday's supposed delivery attempt and today! I chose a gift card credit because it's supposedly faster than a credit back to my credit card (1 hour vs 3-5 business days). Now I've got to reorder and I'm wondering if the delivery person didn't just steal my stuff. I can't recall ever having this hard of a time with Amazon delivery!

 

[earlene]

I had to call Amazon on the phone a day or two ago to follow up on a refund that was supposedly credited to me on August 3rd, so I empathize with you, SoapAddict415. I don't quite get how they get away with a 3-5 day delay for a credit reversal when they can give you a gift card credit immediately. It seems weird how all this stuff works sometimes.

 

[SoapAddict415]

I had to call Amazon on the phone a day or two ago to follow up on a refund that was supposedly credited to me on August 3rd, so I empathize with you, SoapAddict415. I don't quite get how they get away with a 3-5 day delay for a credit reversal when they can give you a gift card credit immediately. It seems weird how all this stuff works sometimes.

I don't understand that either. They blame the time delay on the credit card company. I think it's Amazon. You can only use the gift card to shop with them but a credit back to your card means you can shop elsewhere. I was also told that I'd get the gift card credit "within an hour". When I called back after the hour had passed, I was told that it takes up to 4 hours! I finally got it and reordered 1 of my 2 items. Hopefully this time I'll get it!

 

[earlene]

Losing something important in my own house.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Plus I think Menopause is starting... Blah

Thanks for the warning.

 

[earlene]

I can't sleep. Well, I did sleep, but I woke up. I've been searching for something that I misplaced and haven't been able to find. It should be fairly easy to find if I had put it in a logical spot, but apparently in my wanderings around the house putting things away after returning from my roadtrip, I did not put it in a logical spot. I remember picking it up off the DR table the next morning after returning home, and from that point, don't have a clue where it ended up.

My receipts for the insurance company are in there, as well as other paperwork I need to find and sort through. So it's pretty important. I expect it will turn up, but it's really bugging me that I replaced it so thoroughly! I keep going over the places I think it should be easy to spot, and places I doubt I put it but could have done and places I think I may have put it accidentally (put it down while doing something else, meaning to pick it right up again kind of thing.) I just can't find it.

Yesterday, I even called the last hotel I stayed in to ask if it was in their lost and found, although I am almost positive it is here (except I can't find it) because I specifically remember thinking, I can't leave it here on the dining room table while Hubby is eating breakfast. That's too specific of a memory to have left it behind in a hotel room.

 

[lindakschickens]

Gripe: Amazon why ask for safe place instructions if your own Amazon delivery guys will not follow them? Ordered a apple core/peeler guy knocked on door twice I did not make it down stairs as I was dealing with DD thought oh they will leave it in my safe place. Nope jerk just went back to his van marked as attempted delivery sat there for 5 mins looked directly at him and the bugger drove off. Complained to Amazon who then told me it was infact a issue and the item was not out for delivery.

Called them out on their lie telling them not only did I get a email saying out for delivery their tracking info say delivery attempted told them I also saw they guy go back to his van across the street and I'm pretty sure he saw me come to my window and look out.

They offered me a Goodwill gesture of £5 ($6.48) but had to buy something ship and sold by Amazon told them thanks but no thanks and to cancel my order already asked how to cancel my Amazon monthly prime,music unlimited and Kindle unlimited also asked them to check for me to make sure I did it right and it was cancelled.

I get they hire outside sources to deliver but the fact they tried to lie and cover for a horrid delivery guy is not ok. With monthly prime, music and kindle unlimited I est that for me along they have lost almost £288 ($373.28) in just memberships alone for a single year. Not to mention avoiding stuff sold by Amazon themself.

 

[dibbles]

@earlene Did you find your important papers yet? I don't know the proximity of your dining table to the kitchen, but sometimes I set things on top of my refrigerator that need to be put somewhere specific, with the intent of remembering I put them there and then putting them away. Then I'm too short to see the items if they are flat, and I forget where I put them. Unfortunately, it's happened more times than I care to admit. I'd also check the recycling, just in case. Hope you find them soon.

 

[SoapAddict415]

Gripe: Amazon why ask for safe place instructions if your own Amazon delivery guys will not follow them? Ordered a apple core/peeler guy knocked on door twice I did not make it down stairs as I was dealing with DD thought oh they will leave it in my safe place. Nope jerk just went back to his van marked as attempted delivery sat there for 5 mins looked directly at him and the bugger drove off. Complained to Amazon who then told me it was infact a issue and the item was not out for delivery.

Called them out on their lie telling them not only did I get a email saying out for delivery their tracking info say delivery attempted told them I also saw they guy go back to his van across the street and I'm pretty sure he saw me come to my window and look out.

They offered me a Goodwill gesture of £5 ($6.48) but had to buy something ship and sold by Amazon told them thanks but no thanks and to cancel my order already asked how to cancel my Amazon monthly prime,music unlimited and Kindle unlimited also asked them to check for me to make sure I did it right and it was cancelled.

I get they hire outside sources to deliver but the fact they tried to lie and cover for a horrid delivery guy is not ok. With monthly prime, music and kindle unlimited I est that for me along they have lost almost £288 ($373.28) in just memberships alone for a single year. Not to mention avoiding stuff sold by Amazon themself.

I've been going thru something similar with Amazon. My order was supposed to be here last Monday (Amazon prime 2-day delivery). They didn't attempt to deliver until Wednesday when I was 2 blocks from the apartment. The driver didn't leave my package like usual. Thursday my husband was home all day and they claimed to have attempted a delivery. I called Amazon and complained so they said they'd have the driver redeliver that day. They didn't. Friday I was told that they lost my order. I got a refund and reordered my items but yesterday I noticed that my account shows a pending return for the items I never got! I emailed them and I'm waiting for a reply. On the good side of things, I got one of my reordered items today and the other is expected tomorrow.

 

[earlene]

No, dibbles, I haven't found them yet. But yesterday morning, when I went to make my husband's lunch for work, I found the kitchen scissors in the cheese drawer in the fridge! So obviously misplacing things in odd places has happened at least more than once this past week. I can see how the scissors happened - I used the scissors to cut open a new package of cheese for Hubby's lunch the day before and when I put it away, rather than putting the scissors back in the holder on the freezer door (magnetically adhered) I obviously put them into the cheese drawer while putting the cheese away. I keep hoping I'll run across the packet of important papers in much the same way.

But, of course, this expands the search area even more because I really don't remember what I was carrying around with me to put away at that moment. I vaguely remember I had a lot of things to put away, but not what all they were. It did occur to me that I may have put it on top of something and started looking 'up' yesterday just in case. I also told my husband what it looks like and that I cannot find it in case he runs across it, so maybe between the 2 of us, it'll get found sooner. But he has no idea where to look either, so it's going to be hit & miss with the search.

Another gripe: unacceptable Side Effects of drugs that otherwise seem to miraculously help. I've had to stop taking my NSAID for the arthritic hip pain (miraculously pain-free walking after suffering the pain for about 3 years off & on) because I have so much trouble with mouth sores not healing. What's worse? Mouth pain so bad I can't eat anything or drink water or anything else without pain and it hurts to even talk? Or hip pain so bad when it flairs up that I need to use a cane? I'd have to say the mouth sores that won't heal are more intolerable.

So tomorrow I will call my dentist for an appointment to have my mouth checked in case it's something else (cancer comes to mind, but I doubt it because of the NSAIDs). And I'll call my MD for an appointment too because I am concerned about slow healing sores and he might want to check on my immune system or some such. I do already have an appointment with the doc who ordered the NSAID, but maybe I'll call and ask them to pass on the information that I've stopped taking it and why. In any case, I will be seeing him on the 17th anyway.