I completely agree.

Yeah, I’ve been using that for years. For any bills that don’t give me the option to pay online without having to cough up a “convenience fee.” Which I refuse to pay.

I have the same issue with my water and sewer bills, which are also quarterly. And with my monthly electric bill from my village power authority. I refuse the pay the convenience fee to use my credit card online. Instead I use the online “bill pay” function with my credit union to pay them. It doesn’t take a minute to…

“Also weird: the previous owner deciding that they should carpet over their access to the breaker panel and water heater”

I thought the same thing at first. But then I realized she may not own the house. They may just be renting the place.

“I’m not defending him, though I would have no problem doing so. I’m saying the characterization in the article is inaccurate.”

“When we Floridians get a freeze warning, we take a minute to turn off the water coming to the house.”

Next he’ll try to buy Greenland.

“Morse’s defense was ‘I only slept with college students whom I hasn’t taught.’

Speaking of frozen treats, I really miss the Lemon & Triple Ginger Snap ice cream at Trader Joe’s.

“there’s no way he’s going to accept popcorn that someone microwaved in the back and brought out is there”

Just don’t forget that you might need to add the $300 back in on your state taxes.

Bing cherries were a hybrid that Chinese immigrant Ah Bing helped develop.

Here is that segment from Atwater’s interview. There should probably be a trigger warning that the n-word is used frequently:

They used to be light years better back when they actually made the donuts at each individual store. Nothing beats freshly made donuts that are still warm. But probably about 20 years ago they shifted away from that model, and now they bake and deliver their donuts from regional hubs.

It sounds like this oven’s temperature problem is way beyond the capability of cake strips to fix.

You know, microwaves do a perfectly fine job of reheating pizza as long as you can get past the crazy idea that everything in a microwave has to be done on high.

I really don’t think so. That’s an easier path for comedians and singers, to target the red state audience. But movies and TV series take a lot up front investment, and need to play wide to make back their money. At least the kind of projects Joss is used to working on.

Yeah, I’ve seen this before from people with certain phones. (possibly Motorola, like you said.) I guess it’s a pain to keep trying to correct it all the time so people just let it go out like that. I’ve seen a couple people who always post that way, and asked them about it. They said it was their phone that caused it.

You might want to also add that while you do get paid for jury duty, you might not be able to keep that money. And in some cases you might not get it at all.