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SimAnt was cool! :D
So I sorta wussed out of the stock market a few months ago. I was doing pretty well, but I had to go and commit the gambler's fallacy and believed my run was going to end, so I cashed out and put my money in safer harbors. I went ahead and made my stock picks in my usual way anyways, and just noted them along with their price at the time instead of actually buying them. I was going over them today, and it's depressing well they did since then. The worst performing of those picks grew ~20%. And I still can't stop committing the gambler's fallacy.
Peter Graves died. :(
I watched Blade Runner, and it was boring. :(
We have two fridges, yet neither one's freezer has a spot big enough for my bottle of vodka. :(
Been getting my ass handed to me in cribbage lately. :mad:
Okay, today I am actually hating the switch to DST. I even went to bed early.
Still, though, waking up at 6am that is really 5am is shit. Total shit.
I never will understand why our school system has the elementary school children going in first and being released first. It would make so much more sense for them to be last - start at 9 or maybe even 9:30. Why put the youngest children through this nonsense every day? Why force their parents to wake up at an ungodly hour? A high school student doesn't require mommy and daddy to help get ready for school, they should be first.
I'm old :old:
Usually it took me just a day to recover from binging. Now it takes me until monday from a saturday binge. Thought the last time this happened, it was just that one time, but today I'm at work and I hertz.
Oh noes!
Also, it's pitch black and I just put the kiddos on the school bus.
And the streetlight across the street has been cut off because the assholes who lived there previously are no longer in residence and therefore the electricity for it is no longer being paid for.
Yeah, I hate time shifts. :mad:
Getting up when the sun is not up is unnatural and an abomination.
Was the binge at least worth it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
I don't remember :cry:
We were at a party, then decided to go to the bar for a few beers, then I went through a tunnel with a brainsplitting headache at the end, and then it was Monday.
Were there pretty lights in the tunnel? Pulsating multicolored ones?
There was lots of pulsating and throbbing going on.
Sexy!
You just didn't look at it the right way. :(
Heh. Sounds like you probably had fun! I at least remember everything from last weekend, but the hangover on sunday wasn't too nice :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
Wait - someone living in a house is expected to pay for a streetlight on the road? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
The streetlight is in people's grass. It's rather screwy - but yes, if the electricity in a house is shut off the street-light is, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
I called this morning, they said they could make it functional, and there was a truck there midmorning, but there is still no light.
I'd be quite pissed off to be honest if I had to foot the bill for a streetlight. I'd want it cut off if I was living there.
If I'm paying the bill I should be able to turn it off. Streetlights are communal, so should be paid for communally.
Everyone pays for maintaining them - a 3.50 charge on your water bill per month.
I've had one on my property before, the additional electricity usage is negligible. I mean, maybe if you were one of those people who turned out every light every time you exited a room you'd notice a difference, but I never had.
Yes I do turn the lights off when I leave a room, why not? And yes, if I'm not using the streetlight I'd want to turn it off too, if I'm paying the bill.
So, you leave the living room to go grab a drink from the kitchen, and you turn the light off on your way out even though you are coming right back?
Fuck that shit. I always have a couple of lights on. Granted, the rest of the lights in the house are off and usually stay off, but I keep one on at all times in the kitchen, and a lamp in the living room. The usage for the streetlight is equally minimal. Who cares? I could leave every light in the house on all the time, and it still wouldn't make my power bill ridiculous.
The lights here are attached to the same poles the electrical lines are...seems kind of strange that you have it directly tied into your home.
All our wiring is underground. The county just sees an opportunity to save a few pennies, and takes it.
I was, I admit, rather surprised the first time a light was out and I found out why, but they are usually reasonable about it.
There have to be junction boxes and transformers underground then that they can hook the light up to...it just seems odd, does every house have a light? Because here they're at both ends of the block and sometimes in the middle if its a long one.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Turn the light out in the living room for the seconds I'll be out of it? No. But I will turn the light on in the kitchen for seconds I'll be inside it, then turn it back off as I leave.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
I'm still "in" the living room, even if out for a few second to go to the kitchen, or even a minute or two to go to the toilet. But I'm not using the street at all, if I'm using the streetlight its for a minute if that while I drive out. IE for as little time as the kitchen one that'll be turned off.
No, just occasionally. They also charge people for trimming if a tree on their property is blocking a light or street sign, even if it is all on the easement. They are cheap bastards. The only reason they do it the way they do is to save a tiny bit whenever possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
They told me they would fix it for me today, but they didn't.
I seem to have a bad luck spell at work. Last time I was at work, the machine I operate got broken. Tonight, it seems broken again :(