It appears that the Credit Union was struck by lightning. There are other issues as none of the local branches had phone service as late as yesterday because Verizon has rolled a critical failure on their "keep the phone lines running during weather" skillroll. (It's rained for over a week here.)
They have a backup server of course but it way out west and chose this moment to be down...I assume fires are involved though that is speculation on my part.
When I went into the main branch branch. I got them to do a withdrawal history on my account. Everything seemed copacetic when I left as the end of the month flurry of auto-draft bills had, apparently, been made, but I just got an angry alert from my to insurance company to the effect that this is not the case.
I'll be spending some time on the phone this afternoon.
Actually I thought I'd updated the post yesterday, but i just realized that I'd merely published (this time successfully) the original version when I got in.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Jul 31 15:31:50 2018 (3bBAK)
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I was speculating that if they have a centralised system and computerised phones, this is exactly what would happen if the network went down - a core router failure or something. The public website could well be hosted separately, but then it couldn't link to the back-end server for customer logins.
Didn't think about angry thunder gods. Need to update my DR plans.
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1...replying "OK get it out." counts as elective surgery.
This is the kind of thing that activates that small part of me that said "gee, is electing Trump and blowing everything up really something to be avoided?"
This is not a "1st World Problem" per se. I mean, confounding healthcare with health insurance is, but stuff like this is "Do you get paid be stupid, or do you do it for free/are just bad at your job/your boss is the World Destroyer?"
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sun Jul 16 09:09:45 2017 (PiXy!)
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In fairness to the hospital, the lady I spoke to there was suitably incredulous as to the procedure not being covered. According to her, the only other thing that it could be given the info she had would be if I had no insurance at all, which is not the case. Her theory (That at some point one of the doctors wrote something like "Paitent ELECTED to have procedure done." Got coded in as an elective procedure) seems likely. The fact that other doctor/dental/ER visits have been covered this year make it seem likely that this is either a coding error or an expansive view of the word "elective" is indeed in place.
Though I am not prepared to rule out Kobolds.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Jul 16 13:10:09 2017 (KicmI)
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At some point all surgery is elective unless you're brought in unconscious and bleeding out. But that's not what's meant by "elective surgery".
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sun Jul 16 21:50:22 2017 (PiXy!)
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Jun 5 16:51:57 2017 (ITnFO)
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Posted by: J Greely at Mon Jun 5 20:42:23 2017 (tgyIO)
Due to severe weather delays, we were overstaffed at work this morning. As a result, I got off way early and about 5:30, as I was driving home, a lightning bolt struck next to me and showered my van in burning tree parts.
After a moment, I noted that the stricken tree next was next to a neighbors house and was burning with alarming intensity despite the downpour. I got out to see if it could be put out or to help the people get out as this was looking pretty grim.
The owner of the house and I tried to put out the fire but neither the rain nor our bucket brigade was having any effect. After an embarrassingly long interval, I had a neuron fire and realized that the tree wasn't burning, the ground was. I advised the gentleman to call the fire department NOW because it could be a peat fire and that could be the end of the whole block.
But wait...It was quite intense for peat. The ground around it was undulating and hissing...and it kept getting more intense until it was almost like...a blowtorch.
Oh. Lord. The lightning struck a gas main!
We kept the bucket brigade on it to keep it from igniting the tree or the house until the police arrived and decided to let it burn off the gas until the firetruck arrived, at which point I moved my van to make room for the ladder truck and carried my bedraggled ass home.
Looking at the rain, I really don't think I'm going to get the grass today.
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Glad you and your vehicle are okay. I am glad you helped your neighbor out. Good citizenship like that is the thing that keeps our whole society going.
Don't kick yourself about not getting 10/10 on every decision. Getting out to help was the important part.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Apr 28 09:21:05 2017 (S0Svy)
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Just being that close to a lightning strike is pretty disorienting even without flames shooting out of the ground. It's LOUD.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sat Apr 29 07:02:37 2017 (PiXy!)
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Damn right it's loud. I was half a municipal parking lot away from one, and it was so loud I never heard it. There was a *flash* and a ##SNAP## sound, but no thunder to speak of.
My friends at the bar a block farther on, though... they heard an almighty boom.
Brick ol' chum? Now Zeus is after you, and he knows where the gas mains are. How did you piss off Asgard this time?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Apr 30 00:32:37 2017 (KNafx)
A bit over a week ago Dad dropped a 4x8 on his foot and broke it. (Well, the breakage was mostly his big toe...Mostly.)
Shortly thereafter, Mom had what we thought was a stroke and went to the hospital only to find that it was a drug interaction. Dad quickly compensated for this good news by lancing his toe to relieve pressure...and the next day it was horribly infected, requiring another trip to the hospital.
So, it's been hectic here.
Naturally, these two walking wounded decided that these reminders of their mortality meant that now is the time to attempt THAT TRIP again.
Day before yesterday...they set out.
They'll make a destination decision when they reach Florida, they're either going to Belize, the Bahamas or Puerto Rico.
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That sound wave thing (Lithotrypter?) not an option?
Posted by: Mauser at Thu Feb 2 00:37:58 2017 (5Ktpu)
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(and reminds me how much I like the artist's wrench-wench/witch/robot-girl crossovers)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thu Feb 2 17:40:20 2017 (tgyIO)
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I guess the semester is not advanced enough for Incompletes (if your school even does that). Where I teach, if you're passing, if you've completed x percent of the stuff (I *think* it's 50% or more), and you have a documented medical issue, you can press "pause" and then come back after you're better and the prof will let you complete the class.
But yeah. Stones in the tubes sounds no bueno and hopefully you can get a tuition refund and finish next year.
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Mauser, I think the lithotripter only works for stones in the kidneys; once they're in the tubes it's not effective.
Also, Brickmuppet, my condolences, all of that sucks.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Feb 2 21:45:12 2017 (PiXy!)
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That really stinks.
Have you talked to your profs and advisers? I mean, you have completed at least a degree and a half of credits, so they really ought to be getting you graduated by now. Even if they have to visit you in the hospital.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Feb 3 09:36:25 2017 (S0Svy)
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Talked to the professors, but not the advisors yet. I'm feeling better (thank you antibiotics) but am also exhibiting several symptoms that I was warned about (though not involving my eyes, thankfully). It looks likely that I'll be going in to get cut, perhaps as early as next week.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 4 01:59:06 2017 (KicmI)
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Mauser, the spines are dug into all sides of the tube, so if they explode it...things could be bad.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 4 02:02:33 2017 (KicmI)
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Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 4 02:11:22 2017 (KicmI)
As is traditional here, we atone for this by providing an image of some exotic and atypically proportioned young ladies enjoying the last of the good weather as they relax next to the ocean.
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Graduating your butt, keeping a roof over your head and food in your belly, and taking care of family -- those are the important things.
<hugs>
On the bright side, it sounds like that delivery facility would make a great start for a horror movie, or a cute space opera book where the aliens are trying hard to fit in as managers.
Posted by: suburbanbanshee@gmail.com at Sun Oct 16 17:10:51 2016 (S0Svy)
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1I purchased a webcam and am now apparently a disembodied head in the class.
Who here remembers Max Headroom? (Heck, how many people reading this were even born when Max Headroom was on the air?)
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Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Sat Jul 2 18:39:41 2016 (Pcnjn)
My other accounts similarly needed attention, but not nearly as bad.
I learned two other things this weekend. One is that the vacuum cleaner has a seperate on-off switch on the handle. So if it won't start when one pushes the big on-off switch on the main body, the correct course of action is NOT to take the vacuum apart to see whats wrong with the switch.
Two of my upcoming courses have been cancelled by the University. I'm within 4 classes of graduation, so this is filling me with emotions that are not appropriate for a gentleman to express.
Fortunately I have in my employ, this imaginary young lady of low virtue, who is not so constrained.
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If I were you, I would call the university and find out what you can take for your degree. Sometimes they have freaky things like seminar classes or individual classes, for the benefit of folks like you who are close to graduation.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Jun 20 07:06:30 2016 (Pcnjn)
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You may have to call around a lot, but your department people should either know what to do or who else to ask.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Jun 20 07:08:01 2016 (Pcnjn)
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Uni prof (biology) here. The university is pretty much required (at least, mine would be) to provide alternate arrangements so you can finish your degree in a timely fashion. Simplest scenario: there's a course in your department (or another department) that can substitute for the cancelled classes. Most complex option: someone does an "arranged" class for you, I've done that: I have taught "summer research" sections for people who needed a particular class that could not be offered because of lack of demand (1-2 people at most every few years). I was happy to do it to get the students finished (AND I did get a publication out of one of the rounds of it...) but it is a bit of a paperwork nightmare for the department.
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It's the weekend. After an absolutely hellish day at work I just got out of the shower, having washed off all the redbugs and turtle pee.
OK. Perhaps that last bit warrants elaboration.
I got off work an hour late and was walking up to the door when, upon dropping my keys, I bent over to get them and noted something whizz past my head and go "plop"on the porch.
I stood there for a moment slowly processing the fact that something was not right about the the thing that had gone "plop". After a moment, the thing that I did not quite recognize, (but instinctively knew did not belong) sprouted 4 legs and a head and began furtively testing the area.
A turtle had fallen from the sky...and landed on the rubber welcome mat.
What.
The.
Hell?
It was a small mud turtle, not a box turtle or some other type of Testudine that would normally live in a suburban yard, so after determining that he seemed to be uninjured I picked him up and took him to the van, placed the terrified little thing on some paper towels and then drove to a nearby park with a pond. Along the way, the little beast became quite animated precipitating a chase that involved considerable contortions on my part. Eventually. after cunningly luring me under the rear seat, he darted out across the floor of the van with truly astonishing speed, and made a beeline for my bag of Fritos which he deftly entered and buried himself in, no doubt in a spiteful attempt to give me salmonella. Eventually I unfolded myself and got him out of the bag, whereupon he peed like a firehose...as turtles will.
One thing that has bewildered me since I was a child is how a small turtle can contain so much urine...I swear his bladder must be larger than his shell, which should not be possible, but I guess physics is different for sky turtles.
Anyway, I took the presumably now dehydrated shellback to the pond, which involved rather more mucking through pine straw and 8 inch deep mud than I had anticipated.
Now, after my shower I have an opportunity to reflect on the implications of these recent events...
Previously, I had thought that these creatures came from eggs, but it is now apparent that turtles are actually invaders from space, which, I suppose makes sense given that they are in the same zoological family as Gamera.
Of course it's tenuously possible that there is another explanation, perhaps one that involves a hawk, but it makes sense to err on the side of caution.
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My question to you is... why did you bother to get the turtle out of your fritos in the first place? I mean, once a turtle gets into your fritos, just let 'em go, man, 'cause they ain't yours anymore.
Then he would have been in a bag, and when the golden torrent of happiness flowed forth, it would either have been absorbed by the fritos or contained in the bag.
Finally, once you get the happy turtle, for there's no happy turtle like a turtle in a bag of pee-soaked fritos, to the pond (as opposed to The Pond, which frowns upon turtles, pee-soaked-fritos-bound or not), you could have just dumped the contents into the water/bank/whatever.
The turtle would have done what turtles do in the pond, the geese would have eaten the fritos and gotten heartburn, because screw geese, and you could say that Gamera Jr didn't pee on you. Win-win-win, right there.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Fri May 20 19:04:40 2016 (XQ5ac)
I have to wonder how these gatekeepers of knowledge did on their geography exams.
I have to give a presentation Tuesday and that's it for the semester.
The rest were all over by Monday. I should mention that I got a 100 on my Japanese exam, which, given my considerable trepidation regarding it was a most welcome surprise.
I'm only three classes from graduation, and to my unbridled joy have been given permission to take two of them during the summer as independent study courses. (They are normally at 8 AM, which means I would not ordinarily be able to take them due to work.)
I find that as tuition increases, I've been experiencing what has at times seemed like the half-life of college. As I have gone from full-time to part time to half time the rate of decay of the Kafkaesque annoyance known as University slowed and it really seemed at times like it would never end. Now, though, I'm almost there.
I've got a few weeks before summer school starts. I should, perhaps, take a weekend and go on a trip...
