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1) Will likely have more to say once the series ends, but wow, episodes 8 and 9 of Andor S2 are heart in your throat time.

2) Have been having the worst time changing my email on accounts. It seems every few accounts throw up some problem. Trying to change it on one of my credit cards was the worst because it sent me a phone verification call and it turned out...our phone was not working. This is the second time in the past year that this has happened, and because we don't use the landline for outgoing calls, we rarely notice until a call doesn't come through. ( Read more... )

3) Speaking of the prescription pickup, yesterday morning was also a mess. After I returned from the weekly grocery run the exterminator came by. My partner had forgotten it was his scheduled visit and was just getting out of the shower. (The exterminator kindly went next door first and came back to us). And after 5 CALLS (2 to the pharmacy and 3 to the doctor's office) over 10 days my prescription refill was still messed up. First my doctor's office never put in the refill order. Then after I got the pharmacy to request the refill permission they sent the wrong order which I got into an argument with the pharmacy tech about, because she kept insisting their 41 pill refill of a 90 pill order was correct.

I had to get the doctor's office to change the dosage instruction which was causing the pharmacy to limit the pills. Then they only sent in one of the two dosage refills so I had to call them again. Then several days later I had to call a third time because no one at the doctor's office had done anything and I'm down to my last pills (even though I still had a 21 day supply when I went to see the doctor!) so the admin person said she was putting an emergency rush on it. And they did but the pharmacy still gave me 45 pills for a 90 day order leading to my second call to them to fix that!

The original refill requests were the SAME ones already in the system, so why they all insisted on making these changes I just don't know! I swear an automated system would have been faster, especially since a 90 day prescription means they can just give me a whole bottle and don't even need to count anything out!

4) Speaking of emails, I didn't even twig to this scam at first because legitimate accounts keep sending emails to the old email 6 weeks or more after it's been changed. I got an email from Xfinity saying "Ple︊ase ch︊eck yo︊ur car︊d inf︊o an︊d mak︊e a pa︊yme︊nt" because my card had been declined. I logged in (not from the email) to check it since I actually did have an issue with the credit card back in January which forced me to change the card on the account for a month until it could be cleared up. ( Read more... )

5) The same afternoon I realized that the state has yet to process my tax payment from last month 😨 Called them and was told they probably hadn't opened the return yet. Let's hope that's all it is. Apparently the phone reps have no access to the processing data so there's no way to verify it's actually there until it goes through.

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2) $20,000 pyramid is so revealing of people's knowledge and instincts. In terms of being surprisingly lacking in general knowledge, one celebrity partner could not figure out how to describe Europe past saying London (which I would not even consider a typically European location). Someone else described Harvard as being in Connecticut. She also described the Pentagon as where the Secret Service is. ( Read more... )

3) Watched the latest season of the MCU's What If. It was a mixed bag but I was glad we got the season. ( Read more... )

4) I finished S2 of the ILM documentary on Disney+. It's really amazing how much has changed in the past decades, one challenge at a time. Made me have a lot of thoughts about genre disparagement and changes in technology that led to greater immersion. For example, were a lot of fantasy and scifi movies and shows considered a lesser form of storytelling just because the effects weren't all that great, and the characters might look funny in makeup or prosthetics? Was it because people couldn't get immersed in such stories because of the obvious artificiality? ( Read more... )

5) Also watched the Game Show Show documentary about the history and variety of game shows. Got to say, even though there are a lot of competition related unscripted shows I don't think of them as "game shows." There's a world of difference between Amazing Race and The Price is Right, or even talent competitions vs The Dating Game. I mean, why wouldn't Dancing With the Stars be considered a game show then if we're just focusing on the competition and challenge angles?