IronicAim

Is there some trick to getting the Xfinity website to work? I can't change plan settings, I can't check out when trying to buy a phone. I get told to talk to the assistant but it wants me to sign in for it to help. I try to sign in by clicking sign in in the chat window, errors out the chat and says bad gateway.

The app is even worse. Can't load the mobile page at all most days, and when it does it crashes 1 menu in.

I broke my phone, and Xfinity won't work well enough to let me give them money for a new one. At this rate I'm going to have to find a new carrier and charge back last months bill.

Did the parent/teacher conference for my 10 year old and was told the DC trip is being done at younger grades now (so that it "won't interfere with other trips the kids may take in later grades". What?), so it's now being encouraged for 5th graders.

Really? Now? When any kids with a tan might get stopped by ICE? When the DC museums are having their content altered? To see the "halls of government function"? The place currently being patrolled by armed national guard?

Who the heck thinks it makes sense to send a bunch of 10/11 y/o with a chaperone or 2 across the nation at a time like this?

Anyone else buying meat from Safeway and consistently having it go bad long before the sell by date?

I use cooler bags, get it home and in the fridge within the same 30 minutes of purchasing it, go to use it after only a day or 2, but it's started to discolor and smell like feet already. Rotting in the packaging up to 3 days before the sell by date on the label.

It was annoying the first few times, but it's becoming more and more frequent recently and it's really starting to piss me off. It's been like this with various cuts of meat and from several locations. They have to know right?

Is anyone else having the same experience? Any suggestions on where I should be buying meat instead?

We have several recycling services around town. City will charge me to take it bit by bit with my regular recycling (won't fit in bin). Does anyone know of any of the recycling places can drop off a 3 yard bin for me to fill up or if I'm looking at renting a pickup to haul all this out to one of the places that takes it for free?

Has anyone else had trouble finding coffee creamer in the stores that's not curdling? Doesn't seem to matter what store I go to it's about a 50/50 shot that any bottle of creamer I buy it's already started to curdle. These bottles are far from their expiration dates. With the fact that it's every story go to I feel as if the issue must be involved in its handling at the warehouse.

Anyone have similar experiences or insights?

I've been informed that Goth is strictly a musical preference. And is in no way represented by culture outside of their specific musical leanings.

So what is this other goth culture supposed to be called? They dress similarly, they act similarly. I've met literally hundreds of them and they seem to think that they're supposed to be referred to as goth, but according to members of the actual goth community it's strictly about music tastes.

So what am I supposed to be calling people who dress macabre, are generally amused by dark things, but haven't gotten into or don't have a local "goth" music scene?

I honestly thought it was about the aesthetics and the attitude. I have a feeling at leas

Looking for local restaurants. Not super fancy places. Just places with good food who you feel deserves the extra business. All types of food welcome.

Have a few things I need taken care of and looked at in my car, and so I thought I'd ask here about everyone's favorite mechanics.

So who do you all go to when you need something done right? I'm not looking for the cheapest mechanic in town, just someone who does quality work at a fair price.

While also feeling I will live to see the world as I know it crumble apart. Corruption, climate change, ignorance. And I feel powerless to do anything about it.

It contributes to my pervasive sense of gloom about the future.

The problems facing the world today seem insurmountable. And as a single income parent it's all I can do to keep my head above water as is.

I also can't shake feeling that I'm part of the problem. Just another person going from day to day, not doing anything to fix these problems. Hoping that somebody else will save the world.

Maybe I'm just crushing myself with my own hero complex.