*I am kinda glad the holidays are over.. things were.. hectic at my parents' house so I'm glad to have a couple of days at my house before I go to my parents' house for New Year's(going to go there NY Eve and come home New Year's night.)
*We are having a COLD snap. Not all that unusual here, but this is a especially cold cold snap(just to give you some idea:I'm wearing thermal pajamas.
*Watched the Call The Midwife Christmas special-now we have like 3 months until the new season..almost as bad as waiting for the new season of Hannibal if I'm being honest!)
*There is a bit of a learning curve to cell phones;my dad got my old cell phone, and he's trying to figure it it out. I'm doing pretty well learning how to do everything on my iPhone-I was able to set up my email on which I thought was a big deal(well, for me anyhow!)
*United Airlines continues to suck. They have no perception of what "customer service" is-and they just have employees responding to issues with robo-replies. They have NO intention of dealing with issues. And have I mentioned the trolls, who are paid to shout down anyone who posts about bad service.
It used to be that customer service(and trolls) were SOP at airline Facebook pages for a long time. Luckily, most of them have listened to the complaints from customers and they don't tolerate the trolls and they try to help people out when they can. Remember last year when we had a terrible winter and flights were delayed, etc especially at Christmastime.All of the airlines rose to the challenge quite well..except for United.
United has some chronic problems(losing luggage is one of their issues, as is wayward crews..apparently they have a lot of issues with crews "timing out"-when they're supposed to be joining a flight as crew, they can't, because they have worked the maximum amount of hours allowed by law and now they have to have to take a break.I'm not sure if this is just the trolls bullshitting, but if this is something that is REALLY that much of an issue,then United needs to look into it. Not that they will, mind you.I mean, they've let the trolls overrun their Facebook pages..I seriously doubt if they're going to get their shit together...EVER.
I think it's going to take something really bad happening(which the Facebook trolls will defend) for United to wake up and smell the coffee.At which point they will say that they are going out of buisness before they hurt anyone else.
Showing posts with label five things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label five things. Show all posts
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
[five things]
1)An update on the Rengos, who had their kids taken away by CPS: the kids have been returned to their parents.However, there are some wrinkles in this:
a)The Rengos have to follow rules set by CPS which they will probably not follow, leading to them having their kids taken away(again) and eliciting a false "outrage"
b)According to Erica's mother,Cleve Rengo is extremely controlling. She also revealed that one of the Rengo twins is blind and deaf because of the circumstances of their birth(unassisted, at home..I don't have a problem with home birth..I wouldn't choose it..to each his own..Erica had NO prenatal care and didn't even know she was having twins, FFS.
c)Erica, Cleve and the twins and their older child are living in a one-bedroom apartment with Cleve's father, who is bipolar and frequently off his meds. This has the potential to end VERY badly.
2)Shirtpunch had Hannibal shirts again-with a Christmas theme.Of course I bought one. They're such a good deal- $10 :)
3)There is a new Regal movie theater at the mall near my house. Haven't been yet, but hope to seen. They have recliner seats.
4)The trailer for the Rock's movie San Andreas looks *awful*-I've seen it before, when it was called 2012.
5) My new addiction:The Investigation Discovery channel.
a)The Rengos have to follow rules set by CPS which they will probably not follow, leading to them having their kids taken away(again) and eliciting a false "outrage"
b)According to Erica's mother,Cleve Rengo is extremely controlling. She also revealed that one of the Rengo twins is blind and deaf because of the circumstances of their birth(unassisted, at home..I don't have a problem with home birth..I wouldn't choose it..to each his own..Erica had NO prenatal care and didn't even know she was having twins, FFS.
c)Erica, Cleve and the twins and their older child are living in a one-bedroom apartment with Cleve's father, who is bipolar and frequently off his meds. This has the potential to end VERY badly.
2)Shirtpunch had Hannibal shirts again-with a Christmas theme.Of course I bought one. They're such a good deal- $10 :)
3)There is a new Regal movie theater at the mall near my house. Haven't been yet, but hope to seen. They have recliner seats.
4)The trailer for the Rock's movie San Andreas looks *awful*-I've seen it before, when it was called 2012.
5) My new addiction:The Investigation Discovery channel.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
[five things]
1)I went out of my comfort zone-twice!Normally, I don't like to go out in bad weather, but I did-twice!
2)There is a chance we might go on a cruise-a shorter one this time,and on a different cruise line but I'm OK with that.
3)We got a lot of rain last week. Not enough to make any sort of dent in our drought, but it probably helped a little!
4)I'm waiting to hear some more info before I get too excited about Bond 24-well, Spectre, to give it its proper title-I am a member of the Bond fandom-I gotta post about that at some point!
5)So this couple Erica and Cleve Rengo got their kids taken away from them. There was a lot of outrage about it.
Why?
Because they had an unassisted childbirth-of twins-at home.And they breastfeed their kids. neither of those things should get your kids taken away-and that wasn't why.
You have to understand that home birth is a selective thing. Personally, I wouldn't do it. But there are quite a few in the home birth community that get defensive and assume that that was why the kids got taken away(it wasn't, despite authorities saying it wasn't on more than one occasion.)
There is a lot to this story: first of all, their oldest son is only 10 months older than the twins.Yes, you read that right. And their parents decided they wanted to be together after only knowing each other a few hours. There's some dispute, but word is that both Cleve and Erica have records(for petty things mostly, but also domestic violence which *is* concerning.)
It's not just that, either. Apparently there was some question about the twins being born at home- without a doctor-a paramedic was called not long after they were born but Erica refused to go to the hospital. They only called the hospital to shut up a concerned family member(possibly-probably-the same family member who called CPS which led to the kids being removed from the house.)
Did I mention that Erica escaped with one of the kids when CPS showed up at her house?She did.Which didn't help her situation(that's putting it mildly!)
The Rengos are choosing to live a "holistic" lifestyle, which means exclusively using natural remedies . This is an issue: one of the kids had eczma which got infected and needed a doctor's care. Clearly, they weren't doing something right; I read a lot of "well, natural remedies work, you just have to give them time" sort of comments. No.Sorry. The treatment they were giving the 10 month old wasn't working, and he had pneumonia(which Erica and Cleve claim he got when he was in foster care.)
Erica and Cleve distrust doctors *that* much... that is worrying. Erica's mother is the one who called CPS..To hear her tell it,Cleve is "controlling" and makes all of the decisions in the relationship. Of course, Cleve and Erica's supporters are calling her "turncoat"..and worse.
The kids *have* been reunited with their parents, but with lots of conditions-including regular doctors' checkups.Which given the kids' health issues, is probably a good idea.
Some may say that CPS overstepped their bounds..and maybe they did,but from what I read, they had quite a few reasons to remove the kids from their house. Maybe they'll look at what happened as a wake-up call to not be so..searches for a word and settles on"insular".
2)There is a chance we might go on a cruise-a shorter one this time,and on a different cruise line but I'm OK with that.
3)We got a lot of rain last week. Not enough to make any sort of dent in our drought, but it probably helped a little!
4)I'm waiting to hear some more info before I get too excited about Bond 24-well, Spectre, to give it its proper title-I am a member of the Bond fandom-I gotta post about that at some point!
5)So this couple Erica and Cleve Rengo got their kids taken away from them. There was a lot of outrage about it.
Why?
Because they had an unassisted childbirth-of twins-at home.And they breastfeed their kids. neither of those things should get your kids taken away-and that wasn't why.
You have to understand that home birth is a selective thing. Personally, I wouldn't do it. But there are quite a few in the home birth community that get defensive and assume that that was why the kids got taken away(it wasn't, despite authorities saying it wasn't on more than one occasion.)
There is a lot to this story: first of all, their oldest son is only 10 months older than the twins.Yes, you read that right. And their parents decided they wanted to be together after only knowing each other a few hours. There's some dispute, but word is that both Cleve and Erica have records(for petty things mostly, but also domestic violence which *is* concerning.)
It's not just that, either. Apparently there was some question about the twins being born at home- without a doctor-a paramedic was called not long after they were born but Erica refused to go to the hospital. They only called the hospital to shut up a concerned family member(possibly-probably-the same family member who called CPS which led to the kids being removed from the house.)
Did I mention that Erica escaped with one of the kids when CPS showed up at her house?She did.Which didn't help her situation(that's putting it mildly!)
The Rengos are choosing to live a "holistic" lifestyle, which means exclusively using natural remedies . This is an issue: one of the kids had eczma which got infected and needed a doctor's care. Clearly, they weren't doing something right; I read a lot of "well, natural remedies work, you just have to give them time" sort of comments. No.Sorry. The treatment they were giving the 10 month old wasn't working, and he had pneumonia(which Erica and Cleve claim he got when he was in foster care.)
Erica and Cleve distrust doctors *that* much... that is worrying. Erica's mother is the one who called CPS..To hear her tell it,Cleve is "controlling" and makes all of the decisions in the relationship. Of course, Cleve and Erica's supporters are calling her "turncoat"..and worse.
The kids *have* been reunited with their parents, but with lots of conditions-including regular doctors' checkups.Which given the kids' health issues, is probably a good idea.
Some may say that CPS overstepped their bounds..and maybe they did,but from what I read, they had quite a few reasons to remove the kids from their house. Maybe they'll look at what happened as a wake-up call to not be so..searches for a word and settles on"insular".
Sunday, November 30, 2014
[five things]
1)My Thanksgiving was a lot of fun..My mom and dad and I did Meals On Wheels. We had Thanksgiving dinner at a hotel near their house.It was really good-I'd never had stuffing with chorizo-but I am now a fan-see also:The bread pudding, which had butterscotch chips on top of it. Mind you, I hate butterscotch-and bread pudding-but *that* I liked! Then we went to see The Theory Of Everything, the movie about Stephen Hawking.
2)My new favourite thing is the Jag ads with Nicholas Hoult. Hard to believe that's the kid from About A Boy.
3)What can I say about Ferguson that hasn't already been said?I found it upsetting.I'll just leave it at that.
4)I LOVED the trailer for the new Star Wars movie. I decided that I am going to go to a midnight showing the day it comes out.Which is something I would NOT normally do..but that is how excited I am about it.
5)I am a technologically savvy person..to a point..but trying to figure out the pluses and minuses of certain things(like makes and brands of cell phones)that makes my head hurt.
2)My new favourite thing is the Jag ads with Nicholas Hoult. Hard to believe that's the kid from About A Boy.
3)What can I say about Ferguson that hasn't already been said?I found it upsetting.I'll just leave it at that.
4)I LOVED the trailer for the new Star Wars movie. I decided that I am going to go to a midnight showing the day it comes out.Which is something I would NOT normally do..but that is how excited I am about it.
5)I am a technologically savvy person..to a point..but trying to figure out the pluses and minuses of certain things(like makes and brands of cell phones)that makes my head hurt.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
[five things]
1)They put new streetlights on my street.They are LED I think..they're very bright..and energy saving, too.
2)My hometown,Oceanside, was on an episode of Storage Wars. I didn't see anyplace I recognised, though.
3)Thursday will be our second Thursday in a row doing Meals On Wheels.We are also doing Meals On Wheels the first Thursday of December and then not for 2 weeks.
4)I just started reading my 50th book for the year-and now that I'm on book #50..I plan to keep reading!
5)Facebook mystifies me..I mean, it's how I keep in touch with family out of state..but how certain companies(like airlines') Facebook pages mystify me. First of all, anyone wanting to report issues basically gets a robo response. It's much better to actually try to deal with it at the time(at the airport)than deal with someone on their social media site.
Not only that, the trolls.The trolls who post nasty replies to anyone who has a legit complaint. Like I said:Better to just deal with it at the airport at the time it happens.
2)My hometown,Oceanside, was on an episode of Storage Wars. I didn't see anyplace I recognised, though.
3)Thursday will be our second Thursday in a row doing Meals On Wheels.We are also doing Meals On Wheels the first Thursday of December and then not for 2 weeks.
4)I just started reading my 50th book for the year-and now that I'm on book #50..I plan to keep reading!
5)Facebook mystifies me..I mean, it's how I keep in touch with family out of state..but how certain companies(like airlines') Facebook pages mystify me. First of all, anyone wanting to report issues basically gets a robo response. It's much better to actually try to deal with it at the time(at the airport)than deal with someone on their social media site.
Not only that, the trolls.The trolls who post nasty replies to anyone who has a legit complaint. Like I said:Better to just deal with it at the airport at the time it happens.
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