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Phone calls are defininely in order here first! Passed

Posted By: on info gets screwed up royally. Trust your gut! n on 2007-07-13
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'scuse...keep calls short as I feel I must do these things in order to make money. No babies
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Does anyone else keep getting phone calls
from 877 numbers and 800 numbers but no identifying info, the phone will say unlisted number, and other times the phone will say 000-000-0000 as the telephone number, and other times it will say private name, private number, and when you pick up nobody is there.

I've been getting these calls 4 or 5 times a day. I let it go through to answering service and nothing. Surely after 3 months of this they would get tired and stop calling.

I really have to figure out how to have these numbers blocked but in the meantime it drives me buggy.
Nuisance 800 phone calls
Does anybody have ideas on how to stop unwanted phone calls?  There is an 866 number that calls literally a dozen times a day, obviously computer generated as I pick it up and no one is there.  It's incredibly annoying, not scary or anything.  Nobody ever leaves a message, and it has me running to look at the caller-ID an extra twelve or so times a day, just to see that it's them again.  Has anybody (or everybody) else had this problem, and how did you deal with it?  Thanks!
Not necessarily, many phone calls may have been made. (nm)
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withheld cell phone calls
my son keeps getting crank calls on his cell phone all the time.  I called ATT and they say there is no way to tell who it is.  How can I find out.  I know it has to be one of his friends.  Now he is actually getting weird messages.  Any ideas??  Thanks
i don't understand why there is not a limit on how many calls can be made from 1 phone. I know D
register are set up to only let you in 1 time by either phone or internet, so why can't AI do this also????
Love the cell phone commercials (cingular?) about dropped calls
They are so funny.
Stepdaughter calls me "SM" (stepmom), daugher calls me mom. nm
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I would take his phone away or make him pay the bills for the phone
He can use the postal service to write her letters if he wants but there is no excuse. College is not highschool and if he's gonna make a go of it...be the parent and discipline....my opinion but take the phone away.
Best tip that was passed on to me was -
half price tickets for Broadway shows at ticket place in Times Square- go in the morning and see what they have available for the evening. Not everything available - but we was able to see 2 shows instead of the one I had planned for.  There is a nice Marriott right there - pricey but it is gorgeous and very centrally located.  We stayed at an older hotel - can't remember it now - we didn't spend much time in the room - daughter was in dance competitions and between practice and performances we only got there long enough to crash.  It was really a bargain - clean but small. 
My MIL passed away....

right before our 3rd anniversary, so unfortunately didn't get to know her as well as I could have, but she was a very nice lady.  Her husband, on the other hand...well, my FIL has been very generous in some respects and in others, he is just a giant PITA.  He can be so mean sometimes I could just scream.  As he has gotten older, the filter between his brain and his mouth has deteriorated to the point that I think he needs a replacement. 


My husband has an older brother and his sister died 15 years ago .  We all get along well with BIL and his family.  Our one nephew is at our house as much as our own kids, which is great.  I always lived 2 hours away from my cousins. 


My sister also married a great guy and we all go on vacation together with my parents every summer.


I think I'm pretty lucky! 


I'm sorry he passed away, but
you are right - it sounds like he died a very happy horse, cherished and doing what he wanted to be doing.

He was a handsome boy.
When my dad passed away very

suddenly at age 70 we were very sad and went through all the emotions of what you said. It took us a couple of days to realize what dad said to us for all those years before we planned a celebration of his life and everything changed the day we planned the memorial. Everybody grieves in different ways. Some cry, some celebrate the life the person lived.


My dad was a jokester and always said when he passed to just put him in a cardboard box and drop him (for years we were told this). He lived his life like he wanted. When we were planning the memorial for him, as we had him cremated, the funeral director must have thought he met the craziest family ever. I went with my mom to pick out an urn for him along with some other family members. Sitting there going through the brochure and just like reading a book I turned to the last page and just started cracking up, laughing so hard I started crying. I start getting kicks under the table, evil eyes from others and weird looks from the funeral director. They all turn to the last page and there on the back page is this dilapidated cardboard box and they all started cracking up with me. By this time everyone is laughing and crying and mom is saying "should I" - she didnt. That was when everything turned for us. Dad was probably looking down at us laughing thinking that we would do it. He was very vocal for years about how he wanted to go and be remembered and it took that one day to realize that for us.


Food should be passed to the right, or

counter-clockwise, For additional information on dining etiquette, please consult Manners 2000 Volume I Social Graces and Table Manners Video.


I mom passed away last September..sm
I cannot put into words how awful this has been. My mom was only 63 and not sick when she passed. She was my best friend...my entire life. I truely understand what you are feeling. I miss having her here for holidays, birthday parties, and everything else. This year on Mother's Day it had to be the worst day ever, as my birthday fell right on Mother's Day. I hate when people tell me she is in a better place and blah..blah..blah. Why is that better than here with her family where we all loved and cherished her? The only thing I know is that it does not get any better with time. The only thing you can do is take it one day at a time and always remember the love you have for them. I remember my mom everyday and cry for her and love her everyday. My heart aches knowing it will never be the way it used to be. My prayers are for you and what you are feeling. Take Care.
When my mother passed away sm
the only thing she had specified was the burial service. My brother and I chose to have donations made to the church (my mother and my family all attended the same church) and the money was specified for youth programs. I recieved many cards, all were addressed to the entire family. They truely brought me some comfort. Personal messages inside are very thoughtful and truely touched my heart I still get them out from time to time and that also helps. I still remember exactly who called a few weeks later just to see how I was getting along, so definitely do that.
My dad passed away recently too
You say you think it is disrespectful to cremate and memorialize later.

Some things you should take into consideration. Did your cousin pass away far from home? My dad did. In fact, he was 1610 miles from home, on the road, with only my mother there with him. Options were limited.

Secondly, where is the family? All of us kids are on the west coast, my dad's family is in the mid west. As a matter of fact, my mom and dad had just sold their home here on the west coast and moved back to my dad's home town less than one month ago.

Third, who are you to decide what is the best for everyone? Our IMMEDIATE family has lost a father, husband, and grandfather. It is our choice and we are the ones who were informed of his wishes prior to his death, not our cousins, aunts, uncles, etc... How would you know?




I don’t like expired and also don’t like passed on
passed to where? Get this, our newspaper publishes Happy Birthday in the paper to people who have died years before - I did not think you had a birthday, much less a happy birthday after you died.
Gerald Ford passed away, he was 93. RIP.
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Angels passed by our home
only 2 months ago and my dad took his heavenly flight.

Only a God-called grandmother could love you as she did. The only way your grandmother could have ever share such love for you was first being loved by God. Paradise is her home!

My dad had COPD and was diagnosed with cancer in November of 2006 and sent home with hospice with 6 months to live. He passed away in less than 2 months.

He asked hospice to please not let him "smother to death." His last 2 weeks were exactly as you described. I had difficulty watching as he was administered morphine and Ativan because I knew the morphine would suppress his respiratory system even more. He was on oxygen but struggled with every breath. He began to conserve all his energy just to breathe. He was alert but spoke very little. He was given only water via sponge and all medications were stopped the week of his passing. My family and I were by his bedside the entire time, and every day he became more weaker. He asked that we pray that the Lord would come soon, and all this time I'm trying to convince my family that we needed to take a more aggressive approach (IV fluids and blood transfusion). Early morning on the day of his death he became unconscious. There was the most precious, sweet comfort and peace felt by everyone in the room at the exact moment my dad drew his last struggling breath and took his heavenly flight.

As 2 months have now passed, I realize the care he received was appropriate, and hospice was loving and caring. I just wasn't ready to "let my dad go."

May you feel God's presence in the sweet memory of your grandmother. Grandmothers are earthly angels from God.
food passed to the right but if someone is serving

Once, right in the nose and fell down/passed out
for a few minutes. Ouch! It was 25+ years ago by another girl over a boy, but unfortunately she was probably double my weight. My sisters weren't very helpful, they lifted me back up and while I was still stumbling around and seeing double said ''get her!''. Yeah, sure. Even the girl was decent enough to know I couldn't handle any more. So I took the loss :(
congress passed no law in 2005
Introduction

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U.S. and Canada (where DST is observed):The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July 2005, extended daylight saving time in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST for the U.S. will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed. These four weeks are referred to in this article as the "extended DST period." Visit MSN Encarta for more general information about DST. Canada chose to follow the U.S. change, in regions where DST is observed.

U.S. 2007 change in daylight saving time:
Previously DST started on: With the new law, DST will start on: Previously DST ended on: With the new law, DST will end on:
First Sunday of April Second Sunday of March Last Sunday of October First Sunday of November
Would have been: April 1, 2007 Will now be: March 11, 2007 Would have been: October 28, 2007 Will now be: November 4, 2007


Other regions: Microsoft is providing updates for several other regions or countries that have enacted time zone changes in 2007, including:
I passed around several transcription books -sm
at the beginning of a semester to a class at a business school for the 20+-year-old students to see various TX resources available and afterwards, one book was "missing". I was very surprised. Bottom line: The bookstore was out the book, and I hated the loss for the school. Actually the bookstore was probably out twice for the book if it was afterwards returned to the bookstore for resale by the student who stole it.
Michigan passed it and I support it.
I think anyone who is seriously ill should have whatever is available to help ease their pain.  I know it helps with nausea of chemotherapy too.  I think it should be decriminalized.  People are killed every day by drunk driving or those who go into violent rages or blackouts.  Most pot smokers will only get enraged if you try to take away their Dorito's! 
I agree....and pills are just passed out
Like candy anymore.  I see people come into the office with a list of meds so long they cannot possibly remember the names... also, even though doctors claim they can prescribe 10 different meds for a patient without interactions, I worry about that.  How can they possibly know that, especially when every human being's chemistry is a little different.  ??
Farrah Fawcett has passed away. RiP sm
When I would walk down the halls at my junior high, Farrahs were everywhere, on nearly every boy's locker door. They even called the main hall "Farrahway" because her image was everywhere. I struggled to keep my hair like hers with a curling iron and a few cans of AquaNet a week. She was very much a part of my youth.

RIP, Farrah.
Law and Order CI -- I can't believe
they moved it to USA though- every time I think about getting rid of cable they do this to me. :(
Just a few - not in order
terminal cancer
bronchial washings
pus
Hilary
scrotum
MDSO

Yuck, now I can't eat dinner later after reading all these words everyone posted. Maybe I'll post them on the refrigerator so as to enhance my diet!
CSI and Law and Order

Saw the post on the other board about transcribing for CSI or L&O docs.


Had to respond here (because this is not really a main board thing), that these shows are awesome! I love them probably because it is so much like our work.  One of the accounts I type for is actually mentioned on one of the CSIs and I go crazy when I hear the name of the hospital. LOL.  Anybody else loooove these shows? Just curious to see if there are only a few of us or if a lot of MTs have this in common.


 


there isn't any order that I sm
know of. There is a notice that ocmes in the mail that says it will just be in late May.
Daughter is only 3 and she calls me

Me:  Momma 


Dad:  Daddy. 


When she gets older I think she will probably call me mom.


I know when I was younger something that would really irritate my mom is when I called her "mother'. 


Do NOT take any calls when you are at work.
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Her BF is controlling? Yours calls and you hop in
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There has to be a reason for all these calls
I would think if the payments made on time, paid when they are due- what would a company call that often for? Do you have privy to that account to check it? Do you see the statements? First of all, they have laws about the calls all day long-you can put a stop to that. I have credit cards, my husband has credit cards- we never ever get any calls to ask us to pay in advance. I think something else is going on here.
annoying calls
I get them also, especially with all 000, very annoying.
put it to you this way--know a guy in is 40s who still calls it his bobo. NM
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I know exactly how it feels. After Dad passed away, Mom came to live with me permanently.

I have 2 sons, one almost 21 and the other 8 y.o. and I can tell you it is not easy.  Some may remember in the old days how some parents would keep their kids in check by scaring the living daylights out of them by telling them stories such as the boogy man, demons, etc.  My Mom tried that several times and I did put my foot down, and respectfully but firmly told her that I didn't want her to do this.  My 8 y.o. also likes to play with me like yours do, and he did try that with Mom one time and I got the same results, "he hit me, your son is disrespectful."  I also told my little one not to "play" with Grandma like he does with me, especially in view of the fact that she does have severe varicose veins all throughout her legs (he calls them the worms on Grandma's legs, but of course never to her face).  She also goes about the fat tummy, etc.  I told her also nicely that those kind of comments even though not meant to degrade, children perceive them very differently than adults.  It has boiled down to the point, that my sons basically doesn't interact much with her.  I understand that as the "oldest" in the house, Mom feels she knows how the house should be "run" and what she says is the "law" but she also has to understand that she has come into a "new family."  Yes, I'm still her daughter and will always love and respect her, and do everything I can for her.  There is just isn't and easy solution.  If you tell the children not to interact too much, then they take it as the kids don't like them or your turning the kids againt them.  If the children get too friendly, then they are disrepectful and have no manners.  Just take it a day at a time, big breaths, inhale and exhale.



Voted for your hospital and passed on info
to the officers of my Civil War Round Table.  If I read the map correctly, ya'll are just down the road from the Andersonville National Historic Site.  I hope they will either put it out as an E-mail broadcast to the membership or put a blurb in our newsletter.  Our big auction to raise funds for battlefield preservation is Friday.  I've signed up to make an announcement there.  We may be up north, but we do have a contingent of loyal Confederates (smile) and some experience with tornados.
restraining order?
When you leave, could you try to get a restraining order? Then when he violates it, which he probably will, have him arrested. .
Nevermind.. order something...
called Lock Laces online.  Expensive, but hopefully they will last.
It depends on where I order it from...sm

Pizza Hut now charges a $1.75 delivery fee and is only 1.5 miles from my house, so I typically tip 15% if we have it delivered instead of going to pick it up ourselves (Which we do more often since they raised their delivery fee).  If we order from another place that doesn't pass on a delivery fee than I'll usually tip 20%.


I never, ever, put money into a tip jar anywhere. 


When we do eat at restaurants I usually tip 20% or more depending on the service, but if I get suboptimal service I'll leave 10-15% depending on the level of service received and how busy the restaurant is (if they're busy I'm more forgiving than if they're not). 


 


I'd get a restraining order, that way when- sm
he violates it he will be thrown in jail, and possibly get a mental health evaluation. You mom needs to do this as he has threatned her,etc. You never know when he might further go over the edge and followthrough (i.e. kill your mom), if he ever does you will obviously feel very guilty that you sat back and did nothing.
I use only for emergency and quick calls. Pay $100 for yr.
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Husband gets mad and calls me a *itch....

We have been married for 10 years.  Lately when he gets mad I am reduced to being called a *itch.  When we don't make love, it is because I don't want him. Does not matter what I might do, not cook for him, not turn on the heater this morning when I am supposed to be working. 


I am an MT working at home.  I have to work a schedule, which I fail to do, so I have to be more stern about what I can and cannot do because I want my job.  Being called a *itch---what does that really mean.  I do not view myself as a *itch but then no one does.  I have read that it is a woman who is extremely disliked, spiteful, overbearing, and I am reduced to this name calling because it is something he wants to call me only because I did not do what he wanted and it made him mad. 


He says that he is not in the mental state he should be regarding me working as at home as it is --just not working--   Yes, for years it seems I always work as I try to be with the family and as a result I get behind and have to work every spare moment I get and even then do not make my commitment.  Okay, I do get fatigued, maybe depressed, but I love working at home and I know that I have to stick to my schedule.  maybe 70% of that is my fault but a lot is from him as well wanting me to do things for him that he can do for himself. like wash his clothes for work, sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't. 


Well the reason for all that is to ask.... does my husband really hate me so much to call me a *itch.  What really does he mean?  I am not overbearing.  I let him do whatever he wants.  He did not have to work for years.  Now he finally gets a job and he is all high and mighty about me and what I do and don't do.  He can improve on things just as much as I can.  does that mean you have to yell, scream, rant, and rave because he don't get his way. 


He says the way to a man's heart is his stomach.  Yeah, I have heard all that but does that mean you have to take it so literal.  If we don't make love, it is because I don't want him and then he throws a big hissy.  I am a man.  My testerone levels get too high!  he start punching the wall!  okay, maybe we don't have time, maybe I am trying to get caught up on work and trying to balance all things, cooking, cleaning, being with my 1 child and husband and work. 


Yes, I am reduced to yelling right back at him.  Everyday I think I am not going to yell, but I do anyway. 


Sorry, any advice.  I feel we havea  shallow relationship now.  He gets mad and then I am a *itch.  I try to get along with him and watch our shows together, then, later I get yelled at because I made time to watch TV.  We make love, I think we are getting closer, and something else sets him off.  I realize we have deep issues we have to work out, but I also think getting mad making the other person miserable is not the answer. 


What does he really mean when he says I am a *itch now.  helpless....


Thanks! My husband calls it porridge and
my 7-year-old LOVES it!!!
My son's kindergarten teacher calls him

that all the time.  How old is the child we are talking about and the sex of the child/teacher? 


There's just not enough information to give an opinion.


Mandatory spay/neuter was just passed in Calif -
and although we already have too many laws, if we hadn't passed this one, no one would both to spay/neuter. There are SO many unwanted animals out there - often because people are too lazy, or too cheap, too uneducated about what really happens to most of these animals, (or all of the above). The mandatory spay/neuter doesn't include breeders (who will pay for a license), but helps to close down some of the backyard breeders. I once had a cat that was a beautiful purebred, confiscated from BYB who kept 100's of them in squalid, inhumane conditions.
Animal abuse was finally passed as a felony
and it should be enforced as such...for good reason. These "kids" would probably not think twice about taking a human life. It is well documented that people who will abuse animals will/and do all sorts of other criminal activity. To say they only need counseling and help is not right in my opinion. They DO need counseling, but they also need to pay for the crime they did, period.

Do you not think someone with repeated DWIs probably has a mental problem and has had crap thrown at them as a child? But you would probably want them to serve a sentence. Anyone who engages in criminal activity such as this or repeated criminal activity probably has not had a good upbringing. That does not mean that they do not serve their sentence though.

To compare hollywood celebrities who walk away from DUIs to this case is crazy. If anything, don't let them off cause the others are being let off. Instead, why don't you advocate that more is done in our justice system to assure everyone has to pay for their criminal activity. I do not think 3 years is too much at all. During those 3 years, hopefully they will also get the help they need too.
Look like a good belly rub is in order!!!
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I answered this before but don't know where it went. We worry he is being used but he asked us to think positive. We are sick about it but can't dare say anything. He is doing his best to ask for help, a competitor just laughed in his face at Manhattan. Newer product previously ordered online or through catalogs, no prior salesperson cold calling.