What is pissing you off this time?

[glatt]

How long will that oil last you (if they ever deliver it?) Will you make it through the winter on one tank?

[Undertoad]

Last winter was a three-tank winter. This year I am insulating harder, heating less, and hope to make it through on two. But this place is a sieve.

[glatt]

Our house is like that too, but with natural gas heat, it's a little cheaper. Not a bargain though.

I wonder if we'd save more money if the thermostat was coin operated. Or had one of those dollar bill feeders on it. "Got a chill in your bones? Insert $1 for the next hour of heat."

[Lamplighter]

Oregon also has this problem... and it is multiplying and multiplying and ...

Washington Post
Darryl Fears
November 24, 2013

Virginia acts to reduce population of wild pigs, the ‘most invasive animal’ in U.S.

There’s a population explosion of large, wild animals in the Virginia woods,
and it’s not the cute, doe-eyed kind that conjures images of Bambi.

They have razor-sharp teeth, curling tusks and a nasty temper that prompts some to charge humans.
They’re called feral hogs, wild pigs or big boars, but the names are lumped together because,
said Mike Dye, a biologist for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, “a pig is a pig.”

The animals were introduced to America centuries ago,
but the recent population boom, state game officials and biologists say,
is largely the fault of hunters who imported wild pigs to hunt year round.
The hunters either didn’t know or didn’t care that the pigs are considered
the most invasive animal in the United States<snip>.

With no natural predator, a pig population can triple in just over a year.
To keep the population from growing, 70 percent of it has to be killed [annually], which is nearly impossible.
Virginia’s most recent estimate last year put the pig population at 2,500 to 3,000, with plenty of pairs to mate.<snip>

“As far as ecological damage, there is probably not a worse animal that’s out there,”
said Dye, regional coordinator for feral pigs in Northern Virginia.

Feral hogs date back to Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto,
who brought them to Florida as a food source in 1539.
Later, American colonists allowed some domesticated hogs to feed in the woods,
freeing many of them forever. They continue to escape from farm pens, Killmaster said.
But hunters are most responsible for Georgia’s population explosion, he said.
Echoing officials in other states, including Virginia, Killmaster said
they often free pigs to have something to shoot.

What really pisses me off is the hunters who lease land, and release hogs for hunting,
and leave a population feral hogs behind when their "lease time" is up
... or they simply move on to other things.

This may be the ONLY valid reason for a private citizen to own an AK-47 !

[Undertoad]

much better

[fargon]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

much better

What is that?

[Undertoad]

That is the oil gauge, showing just over 3/4 full.

[fargon]

Is that good, or bad?

[Nirvana]

It pisses me off when I am at the grocery store and the check out girl hacks and coughs and snorts all over my purchases GAH!

[monster]

I'm all confused about what day it is and forgot to go to my class this morning. I did manage to mention these classes to a friend in an email and make a note to myself to put them in my diary, but I just didn't quite get that today was Wednesday. It feels like Saturday, yesterday felt like Friday....

[Aliantha]

I forgot to go to my doctor and learn how to inject myself today. They rang to ask where i was. :/

[orthodoc]

a $4,400 bill from WV for state tax they claim I owe for the six months BEFORE I moved there last year. We've gone back and forth twice already about this, and now they're talking liens on property. Now I find out that our tax person filed the wrong type of return last year - should have been a part-resident return instead of a resident return. I have to get an accountant immediately and file the right type of return, and I'll still be stuck for $589 in penalties and interest even though I don't actually owe the money. At a time when my husband has no income, has just been denied his private disability claim, and my salary doesn't quite cover the expenses for my apartment, let alone the house in smallville.

Grrr.

[Nirvana]

This is the 3rd time in 2 years that I have to cancel my bankcard. I do not use it at all online and almost never anywhere else. I have only used it to make deposits in the ATM. But its seems my bank has had compromised accounts. I am not in Amsterdam!!!

[Clodfobble]

Where do you normally use it? Restaurants, grocery stores... think specifically of places you've gone to throughout the two years in question. There could be an employee regularly stealing numbers from cards they handle on the job. (They wouldn't be the ones making the charges, they would be selling your valid number to the guy in Amsterdam.) Think about any of those employees that you know you've seen more than once. You might catch a petty thief!

[Bloke]

I had this with a bank card once. It wouldn't let me withdraw cash due to an unusual spending pattern so I visited my bank to find out why. The guy I spoke to at the bank looked surprised that I'd managed to get back to England from India in under two hours...