And Now for Something Completely Different

I'm going to diverge a bit from my normal banal blog entries, and delve into an issue that is important to me-ending the killing of animals in shelters.  There are some people who, for various reasons, oppose this goal.  Some for personal hatred of Nathan Winograd who is a very vocal proponent of shelter reform.  The funny thing is, the haters can't even agree on why they hate.

Pat Dunaway and Randy DeCarlo-I found an ally in your hate campaign for you.  Here's some screen shots.

Hooray for you guys.  I found someone who is on your side when you claim that Nathan supports breeders and puppy mills.

Oh, wait.

This is a commercial breeder.

She hates Nathan.

Are your heads exploding yet?

Bad Customer Service

If anyone has a choice about which trash company to use, don't choose Pacific Waste, AKA Allied Waste Services.  I cancelled service, was assured by the person who took the order that no further payments would be taken via auto pay, and then they took $137 out of my account any way. 

First phone call-Oh, our mistake, we'll refund your money right away.

Second phone call after no refund-It's YOUR fault, you didn't cancel the auto pay.  Refund will take three weeks.

So, two different lies, and nearly a month that they kept money they weren't entitled to.  I just got another invoice.  This time for $0, with a "Pay now" option.  I'm tempted to pay them nothing to mess with their computers, but don't trust them not to take real money.

Just sayin'

Speaking of being nice...

I have a friend who I like most of the time, but some days he irritates me.  I deleted a comment he made on one of my Facebook posts today, and told him why, but he got huffy about it.  He has a tendency to only comment if he thinks he can correct people about something, trying to prove that he's smarter than everyone (which he isn't).  My post today was about this photo:

It's a frozen water drip, taken at 9:30 am.  I said "Yes, I still live in San Diego."  Mr. Jackass said something unnecessary about it not being in the city of San Diego.  Technically that's true, but why have a snotty tone and point out something completely irrelevant to my point, which was that it was abnormally cold here?

From now on if he makes a comment that is just fault finding and misses my original point, I'm going to delete it and not bother to explain.  I may make a comment myself such as "unnecessarily argumentative input has been deleted."  People can say whatever they want to on their FB pages, but I can control what is on mine.

Nice People!

It's so wonderful that there still are people around who will help others without being asked or any expectation of payment.  Special thanks today to my new neighbor; a French-Canadian gentleman wintering here who came to help put up my awning so it wouldn't blow away.  

One Down...

I think I got rid of the creepy ex-boyfriend.  While it was the 40+ year old sexual obsession that really bothered me, I got him to go away by calling him out on being a liar.

He told me that he couldn't be friends on Facebook because he had promised his wife not to contact old girlfriends.  I told him that if he was doing something that he had to cover up, or that he would have lied about if confronted, then he shouldn't be doing it.  (The exception would be planning a surprise party.)  I also said that I have no room in my life for liars.

So, he's gone. 

Obsession is Creepy!

I don't think that I am a particularly remarkable person.  I'm above average in intelligence, above average in height, but probably not overly endowed with skills involving interacting with people.  Which is why I'm finding it somewhat disturbing that more than one person from high school seems to be still obsessed with me. 

The ex-boyfriend, despite being married to someone else for 35+ years with children and grand-children tells me about fantasies of us being half-naked and indulging in "rampant sexual activity" on a tropical island with coconuts.  Dude, I dumped you.  While I would love to be friends with you now, islands and coconuts aren't going to happen.

More disturbing is a woman.  She was not ever a good friend.  Back in high school she only invited me along to things if she needed a car and driver, otherwise I heard about fun things she did with other people.  I found some very distorted stuff she wrote about me on an internet forum.  She calls me her "best friend", even though I haven't reached out to her to do things that friends do for years.  An ex-boyfriend with sexual fantasies I can somewhat understand, but a woman who treated me like shit in high school still obsessing over me?  That's scary.