Kate ([info]kate_nepveu) wrote,
@ 2007-11-26 16:31:00
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nobody tell me bad things any more

Saturday, dinner table conversation included tales of credit cards being compromised by small unauthorized purchases, as lead-ins to bigger unauthorized purchases. Today, I learned that someone attempted to charge $15 to a German long-distance company off my credit card. It's been blocked and I will have a new card in a week.

Yesterday, [info]telophase posted about trouble with her iPod. Five minutes ago, my iPod stopped playing, made repeated descending clicking noises, and upon reset displayed the sad icon. It is two months past its extended warranty.

Today, a co-worker told me about the flat tire she got over the weekend. I am now afraid to go out to the parking lot.

So, please, nobody tell me any bad things that have happened to you lately, because apparently my life is now being run on imitative principes. Or something.

Edit: tires not flat (Chad's pulled a muscle in his leg, but: not the same thing). And the iPod has come back to life, and if it dies again, there may well be a DIY solution (thanks to [info]agrumer for the link). So I think it may be safe now. *knocks on wood, performs other supersition-based propitiatory rituals*


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[info]glvalentine
2007-11-26 09:41 pm UTC (link)
Hmmm...

...this morning I found four hundred dollars in my desk drawer!

(Can't hurt, right?)

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-26 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Alas, I think it only works if it really happened.

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[info]larabeaton
2007-11-26 09:46 pm UTC (link)
I may have already won a million dollars.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-26 09:47 pm UTC (link)
So when you _have_, tell me and I will run out and buy a lottery ticket . . .

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[info]glvalentine
2007-11-26 09:51 pm UTC (link)
Well, if you're gonna clog up the pipes with your LOGIC... ;)

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:49 am UTC (link)
It's my fatal flaw.

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[info]missysedai
2007-11-26 09:47 pm UTC (link)
I don't think anything necessarily bad has happened to me lately. So I shall tell you something very, very good:

I am on my first paid vacation EVER. In my whole life. I spent most of the day in bed, snuggling the dog and the cats and playing Phoenix Wright.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:49 am UTC (link)
Awesome! Enjoy.

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[info]chomiji
2007-11-26 10:11 pm UTC (link)

I bought a nice new camera! It works!

And, I thought my car was broken! But it wasn't!

(Here's hoping for better news for you and your stuff ... .)

>hugs!<

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:49 am UTC (link)
See edit. Yay, for things not being (as) broken!

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[info]geniusofevil
2007-11-26 10:15 pm UTC (link)
I won powerball

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[info]thomasyan
2007-11-26 10:25 pm UTC (link)
I played tennis again for the first time in three weeks. It was terrific! The other players were roughly comparable in skill, and we were able to keep the ball in play. So much fun!

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:50 am UTC (link)
Indoors, I presume?

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[info]thomasyan
2007-11-27 02:31 am UTC (link)
Heh, yeah. The courts are in the open during the summer, and they put bubbles over them for the winter. So fewer scheduled clinics and matches will be canceled in the winter, presumably, because there aren't concerns like rainouts.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 02:35 am UTC (link)
Bubbles! How cool.

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[info]agrumer
2007-11-26 11:27 pm UTC (link)
My iPod did the same thing back in April. I managed to fix it myself using these instructions. If your iPod is still under warranty, or if you're intimidated by the thought of prying your iPod open, that may not be the route for you. On the other hand, if your iPod is ruined, why not pry it open and check out its guts?

In August it died again and I bought a new one, but that's four more months of use I got out of it, which was long enough for some new models to come out.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:49 am UTC (link)
Thanks--it's since come back, which definitely suggests to me something's loose in there. When it dies again, I'll give this a try.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-28 11:28 pm UTC (link)
It did and this worked. Thank you so much!

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[info]merhawk
2007-11-26 11:51 pm UTC (link)
So, please, nobody tell me any bad things that have happened to you lately, because apparently my life is now being run on imitative principes. Or something.

*bites tongue*

Actually, we had a (surprisingly) good visit with both my & BF's parental unit over Thanksgiving. And there were no delays or anything horrid on either of our cross-country flights.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:51 am UTC (link)
I read the Washington Post's travel chat just because, and apparently it was a pretty good travel Thanksgiving all around. Good that the stuff in-between went well, too.

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Can we tell you good things?
[info]redbird
2007-11-27 12:21 am UTC (link)
I have a plane ticket to Montreal.

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Of course you can, though I think they're probably not needed any more
[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 12:53 am UTC (link)
Excellent. Hugs to everyone on my behalf, if you will.

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[info]telophase
2007-11-27 02:51 am UTC (link)
I got my car back today! :D

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 03:11 am UTC (link)
Finally!!!

(Dare I ask about your iPod?)

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[info]telophase
2007-11-27 03:26 am UTC (link)
(Yes, but only 'cause I haven't put any music back on it yet. :D I'm going to construct my playlists on iTunes before doing that so I don't have to reconstruct them again if the music vanishes again.)

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[info]turnberryknkn
2007-11-27 04:08 am UTC (link)
Mental note: will not write about work until given the all-clear...

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-11-27 11:28 am UTC (link)
Nah, see the edit, I think it's okay.

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