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I REALLY wish there was a bus I could take that departs between 6:05 and 6:43p. Can’t make the former tonight, hate waiting for latter. #cold

Scott RoeselerAlso boo. Hope your day tomorrow is better!

Jennifer ShewThanks for commiserating with me, Scott! It sucks to have to wait for the weekend to start.

Brittany ConstableThe miseries of public transit. I hate when the train times are stupid.

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Had to resort to the 47 Hanley instead of my normal 91 Olive. Will be late anyway. I miss the days when I could just walk to the metrolink. Some busses are an hour or more behind schedule. There wasn’t that much snow, but its blowing everywhere and icing after cars idle then drive off. #snow #whycantpeopledriveinsnow #happenseveryyear

Alison HawkeIt took me over an hour to get in to work, when it’s normally a 20 minute commute, and people were tailgating me the whole way.

Why aren’t rocket launchers included as standard equipment in cars?

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Need something read? Help an author out.Originally shared by Diane Duane – 56 commentsWhoopee, our bank account has been cleaned out…*

So I was expecting a payment into the joint account that Peter and I share, and logged into online banking to see if it had come in yet. And saw:

Available balance: 0.00

Uhh… No, not really possible. Something a little over 0.00, something a little under 0.00, sure. But this? No. Possibly a system hiccup of some kind. So I call the helpline and ask what’s going on.

And surprise! What do they find, but, between Tuesday and today, a number of transactions that aren’t mine. Road toll payments (when we don’t have a car: amusing). Movie tickets from a Dublin-area omniplex (when we haven’t left the house since last Friday: I’m still fighting with this sinus infection and haven’t been out a lot.) And then a transaction at a point-of-sale somewhere in Ireland that emptied out the account. (There wasn’t a vast amount in there right then… but it’s all gone now.)

W. T. F. My bank card has been skimmed.

It’s toast now (thrown in the fire a few minutes ago, a new one ordered over the phone). But so much for the bills that needed to be paid this week. 2012 had better start getting its act together, as this is not an auspicious beginning.

The bank will cover this expense when its fraud department has digested all the details. But meanwhile, the household is skint. So: if you feel inclined to spit in the eye of the nameless rogue(s) who’ve briefly ruined the domestic tranquility around here, I invite you you to go over to the Ebooks Direct store and buy something using the discount code DDGOTSKIMMED, which will give you 20% off whatever you buy.

If you feel inclined to share this around, it’d be appreciated.

(mutter) Miscreants.

(oh, sorry, forgot the URL for the store. (You can judge my mental state from that, I bet…)

http://ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com

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I’m going to be at work late enough that I will have to check the bus schedule to see just how late I’ll be getting home. Dear fellow St. Louisans, please fund Metro transit so there is more than one bus an hour.

The Portal Two (Portal 2 Cocktails)

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Originally shared by Christopher BThe Portal Two (Portal 2 Cocktails)

Ingredients:
Blue Curacao
Vodka
Lemonade
Cointreau
Rum
Orangina
Small tumblers

Directions: “This drink is, of course, designed to resemble the two coloured portals from the excellent sci-fi puzzle game. For the blue version, get a small tumbler and pour in 10ml of Blue Curacao, 10ml of vodka and top up with lemonade. For orange you’ll need another tumbler, this time filled with 10ml of Cointreau, 10ml of rum and Orangina. If you fancy, you can jazz the glasses up with coloured sugar rims. Simply pour some sugar into a sandwich bag with the relevant food colouring, shake them up, pour the resulting mix into a dish and dip your tumbler in.

Drink created by: http://goo.gl/ApLMP

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