Poll: Rep Retirement Lodge 204: Covid 19

[The Rube]

As I figured, the Mask Rules were followed about half the time at best at my bro's wedding. I pretty much sat at my table that had the few people I knew fairly well. It was SUPPOSED to be 2 childhood friends, but both had to back out (one volunteered to head to CA to fight the fires, the other had some health issues flare up). When the dancing/etc started, I was out. You just knew no masks were happening at that point.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Good Morning, Lodge!

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

Good morning Ralph!

Good morning to the rest of tLodge!

 

[mookie1995]

s’upp y’all

 

[Ralph Baer]

Sorry to hear about that, Scarlet.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Patman is definitely correct, the DC Wharf eateries are overpriced, but d@mn is it convenient for me.

Also, I feel very old when a place is founded by a woman still in her 20's. https://www.toastique.com/our-founder
graduated college in 2016 https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-keefe-4a735087/ implies born about 1994.

 

[dxmnkd316]

My uncle passed away this morning around 5:00am. My mom and her sisters were going to go this morning to see him. Now I'm a little mad. We just should have gone there, 3:15pm deadline or not. I can't understand how, if we got there at 3:40, they wouldn't have let my mom and aunt go in to see him for five minutes given they knew he was failing. Cousin P texted me this morning that C texted her that he passed. I told my mom that and she got annoyed that C texted P before calling her. I told my mom to let it go. I get that it's her brother and she and C have had issues about this, but it's over.

There will be no funeral, he's supposed to be cremated. But, I was told they're bringing his body to a funeral home because they can't cremate him for 48 hours. So there's an opportunity to go pay respects at the funeral home. My mom said she and her sisters talked about it and they don't want to go. Which I don't get. I'm waiting to get the details. I'm going to ask my mom again. She said she would have a 40-day memorial service for him at church.

Part of me feels really guilty as I was very wary of having her visit a nursing home given the pandemic. And while I wanted her to get to see him one last time, that same part of me feels a little relieved that she didn't. Am I an awful person?

Sorry for your loss Scarlet. Definitely not a bad person. Not in the slightest.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Yikes, so many changes are happening!

Someone breeched my credit card but they didn't process the transaction. I had called the card and they told me no, they didn't process the transaction. Then coudln't explain why no one notified me. I have 24 mo of no interest to pay off my laptop. Thinking I might close the card out. Still considering bugging out of the support part too. Spent the afternoon entertaining the policeman on the back deck, talking to the bank, talking to the CC co, talking to my major CC people. You cannot make this stuff up.

Wait, why were the cops involved? Normally I just have my CC company send me a new card and move on. Usually they catch it in the first or second transaction, lock the card, and give me a call. Takes five minutes and I can usually talk them into overnighting me a new card.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Good morning Lodge!!

Sitting at ORD waiting for my flight back to Texas. Doesn't look like I'll get business class, which was the whole reason I chose this flight home (787 with most of it open)...oh, well.

As some of you know, my grandmother passed away on Saturday and the wake and funeral was this Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Social distancing left a lot to be desired at the wake, but masks were required (with varying degrees of effectiveness). Funeral was limited to 150 people in a pretty large church.

One more week of work before furlough, unless congress can get something passed.

 

[leswp1]

My uncle passed away this morning around 5:00am. My mom and her sisters were going to go this morning to see him. Now I'm a little mad. We just should have gone there, 3:15pm deadline or not. I can't understand how, if we got there at 3:40, they wouldn't have let my mom and aunt go in to see him for five minutes given they knew he was failing. Cousin P texted me this morning that C texted her that he passed. I told my mom that and she got annoyed that C texted P before calling her. I told my mom to let it go. I get that it's her brother and she and C have had issues about this, but it's over.

There will be no funeral, he's supposed to be cremated. But, I was told they're bringing his body to a funeral home because they can't cremate him for 48 hours. So there's an opportunity to go pay respects at the funeral home. My mom said she and her sisters talked about it and they don't want to go. Which I don't get. I'm waiting to get the details. I'm going to ask my mom again. She said she would have a 40-day memorial service for him at church.

Part of me feels really guilty as I was very wary of having her visit a nursing home given the pandemic. And while I wanted her to get to see him one last time, that same part of me feels a little relieved that she didn't. Am I an awful person?

You did the right thing. If something had happened and they got sick you would have been devastated. So sorry it happened the way it did.

 

[leswp1]

Good morning Lodge!!

Sitting at ORD waiting for my flight back to Texas. Doesn't look like I'll get business class, which was the whole reason I chose this flight home (787 with most of it open)...oh, well.

As some of you know, my grandmother passed away on Saturday and the wake and funeral was this Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Social distancing left a lot to be desired at the wake, but masks were required (with varying degrees of effectiveness). Funeral was limited to 150 people in a pretty large church.

One more week of work before furlough, unless congress can get something passed.

Sorry to hear this.

 

[leswp1]

Wait, why were the cops involved? Normally I just have my CC company send me a new card and move on. Usually they catch it in the first or second transaction, lock the card, and give me a call. Takes five minutes and I can usually talk them into overnighting me a new card.

You are supposed to call the cops because they were committing fraud (Bank told me this). My post was a little post zoom incoherent.

Went to the store today. THe dude who helped me was appalled, got his manager involved who called his manager. They took all the information down, both of them gave me their cards, the manager guy is calling to follow up. The other guy was beside himself when he heard what happened. He spent a lot of time with me basically teaching me how to change things over, helped me make a plan to switch over to the new laptop.

Meanwhile there is something squirrely with how my email is served with outlook. Turns out when the company sold their email server they split it between 2 other companies. Then the company I got sold to is not the default outlook finds. Manually trying to make it change over isn't working. It says it is syncing folders but then they are not visible anywhere. ALso weird it retrieved sent emails from LONG ago that had been deleted off my email and the server. He thinks outlook may not have patched the issue. Gah. He was the one who made it work on my other laptops so I know he has been successful before. Technology is satan.

 

[The Rube]

I would question the cop element also. Not much they can (or will) do, given it's prob internet driven. CC companys just write it off and call it a day. That's what happened with me when my card got hacked earlier this year.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Credit card companies don’t do shit unless it’s like $5k or maybe even higher. Unless it’s someone who literally stole your plastic card, there’s nothing the cops will do.

I’m actually very surprised your bank told you to call the cops. I’m not trying to make fun or anything like that, so I hope this post doesn’t come off that way.

 

[The Rube]

Credit card companies don’t do **** unless it’s like $5k or maybe even higher. Unless it’s someone who literally stole your plastic card, there’s nothing the cops will do.

I’m actually very surprised your bank told you to call the cops. I’m not trying to make fun or anything like that, so I hope this post doesn’t come off that way.

Yep. I have a very specific pattern with my card, and believe me, you do too (les). They (the CC companies) know.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Actually I think it has more to do with transactions taking place in different geographies in impossibly short times.

But you’re not wrong. Mint and Yodlee are the two public-facing versions of them. Mint less so now since it was bought. They’re not going to shut off a credit card because you shopped at a new store. They’re also not Person of Interest in their level of sophistication. But, if you buy a tank of gas in Tennessee five minutes after you buy a load of bread in Minnesota...

Capitalone will flag transactions and call or email. But they only shut it down if they know it’s an issue.

 

[St. Clown]

My baby girl is making grunting noises while in the process of learning to make sounds. It’s pretty standard stuff of course, but to me she sounds like Peter Boyle’s grunts in Young Frankenstein. It’s all I can do not to respond, “Fire’s good, fire’s your friend.” :-D

 

[The Rube]

Actually I think it has more to do with transactions taking place in different geographies in impossibly short times.

But you’re not wrong. Mint and Yodlee are the two public-facing versions of them. Mint less so now since it was bought. They’re not going to shut off a credit card because you shopped at a new store. They’re also not Person of Interest in their level of sophistication. But, if you buy a tank of gas in Tennessee five minutes after you buy a load of bread in Minnesota...

Capitalone will flag transactions and call or email. But they only shut it down if they know it’s an issue.

True. Mine was flagged due to micro-transactions (a dollar or two at multiple spots) followed by very large transactions ($500-$1200, at places that NEVER showed up before). My CC is only used at a couple different types of businesses. Whenever I went on vacation (for example, Houghton), I always notified them beforehand. Since I don't travel much, there is a years' long pattern on my account. One or two purchases outside of that pattern, they won't blink. When there was a couple dozen...they were on it like a fat kid on cake.

Had zero issues with them taking care of it, got a new account, etc, within 48 hours. One exception: I did get called when I bought my membership at Back Channel Brewing (along with some merch and a couple beers) since it was soon after the hack, and that particular bill was $300+ (membership cost $250/year). I confirmed the purchase and all was good.

 

[St. Clown]

Over the years, I’ve received two or three confirm calls for fraud. Once it actually was fraud.

 

[Ralph Baer]

FWIW, I rode the DC Metro (subway) today for the first time since March. I traveled from Wiehle-Reston East to Smithsonian, a 44-minute trip. For roughly the first half, I was the only one in the car, and there never was anyone closer than about 15 feet. When I travel with my bike on Metro, I use the Smithsonian station although it is only the 4th closest from home because the elevator goes directly to the street without having to go to the mezzanine first.