How heavy can a credit card be to where you'd notice it? Seems like it could weigh 10x as much and still weigh next to nothing.

 

We have a postage scale here at the office, and my American Airlines Mastercard does not even register a weight on it, my driver's license weighs 0.2 oz., but the Capital One card weighs a whopping 0.6 oz and is noticeably thicker than my other credit cards.  This is because it is a metal card, not a plastic one.  Not sure why they do that.

Tet - so far each card we have gotten in order to take advantage of a frequent flyer mile promotion has been a card offered by/partnered with a specific airline.  However, the Capital One is not affiliated with a specific airline, and the miles can be used for a number of different airlines as long as you use their Capital One travel site to book the flights.  I am still thinking about how I will utilize this.  We have already used FF miles to get free flights for our upcoming Jamaica trip in February and our long weekend at Panama City Beach in April, so we have no trips to book at the moment.  I will probably use the Capital One miles to book round trip flights for my MIL so she can come out to see DS get married in June.

Leslie - wouldn't it be cheaper just to get cans of tuna for the kitties?  Or is there some reason that is not a good idea?

DH's brain scan results are normal, according to MyChart, but we are meeting with the doc at 2:15 today to talk about what to do now.

Glad you're feeling better, Erika.

Twocat, good luck getting rid of your mice. We have lots of experience with the little critters! The key seems to be to make sure they don't find their way inside during late fall/early winter, when they're looking for a place to set up shop for the winter. It sounds like you may have missed that window, so getting rid of them now might be tough. I understand your concerns about using poison, but ever since my hairdresser's house BURNED DOWN two years ago due to mice chewing on wires in the ceiling, I have decided that the mice have to stay out, no matter what. We have plugged every hole we can find, but sometimes they get in anyway. I am sorry to say we have resorted to some undesirable methods on occasion, but we are currently mouse-free.

After yesterday's storm (and accompanying coastal flooding), I decided to run down to the beach this morning to see the aftermath. Yikes! The storm wall at the public beach and a big chunk of the parking lot got washed away. And lots of houses lost big chunks of their property to the waves. For the first time I can imagine some of the more vulnerable homes tumbling into the bay, despite having done considerable work to raise the buildings high above sea level.

4.3 slow miles for me.

4 miles jog while the rain was just a drizzle. It's coming down heavier now, so I timed that well. At about 50 F, I was too warm in my 'winter' running jacket and should have worn a light shell.

Ordered some Hokas for Christmas...

My company's office is in the process of moving. So right now, there is no office. Which is weird but fine as I never went in that often anyway.

My DD had an interview a couple weeks ago for an internship this summer with a large insurance company - you know, one of the ones with annoying commercials on TV. She found out yesterday she got the job. The job has something to do with data analytics/programming. She is SO happy! I'm happy too. Nice to see kids becoming more and more independent.

Dave, sorry to hear about your friend. Although there are lots of fancy treatments these days for solid tumors, they don't usually change the outcome by much.

Erika- sounds like you are doing well.  Can you mix some Advil in with the Tylenol?   Enke- which Hokas did you order?   Holly- I think the metal cards are harder to counterfeit.

I wonder if those thicker metal cards are because so many cards now you can just do the tap with them to pay for things and maybe the metal provides better protection/security for whatever is in the card that allows the tap and pay function. I dunno.

hmmmm, inquiring minds want to know if you actually gave her $100 to pay for her maid service??? 

having a monthly deep clean would sure be a nice little luxury to have but I've never been able to justify that for a small 1200 sq ft home, even when David was little and it would have been even more helpful back then. But DH and I have always been neat people and DS even when he was little was real good about cleaning up his toys, etc.   At any given time, any unannounced person could stop in at our house and I would never be embarassed by the state of things. So a monthly housecleaner never made it to the priority list. 

Okay, this time I think I really have finished up Cmas shopping. David needed help getting a clothing item for my mom that was on her wish list and David wouldn't know style/sizing, etc. for her, so I told him I would find something and he can just buy it from me to give to her. 

Did I ever mention it here in this group, maybe a couple weeks ago, that a new neighbor on the backside of my property put up a No Trepassing sign on this one short out-n-back stretch that I've been running for years to get my *1 mile loop* on my property? I don't recall if I mentioned that here or not.anyways, I have a resolution to that story, but if I never brought up the story in the first place, then no point in mentioning the resolution. lol

Did I ever mention it here in this group, maybe a couple weeks ago, that a new neighbor on the backside of my property put up a No Trepassing sign on this one short out-n-back stretch that I've been running for years to get my *1 mile loop* on my property? I don't recall if I mentioned that here or not.anyways, I have a resolution to that story, but if I never brought up the story in the first place, then no point in mentioning the resolution. lol

What??   And curious minds want to know what the resolution is.

Housecleaners. Because The Hub is self-employed, we could actually write off a percentage of a housecleaner, but he still won't do it.  Given how much I hate cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors, I'd love to hire someone just to do those 2 things.

Had a meeting this a.m. with the secretary who might become our new Est Dept secretary.  Right now she's the litigation secretary for the attorney who's taking over the Est Dept.  I told her what would be expected of her, what I would be hoping to turn over to her that I'd never been able to give the other secretaries, etc.  She was honest and said she was kind of enjoying learning something new with litigation (litigation is new to her), but also enjoyed the personal side of EP (which she did for 2.5 years at her prior job).  I told her to take the next 2 weeks and really think about which direction she wanted her career to go because whatever she decided she would be in that position for the long haul and we would be hiring a secretary for the other position. And then she said something interesting: "I never thought about this as a career.  I just thought about it as me working for someone else."  I told her she could make it whatever she wanted it to be, and that's why the office supported continuing ed (which she hasn't taken advantage of to date).

Anyway, we'll see.  In the meantime, she'll be pulling double duty helping with EP and continuing with litigation, so she'll have her hands full.

Well, speaking of independent daughters, I am doing her laundry right now - 3 loads worth. 

Holly, are those real?  Or glued on?

I'm also too cheap to pay for cleaners, and too lazy to ever get the place as clean as I would like. It just seems like a lot of effort when I could be doing other, more enjoyable things. I know it can be satisfying for some people (like MBE), but not for me.

Yes Tammy, we want to know the full story...

ETA, for KSA: HOKA Arahi 6

They were on clearance and had my size.

I must not have mentioned it here. Kind of a long story, so I guess I was telling my running partner, Barb, about it.

Anywhoo, resolution wasn't the right word. More like "the conclusion to the story". . .

So on my property, which is 13 acres, I have one large circular loop trail and 2 short out-n-backs. So it's like a lollipop with two sticks on opposite ends. One of those "sticks" is my driveway (almost 1/4 mile long) and the other stick is about the same length and extends out into the forest, on the opposite end of my other "driveway" stick (if you can visualize this?).  I always had a feeling that part was not my property but I'm in the woods and except for one part where there's a peekaboo view of a house about 60 yds away, no one can see me. 
I ran this lollipop loop twice on Thanksgiving morning as my turkey trot with my dogs. I ran it again a week later and I noticed a bunch of large branches and sticks lying across the start of my out-n-back that goes out in the woods and that I knew probably wasn't my property. But honestly, after 17+ yrs of running this, it was not something that ever even crossed my mind anymore - that I was technically "trespassing".  and right in the middle of the path was a sign erected with a "private property. No trespassing" sign.  Honestly, I was shocked to see that. It was clearly meant for me, as my property backs up to this property and I'm the only one to ever use that short trail. So, the homeowner must have seen me and didn't want me on his property anymore. I would have welcomed a conversation about it instead of going to the work of erecting a sign. It was just such a blatant "get offa my lawn" type statement.

It sat with me. And it bothered me for the last couple weeks.  But after I let it settle in, I realized it was rather presumptuous of me to assume I had any privilege to run on a trail that was on someone else's private property. And people that live rural like their privacy.

So last night, I drove to their house. They just bought the house a few mos ago after the house being vacant the last 7 yrs. I didn't even know it was vacant - that's how little of the house I can see that I never noticed there were never any people nor cars there.  They are an older couple in their 70's and he's been out walking his property a lot and saw me running one day. He didn't know me from Adam (or Eve) and of course, in the country, you never know what people might be like, so he put up a sign not knowing why I was on his property or what my intent was. He said when he bought the property (he has 20 acres) he could see that someone had been cutting about 10 large tress that were on his property and it was probably done while the house was vacant for so long. So he was just wanting to protect his property rights from anyone coming on to it. 

They are a very nice couple, and he said he has no issue with me running that little section. And they have a rescue dog so we had that common ground to relate to each other as well and actually had a nice conversation. So, the long of the short (guess there's nothing short about this though) of this is that I went to apologize for trespassing, told him I did not know the house had sold and because I had been running that stretch for so many years, it really wasn't even on my radar any longer that I was trespassing. And we've exchanged phone numbers and I'll probably invite them over some time