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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 7:25 am 
I have a very dumb question for sure!
If someone texts you they are going to KW for vacation, what/where is KW?
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 7:40 am
Kuwait or Key West?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 8:03 am
Definitely not Kuwait, but Key West make a lot of sense. Thanks! 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 10:05 am
Kichener Waterloo area in Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 😁
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 10:14 pm
LOL Mame
I asked her when she dropped of her dog. It is in fact Key West
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, May 31, 2024 - 1:41 am
😎 cool
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 2:20 am
I'm looking at getting a new credit card. The interest rates are absurd! Anyone have any ideas on how best to find a credit card with reasonable interest rates. Fortunately, I have a high credit score.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 4:51 am
Does your primary bank have any deals on their cards?
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 8:55 am
The bank has one with no interest for a period of time then a high interest rate. I'd rather not have situation where I'm changing cards every year or so chasing better rates.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 11:48 am
Honestly, I don't see anything out there for less than 18% APR.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, June 23, 2024 - 4:03 am
Right! Crazy high interest.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 24, 2024 - 3:15 am
I just make sure to pay off in full. I did use Care Credit to pay for my cataract surgeries, zero interest for a year, but I am never comfortable owing, so I paid it off pretty quickly. Also my surgery was not as pricey as anticipated. But Care Credit is there if I had a sudden vet or dental bill.
Credit Unions can be a bit more reasonable with rates, I think.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, June 24, 2024 - 9:12 pm
Paypal credit is nice. It has a high interest rate, but anything you charge over $99, you have 6 months to pay off interest free. Forever. Not just for a limited time. I've been using mine often for 4 years now and haven't paid a penny in interest.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 2:21 am
Good tip, Naja!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 2:36 am
You still have to make a minimum payment every month in the meantime, though.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 3:02 am
I just pay in full, but it is always good to have options. I do use PayPal, so that is good to know.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 19, 2024 - 4:53 am
New Q: Who is the Global Internet thing that is out and causing problems? I never heard of it before. TIA
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, July 19, 2024 - 6:38 am
Actually it was CrowdStrike that caused the disruption. CrowdStrike is an industrial level security software company, kind of like Norton or Mcafee but on steroids and meant for the big servers that are the backbone of the global Internet system. CrowdStrike sent out an update but there is a flaw in the update and it caused Microsoft software to crash. That in turn caused the servers to crash or stop communicating.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, July 19, 2024 - 7:17 am
Yeah, my hosting service got hit and my website is still off line. Which I don't understand since most companies have already recovered!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 19, 2024 - 8:24 am
Thank you Mack, no one on the news seemed to have a clue what was going on and couldn't explain it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, July 19, 2024 - 9:50 am
What a mess. My desktop died, but I doubt that I had that software.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, July 19, 2024 - 11:23 pm
It’s not clear what MicroSoft products and systems were impacted but it sounds like maybe MicroSoft Windows and Office were corrupted. Since some are reporting the “blue screen of death” when they try to start their computer certainly sounds like Windows was impacted. Again, CrowdStrike is security software for major servers not for consumer level users so you most likely would not have their software.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, July 20, 2024 - 2:53 am
So interesting, I wonder if it depended on what Microsoft system you are running. I also noticed that my station that aired Perry Mason couldn't "connect", whatever that means, but all other channels were working fine.
The channel was fine the next day so it may have been coincidence but thought it was odd at the time, and the middle of the night, hadn't even heard about the shut down.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, July 20, 2024 - 4:20 am
Not all server farms use CrowdStrike so if a provider or service is using a non-CrowdStrike protected server then they probably weren’t impacted.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 12:59 pm
Does anyone know of a brand of rubber bands that don't rot and disintegrate after a few months? It's a very annoying problem.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, October 05, 2024 - 9:47 am
I don't know, Grooch! But I have another question.
Do you think it's reasonable for me to charge a roommate $100 more during May-Sept because the AC more than doubles the electric bill in those months? Especially with the increasingly hot summers. I don't want to charge the people that who are only here in the cooler months. (I try to only rent to traveling health care workers)
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, October 05, 2024 - 10:24 am
It seems fair to me. Does your heating bill go up that much in the winter? Maybe you should just raise your rates?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, October 05, 2024 - 10:26 am
No, I'm on level pay for gas and it stays a reasonable rate throughout the year.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, October 05, 2024 - 10:31 am
Can you do that for electricity? Or balance your rates to cover it (ie, total your annual electric bill, divide by 12 and then adjust your rates by that much?)
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, October 05, 2024 - 10:46 am
Now that sounds reasonable. Raise it $35 for everyone and that would be $420 a year. I'll start that with the next tenant/roommate.
Thanks!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Saturday, October 05, 2024 - 10:13 pm
Super idea, Kar.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 06, 2024 - 9:43 am
Great!
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