Nevadans?

[SunnyDawn]

Anyone know how to post pictures from my iPod to BYC? I want to show of my foster kids.

I don't know anything about ipods. Sorry. I assume the foster kids are bunnies?
I used to be able to down load pics directly from my phone but this computer's malware software sees my phone as a threat and so I have to send my pics to an online album then get them off of there. It reduces the quality of them but what can I do? Maybe you can do the same? When you are looking at the pic does it give you an option to send the pic to an online album?
Ron knows a lot more about this. Hopefully he will come on soon and be able to help.

Quote: Oh Sheryl I'm so sorry you didn't get the job!!! We don't have cable either anymore but we use Hulu instead and I'm getting used to it. I spend less time vegging in front of the TV these days anyway. I know times are so tough right now!!! I sure hope something turns up for you soon!!!

 

[VCfeathers]

Well I'm back. ATT "accidental" disconnected my Internet when they updated the local lines almost a month ago. Then they had the nerve to tell me I couldn't possibly get DSL out here. So after 3 weeks of calmly talking to them and explaining my issues to a different person every day I demanded to talk to the supervisors supervisor, and now I'm back up and running with their highest speed DSL for 19.99 a month (instead of $44).

So what have I missed? Other than my friends that is.

 

[chicharomirinda]

Sunny, can you PM me the info on the move--directions and time?

Well, the bad news is I didn't get the job, the worse news is John and I have been knocked down by $10,000 a year now. I was so hoping for the new job so I wouldn't get knocked down but it wasn't meant to be. I really don't know how anyone can survive these days unless you make really good money. We were just talking about how much we made when we lived in California verses what we are making right now. If you take inflation in account we should be making $2,000 a week compared to then. I wished the pay went up with inflation like it once did.

We can't keep going downhill but there isn't an option to it. I don't know how much more we can conserve or get rid of. If you don't see me on here anymore it would be from getting rid of the internet and cable next. We don't have any bills except utilities.

so sorry, sheryl! I hope something even better comes up for you. I feel you on the cutting back. we have very little left to cut back. Directv is next. We're trying antennas to see what we can get. I need to call on the phone/internet to see what I can do to get the bill down. My husband has been unemployed for 3 years and my job is soft funded and we're having trouble getting enough funding right now. Luckily our kids will start fulltime kindergarten at the end of July so my husband can look for full time work then.

Well I'm back. ATT "accidental" disconnected my Internet when they updated the local lines almost a month ago. Then they had the nerve to tell me I couldn't possibly get DSL out here. So after 3 weeks of calmly talking to them and explaining my issues to a different person every day I demanded to talk to the supervisors supervisor, and now I'm back up and running with their highest speed DSL for 19.99 a month (instead of $44).

So what have I missed? Other than my friends that is.

glad you're back!

 

[sherylreno]

Welcome back Mandy!

Thank you Sunny & Elizabeth. If you go back a year and 1 month we are actually down over $15k. It's really hurting us. I really feel for you Elizabeth, getting funding is really hard to get now a days. Our economy really needs to get better again.

I don't know if anyone has been keeping up with the news? On May 21st a new bill was started in Congress. It will help us selling our eggs but the bakery's, restaurants and people buying eggs in the store is really going to hurt. The News Media is saying eggs can become $8.00 per dozen or even more. In the EU bakery's can't get eggs all of the time due to the shortage. The egg-laying shortage is from the battery caged hens being banned so the companies slaughtered the hens and went out of business.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...sg=AFQjCNH8JwXPGC8ozmmZaa3Unwl2FDU2Dg&cad=rja

 

[sherylreno]

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/p...al_bill_introduced_01232012.html#.T9Dk4rfl6NE.

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15826347,00.html

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I have been following this since I first heard a report about it on NPR last year. An interviewer had gone to an egg farmer that was in the process of switching over to the new way. In one ban, the birds were kept the old way. Each hen in a cage too small to allow them to stand and smaller in perimeter than a sheet of paper. They recorded a sound byte from the barn, it was almost silent.
In the next barn, the one that had switched to the new way, there were five hens in each large cage. Each cage had room for the hens to stand, stretch, lay, and each cage ha a perch and a nest box. In the sound byte for THIS barn the noise was enormous! Clucking and egg songs and very obviously happy hens. The farmer said the laying was just as good and the switch over wasn't too bad.

I consider this progress, but I am of the belief that our convenience in cOsumerism has gotten in the way of how we treat the living creatures that we feed On or that feed us. I don't really see how this switch over is a bad thing an I do think the news media trying to say that bakeries and egg prices will be threatened beyond repair is just the same plain old fear mongering that we always get from them when anything progresses. Just my thoughts.

 

[sherylreno]

Aubrey, I think it's the best thing to do too. I can't stand the way they treat the laying hens in those tiny cages and de-beaking them. I'm just saying in Europe there's an egg shortage and the media is saying there may be one here as well if this gets enacted. If that's the case with egg producer's closing their productions down then perhaps that means feed costs will go down too since there will be a bigger supply with smaller demand. It would be a good thing for us backyard producer's.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Omg I just tried to find the "like" button on your post.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Sorry about not getting the job, Sheryl. And your comment about how people can make it without making good money... HECK yeah! Tell me about it! This is our world, and has been for years. My husband and I currently have "good" jobs for the Reno area, and right now our combined monthlty income is about $1,000 less than what our gross living expenses should be for the month... rent, power, water, heat, fuel to work, and food. We cut out our TV 3 years ago, and now we're living a lifestyle that most of our friends treat with disdain, whether or not they realize they're doing it. We don't buy presents for people... we make them, trade for them, or give services. Of course you know that we raise a lot of our food, but our church also has really helped us out with that in times that the bills are just too high to buy a single food item. When we have no money to put in the gas talk, we walk for a few weeks... because we might not have money, but we have healthy feet. I have lost a few friends because our lifestyle is seen as trashy... people who don't drink or smoke, or take a welfare check, but still stop at thrift stores, or who might run to Walmart with garden dirt still on their jeans. People have finally stopped inviting me to Tupperware and Pampered Chef parties. I'd tell them, "I can't buy a thing, so I can't come." And they wouldn't believe me when I said I didn't have a dime to spend. Or they'd invite me out to go eat chicken wings, and I decline because I can't spare the cash for a meal. And they'd reply, "You HAVE to treat yourself once in awhile!"

Ok... (wait a second, while I'm standing on my soapbox)... and this isn't directed at anyone here, but at those people who have dropped me as friends because they're tired of having me decline their offers. Do you think mothers in 3rd world countries argue that they deserve to treat themselves out to a night of chicken wings with the girls? Or do you think most of them are happy to finally rest at night, knowing that their kids are fed and healthy? What is wrong with "me time" being a half hour with a book, after the kids are in bed, their stomachs filled with healthy food? If that brings me such joy, please don't tell me that I'm not supposed to find joy in it. Which is one of the reasons we're in HEAVEN not having TV. Whether it's commercials, sitcoms of the "average American family" (which makes at least 30k a year more than we do), or reality shows... all of it can be used to suggest that someone's life isn't supposed to be happy without a certain lifestyle.

Ok... (stepping down from my soapbox)...

So I really feel for you about the reduced income. It royally stinks, and in retrospect you find amazing ways to compensate. Of course, there are all those panic attacks before you realize that you actually can make it... maybe not in a way that you envisioned, but you're still making it. And you're such an amazing and resourceful person, I know you can do it! You have such a large friend and family network, that they can help you out once in awhile. Maybe not financially, but maybe in agreeing to help you garden, or to meet someplace cheap for a get-together.

And about the egg industry... YES! That's wonderful, even if eggs will be more expensive. I'm really trying to educate myself right now on the value of food. And I can really, really see prices going up, especially with this weird growing season we're having already. People who know how to do things for themselves, like having backyard coops or gardens, are really going to be thankful they did. If they're not already.

So what did people do to pay for food when they didn't have feedlots, and all food was raised humanely? For starters, there were fewer people. They ate less. A lot of them supplemented with their own farms or gardens. They were a lot more conscious about what foods they spent their money on... steak was a privilege, not a right. These are all things that I remind myself of when I see soaring food prices. Everyone made sacrifices, and sometimes that involved eating entrail soup.

And Mandy... WELCOME BACK!!!

 

[NevadaRon]

I was born in Pasadena, then lived in highland park/eagle rock, then lived in Glendale until I moved here. I dont hate it! In fact, I really do love my hometown.

Glendale is where the construction job I broke my back on was. Right next to the high school - across the street from Pat Sajak's parent's house (I know 'cause we used to see him going over there all the time). No hate - I just don't like city life, especially big cities!

A very smart decision!!! Unfortunately I have seen traffic at all times of the night in the Bay Area too. Especially 101 and especially heading to or from the city. IDK what it is about that freeway but it seems to have traffic all the time! Of course it could be only when I'm trying to get somewhere.

I shouldn't say it is worse though. I have been stuck in some horrific traffic jams in LA too. The worst I've ever been in though is New York. There is a reason a lot of folks ride the subway. You don't go anywhere in a car fast. I can't imagine trying to drive there. Seriously! Nothing moves! It's like watching water boil! Nothing happens until you look away then you get excited cause you've started to move and of course you stop again. For 10 minutes you can sit there not moving and everyone is honking when there is no where to go!

I've only been there once but I think that was enough for me. The folks were a lot nicer than I expected though.

I rarely went up and down the peninsula so I'm not familiar with traffic there. New York, on the other hand... I've seen some horrendous raffic jams there. One time in particular I recall we were on the observation deck of the Empire State building and the intersection below had a dozen or more buses in it in one of the few literal "gridlocks" I've ever seen! It must have taken hours for them to undo the mess!

OK multiquotes worked a minute ago!!! Now I have to try and remember it all!

YES!!! Aubrey!!! Par-ty, Par-ty, Par-ty!!!

OK Tyler said as long as there are no weird flavors (so I assume no green tea and garlic ice cream) and Ron pulled back his vote at the last minute (well except to point out it is not peach season yet). Soooo ???

Update: I went to Costco last night and the fresh peaches are in!

So homemade peach ice cream is back in the mix!

Well, the bad news is I didn't get the job, the worse news is John and I have been knocked down by $10,000 a year now. I was so hoping for the new job so I wouldn't get knocked down but it wasn't meant to be. I really don't know how anyone can survive these days unless you make really good money. We were just talking about how much we made when we lived in California verses what we are making right now. If you take inflation in account we should be making $2,000 a week compared to then. I wished the pay went up with inflation like it once did.

We can't keep going downhill but there isn't an option to it. I don't know how much more we can conserve or get rid of. If you don't see me on here anymore it would be from getting rid of the internet and cable next. We don't have any bills except utilities.

Oh Sheryl I'm so sorry you didn't get the job! I also made a lot more money when I lived in CA but the taxes and the cost of living were so much higher it didn't seem like it. I will pray fr your situation to improve!

I don't know anything about ipods. Sorry. I assume the foster kids are bunnies?
I used to be able to down load pics directly from my phone but this computer's malware software sees my phone as a threat and so I have to send my pics to an online album then get them off of there. It reduces the quality of them but what can I do? Maybe you can do the same? When you are looking at the pic does it give you an option to send the pic to an online album?
Ron knows a lot more about this. Hopefully he will come on soon and be able to help.

I'm afraid I don't know anything about iPods. Sorry Tyler!

Well I'm back. ATT "accidental" disconnected my Internet when they updated the local lines almost a month ago. Then they had the nerve to tell me I couldn't possibly get DSL out here. So after 3 weeks of calmly talking to them and explaining my issues to a different person every day I demanded to talk to the supervisors supervisor, and now I'm back up and running with their highest speed DSL for 19.99 a month (instead of $44).

So what have I missed? Other than my friends that is.

LOL - after I moved AT&T kept trying to bill me for DSL for the next few months. The (most) ironic part of it was that DSL isn't available where my new house is. I eventually had to speak to a supervisor, too, and even then it took a little convincing.

Omg I just tried to find the "like" button on your post.