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Apr 04, 2018 08:03AM
Cricket Wireless has been around for 20 years and is now owned by AT&T, so it's not going to have to deal with a glutted market - it's already part of it. It's one of those services older people like me tend to gravitate to, so that might be why you've never heard of it (although I use Consumer Cellular, not Cricket).
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K.A. wrote: "Cricket Wireless has been around for 20 years and is now owned by AT&T, so it's not going to have to deal with a glutted market - it's already part of it. It's one of those services older people li..."I mean it's new in this town. I am now also puzzling mightily about why Cricket would open a branch half a mile from two AT&T outlets...BTW, I thought we were about the same age, K.A.!
I had a terrible last few weeks and decided to treat myself to some new, exotic flowering plants. I agonized over whether or not to order a Stapelia schinzii var. angolensis but they cost soooo much, I got sensible and ordered only the Huernia zebrina. Well, it came in the mail today and guess what the seller added to the box as a free bonus!
Fishface wrote: "I had a terrible last few weeks and decided to treat myself to some new, exotic flowering plants. I agonized over whether or not to order a Stapelia schinzii var. angolensis but they cost soooo muc..."Love it. Personally I would reward myself with chocolate.
Heard a true story today that I just had to share. A teacher at school today told this amazing story. When she was a senior in high school in 1972 they had a class where they had to plan their wedding. They had to pick a date, bridesmaids, every detail. Her friend picked April 10 for her date. When she became engaged in 1975 she asked her fiancé to pick a date. You guessed it...he said April 10. She had never told him about the class so that was pretty amazing. It doesn't end there. Her husband passed away this past Tues. April 3. So, when planning his funeral the wife said the funeral had to be held on....you guessed it....April 10.
I'm quite sure he would have approved. :)
Fishface wrote: "I'm quite sure he would have approved. :)"Not sure I would have wanted to remember my anniversary as the day I buried my husband but to each his own.
Koren wrote: "Personally I would reward myself with chocolate."Oh, I did that too. And glazed donuts.
Several coincidences in the books I've read recently or currently reading: Finished a book by Chip Gaines who lives in Waco, TX. Now I'm reading a book about Willie Nelson who also lived or worked in Waco at one time. The book I just finished is about gangs in Chicago and both books have a character named T-bone.
This one was chilling. Yesterday I had a spare moment at work and looked up some guys I helped send to prison back in the day when I was at the rape crisis center. One really scary one has been off the state listing for years, but considering the nature of his crimes I keep checking to see if he's been convicted of anything new. No dice. So me being me, I wonder if he's gotten himself killed somehow.Well, today I was standing in the checkout line at Meijer's for literally 45 minutes, and if the cashier hadn't been so slow I would have missed seeing the rapist's brother wheeling his shopping cart past me with this sad, faraway look on his face as if he were thinking about someone who'd died. And I wondered all over again if his rabid gorilla of a brother was dead...
Astounding TC coincidence. I discovered a story online of a woman in Ohio who was allowed to testify at the trial for her own murder:http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ju...
But that's not the coincidence. The coincidence is that I came across this story on the anniversary of the death of Madge Oberholtzer, whose deathbed statement -- very similar to Malinowski's, only with less accelerant and more teeth marks -- brought down her murderer in neighboring Indiana.
It's almost enough to make me wonder whether Malinowski is a reincarnation of Oberholtzer, and Slagel a new iteration of D.C. Stephenson.
So yesterday I was driving to an appointment and was surprised to hear "London Calling" on the radio, from the album of the same name by the Clash. They never play that song and rarely anything from that album. It was immediately followed by "I'm A Rebel Just For Kicks," so I was happy that they were playing such good songs.So I was leaving that appointment a couple of hours later and turned the radio on to another station. The other station was playing "Train In Vain," another song off the Clash's London Calling album. They immediately followed that up with "I'm A Rebel Just For Kicks."
Later still, when I was driving home for the day, I started the car and the radio was playing "I'm A Rebel Just For Kicks." The DJ said afterwards that they had just played something by the Clash.
Fishface wrote: "So yesterday I was driving to an appointment and was surprised to hear "London Calling" on the radio, from the album of the same name by the Clash. They never play that song and rarely anything fro..."Pretty cool!
Yesterday, I came to work and spotted the car of a former employee, parked in his old familiar spot although he hasn't worked here for several years. I never ran into him, but everyone in the building was all "Angelo is here! Did you see Angelo? I thought that was Angelo's voice I heard out in the hall, is he here? Did you talk to Angelo? What did he say?"Then I left at the end of the day and the news was full of the arrest of the Golden State Killer...a guy named DeAngelo.
Here's a TC one. I was searching for any more books on the Crimmins case just now -- about a mother accused of killing her two children, Eddie and Missy Crimmins -- and I found one title by a Cathy Crimmins called Curse of the Mommy, with this description:"In an eclectic mix of short essays, funny lists, and random thoughts--a survival guide for the motherhood impaired--self-proclaimed "anti-mom" Cathy Crimmins relates her pregnant thoughts and postpartum impressions for the benefit of every woman who has ever considered throwing out the baby with the bathwater. "
Fishface wrote: "Here's a TC one. I was searching for any more books on the Crimmins case just now -- about a mother accused of killing her two children, Eddie and Missy Crimmins -- and I found one title by a Cathy..."Sounds kind of harsh.
Well, exactly. And Alice Crimmins is thought to have offed her children to make room for her party lifestyle, a la Casey Anthony.
I can easily imagine Cathy Crimmins heading off in that direction, based on that book description.
Alice Crimmins is an anagram of Criminal Mice (s).Just thought you should know.
You have enlightened me. For all I know that's the real solution to that sorry case.
Some of us will remember when couponing and refunding were really big, about 20 or 30 years ago. We used to have groups that would get together to exchange coupons and rebate forms and the labels or box tops or whatever you needed to complete the rebate offer. There used to be lots of places that doubled and tripled coupons values. Anyway, I use to go to a group that traded coupons and rebates. Strangely enough, two of the ladies that used to go to that group were both in the obits today. Turns out they both lived in the nursing home I used to work at and died 3 days apart from each other.
I picture them clutching their coupons as they're lowered into the ground...Funny thing is, I thought couponing was STILL big.
I have to admit, my first thought was "Guess they cashed in all their coupons for that last big purchase," but I didn't want to be insensitive. I think couponing now mostly happens on-line as opposed to in sit-down, cut-out parties.
This morning before work I read a little more of Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas. It was a section talking about how the Krishnas met the Beatles, and John and Yoko were meeting with Swami Prabupadha and they weren't that impressed with each other. So I was thinking how long it's been since Lennon was murdered while I was in the shower, and when I got in the car and turned on the radio they were playing "Funeral For A Friend," the song Elton John wrote in memory of John Lennon...
Fishface wrote: "This morning before work I read a little more of Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas. It was a section talking about how the Krishnas met the Beatles, and John an..."Fishface, I had a similar thing happen a few days ago. I was reading My Days: Happy and Otherwise by Marion Ross, the mother on the show Happy Days. When I got in my car to leave work I had the radio set to an oldies station and the song playing when I turned the car on was the Happy Days theme song.
K.A. wrote: "I have to admit, my first thought was "Guess they cashed in all their coupons for that last big purchase," but I didn't want to be insensitive. I think couponing now mostly happens on-line as opp..."
I think K.A. is right. I'm not real savvy on the online aspect of couponing. Also, now that I dont have 4 kids at home we just dont buy that much to make it worth while. I used to go to the store with at least $20 of coupons, now I'm lucky if I have a dollar or two.
I left a person Ii'd lived with for five years. Broke his heart - so he said.Touched base with him a couple of years ago. His daughter was born on my birth date. Poor bugger - he'll never forget me!
Ignore the avatar - I'm female just liked the cat.
Or female just like the cat...I used to frequent a board where I used a lizard as my avatar and the name 'Tiktaalik' (after the fossil whose existence was predicted), and everyone assumed I was male. It led to some funny conversations.
On most sites I use the handle "Cliffie," and everyone pictures me as the characters from CHEERS -- a middle-aged guy with a moustache. I can't grow a moustache. I'm female!
On GoodReads and Facebook (the only two social media sites I use) I have a different problem with identity.
I was driving to a home visit today and heard "Night Moves" by Bob Seger playing on 2 different radio stations. Then driving back, I heard it twice more on 2 other stations.
Fishface wrote: "I was driving to a home visit today and heard "Night Moves" by Bob Seger playing on 2 different radio stations. Then driving back, I heard it twice more on 2 other stations."If that happened to me I would have to check the internet to see if he died.
Helston wrote: "I left a person Ii'd lived with for five years. Broke his heart - so he said.Touched base with him a couple of years ago. His daughter was born on my birth date. Poor bugger - he'll never forget m..."
Maybe, maybe not. My son was born on my ex-husband's birthday. Sometimes I remembered it was his birthday, sometimes I didn't. He died last year, the day after his birthday, so now my son thinks of his birthday as the day he sat at the hospital waiting for his father to die.
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I was driving to a home visit today and heard "Night Moves" by Bob Seger playing on 2 different radio stations. Then driving back, I heard it twice more on 2 other stations."If t..."
I found out later that night that there's a campaign on in nearby Ann Arbor to get a street named after him. They're trying to whip up support. Amazingly, I did NOT assume he'd died. Usually that's where I go immediately in a situation like this.
So I started my own little survey, collecting the birthdates of serial killers to see how many of them are Scorpios. There's that Internet meme circulating that "most" of them are Scorps, but they only mention the same few names over and over. The day I started my little list I noticed it was Jeff Dahmer's birthday, May 21st, making him a Taurus, by the way.So I was at a home visit yesterday, the day after this ambitious project started, and mom mentioned to me that her husband was born on Dahmer's birthday... :)
So does anyone else find it suspicious that Melania disappeared right when a 'sinkhole' opened on the White House lawn? Just coincidence...
K.A. wrote: "So does anyone else find it suspicious that Melania disappeared right when a 'sinkhole' opened on the White House lawn? Just coincidence..."Heck no, it was not a coincidence. She probably tunneled her way out with one of the White House spoons.
I just finished Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas, which includes a weird scene in which a professional musician is deciding what to do with the terrible songs one of the Hare Krishna swamis wants to release on vinyl. The one they told us the most about, "Guru, Guru On the Wall," is based on "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and makes Manson's music seem like Mozart's in comparison.
So, I put David Bowie's album Heathen in the car's CD player today because I've never yet heard it all the way through, and what did I hear? A song called "Slip Away" that includes these lyrics:
"Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd
Watching all the world
And war torn
How I wonder where you are
Oo-o
Sailing over
Coney Island
Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd"
Still adding names to my birthdays list, and here's a coincidence that made me blink: In DEATH OF A SOLDIER, a feature-length movie about the exploits of Eddie Leonski, the Aussie investigators brought up the exploits of almost their only other serial killer, Arnold Sodeman. They commented in wonder that like Leonski, he claimed to be attracted to his victims because of the sound of their voices. Well here's a similarity they missed: they were both born on December 12!
Here's one. On another discussion we've been talking about my probing, incisive research into the question of whether most serial killers are really Scorpios. Well, sir, on the way over to my last appt today the DJ on preset station #2 said he read where a British journalist did a 2-YEAR study on this question and discovered that most of them are Tauruses. He said the correlation is so strong that the researcher concluded if you're a Taurus, it's only a matter of time before you start killing.I was going to call the DJ and fill him in on the unvarnished truth of the matter, but his shift was just ending as my home visit did. Maybe tomorrow.
It almost goes without saying that the DJ I'm referring to is Dave Dahmer, who has the name of the brother of a serial killer. A Taurean serial killer.
Fishface wrote: "Here's one. On another discussion we've been talking about my probing, incisive research into the question of whether most serial killers are really Scorpios. Well, sir, on the way over to my last ..."Did you tell him you call Bull on that?
I haven't reached him yet. Going to check right now on whether the station has an email for him.EDIT: They did and I just sent it off. Including your excellent turn of phrase, K.A. :)
He replied! Here's the complete convo as I know you are all on tenterhooks waiting to hear what a classic rock DJ has to say about serial killer astrology:Me: Topic: "I Have To regretfully Call Bull..."
"...on that journalist who said he proved that most serial killers are Tauruses. I have been doing the same study for my true-crime readers’ group – I got curious after I kept hearing that most of them are Scorpios – and I’ve learned only about 1 out of 12 are Tauruses. About 1 out of 12 fall in each sign, in fact. Think about it! If this guy’s conclusion – that if you’re a Taurus it’s just a matter of time before you go off the rails and start killing people – were really true, we wouldn’t need research to prove it. We would have known all about it since the beginning of time. We would all go to great lengths to make sure we never had babies in May, and we would put any fluke Taurus babies on a desert island with no boat so they couldn’t come and kill us. Don’t you think?"
Dave:
"Excellent point! The guy who did the research was probably on the marijuana! It's a gateway drug you know! 😉 Have a great weekend yourself!"
Well, that went in an interesting direction.
Every show of his features news items about dumb criminals, and he often comments about how drunk or high they must have been to make things go so far sideways. Guy's got a point.
I was just looking for the date Bobbie Sue Terrell killed Anna Larson so I could add her to the Book of the Dead, and on the same list of unanswered questions I had a note to find the first name of the 3-yr-old daughter Lyda Trueblood murdered. On the site I found for that it gave Trueblood's birthdate, and it occurred to me to add both these fine specimens to the birthdays database. Well, sir, they both turn out to have been born on October 16th.EDIT: AND they're right next to each other on the Libra list because of their last names!
Also, I woke up this morning thinking about Denise Huber and whether her killer ever killed anyone else. And as I was scribbling down this week's anniversaries for that discussion thread, I saw that this week is the anniversary of the day Denise died...
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I was looking for a piece of information about The Kids In The Hall and stumbled across the information that the creators of the show -- Kevin McDonald and David Foley -- had won the Kovacs Award for TV innovation because of TKITH.The same day I started reading Drowning Towers, and discovered that a major character in the book is a guy named Kovacs.
While waiting an uncommonly long time in the drive-thru line after court, I opened my new book, Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties, to see what I could see. The very first place I opened to randomly had my last name glaring up at me from the page.The second page I opened to randomly had my last name glaring up at me from the page.
This could be a very interesting read...
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I also found a relative's name in True Crime Stories. I guess the guy dined out for years on the story of his connection to one of the TC tales in that book.We have a hard time keeping out of trouble, apparently.
While waiting for the phone to ring this morning I opened the book again. Every chapter has a list of victims at the start of it. One of the victims on the page I opened to? My last name.
Fishface wrote: "I also found a relative's name in True Crime Stories. I guess the guy dined out for years on the story of his connection to one of the TC tales in that book.We have a hard time kee..."
I have that happen a lot but I have a common last name. You do not have a common last name so that makes it more fun, wondering if somehow you are related. My maiden name is very uncommon so if I see it I probably am related somehow.
Speaking of relations, last week my niece posted on Facebook that she was in a new relationship. I asked her if she knew she was third cousins to his ex-wife. She did not. Small town living once again.
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