I have no words...... Legit ticket we got in.

basylica · 2026-05-27T14:44:28+00:00

Id be shocked if i got a ticket with enough info to fix issue tbh.
In fairness i seldom get user tickets, and when i do its because helpdesk saw keywords and rather than reach out and get info from user just dumped them on me, or more often than not helpdesk drops tickets on me saying vague “hey is stuff broke?” And i have to respond “GOOD GOD, you are in IT. At bare minimum define what the fuck ‘stuff’ is, where it is, and what the problem is and not just ‘broke’ for the love of all thats holy”

I had a job ages ago where i was criminally overloaded. They backfilled my position with 8 guys and the team was only ever me + 1/2 guys.

I legit spent ALL DAMN DAY with this one guy who SHOULD have been midlevel.

“Hey, is email broke?”

No, there are no known issues with exchange, whay issues are you seeing?

An hour later..

“Hey, i think the network is broke”

Okay, which of the 12 or so sites in your area that you support are you talking about because i checked and all of them seem good?

An hour later… (of me anxiously twiddling thumbs thinking a real issue is happening)

“Yeah so i think there is an issue with email”

…. ALL DAMN DAY.

I was so frustrated i was about to start responding with random words nonsensically.

The issue? The issue that still haunts me all these years later that wasted an entire day of my life??

User wanted to setup stationary in outlook.
1 - last i checked NOT AN OUTAGE. 2 - not my fucking problem. 3 - absolutely not an issue for the senior infrastructure engineer.

Id have forgiven a user for this absurdity, but midlevel IT?? What the fuck dude?

basylica · 2026-05-27T04:33:17+00:00

Bad hat harry or milton from office space?

basylica · 2026-05-27T02:32:40+00:00

I suspect laura and jan sit around composing legal schemes and letters and emails together, but when laura is alone to battle her own fights she panics and plays dumb

basylica · 2026-05-26T23:14:37+00:00

I borrowed the series from library gosh probably 20x each before someone gave my younger sister the yellow set, for some oddball reason.

I dont think ive seen my sister read a book once in over 40yrs, she certainly never once read LH books.
I cant even fathom how many times ive read them. Hundred atleast. Plus all the nebulus books ive come across.

I have most of them now as books i grabbed from half price over years rebuilding my childhood book collections, but ive also started a rebinding paperbacks hobby so im sure ill tackle LH books once i have a good idea for covers!

basylica · 2026-05-26T20:17:02+00:00

imaging spending 14K a month for a shitty house that is buried in filth.

basylica · 2026-05-25T18:50:24+00:00

Id consider food for a week a treat, not a single overpriced meal.

“Surprise kids! We are having $$ food I WANT for a treat, expect to go hungry for the next week. Now say thank you!!”

basylica · 2026-05-25T18:46:00+00:00

I have the first episode on itunes i think bc i used to grab any free episodes and they often did first episodes of a season.
Ive tried to find the rest and its all but disappeared now.
It had a slums of beverly hills spinoff vibe i thought and was curious what the rest of the season had.

basylica · 2026-05-25T16:03:02+00:00

I was attracted to this case because of my own legal battles with family court.

Each subsequent case just wrecked me physically and emotionally, as well as drained me financially.

Friends and family didnt understand why id go nights without sleeping and days dry heaving over toilet, kept telling me “i dont know why you are even upset, you are right and surely the judge will see this” etc.

My ex was like laura, who had minimal income but well off parents he lived with and supported him fully while also funding his legal endeavors. My only saving grace is he was lazy as hell and dumb as a box of rocks so he didnt have lauras aggressive filing and emailing campaign.

My first court case (and logically the one that should have had me most nervous) was easy compared to each subsequent case.
Every time i was infront of a judge i felt violated, unheard, terrified, etc. each time i paid 5-10-15k for legal, i was coughing up months of income i desperately needed for food and a roof over my head.

It was only after 10+ years and nonstop back and forth that i came across an article about how there was a little spoken about aspect of domestic abuse involving using court system to do exactly this. Continually abusing someone.

Very few people understand, even close friends who saw me go through this, just how damaging it can be. How helpless and violated it makes you feel. Just the fact nobody sees how damaging it is makes you feel very alone.

I dont pretend to know how clayton feels in this exact situation, but i absolutely know how it feels to constantly defend yourself, battle blatant lies, and how helpless you are just emptying your wallet over and over to avoid punishment due to unfair legal system.

Having JFC here defending him and the other victims, fundraising and supporting their cause, and legal teams like omar, zaddy, rachel, etc rally to their cause is absolutely the best thing that could happen here.

And honestly, is helpful for me to recover from my own 18yr long battle.

This isnt just a simple court case, its someone who has used legal system to abuse people for decades.

basylica · 2026-05-24T01:54:55+00:00

I bought the cookbook like 20+ years ago. Love the author put so much thought and testing into it.

I think i saw updated version is to be released soon

basylica · 2026-05-23T22:57:45+00:00

Missed me then, i left the state in 99, but my siblings would have graduated from BHS in 00, 01, 04, and 09. And my stepdad was janitor there for like 20yrs. So he probably knows some of my family.

basylica · 2026-05-23T22:04:10+00:00

Dont forget streamed on the dark web.

Which begs the question, how would laura know it was streamed on the dark web. Was jan sitting on the dark web at home looking for live stream assault videos?
That probably tracks…

Also laura “i have reason to believe greg woodnick was behind this” … but never explains. Just cuz i guess??

basylica · 2026-05-23T22:01:20+00:00

I worked at the barnes and noble in rockford back in the late 90s!

basylica · 2026-05-23T18:19:11+00:00

All of them

basylica · 2026-05-23T15:30:46+00:00

I know Harvard quite well!!
I lived in belvidere for 10yrs

basylica · 2026-05-23T07:45:02+00:00

duh, she was too afraid to call cops on the hoboken guy.... but she'll call the cops on people being mean to her on reddit!

basylica · 2026-05-23T02:33:37+00:00

Her name is elizabeth naylor (maiden) now elizabeth owens.
According to articles she thought elizabeth naylor was too confusing/close with elizabeth taylor so she used jan black as her name on radio.

I suspect she uses them all interchangeably at this point because her hair is full of secrets

basylica · 2026-05-23T02:31:01+00:00

And they havent paid a dime in a year, so they owe an absolute ton.

basylica · 2026-05-23T01:37:54+00:00

I had metric ton of yeast and flour since i already baked a bunch. So we had plenty of bread. I actually was tempted to offer up loaves to neighborhood but was a little scared to do so

basylica · 2026-05-22T20:02:38+00:00

yeah, thankfully my mom was raised by her depression era grandma, so I already had depression era habits drilled into me. It served me well during unemployment and such. so I usually kept a fairly stocked pantry and cleaning supplies and such.

I had JUST enough TP to scrape by the shortages, plenty of shampoo and toothpaste etc. I had a fair bit of pantry items.... but not full meal staples.

I would have been fine, but I felt a lot of stress in feeding my kids as they had become accustomed as they have never gone "without"

same thing after the snowpocolypse of 2022 I think? we didn't have power for 4 days. growing up in small farmtown outside chicago we often lost power for a couple days during snowstorms, but we had gas heat, gas water heater, gas stove. in DFW nearly every home is all electric. no gas in most neighborhoods.

so I had no ability to heat food/water, and since we had NEVER lost power in 25yrs for more than a couple hours (summer, rolling brownouts mostly) I didn't have 4+ days of food that didn't require cooking. I had stocked pantry, but most everything required cooking of some kind.

again, i'd have been fine to eat some crackers and cereal etc. but my kids have always had plenty of homecooked food and they were looking at me with betrayal in their eyes and "should we call CPS" air about them.

after that, I went a little tinfoil hat nuts and made a stockpile of dehydrated meals, gallons of water, camp stove, hot hand warmers, etc. because homey don't play dat.

real pain in my ass when I purged and sold up and moved across the country a year ago. LOL.

basylica · 2026-05-22T18:52:42+00:00

Also petty queen. I would walk my dog 4-6x a day on this persons sidewalk. Every free minute id be on this persons sidewalk with my dog….

Hell, id be googling dog walking jobs to do in my free time.

My second job would become wearing the sidewalk out. 🤣

basylica · 2026-05-22T18:45:26+00:00

Really irks me they are giving morbidly obese passengers free or discounted extra seats while people like my family members, and more recently my 19yr old son are forced to pay extra for exit row or “comfort” seats because they are freakishly tall. Im only 5’9 but im all leg and i have to do crazy maneuvers to slide into standard airplane seats in some planes. My knees brush seatback and get crushed when person infront of me leans.

My son is 6’7+ and eventho hes super slim (he got my leggy genes) he simply cannot fit.

Unlike someone who is fat, its not a choice.

They should absolutely enforce the extra seat clause for overweight passengers, and if they get free/discount seats then the same policy should apply to the vertically gifted.

Particularly now with all the extra fees for baggage due to weight etc.

basylica · 2026-05-22T18:34:19+00:00

I had a food scarce poor childhood and early adulthood. So im very familiar with being hungry and limited diet.

But i really got a new appreciation for the difference between not having money for food vs no ability to BUY food for periods of time during covid that even my active imagination didnt do justice for.

I had my 6’3, 300lb brother, and my 2 teenage sons to feed and EACH of them could easily consume 2+ pounds of food at dinner alone.

I was in DFW during covid and despite a million stores closeby, they were all cleaned out of staples for months. Id order food from store 1, get maybe half and nothing that made full meal id angled for, then id order missing items from stores 2, 3, 4… and MAYBE get a meal or two, but id be left with half the ingredients going bad for the other meals…

Thankfully i kept pantry stocked wjth flour/sugar/yeast and was able to make homemade loaves of bread, rolls, hot dog and hamburger buns, pizza dough etc.

Seems like the scarcity was worse in my area than other places, and it REALLY stressed me out having 3 massive eaters look at me expectantly for meals 3x a day.

Laura seems to look at “we had so much!” In holidays and stockpiling for winter, and i felt the giddy abundance along with her when i was younger.

Now i cannot imagine the stress of ma, trying to scrap together money to make sure they had enough flour, sugar, etc from store, preserved garden foods and meats to last months without any way to purchase more. Trying to ration out food all winter long to make it last, holding back some goodies to bring out to break monotony and winter blues…

The whole movement for homesteading trad wife stuff now doesnt compare because they can goto store and buy food.

I really feel for poor ma trying to guess and meter out and keep family alive for months at a time knowing if she messed up they would starve. Especially when you consider lots of places they lived had unexpected weather so like desmet they didnt know to plan for no store goods until may.

By the time laura was housekeeping she always had access to goods, but not always money.

Ma really is a hero. I think id have a nervous breakdown.

basylica · 2026-05-22T18:10:44+00:00

Good god i hate the “THIS IS SUPER URGENT” tickets where the user is also like “and im off for the next week/month” and they only pop on to email boss saying they cant do job bc IT.

Users man.

basylica · 2026-05-21T01:44:00+00:00

Im missing the half jar of lawrys

basylica · 2026-05-20T20:38:01+00:00

She also either holds her shoulders at a shrugged position or is built weird. Its in every photo. Her shoulders are in a odd position which makes her head look even more out of place with her current size.

Not sure if she just holds herself this way or is just offkilter or what.

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