Well thanks, Dani - and I'll let her know this evening that she's only 93.

My cat is 61...

I am suddenly consumed by the need to know how old my cat is!

My kitty will turn 53 in May. My oldest kiddo turns 10 the same day. Might be a rough day for this mama.

And just for fun, you can find out how old you are in cat years.......

I am 5.3 cat years. I like the sound of that so much better than my actual age.

8.8 here Much better than human age. 50 is the new 7!! YEA

I LOVE that Peach - 50 is the new 7. I'll have to remember it.

The IRS stinks! And they are robbers.

Classic:

https://boingboing.net/2016/03/30/man-has-his-account-frozen-bec.html

Chase freezes man's bank account because his dog's name, 'Dash,' looked like 'Daesh'

Bruce Francis transferred some money to his dog walker to pay for services to his pit bull, and wrote the dog's name, "Dash," in the notes field.

The processors at Chase Bank thought that Dash might be a sneaky way of spelling Daesh (which is the mocking, insulting nickname used by critics to refer to "ISIS"), decided that this was possible terrorist money-laundering, and stopped the payment, froze his account, and notified the Treasury Department that he was a suspected terrorist.

It's hard to know what's stupidest about this: that the bank thought that Daesh was the kind of thing that a terrorist sympathizer would use to help mark out laundered payments, that the bank subsequently insisted that "this is an important part of ensuring that crime does not filter through the US banking system," or that Francis himself thinks that being put out and branded as a terrorist somehow made him safer.

Even if you stipulate that money laundering is an urgent national security issue, fantastically stupid, nonsensical false positives just get in the way of legitimate enforcement. Piling hay on the haystack doesn't magically make it contain more needles.

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I've been experiencing an internal struggle with this lately. Though this statement still holds true, I'm finding the thick cut bacon is sometimes too thick and the fat doesn't cook as well.

If only there were some middle ground

I heard the story about the dog named Dash and terrorist financing, and it didn't surprise me. Our tellers and deposit ops people have been lectured so many times about the importance of OFAC checks that I can see if the software threw out some goofy "match" like this one, that they'd stop the transaction until someone signed off on it. No teller here wants to be the first one to ignore an OFAC hit, even when it's obviously ridiculous. Now, I'll grant you, calling FinCEN was a step too far. Someone above the pay grade of teller should have had some sense.

Wow, what a week this has been, so glad it is Friday!

^^^What he/she said

It is so great to have a hygienic staff on food day.

I wonder if I can talk one of the part-timers into going to pick up lunch for me.

Go right ahead.

just remember in 20-30 years when you are running for political office this person will claim you abused them

LOL! Well, I am safe for today. I couldn't find any of them. I assume they'd already been sent out on lunch missions by other people.

I'm a she and if I was a drinker I be passed out on the floor right now, that's how bad it's been

So the wife asked me what that strange looking cut of meat was in the fridge. I told her it was smoked hog jowls. Never had it, but I figured it must be kind of like bacon. She thought I was going to feed it to the dogs.

What did the dogs do wrong?

Time for some collard greens! !!

3 - 12 O_o

It is going to be a long long season

I followed a white SUV the other day through four turns, both left and right, all the way into my subdivision, and never saw a turn signal. The final turn, without a signal, was into the police chief's driveway and straight into the garage. If the door hadn't come down so fast, I would have stopped to let the chief know his signals are broken.

The Monday after a two week vacation is basically the worst!