I never knew it was a thing until I was drying my hair and felt something prick my finger around the same spot as your bump. When I looked, there was a small piece of hair sticking straight out! I mentioned it to my hairstylist the next time I went joking that i must have steel in my hair and she said she got hair splinters often. Googling will reveal a literal hair splinter under the skin, though, so don't search while eating. Blech.

While it could be any number of things, my first thought was that it looks and sounds like a hair splinter. I've never seen a piece of hair in mine, but they certainly behave like regular splinters and look like your photo, at least how the bump comes across in your photo. Other than Neosporin and waiting it out, I've never done anything to mine. I have no idea how it resolves, just that one day it's gone. I'd definitely keep an eye on it, though. Hopefully someone else has some ideas for what the bump could be.

I'm definitely no expert, but I think that 30 feet thing means you can track something to within 30 of where it is as you move towards it. Like, say you keep a tag in your car and forget where you park. The tag can get you to within 30 feet of your car, then the rest is up to you to find it. Even my phone isn't much more accurate than that if I look to see where I am on a map. Sometimes, it's accurate to where I am in the house, and sometimes, it looks like I'm standing in the street. I've seen screenshots people have posted showing where they are and where their luggage is and it's different countries, so there is a wonderful range with these things and I would highly recommend tossing one into each piece of your luggage.

OP, I don't know the ages of your kids, but there is something exciting about being able to reinvent yourself in a new place. No one knows if a person was shy or outgoing, or if they were an Eeyore or a bouncy optimist. What people see when first meeting a person is how they will view them as they have no preconceived notions about "who" a person is. If there is something about themselves that your teens would like to change, a move is a wonderful opportunity to do so. Framing it in such a way might help if there is angst about them relocating. Have you spoken to your kids about moving? If not, they might surprise you. Also, the kids with friends may not be upset at all about moving as they might feel like it's an opportunity to simply make more friends and would find moving exciting.

Poor Scooter! Filtered water. Seriously. Our male had recurring UTIs over a six year period. The year he turned 15 he had FIVE UTIs. As a last ditch effort, the vet said to try filtered or distilled water. We bought a jug of distilled water and once that was gone, we just refilled it from the fridge door since it was filtered. The sweet baby passed away at the age of 20y 10mo and never had another UTI. It probably depends on the ultimate cause of the UTIs, but I'm a believer in the filtered water after our experience.

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I hesitate to post because I'm definitely not a bagel connoisseur, but we're quite happy with the toaster we have. We place the bagels in the slots with the insides facing each other and push the "bagel" button. They get toasted (to whatever level we choose using the dial) while the outsides, facing the sides of the toaster, simply get nice and hot. Is that what you're looking for? It's a Black & Decker. Amazon has them, but they are cheaper at WalMart. I will say that the photo on Amazon is exactly the same one we have with the words printed above the buttons, whereas the one on WatMart's site just has icons, so it might be a newer model? Ours is about five years old and we paid $19.96 at Walmart, so I feel the one on Amazon is on the pricey side. I would not hesitate to buy the one from Walmart if our current one goes, so I hope it's the same and they only messed with the icons/words part. Amazon link $31.01 : https://www.amazon.com/BLACK-DECKER-2-Slice-Toaster-TR1278RM/dp/B00CHJDJJQ/ref=sr_1_10?crid=1IXSA480WCCNU&keywords=black%2Band%2Bdecker%2Btoaster&qid=1706233142&sprefix=black%2Band%2Bdecker%2Btoaster%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-10&th=1 Walmart link $19.96: https://www.walmart.com/ip/BLACK-DECKER-2-Slice-Extra-Wide-Slot-Toaster-Black-Silver-TR1278B/20564667?athbdg=L1200&from=/search

I asked DH what he did and he said he did block the domain as well as trying some other things. He said that's why he was perplexed as to why it wasn't working. That's a good point about AOL's security. I'm sorry this will be such a big job for you, but ultimately, you'll be better off without all that spam. I don't believe you were hacked, though, as they'd be doing other things in there. You probably just got on some spammer's website where they get paid to send x emails per day in the hopes someone will click on just one of them and then they "have a live one" to scam for money. Now, I have to figure out what I'm going to do with my email....

I've done something similar. Well, Dh did it for me since he's super tech savvy. I have everything blocked ten ways to Sunday and all it does is send things to my junk file. I've not tried the badmaildomain that you mentioned. It's new to me so, I'll have to check on that. DH set a rule for each and every sender from a domain, to block mail with emojis in the subject line, block mail from certain senders' names, etc, and it just goes into junk as opposed to blocking it. He's totally perplexed. I'm not sure that will work, though, as these people are spoofing emails the way they do with caller ID so I rarely get mail from the same domain. @kfeusse, I did a search and AOL has a feature to forward all mail or select mail. It's a bit like creating our own whitelist. I think I'm going to try this and see how it goes while looking into the thing @gardenmom5 suggested. Maybe I'll do both.

In gmail, DH uses a forward rule for certain things. I think he goes in and says 'mail coming from XX address always forward to YY address". So, you'd just have to do that for each mail you really want to receive. That won't help for any new things you sign up for, so you'd just have to start giving out that new address for those. Again, I don't know if AOL has that feature since they're so old, but it's worth a look. If they don't have the pick and choose feature, maybe set up a gmail with the same name as your AOL account (for simplicity, if it's available), forward *everything* to that new mail, then have that gmail forward only the things you want to the new, permanent mail? Again, I might be making things difficult, but it's a thought since I know gmail does have forwarding for individual mails/senders. You definitely have it worse than me with the sheer amount of spam you're getting. I hate that we have to be so creative and go through so much to get away from all of this crap. It's beyond frustrating and very time-consuming. If they would allow us to create a whitelist of senders we WANT to hear from and just bounce the rest, it would solve the problem.

Yep totally familiar with AOL -- my gmail name is literally my old AOL account name. It's also my oldest email and tied to everything. I didn't even think about forwarding! That's a good idea. I know gmail has a rule for that so maybe AOL has one, too. Or, maybe it's a Mac thing. I'll have to ask DH as he has some things set to forward to me. My plan was more old school where I would just change what I could to the new account, then check periodically to see what's still going to that address, changing those to the new account, and after a year, quit looking. 🤷‍♀️ I'm definitely not tech savvy. I'm not bad, but I tend to do things the hard way if you ask my DH.

Mine isn't that bad as I 'only' get about 250-300 a day, but I cannot find a fix. I am *thisclose* to just jettisoning that email address and creating a new one. If google doesn't care enough to enhance and BOUNCE these icky mails (and they are beyond obvious spam and some are borderline x-rated), then they can just darn well pay to store them forever all on their huge servers. I suspect my mail got on someone's list where all they do is send this spam crap -- lots of those "work from home jobs" are nothing but sending emails. I now know what emails those people are sending. 😡 I think it happened when I started receiving mail from some 'news' site that's seemingly legit and I unsubscribed. I did research them before clicking and they checked out which was the only reason I clicked. The spam bombing began about two weeks later. I figure it's probably a revenge thing since I didn't want to get their daily drivel and fear-mongering, so they sent my email to - whoever - to start spam bombing me. I don't know if that's a thing or not, but it's suspicious timing.

Ah, thanks. The GP owners I know haven't had any issues so I was wondering if I/they were missing some important knowledge. I'm going to pass the med info along to them, though, as I'm nearly positive they haven't heard of it before. @popmom I'm so glad your baby is better. She's such a cutie! And don't feel like you overreacted by posting. It actually warms my heart to see a pet owner be overly cautious as opposed to just ignoring how their animals are feeling. I never think strangely about people who ask for help/insight.

I'd never heard of this before. It sounds excellent. Can you elaborate on the Guinea Pig/rabbit part? Do they get upset tummies/need gut bacteria balancing more than cats & dogs?

Ah, that doesn't sound too bad. Thanks.