What happened to Mudcat yesterday? If anyone has an alternate link to some site where one could find out what's going on, please post it if you would.

Enjoying reading everyone's posts, and wishing I was in a pastoral countryside with functional paths around town. We are in suburban sprawl hell here, not even sidewalks.

Decluttering definitely took a long holiday for Memorial Day, but we are revving back up, though hindered by blistering heat. Shoulda cleared out the garage while it was pleasant.

I got a shredder to help with the massive paperwork purge underway. I did not realize these things need oil almost constantly? I'm dabbing 5W20 on sheets of paper and feeding them through, they say every bin change, which seems a bit extreme. Can I do it less often, can I get away with 5W20 or should I buy some mineral oil (hell will freeze over before I guy Shredder Oil), and does having oily paper make it bad for the recycle bin?


Signed up for more electronic delivery of financial stuff, can't wait for that to slow the flood of mail. But meanwhile, you buy a few clothes online and you get catalogs every blessed 2 weeks, as if a person who just bought clothes is anxious to buy more the next day. Aaarrggghhhh.   Is it hopeless to try to contact the offenders and get them to stop?