[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Frank

Frank

Woke up SUPER sick today. Barely able to hobble to the bathroom. Everything about being alive right now is pain. I'm both frozen to the core and so hot that I think my blankets are about seconds from igniting just from contact with my skin. I'm starving but nauseated at the thought of eating.

Fuck sickness.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Cultural affairs covers health care, first line justice, education, culture and more, though. It's just not a very accurate translation :p
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I have an achy pain in the side of my head. It's making it very hard to concentrate on my work. If I'm not mistaken, this is sinusitis pain. Which is bullshit, because I had surgery just a few months ago to get rid of my last bout of sinusitis.

Ow my face.
 
Tress

Tress

Weeks of procrastination has lead to me not sleeping tonight, so I can work for hours on end to make a deadline that I knew was coming months ago.

I really need to stop doing this to myself.
 
Dei

Dei

If I have to keep listening to my daughter cry about being starvation level hungry because she hasn't had a meal in two hours, I am going to lose it. Maybe impose a forced hunger strike. She is the living embodiment of first world problems.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Stayed up well past midnight last night trying to fix the toilet. Finally gave up, put in a message service request with maintenance.

Come home from an exhausting as hell day at work, toilet still not fixed. Call again. Then wife gets home, calls again. Someone finally comes out, but can't do anything because of a pipe leak elsewhere, so instead they shut off water to the whole building.

So no water, no bathroom, and all that entails, because my apartment's management can't get its head out of its ass. I can't even cook dinner since I can't get water to boil.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Zero Esc said:
Stayed up well past midnight last night trying to fix the toilet. Finally gave up, put in a message service request with maintenance.

Come home from an exhausting as hell day at work, toilet still not fixed. Call again. Then wife gets home, calls again. Someone finally comes out, but can't do anything because of a pipe leak elsewhere, so instead they shut off water to the whole building.

So no water, no bathroom, and all that entails, because my apartment's management can't get its head out of its ass. I can't even cook dinner since I can't get water to boil.
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I bet they can fit their head in there because the plumbing still works in their building.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Moving is going to take an extra day. There is room in the time budget for that extra day, but I had hoped to spend that extra day...y'know, NOT moving.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Nothing spices up an afternoon like an ink explosion in a 19 year old inkjet a user snuck in and plugged into their PC without consulting/telling me, then trying to clear a carriage jam on their own with a pair of scissors.

INK EVERYWHERE.
 
Terrik

Terrik

GasBandit said:
Nothing spices up an afternoon like an ink explosion in a 19 year old inkjet a user snuck in and plugged into their PC without consulting/telling me, then trying to clear a carriage jam on their own with a pair of scissors.

INK EVERYWHERE.
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Is this a roundabout way of saying you're giving up on PCs, and bought a wii u with splatoon?
 
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AshburnerX

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
Nothing spices up an afternoon like an ink explosion in a 19 year old inkjet a user snuck in and plugged into their PC without consulting/telling me, then trying to clear a carriage jam on their own with a pair of scissors.

INK EVERYWHERE.
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But the real question is... are you a squid now or a kid now?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Nothing spices up an afternoon like an ink explosion in a 19 year old inkjet a user snuck in and plugged into their PC without consulting/telling me, then trying to clear a carriage jam on their own with a pair of scissors.

INK EVERYWHERE.
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Seriously, do you work in a preschool?

--Patrick
 
Dave

Dave

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I'm traveling to Chicago this Sunday, so I picked up a DJ gig for Saturday night to make a bit of extra $$. Then when searching Facebook I saw that Eric Idle and John Cleese are going on a US tour (which is only in the deep south). I mentioned this to my wife and she said, "Wait. Don't we have tickets to Spamalot?"

We do. Tomorrow night. Same day as the DJ gig I picked up and can't get rid of now. I've always wanted to see Spamalot. Fuck.
 
Dei

Dei

I told my husband two hours ago that I would make breakfast instead of going out for brunch because everywhere was going to be crowded and I knew he wouldn't want to wait. He wants to go out anyways. We don't get out the door for an hour and a half, at which point we drive to where he wants to go, he sees that it is crowded, then doesn't even consider parking, just turns around to drive back home. GOD DAMNIT, I COULD HAVE EATEN TWO HOURS AGO AT HOME INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THIS.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dei said:
I told my husband two hours ago that I would make breakfast instead of going out for brunch because everywhere was going to be crowded and I knew he wouldn't want to wait. He wants to go out anyways. We don't get out the door for an hour and a half, at which point we drive to where he wants to go, he sees that it is crowded, then doesn't even consider parking, just turns around to drive back home. GOD DAMNIT, I COULD HAVE EATEN TWO HOURS AGO AT HOME INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THIS.
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It's a very dad thing to do though.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Dei said:
I told my husband two hours ago that I would make breakfast instead of going out for brunch because everywhere was going to be crowded and I knew he wouldn't want to wait. He wants to go out anyways. We don't get out the door for an hour and a half, at which point we drive to where he wants to go, he sees that it is crowded, then doesn't even consider parking, just turns around to drive back home. GOD DAMNIT, I COULD HAVE EATEN TWO HOURS AGO AT HOME INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THIS.
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This could have easily (and has) been us. I made an executive decision last night ,i.e. I didn't even ask, that I'd get out of bed before Mr. Z and pick up breakfast. "You'll have your iced coffee in bed, and like it, dammit!"
(I hate waiting for breakfast. It makes me cranky.)
 
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DarkAudit

DarkAudit

When I renewed my AAA membership under duress last Sunday, they immediately charged my debit card $94. As of today, over a week later, I have no membership documentation. I was only able to receive my membership number by the CSR breaking policy. And even then, the number is not valid to register on the web site to then be able to use the site or the AAA app in case of an emergency. Every call since the moment I broke down in Newville, PA has begun with a minimum of 20 minutes on hold, with extra 20 minute holds as I was transferred to the "correct" office. So when I called today to see what the status of my membership was, after about half an hour on hold I was told it could be another week before I got my materials. Enough was enough. I demanded my money back. OF COURSE that is going to take another 2 weeks. And since they are going to refund my money, the bank won't intervene in any dispute of the charge. :rage:
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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One of these days, I'm going to learn that if I give a new computer to a coworker without installing adblock plus on it, in less than a week I'm going to have to spend a whole day scrubbing malware off of it.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

drawn_inward said:
Have mercy on him @Dei - simply b/c that sounds like me.
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Really sounds like me. I didn't want to make reservations at Raclette in the East Village on Friday night because I was by myself and thought "something's bound to open up." NOPE. First, I miss my stop and have to backtrack through Times Square to Grand Central Terminal (at least I got some pictures out of it.) When I finally get to the restaurant, any 8:45 openings were now 10pm. so the consolation prize was a 2-dog combo at Papaya Dog. :p
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
One of these days, I'm going to learn that if I give a new computer to a coworker without installing adblock plus on it, in less than a week I'm going to have to spend a whole day scrubbing malware off of it.
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Buy an iPad/Nexus/Surface.
Keep it prominently displayed in your office.
Any time someone brings your computer in for a scrubbing, tell them they have to use the tablet instead until it is fixed.
Set an alarm on your phone for 36 hours from that moment to remind you to start working on cleaning up their computer.

--Patrick
 
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