He doesn't arrive until Friday and is just here a few days. He is staying with family and I'll play it by ear. His family is wonderful and I'm not going to cause a scene that will upset them when my issue is with him.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Good to hear, and thanks for the recipe. I made quiche for dinner last night, and that's how I discovered that my oven has progressed from merely "moderately inaccurate" to "50 degrees F inaccurate."
I have an alternate model, but he's at work right now.
Chronic pain is the worst. I hate being treated like a criminal for being on pain meds 
Can you ever find any of them?
I needed a specific size to change the needle in my sewing machine, and another specific size for the toe stop in my roller skates. So needless to say, we have many sets of allen wrenches, but they are all missing those ones.
Can you ever find any of them?
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2 tiny pocket sets. Metric and English. Why would I get you torx?[DOUBLEPOST=1492080167,1492080093][/DOUBLEPOST]
Invest in an actual set. Stop buying singles.
I remember that. It sucked. A lot.Chronic pain is the worst. I hate being treated like a criminal for being on pain meds
But... believe it or not, it can be worse.
Not being on pain meds (because we're trying to get me pregnant and therefore I can't take anything stronger than aspirin) sucks, I'm finding, even more.
They're not pain killers, they politely walk up to my pain and ask it, oh so softly, if it would consider, perhaps, maybe, lessening, and then giving it a foot rub before leaving.
Pain whisperers? No, that still implies usefulness.
Pain placebo pills? That seems more accurate.
Ug. and Ow.
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Only when I need some OTHER tool, and can't find the one I need. THEN the Allen wrenches are ALL I can find, and nothing else. But when I just got a nifty red dot sight that needs an allen wrench to install/adjust? MY HOME IS NOW SUDDENLY COMPLETELY DEVOID OF ALLEN WRENCHES.
I did! I got a set with every size from "uselessly tiny" to "ridiculously large" that all connected to a big 5 inch diameter ring by way of springs with closed hooks. CAN'T FIND THE FUCKER TO SAVE MY LIFE.
I know how to find my allen wrenches.
I'm gonna go to Lowe's today and buy another set.
Then all the ones I have at home will drop their cloaking shields and manifest their presence.
GasBandit
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I have oneYou don't need to buy another set, you need to buy a toolbox. A place for everything, and everything in its place
I could have sworn they'd be there BUT THEY'RE NOT
I was really lucky during my second pregnancy with our son because I was in a period where I had no flares. I wore my heels up until I went off work at 37 weeks. I had a C section booked for 38 weeks because they were worried about me going into labour and having a repeat of how poorly labour went with our daughter due to my arthritis. That pregnancy was a gong show and I took all kinds of medication and had trouble walking and needed regular ultrasounds to monitor her to make sure she had no side effects from the meds.
Ah...the good old days when my arthritis was so cute and I could wear heels and I had remissions...
Depending on the type of pain you have, there may be pain treatments you could try if you can't use narcotics. I think that local nerve blocks would be safe. Or RFA.
It can be... like today started at 0545, taking my wife to the airport. Then going to mandatory training for 8 hours. Now I'm working my 5-hour off-duty shift at the mall. Then I'm doing my usual 8-hour shift. Then, because I'm an idiot, I forgot that I was going to be exhausted and volunteered to serve breakfast to our dispatchers for Dispatcher appreciation week.
@_@
Freak snowstorm back on Tuesday morning in the 715. On way home, one of the plows was coming from the other direction. I was focusing on the road, since the slush had made driving "interesting". Heard a "thunk". Thought maybe it was just an ice chunk or something.
Got in my car this morning at work, and noticed the lovely crack that had developed on the right side of the windshield.
I suspect that a stone or something from the plow had ricocheted up and hit the right A-pillar at the window, and now I'm looking at a $300 windshield replacement - which is just barely above my deductible, which means that filing a claim would be relatively useless.
Got in my car this morning at work, and noticed the lovely crack that had developed on the right side of the windshield.
I suspect that a stone or something from the plow had ricocheted up and hit the right A-pillar at the window, and now I'm looking at a $300 windshield replacement - which is just barely above my deductible, which means that filing a claim would be relatively useless.
I went through a few years where I was replacing mine once a year it seemed. I have no idea what changed.
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I knew something like this would happen, but I had no idea the insulting degree to which it would come true.
When I arrived home with my new allen wrench set, all of a sudden there was a complimentary allen wrench inside the packaging of the razzafraggin thing that I swear to God was not there before.
It's very hard to photoshop something very fussy with a huge fuzzy monster-cat flopped half on my laptop and my arm with his tail on my screen.
He also was crying at the door to our dining room when he felt I had been taking pictures of flowers too long. What a ding dong.
He also was crying at the door to our dining room when he felt I had been taking pictures of flowers too long. What a ding dong.