Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Just going to leave, this right here: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd
What I meant was they got their raise, then made more demands and quit when they didn't get it.
And TBH, they weren't worth what they demanded at ALL.
Me: I don't know when I'll be ready to go back to work. Mental health struggles suck.
Also Me: Well gee, let's just start randomly looking at Facebook postings of people looking for roommates, even though I don't currently have an income!
On the one hand, moving out of my parents' place and moving in with relatively like-minded people (certainly more like-minded than a pair of seniors) might help me, mentally and socially. On the other hand, from my experiences with moving in with complete strangers multiple times in Toronto, it just led to a lot of drama. I fully admit some of that drama stemmed from my own issues, and I can't guarantee similar issues wouldn't crop up. But cripes, it's still tempting.
Also Me: Well gee, let's just start randomly looking at Facebook postings of people looking for roommates, even though I don't currently have an income!
On the one hand, moving out of my parents' place and moving in with relatively like-minded people (certainly more like-minded than a pair of seniors) might help me, mentally and socially. On the other hand, from my experiences with moving in with complete strangers multiple times in Toronto, it just led to a lot of drama. I fully admit some of that drama stemmed from my own issues, and I can't guarantee similar issues wouldn't crop up. But cripes, it's still tempting.
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camphor oil is no replacement for good dentistry...
The first thing that came to my mind was Arseface.You look a little like a Predator with its jaws open
--Patrick
We are now in standard time that is only 4 months of the year. November 7 to March 13, 2022. I prefer daylight saving because I have light after work.
Mine decided that I couldn’t have Stardew Valley this morning.
Not quite what I imagine if someone said they're waking up to a face full of pussy but hey
This really should have gone in the Epic Win thread,
BUT
...so about three years ago, I bought a car. I didn't want to buy one at that exact moment, but the one I had was very much telling me it wouldn't be able to hold out much longer, and so I had to buy a car without the usual inspection and price negotiation and all that stuff, meaning I probably could've talked them down another $3-5k if I'd had the luxury of time and an inspection under my arm, but whatever. One of its little annoyances was the fact that the left headlight had somehow been wired backwards, so that low beam was high, and high beam was low. This made my car kind of cross-eyed and made me unable to make oncoming drivers happy. Over time, the bulb socket also got loose and started to arc, and this caused the already mis-wired socket to burn up and barely work at all, leaving my L headlight as, at best, a dim orange glow. Fed up with this, I bought a new socket through the mail.
<spongebob>ONE YEAR LATER...</spongebob>
Yes, I finally decided to do something about it today, almost a year to the day I originally bought the replacement (Oct 29), because I was somehow off today while it's a decent temperature outside and simultaneously not raining. So I dug up the new part (knew right where it was, too!), my soldering iron, some pipe solder (couldn't find my rosin core spool), my multimeter, and the box of heat shrink tubing I bought at the same time I ordered the socket. Popped the hood, cut the wires, put my multimeter on the leads so I could tell which one was low, high, and ground, marked 'em, twisted 'em, soldered 'em, and shrunk 'em. Then I tried it out...
Yep, you guessed it. I was so focused on swapping out the burnt socket that I forgot about having to swap the L/H leads. So now I had a perfectly functioning headlight...if you overlooked the fact that it was still - _ or _ - SONNOVA anyway I cut the two relevant leads in a new spot and stripped 'em, remarked 'em, swapped 'em, twisted 'em, soldered 'em, and shrunk 'em (almost forgot to put the tubing on before the soldering step but remembered at the last minute), and this time when I tested 'em they were _ _ and - - just like they were always supposed to be.
And then I changed out the cabin air filter, which I've had sitting in the back seat waiting for me to get to it since oh I don't know June 2020 or so bleeeeaaahhhhhhhhh.
--Patrick
BUT
...so about three years ago, I bought a car. I didn't want to buy one at that exact moment, but the one I had was very much telling me it wouldn't be able to hold out much longer, and so I had to buy a car without the usual inspection and price negotiation and all that stuff, meaning I probably could've talked them down another $3-5k if I'd had the luxury of time and an inspection under my arm, but whatever. One of its little annoyances was the fact that the left headlight had somehow been wired backwards, so that low beam was high, and high beam was low. This made my car kind of cross-eyed and made me unable to make oncoming drivers happy. Over time, the bulb socket also got loose and started to arc, and this caused the already mis-wired socket to burn up and barely work at all, leaving my L headlight as, at best, a dim orange glow. Fed up with this, I bought a new socket through the mail.
<spongebob>ONE YEAR LATER...</spongebob>
Yes, I finally decided to do something about it today, almost a year to the day I originally bought the replacement (Oct 29), because I was somehow off today while it's a decent temperature outside and simultaneously not raining. So I dug up the new part (knew right where it was, too!), my soldering iron, some pipe solder (couldn't find my rosin core spool), my multimeter, and the box of heat shrink tubing I bought at the same time I ordered the socket. Popped the hood, cut the wires, put my multimeter on the leads so I could tell which one was low, high, and ground, marked 'em, twisted 'em, soldered 'em, and shrunk 'em. Then I tried it out...
Yep, you guessed it. I was so focused on swapping out the burnt socket that I forgot about having to swap the L/H leads. So now I had a perfectly functioning headlight...if you overlooked the fact that it was still - _ or _ - SONNOVA anyway I cut the two relevant leads in a new spot and stripped 'em, remarked 'em, swapped 'em, twisted 'em, soldered 'em, and shrunk 'em (almost forgot to put the tubing on before the soldering step but remembered at the last minute), and this time when I tested 'em they were _ _ and - - just like they were always supposed to be.
And then I changed out the cabin air filter, which I've had sitting in the back seat waiting for me to get to it since oh I don't know June 2020 or so bleeeeaaahhhhhhhhh.
--Patrick
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Well I just got laid off. I guess the only thing keeping me from being a living country music song this year is that I don't own a pickup truck to lose. Let's see...lost my wife, my job, custody of my kids, my house, my cat died, my ex kept the dog...all in one year. It's all so freaking ridiculous that I almost can't be upset about it. It transcended the Stupid Boundary, and it's no longer depressing.
EDIT: oh right. This is after being told last Friday that my job was safe.
EDIT: oh right. This is after being told last Friday that my job was safe.
On the....errr....upside, I guess, there can't be much left tieing you down to one place, so the perfect moment to move somewhere better? I hear Phoenix is nice if you don't mind a bit of wind, snow and cold on occasion.
But, more seriously, that sucks and I sincerely hope 2022 will be a much, much better year for you.
But, more seriously, that sucks and I sincerely hope 2022 will be a much, much better year for you.
Saw a house yesterday. It had been on the market 1 day. 10 acres of land, 2500 square feet. 400K, which is super high for the area, but well within my budget. Wrote the realtor last night that I wanted to see it after 4pm today.
4pm, realtor calls and says "yeah, it's already had a ton of offers, and they're not showing it any more."
I guess the market hasn't cooled down that much yet.
4pm, realtor calls and says "yeah, it's already had a ton of offers, and they're not showing it any more."
I guess the market hasn't cooled down that much yet.
Are they zero cal ones? Sweeteners are more potent than sugar, so there is less "stuff" in diet soda and the freezing point is actually higher as a result.
Long story short: you might need to keep them out of the cooler.
Those are the ones which have actually exploded, but there were a few regular sodas that had come close. And the bottled water on the bottom shelf had all frozen.
This is what I was coming to say, too. Adding sugar to a liquid is like salting it, it lowers the freezing point. Adding corn syrup, though, does not lower the freezing point as much as sugar does.
--Patrick
I hate snow. I hate whoever designed this house to have a 100 foot driveway and have the detached garage way in the backyard with around 60 feet of the driveway left with nowhere to put the accursed water. Second time shoveling today and it filled in my shovel tracks as fast as I could make them, which over the last hour was getting slower and slower as the wet, heavy bullshit took its toll on my back.
At least I don't live in Vancouver, not because it's not a wonderful city, it is, but it's kind of beginning to fall into the ocean. Must be some random occurrence. Good thing the UN Climate Council decided on a half-assed we'll let the future handle it as if it isn't happening right now.
At least I don't live in Vancouver, not because it's not a wonderful city, it is, but it's kind of beginning to fall into the ocean. Must be some random occurrence. Good thing the UN Climate Council decided on a half-assed we'll let the future handle it as if it isn't happening right now.
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