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

[PatrThom]

Relevant: http://io9.com/researchers-isolate-a-gut-microbe-that-combats-food-all-1626987928

You watch. Soon one of the most Earth-shattering medical discoveries will be: "Grow vegetables where you live. Eat them."
i.e., allow some of the local bacteria/yeasts/etc to settle on food grown in local soil, then eat it. Revolutionary, I tell you!

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

The landlord had our house painted. That's a win. Then tonight we get a knock on the door. Someone looking for Ricardo. They weren't sure if it was our house or not. Because the guy who painted the house took off our fucking house numbers and just took them away.

 

[Celt Z]

"Dave's not here, man!... oh wait, yes I am."

 

[Terrik]

The landlord had our house painted. That's a win. Then tonight we get a knock on the door. Someone looking for Ricardo. They weren't sure if it was our house or not. Because the guy who painted the house took off our fucking house numbers and just took them away.

Er..why would someone do such a thing?

 

[PatrThom]

To paint under them rather than over them, of course.

--Patrick

 

[bhamv3]

To paint under them rather than over them, of course.

--Patrick

That part's clear. What I'm confused about is not putting the numbers back, and just leaving with them.

 

[Dave]

That part's clear. What I'm confused about is not putting the numbers back, and just leaving with them.

Yup. That's kinda my thought as well. So now we're going to have to get new house numbers. We could probably have the landlord do it, but this way we get the kind we like.

 

[HCGLNS]

Bah @ThatNickGuy s coworkers stink. How can I rib Nick if they don't even know if he is working that shift.

 

[Ravenpoe]

We could probably have the landlord do it, but this way we get the kind we like.

Comic sans?

 

[PatrThom]

Comic sans?

Braille.

But make it really, really big, so you can read it from the curb.

--Patrick

 

[Bowielee]

Dear Netflix. I'm not going to connect you to my facebook account, so stop asking me.

 

[Hailey Knight]

This is the last weekend before my job goes into overtime hell starting Monday, and I'd hope to get a lot done, but none of it's happening. Wife has a migraine, so that stopped some at-home projects. Slogging through my writing project at a time when I need to be plowing ahead and getting the first draft finished, because as the overtime continues, I'm going to have less patience and energy, and it could last until sometime next year.

So glad it's Saturday, because tomorrow needs to be a do-over. I'm at the point where I want to say fuck it and just waste my time the rest of the day by playing video games. I'd be getting as much done as I am right now, but without the frustration.

 

[PatrThom]

This is the last weekend before my job goes into overtime hell starting Monday, and I'd hope to get a lot done, but none of it's happening. Wife has a migraine, so that stopped some at-home projects. Slogging through my writing project at a time when I need to be plowing ahead and getting the first draft finished, because as the overtime continues, I'm going to have less patience and energy, and it could last until sometime next year.

So glad it's Saturday, because tomorrow needs to be a do-over. I'm at the point where I want to say fuck it and just waste my time the rest of the day by playing video games. I'd be getting as much done as I am right now, but without the frustration.

Except for the writing project, you just described everything about my Friday, even including Kati's migraine.

--Patrick

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Bah @ThatNickGuy s coworkers stink. How can I rib Nick if they don't even know if he is working that shift.

For what it's worth, I was. I work almost primarily day type shifts, like 10-5 or 6 or around that.

You also can't stalk me at work for the next three days because I have THREE GLORIOUS days off.

 

[Officer_Charon]

Trying to catch up at work (writing the Great Stripper Pole Caper report), get an accident with injuries call in someone else's beat. Everyone else is tied up, so off we go!

Kid injured in the back seat, properly wearing her seatbelt in a booster seat. Poor thing's scared out of her mind.

Accident caused by a jackwagon stoner fuckstick who, after parting the wall of smoke from his car, refused to step out and be accountable for what he caused by driving ridiculous. He then flees the scene. Classy.

Only minor rant because I was able to calm the little girl down by giving her a stuffed puppy from a collection that I keep in my car for such situations. Her smile made my night.

 

[Cheesy1]

Trying to catch up at work (writing the Great Stripper Pole Caper report), get an accident with injuries call in someone else's beat. Everyone else is tied up, so off we go!

Kid injured in the back seat, properly wearing her seatbelt in a booster seat. Poor thing's scared out of her mind.

Accident caused by a jackwagon stoner fuckstick who, after parting the wall of smoke from his car, refused to step out and be accountable for what he caused by driving ridiculous. He then flees the scene. Classy.

Only minor rant because I was able to calm the little girl down by giving her a stuffed puppy from a collection that I keep in my car for such situations. Her smile made my night.

If it's any consolation, I'd love to hear more about "The Great Stripper Pole Caper"!

 

[AshburnerX]

Only minor rant because I was able to calm the little girl down by giving her a stuffed puppy from a collection that I keep in my car for such situations. Her smile made my night.

Bro-fist for forward thinking, even if it may be department policy.

 

[Officer_Charon]

Nah, that's something I came up with after hearing stories of guys doing that in other departments.

 

[AshburnerX]

Nah, that's something I came up with after hearing stories of guys doing that in other departments.

Yeah, I've heard of it too. It's a good idea... I know some major cities, even internationally, are picking up on it and ordering special-made police themed teddy bears to stick in patrol cars. It's a low cost solution to what I imagine can be quite traumatic for kids.

 

[WasabiPoptart]

If it's any consolation, I'd love to hear more about "The Great Stripper Pole Caper"!

Agreed

 

[Bubble181]

And yet, with "stuffed puppy", from a cop, my mind went first to "taxidermist" and not "cute and snuggly". I'd imagine that sort of puppy might not help that much, though

Bleh. Just worked the night, I wanted to be early so I left with about 20 minutes of extra time; make sure my colleague gets home on time so he relieves me on time as well. Good plan, except for the whole "nail in my tire" thing -_- Replaced the tire, found out my spare is just a crappy max-50-mph-thingie that looks and feels like it belongs on a bike, got in at work almost half an hour late. Nuts. Just what I needed, with all the...other stuff going on in my life right now. In a way, I was glad for the distraction, though.

 

[GasBandit]

3 cavities. With more on the way if I don't start flossing better.

 

[grub]

My wife told me to only brush and floss the teeth you want to keep.

 

[Adam]

Public persona Lesson #1: People will know shit about you that you didn't expect.

It's very strange to sit down with a media person and have them tell you about your running and your cat.

 

[GasBandit]

My wife told me to only brush and floss the teeth you want to keep.

Oh I brush every day. The hygenist even complemented my brushing and my gums. But the x-rays told the tale of what's going on between the teeth.

 

[Terrik]

Oh I brush every day. The hygenist even complemented my brushing and my gums. But the x-rays told the tale of what's going on between the teeth.

Purple Listerine.

 

[doomdragon6]

Oh I brush every day. The hygenist even complemented my brushing and my gums. But the x-rays told the tale of what's going on between the teeth.

Flossing really isn't that bad. I started early this year. Breath is better and I don't wake up with "morning taste". Just get some floss picks and add it to your before-bed routine.

 

[PatrThom]

Floss first, brush second.
Also, floss often enough that you aren't traumatizing your gums when you do it.

I should do this more often. A couple of my teeth are at the tipping point between "might recover" and "might not recover," but you know...funds.

--Patrick

 

[Gared]

Apparently, it's gonna be one of those weeks this week. At work, we have a representative from the company that developed the software that we're switching over to visiting from either Germany or Toronto (I think he currently works in Toronto but he's from Germany originally, or something like that), to try to get us over the last few hurdles and get this bastard launched (it was supposed to go live on April 1st, originally). It's... probably not going to go live on the 22nd either, which is the most recent launch date, because the consultants we brought on board are complete and utter fucktards who have no clue whatsoever how to launch a project this big. I mean, we aren't even testing like we should be - instead of testing, finding bugs, resolving those bugs, and retesting in a timely manner; we test once, find a bunch of problems, fix some of them, create some new ones, and test again a couple weeks later so we have no idea if the bugs we're experiencing are the same ones or new ones. Not to mention the fact that the working team brings up needs for the new system, the project lead shoots them down (telling us that we won't need those functions in the new system, the only reason we need them now is because the old system is too old and we've created work-arounds to get us through), then weeks later the project lead brings up those needs and berates everyone else for not having thought of those needs first.

Then, on the home front, one of our kittens (by which I mean our 15 year old cat) has to have surgery on Thursday because she has Feline Mammary Cancer, and we're hoping it hasn't spread to her lungs or elsewhere, so that they can actually do the surgery, because if the tumors have spread, she's not a candidate for the surgery and she has to be put down instead.

And we just heard from my mother-in-law, who experienced some chest pressure last week, that on her way to the doctor's office today she started having a lot of chest pain, and drove to the hospital instead, where all of her EKG's and blood tests came back fine, but she's supposed to get more tests tomorrow to see if she needs surgery of some sort, so we need to go up to visit her.

 

[GasBandit]

We use google apps for a lot of our shit. We use google calendar for tons of our scheduling, and I also use it for all my personal stuff. For years we used google calendar successfully to schedule all our appearances and remote broadcasts. Then a new girl gets hired earlier this year, takes over that job... and today I find out the remote calendar hasn't been updated in months. I send an e-mail about it, get told that it was "acting up" and "changing dates and times at random" so "that's why we don't use it any more."

This never happened to the previous lady who was in charge of it, and it's never happened to my client production schedule calendar, and it's never happened to any of the items on my personal calendar. I'm pretty sure she just didn't wanna. I'm not even entirely clear on what it is she exactly does here besides wrangle the promotions assistants.

 

[PatrThom]

"changing dates and times at random"

This is what happens when you try to sync across multiple calendars. I'll bet she has a device that's simultaneously signed into Google Calendars, iCloud, Yahoo, and maybe even her husband's job's Exchange acct. Also, I bet her phone's battery life is awful.

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

This is the biggest first world minor rant you'll ever hear.

I had to come in to the office today instead of being able to work from home. I have a meeting to attend. This means I can't keep my work on one screen and Minecraft on the other. Fridays are notoriously slow for me and being in the office can be excruciatingly boring.

 

[Emrys]

We are here to entertain you.

 

[Anonymous]

Oye. My wife thinks that I have the hots for a coworker. It sucks. That stuff makes working so difficult. I feel like shit now. Ugh.

 

[fade]

It's okay. We've all had feelings for @Ravenpoe at some point. Dat beard.