Professor: I have this broken up plexiglass device. A new one is expensive. Can you fix this one?
Me: I can make it work, but it will still look like a broken up plexiglass device.
Professor: Great!
2 hours later
Me: Here it is!
Professor: But it looks like a broken up plexiglass device.
Me: Yes, but now it works.
Professor: But it looks like a broken up plexiglass device. I'll buy a new one.
Me: grumble grumble walk away grumble shake head grumble
Every recipe seems to have become pages and pages of the author's life, family, childhood, and Instagram worthy stories. I blew thirty minutes this morning trying to find the current settings and ratio to turn oatmeal, water and an instant pot into breakfast.
Scroll, scroll, scroll... almond milk.
Scroll, scroll, scroll... saute the apples.
Scroll, scroll, scroll... start on the stove.
Scroll, scroll, scroll... scroll... comments... scroll back... photos... scroll down... comments... scroll down... bottom of page...
Open the instant pot app. The recipe there is blank, save for metadata.
All I need is the damned ratio of oats to water, and what to do with the damned buttons. I could have made it on the stove twice by now.
In reply to Mike :
4-1
In the future look for the ratio, not the recipe.
If you look for the ratio, Google will answer. If you look for a recipe, everyone else does.
In reply to Mike :
This has been driving me crazy as of late. Whenever I try to find a new recipe on a site that isn't Youtube (Chef John and Babish are great), I have to scroll through multiple pages and deal with multiple pop ups on my phone on some crappy blog that looks like very other blog with a recipe that's nearly identical to every other recipe i was looking at, so then the process starts all over again...
For some reason, GPS company said no to a follow up interview. I had all of the experience and then some that they were requesting and at my current position I do more. What gives? Why can't I get an actual reason why? I was asking for matching pay or more...was that the problem? Were they trying to underpay someone? I may never know.
In reply to Mike :
OH GOD the recipe blogs are the worst. "Recipe for boiled eggs" starts with "Our story begins way back in the summer of 1988. I was young and in love ... no, the story really begins before that. Some aeons ago in a primordial soup one paramecium deeply loved an amoeba. Their ill fated love was not accepted by microbial society. But they would not listen to their elders. [16 pages later] Anyway, you put eggs in water until they boil then turn it off and wait two minutes and they're done! See you next time guys."
The worst one was when I was looking for a DIY on rinse-aid for the dishwasher. Some woman blew through three pages of babbling about her life and husband and then provided the "recipe" which consisted of: use white vinegar. Seriously. Thanks lady.
Yea, step one in making a for profit blog is to do basically all that garbage to fill in search results and try to drive traffic. While it does work to that affect, it's horribly horribly annoying
So, yesterday was certainly one of those days. It could have been a REALLY BAD one of those days, but thankfully I have awesome friends who saved the day (and the next few days at least as well).
Yesterday was the first day of rehearsals in the theater (or, theatre as they spell it) for The Dancer's non-profit's winter show (this Friday and Saturday). A lot of things have not gone right up until this point, but so far most have not involved me. I headed in to work as usual apart from having my computer and all the gear to hook it up and run the show from it in the Infiniti, and after working for the morning head down to the garage to run the errands I need to over lunch (pick up the AV gear we rent & the show's playbills from the printer). Get into the Infiniti and hit the ignition- and after turning over a few times without starting (unfortunately a common occurrence over the last week) when I stop and hit the ignition again I'm rewarded with nothing more than a loud whine that sounds like an empty blender running. After a few more tries of the ignition with the same result, pop the hood and turn the main pulley a quarter turn by hand and try again, hoping that the starter had just finally ended up with its gear completely in the gap I've been assuming is in the flex plate. No dice- same exact result.
Well, berk- the Infiniti's starter has apparently E36 M3 the bed and it's stuck in a parking garage where you can't get a tow truck and in a spot where it's not really possible to roll it out of the garage to a place where it can be towed. Furthermore, since the Dancer has fought against filling the 4th wife-allowed spot in our fleet of cars (and the DMC is not in a condition to drive), until it gets fixed I don't have a vehicle- on a week where I need to move a good bit of stuff around for the show.
Thankfully, I'm not one for mindless panic- and as I said, have some pretty awesome and resourceful friends- and several text message conversations later a friend who works in the same building as I do is running me out to KyAllroad's place to pick up his Suburban that he's letting me use for the next few days until I have the time to drag my tools out to the parking garage and replace the starter on the Infiniti (and then drive it straight home and into my garage to finally try and get a number of things it's needed for a while done).
I'm very, very fortunate to have friends like KyAllroad to be able to count on in situations like this! Thank you!!!
I excepted a job at 9AM then got a call at 10AM for an interview for a job I'd rather have, I'm not sure how to even handle this.
In reply to dropstep :
I've had that happen to me. Sometimes timing sucks.
Do you have time before the committed start date to go through the interview process with the second job?
If you can close a deal with the 2nd employer while still leaving the 1st employer ample time to move on to their next-choice candidate, I think a simple explanation and apology is enough. The real concern is how much setup they will waste if you break the commitment.
dropstep said:I excepted a job at 9AM then got a call at 10AM for an interview for a job I'd rather have, I'm not sure how to even handle this.
I accepted a job, then got the call for another interview at my current employer. Told my current employer, the new interview, that I had accepted a position already but would still interview, but needed them to be respectful of my time constraints.
They got me in for an interview the next day, offer 3 days later. No regrets. You have to look out for yourself, you cannot think about the tough spot you’re leaving the potential employer in. Because it’s not all that tough, you’re not all that special, and they would cut you faster than you’d cut them.
In reply to dropstep :
Our sub hired a trainer and a week or so later, he was gone because a better job came up.
Look at for yourself, dude.
I'm a friggin' idiot and all of my cars are broken because I like garbage.
Rassafrackin' friggin' ferkin' berkin' garbage.
I didn't choose to like Fords, it's a sickness I was afflicted with at birth.
We've always done shift bids by seniority... A few junior people have been whining about being 'stuck' on graveyard. Well, guess what buttercup, we all did our time in the barrel...
Except now management is forcing shift rotation on everyone. Fantastic... instead of a few pissed off people, now everyone else is pissed because their seniority is now worth E36 M3. 
mtn said:dropstep said:I excepted a job at 9AM then got a call at 10AM for an interview for a job I'd rather have, I'm not sure how to even handle this.
I accepted a job, then got the call for another interview at my current employer. Told my current employer, the new interview, that I had accepted a position already but would still interview, but needed them to be respectful of my time constraints.
They got me in for an interview the next day, offer 3 days later. No regrets. You have to look out for yourself, you cannot think about the tough spot you’re leaving the potential employer in. Because it’s not all that tough, you’re not all that special, and they would cut you faster than you’d cut them.
This is my current plan. If the company I interview with tomorrow offers me a job I will call the first one and let them know. The second company will be a lot easier on my repaired spine and that's the biggest motivation behind a career change. It's just a weird problem I've never had. I've only had 3 jobs in my adult life I tend to stick wherever hires me.
that might be why my wife has a much better career then me and makes more money. She's motivated to move up and is willing to change company's
I have the worst luck with antifreeze. A few months ago my radiator split, this time it's the water pump. My old S10 lost a heater hose coupling, then the wp, the the radiator, the the upper hose, then the heater core, all in about a year. No vehicle on the planet had fresher coolant. Damn.
First week of my new job is almost over, and it's felt like a month. It's been crunch time all day every day so far, and I'm not sure it'll be better tomorrow. My first thought when I woke up this morning was "Oh no, another one!?"...as in another day of existence.
In reply to Rodan :
That sucks, man. I hope they realize they're making a mistake sooner rather than later.
I have been in a chat with Paypal customer service for an hour trying to figure out why the prepaid Visa card I received for Christmas keeps getting rejected.
Money is loaded on card. Check.
Registered card to enable online purchases. Check.
Added card to my Paypal account and it shows up as a valid prepaid card. Check.
I'm trying to buy a tuner for my truck and I want to use the balance of the prepaid card and pay the rest with my bank account linked to Paypal. I asked the vendor to send me an invoice that has spit payments on it. Paypal says that the invoice doesn't allow split payments even though it is very obvious that it does.
And the helpful CSR that has a name that I cannot pronounce says stuff like this:
stanger_missle, there is no option to make split payments on payment. If you have a gift card, you can use the voucher code to make the payment however if you have a virtual prepaid card then you will have to complete the payment using the same card.
Clear as mud, right? I emailed the vendor to see if they can send me two invoices; one for the amount on the card and one for the remaining amount. What a PITA 
Plumbing. Again.
Yesterday w had good hot water for the first time in a while. Today, it switched to the department of nope.
We have lived in this house for 20 years. I replaced the water heater when we moved in. the new one had a "lifetime warranty"... which made 9 or 10 years, I think. The replacement mademaybe 6, and its replacement (which I had to buy... lasted maybe 4.
Now I'm looking at this. We have a big family, but 50 gallons has been adequate. I keep the temp down because of young ones, so the teens (asn sometimes me) shower with 100% hot water.
I probably should turn the hot up a few degrees from ~115 to about 125 or so.
5500 watt elements, a decent warranty (for what that's worth) and 3 years' in home service? Hm, ok.
And the ability to see temp from my phone? I think I'm OK with that. Review to follow.
I was included in a large group text about someone I don't know at 2:30 this morning. This is why I lave my phones in another room.
I'm not smoking any more than normal, I'm not out lighting fires all over town, my electricity works, so why the hell am I barely getting 10 days out of a standard sized Bic lighter all of a sudden? Used to last at least a month.
It's either in my shirt pocket or on a counter so it's not like they're getting emptied by my keys or anything.
when did flashing brake lights become both legal and a thing? Last year I started noticing people's car with brake lights that flash three times before going full red. Not a bad idea to get attention if you are on a bike -where I first saw this mod, but on a car I find it annoying. I even found some dealers installing this mod on their cars for a small fee. When did this become legal to have brake lights that flash?
Noticed that my wife’s 2016 Explorer w/ 71K miles was leaking transmission fluid this morning…rock hit my windshield hard half way to work (I didn’t find a crack)…further down the road a 4X8 sheet of thin plywood laminate was sucked into the air by a passing Semi and only missed me due to my car’s bow wave pushing it up and over.
I least I got to witness a spectacular explosion in my rearview mirror as the plywood hit the car behind me edge on.
mad_machine said:when did flashing brake lights become both legal and a thing? Last year I started noticing people's car with brake lights that flash three times before going full red. Not a bad idea to get attention if you are on a bike -where I first saw this mod, but on a car I find it annoying. I even found some dealers installing this mod on their cars for a small fee. When did this become legal to have brake lights that flash?
It's not legal, and it's a thing that shady dealerships do to cars as a mandatory upsell.
There was a thread about it here a while back.
mad_machine said:when did flashing brake lights become both legal and a thing? Last year I started noticing people's car with brake lights that flash three times before going full red. Not a bad idea to get attention if you are on a bike -where I first saw this mod, but on a car I find it annoying. I even found some dealers installing this mod on their cars for a small fee. When did this become legal to have brake lights that flash?
You noticed them, didn't you?
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