Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :

And yet, when the whole world found out the United States WAS spying on them, through their phones, computers, webcams, etc, what did they do? 

Went out and bought more berkeleying microphones and cameras for their houses, and put them in every room and around the property. 

berkeleying morons humans are, that have no value for privacy or common sense. 

People starting taping over their front facing phone cams, so now the camera is part of the screen itself.

Although your original post did happen at the school district I went to most of my life. Teachers and administrators were spying on kids at home through their school issued computers. I think the district had to make a public apology then everyone magically forgot that it happened. 

So my dad's delirium has progressed into a , I-have-to-take-control-of-his-health-and-make-his-decisions sort of level. 

berkeley

eastsideTim said:

In reply to Antihero :

Sorry he's going through that, and sorry you had to see it.  Had a similar situation happen with my dad before he passed away.  Thankfully, he pulled through for a while longer and that wasn't my last memory of him.

I really hope that he pulls back but at this point they aren't even really sure why it's happening. Working theory is it's the steroids but he's really out of it and not cooperating.

So basically.......berkeley

BlueInGreen - Jon said:

In reply to Antihero :

Been there, yeah it sucks.

Sorry man :(

It sucks a lot and I'm sorry you had to go thru it too

In reply to Antihero :

I've been there. It sucks. You have my love.

In reply to Antihero :

I'm sorry to hear that, man.

Watching a pet grow old and get weak is tough enough.  Watching a parent do it is devastating.

My thoughts are with you and your family.

Antihero said:

Visited my dad in the ICU. He is delirious and incredibly out of it, like.....he's not there at all.

 

I very much recommend that you never see your loved ones like that. berkeley berkeley berkeley berkeley berkeley berkeley berkeley berkeleyity berkeleying berkeley berkeley

That's a rough situation, I'm sorry you're having to go through it. I lived half a country (or more) away from my grandparents when all of them got to this point- I always felt guilty for not being able to get out and see them toward the end, but my Mom also told me that it was probably better that I wasn't able to since they would likely have not recognized who I was and it was better that I remember them the way I knew them and not how they were at the end...

I visit my Mom regularly in the hospital and this past visit was the best she's been in months. She spoke almost non-stop for an hour, and only said one thing that actually made any sense, Mike, is that you? Then went right back to speaking gibberish. And it's only going to get worse.

My rant: FFS, I came in from the shop to help you make dinner, not argue about it, then end up making it while you watch an episode of King of Queens that you've probably already seen a dozen times.

I'm working on a fire drill, er, project for work. A few people on the team are 12 hours ahead of us so were having meetings in the morning and evening. Apparently last week they changed the name of the main project file. It was in an email that I received but the title was pretty vague and I thought it was for someone else. So I spent most of the day wondering why things that were supposed to be done weren't. I did solve a few problems that thankfully needed to be resolved on the new file too, but I was pretty embarrassed when the junior guy half a world away told me that I was working on the wrong file. 

   While on a stroll down memory lane the other day I looked myself up on an mma database and, surprisingly, found my singular sanctioned fight from nearly 20 years ago. I was struggling financially back then, working 70 hours or so per week for a salary of $300 for those 70 hours (a big, maddening story of it's own) with no savings at all so when the local martial arts gym said they needed a fighter I said, "I'm an idiot, sign me up!". I was only able to train one day per week, if I was lucky, which was free since I planned to bleed for them. My bodyweight was in the mid 160's so, no need to cut. Didn't have a sweat suit or access to a sauna anyway.

   Yep.

   Anyway, as a surprise to nobody, I lost. I remember being shocked at how big and strong the guy was. " How in the he'll did he make 170?!" 

   Well, as I found out a few days ago, he didn't. He weighed in at 198. His Light Heavyweight opponent had apparently backed out and they needed a stepping stone...er substitute. So hey, why not have a 30 pound discrepancy between fighters and feed him a jackass that's planning to fight at his "walk around" weight? 

   I'm not taking anything away from the guy, he was a stud, he went on to win many high-level grappling championships in the 100 kg weight class. 

   Sure would have been cool to have a fair chance, though.

Kids look forward to going away to a hockey tournament with their team.  Win or lose they have a great time with their teammates and parents get a chance to hang out. 

Supposed to be going to the tournament on this weekend and first game is Friday afternoon. 

I was sick all last week but tested negative for Covid on rapids, then tested positive for Covid on Monday. My son came home from a weekend trip on Sunday feeling miserable and has been running a fever and congested all week. waiting for his Covid PCR test results from yesterday, but he's been negative on rapids all week.

It's not looking good for going to the tournament....

Just got a fraud alert call from my CC company... not for the very large, four-digit purchase I made yesterday from a company I've never bought from before, but for the three sub $20 purchases I made around town this morning at places I regularly shop... WTF?

A few weeks ago I shipped a cylinder head to a customer that was, without question, the most miserable job in recent memory. Everything went wrong, right from the beginning. Nothing fit right, specs were all over the place, parts were missing, parts were unusable, I had to take it to my buddy to machine something I didn't have the equipment for - and this guy's good, then had to spend a whole night fixing his mistakes. And it took forever. I was never so happy to see a cylinder head leave.

I got an email this morning, the head was damaged in shipping, the shipping that was so expensive I paid for most of it out of my own pocket just to see it gone, and one of the cams and a journal cap is broken.

Berkeley.

Reven' daughter #2 is sick so I treated her to fancy Italian takeout last night...30 minutes of battling work traffic and $70 later she was happy (awesome) but somebody else in the Reven' household had to give me grief about it not being their first choice.

WTF is wrong with you...it wasn't my first choice either and it was cold outside, and the traffic was heavy, and all things being equal I'd really rather still have the seventy clams in my pocket...can you just shut the berk up and be a team player for once....I mean you got a nice dinner without having to lift a finger.

I bought the Saab with the intent to make it a father-daughter (or -daughters!) project.  My daughter is quite interested in working on it but apparently she has to go to school during the day and she has to do "homework" and "go to bed at a reasonable hour".  It's hard to sit around and wait for her to be free to go work on it!

Hell week has been worse than usual at work, I've been working late every night, and I'm still way behind.  Not to mention this whole development cycle has been rough.

Also, my cat has figured a new way of trying to hide that she hasn't swallowed her pill.  When I force her mouth open to check if she swallowed it, she holds the pill between the top of her tongue and the roof of her mouth, so I can't see it.  For not being very smart, she is very good at coming up with ways to try to avoid her medicine.

My whole torso hurts from laying over the core support of this truck for the past three days, trying to fix this mystery engine noise. Why did GM have to mount the engines down and back so far in the new '19+ trucks?

RX Reven' said:

Reven' daughter #2 is sick so I treated her to fancy Italian takeout last night...30 minutes of battling work traffic and $70 later she was happy (awesome) but somebody else in the Reven' household had to give me grief about it not being their first choice.

WTF is wrong with you...it wasn't my first choice either and it was cold outside, and the traffic was heavy, and all things being equal I'd really rather still have the seventy clams in my pocket...can you just shut the berk up and be a team player for once....I mean you got a nice dinner without having to lift a finger.

 

I feel this. 

In reply to NickD :

So did you ever figure out the popping noise from the 22 Colorado?

Peabody said:

In reply to NickD :

So did you ever figure out the popping noise from the 22 Colorado?

Yeah. It was that the customer had that Krown oil-style undercoating sprayed on everything underneath. The noise sounded like it was right front, but we put the oscilloscope on it as a microphone and it was actually coming from the rear leaf springs. It had either attacked the rubber bushings in the spring eyes, or it was getting grit and dirt between the leaves and making noise. We put rear leaf springs in it and the noise was gone. And then the customer started being a real dick about it when he came to pick it up and we told him "Listen, we warrantied this repair for you out of the sake of customer satisfaction, but if you put that undercoating on the new springs, we can't warranty them again for you." He didn't think that was what caused it, he'd never heard of undercoating causing problems, whoever undercoated it didn't say anything about it, now what if his leaf springs start to rust, blah, blah, blah.

He was also all worked up  because his "e-brake cable was rubbing on the leaf spring" when he dropped it off. I told him, it's not rubbing on the leaf spring, it's rubbing on the e-brake cable hanger, it's perfectly normal, they all do that. They even put a rubber sheath around the e-brake cable in that spot because it's going to rub on the hanger. Well, he didn't think that was normal, he wanted me to show it to the engineer and see what he thought. The engineer said the same thing as I did. So the guy comes to pick it up, and the service writer tells him what the engineer said. "Well, I still don't think that's normal, so I guess I'll just have to go home and zip-tie it away from it." 

In reply to NickD :

Because they decided to use the hood off of a berkeleying mining truck so the drivers would feel powerful. 

It truly sucks. I'm going to be replacing trucks in the next year or two and everything on the market is so stupidly massive and jacked up that they are unusable as a work truck. Manufacturers, instead of correcting the problem, are now offering steps so you can get into the bed. They never considered moving the damn bed closer to the berkeleying ground. Idiots.

In reply to Toyman! :

It's really true. I'm 6'3" and I have to get a stepstool to check the oil on the new GMs because the hood and fenders are so high, but the engine is mounted so low, that I can't reach the dipstick. Absolutely absurd.

We have customers who are crabbing because they are ordering new 2500/3500s with running boards as an LPO option. Well, for whatever reason, GM accessory running boards are backordered by like 2 months. So we're having to deliver the vehicles with "We Owe" for the running boards, when they come in we'll notify you and you can bring it down and we'll put them on,  but the customers can't get in the trucks because they are so damn tall.

In reply to Toyman! :

If they insist on putting giant noses on the trucks they should have them tip open like real trucks. It's so much easier to work that way. 

Since it's related, I'll rant about the issue with this truck. Guy drives in a '22 GMC with a 6.2L complaining about a "rotational thump noise and when letting off the accelerator pedal there's a belt noise." I get in the truck, start it up, it seems a little noisier than normal, put it in gear and give it throttle and it makes an unholy clattering noise. Don't even dare drive it, because it sounds like the valvetrain is coming unglued. No CEL and it runs fine though. Pull it in my bay, pop the hood, and it's pretty clattery at idle too. A couple coworkers come over, we all take turns with a stethoscope, and agree it sounds like it's in the Bank 2 valve cover. Lifters aren't that uncommon on new trucks, so I tear the valve cover off, expecting a bent pushrod, nothing. Go ahead and pull the head, expecting a two-piece lifter, nothing. Put new lifters in it, put it back together, start it up and it's idling nice and quiet. Cool. Get in it to take it for a test drive, put it in gear, back up, put it in drive and start accelerating and it's still making noise under throttle. Listen to it again with the stethoscope and it revved up, sounds like it's Bank 1. Pull the valve cover, no bent pushrods, pull the head, no damaged lifters. In the process of putting it back together and praying it's better.

Rodan said:

Just got a fraud alert call from my CC company... not for the very large, four-digit purchase I made yesterday from a company I've never bought from before, but for the three sub $20 purchases I made around town this morning at places I regularly shop... WTF?

USAA did this to me a few years ago. They did not, however, catch the dozen or so extremely suspicious transactions made like 7 states away that were actually fraudulent.