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

Toyman! said:

In reply to RevRico :

The planning isn't the problem. It's the times. My wife is very optimistic in her start times.

That's all part of the planning.

We just had the dinner discussion over breakfast. She wasn't happy that I did the math and concluded that there's no reason we can't eat at our regular time. I have to leave here about 3:30 with our son. She suggested he and I go out to eat and she would stay home and make herself something she was looking forward to. If we go out then it's cutting into the time we have to load the trailer and move everything we need to move. And there's no good reason to, we have lot's of time. She also wants to cut the grass but decided to do it after we leave in order to get dinner ready on time. We eat dinner every day at 3PM. I know, but it works for us, and you can set your watch by it, she has the planning down

If it helps, I used to be like this with appointments. I was always optimistic with my preparation and travel times. So I doubled how much time I thought it would take, and that turned out to be almost exactly what I needed. Tell her to double her estimated times

Beer Baron said:

Toyman! said:

Beer Baron said:

I want to support my wife cooking more meals and encourage her to do so more often... but she really doesn't understand how long it takes her to cook a meal and doesn't plan things out to cook when she actually has the time.

My wife has the same issue. If you figure it out, let me know. We frequently eat late due to poor planning of meals and cooking time. It's super frustrating to me because I prefer dinner around 5:30-6:00 pm, not 7:30 or later. 

Last night was cabbage with beef stew. At 8:10, the cabbage was not fully cooked. She meant to cook Sunday, but by the time she went shopping Sunday afternoon, she didn't feel like cooking.

She was also bothered because I was unable to hide my displeasure that she spent $35 on nice ribeye steaks to chop into stew meat.

Sounds like ADHD. My wife and I were both diagnosed as adults. So much of our lives make sense now.

I wish I could keep my wife out of the kitchen. Or have a separate kitchen for myself. Cooking is one of the things that I'm really, really good with, and that I don't seem to have any issues with executive functioning. Just do it.

Her, on the otherhand? Since kids entered the equation, I basically have to be in there coaching her through the recipe if I want it to be done in a reasonable amount of time. Or else prep everything for her to start. Things like a pie crust, she seems to wave off as no big deal... Well, no, it isn't a big deal, but it takes a long berkeleying time and a lot of space. So you need to have it ready the day before. 

The thing that really drives me crazy is that she will start to cook without cleaning first. We have the world's smallest kitchen. We have nearly no counter space to work with. How the hell do you start to cook a meal if you don't have any space to prepare it? 

This is complicated by the fact that she now works for Hello Fresh, so we get a lot of our meals through them as the employee discount is big enough to make it worth it. It takes a lot of the prep out of the equation. You really just need space. SO CLEAN THE berkeleyING SPACE BEFORE YOU START TO COOK. 

Also, while I'm in here with my minor kitchen rants: She cannot load the dishwasher in any way that makes any sense. Her job is to empty the dishwasher. She's working from home today, 6 hours. I expect that I'll come home and empty the dishwasher, so I can load it again. I also expect that I'll load about 6 total plates/bowls/cups/dishes into the dishwasher when I get home. She's home alone today. Do the math on that. 

I make an excellent beef stew.  One of the secrets is good meat, because most "stew meat" at the supermarket is terrible.  I often use 'steak' for stew meat, but yeah, $35 in ribeye for a stew for two is a little excessive.

In reply to mtn :

Cleaning after cooking is one of the minor gripes I have with The Dancer- she will essentially never clean out/off any pots, pans, knives, or cutting boards used when she's finished making a meal. This means I'm frequently having to scrub dried-on food off of our nonstick pans (which thankfully actually are fairly non-stick), and having to clean dried tomato seeds off of the cutting boards & knives. I quickly learned to never cut anything on the cutting board or with the knives without cleaning them off- you only have to slice up strawberries with a knife that wasn't cleaned after being used to chop up an onion (on a cutting board that also wasn't cleaned off...) to never want to taste that again.

Stewing beef: We wait til decent roasts go on sale for $4.99/lb, buy one,  cut it up into 1lb portions and freeze in bags.

I got the second shingles vaccine yesterday and I feel like absolute dreck today. Headache, chills, weakness, etc.

I keep reminding myself that the side effects are better than getting the actual disease. 

I'm lucky, I guess.  DW is better at both planning and cooking than I am, plus she finds new recipes to try all the time.

I still do maybe 60% of the cooking, but I don't mind.

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

I got the second shingles vaccine yesterday and I feel like absolute dreck today. Headache, chills, weakness, etc.

I keep reminding myself that the side effects are better than getting the actual disease. 

Oh great. I felt like E36 M3 for a few days after I got the first dose. I can't wait to get the second. Everyone I've talked to says it's worse than the first.

CAinCA said:

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

I got the second shingles vaccine yesterday and I feel like absolute dreck today. Headache, chills, weakness, etc.

I keep reminding myself that the side effects are better than getting the actual disease. 

Oh great. I felt like E36 M3 for a few days after I got the first dose. I can't wait to get the second. Everyone I've talked to says it's worse than the first.

To put a bit of a positive note on all of this - the recurring nerve pain I had after getting shingles has gone way down after my first dose of the vaccine.  Hoping it gets even better after the second dose.

RichardSIA said:

If a change of oils fixes what has already reached the "Clunk" stage you should have spent the day buying lottery tickets!

You are not wrong.

Big relief for me too

Removing a Subaru wheel bearing assembly from a backing plate, I managed to air hammer my left thumb.  It was squirting blood out from under the nail.

When I get feeling back, this is gonna suck

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Removing a Subaru wheel bearing assembly from a backing plate, I managed to air hammer my left thumb.  It was squirting blood out from under the nail.

 

When I get feeling back, this is gonna suck

I have smashed my finger quite a few times, you have my condolences.

Hopefully since the blood has an outlet it won't hurt quite so bad

In reply to Antihero :

Half of the nail, well a third I guess, is purple underneath.  Not all the way across and not down to the nail bed, which I suppose means it is unlikely I will lose the nail.

But. The object of the exercise was to replace the backing plates as well as the bearings. I was pulling the bearings just to make it easier to get the parking brake stuff out.  You know how hard it is to assemble drum brake stuff with only the pinky and ring fingers available on one hand?

The thumb may have been numb but there was pain radiating from my index and middle fingers and I could not really manipulate them...

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

On top of all that, you also have to deal with the injured digit possessing local gravity 10x stronger than anything around it, which allows it to attract falling tools, doorframes, and various other non-soft and/or heavy items. 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to Antihero :

Half of the nail, well a third I guess, is purple underneath.  Not all the way across and not down to the nail bed, which I suppose means it is unlikely I will lose the nail.

 

But. The object of the exercise was to replace the backing plates as well as the bearings. I was pulling the bearings just to make it easier to get the parking brake stuff out.  You know how hard it is to assemble drum brake stuff with only the pinky and ring fingers available on one hand?

 

The thumb may have been numb but there was pain radiating from my index and middle fingers and I could not really manipulate them...

Drum brakes suck already so that sounds fun.

Or......a challenge. Next time use only your left nostril, grit and determination 

Recon1342 said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

On top of all that, you also have to deal with the injured digit possessing local gravity 10x stronger than anything around it, which allows it to attract falling tools, doorframes, and various other non-soft and/or heavy items. 

Ridiculously true!

Hurt my toe, literally hit it about 15 times an hour lol

Antihero said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to Antihero :

Half of the nail, well a third I guess, is purple underneath.  Not all the way across and not down to the nail bed, which I suppose means it is unlikely I will lose the nail.

 

But. The object of the exercise was to replace the backing plates as well as the bearings. I was pulling the bearings just to make it easier to get the parking brake stuff out.  You know how hard it is to assemble drum brake stuff with only the pinky and ring fingers available on one hand?

 

The thumb may have been numb but there was pain radiating from my index and middle fingers and I could not really manipulate them...

Drum brakes suck already so that sounds fun.

 

Or......a challenge. Next time use only your left nostril, grit and determination 

Yeah, drum brakes roundly suck. 

When I went to pull the rear drums off the QX4 to hopefully get them to, you know, stop smoking when I drive the thing, the shoes would not slide off of the drum- so to get the drums off I had to essentially yank the shoes off of the backing plate. Which, of course, broke the tabs on the brake cylinders that keep the shoes in place... meaning that I have to replace both cylinders now as well. Granted, they're like $12 parts- but it means having to remove the old ones, get brake fluid all over the place, install the new ones, and then bleed the damned things. 

In perspective, it's like $60 in parts and 4 hours of my time to replace the rear drum brakes on the thing and hopefully never have to worry about them again... but it really makes me want to get something new to replace it so I don't have to worry about this type of thing as much and can devote my wrenching time to the E46 and the DMC. But, a) I don't really want to have another vehicle loan payment until The Dancer's truck is paid off, b) used prices for anything decent to replace it are pretty nuts, and c) I want its replacement to be electric (or hybrid at a minimum), and there isn't anything reasonable that would fill the role the QX4 does for me at this point.

Duke said:

I'm lucky, I guess.  DW is better at both planning and cooking than I am, plus she finds new recipes to try all the time.

I still do maybe 60% of the cooking, but I don't mind.

That's us almost exactly.

She's good at following a recipe, I'm better at improvising.

On the issues with figuring out/making dinners.... I was a bit proactive this week and figured out and bought things for the last two nights' dinners when I got things for my dinner on Sunday (she had a going-away dinner for one of her students), which made it nice to not have to decide what to have- but they were also things that didn't really generate leftovers, which are what I have for lunch approximately 95% of the time. Realizing this, when I was picking up a few things we needed from the store yesterday I thought to grab something from the frozen meals section to have an easy lunch- choosing a Chicken Vindaloo, what I always order when we get Indian take-out.

Fast forward to a just before lunch when I ask The Dancer if she has any thoguhts/recommendations for what I should get us for dinner- and with almost no hesitation she says, "How about Indian food? We've not gotten that for a while." -_-;

Today's lunch: mildly freezer-burnt pizza rolls.

Coworker came in this morning obviously grumpy.  Turns out her car had just been stolen.  Yep, it was one of the Kia's involved in the big problem they had with cars that were so easy to steal there was a Tic-Toc video made about it.  The same car was covered under some engine recall a few years back. 

The kicker?  She'd just made the last payment on the car, and canceled comprehensive to save some money.  Now her car's gone and she'll get exactly $0 from insurance for the theft.  To add insult to injury, the car seat for her newborn was in the car.  

I spent 42 minutes on the phone with a customer trying to make him understand that he had to print out a packing slip to send in a damged return and that he could not do it from his mobile phone.

volvoclearinghouse said:

Coworker came in this morning obviously grumpy.  Turns out her car had just been stolen.  Yep, it was one of the Kia's involved in the big problem they had with cars that were so easy to steal there was a Tic-Toc video made about it.  The same car was covered under some engine recall a few years back. 

The kicker?  She'd just made the last payment on the car, and canceled comprehensive to save some money.  Now her car's gone and she'll get exactly $0 from insurance for the theft.  To add insult to injury, the car seat for her newborn was in the car.  

Hyundai & Kia have something of an informal voluntary recall out where you can bring the car in for a reflash to prevent casual car theft via USB, of course if you only have one car it's not so easy to take it in for this...

I now pronounce web searching for any smaller company, one that is not feeBay or Amazon, DEAD!
Tried looking for Brian Winters Racing, got some football jock, some NASCAR jock, Winters Racing (Rear ends), some baseball jocks stats............................

AI = Artificial Stupidity. 
Whoever is writing the current algorithms needs to ESAD, just too much result that is not even remotely related to the search terms.
You can now type in random gibberish and still get pages of results, Amazon and feeBay will top the list.

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

That sucks and I'm sorry for your coworker, but not carrying Comprehensive is a fool's economy. One cracked windshield will pay for 3 years of comp coverage. All the cost is in Liability or, to a lesser extent, Collision.

In reply to Duke :

Unless you are male, and 18. Then its unaffordable. Sometimes we forget to bump it up once we prove we aren't idiots.