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

Twitter sucks.

I'd pay $20 American if the POTUS elect would stop tweeting. Just stop dude, seriously.

In reply to Flight Service:

Rant justification right there.

KyAllroad wrote: Twitter sucks. I'd pay $20 American if the POTUS elect would stop tweeting. Just stop dude, seriously.

I find his tweets are often good for a laugh, although never on purpose. That's one thing he's good for.

Although it's easy for me to say that as a bystander from a safe distance.

I don't know if it's a hybrid thing, but sometimes, I think my car is randomizing my blips. Today, three were super tiny, and one was crazy huge. Yesterday, I nailed every single one.

GameboyRMH wrote: Although it's easy for me to say that as a bystander from a safe distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_projection

and in some weeks, with the inauguration, there will no longer be such a thing as a "safe distance"

I have been craving sushi for months now. I think about it constantly. I cannot afford this stupid obsession!!!!

In reply to EastCoastMojo:

You had to say that... now I want to get get it for lunch. I have been trying not to spend money!

I am so sick of my sinuses. I have had congestion since the week before thanksgiving. No other symptoms, just thick congestion and the associated sinus headaches. Not sure if its an allergy or dry air. I have been running a humidifier in the bedroom at night and I'm still suffering. I have been taking Zyterc (or however its speeled) and no improvement. Thankfully I am seeing a doc in a week, gonna have to see what can be done.

In reply to EastCoastMojo:

And now my wife just brought me sushi for lunch.

(yeah, we work in the same office)

Gotta make the time to start packing lunches again.

I can't get warm. I got wet first thing this morning and now my clothes are dried out but I still can't warm up. I can't wait to go home and get a hot shower.

The Garbage Day Slalom: Why do people have to put their Berkeleying garbage cans IN the Berkeleying ROAD!?

1988RedT2 wrote: The Garbage Day Slalom: Why do people have to put their Berkeleying garbage cans IN the Berkeleying ROAD!?

Because they were told to? We have those mechanical arm trucks that pick up the garbage. When the city gave the new cans out we got specfic instructions that the can had to be put in the street against the curb and turned a specfic way.

Next door neighbor set his on the sidewalk. And they didn't dump it, for tow pickup days. Finally had to tell him how to put the can out.

In reply to Hal:

It's a clear threat to public safety, and yet another illustration of how we are being enslaved by, rather than served by, machines. I'm inclined to berserk a few neighborhoods in the Dooley and send that E36 M3 flying. I bet that would result in a little behavior modification.

I think this movement to open offices is going to fail, miserably.

Right now, we are being encouraged to use public places for meetings. Which I don't like, as they tend to by noisy. Today, I was having a meeting with my boss out in the open, and 4 people who were walking and talking stopped right next to us, and kept jabbering. So we could barely hear each other. They never noticed that I actually bitched loudly to my boss about- even swearing. Not one little notice.

This is going to become the new normal.

Retirement can't come fast enough.

In reply to alfadriver:

Yea, everyone I've talked to who has experienced the open office concept hates it. As a mild introvert, I definitely could not deal with that, I need peace and quiet to do my best work. I share an office with one other guy and even that gets excessively distracting sometimes, like this afternoon.

I think it's a fad and I don't see it lasting.

alfadriver wrote: I think this movement to open offices is going to fail, miserably. Right now, we are being encouraged to use public places for meetings. Which I don't like, as they tend to by noisy. Today, I was having a meeting with my boss out in the open, and 4 people who were walking and talking stopped right next to us, and kept jabbering. So we could barely hear each other. They never noticed that I actually bitched loudly to my boss about- even swearing. Not one little notice. This is going to become the new normal. Retirement can't come fast enough.

My dad, who hasn't even been in a cube for probably 30 years (he's been in a private office) is probably going to open concept work space.

He's kind of hoping that he gets let go before that happens.

ugh.. open offices, death to the introverted. I am very glad we do not have open offices at work (or that we even have office space in my department) but I would love a little "me space" besides my locker (mostly because it is too small for me to crawl into and hide from the world)

It's December. We are working on my son's Explorer in t-shirts. I can deal with that, but having to deal with mosquitoes is a little ridiculous. The little blood sucking bastards are supposed to be dead by now.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I have been craving sushi for months now. I think about it constantly. I cannot afford this stupid obsession!!!!

Got a Sushi Maru or other conveyor belt sushi place around? They are pretty affordable.

I just replaced my 3rd DVD or blu ray player this year. I'm tired of cheap disposable crap

I scored a sweet black friday deal at the Dell refurb/off-lease store for a laptop for tuning duty. When it showed up, it wouldn't charge the battery. Called them up and they said they didn't have any extra batteries, refunded me $30 of what I paid for it, and told me to go to eBay and get one. I found two batteries for $16 each so I ordered them up. They arrived today and they won't charge either. Three batteries from two different sources says to me it ain't the battery at fault. Now they think the motherboard is faulty and they're "checking with the warehouse to see if they have any extras". If they don't they just want to refund me the rest of my money and take the laptop back. Of course, I'm still out the $30 for the battery. I think this might wind up getting ugly.

In reply to wae:

They actually asked you to buy a battery on eBay? Bizarre.

I can feel it, coming in the air tonight. Hold on.

Illinois drivers suck! And yes, I am one.

OMG I have never been so frustrated in my life. Purchasing Health Insurance is just a colossal nightmare right now.

1988RedT2 wrote: The Garbage Day Slalom: Why do people have to put their Berkeleying garbage cans IN the Berkeleying ROAD!?

As a corollary to that: my town has ONE major route across the north side, a two-way street with a single lane in each direction. In addition to that, because of parallel train tracks, there are zero usable cross streets for half a mile. Half the town has to get across this stretch every morning.

Guess when the city schedules garbage pickup there? 8:00am, twice a week.

sigh I apparently need to learn when I should actually take the time to answer a question at length and when to just give some vaguely affirmative or negative but noncommittal answer when SWMBO asks something.