Chew with your berkeleying mouth CLOSED!
Chew with your berkeleying mouth CLOSED!
AngryCorvair wrote: Chew with your berkeleying mouth CLOSED!
This rant is much more funny when combined with your signature....
In reply to mad_machine:
Our union folks are the ones that screwed this up because we are a small group of less than 20 people that they forget we are here and do little to nothing for us. They had little interest in fixing the problem but someone in the office changed his status to on leave without pay so there's no discipline against him.
I tried to be a troll and failed.
Someone in the local FB Honda/Acura group posted a WTB ad desiring a white LF fender for an Accord.
I was annoyed that they didn't mention what YEAR of Accord, so I replied:
"I have a LF fender in white from a 1978 Accord. $40."
Figuring they would have said, "No, I have a 2008 Accord." Or something like that.
Instead, the response was:
"Pics?"
I fail at trolling!
Centurylink / ISPs in General.
Enough said.
If you can't afford four tires for your all wheel drive BMW truck-minivan-thing, you REALLY can't afford to replace just one. Yes, only one is flat. That's not the problem here.
Freakin' hotel shower handles. How the berk does it go from boiling hot to ice cold in 3 degrees of rotation or less?
Tomorrow, days before I find out if any of my side job opportunities are going to pan out, days before I am likely to hear if the refi on my 3 year debt consolidation loan will be approved thereby lowering my monthly payment, I get the very last opportunity to sign up for health insueance that I can't quite technically afford yet. Argh.
Wall-e wrote: In reply to mad_machine: Our union folks are the ones that screwed this up because we are a small group of less than 20 people that they forget we are here and do little to nothing for us. They had little interest in fixing the problem but someone in the office changed his status to on leave without pay so there's no discipline against him.
hope he does not get stuck in the Bahamas waiting on a direct deposit cheque that will never come
In reply to EastCoastMojo:
Ugh! Just an update on my insurance; we did get it worked out, kind of. We got a plan with our hospital in network but the ob out of network. And he's going to give us a good discount on his fees and we'll pay out of pocket.
All the stress and anxiety of the last few weeks is apparently culminating tonight one way or the other. Kind of a rant and kind of win, I'm not sure what's going to happen, but I'll be glad to be out of the unknown.
ncjay wrote: Freakin' hotel shower handles. How the berk does it go from boiling hot to ice cold in 3 degrees of rotation or less?
Our main bathroom's shower at home is even worse- it's completely and totally illogical. The hot water knob works reasonably properly- but the cold water is completely nonsensical. To a point- a point below where it needs to be for the water to be a comfortable temperature- it behaves like you'd expect. But before it gets to where you'd need it to be to not get scalded by the hot water, turning it further appears to reduce the amount of cold water coming through- until you hit a point where it decides to realize it's a cold water knob and it kicks in and makes the water too cold- so you have to turn the knob back a bit to get it comfortable. I cannot wait until we eventually remodel this bathroom...
My own minor rant- very definitely getting sick, nose and sinuses are clogged, coughing and sneezing more. The studio SWMBO teaches at started their Nutcracker performances today and she cannot be sick for the next few days while they're running, so she's trying to keep her distance a bit to hopefully avoid or at least delay her getting sick as well.
so yesterday, while it was nice out, I replaced the butchered hose on my Rover that was seeping. (I accidently split it and cut it back) today, the coolant filter I added started to leak because of the twisting and turning I did on the hoses yesterday.
It's literally at the freezing point today with gale force winds, why couldn't it leak yesterday when I could have fixed it while wearing a sweatshirt. Today I had to bundle up and try to do all the work in bulky gloves while the wind threatened to bring the bonnet down on my head. At least it is fixed now. It came partially unscrewed enough to lose it's seal
I HATE December.
I hate the holiday, the consumer driven madness, the terrible music, the sudden change in weather. I turn into a ball of rage the first moment I hear a bell ringing at the entrance to a grocery store.
I was out of the Little drummer boy challenge 32 hours into it
https://www.youtube.com/embed/FOg7aPNLLG0
Adding insult to injury last nights ice storm knocked over a utility pole and cut power to my neighborhood. The power company said they hope to get to it by Saturday or Sunday. The wires are still sitting in the middle of the street wrapped in broken trees.
I am trying to prepare for the boredom. I guess this is why we have acoustic guitars... and genitals 
pro tip! Mexican prayer candles are about a quarter of the cost of any other candles, come in a safe little glass jar and provide light for a good long time! $1.50 each at the Latino supermarkets. Votive candles cost that much at the gringo supermarkets!
OK Rant over. I will put that behind me and be positive now
Parking is not complicated! It says PRIVATE - TOW AWAY at the top of three signs in a little tiny lot. You're downtown in a city of a million plus people; there's no free parking. If someone isn't charging you, you're not going to find your car here when you come back, especially over three hours later. Don't be an idiot then try to make it my problem.
Ashyukun wrote:ncjay wrote: Freakin' hotel shower handles. How the berk does it go from boiling hot to ice cold in 3 degrees of rotation or less?Our main bathroom's shower at home is even worse- it's completely and totally illogical. The hot water knob works *reasonably* properly- but the cold water is completely nonsensical. To a point- a point below where it needs to be for the water to be a comfortable temperature- it behaves like you'd expect. But before it gets to where you'd need it to be to not get scalded by the hot water, turning it further appears to *reduce* the amount of cold water coming through- until you hit a point where it decides to realize it's a cold water knob and it kicks in and makes the water too cold- so you have to turn the knob back a bit to get it comfortable. I cannot wait until we eventually remodel this bathroom...
In my apartment, straight up was off. Turn it to the left, you got cold water until it hit the bottom (180* spin from the top) and it stopped--you couldn't turn it further. Turn it back to off, and then go to the right, you got scalding until you got to the bottom which was slightly too warm for me (I like a cooler shower). I literally could not mix it to my preferred temperature. Wifey loved it though.
Knurled wrote: If you can't afford four tires for your all wheel drive BMW truck-minivan-thing, you REALLY can't afford to replace just one. Yes, only one is flat. That's not the problem here.
Dude was in my shop this morning with a 2014 Freightliner, two tires were balonies so I quoted him 2, 4 and 8. He said "to expensive, I want used". Really? On a 1996 freightliner I can see it but a "new" truck at the beginning of winter?
AWSX1686 wrote: All the stress and anxiety of the last few weeks is apparently culminating tonight one way or the other. Kind of a rant and kind of win, I'm not sure what's going to happen, but I'll be glad to be out of the unknown.
Well, now I get to recover. That's going to take a while.
I haven't been to the Mall since last Christmas season. And I'm remembering why. This place sucks! I figured I would wander around a bit, see some stuff people might like, buy it.
I can't see myself actually purchasing any of this E36 M3. This entire place is a temple to the disposable. Trendy clothes, fashion sunglasses, lotions, perfumes, and lingerie. I want none of it!
Apparently I'm turning into a crotchety old man. 
UPS Mail Innovations = 16 days and counting to get a small package from Texas to Illinois. What's innovative about that??
KyAllroad wrote: I haven't been to the Mall since last Christmas season. And I'm remembering why. This place sucks! I figured I would wander around a bit, see some stuff people might like, buy it. I can't see myself actually purchasing any of this E36 M3. This entire place is a temple to the disposable. Trendy clothes, fashion sunglasses, lotions, perfumes, and lingerie. I want none of it!
I'm with you there on everything but the lingerie...
The mall IMO is good for killing time and browsing things- when I had some time to kill before seeing Doctor Strange last week at the mall theater I wandered around in there for a while before grabbing dinner (not in the mall, perhaps ironically). I had fun playing with the different new toys in Brookstone and the Apple Store. Now that the Sears is gone and SWMBO no longer works in one of the department stores, the only reason I'd have to go there to actually buy anything would be the Apple Store.
slowride wrote: UPS Mail Innovations = 16 days and counting to get a small package from Texas to Illinois. What's innovative about that??
It saves the company shipping it money, that's what innovative. Speedy delivery, not a chance.
two words: cold Sores. I have one in the corner of my mouth
DFW > SFO > BUR…pretty straight forward; right?
Apparently it is for everyone in the known universe except me. After a series of cancellations, delays, blah, blah, blah, it’s 1:05 AM and I’m flat out of options so here I sit, at a SFO terminal, absolutely alone, waiting for the first flight to BUR at 7:10 AM.
BTW, Jeff Goldblum was on my DFW > SFO flight and wound up finagling with a ticket counter lady trying to get to BUR while I was one booth over finagling with another ticket counter lady trying to get to BUR. My ticket counter lady was totally worthless and demonstrated a remarkable ability to pack a plethora of categorically incorrect information into an amazing compact amount of time.
Anyway, Jeff’s gone, everybody’s gone, I’m the only person left…obviously, I’m a total, epic, dumba$$.
In reply to mad_machine:
This is the stuff you want.
Amazon carries it. Use it every day like a lip balm or as soon as you feel one starting. I used to get cold sores every time I got sick or even had an upset stomach. Since using this stuff I have not had a single cold sore in ~5 years. It works.
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