The Vent and Rant Thread

[Renate]

Originally Posted by dandaman

You could buy a remote page turner...

I have one. I designed and built it.
The case is a stock one and has a good hand feel.
https://www.serpac.co.uk/ca4-enclosure.html
(I use the four button model.)
It would take quite a bit of design to come up with something to 3D print that is as comfortable.

Full disclosure: I prefer roast turkey to any kind of chicken.

[DNSB]

Low and slow or hot and fast?

[Renate]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Low and slow or hot and fast?

Right this minute I'm cooking turkey stew.
500 gram turkey schnitzel. I don't like buying the already chopped stuff and I don't like chopping raw turkey.
I fill a pot with water and throw the turkey in. I cook them until they're firm, but not necessarily cooked all the way.
Then I can dice them up while I cook the barley, onions, celery.
Since it's about five days of food I make sure that my fridge is on the lower limit of cold.
Once I went to finish the last of a pot and it was bubbling.
(I don't have a freezer, but I keep considering a new freezer/fridge.)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

I'm in the United States. Next town with a bigger library would be a good 120 miles away.

JSwolf, the phone screen works well enough to make a phone call or send a short text. That's all I use it for. Buttons on an ereader are far superior and that is a hill I will die on.

And as I;ve said before, buttons wear out a lot faster then a touchscreen will.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

Buttons on an ereader are far superior and that is a hill I will die on.

This I totally get. I was finally able to buy a refurbished Libra 2 off of the Kobo site. Mostly they show as "Sold Out", but if you keep going back and looking, you might get lucky. Of course you could buy the Libra Colour, but that really doesn't have as good a screen if what you want is to just read, not to play with colours.

[Hemmi]

Originally Posted by dandaman

You could buy a remote page turner...

None of my Kobos have Bluetooth. Do they make remotes that don't need that?

I'm liking my Libra H2O again. Getting used to the smaller size which is nice because I've been having a lot of pain in my left thumb and that's what I use to hit the button to turn the page. The smaller size is lighter.

[Hemmi]

I ordered an RF page turner to try out.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

I ordered an RF page turner to try out.

I hope that it works out for you.

I could never stand one of these things that clip on the screen so that it could poke it.

Yes, I've tried every remote scheme possible.
I've used the equivalent of the clip-on with a small adhesive dot of copper connected to an electronic circuit.
I've use a wired button box paralleled into the switches.
I've used a wired button box wired into a UART that issued commands to pipe text to an injector daemon.
I've used USB devices.
Since Bluetooth became standard on devices I've used Bluetooth remotes, keyfobs and foot switches.

[Hemmi]

It was cheap so worth a try.

[Hemmi]

New rant. I used to work in a pharmacy. For over 20 years. Common sense has just gone out the window at the place I used to work.

My mother is diabetic and was put on insulin late last winter. They sent her home from the pharmacy with her new insulin pens. But none of the pen needles to use to inject that insulin. They didn't even realize this person who has never had insulin before would need a prescription for the pen needles necessary to inject the medication.

Today, she needs more pen needles. Oh, the doctor discontinued the a week or two ago. I just looked at the girl and asked her how Mom's supposed to inject her insulin? Was there a new prescription sent over? Was the insulin discontinued too? No to both. And no one thought to question that? No, they didn't even think about it.

[Rumpelteazer]

And I have another cold. That's a perk of my job, where people have no problem coughing straight into my face.

It isn't too bad. It started with a sore throat, which progressed into an itchy throat and overnight I developed a runny nose. The most annoying thing is that I keep waking up around 2am, having to cough and my throat making noises (wheezing, whistling, etc). After taking something for it it'll calm down after a long while. When I can sleep in the next morning this isn't a problem, but when I have to work and get up early it's just so tiring.

Add to that that we're missing at least two cashiers. So it'll be an interesting day. I do hope the girl that was sick last week will shop up today and I hope they can find at least one more person to help out today/this morning, but I'm afraid that won't happen.

[Renate]

I hate sore throats as I know the progression. A tickle turning into can't swallow.
And you have to swallow twice a minute to see if it's getting better or not.

Food poisoning or intergalactic battle in my stomach doesn't really annoy me.
I had some dodgy soup that I forgot to put in the fridge yesterday and there were no repercussions.

[John F]

A predictive rant, I may be wrong...

I'm watching prices on Amazon, and one day before "Prime Big Deal Days" prices on a bunch of stuff I watch (3D printer filament) have increased; I'm predicting they will go down to the "regular" price during "Prime Big Deal Days".

[DNSB]

Much the same as several items I was looking at last year. One item went from $170 to $210 and then was selling for $175 during Prime Day with "Save $35". Oddly, I decided not to make the purchase.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Renate

I hate sore throats as I know the progression. A tickle turning into can't swallow.
And you have to swallow twice a minute to see if it's getting better or not.

Luckily it didn't get that bad this time. Yesterday, during the day, my throat didn't bother me that much. As long as I had a lozenge every once in a while to keep my throat from drying out the ticklish cough stayed away mostly. The runny nose was annoying, though. Overnight I did get some more sleep, but I was still woken up by coughing because my throat was dry.

It'll be interesting to see what today brings. My one co worker is finally back from vacation, but we're still missing cashiers. I'm not going to offer to come in on my day off on Friday. I've been working extra for four weeks, when they promised me they would give me time off on other days. The only time off I got was that last Wednesday I got to go home an hour early. Plus, they've been saying that on Friday there are more than enough people willing to work (didn't work out that way last Friday).