The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 2176

HLS · 11-19-2018, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

OK. Enough is enough. It's my damned birthday, and first, I get up, and the power's out for 2.5 hours, for whatever reason, someone hit a power transformer, etc.

NOW, my damn septic is backing up. There's just no damn justice.

Hitch

A week or 2 ago in the middle of a shower the water ended and I had a head full of shampoo. I used a bottle of sprite to wash it out and it was oold old old sprite I should have tossed a month ago LOL

Hitch · 11-19-2018, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by kcladyz

A week or 2 ago in the middle of a shower the water ended and I had a head full of shampoo. I used a bottle of sprite to wash it out and it was oold old old sprite I should have tossed a month ago LOL

OK...that's pretty horrible. Sprite? OMG....I'm pretty sure that soda is not really meant for washing hair. You didn't have any emergency bottles of water stashed someplace? We always have a gallon or two, "just in case." When you live in the boonies...you know what I mean!

Hitch

FizzyWater · 11-19-2018, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

Thanks, Dazrin. Sitting here--dying!!--waiting on the snake guy (Plumber, for folks not accustomed to that term) now. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Worst. Birthday. Ever. (And I don't even really DO birthdays; we don't go anywhere, do anything, I just want one lousy day of peace and quiet. Oh, no, that's too much to ask, apparently.

)

Hitch

Hey, you could have had some poet kvetching at you about how you didn't set up his ebook to be alternative couplets with the first right-aligned, the second left-aligned, and so on.

Hitch · 11-19-2018, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Hey, you could have had some poet kvetching at you about how you didn't set up his ebook to be alternative couplets with the first right-aligned, the second left-aligned, and so on.

Good point. Or I could be dead, with no more birthdays. Shouldn't bitch.

Hitch

HLS · 11-26-2018, 11:10 AM

Ya all know I complain on how impossible it is to get packages where I live.
Well I was trying to upgrade my phone online for in store pickup but I went to fast and it was sent to ship instead. I was mad as a hatter and called verizon immediately. Was on hold 45 minutes!!! By the time someone answered the order was already in ship status and they could no longer cancel it. By now I am mad as a hatter cursing like mad. I like almost went Postal. It is set to be delivered tomorrow but of course I cant be around to accept delivery, apartment complex loses or misplaces my packages 90% of the time and due to my work hours it will be days and days before I can attempt to pick it up. I am so pissed off.

4691mls · 11-26-2018, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by kcladyz

Ya all know I complain on how impossible it is to get packages where I live.
Well I was trying to upgrade my phone online for in store pickup but I went to fast and it was sent to ship instead. I was mad as a hatter and called verizon immediately. Was on hold 45 minutes!!! By the time someone answered the order was already in ship status and they could no longer cancel it. By now I am mad as a hatter cursing like mad. I like almost went Postal. It is set to be delivered tomorrow but of course I cant be around to accept delivery, apartment complex loses or misplaces my packages 90% of the time and due to my work hours it will be days and days before I can attempt to pick it up. I am so pissed off.

I hope this time will be one of the 10% where your package is not lost!

covingtoncat73 · 11-28-2018, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by kcladyz

Ya all know I complain on how impossible it is to get packages where I live.
Well I was trying to upgrade my phone online for in store pickup but I went to fast and it was sent to ship instead. I was mad as a hatter and called verizon immediately. Was on hold 45 minutes!!! By the time someone answered the order was already in ship status and they could no longer cancel it. By now I am mad as a hatter cursing like mad. I like almost went Postal. It is set to be delivered tomorrow but of course I cant be around to accept delivery, apartment complex loses or misplaces my packages 90% of the time and due to my work hours it will be days and days before I can attempt to pick it up. I am so pissed off.

Oh no! I hope you get it. I had an issue with a package recently. The USPS is bad in my neighborhood. It showed delivered on Monday and finally showed up on Friday.

The adjuncts are going to be the death of me. Grown women. Very grown, like a few years older than my age in the 40s, and I have to do everything but read them a bedtime story and sing them "soft kitty" before leaving for the evening (metaphorically speaking). One could probably handle stuff but won't (and I found out last night that she doesn't understand tabbed browsing. Really?). The other is just pretty hapless. Their immediate supervisor knows. Blessedly, that is not me. I just have the joy of being the full-time person that has a slightly later work schedule than the other full-time people, so have to settle the evening crew in for the night. I really only have to deal with them for one hour a day, thankfully.

I found this more annoying than usual last evening. There was the aforementioned tabbed browsing issue and evidence of shocking ignorance about some database features, so I was 20 minutes late getting off campus.

Greg Anos · 11-28-2018, 03:07 PM

Went in for a kidney stone removal (in the ureter - the pipe from the kidney to the bladder) this morning.

Procedure failed, - stone it still there. I am in pain and urinating blood. Not a pretty day.

For an extra bonus, got a spear phishing email - with the fake sender being named was the US Department Of Justice. (I have notified DOJ about the situation.)

How's your day going. . . .

wodin · 11-28-2018, 03:15 PM

OOOOWWWWW!!!

cromag · 11-28-2018, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Went in for a kidney stone removal (in the ureter - the pipe from the kidney to the bladder) this morning.

Procedure failed, - stone it still there. I am in pain and urinating blood. Not a pretty day.

For an extra bonus, got a spear phishing email - with the fake sender being named was the US Department Of Justice. (I have notified DOJ about the situation.)

How's your day going. . . .

Ouch!

Tarana · 11-28-2018, 08:30 PM

I sympathize with the kidney stone. I know they are very painful. Ouch!

Honestly, I have things that I could complain about, but it's all pretty petty. The knee injury is getting old though (still using a walker and it's been 29 days since I injured it). I am really, really getting annoyed with the increase (again) of robocalls. I even hung up on my doctor's office, thinking it was a robo call.

covingtoncat73 · 11-28-2018, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Went in for a kidney stone removal (in the ureter - the pipe from the kidney to the bladder) this morning.

Procedure failed, - stone it still there. I am in pain and urinating blood. Not a pretty day.

For an extra bonus, got a spear phishing email - with the fake sender being named was the US Department Of Justice. (I have notified DOJ about the situation.)

How's your day going. . . .

Ouch! My brother gets those. I thank my lucky stars that that is one thing my defective little body has spared me.

HLS · 11-28-2018, 09:20 PM

God. It was delivered at lunch. I literally set parked in my car to intercept the fedex truck lol

4691mls · 11-29-2018, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kcladyz

God. It was delivered at lunch. I literally set parked in my car to intercept the fedex truck lol

Yay! Glad to hear you were able to get it!

Rumpelteazer · 12-06-2018, 03:06 AM

We have a slight problem with the kittens.

When we got them we got two regular litter boxes, one upstairs and one downstairs, with the plan to move the one downstairs upstairs eventually. However, one of the (Luna I think) likes to pee high up against the back of the litter box. So urine leaked out through the gap between the top and bottom of the litter box.

Since Luna mostly uses the downstairs litter box my mother replaced it with one with a high back, she also switched to saw dust pellets as a filling, since those give off less smell and are easier to clean. After a couple of days of reluctance they didn't have a problem with this new system. And last week we got the same litter box for upstairs, which they also accepted.

Yesterday I moved the downstairs litter box upstairs and that seems to be too much for one of them (Maru probably). Though both boxes were clean last night one of them had urinated next to the boxes (a place where Nikita occasionally urinated when she thought her box was too dirty). And this morning I found one of them had urinated on a small pillow in my room. Luckily it was one I had wanted to throw away for a long time but kept forgetting to do. It must have been Maru; Luna hasn't been in my rooms this morning.

I cleaned up the mess, put some tin foil down on the spot in the hallway and locked my catflap. Until Maru has accepted the new situation she won't be allowed in my rooms.

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11-26-2018, 11:10 AM	#32630
HLS Wizard Posts: 2,028 Karma: 15107670 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	Ya all know I complain on how impossible it is to get packages where I live. Well I was trying to upgrade my phone online for in store pickup but I went to fast and it was sent to ship instead. I was mad as a hatter and called verizon immediately. Was on hold 45 minutes!!! By the time someone answered the order was already in ship status and they could no longer cancel it. By now I am mad as a hatter cursing like mad. I like almost went Postal. It is set to be delivered tomorrow but of course I cant be around to accept delivery, apartment complex loses or misplaces my packages 90% of the time and due to my work hours it will be days and days before I can attempt to pick it up. I am so pissed off.

11-28-2018, 03:07 PM	#32633
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,248 Karma: 35000000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Went in for a kidney stone removal (in the ureter - the pipe from the kidney to the bladder) this morning. Procedure failed, - stone it still there. I am in pain and urinating blood. Not a pretty day. For an extra bonus, got a spear phishing email - with the fake sender being named was the US Department Of Justice. (I have notified DOJ about the situation.) How's your day going. . . .

11-28-2018, 03:15 PM	#32634
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	OOOOWWWWW!!!

11-28-2018, 08:30 PM	#32636
Tarana Wizard Posts: 3,978 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	I sympathize with the kidney stone. I know they are very painful. Ouch! Honestly, I have things that I could complain about, but it's all pretty petty. The knee injury is getting old though (still using a walker and it's been 29 days since I injured it). I am really, really getting annoyed with the increase (again) of robocalls. I even hung up on my doctor's office, thinking it was a robo call.

11-28-2018, 09:20 PM	#32638
HLS Wizard Posts: 2,028 Karma: 15107670 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	God. It was delivered at lunch. I literally set parked in my car to intercept the fedex truck lol

12-06-2018, 03:06 AM	#32640
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,100 Karma: 24047426 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	We have a slight problem with the kittens. When we got them we got two regular litter boxes, one upstairs and one downstairs, with the plan to move the one downstairs upstairs eventually. However, one of the (Luna I think) likes to pee high up against the back of the litter box. So urine leaked out through the gap between the top and bottom of the litter box. Since Luna mostly uses the downstairs litter box my mother replaced it with one with a high back, she also switched to saw dust pellets as a filling, since those give off less smell and are easier to clean. After a couple of days of reluctance they didn't have a problem with this new system. And last week we got the same litter box for upstairs, which they also accepted. Yesterday I moved the downstairs litter box upstairs and that seems to be too much for one of them (Maru probably). Though both boxes were clean last night one of them had urinated next to the boxes (a place where Nikita occasionally urinated when she thought her box was too dirty). And this morning I found one of them had urinated on a small pillow in my room. Luckily it was one I had wanted to throw away for a long time but kept forgetting to do. It must have been Maru; Luna hasn't been in my rooms this morning. I cleaned up the mess, put some tin foil down on the spot in the hallway and locked my catflap. Until Maru has accepted the new situation she won't be allowed in my rooms.