Fuck you, stomach flu. Spent all day yesterday lying in bed, but unable to sleep because of the nausea. At least the nausea is gone today, but I’ve still got diarrhea, and I’m feeling wrung out. On top of that, we’re visiting my in-laws for a week. This is nice in that there are more people available to watch Lil’ Neville, but being sick and being hundreds of miles from home always sucks. Being pregnant adds another dimension of suck to that.
I’m so tired of seeing Minions pictures in my Facebook news feed. I wish Facebook had a way to block all Minions pictures/memes.
(Yes, I know that’s a really silly and trivial thing to rant about.)
I would’ve ranted about it on Facebook, but didn’t want any of my friends to feel bad.
Dear Facebook,
I do not know Yunus Azmi. Stop sending me daily emails asking if I know this fictitious person.
Kelevra
Hey, this is Yunus. Have there been any messages?
d&r
It’s getting to be that way with things like birth control, too. How the fuck ***that ***can be abused, I don’t even wanna know – though I’m sure Dopers have some smartass offerings ready.
I would have cancelled her sale and sent her to the back of the line.
What did Wendy’s have to say about that? Could be a liability issue for them, no?
If YOU were doing something one of your friends found tiresome or annoying, wouldn’t you want to know so you could at least consider the possibility of knocking it off?
If I saw someone on my FB feed bitching about something I was also doing, I might think, “Hmm, maybe that is an obnoxious thing to do. Perhaps I will cease…”
Air BNB can kiss my grits. My landlord just asked me if I’m going to reup my lease this year–in April when my lease doesn’t expire until July–because if not he would like to turn my apartment into an Air BNB for the filthy, filthy lucre. He wasn’t a jerk about it; he realizes that getting a steady rent check from a decent tenant like me is a gift one does not give up lightly. And since he gave me laundry privileges (finally) I’m not mad at him about it. The man does have property taxes to pay and Hippy Hollow is notorious for high prices for everything.
HOWEVER.
It’s hard enough to find an apartment in this town that is either one bedroom or a reasonable price. I’m ***extremely ***lucky that I found one that is both and that’s why I ain’t moving unless I have to. This Air BNB thing is going to make apartment hunting much harder because now landlords can just turn their basement/attic/garage spaces into pseudo-hotels and rake in the cash. People, I work in a hotel. I’ve seen how people leave a place. I would *never ever *in a million years let a tourist stay in my house for a weekend. (Isn’t that how slasher movies start?) All it takes is one supreme asshole and you’ve got huge repair/cleaning bills.
Of course, the funniest part of this is that I was talking to my friend Irish Storyteller yesterday and he and his lady are turning their upstairs into an Air BNB.
I agree, but the music from places like Abercrombie & Fitch (Oh, and how that gracious retailer of upscale outdoor goods has fallen) should not be so loud it makes ones eardrums bleed just by walking past.
Please box it up and send to California. Soonest.
Yeah, it’s one of those things that can be funny- but only in small doses. I dont wanna see more than one a week, or so.
Memo to the twat sports bar manager and her sour puss head bartender. We are sorry all of us Phillies fans are simply pointing out that of all the 20 TVs it is now 3:08 and first pitch of the opening game was at 3:05pm and the Phillies game is still NOT on yet. I’m sorry but this is a sports bar, right? And this is a Phillies town so you’d THINK as a sports bar manager maybe you’d plan ahead and have the channel tuned in a little ahead of time? Don’t snap at ME just because you can’t do your job, Dunce. Maybe next game I’ll spend my money elsewhere.
Twat sports bar manager versus Philadelphia sports fans.
Who to root for?
It’s like being asked to choose between projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea. 
Spaz, three little words: Crime Scene Cleanup.
She’s fine thankfully. Wendy’s called to apologize and offer to pay for any co-pays which is nice. It’s only $100 but it’s a nice gesture. I think they’re afraid I’ll sue. I’m just too grateful my little one is okay to care about much else.
Fucking Bruce Rauner, taking away already appropriated funds for worthy projects because, well, poor people don’t vote, don’t pay taxes, and don’t count. Also why don’t they stop wanting so much free stuff and get a job. I get that this state is messed up, and needs changes, but pulling funding from hungry people, single mothers, and low income school districts is bullshit.
Among other things, some forms of hormonal birth control can be used to trigger an abortion in the first few weeks, from what I understand.
Fuck idiot humans who put out poisoned food for cats. I’ve been doing TNR on a colony and have finally gotten them manageable. They aren’t a bother anymore, they just hang out where the food is and don’t fight or mate. They are just homeless cats. They do good things like killing mice and rats. When I stopped there to feed and water them tonight, 3 of them were dead and a couple more were foaming and having convulsions. I fucking hate people right now.
Me too! Just the thought of someone making kitties die that badly …
:mad::(:mad:
Why do software/hardware manufacturers add intrusive features that can’t be turned off?
Logitech makes one of the finest mice in the market, the Performance MX. It has a scroll wheel that is weighted and spins freely, smoothly gliding through web pages. Who has ever wanted to control-click a link and have their web page suddenly zoom to 4000%? That’s exactly what happens when you hit the ctrl key and slightly brush the scroll wheel.
No way in software to turn this off, not in the browser, not in the OS, not in the mouse driver. I had to use an AutoHotKey hack to kill it.
iDevices have “Shake to undo” that cannot be turned off. It was cute for a demo one time only. No, I don’t want to undo anything; I just bumped my arm on something. Please let me turn that off.
And, prompted by another thread, so many devices have cameras that don’t have shutters and don’t have a firmware-based means of disconnection. Come on, is it so difficult to put a shutter on the thing? I guess that would ruin the smooth lines of the laptop lid. Electrical tape.
Oh flatlined, I don’t know what to say. I’m so sorry for you and for the kitties. And I am wishing the person who did this would, well you know.
I was just reading about how a whole lot of dogs are being poisoned in Mexico. I wonder sometimes if evil people read things like that and then decide to do them. I also wonder if some gang is having initiations. If this were one dog or cat you might think there would be a reason of some irrational sort: dog barking, cat killing birds, whatever. But this kind of mass murder, we just need to catch those responsible and put them away. Unfortunately that probably won’t happen until they start killing people. Which often they do.
You do good things, flatlined, and I’m sorry you had to see this side of “humanity”.
One of the account managers came to my team at 3:30 yesterday and wants us to find out why a member on the insurance has been flagged for having diabetes. By today. Because the client will be visiting and is “escalating” the issue.
The account manager provided no data about the member.
Yeah, that’s going to work.
So, account manager, did you not know the client was visiting? Like, maybe yesterday MORNING? Or Friday? Why did you not get this issue to us sooner? Do you think we sit around with nothing to do until your team emails us? Can you not tell the client that the clinical team has other issues with very tight deadlines, and we answer client questions as we have bandwidth?
For the record, I’m leading a project to redesign all 200+ of the risk measures within the software. That’s due in July. The rest of the team is busy with ICD-10 testing. Some of us are working on both projects. So, no, we can’t just drop everything and scramble to find out why a member – about whom you sent no information – is listed as having diabetes.
No one will die if you don’t get this answer. The product is working as designed. There’s not a major problem. So don’t think that changing the ticket to “critical” will do anything besides make my team snicker.