Verizon is such a bitch to deal with. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, they make it 10 times harder. I just really hate them. Hope your phone problems get cleared up to your satisfaction. Soon.
First, a small but irritating one: Apple has seen fit to change the keyboard controls for my Mac so that the pausing and re-starting commands focuses on Youtube, rather than iTunes. I have iTunes on all day, every day. I watch one or two videos a day. Guess which one I would PREFER to be my default for the keyboard commands. Instead of just hitting the pause/resume key, I now have to open iTunes with my mouse and pause the music - that’s a pain in my ass when I’m trying to quickly pause the music to take a call, or when I’m leaving my desk. This is NOT an upgrade. :mad:
The second one is bigger - apparently I have esophagus spasms now. The first time it happened, I ended up in the emergency room at two in the morning, thinking I was having a heart attack. I am VERY grateful that it wasn’t a heart attack, but having something that recurs, that is as painful as a heart attack, and has no reliable treatment is not what I would have chosen for myself. I’m off to see the doctor this afternoon - hopefully he’ll have some good news for me. The spasm came back again last night - yeeow. That is really frigging painful.
Do you use Chrome? I had the same issue with my Mac, and it turned out to be an issue with some settings in Chrome. I’ll try to find a link to the site that helped me fix it when I get home today.
And my sympathies on the esophagus… My mother has had various problems, including severe spasms while she was trying to eat, and it can be scary as hell.
Mrs G and I have been giving G jr. her baby medicine for acid reflux. G j.r screams and wails for a half hour afterwards, but hey, it must be ok right? After a week of this, Mrs G and I decided to take a taste of the stuff ourselves. Holy crap, it tastes like battery acid and physically burns on the way down, leaving a horrid acid aftertaste for an hour.
Fucking doctors, the medicine truly is worse than the cure, we’ve stopped the infant abuse since the simple OtC baby antacids work just as well while also tasting like strawberry smoothies.
Nope - I use Safari. Maybe it’s the same deal, though - I’ll hunt around in my Safari preferences. Good thought! 
It was indeed scary - we called the Healthlink phoneline, and their response was, “Hang up and call 911, right f’ing now!” :eek:
If it helps any, our local Sears closed its doors about a month ago. The sign’s gone and everything. Sorry you’ve had to go to so much trouble!
Store’s closed. Libertarian out front should have told you.
Well, I saw my doctor - he figures I just have weapons-grade acid reflux. I guess that’s…good?
Miniest of the rants: there are currently two threads in ATMB that consist almost entirely of people being obtuse about how some of us don’t find endless repetition of the same jokes funny. Both have people taking the opportunity to, you guessed it, endlessly repeat the same jokes.
Apparently, I didn’t see fit to save the link to that site…but I did learn that a ‘feature’ of High Sierra involves the keyboard media controls attempting to switch focus if you move from iTunes to YouTube/Safari. Apparently the focus doesn’t always switch back, or sometimes stops working completely. Yay. (I still haven’t updated to High Sierra here.)
Make sure he checks you for Barrett’s esophagus. A friend of mine had what he and the doctor thought was “weapons-grade acid reflux” for years. Turned out it was Barrett’s, it evolved into esophageal cancer, and he died in December. NB: esophageal cancer is rare. Barrett’s increases the chance, but it’s still rare.
Very very mini-rant. I’m traveling. I’m watching TV in a hotel in a time zone that isn’t my time zone. I want to find out when “The Big Bang Theory” is on tonight. This hotel’s TV doesn’t have a schedule channel. Go to the local CBS station’s website to see its program schedule. Nope. Not there. The TV Guide website for some reason thinks I’m in Eastern Time Zone and refuses to believe otherwise. Eventually I stumbled on the local newspaper’s website which had the TV listings. Why was this so hard?
Going on 5 years now since my father passed away. His business was set up as a DBA so effectively ended with his passing. I am the executor of the estate, I’m represented and have all necessary documentation. The Verizon business lines are supposed to be transferred to me. I’ve been using them for the past 4 years without issue but the account is still in my fathers name with his tax ID number. I’m an administrator on the account, so can make any changes I need to.
It is a very simple transfer of liability to my company, but Verizon can’t manage that. It’s even the most logical decision for them to make. Right now the liable party for the contracts is a dead guy, they have a perfectly healthy person willing to take on that liability. Every once in a while the fact it hasn’t been corrected annoys me, I find my old rep has been replaced, send over the relevant documentation to the new rep, they say they’ll take care of it, it never happens. At this point there is an email chain hundreds of emails long, that just keeps repeating. They just keep failing to do anything. I don’t understand why they can’t just edit the name and tax id on the account.
Eeesh.
The next time the rep changes and you make the request, and they say “I’ll take care of it,” you should totally say “Ooh, goody! Can I watch?”
I have an online acquaintance who is paranoid he’s going to get Barrett’s because his father had it and eventually passed from it. It’s one of his hot topics along with his digestive and other health-related issues. He doesn’t have many friends either online or off because he’s obsessed. I feel badly for him; OTOH it’'s frustrating initiating conversations with him because he is so obsessed.
On a totally different note, my niece’s bridal shower is tomorrow. I’ve been working so much lately that I haven’t had time to buy her a present, so I was going to write her a check.
Then my MIL calls saying that she’ll get a present I can give her “because who wants to open a check at a shower?”
Honestly, MIL, is the shower is for your granddaughter, NOT you.
Dunno about “good”, but as a fellow spasm/acid reflux sufferer here’s a few benign suggestions:
*Raise the head of your bed by at least 6inches - more if you can - doctor’s suggestion and it did help some.
*pickle juice? Sounds dumb, tastes crap but it might help. Something about pickle juice helping with cramps… (not a doctor’s suggestion) Take a few swallows (try not to gag) when the pain hits.
*drugs. Proton pump inhibitors like omeprazole. Watch out for side effects though.
You have my commiserations. Hurts like a bugger sometimes.
I need cheering up, someone post a joke.
But this is the RANTS thread. No place for a joke.