Thanks. The big four pain events in my life have been broken limbs, gout, impacted wisdom teeth and kidney stones, and the stones are the worst by far. Add a UTI on top of that and oh what fun it is to ride.
At least the latest stone is out and so the UTI should clear up forthwith. The bad news is twofold: 1. there are at least a couple more waiting in the wings, so to speak; 2. Although I’ll send it out for analysis, it’s clear from visual appearance that it’s calcium oxalate, meaning they can’t be dissolved. Ugh.
BTW, anyone who needs nightmare fodder, Google images of kidney stones. Pure, concentrated evil, they are.
Found a typo in the damn letter. >.< I read that thing at least four times before printing.
Whoa. :eek: That’s impressive! Part of the issue with my printer is my computer setup – I’ve gotten so I do the writing/picture arranging part on the MacBook, and the label printing on the Windows 7 PC (I still have Access 2000 and Publisher 2000 for this task – long story). The printer will tolerate one machine or the other sending print jobs; under no circumstances whatsoever will it allow alternating print jobs. I completely forgot about that this year, and was trying to print extra labels in between batches of letters.
Also, why the hell would the printer announce that it’s out of yellow ink when it’s really out of cyan???
And the Dummer Boy. Please. I’ve long been convinced that Raphael* should have been taken out back and shot for the double crime of spelling his name like that instead of the usual Rafael and of recording that thing. For some reason that song has always made me extremely violent and his delivery of it even more so.
He’s in this year’s Christmas Lottery ad. When I saw him I exclaimed “oh Grandmother, what large teeth you have!” and Mom replied “not to worry my dear, they’re all paid for!”
Hm, my printer is wired to the desktop, and my roomie is on her laptop, and I am mostly on my laptop right now, and all 3 computers can print interleafed. I just asked her to print something, and I hit print at the same time and both wireless jobs came out just fine. I suppose I can wait til mrAru is home, have him join the work group and see if I can get a print job from all 4 computers to run through smoothly, I daresay I can.
We are all running win7, home versions of various types, all 4 have office 7. My laptop also has open office.
It was clear when I woke up this morning, but by the time I got out of the shower there was at least half an inch on the ground. My car brush broke yesterday, and it doesn’t look like the snow plans to stop anytime soon. Fuck everything.
(Also, I grew up in Essex County, so we’re totally neighbors!)
Thank you ever so little, not-so-dear-right-now husband, for shouting me awake well before I was due to get up because you’re having a melodramatic meltdown about one of your two pairs of current-prescription glasses losing a screw. Also, thank you ever so little for the ongoing drama. After all, my first day on a new job really needed more stress and anxiety and less time to do things like shower, eat breakfast, pack a lunch, etc.
IRELAND- You get my ire for your ridiculous roads but more importantly, for your rental car super CDW (Collision damage waiver). In case you have plans on going to Ireland and renting a car to get around, lemme clue you in on a little something that’s a bit buried in the details. Rental cars are super cheap there. We booked online months before we left and were shocked that for 8 days in Ireland, we would spend less than $100. Holy poop. As the time came closer for us to leave, I was just reviewing the details of our trip and began to wonder about insurance. After a LOT of digging around, several calls to different places at Avis, I found the problem: the SUPER CDW. In Ireland, the rental car comes with insurance, a CDW, but that does not include the first 1000 euros of damage (approx…depends on type of vehicle). To cover that gap of insurance, you either need to put a hold of 2000 euros on a credit card and/or get the super CDW which is about 40 euros a day which makes the vehicle quite expensive to rent.
Very, very few credit cards cover this insurance in Ireland. If you’re going, you will need to have it printed it out if your credit card does. (My Amex, my Visa signature, and my USBanks Flex Perks all have rental car insurance EXCEPT in Ireland, Jamaica, Italy, and a few other countries).
At the same time, Irish roads? I’m so shocked that I never had to use the insurance we had paid so dearly for.
DEAR HOUSESITTER- Thank you for taking $250 to watch the house and dogs in our absence. Thank you for not ever shoveling the walk properly-as agreed upon- so the snow is now completely compacted down and nearly impossible to shovel. Due to this, the dogs don’t like walking outside and would explain why there were “accidents” in the house while you were getting paid. And now I get to pay another $100 to have the walk properly cleared.
DEAR DOGS. Yes, it’s really cold outside. I bought you sweaters and booties and all I ask is that you pee and poop outside as quick as possible and get back inside. Please don’t give me sad puppy eyes as I don’t want to be outside either.
Frickin’ snowblower!! I just bought it used a couple months ago from a couple of friends of mine and it started great then and a couple times after that. Of course it was warmer then and I didn’t need it. Now that I need it, guess what, it won’t start!! After working on it for a couple of days, I contact one of the guys and he comes over and can’t get it started either. So he sends his brother over and he only pulls the rope about 2 or 3 times and the damn thing starts right up. It took a few more tries to get it to stay running, but it started for him every time he pulled the rope. I hope I can get it started again, I don’t want to call him every time I need it started.
Christmas cards suck! Everyone changes their address without telling me or names their kids with stupid alternate spellings that nobody can remember. Stop it!
Watch how he pulls the rope. I had some machines where it took a slow steady pull to turn it over, and some where a jerk start on the rope was required.
We have a nice wireless network in our house that works fine for everything but the printer. Maybe when we upgrade the printer we’ll get a newer model that will talk with our network.
Snowing again here. I had a fantastic work-out yesterday, dragging my little shopping cart to the supermarket and back through all the unshovelled snow. The return trip uphill was really special.
My first time posting in the Pit, so please don’t be too hard on me.
My grandmother’s in a shitty nursing home after a hospital stay following a fall the day before Thanksgiving (twisted her knee, so there’s swelling, but nothing’s broken at least). I’ve no idea what to do about the nursing home, and it will all be on me because no one else in our family is capable of taking responsibility. She’s not eating and no one gives a shit but me and my boyfriend.
A dear friend died Saturday.
I usually enjoy Christmas and have the right attitude about it, but this year it can go to Hell. I don’t want to be jolly, I don’t want to buy shit with money I don’t have right now. I’m so tired and stressed and overwhelmed.
Hard on you? We’re brutal. The worst of us will imply that you’re a wuss for not just toughing this out; then question the existence of a grandmother at all (we need to see the long form, please); and then post personal anecdotes about our tragedies that are much more tragic.
But most of us are also good at ((hugs)). And hopes/prayers that you can get through this…
… I was about to add “without the season being too annoying”, but most of us find the holidays annoying even when things are going well. NO ONE is under any obligation to be jolly, and I hope you don’t let any of those types get to you.
Helena330 - Has your g’ma said why she isn’t eating? Is it a “I hate the food” or a control thing? I ask, as my g’ma, when first put into a nursing home, refused to eat since it was the one thing she could still control. She was NOT happy about having to leave her home, but she had mental and medical issues that prevented home care. The nursing home should have a social worker - try talking to him/her. If that fails and the place truly is a pit, contact your state ombudman for elder issues.
Dear Nephew,
Get your story straight before trying to get one over on your grandmother. She may be losing her mind, but getting caught in a lie sticks like glue. She will now remember it forever.
Dumbass.
Goddamned fucking apartment complex management. Sitting here stewing and debating on whether or not to file a complaint with their management company.
Every other month I work until 5pm and don’t get home until (if I am lucky) about 5:50pm. This is that month.
Their posted office hours are until 6pm on Monday and Tuesday, 5pm Wed-Thu-Fri.
Eight times since (I believe) April I have attempted to go to office between 5pm and 6pm, usually closer to 6pm. On six of those attempts, the office has been closed. Closed fully 75% of the time I have attempted to go there.
They currently have 3 or 4 packages for me, today was that 8th attempt, and they were fucking closed.
Saturdays are only marginally better. The posted hours are 11-2, and roughly 1/3 of the time I’ve gone there, it is closed.
Once earlier this year, I tried both Monday and Tuesday, closed both days, went there Saturday and it was closed as well. Screamed a blue streak the following Monday when I called them during the day, asking when the fuck I was supposed to pick up my package if they weren’t going to honor their posted hours.
Stupid Fuckers. Your tenants have jobs. Most of us aren’t there during bankers hours, and if you’re going to post the hours, then you’d better fucking be there.
I’d file the complaint, Chimera. 6:00 is 6:00, not 5:55. As you say, people work - if you’re hurrying to get home and get to the office before 6:00, they should still be open when you get there before 6:00.
I had a kind of similar complaint some years ago - I was trying to take continuing education courses. and they were always offered during regular business hours (8-5, Monday to Friday). They’re continuing education classes - classes aimed at people who are currently working and trying to upgrade their skills - why only offer them when your clientele can’t take them?
Time for my annual rant about how bad Calgarians are at clearing snow - snow-covered sidewalks, snow-covered vehicles driving everywhere. It’s not really optional - the laws here require both being cleared of snow ASAP, but people just ignore the laws and nobody does anything about it (so the incentive to make any effort is gone).
And while I’m at it, I might as well bitch about all the people speeding through the school zone every time I walk through it - the roads are icy and slippery, and they’re still speeding through the school zone. Sigh.
Sitting in a Starbucks wasting time until my appt. I go to get my banana bread and while I’m gone a two? year old has moved the stroller he is strapped into right next to the little table my laptop and latte are on. Had I returned a few seconds later, highly likely he’d have bumped the table and spilled the latte on the laptop.
A few minutes that essentially does happen. I’d moved the stroller over towards his oblivious mother and he managed to bump her table hard enough to spill her apparently full drink all over the table, floor and chairs behind her table. Just missed me and a couple of other innocent bystanders.
And, he is still playing with the stroller, tho now he isn’t strapped in. Maybe she’s learned since she stopped him when he was heading for a table on the other side of the store…
And in the meantime, as something you can be proactive about, is it feasible to call the office on those days, ask if there are any packages for you, and extract a commitment to be there unti closing time if there are?
If I had to speculate, the cynic in me might suggest that someone was trying to build a case for arguing that there was insufficient interest to justify continuing to “offer” the course.
