February mini-rants thread...

Thank you. Here, have a beer.

This is a travesty, margin.

What kind of beer?

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but I need to know whether I should put this straw away…

I got yer Mexicans and yer Czechs.

I’d go root for that guy.

hahahah I love it. WE need to talk…:stuck_out_tongue:

Yanno, I just talked to the bank and got my credit card debt combined with my car loan and saved me about 25% per month. It’s worth a shot!

I know! There’s a picture of me from high school where I fell asleep on the bus to an away meet; my right eye is slightly open. That’s how I sleep! So it’s not unreasonable that this happened at some point.

I am TRYING to lose weight. Part of my approach is working out, which is helping, as far as I can tell. At least it WAS working until my treadmill died about two weeks ago.

Okay, fine, I’ll go to the YMCA. After all, I’m paying all that money every month. And THAT worked, until we had a solid week of ice and snow (rare here in Dallas) last week. The Y is closed, and besides, the damned kids are home from school ALL WEEK LONG.

So I remembered we’d bought Wii Active Personal Trainer like a YEAR ago, and I’d never used it because I had better options. So I busted it out, set up a profile, and started working out.

Twenty minutes later I seriously thought I was going to throw up – WHAT a workout!

Only it’s now two DAYS later and my legs and glutes are so sore that every time I either stand or sit, I want to cry. One super-hard workout followed by days of being sidelined by aching misery is not what I’m looking for here, Wii Active!

And worst of all, I couldn’t give my avatar a goatee, so it just doesn’t LOOK like me. Hrmph.

There’s this place called OUTSIDE. You can walk there. Any distance you want.

I swear.

Actually, this past week, it was dangerous to walk outside. We had a lot of sleet and ice, and then snow on top of it. That’s a damned slippery situation, and we don’t have the ability to remove this stuff. Plus nobody knows how to drive on it. So outside was pretty dangerous.

Have you considered shaving?

Oh for Christ’s sake…

that’s one of the things I hate about these Fabulous Manuals with Tests Included we’re supposed to write: there is no way to make several possible answers acceptable, and if a field is “free value” the test requires the testee to type

eggg-zactly

what the example says in order to accept it. I’m sure it’s all very… pedagogic. But it’s shite at teaching.

Dammit, I’m pretty sure I broke my foot! Dropped a 24-oz. bottle of soda on top of it, and I’m about 99% sure that it broke two or more of the small bones at the top of my instep. And I won’t know before tomorrow whether it is broken, because I don’t have TIME to get x-rays today. Gotta work until 3, then take the Girl Child across town for the county spelling bee. Hopefully, an ace bandage, ibuprofen, and a lidocaine patch will get me through the day!

That sounds like one lidocaine patch more than what you’d get at emergency for a broken foot. When I broke a small bone in my foot, they told me that the foot is actually very stable, so you’re not doing too badly there. I mean, except for the pain of a broken foot. :slight_smile:

I have to get a mammogram and an ECG today. I do NOT want to do it. I don’t care how nice the technician is, all of them seem to want to flatten my tits to paper thinness.

I haven’t had to go through that special hell (yet) Lynn, but that description was … evocative? Is that the word I’m searching for? Anyway, I cringed and reflexively crossed my arms while reading it.
Putting this here instead of the “workplace griping” thread since that seems to have devolved a bit into something about public vs private sector and govt. workers and blahblah:

Who in blazes spells out “facsimile” in their email signatures where they include all their contact info (main phone, direct phone, cell, email, carrier pigeon ID number…) instead of just saying “fax” like a normal human being?!?

The people I work with, that’s who.

Dinosaurs! It’s a fax, people. Fax.

Do you also strap on a brassiere each morning?

Oh, now that’s a chuckle and a half.

As mentioned above, the DFW area got one helluva ice’n’snow storm last week, one that pretty much brought the city to a standstill for a couple of days. Yeah, yeah, Northerners are rolling their eyes at us. But it was close to half a foot of snow on top of frozen-slick sleet and we just don’t have the infrastructure to deal with it.

So they’re forecasting more of the same to blow in tomorrow.

My ever-so-lovely grandboss just walked through and told us that our CEO was “annoyed” at how much the office had to be closed last week, and that we should anticipate not even having a delayed (10am) opening. Annoyed. The asshole didn’t even show up himself, but he wants all of us to risk our necks? If my car gets totalled, will he buy me a new one? (Hell, if I get in an accident I can’t get to work anyway so that kinda just goes in a circle.) My health insurance is not good enough for me to risk being hospitalized just so I can do the same mundane shit work I do every day.

You could practically hear the morale tanking as she walked through talking to us.

I have a family to provide for, and vacation days. You may all kindly eat a bowl of dick if you think I’m re-doing the Ride Of Terror I endured last week the one day I drove in.

Does DFW have any kind of a mass transit system worth speaking of?

“If they’re calling when I’m in the shower, it must be important.”

I pit robo-calling telemarketers, of course, but mostly myself for being dumb enough to get out of the shower to run answer the phone.