I think you need to cross-post this in the “Taking a train” thread. 
I can’t find my cotton balls. I think I am losing my mind.
I could start a whole new thread about this, but I don’t feel like it.
When I was in California for my winter break, I shipped myself ALL of my DVDs and several choice books, which had been languishing in boxes in my parents’ garage for the last year and a half.
The box arrived today.
My books and DVDs are not in it. Instead, I have received three wrapped Christmas gifts, along with a note from the USPS apologizing for any damage to the goods I was shipping.
FUCK YOU, USPS.
Yes, I filed a complaint. No, I didn’t insure it. I’ve never had a problem with USPS and even the girl who took my complaint seemed startled by this one.
I AM SO ANGRY ONLY CAPSLOCK CAN ADEQUATELY EXPRESS HOW I AM FEELING.
Last night we were watching TV and suddenly it stopped - screen went black for a minute, then DishNetwork “trying to find a satellite” came on, found a satellite, and everything was good. For 11 minutes. It did it again. Okay, this is annoying, so let’s watch something recorded.
For 11 minutes. Then another 11 minutes. Another 11 minutes.
It did that for an hour or so, then it stretched out to every 24 minutes, then was fine for an hour straight until we went to bed.
This morning I went to watch a program I DVR’d overnight - it recorded in 11 minute increments. sigh
Call Dish “You’re a very valued subscriber! Thanks!” yeah, anyways. Oh, it looks like it’s not a satellite problem but your DVR box isn’t working. I figured that out already when I couldn’t watch recorded programs, but thanks for the confirmation. They’ll send out a new box, expect it in a week. A what? Okay, whatever. I stated I would expect credit given for the time we’re unable to watch shows in other than 11 minute increments for the projected week. Her response? “Well, you could turn the TV off and play board games and get to know your family”. Heifer say what? cough They could send someone out today, if I was willing to pay their $49.99 “convenience” fee. Their faulty equipment. I have to pay. No, thanks.
That somewhat resolved, I then decided to move on to setting up a wireless network here, so I’m not tied to the table / DSL line when working. Go to the Qwest website, tried doing everything it said… and nothing happened. My tablet is not finding the network. Hmm, I’ll talk to one of their techies, they’re usually quite helpful. They’ve been unavailable for the past hour. Lovely.
I kind of need the network up and running, as my employer is turning off internet connection in my home office in a few weeks - but they’re not removing the phone line. So, I could work here where our house computer is, but not answer phone calls - which is a large portion of my job. I’m one of the last telecommuters to have a phone line, the rest have switched to cell phones, but due to inability for a cell phone to work in my home office, I was left the land line.
Yesterday I asked my boss if I could use our IT people to assist with the whole network thing. Nope. We’re moving into a new work system and it’s our responsibility to handle things like that.
Government work at its’ finest, folks. We switching you off, so you have to use your own internet service; however, we will not help you obtain a means for using your own internet service effectively due to our new work philosophy, which then will cause you to fail at completing one of your major job requirements (answering calls).
Yes, I could dig out the 200’ phone cord and run it through the house, but what a pain in the ass.
Gah I sit down to enjoy the start of the football playoffs, and it takes only about 10 seconds before the inanity of Joe Theisman. Die bastard Die, I hate having to turn off the sound.
Vodka? I’m surprised he didn’t send you out to get a bottle of Scotch (the good stuff, not the swill you get for yourself). Be glad he’s not hanging around the kitchen bitching and being in the way while you try put together something that he will eat for dinner, knowing full well that he will condemn the meal as “cold” if it’s anything less than blister-the-roof-of-your-mouth scalding hot. 
Why do people post videos on Youtube that are just shots taken of the TV screen recorded by a damn video camera?! The sound quality usually sucks testicles for starters, and often includes other background noises. Plus, the image is not as clear, and it’s shaky, too. A good portion of the image is the dark space around the TV screen. Why the hell even bother if you can’t get a proper line-in recording? I especially hate this when it’s a hard-to-find video, and once I finally get what looks like to be a decent hit, it turns out to only be a crappy-ass version of what I wanted.
“I really like the website design you’re doing for my site. But… hmmm… Do we really need all that colour? And those graphics, could you, like, change them? Or maybe get rid of them altogether? Tell you what, let’s just have black text on a white background.”
sigh
I was hoping against hope that my wife, Mrs.kidneyfailure, was pregnant. Alas, we found out that she is not and I am a bit gloomy because of it…
Oh well! Try and try again, eh?
I got my first exposure to classical music from Bugs! 
I realize you want this org chart structured in a nice circle, so it’s clear this is a big happy family group and not anything hierarchical, but you CAN’T MAKE A PHOTO-BASED ORG CHART FOR OVER SEVENTY FUCKING PEOPLE ON A PIECE OF LETTER-SIZED PAPER AND EXPECT THE PHOTOS TO BE BE VISIBLE OR THE NAMES LEGIBLE.
Jesus fucking christ, I will bust my ass for this job, but I cannot negate THE FUCKING LAWS OF PHYSICS.
That’s what she used to do, but now our main B&W MFP prints everything duplex by default.
Because all they have is a VHS and they don’t have the equipment to transfer that video to a digital copy.
A circular org chart - heh. That’s a Dilbert joke waiting to happen.
Of course not. Next week is time to register your baby girl at the local lap-dance preschool, and planning ahead to get her into the striptease prep academy. Then she’ll be ready for fucking college.
Don’t be ridiculous. Everybody knows you don’t want to start lap-dance theory until your daughter has *at least *hit the end of her first growth spurt. Otherwise the proportions between her and the customer are so off that she’ll have to completely relearn her technique, anyway.
WTF, man? Maybe it’s just my prudey Canadian-ness, but damn! is that inappropriate!
I pit my stupid eyeballs - not only do they prevent me from seeing 3-D pictures, but it turns out they aren’t thrilled about IMAX 3-D, either. We went to see Avatar at the IMAX in 3-D, and my head is still aching. I couldn’t even wear the glasses for the first while, until I figured out that if I held my hand over one eye, I could force my brain to start to deal with the 3-D. The movie and the effects were superfantastic, but I don’t know if they’re worth the headache.
I agree with you. Thats not dancing. That there is participatory sex ed.
What. the. Fuck!? was exactly what I said out loud. It’s the adult starting the whole thing off that gives it that certain je ne sais quoi of brain bleach needfulness, IMO. The little tykes just look so gosh-darn enthusiastic :eek::smack:
Speaking of little fucking kids, is it my imagination or has school started recently? There seem to be a higher than usual proportion of clueless newbie posters about the boards this week.
I’m tired of sending the sprog over in good pants that fit and having him come home in old clothes that don’t fit or that are coming apart. I’m also tired of your pissy “I don’t have any clothes for him” attitude when I re-claim said good clothes.
But here is the crux of my problem. The sprog is not a “husky” size and never has been. It’s OK to buy him pants that are a regular. They will fit, I promise. The sprog is tired of being embarrassed by his underwear showing, and he’s sick of having to pull his pants up. But y’know, you’ve convinced yourself that he’s a husky, so a husky he is. :rolleyes:
In my opinion, people who scream when they sneeze ought to be given something to scream about.