It's time for June mini rants. Be the second...

The BBQ Pit
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In Spain, if a car coming down the opposite direction blinks his headlights at you, it usually means either “you left your lights on after the tunnel” or “hey you, turn the freaking lights on!”

If the car is red, with white lettering that reads POLICIA FORAL, and the light they switch on for a moment is that blue one on top of the car with the accompanying soundtrack, I do hope what they mean is “kiss your license goodbye cos it just did like Custer at Little Big Horn.”

I also do hope that the moron in the convertible Beemer who chose to pass four cars at a time just as a curve was coming up and who managed to avoid a head-on collision with the cops by narrowly inserting himself between the front two of those four cars while the cops braked gets hemorroids the size of a Mack truck, on account of the heart-health test he gave to everybody at the scene.

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You work in my office? looks around Which desk are you at? :confused:

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So hired tech guru, yes I’m running the script to unpack the database backup file that you made available.

In fact I’ve been running it for two days now. It has hogged nearly all of the available RAM and resources on the computer I’m using. I just did some off the cuff estimates of how much longer it will run and came up with …oh…five or so… FUCKING DAYS!

Maybe you could have warned me that this would happen. Had I known this I would have done it from another machine.

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I doubt anyone remembers the KitchenAid Architect toaster oven I was bragging about in the toaster oven thread this past October…but the damn thing quit working last week, and I can’t seem to locate the receipt. I can find the receipts for all the other kitchen gadgets I’ve purchased since I’ve been at this house, but I really need to find this one because the damn toaster oven is still under warranty. :mad:

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There are workarounds to that, Jeep’s Phoenix. Did you buy the toaster oven with a credit or debit card, and do you remember which store? Old statements can sometimes be used as a starting point to retrieve sale information from the vendor.

And did you consider calling KitchenAid about the problem? They might be able to determine warranty status from the serial number, or lot number on the unit itself.

Anyway, good luck finding your receipt.

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Yep, I have the credit card statement, and I’ve located the charge (I rarely buy anything from that particular store, and I can trace the date based on the numerous posts I made online when the handle melted off of the old oven). I haven’t called KitchenAid yet.

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I had to get my laptop receipt re-printed; since I had the exact date, they were able to re-print for me - no problem (once I remembered which store I had actually gone to).

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That’s my next plan; I’m dropping by the store tomorrow (with my credit card statement, of course).

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[hijack]congodwarf, I started an “Ask the…” in MPSIMS that I think covers your questions. Feel free to fire away with more if you’re so inclined.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13878971#post13878971
[/hijack over]

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Here’s a thought: instead of texting useless messages to your BFF, why don’t you retrieve your fucking bus pass before the damn bus arrives, so we don’t all have to sit there watching you fumble for it.

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You know, sixteen items in the “15 items or less” express lane isn’t really cool with the rest of us when the majority of those ‘items’ are bags of multiple items (fruit, ears of corn, loose french bread loaves) and it takes THREE FUCKING PAPER BAGS to hold all of it.

Dickface.

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Oh yeah, my boss, who seems hellbent on finding the smallest excuse to write people up and told me he never lets anything slide “because it only causes problems down the road”, tried to impress me by saying that he goes through other supervisor’s reports and tries to find rules violations that they are not enforcing so he can report them to the Director.

:eek:

:smack:

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Most stores consider like items such as multiple boxes of mac and cheese to be one item. Or at least that’s been my experience. The local Fred Meyer sign says “about 12 items” just so people don’t get all pissy about it.

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I took 13 items through the express lane the other day. I am a rebel who enjoys life on the edge.

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I have calmed sufficiently from yesterday. On a Saturday the electricity people decided to replace power poles in a suburban area. Hello- Saturday- people are home? They like to do things like washing, watching week end sport, getting on the Internet and possibly having a cold beer while cooking a lavish dinner. These all take electricity.

Oh, I did get a note in the letter box earlier in the week that power would be off between 0800 and 1000 hours. At midday I checked again. If you hold the note in a strong light the handwriting actually says between 0800 and 1600 hours. Fuck them.

So, the 7 hour roast will not be getting cooked. I dash to the shops and buy ice so I can have a cold beer. Due to the length of time without power, the aging battery in the security system dies. I have to replace it.

It is Saturday afternoon and most shops are shut except for one in an area I am not familiar with. I have updated the sat nav during the week and get it out. The only street map it will display is fucking Dublin. Of course I could fix it if I can plug it into the computer but without power there is no Internet.

I drive to the store. I go through a police radar trap. I no longer care.

I get home and want to bitch to the world about my day on Facebook. My brand new laptop shits itself.

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I had totally different plans for today, but the dogs put the kibosh on that.

Last weekend, we bought and set up a very large outdoor kennel for them. When we set it up, I wanted to line it 12 inches in and out with pavers so the dogs couldn’t dig under it and escape through our broke-ass gate in our fence. I had wanted to fix the gate last weekend, but hubby put it off.

My plan was to actually get enough pavers to line around the edge of the entire kennel, but hubby decided he wanted nicer (more expensive pavers) and we didn’t get enough to line the kennel.

All this week, the dogs have done great in the kennel. That is, until last night.
My son went to the U2 concert and we had been invited over to some friends’ house 20 miles away for a BBQ. We put the dogs in the kennel, along with food and water and went on our merry way.

At 11:45 last night, as we were getting ready to leave our friends’ place, we got a text from my son saying the dogs had gotten out of the kennel and the backyard. I called him immediately and asked him how he knew and he informed me that one of our neighbors had texted him two hours earlier, but he couldn’t text us from inside Qwest Field and let us know.

So, we race home, found the dogs waiting for us in the front yard, the spot where they had dug out of the kennel, and where they had nudged the backyard gate open.

So today, we’re getting more pavers to make sure the kennel is entirely lined and building a new gate. Damn, that’s just not money I needed to spend this weekend. :mad:

On the other hand, I don’t want someone calling the Humane Society and taking our dogs away either. So, we have to suck it up and do it.

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Toaster oven update: I never did find the receipt, but I did find the box in the garage…it still had the store’s stickers on it, including the return sticker! Between that and my credit card statement, they were able to locate proof of purchase…and because it had been such a short amount of time, they just did an even exchange. Yay!

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I like so-called graphic T-shirts. They fit me in a way other T-shirts historically fail to do.

But I hate the “graphics” on these things. Why can’t they just make a plain, solid T-shirt that is just like the graphic ones sans the idiotic looking, Ed Hardyesque patterns? Such a simple thing to want out of life, I think.

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Perhaps ,but the chickens don’t.

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:confused: What is the difference?