In the bathrooms at work we have paper towel dispensers, the type where you grab the folded edge of the paper and pull out one sheet with each grab.
Well, it only works if the paper is installed in the holder the correct way. If it is placed upside-down, you struggle, you wedge your hand up in there sideways, and you pull away 6 or 7 sheets of paper. This happens to me about…and I’m estimating here…99% of the time.
The holders are filled by the overnight housekeeper, who apparently has no clue that there is a correct way to insert the papers. Or maybe they just like messing with me.
Very minor. And probably fixable, but I’d rather bitch about it.
This September, it’ll be 20 years of marriage. January was 21 years since I first met him at NYC MegaDope. I figure that if I hadn’t realized that he’s not usually a jerk over that time, he would have left me by now. Actually, with a often as I’ve been a notch, I’m kinda surprised he’s kept me around this long!
I’m hoping that when he wakes up, he’ll be in less pain and in a better mood.
My doc has given me stern words about cheese though, so my normal daily intake of the stuff has been dramatically reduced.
Now there’s a good Little Frustration that Needs Venting.
She could have told me to stop eating almost anything else, but cheese? That was below the belt!
I really am trying to follow her instructions, but it is not pleasant.
I am frustrated by, and want to vent about, little plastic stickers on everything.
For one thing, they’re annoying because I have to peel them all back off, including the ones that don’t want to come; and yes including the ones on every.individual.orange.etc. because no they do not go in the compost.
For another, they started appearing pretty much shortly after we figured out that little bits of plastic are a serious ecological problem. So in response we . . . started producing lots more of them. (Maybe that one’s not so little.)
Just the mention of scissors reminded me of one… last year I bought myself some new Dockers. You know how the price tags are basically sew on nowadays? Well I got a pair of scissors to cut off the tag, but the tag was sewn on a bit too tightly, and while attempting to cut it off I ended up cutting a hole in my brand new pants.
I just can’t even today. I had to take CtE to the eye doctor - ladt year at pediatric - and they kept pushing to come home instead of going to school because “they took my blood so I’m feeling woozy” (They had to have blood work done before the eye doctor appointment for something unrelated, but they didnt take THAT much blood.) I dropped them off at school, after having talked to my dad so they knew what was going on there. At the beginning of their lunch period, they decided to call me “just to talk”, but instead getting pissed because I told them that the best thing if rhey were feeling woozy was to go eat lunch. I should care, I know I should, but too much crap keeps falling on me today - things not working the way the should, frustrations with my car, just little things I could handle if they werent pelting at my head simultaneously.
I’ll get through it. I always do. But I really wish I could forget rhe world for awhile.
I hate all the little ways our system at work sucks. We have to type parcel ID #s all the time. They’re 17 digits and broken up by 5 hyphens and a dot. Our old GIS would take it either with or without punctuation. But not the improved system.
Our document tracking system actually works against you, forcing you to re-type case names because the system starts searching after a few clicks and erases everything you typed after the first 3-4 characters. And it doesn’t bring up what you asked for anyway. if you want the 25th case from 2022 you have to stop short of typing “2022-25.” You must stop at the last 2 and wait for the system to bring up a list of 47,000 cases (instead of cases 20-29 like a normal query would). The you finish with the “5” and it gives it to you. After a significant delay.
Another department has their document system that is still OK once you get to it. But you can’t just go to the relevant search page. Unless you used the system in the last 5 minutes, you start on the timed-out page which directs you to the page with the choice of apps you want which directs you to the user-agreement page and then to the page you were on 11 minutes ago.
None of these systems used to be this bad. They all used to be better or we used earlier systems that worked better. None of these system micro-aggressions are really a problem per se. They just add friction to our daily jobs.
When I first went back to school in 2011 I bought a backpack from K Mart. I don’t remember the brand but it was POS that lasted about one semester then promptly fell apart. So I bought another one. Same result.
So I bit the bullet and ordered one from LL Bean. They sent me a bag all right, but it wasn’t the one I ordered. The one I ordered was burgundy red with black trim: very nice and professional looking, at least for a dead-ass broke college student. What they sent me instead was one that was baby puke green with yellow trim. But for $100 I was done screwing around. I decided to keep it and just use it until it wore out, then get the one that I actually wanted.
How silly of me. It’s an LL Bean. They simply never ever wear out. The death of the universe will arrive before this damn bag wears out. It’s been used on a near-daily basis for 11 years with no particular gentleness given and other than a few ink marks from pens that were mistakenly left unretracted before storing them the bag looks literally brand new. And here I am, a genuine certified teacher, 4 college degrees under my belt, a room full of students under my ersatz tutelage every day, and I still have this literally shit ugly messenger bag. How embarrassing.
It does have one practical drawback: the shoulder strap is too short to comfortably wear it bandolier style, which is my preference.
Since I make teacher money a nice leather one is out of the question. I’d like to get a decent canvas one but all of the ones I’ve found online have a zillion pockets and little pouches and other superfluous bits. What I need is something like an Indiana Jones bag: simple, no extraneous pockets, not too big (I usually just use it to carry my lunch). However that particular bag (a WWII gas mask bag is what Indy used) is a bit too small. So, what I need is a super-sized gas mask bag, which I so far have not been able to actually find.
After clearing everything you can, there’s a quarter of the field “walled off” by a perimeter of mines that’s all one-in-three or two-in-three chances. A careful count of how many mines haven’t been found and the remaining spaces shows that you have a one-in-eight chance of hitting a mine in the uncleared quarter. So you click a square at random and you hit the one mine in an otherwise entirely empty area.
This is “arrow through a quarter-inch eye slit” irritating.
Not really a minor inconvenience or a complaint, but I have been single for a few months and I started using dating apps but I am not getting anywhere. I am an average-looking man and it seems that my picture isn’t doing it for all the women on those dating apps that swiped left on me, however quickly they’ve done so.
Fortunately, I am quite busy with work and I don’t spend too much time thinking about this stuff, but when I do think about it, it stings a tad.
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Back To The OP
I forgot to shower yesterday. This morning, I wanted to take one but I remembered that maintenance was doing work in our building today. I know they are still at work because my apartment is next to the laundry room and I can hear the sound of macho tool use. I do NOT like using my shower (the hole in the shower ceiling was finally spackled, so dripping from upstairs is no longer an issue. But neither pressure nor temperature are constant and it has many other problems). BUT, I’d like to use it today.
With the return of reasonable weather, I’ve been taking Simi (our youngest) for walks on a local trail. He loves his walks, and for some weird reason feels the need to evacuate his colon during the first 30 seconds of each walk.
I have learned to have a bag open and ready to use. They are Amazon Essentials, cheap, sturdy, and they open easily. They are baby powder scented, which to me seems weird af.
Sadly, our kitchen is too small so my cheese fridge has to live in the back room with hub’s beer fridge and mead closet.
We might not live as long as other folks, but we will be happy while we are alive!!!
The boring truth is that I am a professional cheese maker, my home creamery is known far and wide (2 diners and a pizza place) for the quality of my soft cheeses. You can’t use a regular fridge for cheesemaking, they are too cold. You can buy a professionally made cheese cave, or you can buy a regular fridge and MacGyver it to the proper temp, which is too warm for most food.
When prices stabilize, I plan to get another cheese fridge so I can start playing with blue cheeses. Is that all la-de-da or what?
Hubs’ beer fridge also has the same controls because beer needs to be fermented at a specific temperature as well. The mead just needs a dark place to ferment but shouldn’t get too hot.
Go back to thinking we are all fancy and stuff, I kinda liked it!!!
