the rant is about the wine, not the horrible work day? perhaps the wine could help make a dent in the horrible work day?
We have a fancy thermostat. It can be set so that it keeps the temperature in a specified range, and turns on the A/C or heat appropriately - which is a great improvement over the old sort, where you had to switch. As in, if you had it set to “heat”, and it got to 90 degrees in the house, you had to get up and manually change something.
When it was installed, it was, inexplicably, set to the old mode, NOT the automatic mode. Manuals were nowhere to be found online. We had to get the furnace people out again (as they had installed it), and do some double-secret ritual to put it into “auto” mode - which was the whole reason we BOUGHT the damn thing.
It requires AAA batteries - being too shmancy to work just on the tiny bit of electricity fed through the wire to the furnace, as our old one did. These, as expected, wear out every year or so. The first time we had to do this, the damn faceplate would NOT COME OFF - and we wound up ripping it partly off the wall trying to get the faceplate off (note: a manual might have told us how to do it easily - but, see above: no manual). So now, it takes one of us to hold the base against the wall, the other to pry the faceplate off, and both of us to join in the cussing. Naturally, the service person takes it off one-handed, with no problem at all. I cannot figure out how he does it. Maybe he’s muttering “alohomora” as he’s doing it.
When the batteries are low, you cannot do anything at all to it - no temperature changes, or whatever. It remains (I thought, until this week) in whatever mode it was before.
Only this time… we noticed the house was COLD. I checked the thermostat, and it displayed the rather unhelpful “HAHAHAHA YOUR BATTERY IS DEAD I OWN YOU PUNY HUMAN!!!” message. So the two of us did our ritual, pried it loose, replaced the batteries, and all was well.
Until I looked at the temperature, and found that apparently “we” (or rather, some insane person creating default settings at the factory) had instructed it to keep the house between 62 and 65 degrees fahrenheit. I’m surprised it didn’t set it to those temperatures Celsius. My husband and I had been out of town for several weeks, and neither our son nor our housemate had commented on any problems, so we have no clue how long this had been going on. Our electric bill should be… interesting this month.
My husband did not want to deal with it. And my reading glasses were in another room. I finally dug them up and figured it out… I think. We had, at one point, set it up for people being out of the house all day and returning at night; with COVID, I just set it to the same thing all day. We now have it set to a range of something like 65 degrees minimum and 75 maximum.
In Fahrenheit.
I hope.
Take it to work with you tomorrow. With one glass.
Have you looked online for a manual?
I made and served dinner last night around 8:30, big salads with grilled turkey burger. Shortly after dinner my gf felt nauseous. She questioned the turkey burgers, but I felt fine. As she became more ill she assumed it was turkey lunch meat she had for lunch. I found the lunch meat and it looked/smelled fine, so I ate a piece (which pissed her off).
I’m still fine, but it turns out she vomited several times through the night. Luckily I remove my hearing aid at bedtime so I slept soundly.
I was thinking about getting one of those Panera chicken sandwiches delivered, but I just looked at the menu and they want $12 for one sandwich! 
Panera food is edible, but it’s not that good. I am not made of money, so I will have to find something different for lunch today.
Especially Youtube for hacks. My thermostat is very picky, and a few videos really helped me tweak it the way I want it.
That’s horrible. That thermostat sounds like something I’d replace with something that actually works just to avoid the aggravation.
A similar rant: we had to replace our forced-air furnace in December, and last week was the first time we switched it to cooling. The blower fan in air conditioning
mode sounds like a jet engine. Turns out there’s a bunch of switch settings for fan speed in heating versus cooling, but the manual they left behind had too many options for me to work out. The installation company is coming out next week to adjust the setting so we can actually hear our TV when the A/C is running.
I was hoping to never have any reason to rant here, and all my appliances are good and nothings going wrong but. For those who want to look up my thread Am i being too sensitive, its my ex. If ever there was a case of, Its not me, its him this may be it. Week or so ago, his dad was scheduled for a heart procedure (oblation on artery) and he was concerned, as was I. He would be laid up a short time, and as he was rolling to the bathroom, I said he’ll need to get his hair cut eventually, or he’ll need a ponytail like his dad wears. After he rolled out of the bathroom, he said Get the fuck iut! Before I say something mean. Im like What? So I left. After taking a day and half to cool down, he explained he was worried about his dad and my comment was a spot that just struck him wrong. Everything was all wonderful aftet that. Saturday we had a great time. Sunday morn he called and I disagreed with something he said and he got mad and said Ill call you later. And todays friday and no call has occured. Its like hes a child who has a tantrum and pouts. I like to discuss things face to face and it always works things out. I feel like I should just be quiet and agree with everything he says. He’ll claim its the MS but all with ms are not like that. Sorry so long but I wanted to get that off my mind.
That’s actually a fairly normal workday here…most of the computers are either old or refurbished, and the handful of new ones aren’t as quite as powerful as they could be. Combine that with reliance on in-house software, and someone is always having some kind of problem. And the typical noise level is one of the reasons I still use earbuds even though I have my own office now.
I’ve got a coworker who could polish it off in no time, but the last I heard she’s very into Duplin wines now (if you’re not familiar with the name, think sweet Riesling, with a few extra tablespoons of sugar).
Not too long, you are, once again, not at fault AT ALL!
I have a friend with MS, and have met others. They are wonderful, even-tempered people (one’s the wife of a friend… who would’ve bitched about it if the wife had even raised her voice).
Now, guys getting hair-trigger tempers as they get older, and just getting mean… that I can attest to.
BUT… we can be trained.And told we cannot treat ANYone that way if we want to be friends with anyone. A folded newspaper across the snout and “No! Down, boy. Bad Ex!” needs to be applied.
Im honestly not sure if your post was satirical. Many on the Dope are good at that but i always take people at face value. Im obviously not going to whack him with a newspaper, just trying to confirm its actually not my saying things I should shut up about or not.
Somebody needs an intervention.
(Btw, if you supply a dry red, even if it comes in a box, I can be there to lend support).
“they” all say that food-related distress does not hit you that fast - that it’s a minimum of 12-24 hours before you start praying for death. So, getting sick right after eating is most likely a result of something you ate a couple of meals earlier. I dunno… a couple decades ago, my husband and I had the same thing for lunch at a restaurant, and within an hour we were BOTH running for the bathroom, do not stop, do not pass go, etc. It was completely non-negotiable. After that, we were fine. I wonder if someone spiked our chili-burgers with Ex-Lax or something!
Of course to find cites, I found ones from Cleveland Clinic saying that it can hit within 1 to 6 hours.
However: since you were fine, and ate the same food, then unless your stomach is made of iron while your girlfriend’s gut is a delicate snowflake, I suspect she caught the crud somewhere else.
The one time I had a foodborne illness where I was pretty sure of the source, it was 12 to 16 hours before it made itself quite evident. The time I caught something like norovirus, household members began coming down with it within 24 hours, and we are certain their cases were not foodborne (I got sick while returning home from NY, and they were not with me).
BTW: leaving the hearing aids out might backfire. Yeah, you weren’t disturbed then… but the girlfriend might make you pay for that :D.
I am now looking up where to get Duplin wine.
My wife and I both love Riesling, but I wouldn’t mind a sweeter one. My all-time favorite beverage is mead, if that tells you where my tastes lie.
ETA: Duplin is from North Carolina? I go there on occasion because my oldest daughter lives there…
Mead is easy enough to make that I always have a bottle chilling in the fridge. You might consider looking it up for yourself. I would, but I think I’m going to go and pour myself a glass of mead instead.
Aren’t you supposed to take them out at night to keep them from rubbing sores in your ears?
In a shallow, unmarked grave.
Right beside mine. Try some Viking Blod if it’s available to you. Better served warm.
I’ve heard it’s been discontinued so it might be hard to come by.
It looks like some places around here might carry it, I’ll have to check it out. It looks good. 
ETA: Our local Bevmo even has it…