Do you suppose third time’s a charm when it comes to passing this damn kidney stone? I was pretty sure it was gone the day after it first started acting up. Then it flared up again last week and I thought I finally got rid of it Saturday morning. Now today I was hurting all over again and passed something that looked like a small brown sugar crystal. I was at work so I couldn’t catch it.
I had a CT scan done after the second flare-up and they said there was only one small stone. I’m really hoping this is it because I am over this.
I do drafting for the engineers here who actually do design work and I do my best to prioritize and turn things around as quickly as I can. It’s not all professionalism - it’s to minimize the amount of crap on my desk and in my in-box, since things have gotten lost in the shuffle in the past.
But, dammit, don’t send out an electronic rework request while you’re still reworking the design. These are usually quick fixes, and I’ll jump on them when I need a break from larger projects that make me stabby. Due to the nature of the file management software, switching projects can be slow, and that only wastes more time when I go to make the change you requested only to find out that you’re still tweaking the design.
I know I’m just a lowly drafter, but I do have a degree in engineering and I was engineering while you were still in diapers and I was doing drawing on paper with pencils because there was no AutoCAD yet. So I know how it’s supposed to work. Kindly wait till you’re done before you interrupt my work flow with your request.
Yet another reason I will be re-retiring in 3 anna half months. I do like my job, but sometimes these young engineers…
My gf has been prodding me to destink (unstink?) the basement for a few weeks now. This is the time of year our old dog Ella stinks from swimming in the river all summer and never really drying, so I bathed her. Still, the basement definitely stinks.
It’s a huge basement with distinct areas; my mancave, the dog’s crates, my bathroom, storage area, and laundry/furnace/beerfridge area. Yesterday I spent a few hours going over every square foot looking for stink. I expected to maybe find a mouse/chipmunk in a trap or something similar.
I eventually found the problem. Apparently, 6-7 weeks ago my gf was rearranging the freezer portion of our backup refrigerator. She took out four lamb roasts with plans on thawing them in the refrigerator, then making several stews. She got only as far as putting the roasts, in a foil pan, on top of the refrigerator. The nearby boiler/water heater exhausts outside, which kept the odor from being overpowering.
Ever leave meat sitting out for close to two months? Damn, it was nasty. Wearing gloves, I loaded everything in a big lawn/leaf bag. Today I took the dogs to work in my Jeep, but I also brought the nasty bag of rotting meat. I never in a million years thought our good dog Kali would rip open the bag and roll in it on the drive to work. :(:(:(
Just my opinion, but if you don’t know how to clear your voicemail or even set it up, you should be restricted to a landline. No cell phone for you!
A large part of my job is trying to contact people WRT getting mental healthcare treatment. Appointments, prescriptions, things like that. If you’re going to leave me a message asking for a call back because you need your adderall and without it you’ll die and maybe even fail a class, GIVE ME A WAY TO REACH YOU. And if you need an appointment because your BPD medication isn’t working, or your antidepressant is out of refills, that makes it just a leetle bit more important. I’m calling from your doctor’s office; this could be your life on the line here, no exaggeration.
It’s not that hard–dial into your voicemail and delete the fuckers! You don’t even need to listen to them anyway, it’s probably all three-month old robocalls telling you all about how you’re a valued Marriott customer or some shit like that. If it’s social, you probably got a text two minutes after it was left asking if you’d heard it anyway!
And not even setting your VM up in the first place? Jesus fucking christ on a pony, people! It’s easier than getting rid of the blinking 12:00 on your DVD player! Long story short: if you don’t know how to use the technology, you shouldn’t fucking have it.
Writing from that immense majority of the world which got “you missed a call” messages before we got voicemail: pbbbbbth. Only because some people like a certain technology and phone companies insist on providing it for everybody, doesn’t mean we should use it! At least Spanish companies finally started having it off by default, but not all of them do yet.
Why is a camera designed with “flash on” as the default? I very rarely use a flash, so every time I turn on the camera I need to remember to disable the flash, which is a 2-hand operation.
