I got a 2nd power cord for home so I don’t have to climb under the desk at work to unplug it every time. First-world problem solve! (I think it was only about $12, and work paid for it).
Good idea! I had a docking station in my office, but now we’ll be moving to full-scale post-COVID “hoteling”, so no more docking stations. It would be annoying to have to bring the power cord with me at all times.
I was a bit too impatient last night and faintly burned the tip of my tongue on dinner.
… which means I have 1a.) fresh food, and 2b.) the means to cook it, making this a first world problem indeed.
Also, burnt tongue! { pose of woe }
Oh, I have an even more first-worldly problem.
I have a whole duck thawing in the fridge. Wanted to roast it today on my day off, but looking online, it appears I can prep it today but for max crispy skin, should hold off roasting till tomorrow.
When I’ll be at work.
{ whine } But I want my duck NOW!!!
I know there’s a pandemic and a labor shortage, but I’m really f’n tired of not knowing what store hours are and therefore have to look them up and hope they’re accurate to try to plan when a store might close at 10 or 9 or 8 or hell, let’s close at 6 on a Tuesday. There are places around here that are up to their 4th set of “new hours” in the past 18 months.
I hear you on the hours. I like to have lunch out about once a week, and I check yelp and I check the restaurant’s website (if they have one), and still run into the issue of them having changed their hours but not their website. I’m tired of arriving at a place to find locked doors and a paper note: “Closed Wednesdays”
I decided I wanted burritos for my work lunches this week. Lovely, vegetarian, and full of fresh ingredients.
But I’m one person and burrito ingredients don’t come in one-burrito sizes. So, in order to minimize waste and not let any of my stuff go bad, it’s burritos and burrito variants for lunch and dinner every day until I run out of, at least, beans and rice.
I’m so sick of burritos and burrito variants. I feel like I work at Taco Bell. I have no idea what next week’s lunch plans are, but I can tell you it’s definitely not f’ing burritos.
I went to a Wendy’s for lunch yesterday and couldn’t find the front door. When I got inside I found that the freestyle Coke machine was out of Coke syrup (and all variants) so I had to drink Sprite!
Ha. Last week at my shiny new full time job, the espresso machine decided to pull espresso just fine, but the steam wand was out of commission for most of the week. Being a fully automated machine, if something goes kerflooey, you’ve got to call a service person to look at it and then reprogram it with cards. 
I made quite a few outstanding Americanos.
This week, everything’s awesome- until our ordering app on the walkup kiosk is not working. Sheesh!
I came back to add on: Said espresso machine has a clock display on it. It was finally serviced on Friday, after hours but before DST- so now it is like many peoples’ car. One hour ahead, I have no idea if the barista can reset it.
Our toaster broke this morning, so I tried to find a new one on Amazon. Every one I picked had a high rating, but the first few reviews would talk about how they broke immediately or set the kitchen on fire or something. So I picked the most basic one I could find, and read several glowing reviews…until I got to the one about how great the touch screen was. And it was a “verified purchaser” review!
What is Amazon even good for anymore?
I think I might have to replace my entire oven/microwave unit just because the microwave tray stopped rotating. I need my reheated food to be uniformally warm for me to enjoy it.
The most likely accurate place for hours of operation is Google. They are constantly asking me if my business hours have changed, and they make it easy for me to correct the info. Meanwhile, I do not bother with my webpage.
Certain websites, like ESPN+ or Disney+, send me a “someone has signed into your account” email every single time I log in. No option whatsoever to “save this browser” or opt out of the stupid emails, it’s just automatic every single time. Annoying as shit!
Search for “wind up microwave turntable”
Thanks!
Party at Britney’s house tonight!!!
Because of aluminum shortage. Prices are up.
I just dropped AT&T landline phone for a (way cheaper) VOIP service. But the caller ID time stamps are eastern time… ONLY!
My umbrella trigger broke and it won’t open automatically anymore. I have to manually open my umbrella! The horror!
The shower gel I use, Duke Cannon, comes in a plastic squeeze bottle made of thick plastic. This makes it hard to squeeze with one hand. I guess I could get one of those grip exercisers to practice with.