Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

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Don't make me hurt you mhendo.

It's not that I particularly care about Apple, but I do care (for my job anyway) about making sure brand and company names are spelled/capitalized/punctuated correctly, and that post set off one hell of a tic.
 
Dung Beetle said:
Don't take the one next to the office! There's a hole drilled in the wall and they can watch you shower!
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Ooh, good call. I'll keep that in mind. Still waiting for a call back from the reservations person. I've made reservations at hotels before - this is not how it's done.
 
Rilchiam said:
Look, I support everything else you're saying, but I gotta ask about this. Her school starts the third week of August? When did it let out? Not to excuse her attitude and such, but knowing you'll be going back to school when it's still (presumably; I missed seeing your location; where are you at?) ungodly hot/humid is kind of a demotivator. (But then so is not getting out until the last week of June, which has also happened to me.)
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School in Arizona starts middle of August too. It's hateful and nasty.
 
Dear media: the U.S. consists of other parts of the country besides the east coast. Really! Okay, you're aware that L.A. exists, but there is a lot of country in here in the middle.

It's hot this week on the east coast. Unusually hot. That doesn't have to dominate the headlines quite so thoroughly. There are a lot of us in the middle who are having our own weather events and don't want to keep hearing about yours.
 
Dung Beetle said:
Well, the “reasoning” now is that we don’t want to drive him away!* Something bad might happen! But I’ll be damned if I can see what we’re protecting him from, since we really never know where he is or what he’s doing.
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If you're able to drive him away by asking him to contribute to the family in the same way a prepubescent child might be, he's got more backbone than I'd give him credit for, which will serve him well in supporting himself.

I predict that if you give him an ultimatum (and stick to it--no empty threats, so your husband would need to be in agreement), he'll knuckle under like the lazy wuss he is.

ETA: I especially predict he won't leave because if he does, he'd still have to do all the chores (and probably more), but he'd also be out free room and board. You may wish to point this out to him if he gets pouty (or your husband when you're trying to get him on board).
 
Thanks for all the suggestions re: endometrial ablation. I'll look into it. Thankfully, at this stage, I usually only have 1-2 days of cramping, and at that it's usually only every few months where it makes me all stabby. I think I might be moving into perimenopause (I hope). I'm mostly annoyed with doctors who tell me that I what I feel is best for my body ISN'T without giving me a good medical reason why not. Of course, to give my GYN credit, she did eventually listen to me and do a tubal ligation instead of forcing me to use an IUD because I "might" change my mind about having more children. I love my daughter, but one is enough, thanks.
 
mhendo, if you want to look like you're taking the high road, just tell people you're going to continue to capitalize the products that way until Mac stops manufacturing their iPods in hellish Chinese slave labor camps. That'll shut 'em up.

ETA: Just make sure your own iPod's nowhere in sight when you say it.
 
Does ANYBODY know what Standard time means? This is this middle of summer in California and when you set up meetings and put in big CAPITAL letters that the meeting starts at 11:30am PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, what are we supposed to do? Think you are a moron who doesn't know the difference between Standard and Daylight time, or think you are a moron and expect us to convert the 11:30am time into actual Daylight time.

Does anyone ever say Pacific Daylight Time for any reason? I'm going to start inviting people to meetings using Newfoundland Standard Time. Translate that, you morons. :mad:

Also, why, if Google Calendar is going to translate all your meeting times according to your local time zone, do they not allow you to specify the time zone when creating a new calendar entry? :confused:
 
niblet_head said:
:p

Could be WORSER!! I once had a boss tell me, pretty patronizingly I might add, precisely where (how far from the top and left-hand margin of the page) and how (exactly horizontal) to place a staple. Documents - even documents to be filed internally, like copies of stuff sent to clients! - had to be stapled precisely this way.
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What's sad is that there are people who will staple one page or cannot manage to staple multiple pages in an intelligent fashion* prompting people like your boss to have to explain stapling to everyone in case they might be as moronic as these other people.

*I work with just such people. We often have multiple pages of medical records which we staple together. We have a set order to staple them in which rarely gets followed. People often staple in the middle of the client's name and address section then realize they forgot to staple something or fax the record and so they rip it apart tearing the name and address section making it unreadable and then put it back together using several staples to piece together the mess they made. Sometimes the staple ends up half off the pages so they are barely held together or the staple doesn't go through all the pages and they somehow fail to notice this. And yes, I have seen someone staple one piece of paper. :smack:
 
Shot From Guns said:
So... Did these posted signs give a duration of time to expect the water to be turned off, which they have now exceeded? Or are you really just mad at yourself for estimating wrong instead of asking?
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I'm angry at them for turning the water off for the entire day when it was completely unnecessary and unreasonable for them to do so. Now that they have the necessary equipment, the repair itself will take about 2 hours -- which is exactly what I thought it would take.

If they didn't have the new water heater on hand, the water should have stayed on, period. If it were an emergency I'd feel differently, but last I checked people don't generally schedule emergencies several days in advance.
 
Shot From Guns said:
Ahem. If I may direct you back to my first post on the subject:



You're the one who decided that you needed to defend your opinion.
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I'd probably not have bothered except that I was shocked into incoherence by such a defense of the indefensible (use of "sammich").
 
Is anybody else getting a creepy "ownership" feeling in the this bruhaha over LeBron James picking Miami over Cleveland. the co-owner's open letter on the team's website, and him being booed as he attended a wedding this past weekend?

I wouldn't go so far as to insinuate it's a master-slave and plantation thing going on, but WTF. Thousands of basketball players have come to the end of their contracts and moved on, for money, fame or glory or all three. Why can't he? So what if he grew up in the area? So what if projections have it that the Cleveland area will suffer economic loss based on his not being a member of the team anymore. You shoulda diversified your portfolio, babe.

I hear they've removed a mural of him somewhere in Cleveland. He must be crying himself to sleep right now. Crying green tears and wiping 'em with hundred-dollar bills.
 
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