Jester, my BF has sleep apnea, too, so he has a machine that he uses when he sleeps. You might need one of those to help with it. My uncle has it, too.

Why is it cold. We've already been 88 degrees recently, why is today only 50 and raining, no fair.

I have a really bad headache right now due to a high pressure system coming our way and warmer temps on the way. So tired of it.

I'll get scared s**tless over random things. First, it was Steve from Blue's Clues playing devil and staring into my soul. Then, it was Barney the dinosaur stabbing someone. And lastly, my cat turning into a mustached devil. WTF!!! :o:o

Yeah, my mom and most of my aunts have C-pap machines.

Despite my best efforts, I've picked up the latest winter bug that's going around.

FUUUUUUUU....

None of this would have happened if people who get sick would just stay at home instead of infecting their co-workers! Inconsiderate jerks. :x

That's the shiiiiiiiiits. It's always "great" when someone comes to the gym for me to train them, and I always open with "So how we feelin' today?", and they cough and go, "I have a cold, but I didn't want to miss our session." :roll: So now I get paid for the session, and miss the next 3 days of work, minimum. Terrific.

I tell my clients, if you feel sick, just stay home. I mean it's a gym, don't bring that sh*t in here. Common sense, man.

But yeah, that sucks. Feel better, dude.

Oh it's just sh*tting me because I actually have (or had) plans for the weekend for once. I'm catching it in the early stages so hopefully if I stay in bed tomorrow I can kick its butt.

I just don't get it - I mean, we have paid sick leave over here. It's not life-or-death for someone to miss one day of work. Instead, the jacknut comes in, makes everyone else sick and then THEY have to miss days of work too. Basically means at least triple the working hours and manpower lost than if the inconsiderate dumbass had just stayed the f*ck at home. I mean, it's not rocket science - it's just stupid macho "Doesn't matter how sick I am, I can soldier through" crap. Makes me want to kick someone in the shins...

That sucks. Being sick always kind of makes me grumpy and hate whoever gave it to me, be it a known suspect or unknown.

One of the things I hated most about working retail. If it wasn't a coworker then it was customers. And worst the people who drag their sick kids out in public because they wanted to go out and dragged the kid along, while both the child and employees would rather that the little cranky virus time bomb stayed home. Dreaded working the kid's clothing department, esp during the winter. I knew I was probably a dead woman if I had to.

Not to belittle your problem, penny, or even play devil's advocate, buuuut.....
Sometimes a person doesn't have much of a choice but to go in to work or go out somewhere when they have a cold, flu, etc. I know I can't AFFORD to miss two-three days at a time, so I go in, cold, flu, or not. Mind, I DO try to medicate the heck out of myself to keep the symptoms to a minimum, and stay away from areas that are easily contaminated, and avoid food or other people as much as possible. Wash hands and face frequently, keep coughing and nose-blowing to the minimum and do it away from others. Try to keep from making others sick as much as I can, but- sometimes you just can't help it.

It may not be that they are being jerks, but just need to get things done and can't take the time away that taking sick days entails. And as for myself, I DO "soldier through" unless I'm practically on my death bed, not just because I feel I can make it, but because if I miss time, my paycheck suffers for it, and I have too much riding on what little I scrape by with as it is. Especially with another person depending on me to provide care. It's hard, but I feel like if I have to call in, then I'm failing him as a spouse and care-giver.

I am mildly annoyed that the vast majority of game controllers that I have ever used place the X button on the Y axis and the Y button on the X axis.

On the sick people at work topic, I've always ended up with the bosses that act like everyone that calls in sick is faking it & have been told to come in or get written up. It was at the point that I called in because I had pneumonia (which I developed by working 2-3 days in a row with the flu) and instead of "Oh my gosh, get better!" I got "Are you kidding me? Well when are you coming back?" It was at that point that I was like F*** it! and put in my 2 weeks. Why should I bend over backwards only to be further crapped on.

^ Crap-bosses. THAT should be EVERYONE's gear-grind. I've had a few, too.

People on Deviantart who rather than comment about your art, talk about the thing the art is based on.

*post drawing*

"I love TMNT"

Okay, no sh*t. You clearly sought out a TMNT image. What do you think about the art?

When people get into fights in the comment section of your art submissions.

DA is pretty much a cesspit in general. If they're not arguing, they're roleplaying or something.

Stop giving me ideas....:D

Man, this kid started to make up a story on one of my sketches, included other people's character and How to Train Your Dragon. It was wicked weird, and he clearly knew nothing about my D&D character and not only got everything wrong. But when I asked him to stop, he took it else where in someone else's picture and continued the story with their character into the mix.

deviantArt roleplayers are the weirdest. Why RP somewhere that doesn't allow porn? :V

Dontcha hate it when you feel a sneeze coming on, but then for some reason it doesn't come out and you're left with this funny feeling in your nose?

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Just biology trolling us.

I get it if the person works in a place where paid sick leave isn't a thing... but in my case it's especially irritating as we do have paid sick leave and the person in question is the boss. We're a team - everyone's competent, they know what they have to do and we have a manager to deal with things in his absence. At this stage of the month, there's literally nothing urgent to be done; it's just tidying up loose ends - there were no appointments that he had to attend.

And then he brings in his sick wife and kid as well. So yeah, I'm pissed because I don't appreciate being infected by my boss who will then make me feel guilty if I call in sick (because he works when he's sick but I actually have the sense to stay home and recover in 2 days instead of heaving germs all over co-workers and customers for an entire week). It's just so unnecessary.

I'm being a total bitch here because I get really cranky when I'm sick but it's like - jeez, this is all avoidable. And I'm one of those people who disinfects my entire work-station every day, including my phones - if someone so much as touches my mouse, I'll clean it before I touch it again. I take vitamins, eat healthily, make an effort to not get sick specifically so I don't have to take time off, because I have a work ethic and feel bad when I do (even if I'm genuinely sick) - and then some clot f*cks it all up. GRRRR. Is it so much to ask that my boss doesn't make me sick???

Anyway, this brings me to my second gear-grind: the fact that you can't get decent flu meds without a doctor's note thanks to stupid meth-heads ruining it for the rest of us. It's a Saturday - like I'm going to be able to get a last-minute appointment to get a script from the nearest doctor that bulk-bills. Even as a kid I had a high resistance to medication that would knock most people on their butts - Mum would try to sedate me for car trips and I'd just stay awake the whole time.

So now I'm sitting here feeling like total ass, shakin' and bakin' and I'm going to have to cancel my plans for tomorrow and I am officially Not Happy.

Bring on the fever dreams.

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I get you, penny, I was just voicing the other side of the coin for those of us who really don't get to just "take off" when they have a mild illness that we KNOW is just an inconvenience rather than something serious or life-threatening. I mean, I feel the same way as you- I have a work ethic, and it always annoys the f*** out of me when the "kids" I work with can't be bothered to come in just because they have plans for the weekend, want to go out and have fun, or whatever, when they have a JOB where their calling in affects the workload for everyone else because it means that others have to cover their position. I don't like it when someone does that crap to me, so I try to avoid doing it to others myself. Because I like to be considerate to my coworkers by not f***ing them over. (And if I HAVE to call in sick, it's usually because I know for a FACT I won't be able to do the job if I DID go in.)

The ignorance of some people on this forum knows no bounds.

Misplacing things

Like the most valuable Nintendo 64 game you ****ing own and replacing it is not an affordable or reasonable option and it means a lot to you because your older brother gave it to you and it was his favourite Nintendo 64 game as if it weren't already upsetting enough to lose YET ANOTHER Nintendo 64 game I used to have all the best games on it I had two boxfulls of games for it and now I'm down to just the Pokemon Stadiums, Puzzle League, Mario Party, and mother ****ing Hey You Pikachu because my stupid ass loses Super Smash Bros, Kirby 64, Mario Kart, and Super Mario 64 but oh lets ****ing keep ****ing Hey You Pikachu because that's a gold star ****ing game that you don't see in every used game shop because it gets bought up ****ing instantly as soon as they get one in even when it costs an outrageous 30-50 dollars oh wait AM I THINKING OF OCARINA OF ****ING TIME??? MOTHER **** I'M SUCH A ****ING STUPID MOTHER ****ING IDIOT I ****ING HATE MYSELF

My phone charger's been acting up, so for now I have to use my parents' spare until I can buy a new one.

Corks.

So to be sweet, my wife picked up a bottle of wine for us to split. Now, this is the part where I mention that we rarely drink, and as such, don't have a "proper" corkscrew, just some cheap jobber which usually doesn't do the job right, so I've instructed her many times to just get the cheap sh*t with the twist tops. Because the last thing I feel like doing when I'm trying to "relax" is wrestle with a cork.

So, the cork splits while stuck in the neck, the screw strips the hole completely, so we're stuck pouring wine through the hole, full of cork bits. Fun. :ohwell:

Semi-related topic: All cans should have pull tabs, can openers are bullsh*t. Every can of pet food has a pull tab, yet if I want to have corn, I better do a rain dance and hope my can opener is in a good mood. The sh*t is that?! Pull tabs are a thing! Jesus Christ.

I used my lunch break to drive to the post office today, only to discover that the package I was picking up had been delivered to work, despite getting an email telling me I had to pick it up from the post office. They only had one guy at the desk too, so I had to wait in line for quite a while to receive that information.

People in the wrestling business who brag on FB about missing their kids' Birthday to go train. :roll: Hooray for having the absolute wrong priorities in life, I guess. Gee, I wonder why about half of pro wrestlers' kids grow up with a pathological hatred of their fathers and the other half kill themselves?

"Passion", baby.

Who or what rang this phone owes me...

Phone in the computer room sits in a dim spot (and due to said dim area and location of phone jack and cord to the base I can't really put it in a brighter spot), plus the screen on this phone is hard to read both in colors and the display is partly dead.

So... of course one of the many people, telemarketers, or robots who ADORE our number with every fiber of their being decided to ring. This was one of the times I chose to get up and lean over the little pull-out side table piece of the computer cabinet to try to see if I can tell who is calling. (The phone is also semi out of reach.) I pick up the phone because of course I can barely read the darn thing.

Naturally in the process I somehow have to hit the bottom of the phone on my mostly full glass of water, knocking it over, spilling some of the water on the table, but most of it on my feet, the floor, and drench my leather sandals that were off but right there.

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All because some damn person called and it wasn't even important enough to leave a message. This is why I shouldn't bother checking.

Sorry to hear that. Why people even still bother with landlines in this day and age is beyond me! My parents still like to use one, though only because it comes with our cable/internet service. Watch landline services go obsolete within the next 5 or so years!

Eh, in large part our land line is kind of a neat number we've had at this house since before I existed. In some way it would feel like giving up a part of our identity. lol So we keep it for now.

Plus, it's more convenient when cell phones are dead and I'm not personally a big user of the cell since I don't care for the audio on them, I just keep it for outside of home on the occasion I need it.



Turns out it was actually my sister calling from work. I must bug her about this later. lol

Cells are great, no doubt about that, but they're not as reliable as landlines.

Not to mention that most faxes require a land-line. Hard to send one to a cell.

^^^I still use a landline. I have no interest in a cell phone because I don't see what point it is to have them, especially when I can get phone service through the same provider that I get my Internet. 8)

3 gear grinds:

Cheap bike tubes from Walmart. After just a few trips on the bike they go flat, I wondering (and this is what others seem to be saying too) if they might actually be a bit dry-rotted. I don't know how long they spend on the shelf before being bought, but I'm betting that they don't 'move' fast enough at times before they deteriorate inside their package, and thus the ones left aren't in good shape. I might have to suck it up and spend a little more elsewhere, because I'm a bit sick of it.

Catching what appears to be the flu. I was supposed to work today, so I had to call out ( I didn't want to be a Typhoid Mary.) Sometimes it feels like my lungs are hurting, and I don't have much energy right now (at the moment I'm just sitting.) Hopefully it goes away soon, because this sucks.

Nearest Rubinstein's is closing. One of the sons that took over the chain wants to make people go online to purchase things, I'm betting he thinks online is 'wave of the future.' Problem is, a lot of what they sell is art products, and some of these need to be physically in hand to be able to tell what is right for the art project (like color pencils or paint brushes.) It can be hard to tell a correct color shade without looking at it in real time, because depending on what lighting the photograph is taken in, it can look dramatically different if it's sunlight or a cool florescent bulb.

How can you not see the point of a cell phone? The point is to have one with you on the go. It might not apply to you if you never go outside, but it's not difficult to see.

I think have corn with pull tabs. Well. Not sure if we still do. I know for sure we've got green beans with pull tabs.

But yeah life would be much better with all cans having pull tabs.

I feel your pain, believe me. Hope you feel better soon - try to get as much rest as possible. I'm still not back to 100% after catching mine so I'm cancelling a therapist appointment I have tomorrow as I just don't have the energy for it (and also don't want to spread germs while I'm still coughing).

They're useful if the internet is out, but for the most part yeah we only have one because it came with the internet service. Before my brother got internet at his house in Vegas, we called each other on the landline all the time, but after that, I stopped using it at all.

I have to take a lot of conference calls for work. Cell phones are the sh*ts for that. Landlines still have a place, albeit a smaller one.