What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[ToTheNines]

Having to spend my weekend driving from Maryland to Alabama for work...

[BubblyShell22]

Just found out Dad has congestive heart failure so that's one more thing we have to worry about.

[Utrommaniac]

Whenever I drink coffee, in the rare events that I do, for some reason it's on an empty stomach.

And now I'm feeling as though I could live Rick and Morty's "Goodbye Moon Men"

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Just found out Dad has congestive heart failure so that's one more thing we have to worry about.

Sorry to hear. Life... it's always something else, isn't it? Hope it's easily manageable.


Grind... cleaning artificial aquarium plants. I wish there was an easier way. And the darn things are so expensive for what they are. I prefer the fabric, but eventually those start detaching from the plastic stems over time, no matter how gentle you are. Stupid algae.

[BubblyShell22]

He's on meds for it, but it's still something to worry about. Mom suspected he had it though because of his constant coughing. Seems ironic since his mother had it too.

[Katie]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Grind... cleaning artificial aquarium plants. I wish there was an easier way. And the darn things are so expensive for what they are. I prefer the fabric, but eventually those start detaching from the plastic stems over time, no matter how gentle you are. Stupid algae.

Just scrubbing algae? Or diatoms? I've discovered nerite snails. They don't reproduce in fresh water and are algae eating machines. Depending on what kind of fish you have, they may be worth a look. I haven't scrubbed my plants in awhile.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Katie

Just scrubbing algae? Or diatoms? I've discovered nerite snails. They don't reproduce in fresh water and are algae eating machines. Depending on what kind of fish you have, they may be worth a look. I haven't scrubbed my plants in awhile.

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

[Katie]

Do! Mine are pretty cool. I have 4 in my 55 and 2 rotating through my smaller tanks. Got them from Aquatic Arts. They sell on Amazon too.

[IndigoErth]

Some of them are really pretty! I have a sizeable oranda who is a rather voracious eater, but hopefully she'd leave them alone.





Grind... Well, not quite a real grind since I don't follow the Harry Potter stuff and only seen most of movies, but for the heck of it I tried that new Patronus quiz on the Pottermore site. ("...a silvery-white guardian or protector, which takes the form of an animal.") The quiz that apparently many people are hilariously not too thrilled with their results.

Which I can understand since I got a... shrew.

Seriously?

[Cure]

I'm alright with my patronus being a wildcat.

[Utrommaniac]

I got a black stallion. Which was eerie after having seen a lot of horses that day. So many horses. And I spent a year in equine therapy when I was a kid...hmm.

My total Pottermore quizzes have garnered interesting results


Also, don't knock the shrew. Those things are bad@$$.

[BubblyShell22]

Going to rain tonight and for the next few days.

[Utrommaniac]

I'm looking forward to it raining, and I'm a little more annoyed that the sky cleared up a little while I was taking a nap.

It's bringing a massive cool-down that I am so relieved for.

[BubblyShell22]

FF.Net is still having problems showing reviews. I really hope they fix the issue soon.

[IndigoErth]

So over the later part of the summer my store had had this little sweepstakes thing based on "The Secret Life of Pets" movie. Somewhat of a game ("Find Max," or whatever the dog's name was) with a few rectangular stand-up things scattered with images of different "Pets" with the thing to scan with a phone and, as the name of the 'game' implies, find a certain one after getting clues.

Today I found out that our sister store chain, owned by the same company, had a very similar game.... but theirs was with the Turtles. "Find Mikey." No fair!! And we got stuck with a bunch of boring dogs and junk?

Had there been similar cardboard stand-up thingies or other items for that... I'd so have been asking if I could have one or more when it was over... *sigh*



Also, feeling that weird sensation that I hope is only an allergy and not a cold. It would be pretty unlike me to get sick this soon. Though I don't generally tend to have allergies either. I hope maybe something at work just caused irritation. I did sneeze a couple times prior to this... but that place tends to do that to me anyhow.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Maybe you are like me- allergic to the idiots who frequent your job....

[BubblyShell22]

That our garbage was supposed to be picked up yesterday, but they never came. My neighbor called them today and it turns out they completely forgot about our road! WTF? How can you forget about one of your routes? It was picked up today, but this still bothered me yesterday.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Maybe you are like me- allergic to the idiots who frequent your job....

God, with some of the people in there today I'd certainly believe it.

Sadly that early cold feeling hasn't gone away and now there's a touch of pressure in the face, ears, even the teeth been hurting. Think one of said idiots has gotten me sick. Which is so rare for me outside of winter. Last year (technically early this year) I made it through the holidays before ever catching anything in late winter. (And that was probably the virus that was going around the staff and seemed extra contagious.) But late September?? I think the last time I was sick in Sept. was in 2001.

I got news for work, if I'm sick this weekend, no way in hell am I getting up at 5am Sunday and being at work at 7am. I hope they schedule me for a rare Sunday afternoon shift so they'll already have enough other people scheduled in the morning if I have to call out. If it develops I'm just going to be a sick, grouchy bitch with no energy for it anyhow...

Which suggests a good grind - I hate how cold medicine commercials make people look like they feel all better and able to easily take on the day after taking it. Such a lie.

[plastroncafe]

Statistics. Today's gear grind is statistics.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Statistics. Today's gear grind is statistics.

That's a coincidence: I got into a heated discussion (pissy argument) with a co-worker about that very subject today. This guy is the biggest stats modelling cheerleader I have ever met, which is not saying much since most people don't walk around talking people's ears off about cross validation etc.

He's one of those guys who talks about Pew studies as if they were handed down on stone tablets. I argue with him all the time that they don't know squat about what the general population think, just what the people who are bored enough to answer their surveys think.