What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[IndigoErth]

I miss being able to be a normal night owl and pull all nighters now and then. (Not that I'm not still up at almost 1am now.) Did Monday, wasn't in bed until 8:30am and had a three hour nap. Taking another go at the genealogy research, so that's what had me up.

Which comes to a continuing grind... I hate how women's maiden names were so easily discarded, making such research harder than it should have to be.


'Course, to be fair, for two major roadblocks I do happen to know (supposedly) the maiden names of... but they must have just beamed here from outer space at some point (since I can't even just find a birth certificate or anything else beyond very limited info) and must have hidden form the census takers. *sigh*


One of them last night I pieced together some info on people she was connected to (and interestingly kind of alters the story we knew of), but they aren't relatives (which was known)... but can I find any hints about her actual parents or any anyone past her? Of course not. She's always been a dead end so far, but eesh. I mean, come on, where is at least the birth certificate/info. I swear, she must have just beamed down on a space ship... Or portal from another time? Something. I know the paper trail ends at some point in history, but not this soon.


It's tough because it was always said she was "adopted" by this family/couple I found info on, however based on census info it looks like she was actually working for them as a servant at age 15. And other clues have me believing they kept in contact and the claimed "adoption" may have simply been more of a "like a daughter to them" sort of thing. (I'm not seeing where this couple ever had any kids of their own.) BUT... I haven't a clue if her real parents were alive or dead at the time; if she was actually an orphan or not.

Fun trying to hunt this stuff down, but simultaneously frustrating.

[Netkeeper]

Originally Posted by Powder

I definitely am, though, to the point that I've had dreams (or nightmares, I guess) of this exact thing happening for a few years now. He got out a couple times in year one & I've been a nervous prick ever since. People around here don't give a damn, they kill all matters of life with their cars to such an extent it seems deliberate, pairing that with the alarming amount of stray pitbulls in the area, it'd be a lost cause were he to venture out. I don't need this stress, maaaaan.

I completely understand this. When I lived in Washington, our neighbour had a Rottweiler that she just. Let roam outside wherever she pleased. This dumb**** of a person [who was also our landlady, she owned two houses right next to each other] NEVER learned her lesson even after her neglect caused a broken leg to the poor girl, and one time that dog got into it with mine and I've been very anxious about her getting attacked again ever since. I've got a little Beagle, that Rottie scarred her.

The worst part is that she wasn't a bad dog at all, the Rottweiler. She was very sweet, always excited to see people [since her owner never bothered with her] but wasn't the most well-socialised when it came to other dogs.

[Netkeeper]

I'm insanely ****ing pissed.


edit oh my ****ING GOD WHY WONT THE IMAGE SHOW UP http://beta.speedtest.net/result/5493938598.png WHAT THE ****

We pay $130 for this literally unusable garbage. We told these people we run a home business that requires regular use of streaming media [a lie because every ISP around here has a data cap and we're exploiting loopholes] and if we were actually trying to do that we'd have no money to pay for this unreasonably priced ********.

And half the people in the house are too scared to call them because they're afraid we'll suddenly get smacked with a data cap if we did.

[Netkeeper]

And I had another emotional breakdown and spent the time between that post and whatever the other one was when I got back to the vcomputer [probably about how much I hate Mew] where I spent the entire time screaming about having an upload speed of ****ing zero that makes my primary activities actually ****ing impossible

I didn't get enough screaming out tbh

[Mew]

Originally Posted by Netkeeper

And I had another emotional breakdown and spent the time between that post and whatever the other one was when I got back to the vcomputer [probably about how much I hate Mew] where I spent the entire time screaming about having an upload speed of ****ing zero that makes my primary activities actually ****ing impossible

I didn't get enough screaming out tbh

Oh well. Maybe get a life and stop harassing me in a bunch of threads?

[Netkeeper]

Originally Posted by mew

oh well. Maybe get a life and stop harassing me in a bunch of threads?

oh, hahahaha, you think it's okay to do it to me just because i did it to you?

Fix my connection or get out, brat.

[Netkeeper]

You're literally poking the hornets nest juST A FRIENDLY TIP FROM YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD MENTAL HEALTH PATIENT THAT'S IN BETWEEN HIS THERAPY DAYS AND HAS CASUAL DELUSIONS~

[Netkeeper]

**** my other doctor is busy tomorrow.

****.

[Autbot_Benz]

One of our neighbors owns this loud as **** ATV 4 wheeler and they let their kids just barrel down our street going back and forth. It is so loud its really annoying. They sometimes do it for an hour on end. I wish The Police would do something.

[Netkeeper]

The Police is capitalised. Are you perhaps referring to the band

Our neighbours are obnoxious too. Music helps drown it out.

EDIT: Speaking of my neighbours, they ALWAYS seem to have company coming over as well as cars going to and from all the damn time, and every time I hear a car door shut I think it's one of my family coming home.

Then I look out the window and oops, neighbours. Again.

[Utrommaniac]

I keep getting ideas for writing and concepts, but I struggle with getting them written down. I have an enormous problem with showing and not telling.
But on top of all of that, no one/few people have interest in what I'd be working on, so I don't know why I bother. I want to be able to share what I've done, and it's disheartening when I don't get feedback.

And then there's my art, where I feel like everything is static and rigid, and when I try to put motion into it, it looks weird. Especially when it comes to Utroms. And machinery. And often the two have to go together.

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

I keep getting ideas for writing and concepts, but I struggle with getting them written down. I have an enormous problem with showing and not telling.
But on top of all of that, no one/few people have interest in what I'd be working on, so I don't know why I bother. I want to be able to share what I've done, and it's disheartening when I don't get feedback.

OMG, I so know what you mean. I've been in the same boat for years now.

[Netkeeper]

My dinner spilled all over the microwave because the bowl tipped over while I was heating it.

It was only in there for 40 seconds. I microwave that kind of soup all the time. wtf. I'm so mad

[Utrommaniac]

1. The kitten destroyed the string on my window blinds, so now they won't open properly. Also, while trying to get him out of the blinds, he tore one of my fingers in two places.

2. I realized that I have to get on a plane to see any of my girl friends, and only one of them is in my time zone. But still right across the country. It's pretty disheartening.

[IndigoErth]

The fact that I have to get to bed very soon and leave the house for work in the morning at frigging 5:45 am. Thank goodness it's only a 5 min drive, so I don't have to leave sooner, but that is little consolation at that hour...

As it is, I am not at all an early bird, so that is painful either way. I'm not the sort that can just get out of bed and be out of the house in 20 minutes. I need a while. And even waking up by 4:45am as I intend is still not as much time as I'd prefer... I'd rather an 1.5 to 2 hours, but I'd also like some sleep.

And why all this... because the store is doing inventory. Bad enough I had to do the all too often 7am Sunday. But tomorrow?

At least my awesome manager totally understands and feels the same way about these mornings.


7/25 -

Waking up just before 2am and never going back to sleep. (Oh well... I guess at least I didn't have a hard time getting up and wasn't drowsy when I left the house early this morning.)

No, hiccups, go away, I'd like to try to continue eating before it gets cold. Second time I've given myself hiccups today.

Temps in the 90s and the heat index of 106. What the hell. It was 80 at 4am. (edit: Just looked at the national current temps map... I see literally nearly everyone is frying. )

The company that does the inventory stuff really aught to higher nicer people... We do have to assist them, but some of them don't make it all that pleasurable. Some were nice enough, but others...eesh. And I swear the ones calling a damn "SKU [number] check" the most often were those with an attitude. Bad enough there's so many of them that it's impossible to know who yelled it, esp when some don't say it loud enough, and then you feel like an idiot trying to figure who said it. Basically... I hate inventory crap now.

Also, having so many people from that company, and then wtf... where are all of our people that should be scheduled on to help with this?? Way to not give us enough assistance on our side and make it that much harder for us.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

It wasn't REGIS was it? I've had some experience with those people at past jobs too. And they aren't paid to be nice that's for sure.

My grind today is work-related too. AGAIN. Now I know I have a lot of these, but there is a good reason. Today's grind is two-fold. First, I get there at my usual time, and already the place is busier than usual for 5AM on a Monday morning. And then the incoming manager spent tbe first TWO HOURS back in the back either in the office messing with the safe/cash drawers or doing inventory in the store room. NOT helping the person doing all the ACTUAL work of taking care of the counter, drive through AND doing HER part of the job too! (That's me, BTW.) When we were already busy and I was the only one in the store besides the guy on the grill.

She also decided to open the back window while we only had one crew member available to run and do pretty much everything, such as making drinks, taking orders and bagging them, and taking payment- for both the counter and drive through. That is a stupid idea because it just forced me to have to run back and forth to get the money and then go get the orders ready. While she sat in the damn office. Stupid little **** decides it it more important to count frigging money than to assist serving actual customers. And it was two hours before someone else even came in!

The second half of my grind is being twice as busy as usual for a Monday, while being short-handed, all day long. Doing twice the work with only minimum staff. Does this make any sense to anyone else? And on the same subject WTF is up with this ****?! It was like the entire frigging county decided to eat at our restaraunt today. And most of them were apparently feeding small armies. Was today declared National Fast Food Face-stuffing Day?!

[IndigoErth]

Good guess! Why yes, it was REGIS.

Thankfully it was only two days of it, and yesterday I ended up pulled to work on changing our sale signs instead so I only had to bear it for today. (Although today I get in there at 6am and find I'm the only one scheduled at that hour - aside from my manager and my former lead - and I don't know what I'm doing. With far too many REGIS people for me and two others and many with attitudes. Not enjoyable.) Though a co-worker (when a few more of them finally showed up later) was saying that a REGIS woman yesterday was acting bossy toward her and another co-worker. Even today their lead or whatever she was kind of had an impatient attitude toward me. Yeah... I don't do well with trying to work with people who act like that. >.> I'm not one of your damn people, lady. The vast majority of people who work in our store are pretty friendly, so we're no longer used to crappy attitude workers, so me and another were just like "wtf."

Was wondering if maybe REGIS has a high turnover and if their accuracy equals job security. One guy toward the end of their shift with us - when some of the better ones started warming up a tiny bit (all guys, the women never did) and I think because it was nearing time to leave - admitted that us doing the counting behind them makes him a bit nervous. Sorry, guy, we're just doing the job we're told to do, too. lol



I hear you on the lazy superior... My lead for the second floor (where I'm at) moved to being the lead for the first floor, so they hired a new guy to be the new 2nd floor lead. Needless to say, that has not worked out, largely due to his laziness and unwillingness to do stuff, so he is gone. (And I currently have no lead to rely on. ) He'd just up and disappear and try to delegate stuff to us/me when I know he would never help with all the rest of the stuff I had to do! Why should I do it all?

Add in the fact that a co-worker who has taught me more than anyone else there is leaving next month in prep for becoming a new grandma babysitter come Sept. The heck am I gonna do. I don't know everything yet.

[thundermaster612]

I hate people who spoil things randomly like no ****. ****ing scummy douchebags. I saw a spoiler that didn't matter that much in the S4 thread where Mikey falls in love with somebody else (IDK who though don't tell me) but the real reason I'm typing this is I watched a Ninjago video by some guy who had found a Russian script for Season 7 and he translated it. I didn't watch the video for no spoilers but he was playing a game and let loose 3 spoilers and each time he was like "oops I didn't mean to I wont do it again" but he did it again and again. I stopped after the 3rd one. This guy is the dumbest **** ever. I swear he could be lying about all of this. I mean he has all these spoilers and he did take down the script video but seriously. He even named one of his videos a HUUUUGE spoiler but now I'm really starting to think its fake. Like the way the guy even let the spoilers loose was as if he wasn't even trying to keep it a secret. He has to be lying. Plus he used google translate. It sucks so bad. I really hope its either he was lying or its google translate cause if it isn't then he's done for.

[Mew]

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

i hate people who spoil things randomly like no ****. ****ing scummy douchebags. I saw a spoiler that didn't matter that much in the s4 thread where mikey falls in love with somebody else (idk who though don't tell me) but the real reason i'm typing this is i watched a ninjago video by some guy who had found a russian script for season 7 and he translated it. I didn't watch the video for no spoilers but he was playing a game and let loose 3 spoilers and each time he was like "oops i didn't mean to i wont do it again" but he did it again and again. I stopped after the 3rd one. This guy is the dumbest **** ever. I swear he could be lying about all of this. I mean he has all these spoilers and he did take down the script video but seriously. He even named one of his videos a huuuuge spoiler but now i'm really starting to think its fake. Like the way the guy even let the spoilers loose was as if he wasn't even trying to keep it a secret. He has to be lying. Plus he used google translate. It sucks so bad. I really hope its either he was lying or its google translate cause if it isn't then he's done for.

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What did this add to the conversation except to troll. Next time I'll give you an infraction. - DR

[Powder]

Another fantastic contribution.