What Grinds Your Gears? :) - Page 321

*BubblyShell22* · 10-13-2016, 04:30 PM

No worries, things have been resolved and we do have a doctor lined up to come on Monday so that's a good thing. I'm just dreading that I will probably lose sleep tomorrow and that's not something I want.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 10-14-2016, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

That's social services for you, they're pretty inept in my experience. Sounds like it's true across the board.

Actually Mr Duckie has a really good one. She was the one who helped him get his SSI and disability, sets up his bus rides and appointments and helps him with his paperwork.

On a seperate note, today made me happy because I am off alk weekend after work being worse than usual, and even managed to find a ride to get my groceries and to get home.

*IndigoErth* · 10-15-2016, 04:44 PM

Ah, that's very lucky. I hope she stays on the job and with you guys for a long time.

Grind... I miss my Jeep and having my own transportation. Come Monday it will have been gone for two weeks. Did not expect that this repair work would really take too long, but who knows. Last I heard the other day was that the cost from the estimate has doubled. Not sure what that's about, esp since it drives fine, but at least that won't be coming out of my pocket.

*BubblyShell22* · 10-15-2016, 06:46 PM

Dad woke us up at one in the morning. He did go back to sleep though.

*Utrommaniac* · 10-16-2016, 12:43 AM

It took me two days to notice the bruises where a sheep was "pawing" my leg on Thursday (I was a at petting zoo and had food)

There's quite a lot and they are purple.

On the other hand, the worst of them looks like the Eye of Providence/Bill Cipher, so that's a plus to amuse me

*IndigoErth* · 10-18-2016, 03:33 PM

Just spent part of the afternoon in a nearby medical aid unit and then at an orthopedic place with my mom because she went and broke her upper arm. Pretty much straight through, but no cast, just a sling, so she somehow has to try to keep it immobile and hope it doesn't shift; if it does then it would need surgery.

Not how I intended on spending my day, but luckily it's a day off from work.

*Jephael* · 10-20-2016, 02:38 AM

Using big words in vain attempt to condescend and/or belittle someone's opinion doesn't help you win an argument; it just makes you look like a douchey tool!

*Utrommaniac* · 10-20-2016, 02:54 AM

I'm sure there's some rhetorical fallacy for that, but I'm not sure what that is.

*BubblyShell22* · 10-21-2016, 01:52 PM

That sometimes Dad will call us into his room to find out what we're doing. It can get a bit annoying at times.

*IndigoErth* · 10-21-2016, 03:32 PM

That guy needs a series (or a few) to binge watch or something if he's that bored. lol Either that or give him a job(s)... put him to work polishing the silverware or something.

Grinds...

The discomfort of dealing with a parent with a injury or health issue. A year ago it was my dad and the issues he'd been having for a while, ended up in the hospital for a week last Oct. and finally figured out what the problem was before he suddenly died on us at home a month later. This year it's my mom and her newly broken arm and listening to her carry on because of the pain, while we can't do anything to make it better for her. She gets it looked at again on Tues. She doesn't want to have to have surgery to put a plate in to hold it together, but it may be for the best.

Additionally this morning I heard something fall and thought the cats had knocked something to the floor in the kitchen. Didn't find anything out of place other than an old bottle on the floor that had been on a shelf above the kitchen windows... A shelf full of other antique bottles, pottery my grandmother had made, and other stuff that I noticed then that the shelf was tilted a bit and possibly trying to come off of the wall.

(Got everything safely taken down after I got home from work.)

edit: Oh yeah... and after my password for the website for work expired on me, and the page to reset it was down and I had to check it again later, after too many login attempts it told me my account was locked for 24 hours. That was frigging Wed. evening. So that's going on 48 hours? Hah...adorable... given that I need to know my schedule for next week, including day after tomorrow, Sunday.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 10-22-2016, 12:15 PM

Sounds like a pain Indigo. I feel you on the computer issues at work. Our back drive window has two monitors (one for taking orders and one for cashing them out) and lately only the cash one has been working properly. The other one gets "off center" so that the "buttons" on the screen do not align with where they actually appear on it. So if you try to put in 2 lrg fries you might end up with 3 med sweet tea. We keep recalibrating the screen but it still goes off the sides and it is both annoying and time consuming to try to take orders on. It also freezes up a lot and won't take orders at all half the time. So I wind up having to do BOTH functions (orders AND cash) on just the working one. It is slow and inconvenient for both us and customers to do it that way. But until they get us new ones (they say we will be but I will believe it when I see it) I'm stuck with this crap.

Also, "Aunt Flo" is visiting again and once again is acting out of character. I truly hope this is a sign that the plumbing is soon to be shut off for good because I don't know how many more times I can stand this. Horrible migraines, upset stomach, acid reflux and exhaustion on TOP of all my usual personal brand of hell. Just kill me now and put me out of my misery.....

*IndigoErth* · 10-22-2016, 03:16 PM

That sounds super frustrating. And how long will it take for the company to actually fix it for you guys? And I mean that sarcastically because I know how many companies are. The handheld devices we use at my job are an endless pain. Too many don't work, they all die way too fast, and they can be finicky about connecting to the system and staying connected. Yet somehow the company expects us to get the work done properly and efficiently despite the technology we need to accomplish it.

On the flip side, Flo has stood me up. Can't complain about not being on it, but I hate having to carry junk around with me any time I leave the house because now I have no idea if it will randomly ambush me.

Although with the way lady stuff works... things weren't really matching up with what was going on around and/or shortly before it was expected. So now it's just a guessing game. Fun times. Doubt it's anything 'biological' though, I just suspect it was a rare case of stress knocking it off schedule.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 10-22-2016, 06:05 PM

We were supposed to be getting new ones sometime in the last couple of weeks, but still have yet to see them. So.... Who knows? But yeah, these things are annoying even at the best of times, especially when we have to hunt down items again every time some nitwit decides to change the screen around during an "update". I wish the so-called techies who program these things would actually have to USE them before they make unnecessary changes that just end up making things confusing.

As for the visitor, well, I've noticed my "guest" becoming more and more erratic in behavior over the past few months, like creeping up invisibly before for a few days before deciding to actually show up, or going in reverse of what it normally does. Hasn't been this weird-acting since I was 10. But with 40 creeping up on me in a month or so, I'm hoping that means the biological clock is finally running down. Eat THAT Mother Nature!! I won't be your pawn much longer!!!

*IndigoErth* · 10-23-2016, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

especially when we have to hunt down items again every time some nitwit decides to change the screen around during an "update". I wish the so-called techies who program these things would actually have to USE them before they make unnecessary changes that just end up making things confusing.

We have the same issue. Fortunately it's not really something I have to deal with personally, though my manager was griping to me a few weeks ago about how people off in some other location make updates and often change the desktop and other junk around and our managers can't even put things back where they were. She told me about this after she was hunting for something (again) that had been on the desktop and tech people decided to bury it in some other folder. I suggested to try to put a new shortcut on the desktop for it and it wouldn't even let her.

(Yeah, I don't really get how people off site have control of the damn desktop arrangement.) I mentioned the same thing, that the people who do this crap should have to use it.

*BubblyShell22* · 10-23-2016, 06:19 PM

Indigo, he does watch his sports stuff, so he has that and he watches TV Land during the day on weekdays. He'll be fine and busy when people are coming in and out during the wee to take care of him.

Duckie, looks like you beat me this time as I normally have it before you do. Been having those false cramps though nothing has come of it yet. Still waiting though as mine varies with each month.

*Utrommaniac* · 10-24-2016, 01:06 PM

Realizing I'm probably in the wrong program entirely...and the one I want to take is only in Abilene. This is the one I'm currently taking in Waco.

*plastroncafe* · 10-25-2016, 12:04 AM

Gear Grinds:
The weekend retrospective edition...in no particular order.

- Online statistics midterms
- people who DOS the Eastern Seaboard when I have an online stats midterm
- the flu
- feline kidney disease
- an audacity crash while saving 1:37 minutes worth of podcast
- the loss of 1:37 worth of podcast due to aforementioned program crash
- people who don't understand, "Hold all questions until the end," and ask questions anyway.

*IndigoErth* · 10-25-2016, 11:19 AM

The way some people (after reading something elsewhere, again) feel inclined to argue against Leo's swords being katanas. Are they typically referred to as katanas in most TMNT media? Then they're flipping katanas... It's just art style. It just feels as if the real deal is too cool so non-Leo people want to argue against him having it.

Even stupider, the latest edition of this debate was comments on this newest film's FB page... while this Leo clearly has katanas, not that fake straight Hollywood sword.

edit: Apparently there is some kind of shortage on kerosene..?

*Lethal Lullaby* · 10-25-2016, 07:39 PM

So this ladyat work got overly upset with this one dude . Pretty much because he dipped his rag for trashing tables into one of the buckets for wiping. I mean she didn't exactly tell him which bucket was supposed to be for the 'trashing' people. I honestly though she was overreacting a bit, especially when she had to go and complain to a supervisor, then come back to put the bucket on one of the tables and tell the second 'trasher' that they had to take the bucket with them. ~~Which I ended up moving the bucket most of the time, else it would've still been in the same spot she set it down.~~

*IndigoErth* · 10-26-2016, 11:52 PM

Feeling like you want to eat everything in the house, esp every fatty, calorie high thing, before/around the time that the you-know-what starts up (I assume, since it has left me guessing), yet nothing will satisfy the craving no matter what you eat. It's like you want a certain food but can't figure out what the hell it is.

10-13-2016, 04:30 PM	#6401
BubblyShell22 Leo-holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,912	No worries, things have been resolved and we do have a doctor lined up to come on Monday so that's a good thing. I'm just dreading that I will probably lose sleep tomorrow and that's not something I want. __________________ "A warrior who never fails, never learns."-The Ancient One. "Embrace your inner a**holiness."-Mr. Anderson.

10-15-2016, 06:46 PM	#6404
BubblyShell22 Leo-holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,912	Dad woke us up at one in the morning. He did go back to sleep though. __________________ "A warrior who never fails, never learns."-The Ancient One. "Embrace your inner a**holiness."-Mr. Anderson.

10-16-2016, 12:43 AM	#6405
Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	It took me two days to notice the bruises where a sheep was "pawing" my leg on Thursday (I was a at petting zoo and had food) There's quite a lot and they are purple. On the other hand, the worst of them looks like the Eye of Providence/Bill Cipher, so that's a plus to amuse me __________________ DeviantART

10-20-2016, 02:38 AM	#6407
Jephael That whack job behind you Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania Posts: 8,143	Using big words in vain attempt to condescend and/or belittle someone's opinion doesn't help you win an argument; it just makes you look like a douchey tool! __________________ "I like it. Simple, but effective!" Raphael; The Mean Machines - 1988

10-20-2016, 02:54 AM	#6408
Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	I'm sure there's some rhetorical fallacy for that, but I'm not sure what that is. __________________ DeviantART

10-15-2016, 04:44 PM	#6403
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	Ah, that's very lucky. I hope she stays on the job and with you guys for a long time. Grind... I miss my Jeep and having my own transportation. Come Monday it will have been gone for two weeks. Did not expect that this repair work would really take too long, but who knows. Last I heard the other day was that the cost from the estimate has doubled. Not sure what that's about, esp since it drives fine, but at least that won't be coming out of my pocket.

10-18-2016, 03:33 PM	#6406
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	Just spent part of the afternoon in a nearby medical aid unit and then at an orthopedic place with my mom because she went and broke her upper arm. Pretty much straight through, but no cast, just a sling, so she somehow has to try to keep it immobile and hope it doesn't shift; if it does then it would need surgery. Not how I intended on spending my day, but luckily it's a day off from work.

10-21-2016, 01:52 PM	#6409
BubblyShell22 Leo-holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,912	That sometimes Dad will call us into his room to find out what we're doing. It can get a bit annoying at times. __________________ "A warrior who never fails, never learns."-The Ancient One. "Embrace your inner a**holiness."-Mr. Anderson.

10-21-2016, 03:32 PM	#6410
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	That guy needs a series (or a few) to binge watch or something if he's that bored. lol Either that or give him a job(s)... put him to work polishing the silverware or something. Grinds... The discomfort of dealing with a parent with a injury or health issue. A year ago it was my dad and the issues he'd been having for a while, ended up in the hospital for a week last Oct. and finally figured out what the problem was before he suddenly died on us at home a month later. This year it's my mom and her newly broken arm and listening to her carry on because of the pain, while we can't do anything to make it better for her. She gets it looked at again on Tues. She doesn't want to have to have surgery to put a plate in to hold it together, but it may be for the best. Additionally this morning I heard something fall and thought the cats had knocked something to the floor in the kitchen. Didn't find anything out of place other than an old bottle on the floor that had been on a shelf above the kitchen windows... A shelf full of other antique bottles, pottery my grandmother had made, and other stuff that I noticed then that the shelf was tilted a bit and possibly trying to come off of the wall. (Got everything safely taken down after I got home from work.) edit: Oh yeah... and after my password for the website for work expired on me, and the page to reset it was down and I had to check it again later, after too many login attempts it told me my account was locked for 24 hours. That was frigging Wed. evening. So that's going on 48 hours? Hah...adorable... given that I need to know my schedule for next week, including day after tomorrow, Sunday. Last edited by IndigoErth; 10-21-2016 at 04:20 PM.

10-22-2016, 12:15 PM	#6411
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,773	Sounds like a pain Indigo. I feel you on the computer issues at work. Our back drive window has two monitors (one for taking orders and one for cashing them out) and lately only the cash one has been working properly. The other one gets "off center" so that the "buttons" on the screen do not align with where they actually appear on it. So if you try to put in 2 lrg fries you might end up with 3 med sweet tea. We keep recalibrating the screen but it still goes off the sides and it is both annoying and time consuming to try to take orders on. It also freezes up a lot and won't take orders at all half the time. So I wind up having to do BOTH functions (orders AND cash) on just the working one. It is slow and inconvenient for both us and customers to do it that way. But until they get us new ones (they say we will be but I will believe it when I see it) I'm stuck with this crap. Also, "Aunt Flo" is visiting again and once again is acting out of character. I truly hope this is a sign that the plumbing is soon to be shut off for good because I don't know how many more times I can stand this. Horrible migraines, upset stomach, acid reflux and exhaustion on TOP of all my usual personal brand of hell. Just kill me now and put me out of my misery..... __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

10-22-2016, 03:16 PM	#6412
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	That sounds super frustrating. And how long will it take for the company to actually fix it for you guys? And I mean that sarcastically because I know how many companies are. The handheld devices we use at my job are an endless pain. Too many don't work, they all die way too fast, and they can be finicky about connecting to the system and staying connected. Yet somehow the company expects us to get the work done properly and efficiently despite the technology we need to accomplish it. On the flip side, Flo has stood me up. Can't complain about not being on it, but I hate having to carry junk around with me any time I leave the house because now I have no idea if it will randomly ambush me. Although with the way lady stuff works... things weren't really matching up with what was going on around and/or shortly before it was expected. So now it's just a guessing game. Fun times. Doubt it's anything 'biological' though, I just suspect it was a rare case of stress knocking it off schedule.

10-22-2016, 06:05 PM	#6413
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,773	We were supposed to be getting new ones sometime in the last couple of weeks, but still have yet to see them. So.... Who knows? But yeah, these things are annoying even at the best of times, especially when we have to hunt down items again every time some nitwit decides to change the screen around during an "update". I wish the so-called techies who program these things would actually have to USE them before they make unnecessary changes that just end up making things confusing. As for the visitor, well, I've noticed my "guest" becoming more and more erratic in behavior over the past few months, like creeping up invisibly before for a few days before deciding to actually show up, or going in reverse of what it normally does. Hasn't been this weird-acting since I was 10. But with 40 creeping up on me in a month or so, I'm hoping that means the biological clock is finally running down. Eat THAT Mother Nature!! I won't be your pawn much longer!!! __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

10-23-2016, 06:19 PM	#6415
BubblyShell22 Leo-holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,912	Indigo, he does watch his sports stuff, so he has that and he watches TV Land during the day on weekdays. He'll be fine and busy when people are coming in and out during the wee to take care of him. Duckie, looks like you beat me this time as I normally have it before you do. Been having those false cramps though nothing has come of it yet. Still waiting though as mine varies with each month. __________________ "A warrior who never fails, never learns."-The Ancient One. "Embrace your inner a**holiness."-Mr. Anderson.

10-24-2016, 01:06 PM	#6416
Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	Realizing I'm probably in the wrong program entirely...and the one I want to take is only in Abilene. This is the one I'm currently taking in Waco. __________________ DeviantART Last edited by Utrommaniac; 10-24-2016 at 01:18 PM.

10-25-2016, 11:19 AM	#6418
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	The way some people (after reading something elsewhere, again) feel inclined to argue against Leo's swords being katanas. Are they typically referred to as katanas in most TMNT media? Then they're flipping katanas... It's just art style. It just feels as if the real deal is too cool so non-Leo people want to argue against him having it. Even stupider, the latest edition of this debate was comments on this newest film's FB page... while this Leo clearly has katanas, not that fake straight Hollywood sword. edit: Apparently there is some kind of shortage on kerosene..? Last edited by IndigoErth; 10-25-2016 at 05:48 PM.

10-25-2016, 07:39 PM	#6419
Lethal Lullaby Foot Elite Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,816	So this ladyat work got overly upset with this one dude . Pretty much because he dipped his rag for trashing tables into one of the buckets for wiping. I mean she didn't exactly tell him which bucket was supposed to be for the 'trashing' people. I honestly though she was overreacting a bit, especially when she had to go and complain to a supervisor, then come back to put the bucket on one of the tables and tell the second 'trasher' that they had to take the bucket with them. ~~Which I ended up moving the bucket most of the time, else it would've still been in the same spot she set it down.~~

10-26-2016, 11:52 PM	#6420
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	Feeling like you want to eat everything in the house, esp every fatty, calorie high thing, before/around the time that the you-know-what starts up (I assume, since it has left me guessing), yet nothing will satisfy the craving no matter what you eat. It's like you want a certain food but can't figure out what the hell it is.