[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

MindDetective said:

Relevant: http://io9.com/researchers-isolate-a-gut-microbe-that-combats-food-all-1626987928

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You watch. Soon one of the most Earth-shattering medical discoveries will be: "Grow vegetables where you live. Eat them."
i.e., allow some of the local bacteria/yeasts/etc to settle on food grown in local soil, then eat it. Revolutionary, I tell you!

--Patrick

"Dave's not here, man!... oh wait, yes I am."

Dave said:

The landlord had our house painted. That's a win. Then tonight we get a knock on the door. Someone looking for Ricardo. They weren't sure if it was our house or not. Because the guy who painted the house took off our fucking house numbers and just took them away.

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Er..why would someone do such a thing?

To paint under them rather than over them, of course.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

To paint under them rather than over them, of course.

--Patrick

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That part's clear. What I'm confused about is not putting the numbers back, and just leaving with them.

Bah @ThatNickGuy s coworkers stink. How can I rib Nick if they don't even know if he is working that shift.

Dave said:

We could probably have the landlord do it, but this way we get the kind we like.

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Comic sans?

Ravenpoe said:

Comic sans?

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Braille.

But make it really, really big, so you can read it from the curb.

--Patrick

Dear Netflix. I'm not going to connect you to my facebook account, so stop asking me.

This is the last weekend before my job goes into overtime hell starting Monday, and I'd hope to get a lot done, but none of it's happening. Wife has a migraine, so that stopped some at-home projects. Slogging through my writing project at a time when I need to be plowing ahead and getting the first draft finished, because as the overtime continues, I'm going to have less patience and energy, and it could last until sometime next year.

So glad it's Saturday, because tomorrow needs to be a do-over. I'm at the point where I want to say fuck it and just waste my time the rest of the day by playing video games. I'd be getting as much done as I am right now, but without the frustration.

Zero Esc said:

This is the last weekend before my job goes into overtime hell starting Monday, and I'd hope to get a lot done, but none of it's happening. Wife has a migraine, so that stopped some at-home projects. Slogging through my writing project at a time when I need to be plowing ahead and getting the first draft finished, because as the overtime continues, I'm going to have less patience and energy, and it could last until sometime next year.

So glad it's Saturday, because tomorrow needs to be a do-over. I'm at the point where I want to say fuck it and just waste my time the rest of the day by playing video games. I'd be getting as much done as I am right now, but without the frustration.

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Except for the writing project, you just described everything about my Friday, even including Kati's migraine.

--Patrick

HCGLNS said:

Bah @ThatNickGuy s coworkers stink. How can I rib Nick if they don't even know if he is working that shift.

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For what it's worth, I was. I work almost primarily day type shifts, like 10-5 or 6 or around that.

You also can't stalk me at work for the next three days because I have THREE GLORIOUS days off.

Trying to catch up at work (writing the Great Stripper Pole Caper report), get an accident with injuries call in someone else's beat. Everyone else is tied up, so off we go!

Kid injured in the back seat, properly wearing her seatbelt in a booster seat. Poor thing's scared out of her mind.

Accident caused by a jackwagon stoner fuckstick who, after parting the wall of smoke from his car, refused to step out and be accountable for what he caused by driving ridiculous. He then flees the scene. Classy.

Only minor rant because I was able to calm the little girl down by giving her a stuffed puppy from a collection that I keep in my car for such situations. Her smile made my night.

Officer_Charon said:

Trying to catch up at work (writing the Great Stripper Pole Caper report), get an accident with injuries call in someone else's beat. Everyone else is tied up, so off we go!

Kid injured in the back seat, properly wearing her seatbelt in a booster seat. Poor thing's scared out of her mind.

Accident caused by a jackwagon stoner fuckstick who, after parting the wall of smoke from his car, refused to step out and be accountable for what he caused by driving ridiculous. He then flees the scene. Classy.

Only minor rant because I was able to calm the little girl down by giving her a stuffed puppy from a collection that I keep in my car for such situations. Her smile made my night.

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If it's any consolation, I'd love to hear more about "The Great Stripper Pole Caper"!

Officer_Charon said:

Only minor rant because I was able to calm the little girl down by giving her a stuffed puppy from a collection that I keep in my car for such situations. Her smile made my night.

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Bro-fist for forward thinking, even if it may be department policy.

Nah, that's something I came up with after hearing stories of guys doing that in other departments.

Officer_Charon said:

Nah, that's something I came up with after hearing stories of guys doing that in other departments.

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Yeah, I've heard of it too. It's a good idea... I know some major cities, even internationally, are picking up on it and ordering special-made police themed teddy bears to stick in patrol cars. It's a low cost solution to what I imagine can be quite traumatic for kids.

Cheesy1 said:

If it's any consolation, I'd love to hear more about "The Great Stripper Pole Caper"!

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Agreed

And yet, with "stuffed puppy", from a cop, my mind went first to "taxidermist" and not "cute and snuggly". I'd imagine that sort of puppy might not help that much, though

Bleh. Just worked the night, I wanted to be early so I left with about 20 minutes of extra time; make sure my colleague gets home on time so he relieves me on time as well. Good plan, except for the whole "nail in my tire" thing -_- Replaced the tire, found out my spare is just a crappy max-50-mph-thingie that looks and feels like it belongs on a bike, got in at work almost half an hour late. Nuts. Just what I needed, with all the...other stuff going on in my life right now. In a way, I was glad for the distraction, though.

My wife told me to only brush and floss the teeth you want to keep.

Public persona Lesson #1: People will know shit about you that you didn't expect.

It's very strange to sit down with a media person and have them tell you about your running and your cat.

GasBandit said:

Oh I brush every day. The hygenist even complemented my brushing and my gums. But the x-rays told the tale of what's going on between the teeth.

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Purple Listerine.

Floss first, brush second.
Also, floss often enough that you aren't traumatizing your gums when you do it.

I should do this more often. A couple of my teeth are at the tipping point between "might recover" and "might not recover," but you know...funds.

--Patrick

Apparently, it's gonna be one of those weeks this week. At work, we have a representative from the company that developed the software that we're switching over to visiting from either Germany or Toronto (I think he currently works in Toronto but he's from Germany originally, or something like that), to try to get us over the last few hurdles and get this bastard launched (it was supposed to go live on April 1st, originally). It's... probably not going to go live on the 22nd either, which is the most recent launch date, because the consultants we brought on board are complete and utter fucktards who have no clue whatsoever how to launch a project this big. I mean, we aren't even testing like we should be - instead of testing, finding bugs, resolving those bugs, and retesting in a timely manner; we test once, find a bunch of problems, fix some of them, create some new ones, and test again a couple weeks later so we have no idea if the bugs we're experiencing are the same ones or new ones. Not to mention the fact that the working team brings up needs for the new system, the project lead shoots them down (telling us that we won't need those functions in the new system, the only reason we need them now is because the old system is too old and we've created work-arounds to get us through), then weeks later the project lead brings up those needs and berates everyone else for not having thought of those needs first.

Then, on the home front, one of our kittens (by which I mean our 15 year old cat) has to have surgery on Thursday because she has Feline Mammary Cancer, and we're hoping it hasn't spread to her lungs or elsewhere, so that they can actually do the surgery, because if the tumors have spread, she's not a candidate for the surgery and she has to be put down instead.

And we just heard from my mother-in-law, who experienced some chest pressure last week, that on her way to the doctor's office today she started having a lot of chest pain, and drove to the hospital instead, where all of her EKG's and blood tests came back fine, but she's supposed to get more tests tomorrow to see if she needs surgery of some sort, so we need to go up to visit her.

GasBandit said:

"changing dates and times at random"

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This is what happens when you try to sync across multiple calendars. I'll bet she has a device that's simultaneously signed into Google Calendars, iCloud, Yahoo, and maybe even her husband's job's Exchange acct. Also, I bet her phone's battery life is awful.

--Patrick

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