minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[VomKriege]

Having my first serious issue with the Mail company.

I ordered my new mobile phone 10 days ago. On the first of March I get a notification in my mailbox that they tried to deliver the package. I go to the site and ask for it to be delivered to the Post Office for later retrieval, starting the next day at 15h. So far so good.

Package not there on the 2nd. Not there on the 4th either at which point I am told I should contact customer support, which I do. The hotline takes my request and inform me that their response will be forthcoming in 2 to 5 working days.

On Saturday 5th I finally receive an email saying the package has been delivered at the office I requested, but I can't go in there before closing time. However this morning the customer support also mails me to say they were unable to locate my package (which has a tracking number BTW). I suppose they tried to locate it before Saturday's mail and go to the Post Office. Which tells me packages haven't been sorted yet and that they are unable to tell whether or not they have it. So I had to leave my phone number for later.

I'm a patient guy but it is starting to rile me up good. I wouldn't mind the delay if they didn't lead me to believe the thing would be put at the office the next day. Might be unfair to French Mail (though the mailmen have a serious tendency to not really check if you're there for deliveries or letters requiring a signature), but I'm a bit lost at the weird chronology of events.

I'm a bit worried to be honest, parcel went missing for 4 days and it's still unclear whether my Post Office do indeed have it. I'd prefer not having to go through hoops to explain the situation to my mobile carrier who sold me the phone.

[VomKriege]

Package lost or stolen despite being marked as available at the post office. Informed my mobile carrier, so now a further ten days delay before things will move on.

[archie4208]

My computer parts came today.

Except for the RAM.   

[chronovore]

To maintain development suite parity with partners, I've signed up for Adobe's Creative Cloud. I'll be doing the same for Maya as soon as my trial period runs out. Yay, monthly software rental.

[Joe Molotov]

My computer parts came today.

Except for the RAM.   

[chronovore]

Star Wars REBELS is being aired on standard TV in Japan, but only with Japanese voices and Japanese closed-captions.

[Brehvolution]

I have an iPhone 6 and it just started overheating and draining battery fast. All I could find in my lazy search as a solution was "try turning it off then on again" which I've yet to try but will now. Any of you deal with this before?

All the apple store will do is reset it back to factory settings and see if it was software related. If it's hardware, they will probably off to replace it for $300 unless you have applecare.

[chronovore]

I have an iPhone 6 and it just started overheating and draining battery fast. All I could find in my lazy search as a solution was "try turning it off then on again" which I've yet to try but will now. Any of you deal with this before?

If it's less than a year old, they'll replace it for free. If it's more than a year old, they'll charge you an outrageous "set price" to give you a replacement, somewhere between 60-70% of original retail price for your unit. If that's the case, have a third-party place fix it, but backup-and-wipe it before you hand it over to anyone you don't know.

My iPhone 5 recently appeared to be coming out of its bevel, turned out to be a "swollen" battery. Replaced it for $80 parts and labor. I was happy not to pay ¥50,000 or whatever Apple would have charged me.

[chronovore]

Spent two hours the other day trying to fix/understand why "Object > Convert to Shape" in Illustrator was no longer changing my text to vector art. Couldn't get useful information even with exact error message search inclusion (this should have been a clue). Finally realized it's "Text > Create Outlines."

The worst part is I know I'll forget again if I don't work in Illustrator for a month.

[Yeti]

I have an iPhone 6 and it just started overheating and draining battery fast. All I could find in my lazy search as a solution was "try turning it off then on again" which I've yet to try but will now. Any of you deal with this before?

If it's less than a year old, they'll replace it for free. If it's more than a year old, they'll charge you an outrageous "set price" to give you a replacement, somewhere between 60-70% of original retail price for your unit. If that's the case, have a third-party place fix it, but backup-and-wipe it before you hand it over to anyone you don't know.

My iPhone 5 recently appeared to be coming out of its bevel, turned out to be a "swollen" battery. Replaced it for $80 parts and labor. I was happy not to pay ¥50,000 or whatever Apple would have charged me.

My iPhone 5 did the same thing, luckily my brother in law worked at a phone dealership and was able to replace the battery for me for free.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Locked myself out with no wallet

Thank god I had my metro card and can take baby to daycare and make it to work

Was supposed to cycle though grrr

[VomKriege]

My package still MIA

Will probably end up commanding a beefier phone in case everything is resolved to my profit.

[brawndolicious]

I ordered some slightly discounted vape stuff exactly a month ago, I should have been suspicious when the delivery was free and it said 10-25 business days to deliver. Currently, they have the package sitting in a container in Sweden.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Locked myself out with no wallet

Thank god I had my metro card and can take baby to daycare and make it to work

Was supposed to cycle though grrr

Not enough credit on card tp travel back home, i mean there is enough credit for a ticket but still it says topup

Cant topup cause wallet is at home

Hope i dont get caught

[Cerveza mas fina]

4 more stops hnnngggg

[chronovore]

4 more stops hnnngggg

Twitter is really the right venue for this.

Tumblr if you have pics, yo.

[Reb]

Maybe start a blog.

[Cerveza mas fina]

4 more stops hnnngggg

Twitter is really the right venue for this.

Tumblr if you have pics, yo.

I don't have any social media bruv

[CatsCatsCats]

4 more stops hnnngggg

Twitter is really the right venue for this.

Tumblr if you have pics, yo.

This board is slow enough without post policing, Dad

[chronovore]

4 more stops hnnngggg

Twitter is really the right venue for this.

Tumblr if you have pics, yo.

This board is slow enough without post policing, Dad

 Honestly, I was just joking. I love that Lager lets me give him shit and never seems to take offense. I would swap spit with Lager.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Oh that stereo type doesn't smell like cologne.

[I'm a Puppy!]

College in the 10s? Man, how young do you think I am? I'm way too old for that.

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[I'm a Puppy!]

Jetlag is kicking my ass. Been up since 3am. Decided at 6am that Singapore would be awake enough for me to get some breakfast.
Apparently not. The only thing open were 7-11s and a McDonalds. It's a special kind of pathetic to be eating a sausage wrap in a McDonalds all by yourself at 6am in Singapore. 

[chronovore]

Jetlag is kicking my ass. Been up since 3am. Decided at 6am that Singapore would be awake enough for me to get some breakfast.
Apparently not. The only thing open were 7-11s and a McDonalds. It's a special kind of pathetic to be eating a sausage wrap in a McDonalds all by yourself at 6am in Singapore. 

Just make sure to clean up after yourself, 'cos littering will get you caned.

[Rufus]

I've only been getting four hours of sleep lately, even though I have enough time for a healthy eight. Seems my schedule is finally starting to catch up with me.

[Atramental]

My sleep schedule is perpetually fucked because of my job's weird "feast and famine" workload cycles.

I'm typing this around 3:30 am on my phone because I'm wide awake right now.

God, I can't wait to gtfo of this shit.

[VomKriege]

Still waiting news from my carrier about my never received phone. Also never received my annual transportation pass (will have to go make it directly at an office of the company), starting to think there's some indelicacies going on with my mail.

Also having fun with the maintenance of my gas boiler. We rent an apartment, and we're supposed to do a yearly maintenance on that. So far, so good. Just as a little bit of context, gas distribution in France is mostly handed by the former public monopoly that has been privatized a few years ago. All maintenance stuff is handled by a subsidiary. So we took a monthly fee that includes yearly check ups and emergency repairs. Contract was to be sent by email and filled to hand over to the technician.

Mid February, appointment planned, half a day to block for me : never got the contract, never saw the technician.

End of february : Technician came, but never got the contract. So technician can do nothing. He bitches a lot about how incompetent his handlers are. Tells me I'll be called back for a new appointment. Never was.

Today : I ask to be called back (because for some reason you can't phone in directly). Never was called back.

Efficiency at work : wasting three days for a guy to come, watch my boiler 5 minutes and tell me it's OK.

[archie4208]

I bought GTA 5 off Steam and can't download it for a week when my bandwidth cap resets. 

[chronovore]

I bought GTA 5 off Steam and can't download it for a week when my bandwidth cap resets. 

What kind of dystopia do you live in, where the internet has a usage cap?

Oh, are you in one of the areas where Comcast was "testing" this plan?

[archie4208]

Mediacom:  Comcast's redneck little brother.

I usually only use about half my bandwidth cap for the month (350gb) but since I built my PC I had to reinstall all my games and I bought The Witcher 3 so I'm right at the cap lol.

[brawndolicious]

Had a surgery to fix my deviated septum this morning and so now I'm menstruating from my nose until tomorrow hopefully. Also popping a couple percocets every 4 hours, kind of nice. Basically exactly as I was told the first 48 hours of the procedure would be tho.

[Madrun Badrun]

Congrats on becoming a young women.  Stick a tampon up there and I'll take you to pizza hut to have the talk.  Like my mother did for me. 

[brawndolicious]

Aww that's so sweet. My virginal nose can only handle maxis tho. :'(

[chronovore]

Aren't you stuffed full of gauze at this point? I had that surgery, and the amount of gauze up my schnoz was stunning. I was packed tighter than J-Lo's yoga pants.

[brawndolicious]

Yup. I pretty much had to change the gauze every couple hours yesterday but now the bleeding has nearly stopped. Very chill recovery time.

[Rufus]

I hope you get to pull a gigantic blood clot out of your nose. I hear that genuinely feels great.

[chronovore]

Yup. I pretty much had to change the gauze every couple hours yesterday but now the bleeding has nearly stopped. Very chill recovery time.

Changing gauze? When I did mine, they left it in for a week or more. When they finally started pulling the gauze out, it felt like my brain was unraveling and I went into mild shock.

[brawndolicious]

I have some hollow splints inside that may be stuffed with gauze but I can still sort of breathe through my nose so I dunno about internal gauze. The outside, under my nostrils, has gauze I have to change a few times a day now as blood slowly drips out of my nose. I feel like it's starting to scab up on the inside now as its a lot less bleedy than before.

[chronovore]

I have some hollow splints inside that may be stuffed with gauze but I can still sort of breathe through my nose so I dunno about internal gauze. The outside, under my nostrils, has gauze I have to change a few times a day now as blood slowly drips out of my nose. I feel like it's starting to scab up on the inside now as its a lot less bleedy than before.

That sounds miserable.

If you can breath through your nose at all, you're on a different program than I was. I think I didn't have splints. So hopefully your removal process is less traumatic.

[brawndolicious]

It's really not that bad. Surgery was hella quick and I'm ready to go back into the real world. I just don't want to do that until the bandages go off and swelling goes down.

[chronovore]

Picked up Duet, an app which turns an iPad into an extra screen for my MacBook. Really easy to setup, but Unity crashes brutally if I try and actually use it. Everything else works out stunningly well, except for the one thing I wanted it to do.

[chronovore]

Helping someone write down something in english at work:
Her: "B or P?"
Me: "P as in Pokemon"
*Instant shame*

[Tasty]

[Phoenix Dark]

Maybe the mullahs were right. Western ideology corrupts.
 

[Atramental]

But Pokemon is from glorious Nippon. So technically it isn't Western.

[Tasty]

Wrath, did you pronounce is the correct way too? (Poe-kay-mon.)

[Brehvolution]

Mediacom:  Comcast's redneck little brother.

I usually only use about half my bandwidth cap for the month (350gb) but since I built my PC I had to reinstall all my games and I bought The Witcher 3 so I'm right at the cap lol.

Pro tip: Copy the steam directory from your old hard drive to your new hard drive, install steam to that path, no need to re download anything. If any game won't launch after you do this, right click on the game and go to properties and verify the game cache. It will work after that. Saves a shitload of time.

[Tasty]

Wrath, did you pronounce is the correct way too? (Poe-kay-mon.)

Poe-Key-Mon because I'm american

[Madrun Badrun]

Nami kept me up most of the night cause she was scared of the thunderstorm

[Atramental]

Weighed in at 200 lbs this morning.

Just to give some context, my normal weight is usually around 180 lbs to 175 lbs.

[Madrun Badrun]

Fat or muscle?  If its fat be careful with that.  Getting fat was easily the worst thin I've ever done in life.  Other than the murders.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I'm hungry but I don't feel like leaving. It's a shitty ohio day 40 degrees and side rain.

[king of the internet]

Weighing in at an all-time low over here. I look amazing naked and those gaunt cheekbones are lit. 

[Atramental]

Weighed in at 200 lbs this morning.

Just to give some context, my normal weight is usually around 180 lbs to 175 lbs.

200 lbs sounds good for a 6 foot tall weightlifter

instead you're a sedentary 5 foot tall bald ex-christian

you're slowly turning into george constanza breh

5' 11"

But otherwise, yes. 

Fat or muscle?  If its fat be careful with that.  Getting fat was easily the worst thin I've ever done in life.  Other than the murders.

Fat.

The heaviest I've ever been was 240 lbs. That was shortly after I got kicked out of BJU.

But yes, it does suck.

[Madrun Badrun]

Saw a really obnoxious man trying to get a dogs attention today as it walked (then had to be pulled) by its owner who was trying to ignore the man.  I didn't say anything and I'm still pissed with myself. 

If I was a real man like Am or Drinky, I would have gotten the man to stop, or be hit in the head with a crowbar. 

[Mupepe]

Am?  Like Am Nintenho?

[brawndolicious]

Somehow, he knows I haven't shaved my butt in a month.

[Madrun Badrun]

I use to nair my ass.  Back when I had two assholes.  True story. 

[I'm a Puppy!]

No problem with the cheeks but the crack???

[chronovore]

Weighed in at 200 lbs this morning.

Just to give some context, my normal weight is usually around 180 lbs to 175 lbs.

On the bright side, you will soon be able send nudes to demi for favors on the forum.

Mediacom:  Comcast's redneck little brother.

I usually only use about half my bandwidth cap for the month (350gb) but since I built my PC I had to reinstall all my games and I bought The Witcher 3 so I'm right at the cap lol.

Just out of curiosity, is it an opt-in plan, or was the limit strapped on after the fact?