minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Kara]

Looks like 2010.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/introducing-caldari-funds-unlimited/

[chronovore]

MOAR JET LAG.

Went to have a brief nap 2 hours before my first karate class in a month. Woke up 7+ hours later when everyone else was going to bed. I've been awake since 01:30 this morning, and am going for a walk to try and clear my head.

:woozy

[nachobro]

I got some offbrand can of cherry coke cause I'm a cheap jew and it's kinda not good.

[bork]

Decided to try Amazon's same-day shipping.  You have to be a Prime member and for it to be free, you need to order more than $35 worth of stuff.  What I wanted was only around $20, but the shipping cost was like five bucks so I gave it a try.

...And the package was shipped with Lasership, which basically means "LOL FUCK YOU YOU'LL GET IT WHENEVER!"    

Sure enough, when I track the package, it says delivery was attempted.  Except that delivery was not attempted; we have been at home all evening and there is no note on the door.  If I go directly to Lasership's site, I get this:

ATLANTA, GA US    05/30/2015    7:11 pm    Need More Information
MARIETTA, GA US    05/30/2015    5:15 pm    Out for Delivery to Customer

"Need more information" for what?
 

[benjipwns]

When Amazon sends their thing for feedback, that usually everyone just ignores, instead fill it out with something like "Lasership sucks, they did [X]" I had one of those companies with just dudes in vans when ordering a graphic card, he never rang the buzzer for my apartment, somehow got inside the building and just left it downstairs on the floor next to the outside door, not my apartment door or anything.

I guess you can get certain carriers stricken from your orders (like they mark it in your account or something) and if they get enough bitching Amazon will ditch them altogether or lowball them further. I haven't had that carrier since even though I saw the van delivering in the complex and I almost complained about another who left a package outside the building door but it was just a book and I couldn't build up enough disgust like with the video card.

[bork]

When Amazon sends their thing for feedback, that usually everyone just ignores, instead fill it out with something like "Lasership sucks, they did [X]" I had one of those companies with just dudes in vans when ordering a graphic card, he never rang the buzzer for my apartment, somehow got inside the building and just left it downstairs on the floor next to the outside door, not my apartment door or anything.

I guess you can get certain carriers stricken from your orders (like they mark it in your account or something) and if they get enough bitching Amazon will ditch them altogether or lowball them further. I haven't had that carrier since even though I saw the van delivering in the complex and I almost complained about another who left a package outside the building door but it was just a book and I couldn't build up enough disgust like with the video card.

I think Lasership runs in just a few states.

I usually don't do feedback and go right to their customer support.  Got on with them and was told "it seems like the order has been delayed in transit by the carrier and they have also incorrectly updated the tracking as delivery attempted."

So they gave me the money I paid for shipping back.  That's what usually happens.  If I don't get the package tomorrow I'll bitch again.  I mean, this is nothing crucial -it's an ethernet switch and some cables- but it's the principle of the thing.

[Mr. Nobody]

Just realized that I haven't had nachos in over 2 years.  Now all I can think about is nachos and its 10:40PM and nothing is open.

Live in a country with no Taco Bell, brehs

Where's my passport

[chronovore]

I got some offbrand can of cherry coke cause I'm a cheap jew and it's kinda not good.

soda

snickers

[Purrp Skirrp]

I got some offbrand can of cherry coke cause I'm a cheap jew and it's kinda not good.

soda

I drank 3 of these today :geoff

[Van Cruncheon]

my best mechanic and i decided to "hack" the ecu in my scooter and wound up busting the idle response such that it stalls on every throttle closure. #theeffetestruggleisreal

this is what happens when you put a pc builder and a bike nerd in front of a real-time dyno sheet

[I'm a Puppy!]

It's not 'processed food' it's 'evolved food'

[Tasty]

Kit Harrington is str8

[Joe Molotov]

my best mechanic and i decided to "hack" the ecu in my scooter and wound up busting the idle response such that it stalls on every throttle closure. #theeffetestruggleisreal

this is what happens when you put a pc builder and a bike nerd in front of a real-time dyno sheet

This is like the episode of Home Improvement where Tim decides to give his son's computer "more power".

[Tasty]

Rahx hasn't sent me nudes

[chronovore]

Japan is SO GODDAMNED ON-TIME ABOUT EVERYTHING, I walked up to the bank /just/ at 3:00PM and the Blast Doors were already being lowered into place.

https://twitter.com/codpiece/status/605268777626787840

[Shaka Khan]

Rahx hasn't sent me nudes

New low

[Positive Touch]

stayed up late to beat Nier like the shameful weeb that I am, now I gotta work all day today. fuck me this is gonna be rough.

[Madrun Badrun]

I only got 4 hours of sleep because I have to give a talk at 10 and I still haven't figured out what I'm going to say.  Would have done it yesterday but I was playing monster hunter.

[Tasty]

Wine hangovers are the worst.

Think I gave myself food poisoning with those eggs last night.

[Brehvolution]

Witcher 3 had me up until 1:45am last night. Up at 7am.

Had to force myself to go to bed.

[ToxicAdam]

Now you're sitting at work all day thinking about the game ...

then you start reading forums about it. Then wiki's, then walkthroughs, then youtube videos. Until you completely spoil yourself and suck some of the joy out of the game.


Well, at least that's how it usually happens with me.

[Rufus]

Getting to Skellige (which is fucking beautiful, btw) fixed the glitch for me. Got from 20 to 21 within an hour. All but forgot how much XP the main quests are worth. 

Before I left Velen I even mopped up the 30+ contracts at level 19-20. Having to apply oils, quaff potions and keep adrenaline up to even do enough damage. That said, it wasn't that hard. Feline school swords are really OP. Their bleeds are really, really strong. Can't wait until I can craft the bleed runes myself.
Last contract left in Velen was the level 35 Royal Griffin. One shotted me several times before I came to and sailed to Skellige instead of bashing my head against this hell-vermin.

[Kara]

The reader of the book on tape I'm listening to atm mispronounced "forte" this morning during my commute.

I guess you could say the peculiarities of historical orthography aren't his strength.

[Kara]

I guess you could say the peculiarities of historical orthography aren't his strength.

[Rufus]

I just now realized this isn't the Witcher 3 thread. Oh well, gonna leave it here.

[Brehvolution]

Now you're sitting at work all day thinking about the game ...

then you start reading forums about it. Then wiki's, then walkthroughs, then youtube videos. Until you completely spoil yourself and suck some of the joy out of the game.


Well, at least that's how it usually happens with me.

I dreamed about quests and watching the horse ride around. 

[Kara]

A.D.I.D.A.S

All day I daydream about stats.

[chronovore]

The reader of the book on tape I'm listening to atm mispronounced "forte" this morning during my commute.

I guess you could say the peculiarities of historical orthography aren't his strength.

The game I'm playing is a steampunk thing where (almost) everyone has a British accent. Sadly, the script wasn't grammar checked prior to recording. This caused me to think that the UK actors were soldiering through the efforts of a hack stoically, but then the actors started mispronouncing words, so I recognize that the whole thing is sort of a shitshow.

[Madrun Badrun]

I have hairy hobbit feet and now I have an ingrown hair on my pinky toe and it hurts like shit.

[king of the internet]

Man-apes

[brawndolicious]

I have a hairy legs that taper to the big toe. Looks cool.

[Rufus]

Man-apes (Image removed from quote.)

I look like a chimp waist down. Too much to conventiently do anything about, so I do nothing.

[Madrun Badrun]

Man-apes (Image removed from quote.)

racist

[Tasty]

Man-apes (Image removed from quote.)

racist

The racist version is "ape-men," but I can see how you'd be confused.

[Madrun Badrun]

No, I'm just sensitive to ape issues. 

[Tasty]

No, I'm just sensitive to ape issues.

Reverse-racist

[Kara]

Today I have to return to the office that I was at until midnight last night and it will take every ounce of my being not to say something snarky to call them out for being lackadaisical wastrels.

[Madrun Badrun]

After a months vacation, I left work yesterday at 2PM and today I didn't come in till 3PM.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Had butter chicken from my favorite indian place

Now I need a nap, but I have hours and hours of work left

[studyguy]

My chair at work is like a fucking rock brehs.
I found some Aeron chairs on craigslist for $100. 

Are those good?

[I'm a Puppy!]

Herman Miller Aerons? Yeah, they're not bad.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Herman Miller Aerons? Yeah, they're not bad.

Having an opinion on office furniture

[studyguy]

Sit all day in an office chair, I have opinions on my chair.
It fucking sucks.

[VomKriege]

Still no news of the next Evangelion film.
Fuck you Anno.

[chronovore]

Today I have to return to the office that I was at until midnight last night and it will take every ounce of my being not to say something snarky to call them out for being lackadaisical wastrels.

Just use the term "lackadaisical wastrels" and there'll be a 30% chance no-one will even notice they've been dissed.

[Kara]

One of them does have an alarmingly waifish figure.

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I once used my natural register in this office and everyone looked at me like I was speaking Esperanto. One of them taught English overseas too.

[close]

[milchs evil twin]

My one true hobby is cooking cheap cuts of meat for hours and hours until they fall apart.

[Cerveza mas fina]

In one month I'll be eligible for unemployment benefits. i'm not doing too hot at my job so I need to buckle down.

Until then if I lose my job I'm just ool cause my wife has one and we own property.

European socialism  :'(

[Atramental]

A client trying to add me as a facebook friend. 

I should just deactivate that shit already. It's becoming more of a liability than a benefit.

[chronovore]

A client trying to add me as a facebook friend. 

I should just deactivate that shit already. It's becoming more of a liability than a benefit.

I always invite them to connect on LinkedIn, and even provide a link for them, or find them there and offer to connect.

I usually add a note about using FB only for family and school friends.

[tiesto]

Crunch mode since after Memorial Day... have to go to work this weekend... and one of my managers was giving me shit b/c I couldn't remember how to do one of the 15 million processes we have at this company to resolve support cases. (something I only do like once every few months)

I worked for a government contractor for years and it was super easygoing... is 50 hour weeks on the regular, not including crunch time... as common in the commercial software industry as I think?

[I'm a Puppy!]

I have to get up early Monday - Weds for 5am meetings with my east coast clients and then my boss and sales teams schedule me for late business dinners.

[Rufus]

Apparently your body does catch up on sleep if you let it. Several hours of W3 time lost to shitty dreams about ghostly possession.

[Kara]

The lecture I'm at has a 90 minute lunch.

[king of the internet]

The lecture I'm at has a 90 minute lunch.

Gives you plenty of time to mingle! 

[Kara]

I know you were being facetious but the regular crowd at these lectures are people even I find intellectually pompous and overbearing. (Let that sink in, Boreans.) It's like my parents running a MENSA chapter.

[Van Cruncheon]

50 hr week is a GOOD week

[chronovore]

Go away, mayfly. Don't you know it's June already?

I know you were being facetious but the regular crowd at these lectures are people even I find intellectually pompous and overbearing. (Let that sink in, Boreans.) It's like my parents running a MENSA chapter.

[Kara]

Argued about video game lore on the internet.

[Rufus]

I once witnessed a pensioner talk down to what looked like a first year student. I forgot what his starting line was, but he eventually asked her how many of the words in the sentence he had spoken prior were of Latin origin. Given that not everyone in Germany has mandatory Latin any more (which probably annoyed him even more) she couldn't answer so he just left. She was obviously bewildered and he probably re-confirmed his view of modern times.

This was the same guy who had brought a book he'd written to the lecture so he could show it to the professor. I think he also made an off-hand mention to it in one of the questions he'd asked.