minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Madrun Badrun]

Have a like.  It's all I got.

[Raist]

Feeling really depressed today. Worse than usual. Could use some cheering up.

[Purrp Skirrp]

Slept for about 12 hours and still tired af. Feels like I drank too much, boarded the wrong subway circa 70s NYC, and got my shit kicked in by a gang of face painted toddlers with wiffle ball bats. Just really sore and achey all over.

Not sure if it's related to the doxycycline I took, where you at Huff?

[team filler]

Slept for about 12 hours and still tired af. Feels like I drank too much, boarded the wrong subway circa 70s NYC, and got my shit kicked in by a gang of face painted toddlers with wiffle ball bats. Just really sore and achey all over.

Not sure if it's related to the doxycycline I took, where you at Huff?

I know that feel, getting chlamydia sucks, breh 

[TVC15]

Slept for about 12 hours and still tired af. Feels like I drank too much, boarded the wrong subway circa 70s NYC, and got my shit kicked in by a gang of face painted toddlers with wiffle ball bats. Just really sore and achey all over.

Not sure if it's related to the doxycycline I took, where you at Huff?

I know that feel, getting chlamydia sucks, breh 

Well, getting chlamydia is usually fun. It’s having it that sucks.

[team filler]

You can give me chlamydia anytime, bb 

[TVC15]

Please stop dodging my sandwich request, babe.

[seagrams hotsauce]

didn't drink enough water last night I guess cuz I got the worst charlie horse I've had in years in my calf getting out of bed this morning. This one is gonna stick for a couple days methinks 

[team filler]

didn't drink enough water last night I guess cuz I got the worst charlie horse I've had in years in my calf getting out of bed nest this morning. This one is gonna stick for a couple days methinks 

ftfybb
















get out of bed, brehs

[Mandark]

Couldn't get a mother's day call through to my grandma, in part because I've been so derelict about keeping in touch that she doesn't recognize my number when it comes up on the caller ID. Feeling all the ethnic guilt right now.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Cmon mane I know you're like a zygote years old but most of our grandmothers have been on this dumb planet for approx one billion years. They're still adjusting to non-rotary phones, we can't expect them to figure out answering machines

[Nabbis]

Almost two hours at the gym, i can't stahp adding more moves. Help.  :'(

[chronovore]

Allergies, possibly the wrong allergy meds, and sneezing have resulted in the inside of my nose looking like a crime scene.

[naff]

No one in my family noticed I lost 30 pounds since Christmas, but did notice my balding scalp

  fam just wanna bring you down breh.

i got the "i have a bf, sorry, i wasn't fair to him or you the other night" text last night from an incredibly cute girl i was p keen on from the weekend 

[chronovore]

No one in my family noticed I lost 30 pounds since Christmas, but did notice my balding scalp

  fam just wanna bring you down breh.

i got the "i have a bf, sorry, i wasn't fair to him or you the other night" text last night from an incredibly cute girl i was p keen on from the weekend 

She was interested. Take the W.

[Snoopycat_]

I've discovered our new neighbour is not a fan of Napalm Death. I don't know how anyone can hear that foolishness and not enjoy it. Sometimes I play their stuff when I'm driving the kids to school just to see the reactions when I drop them off at the gate.

[chronovore]

Yeah… don't be a part of ruining her situation. If she's avoiding you because she'd be tempted, be kind and let her keep her distance.

I don't gamble because I know I wouldn't be able to stop. I avoid putting myself in situations where I know the only long term option is failure.

[Raist]

No one in my family noticed I lost 30 pounds since Christmas, but did notice my balding scalp

Expect family members to hand out nice comments about positive stuff instead of bashing your ears with the negatives, brehs.

[Madrun Badrun]

Cut a finger, now I got to masturbate with a band-aid hand.

[Madrun Badrun]

Now I cut my thumb, same hand - smh

[Huff]

How sharp is your penis

Damn

[Rufus]

No wonder the murder weapon was never found.

[Rufus]

I don't understand. Did you forget how to use your frontend or what?

[Rufus]

OK :I

[chronovore]

i wanna play some retro games but i cant remember how i set up the emu stuff on my computer and now im too lazy to figure it out which only perpetuates my boredom

username checks out.

[brawndolicious]

For the first time since 2011 I think, I had to manually update a driver.

[benjipwns]

It’s like 1:20 am, I’m about to turn in for the night

FACT CHECK:

cat is curled up right in the middle of my bed.

[Corporal]

Lose multimeter
Buy new multimeter online (had to get it from the PO)
Immediately upon return: old Multimeter was actually not lost, just in a different place than usual
Send unused new multimeter back to shop for refund (via PO)
Immediately upon return: old multimeter breaks

Durrrrrrrrrr.

[Madrun Badrun]

Got scooped again on an idea I've had for a year

[bork]

Bought a dual monitor arm for my new desk setup.  My monitors aren't made for VESA mounting so I had to get adapters for them.  Put it all together and noticed one monitor seemed like it was probably going to fall of the mount.  Not good.  They also didn't really fit properly and I couldn't move them.  Back it all goes.  Pain in the ass getting the adapters off.

Decided to get a 34" ultra-wide curved gaming blah blah blah monitor instead.  It came today in a flimsy box and was delivered by two AMZL people who got the fuck out like something was up.  Opened the box and found some paper "protecting" the monitor box, which had cleared been opened and resealed.  Loose cables inside.  Nice big crack and some dents in the monitor, which had no plastic wrap on it.  Amazon Warehouse sticker on the side.  This is "new?" 

Packed that shit all back up to go back to Amazon and hauled it downstairs to go out to a UPS store.  Talked to Amazon and they wanted photos.  Went back and unpacked everything, got photos, and packed it all back up.  Emailed the photos and the dude said his jaw hit the floor.  (Are they gonna actually do anything?  LOL)  Ordered a replacement.  Imma LOL if this is a repeat.  No idea if the two delivery people had anything to do with it- not the monitor being opened before, but the crack.  I get the feeling they dropped the box.

Then my wife tells me the kitchen sink has a leak.  It's pretty nasty under there.  Leaks and moldy shit everywhere.   Cleaned it up as best I could, then went to find a dumpster to get rid of the moldy shit I threw away in some trash bags.  Called a plumber and then realized the replacement monitor I ordered was set to go to the wrong address.  Managed to get that changed just in time. 

[Corporal]

Hah, that'll teach you to buy cheap trash without VESA mounts.
Sounds pretty stressful. Hope ya can relax a bit.


Anyway.
Time for my minor annoyance. Dressed up nicely, drove to a client, was too early, ooooh, look, a cafe! I am feeling peckish anyway! Perfect. Time to be all smooth and suave and do that adult thing.

Yeah. I met my client looking like a hobo who dragged his suit out of a trashcan, bathed in a public fountain and then pissed his pants because I am unable to drink Latte Macchiato and ogle my surroundings at the same time. And then to clean my shit up without making it look ten times worse. Fuck me. 

At least everything went well.

[bork]

Hah, that'll teach you to buy cheap trash without VESA mounts.
Sounds pretty stressful. Hope ya can relax a bit.

 

ASUS MX monitors, mang- good shit and unique bases...which explains the lack of VESA support.  At the end of the day, the shit with the arms and monitors and whatnot doesn't matter.  The stress only comes from having to get that shit back to them, but hey, they're gonna have UPS come pick it all up at least.  It's the plumbing issue that worries me. 

EDIT: Wasn't too bad.  Just needed a new pipe.
 

[skullstorm]

A mosquito bit me under my eye and the under eye area reacted pretty badly to it and now I look like I got beat up, great.

[Corporal]

The first mosquito bite of the year always puffs up really badly for me as well. Sucks, but what can you do. At least yours is at an exploitable location.

Time to profit: dream up a tall tale of how you took on a Pro Wrestler, Bear or Gang member for slighting you. "Should'a seen the other guy!" This is the time to invest heavily in siblings or best friends so they can corroborate your story.



Slept over the Champions League finale since I'm not a soccer guy at heart. Woke up today to 29349 Whatsapp messages of a friend who wanted to invite me to a public viewing. Later messages came with pictures of food and drinks he was consuming. Drat. I missed out. Bigly. Damn you, auto-do not disturb smartphone. This wouldn't have happened with a dumbphone.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The three day weekend is half over and I've wasted the first half completely.

[chronovore]

Moved to Tokyo, no longer working at home. 3GB dataplan lasts first two weeks out of each month. Have to purchase extra GB first month. Still treat remaining data packets gingerly. Don't want to use company's wifi network because my usage is entirely unrelated to work. Don't even want it monitored, so it'll never be an issue. ("Why /did/ you stream 20GB of music last month, Mr. Chronovore?")

Upgrade to 20GB data plan tied to a new phone. Needed a new phone anyway. It's ordered during a holiday week, which delays it. I have to go back to Tokyo, but it will be delivered to my family home.

Again run past 3GB while waiting for new phone to arrive.

Again purchase extra data.

Phone arrives the next day.

[seagrams hotsauce]

got got by a secret track. fall prey to gimmicks you knew about in high school brehs

[HardcoreRetro]

Blackbird ate the last strawberry from my strawberry plant.

[Madrun Badrun]

O dude, that really sucks.  I'll keep you in my prays.  PM me if you need someone to talk to. 


I did something like that recently, had to lose an inch.  Also decided to grow a handlebar mustache and trimmed the middle a bit, which I guess you aren't supposed to do, so now it will be like 3 months before I can pull it off for reals. 

[Tasty]

how is looking like a 12 year old a bad thing?

being able to hit on teenage girls without coming off as a creep

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Put in two weeks notice today and now the company wants to see what they can do to keep me. Ugh, just let me quit in peace. 

Edit: They couldn't match my salary, so that's over with. 

[chronovore]

Put in two weeks notice today and now the company wants to see what they can do to keep me. Ugh, just let me quit in peace. 

Edit: They couldn't match my salary, so that's over with. 

Honestly, that is the best possible ending. They had the opportunity to retain you at any previous point. Only paying attention when you're bailing is not a healthy relationship.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Put in two weeks notice today and now the company wants to see what they can do to keep me. Ugh, just let me quit in peace. 

Edit: They couldn't match my salary, so that's over with. 

Honestly, that is the best possible ending. They had the opportunity to retain you at any previous point. Only paying attention when you're bailing is not a healthy relationship.

Yeah, even if they had matched me I would've left anyway due to other issues I had. Glad I could avoid that awkward conversation.

[CatsCatsCats]

Found out the current season of RPDR is airing on Netflix in some regions and I’m too stupid to get around their vpn blocking 😭

[Huff]

Struggle thread seems a little too real for my inbetween inconvenience and struggle issue

Flight delayed due to weather at connecting airport. 90% chance we’re stuck in atl for the night. Ugh just hope they can figure out a flight home early tomorrow to avoid missed time at work

Other option is fly to an airport 3 hrs away (pending open seats) and drive through the night

[Huff]

Missed flight. In Florida for another night. Doesn’t seem so bad

Rent a car. No one agency has a single unbooked car. Wth

[Tasty]

Microsoft bought GitHub.

[Corporal]

I got devoured by mosquitos last night. 

So... itchy...

They shouldn't be out and about yet, but they are. Lesson learned.

[Joe Molotov]

Were you jerking it to apartheid porn?

[Tasty]

Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database

[brawndolicious]

Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database

I can't be the only one who thinks excel is great for creating strings.

Combine it with lookups of pivot tables of lookups, that'll get you a bit of job security.

[Tasty]

Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database

I can't be the only one who thinks excel is great for creating strings.

Combine it with lookups of pivot tables of lookups, that'll get you a bit of job security.

[bork]

Was just helping someone at work.  While I'm fiddling around on her PC fixing her problem, she asks if I've ever lived anywhere else.  Told her I'd lived in New York and in Japan. 

She then responds with a joke about nazis and follows that up with a highly offensive racist joke about Japanese people.  I just went  on the other end of the line and didn't say anything.  After an awkward silence, she goes "OH COME ON, THAT'S FUNNY!!"

 

Update on this nonsense- I haven't spoken to this lady much since this incident happened and HR talked to her.  When I've gotten her on the phone, there's a pause, followed by "never mind, it fixed itself" and she hangs up.

Doesn't want to talk to me after she got in trouble?  OK, fine, whatever.  But I found that this lady has been calling in and talking shit about me to my co-workers in the last few weeks.  Stuff like "Can I ask for people specifically?  I don't want to talk to bork-- he got me in trouble with HR over nothing.  It was nothing!!" and trying to get dirt on me or find out if I was the one who reported her for this.  One co-worker has even been flat-out telling her that "no, bork didn't report you- it was our boss." 

So it looks like this is going back to HR, per my boss.  Jesus, lady, it's been two months already.  You fucked up and now you're in denial over it?  LET IT GO. 

[team filler]

a tyrant censoring sbw monster even outside thebore.com 

[Joe Molotov]

murdered in the physical realm

[bork]

a tyrant censoring sbw monster even outside thebore.com 

[team filler]

*sbw=stalker beaks warrior

[I'm a Puppy!]

Work is getting crazy again. I can feel the breakdown looming close.

[Corporal]

I'm feeling antsy. Kinda like a hostage after spending a day or two with a gun to their head.

Just get it over with, MS. Pull the trigger. Fuck up my settings once more. Possibly destroy my installation. Do it, fuckers. Doooo eeeeeeet.

Well fuck you too.   



Bonus:

code.jquery.com is blocked
Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension.
Try disabling your extensions.
ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT

Fuck, how did I manage to bork this one up. Which one of the three dozen extensions and one hundred configuration options is the culprit? I'm not gonna do the enable/disable bullshit bingo to find out, at least for a while. It's not like I have javascript enabled all that often anyway. 

[G The Resurrected]

Alarm clock broke this morning which put me behind on my trip to LA. Rental car company is closed on weekends even though I have a reservation for pick up today. UHHHH 

So now I'm waiting for a ride to get a car at the airport. I'm about to just say fuck today and get on a plane.