minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Tasty]

Reddit goes down more than me on Wrath, chill out duder.

[Madrun Badrun]

Reddit goes down on me less than your mom, never. 

Well there goes my plans for tonight. 

[chronovore]

Shit night.
Was supposed to hang with a friend.

I've had polyps on my throat for years since a teen. Every few years they take a biopsy and it's benign. Basically every once and a while when I talk too much, too loud I get a sharp pain, lose my voice for a few secs until I drink water and my throat bleeds aka if I spit I spit up bright red blood.

When I had my bronchitis spot for 6 weeks a few months ago I had some bad, bad coughing in the middle and tore the fuck outta my throat, including the area around my vocal characters where my polyp is. Since then I've noticed it bleeding more often and worse.

Tonight after a long day talking at work on calls, was on a long 30min+ call talking and I tend to talk loud and my voice snapped and lost my voice, ended the call and went and spat a good 3-4 spits of solid blood before it cleared up. Was enough damage that got feverish hot and weak and tired, so had to call my plans off for the night with a friend and took some tylenol and just gonna go to bed. Throat feels sore and gooey like the injury is dripping salva or something a bit still.

I hadn't bothered to see an ENT about it since I've dealt with it for years and it's always been benign, but since I tore up my throat during the bronchitis I'm now feeling like I need to see my ENT to take a look and see if there's an issue. I have noticed that when I was in vegas at borecon and I'd have a strong alcohol drink my throat would burn like I've got open sores all down it. Same with when smoking [redacted] at bore-con, my throat set on fire at first like had sores on the throat. :|

I'm debating cancelling my Europe trip (haven't booked it yet) in case this is something serious and when I see the ENT (which will probably take a few weeks before I can get in), they might need to do an endoscopy ASAP and if there's something might need to address it ASAP, so being gone for 2 weeks in mid-september might be a bad idea :|

Who knows though, maybe they'll get me in on a cancel right away, be able to look real quick and tell me it's nothing serious that needs rushed surgery or anything and then I can still book my trip this weekend. Just don't know. Will call my ENT first thing tomorrow morning.

 

Holy cow, dude. That sounds awful. Definitely see an ENT and get them to look at it, because that's far afield from normal.

[Stro]

I've had my monitor set to 125% for ages, accidentally reset it to the default 100% and can barely see anything

[Tasty]

Procrastinated on doing laundry too long so now it takes 3 times through my building's shitty dryer and I only had enough time for 2 tonight.

Putting some items out to dry on various pieces of furniture tonight and running the rest through after work tomorrow if it's still damp.

[bluemax]

Telling people you're a software engineer and then having to explain that you don't work in web development so front end, back end and full stack do not apply to what you do.

This is why I avoid telling people what I do for a living when ask and mostly just say "I'm a people person!", and also because that one is full to see how long I can bullshit before they realize I don't do whatever it is they think a people person does.

[Tasty]

"What do you do?"

"Uh I write JavaScript code-"

"Fix my computer plz."

[shosta]

Tasty, do you like clojurescript?

[Tasty]

Always wanted to try Clojure before ClojureScript, but never got a chance. Sorry.

[chronovore]

Had to make 4 trips to the local police department to renew my license. Police were really nice, complimented my Japanese, but not in that slowly-pronounced "nihongo jouzu desu ne!" way.

Humid as hell today, with Typhoon 20/Cimaron sashaying its way to our doorsteps this evening.

Amazon shipment was late. Arrived this morning, but this is the inconvenience thread, so…

[Tasty]

Lost my phone for the second Friday in a row.

But I have (cancelled) Uber charges for my house.

Wtf

[Madrun Badrun]

The question is what will give first, the drinking or the resistance to fanny packs?

[Atramental]

I was over at my parent's place today and the subject of vaccines came up (they're definitely near the "against" camp  )

And I jokingly said that I have a touch of the 'tism because I was the only one of my siblings that got most of my vaccines as a baby/young child.

They did not disagree.

[toku]

believe in yourself

[team filler]

I've had my monitor set to 125% for ages, accidentally reset it to the default 100% and can barely see anything

[skullstorm]

Tummy ache Also hungry

Also been dealing with some person I arranged to buy something from online and they never sent me the item and I've spent over two weeks bombarding them with messages and yesterday I sent an email telling them I'm going to file a police report and well what do you know, now suddenly I get an email back saying they haven't been online (for two weeks ) and will give me my money back. Let's see if that happens though. It was just like 15 euros, so obviously a police report would be useless but maybe just threatening with it will be enough.

I don't get why anyone would try to scam someone out of that little money only to then have to deal with dozens of pestering messages of I WANT MUH MONEY BACK, like who needs that hassle. Be a better criminal.

[Rufus]

Had a spell of vertigo yesterday. Felt like I'm in heavy seas out of nowhere. Now I desperately want to know what caused it.

[Raist]

Had a spell of vertigo yesterday. Felt like I'm in heavy seas out of nowhere. Now I desperately want to know what caused it.

Lupus.


Or anything else, really.

[Fifstar]

Thought I got a nice legit deal on a holiday trip after days of hunting. Got cancelled 3 hours later 

[Rufus]

Lupus.


Or anything else, really.

It's not Lupus!

I hear you about the "anything else", though. So weird.

[Huff]

I promised myself not to buy new jeans until I lost weight.  I have since blown the crotch out of my last two pairs of jeans and one pair of chinos.  I figure if I have crotch holes in all my pants, then I can't leave the house and can just eat myself to death on delivery.   

The fuck is going on with your crotch that you blow out three pairs of pants

I’ve done it as well.

Jeans can only handle so much fupa. 

Yeah but imagine trying to use tinder if your deaf or scarred from the measles

[Madrun Badrun]

THE HEAT

[Stro]

Uninvited, unannounced guests at dinner time but I'm on a schedule so I'm going to get bitched at later for how rude I was to fix my plate while they're here. People dropping by at dinner time really does make me more than I can explain.

[skullstorm]

Had a spell of vertigo yesterday. Felt like I'm in heavy seas out of nowhere. Now I desperately want to know what caused it.

A little while ago I had a pretty scary occurrence of vertigo too. It was my day off and I slept in and when I woke up I stayed in bed looking at my phone for a while, felt completely normal. Then I got up and immediately felt like the world had flipped over and I just fell and had to really make an effort to fall back into the bed and not face first into a dresser. Like I really felt the moment I got up like someone had turned the world sideways and my body didn't know which way it should be, it was creepy as hell. Then I felt really fucking woozy and couldn't move for a while and when I finally managed to get back up I couldn't walk without leaning on the walls. I thought I was having a stroke or something. But then slowly I started feeling better and then it went away completely and hasn't happened again (so far).

I have no idea what the hell caused it but it was pretty unsettling. If it ever happens again I'm calling a doctor.

[shosta]

Wow, I was just in bed this morning.

[skullstorm]

Stay safe!

[chronovore]

Had a long week. Feels so long, I thought it was Thursday, but it's only Wednesday.

[Stro]

Uninvited, unannounced guests at dinner time but I'm on a schedule so I'm going to get bitched at later for how rude I was to fix my plate while they're here. People dropping by at dinner time really does make me more than I can explain.

Sounds like the problem is whatever cunt would bitch you out over something so pointless, and you are redirecting your anger at the people who stopped by.

The "cunt" is an 80 year old woman

This is a long standing issue to me and I get mad when people even call in the dinner hours. YOU DON'T CALL OR VISIT DURING DINNER HOURS. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.

[chronovore]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

[Raist]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

To be fair, things were really different in the 1940s.

[Stro]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

To be fair, things were really different in the 1940s.

Were they tho

[Huff]

how could they call when phones hadn't been invented yet?

[Huff]

I’m very hung over

[shosta]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

as a young person who grew up with cellphones a huge chunk of my adolescence was spent on the phone in the middle of the night with one girl or another. I think this is common for my generation, too.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

regular phone sex during highschool

[close]

[Raist]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

as a young person who grew up with cellphones a huge chunk of my adolescence was spent on the phone in the middle of the night with one girl or another. I think this is common for my generation, too.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

regular phone sex during highschool

[close]

That was probably quite practical, being able to use an iPhone 6.

[Raist]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

as a young person who grew up with cellphones a huge chunk of my adolescence was spent on the phone in the middle of the night with one girl or another. I think this is common for my generation, too.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

regular phone sex during highschool

[close]

That was probably quite practical, being able to use an iPhone 6.

User warned: second instance of ageism ITT

[shosta]

It was a flip phone!

[chronovore]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

To be fair, things were really different in the 1940s.

Raist is on fire in this thread. Usually spectrum-dwellers can't really crack decent jokes, so I'm impressed.

[Atramental]

Just learned today that my dad and my two uncles all have "cancerous or pre-cancerous" growths in their colons and that they can no longer eat cured meats or red meat anymore.  Nothing life threatening, for now, but this is very much a wake up call.

And since I'm genetically similar to my dad I really need to get my shit together now while I'm still young and healthy. 

So... I'll be rarely eating beef paddies, steak, pepperoni, salami, and a bunch of other fun stuff. 

I'll mostly be eating chicken, small fish, eggs, and a fuck load of vegetables for the rest of my days.

[Stro]

You're genetically similar to your dad? 

[Atramental]

Relative to my mom. 

[Stro]

It's 50/50 breh

[team filler]

too bad your mom didn't cheat with a genetically superior man. you'd be half black and eating all the steaks n burgers you want 

[Atramental]

It's 50/50 breh

Yeah but I don’t have blue eyes and blonde hair. 

[Stro]

...do you know how parentage works?

[Atramental]

I used to but overtime all that knowledge got replaced with memes. 

[TVC15]

I was over at my parent's place today and the subject of vaccines came up (they're definitely near the "against" camp  )

And I jokingly said that I have a touch of the 'tism because I was the only one of my siblings that got most of my vaccines as a baby/young child.

They did not disagree.

I want to cradle you in my arms like you’re my child.

[Stro]

Your slightly distinguished mentally-challenged child

[TVC15]

I don’t care what’s wrong with Atra. I just want him to feel loved.

[brawndolicious]

Just learned today that my dad and my two uncles all have "cancerous or pre-cancerous" growths in their colons and that they can no longer eat cured meats or red meat anymore.  Nothing life threatening, for now, but this is very much a wake up call.

And since I'm genetically similar to my dad I really need to get my shit together now while I'm still young and healthy. 

So... I'll be rarely eating beef paddies, steak, pepperoni, salami, and a bunch of other fun stuff. 

I'll mostly be eating chicken, small fish, eggs, and a fuck load of vegetables for the rest of my days.

Everyone will get cancerous cells eventually. The question is if it's the type that causes problems or if it just sits there waiting for a doctor to tickle it with an annual prostate exam. Usually it's the latter for several decades past retirement.


Don't worry, be happy, and tickle yourself every now and then.

[Raist]

It's 50/50 breh

That's not how genetics works 

[Raist]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

To be fair, things were really different in the 1940s.

Raist is on fire in this thread. Usually spectrum-dwellers can't really crack decent jokes, so I'm impressed.

 

...

spectrum-dwellers

Wait, what?

[Raist]

It was a flip phone!

As if you were born when flip phones were around

Ain't gonna fool me, kiddo.

[chronovore]

This was a hard-and-fast rule when I was a kid, no calls or visiting between 6-8PM, just to be considerate. Also, no calls after 10PM.

:oldmanshoutsatcloud.gif

To be fair, things were really different in the 1940s.

Raist is on fire in this thread. Usually spectrum-dwellers can't really crack decent jokes, so I'm impressed.

 

...

spectrum-dwellers

Wait, what?

"Winner of the Baited Award 2018"
 

[bork]

I've been the on-call guy at work for the past week and it has been extended through Tuesday morning because of Labor Day.  Hasn't really been that bad, but several times I've been woken up by people calling from an office in China for help, with zero regard for what time of night it is on our side, plus a few people on the west coast who never seem to sleep. 

This past weekend was pretty quiet until last night at 1 AM, when another call from China came in.  A woman forgot her laptop at home and was trying to log onto a spare laptop that was lying around.  The error she was getting indicated that there was a problem with the laptop specifically and there was nothing I could do to help her, especially when she couldn't tell me the computer name so I could look it up.  After 20 minutes of this going nowhere, I call the manager on duty, confirm things with him, then call her back and ask her if there's another PC she can use.  She goes "Oh yes...I'm already logged onto a desktop."
 

[EVOL]

Ate shit while skating drunk yesterday, now I have a nasty cut on the bridge of my nose that's probably going to scar.

I was just sober enough to be able to protect most of my face from getting annihilated by the asphalt, but my nose wasn't too lucky

[chronovore]

Last Friday, I came up with a good idea at work to manage our schedule. Came in on Monday, super ready to implement, got bogged down in ad hoc meetings most of the day. OK, no problem, "I'll just work on it twice as much on Tuesday!" — which then required 2.5 hours of unplanned support for meetings, and an early facility closure due to the typhoon.

…Wednesday now.

[I'm a Puppy!]

My boss, who happens to also be the CEO of the company just called me and was like "Hey, you travelled into the corporate office last week?"
"Yeah, you hired my new employee and asked me to come in and give them some training. I got your approval"
"But you took some calls from some clients didn't you?"
"Yeah boss, just a few calls a few minutes here and there."
"Then you should be charging all that to them."


 
Now it's a matter of do I bail early or just wait for company to either fire me or go under and get the unemployment?
I know they won't fire me. Uggh.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Literally boarding a plane and an announcement comes on saying that today is the anniversary of 9/11 and to take a moment to remember the tragedy. It's the fourth. I guess this is it for me, guys. It's been swell.

[Crash Dummy]

pretty sure the shitty water here is killing my hairline, i'll be posting about full-blown alopecia in the struggle thread before long