minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[bork]

My wife is due at the end of next month- we knew that she is not going to get paid while on maternity leave, but now her company is telling her that she won't have insurance coverage after August.  Scumbags.  Going to get her on my plan ASAP.

[Tasty]

Damn that's one scummy company. I'd make my opinions on the situation very known.

[Joe Molotov]

can't find goya beans anywhere 

I can find goyim beans everywhere

[Pissy F Benny]

joe mazel tov

[bork]

Damn that's one scummy company. I'd make my opinions on the situation very known.

They talked further and now it's "you have to pay around $60-$70 a month and you get coverage."  Going to see how much it is to get her on my plan and if it's the same or less, not gonna bother and will just put her on mine.  That's going to happen anyway since there's no way she's returning to work after the leave is over anyway.

[Joe Molotov]

I ordered a package from ebay and when it arrived, the sender was "Phil Benoit" and for a second I thought it said "Piss Benoit".

[Pissy F Benny]

 

[Kara]

Where I've been staying the last few months (and probably will be for the foreseeable future thanks to living in a failed nation-state) is way too humid for me but I can't just blast an air conditioning 24/7 like I would in a hotel.

I'm about a week away from dressing like the Cayman Islands banker in The Simpsons and talking like Bobby Hill when he went to New Orleans.

[OnlyRegret]

ear clogging

[OnlyRegret]

Where I've been staying the last few months (and probably will be for the foreseeable future thanks to living in a failed nation-state) is way too humid for me but I can't just blast an air conditioning 24/7 like I would in a hotel.

I'm about a week away from dressing like the Cayman Islands banker in The Simpsons and talking like Bobby Hill when he went to New Orleans.

pretend(or not, your point of view) you're on a death world struggling for survival

[Kara]

Karakand

Catachan

[Tasty]

Lot of... stuff happening in my life, as well as important goals to accomplish. And I just feel like I need a break, too.

If I had to trust my gut, I'd say will probably be back before winter really starts. But always hard to know for sure.

Until then. ✌️

PS- Will still check PM's every so often.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm so fucking sick of the alarm going of in my apartment.  In the last 30 days it's happened 5 times, including one day when it started at 2am and went until the morning.

Today was an alarm because, if I read the screen correctly the second-floor security camera had an issue, so that was a few hours in the morning and then the actual fire alarm went off twice just now. 

[bork]

My Ring doorbell doesn't seem to be picking up human activity unless you go right up to the door- I changed all the motion detection settings, and even then, when stuff is delivered, I can check the footage and it looks like packages just get magically teleported on the porch.  Never see a person or the vehicle they were driving in the footage.

[brawndolicious]

Maybe they see the Ring doorbell and just toss that shit at your door so you can't say you saw them mishandle anything?

[bork]

Maybe they see the Ring doorbell and just toss that shit at your door so you can't say you saw them mishandle anything?

It should be picking them up from outside that area, though.  Had one delivery guy place the package right next to door and it still didn't register.  So weird.

[bork]

Probably as simple as a sensor that is misaligned.  Pointed down instead of forward.

Maybe.  I did at least get to see why people aren't being picked up on the porch just now- Amazon guy came up to the side of the porch and slid the parcel over to the front door.  Wood was blocking him on the camera view, so I guess that would explain it not picking up a heat signature.

But when we go out to walk doggo and come back, it's not detecting us until we're right up at the door.

[Yeti]

If you’re seeing it that often in different rooms, maybe it is multiple mice

[EchoRin]

Grocery store when the self checkout isn't open:

Got charged two cheeses instead of one and I think I got charged an extra meat cause it said buy one get one.

I knew something seemed off about my total, but I didn't double check until I was halfway home. Oh well. 7 good bucks down the drain or so.

[chronovore]

A friend of mine, a woman I had a crush on in high school, who is very smart appears to have redpilled a bit badly on the planDemic and how Google has invested in vaccines and such. I fear that, like 9/11, this virus has broken a few people.

Another friend was lamenting how Uber has posted that upcoming tax changes may require them to briefly make their service unavailable in California while they re-classify their drivers as employees. He lamented that his cats occasionally need late night emergency veterinary visits, and this Uber was the only solution. This guy is an engineer, incredibly smart on certain topics, but apparently hasn’t heard of a taxi.

[james]

My coworker just put in her two weeks notice which means  will no longer be able to do 2 hours of work a day while pretending to work 8.

[Pissy F Benny]

[CatsCatsCats]

My coworker just put in her two weeks notice which means  will no longer be able to do 2 hours of work a day while pretending to work 8.

Gotta kick it up to 4?

[james]

My coworker just put in her two weeks notice which means  will no longer be able to do 2 hours of work a day while pretending to work 8.

Gotta kick it up to 4?

Might need to go as high as 6 to keep the ship together

[bork]

Someone broke into the condo mailboxes recently, so the post office started holding mail for pick-up.  Then they started delivering again.  Then the same person broke into the mailboxes again.  My side of it wasn't hit, so now we're finding that sometimes mail gets delivered and sometimes they hold it. 

I signed up for their informed delivery service to see what's coming and went there yesterday to get something that looked important and to get a package they said was being held.  The guy comes back with two pieces of junk mail that were from that day, but not the other mail.  Tells me that's all they have.  I show him the held delivery notification on my phone for the package.  He checks again- nothing. 

The package then showed up later that evening on the porch.  No idea where the other mail is. 

[james]

Someone deleted my thread and I had to scroll up and down looking for it and I couldn't find it and it was very inconvenient and to be honest i would actually classify it as a struggle

[ToxicAdam]

Deleted? It got enshrined in the HOF it was so legendary.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=47651.0

[bork]

Deleted? It got enshrined in the HOF it was so legendary.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=47651.0

 

[james]

The tyrant bork strikes again

[BisMarckie]

I have shingles 

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry about your herpes.

[BisMarckie]

It’s not even the fun kind of herpes though 

[Madrun Badrun]

TBF I feel like you should have expected this since a significant risk factor is being old as fuck.  Maybe save the struggle posts for gout and bad falls. 

[BisMarckie]

Gout posts are already covered by morbidly obese benji.

[Madrun Badrun]

Oh, are you going to stand up and just let him be the gout goat then? 

[Madrun Badrun]

Does anyone else get anxiety when they pee but can't hear it hit the bowl?

[Madrun Badrun]

Like how do I know I'm actually peeing if I can't hear it?

[team filler]

Like how do I know I'm actually peeing if I can't hear it?

you're sitting down on the toilet with your dick in the water

[Madrun Badrun]

No that's the thing, I could be dick fishing for nothing.  Just sitting on the can wasting time for all I know. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Given the lack of likes my posts have receved, I take it y'all are loud pissers. 

[team filler]

Given the lack of likes my posts have receved, I take it y'all are loud pissers.

[chronovore]

Given the lack of likes my posts have receved, I take it y'all are loud pissers.

When I pee, people in other rooms complain.

So, yes.

[team filler]

 

[Madrun Badrun]

Given the lack of likes my posts have receved, I take it y'all are loud pissers.

When I pee, people in other rooms complain.

So, yes.

A fellow asparagus man, I bet?

[bork]

We've had a mailbox thief come around lately and he just struck again for the fifth time in about two weeks.  When he hit two days ago, it was around 10pm.  A car saw him and the rental truck he was in, chased him and got the plate number, then the cops came and got fingerprints.  Still not enough to deter him- last night before 8pm, the mail came, and so did he- this guy gives no fucks.  We went to walk doggo shortly after this and 30-40 minutes later came home to find some neighbors around the mailbox- more damage had been done to one of the frames.  We didn't see any cars or trucks while walking on the main road. 

I don't get why they keep coming back- the post office stopped delivering mail to these boxes weeks ago, after the first incident, and you can clearly see that they're all empty.  Thought it was just someone being dumb, but a neighbor said after the first time, they found that their mail had been opened.
 

The mail door/frame where my mail goes is unaffected by this, since it was replaced a few years ago with newer, theft-proof model.  One of the neighbors was staring daggers at me when I excused myself to go get my mail.

Update: We just got an email that this was a false alarm- it certainly looked like someone had tried to break in again, however, so I understand the neighbors freaking out about it. 

[Oblivion]

I started a new job last week, and for the first time in like literally a decade, i'm finding myself dreading going into work. this new company is in the same industry i've worked in, but a different department, a department that i've never worked in until now. and it's frustrating as shit.

the thing is, it's not that the job itself is that bad. it's honestly pretty easy. the problem is that all of my training is done remotely, and it's super fucking hard to take notes cause the video conferencing software we're using makes everything look tiny and my manager moves super quick. if i was trained in person, this would be a breeze, but as it is, it's annoying as shit.

maybe things will be better as time goes on and i get more comfortable, but i'm really not having fun. not only the job, but i'm legit exhausted after my shift and i feel like i barely had a break and before i know it, i'm back to work. haven't felt that way since i worked at a call center in my 20s. 

[headwalk]

6ft swell coming in for the first time in a month and i've got other shit i need to be doing, so now i'm just torturing myself with surf cams.

[james]

So obviously I havent been out much this summer, which means I dont have a tan.

I went to pick up food from a new Soul restaurant, and they said it would be 15 minutes so I went for a walk.

On my walk, I got a "sup white boy"

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry you were profiled like that. 

[james]

Sorry you were profiled like that.

Race relations have really taken a turn for the worse ever since Obama was elected

[Madrun Badrun]

A single toilet seat screw has broke and I haven't gotten around to fixing it, so about every tenth time - and just enough time for me to let my guard down - I go take a shit, the seat shifts to the side and off its supports which causes the seat and I to drop about a cm, scaring the shit out of me.  i.e. I have improved the toilet. 

[Madrun Badrun]

You're smart.  You'll get in.

[ToxicAdam]

My wife thought she was getting a good deal on FB Marketplace for a patio table (still in a flat-pack box) and she ended up overpaying for an end table.

 Her response, "How was I supposed to know how tall 21 inches was?"

[Madrun Badrun]

Some people just don't realize how small an inch is.  She has probably internalized undersized inches for years. 

[Clockwork5]

I managed to acquire poison ivy for the first time in about 20 years. As a kid I used to get it constantly and so bad that I needed weekly shots to keep the rashes from spreading.

Definitely bringing back some repressed memories of dealing with this shit.

[Madrun Badrun]

Best use of "internalized" ever.

My struggle is that the post pointing out the good joke I made has a single like more than the post with actual joke, Clockwork. 

[BIONIC]

Best use of "internalized" ever.

My struggle is that the post pointing out the good joke I made has a single like more than the post with actual joke, Clockwork.

I unliked riotous’ post just for you bb

[Bebpo]

Today I'm having a few websites act as if I'm using an unknown browser for the first time. Never seen this before. Could my cable company have changed my IP or something? I didn't reset my computer so it shouldn't have installed any new Windows updates or anything and not running any VPN.

[Madrun Badrun]

Who are you?  Are you new here?

[Bebpo]

Who are you?  Are you new here?