minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[agrajag]

got a cold for the second time in two weeks  Like literally a week ago I got sick, got over it a couple of days later and now I am sick again.

The thing is, when I catch colds, for the past few years, I don't really get any bad symptoms like fever, etc. It usually goes sore throat for 1/2 days>nasty,prolonged cough and congested lungs for a few days. But it's super annoying.

[chronovore]

Accidentally missed Friday, and blew a 10-day Duolingo streak. I'm rebuilding the streak, but I'm not sure why I'm doing it. I love the UX but it's offering really low level Japanese, and its benefit for my grammar is negligible. Moreover, when I try to test out of a subject, I inevitably lose two out of my three available strikes to an answer which should be accepted, e.g. "cap" vs. "hat," or culturally elided differences such as "sister" vs. "older sister."

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"Sister vs. Older Sister," the name of Amy and Diaz' first sex tape. /brooklyn99

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If I just sit and do the lessons, I get bored. If I try to test out, I hit site parsing or vocab errors, which frustrate me and stress me out to the point where I make a stupid mistake for the final strike.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Why, oh why, did I make Mondays as "Budget Days". Mondays are already horrific. But doing complex math and "what if" scenarios first thing every Monday is terrible. But I need the budget for the rest of the week.

[fistfulofmetal]

There was a parking spot open on the other side of the street that I wanted to grab quickly this morning as I was heading to the train station. As I ran back to move my car a fucking giant truck of some time pulled up slowly and parked next to my car, trapping it and a bunch of dudes jumped out.

Knowing I'd have to argue with them to move and I was already running late I had to give up on moving my car. Now I have to hope there's a spot when I get home or wake up super early and hope there's one then.

[CatsCatsCats]

Painful soreness under my left ribs, hopefully my spleen is about to rupture or something

[hungrynoob]

You ever get that nauseous feeling, its not strong enough to actually vomit or stop you from doing any of you day to day. But its there, like a dead weight in your stomach and all you want to do is throw up.

me today all day. 

[Corporal]

My Amiibos are locked behind a glass door in a display, and it's not in the room with my most favourite gaming couch.

So now, to get one for MariO, I need to move my lard ass off my couch in the living room, waddle allll through my apartment to the bedroom, unlock the display, grab the thing, lock the display, then waddle back to the couch. After doing whatever, I then need to retrace those steps to safely deposit the hideously expensive plastic figurine back where it belongs.

Then realise I could just keep one random Amiibo next to the couch, or grab the switch and spare myself at least the way back.

Or, better yet, buy a bunch of <1€ RFID tags and format them as fake Amiibos.

Whhhhhhyyyyyy are there so many choices available to me. Why is life so hard.  :'(

[chronovore]

Aren't the minor inconveniences and struggles supposed to be not-of-our-own construction?

Can someone start a self-sabotage thread?

[CatsCatsCats]

Got a Facebook ad trying to convince me to make Aliyah, not Jewish 🤔

[Madrun Badrun]

bought a ticket to Thor in an hour but im already falling a sleep. 

[chronovore]

Aren't the minor inconveniences and struggles supposed to be not-of-our-own construction?

Can someone start a self-sabotage thread?

Viewing anything at all as an inconcenience is a deliberate act of self-sabotage.

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[Raist]

Buddha definitely self-sabotaged his waist line.

[Reb]

There was a fucking typo in my custom title and nobody told me.

There still is, dummy.

[HardcoreRetro]

There's some german antique roadshow on tv right now and they played the My Name is Nobody theme. The song'll be in my head all day.

[nudemacusers]

tfw ur velvet dinner jacket is too slim in the arms cuz ur lifting more and u need one for an upcoming soirée and thus need to buy a new dinner jacket. 

[Raist]

Buddha definitely self-sabotaged his waist line.

Actually, that's Budai, not Buddha. Common mistake!

Whatevs.

[Corporal]

My butcher was all out of Leberkäse (wiki) for the traditional low-cost snack Leberkässemmel, which is the above put into a bun and served with a dab of mustard. Think hotdog, only German. Kinda.

I had to fall back to the Hawaiian Pizza equivalent - Pizza Leberkäse. Leberkäse that was destroyed by putting bits and pieces of veggies, cheese and sausage into it before baking it.


Veggies. In my Leberkäse. Burn everything down.

[bork]

Was by myself up until now at work this morning.  No big deal, but since I'm working from home it meant that nobody was in the office until 9:00 AM.  And of course this had to happen:

Requester: "I need to borrow a data card."
Me: "OK...I'm not in the office today, but I'll put a request in for you and--"
Requester: *SIGHS HEAVILY*
Requester: "Why are none of you guys EVER IN THE OFFICE?!?!?!"
Me: "...Actually, the person who would normally be there today is on VACATION."
Requester: "WHO IS THAT?!"
Me: "...." (Why the fuck does she want to know this?)
Me: "It's [Name].  He scheduled it."
Requester: "...Oh.  Well I guess if he had PTO, it's fine."

Uh...thank you for your approval...?

Sometimes she will call and report a problem that happens to be a known issue or an outage.  When you explain this to her, she will then start ranting about how she thinks it should be handled in regards to informing people and will throw in "but I'm not telling you how to do your job" multiple times.

[brawndolicious]

She's trying to get somebody else blamed for something she fucked up. I've seen it in people who claim they're way too busy and stressed to follow through on their deliverables when in reality they just don't have interest in doing their job.

This kills their cognitive abilities. Best thing to do is drop subtle hints about working your way around their shortcomings or try to help by asking them "well intentioned" process questions, which you will see them hesitate with due to their lack of motivation sapping their mental energy.

I'm not saying that's the professional thing to do, but it's entertaining. It will make the day go faster.

[desert punk]

A few weeks ago I bragged in the triumph thread of how I thought I evaded the fee for missing to visit the local residents' registration office in time after I finally went there a year or so after I moved into the city. That shifty clerk didn't say shit about paying a fee, he just processed my application for moving and I thought that was it.

Yesterday I received a note from the city that I do have to pay the fee 
There was no mention of the exact amount tho, just that I can make a statement beforehand. I just hope it's not the maximum penalty (€ 1.000)

[Corporal]

Up to 1k€? And that's a minor inconvenience to you? 

I'd be losing my shit. 

[desert punk]

That wasn't a humble brag. But I don't think it compares to losing your job, being depressed or whatever else the peeps in the struggle thread are dealing with. Or maybe it does, I don't know. I do tend to downplay my problems. Don't wanna be a bother to other people.

Anyway, like I said, I don't know the exact amount yet. I can still move this to the struggle thread if the worst comes to pass.

[hampster]

I went to chipotle for lunch and ended up with a pretty pathetic burrito bowl. It was only like 75% full :'(

Should have gone to The Bell

[ToxicAdam]

You need to ask for extra rice and pay the extra $$ for the double meat. Don't let those mf'ers skimp on you, because they will.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Felt the car pulling to the left. Looked at the tires need 2 new tires. There goes several hundred

[Corporal]

Cars. Next to pets and loved ones, the most reliable way to empty your pockets at the most inopportune moment, with deadly precision. My condolences.

Random inconvenience: Turns out the tomatoes I bought taste like water and crap. Dammit. Tomato sauce, it is. I was actually looking forward to buttered bread with tomato slices.  :'(

[Mupepe]

Have to take a (relatively) short notice business trip to India.  Company policy is limiting my flight options to either getting back from a 23 hour flight at 4pm on Dec 23rd or 7pm on Dec 23rd.   Technically the 4pm is out of policy but I'm going to see if I can get some sort of exception because that one is also on Emirates Airlines and I'd take that over Turkish Airlines.

[TVC15]

Been feeling kind of blue the past week

Since it’s Saturday and I feel like being alone, I’ve been trying to cook up one of my hours-long fantasies but I’m only getting the violent kind, not the fun, sexy or sexy violent kind

Pray for tvc

[I'm a Puppy!]

Have to take a (relatively) short notice business trip to India.  Company policy is limiting my flight options to either getting back from a 23 hour flight at 4pm on Dec 23rd or 7pm on Dec 23rd.   Technically the 4pm is out of policy but I'm going to see if I can get some sort of exception because that one is also on Emirates Airlines and I'd take that over Turkish Airlines.

I know this wont work for you. But I'd just refuse to go. Typically if there's a travel policy that's making it unfair they'll come around. And if not, you'll get fired so you don't have to go anyway.

[Mupepe]

 

My boss is pretty understanding so i think ill get an exception for an out of policy flight. It helps that my boss is directly over the travel department too

[Madrun Badrun]

Go to watch a bluray for the first time in a year on ps3.  Needs 1 hour of system updates to watch movie.

Why the fuck don't I just torrent everything. 

[Madrun Badrun]

'to play this bd you must renew your encryption key'

OMG FUCKING GOD I HOPE THESE PEOPLE DIE HORRIBLE DEATHS

[Huff]

Hope the porn was worth it

[CatsCatsCats]

Set out to make an omelette, got scrambled eggs

[chronovore]

Just about done with everything Duolingo has to offer in Japanese. It's all stuff you'd cover in the first semester of Japanese in college. Still feels like I'm providing free beta-testing for them because most of the times I get strikes on Test Out, it's actually correct but the parser doesn't recognize it. Really, really annoying.

Then, today, it straight up trolls me with this:

[Raist]

I'm confused. Aren't you living in Japan? Or have for a while?

[chronovore]

I'm confused. Aren't you living in Japan? Or have for a while?

I am. I have. I am capable of speaking pretty conversational Japanese, but my grammar is still pretty poor. I have troubles with intransitive verb forms. I also have trouble with some particles. I’d hoped that Duolingo might reach those topics, but it hasn’t. I’ve had to test out of all the basic stuff to reach the last stage offerings, and the basic stuff has had parsing errors.

[Raist]

Yeah I had a play with duolingo a while ago. Doesn't seem particularly helpful other than learning a few sentences for surviving on a trip or something.

There's a site that teams you up with a native speaker, so that you learn their language and they learn yours. Can't remember the name.

edit: the one I've heard of is Tandem.

[chronovore]

Yeah I had a play with duolingo a while ago. Doesn't seem particularly helpful other than learning a few sentences for surviving on a trip or something.

There's a site that teams you up with a native speaker, so that you learn their language and they learn yours. Can't remember the name.

edit: the one I've heard of is Tandem.

¡Muchos arigatos!

In truth, I should be studying something like this, but I generally find the writing obtuse:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/tag/は-particle/

[BlueTsunami]

So just this month I've learned how to drive stick shift. Cool, I thought I had the hang of it. So just yesterday I realized id been shifting into third gear in place of first when coming to a stop. So my dumb fucking ass was revving the engine and feather the clutch, trying to not stall the car thinking this is just how driving manual is. Cut to today, actually shifting into first when I need to, life is a little easier now.

[brawndolicious]

 

You get better with practice. I did that once after not driving manual for a few years. Luckily I was alone on a test drive when I became aware of my mistake due to the cloud of smoke rising from under the car while I was trying do a hill start.

At least clutches aren't too expensive.

[chronovore]

That's very kind. I think I need to avail myself of the resources readily at hand before I impose on anyone else. Thanks though!

[chronovore]

Going through email today, my American credit union posted a survey to rate my recent transaction with their staff. I haven't been in the USA since August, so this started me on the road to panic. The idea of identity theft or bank fraud is horrible enough on its own, but trying to settle it over the phone, during US bank hours, from Japan (17 hour time difference) is enough to give me a nervous tic.

I logged in to see if I still had money in my account, and the first number I saw was a negative number in my checking account. HOLY SHIT.  When I realize it's just a single transaction, a check I cut to my sister, I start to breathe again. Then I see that a physical check from my Mom for my birthday cleared, and it has the date from the emailed survey.

Apparently the clerk who processed my Mom's check was randomly flagged for sending me a survey. THANKS, AUTOMATION.

[Madrun Badrun]

I heard there is something you can do to freeze your credit, something you might want to consider if you arent using your us account very much.  It makes it so you or others cant open up new lines of credit in your name while the freeze is on. 

[TVC15]

Fuck. Didn’t sleep at all last night. Going to be a coffee til I GERD out kinda day.

[chronovore]

I heard there is something you can do to freeze your credit, something you might want to consider if you arent using your us account very much.  It makes it so you or others cant open up new lines of credit in your name while the freeze is on.

Freeze credit, or freeze account? I use my USA CC pretty frequently for things which require a CC with a US-local billing address.

[Madrun Badrun]

I heard there is something you can do to freeze your credit, something you might want to consider if you arent using your us account very much.  It makes it so you or others cant open up new lines of credit in your name while the freeze is on.

Freeze credit, or freeze account? I use my USA CC pretty frequently for things which require a CC with a US-local billing address.

No its a credit freeze for new credit.  Your credit card should still work if I know what I'm talking about and I hardly ever do. 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_freeze

[TVC15]

Ugh pray for TVC.

[CatsCatsCats]

🙏🏻

[kingv]

I was having what I thought was a private shit I’m the men’s room and a ninja in the next stall let out a massive satisfying shit noise.

Made my shitting look like a huge little bitch.

Re: credit freezing. You do it with bureau, and it’s not free (but pretty cheap) basically it makes it so you have to call and authenticate before submitting any kind of loan or credit card application. It’s kind of a pain in the ass, but will help if you are worried about identity theft.

You need to do it with all three bureaus for max effectiveness (trans union, equifax, experian).

However, A lot of credit fraud now is actually synthetic identities, which is basically a real social security number but everything else is made up. It’s one of those things that really should not be possible but is because of well-intentioned privacy regulations gone awry.

[skullstorm]

I managed to injure both my index fingers today while derping around. The other injury was a puncture wound right in the vein which bled like a fountain and left my finger throbbing and achey for hours, then just now I left the same finger (and the same exact spot as the puncture wound of course) between a cupboard door, motherfucker 

[team filler]

 

[CatsCatsCats]

Painful soreness under my left ribs, hopefully my spleen is about to rupture or something

Week later this is still giving me hell, I think it’s a bruised rib now, don’t know how. Should prolly see a doctor

[kingv]

If it’s any consolation, they don’t really do anything for a bruised rib but tell you to take it easy.

[CatsCatsCats]

Yeah, that’s why I haven’t gone in

[Rufus]

How would you bruise a rib without noticing it?

[chronovore]

How would you bruise a rib without noticing it?

When you bruise someone else's rib, it's easy.

[Biff]

Had to go pee at work so went to use the urinal as usual.
Getting my stream on when lo and behold a little fly gently swoops down and lands inside the urinal.
Being a red blooded man I naturally take aim and give the little guy a spray.
He kinda stands there for a second, then looks up and flies into my pants
Basically made me pee on myself, wtf 

[chronovore]

Had to go pee at work so went to use the urinal as usual.
Getting my stream on when lo and behold a little fly gently swoops down and lands inside the urinal.
Being a red blooded man I naturally take aim and give the little guy a spray.
He kinda stands there for a second, then looks up and flies into my pants
Basically made me pee on myself, wtf