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Lost a friend to breast cancer/brain tumors (after a 4 year battle) this week and my new (old) van isn't charging the battery. Plus a bunch of punks in here ripping on one of my favorite bands;)
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Garro, edoz, may you find peace.
and may you Rush haters find a shard of Neil Peart's drumstick in your tubular.
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Gummee
My grump is that I seem to be invisible to anyone with 2 X chromosomes. Being single and looking, it sucks.
M
Stop looking and it'll find you.
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edoz
Lost a friend to breast cancer/brain tumors (after a 4 year battle) this week and my new (old) van isn't charging the battery. Plus a bunch of punks in here ripping on one of my favorite bands;)
I got the call today that my best friend's stepmom lost her decades long battle to cancer on Wednesday evening. His second mom, and in many ways my second mom too. She was an absolute medical miracle in that she survived 7 different types of primary cancer. Her time was simultaneously long overdue and far too short. An absolutely amazing person.
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On a lighter note, 3rd between Market and Arch was repaved on Friday. Today PECO was digging a big hole already. They haven't even had a chance to come back and paint lines yet. Coordinate!!!!
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nahtnoj
I got the call today that my best friend's stepmom lost her decades long battle to cancer on Wednesday evening. His second mom, and in many ways my second mom too. She was an absolute medical miracle in that she survived 7 different types of primary cancer. Her time was simultaneously long overdue and far too short. An absolutely amazing person.
I lost a friend a few years back who, despite being born with heart problems, managed to live to the ripe old age of 28. I'll tell you the same thing a good friend told me.
It is a blessing that her death was able to come as a shock to you.
Chin up.
Thinking good thoughts for you and Garro.
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steve garro
September saw two of my friends die, one of whom left a wife and three kids, and it was witnessed by them all and five of their closest friends and all thier families - 18 kids, total. The other one was found by a friend going to pick them up to go to the 1st one's wake. They were both 45.
Then, my dog died, and I got the flu, and then someone close to me was victimised by a serial sex offender.
September sucked BAD.
I had to get that off my chest.
- Garro.
Jesus man, hang in there.
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With all this talk about cheating in sports, I wonder what kind of subsidies (sic) are propping up our Big Bird killer app.
Drake's sixes at the Barrel House for $7.99, the best of both worlds.
I do like the 1500, but getting down to the barrel house is a pain in the ass.
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My condolences to all who have lost loved ones. May you honor them by your words and deeds.
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I'll start.
- Big Boss and Mandatory Meeting. Never good.
- Cluster Migraines
- I can't get anyone to smack me upside the head and tell me to stop moping and get back on my bike.
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- my 5 week long persistent cough that cycling in the cold air keeps aggravating
- that they won't turn on the heat (or at least turn off the AC) in our office until end of Nov
- the rage local bus drivers have towards anyone on a bike
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Gummee
My grump is that I seem to be invisible to anyone with 2 X chromosomes. Being single and looking, it sucks.
M
Stop looking then. Trust me.
edit rant: burgess beat me to it.
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Hunters the day before hunting season starts.
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Pot Belly* hipster delivery girl, no lights, no helmet, blows through a stop sign in the dark last night, comes thisclose to hitting me and my dog.
It's bad enough trying to get 4 cars' attention at this particular busy 4-way stop.
These are exactly the kind of people who are more likely to be clipped by a car and you wonder why motorists don't care.
* the sandwich shop, not an observation on her physical appearance...
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I've helped a guy or two repair his own frame for free, if he's a good guy and low on funds. What chaps me is someone driving to my shop in a $70k Hummer wanting the same deal.............
That and folks that dont know the difference beyween 'insure' and 'ensure'.
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Whoever is the low down dirty low life egg sucking punk that snaked BOTH of my Shimano external cup tools from the tool box that I graciously leave unattended....may the bird of paradise fly up your freaking nose...sideways. Friggin' tool snakes. Grrrrrrr
Tom, ordinarily I don't reply to Grumps but your plea deserves special attention.
1. HTFU
2. Report back in weekend threads.
3. Drop and gimme 20 punk.
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Working right now knowing at this time next week we will be up in the mountains riding the mtb's ripping Pisgah singletrack...and drinking beer. Week leading up to a holiday seems to creep.
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The treacly blandishment that any/all things can be excused/condoned/allowed if it "Gets more people on bikes.". Buncha' horseshit, that one. Honestly, many people riding bikes just have no business being on one. Many reasons why they don't...but they just don't..and it's a cruel and aggravating lie to purport that they do...or that it's necessarily a Good Thing that there are more bikes on the road...or even being produced.
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Descriptivist wordables.
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Republicans outing classified CIA operatives and bases overseas. Again.
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Folks that inject politics into every discussion....
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Oh, oh, can I make two?
- When they ask you to verify the infrastructure upgrade and you must absolutely must update the Project Site with your results, did we remember to say you must or we'll send an email to your boss ratting you out as a lazy, stupid person that won't work on a team and you better do it today, no, right now you get your sweaty ass to the Project Site and update it, NOW YOU SLUG, do ya suppose they could make sure that people actually have access to the site? This is not the first time this has happened and this is also not the first time I get the "we assumed everybody had access" answer. No, they assumed nothing. The idiots never checked and I'm the idiot that actually got right on it.
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Folks that inject politics into every discussion....
You mean like Patrick O'Grady ??
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* the sandwich shop, not an observation on her physical appearance...
Thanks for clarifying. It did actually help create a visual, though.
Grump time...cutting my ride short, dealing with traffic and rushing like a maniac to get to work for an extra early meeting only to be the first to show up and not have everyone else roll in to get the meeting going until the time I would have been here anyways. At least I got some one on one time with the conference room.
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Folks that inject politics into every discussion....
wait, ummm.... by saying that aren't you... oh, my brain's about to explode.
content: no-shows. Do you think I get paid by the magic fairy money pixie when you don't show up for your (weekly, regularly-scheduled) appointment? That's a dead hour for me- if you had called to tell me a few days ago, no problem, but a total no-show? Take money, flush down toilet.
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This may not be a popular opinion, but: flipping houses.
There is a radio ad on around here now advertising a seminar to learn how to “flip houses in your spare time”. Really? There is a VERY tight housing market in the bay area, and folks like me are struggling to get their foot in the door. And these “house flippers” will snatch up older bungalows that need a little TLC – you know, exactly what I want—and gut them, stripping them of all original charms like old wavy glassed windows and kitchen built-ins, and replace with chintzy Home Depot crap to make them look trendy for the chardonnay crowd. And then sell them for 200k more, at least. Pisses me off. If you have that much extra cash lying around why not invest it in the market like everyone else and leave the fixer-uppers to young people who actually want an affordable house to live in.
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I think I've lost all faith in humanity.
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I think I've lost all faith in humanity.
wait until after after some upcoming supreme court decisions for that
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One or two small thing cannot change the big picture. We are all just dancing our way into hell.
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This may not be a popular opinion, but: flipping houses.
There is a radio ad on around here now advertising a seminar to learn how to “flip houses in your spare time”. Really? There is a VERY tight housing market in the bay area, and folks like me are struggling to get their foot in the door. And these “house flippers” will snatch up older bungalows that need a little TLC – you know, exactly what I want—and gut them, stripping them of all original charms like old wavy glassed windows and kitchen built-ins, and replace with chintzy Home Depot crap to make them look trendy for the chardonnay crowd. And then sell them for 200k more, at least. Pisses me off. If you have that much extra cash lying around why not invest it in the market like everyone else and leave the fixer-uppers to young people who actually want an affordable house to live in.
This! This exactly!
Those ads for house-flipping seminars are so shameless that they almost make me gag. I pity anyone who actually responds to those ads. I've been looking for a house here off and on for a few years now, and the market has just gotten so crazy (again) between the flippers and the latest wave of tech IPOs that I've almost given up hope. Flipping houses is what got people in trouble before the 2008 downturn, and it'll get them in trouble again this time around.
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Vog. Damn thick toxic air that blows in from the volcano. Bad enough that the AQ goes all to hell, but vog also means that we get south wind which makes it hot and humid on top of the bad air. A little better today, but it has been pretty bad since last weekend.
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I'm normally happy every damn day but this Thursday what is pissing me off is going through race results from 1998 forward (i think levi's coming clean was what pushed me over the edge) and seeing how my husband was robbed. Robbed I say. Of money (chump change) and t-shirts, and NRC points. Basically his whole career racing clean was robbed by dopers and I am kinda pissed about it today.
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Helping another section of my company with a sensor prototype...
GM - "it's 4 inches tall and 6 inches in diameter"
Me - "like this?"
"no, it's 6 inches in DIAMETER"
"here...6 inches...why are you guys building stuff in inches anyway?"
"It's too big around! 6 inches!"
"you mean 6 inches in CIRCUMFERENCE?"
".....crickets....."
he makes at least twice as much money as me.
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quickag
Helping another section of my company with a sensor prototype...
GM - "it's 4 inches tall and 6 inches in diameter"
Me - "like this?"
"no, it's 6 inches in DIAMETER"
"here...6 inches...why are you guys building stuff in inches anyway?"
"It's too big around! 6 inches!"
"you mean 6 inches in CIRCUMFERENCE?"
".....crickets....."
he makes at least twice as much money as me.
Hope those folks didn't work on this program.
Mars Surveyor '98 program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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My boss forgetting to mark me off of the schedule for a day I requested off in February, when they make us schedule all our pto for the year. I don't know all the days off I'll need or want, but I do know my birthday will be one of them. So, when I get to work today and notice appt's for tomorrow (we can't see our schedule until 24 hours in advance) and let him know I won't be working tomorrow because I asked for it off 8 months ago, his implication that it is my fault, not his.
Also, it was still in the high 80s today and the ac crapped out in my car while I still had 2 appointments and was 100+ miles from home.
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Sick and tired of all this Lance BS...a can't go to my usual time wasters without there being 5 active threads on how he doped the world.
Also not looking forward to a day of nothing to do at work today.
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Been congested and on the verge of a full on cold all week and I've got 2 days of racing this weekend. Not a great combination.
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Effing leaf blower haters. You can have my electric leaf blower when you pry it from my cold dead hands...
Halucinations and Tom Sawyer live, you can't beat that with a stick.
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When the lawn company tells you the grass for which YOU PAY IT to have maintained has been overtaken by weeds because "it's probably a soil problem."
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When I ask my employees for a date when they will finish the assignment and only give me excuses why they cannot state when they will finish.