Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

I went to the mediocre office lunch instead of skipping out to have a beer with lunch at a bar showing the World Cup.

World Cup! I hate soccer.

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Originally Posted by nahtnoj

Jesus, you can do that in like 40 minutes on the train. Stoopid. I feel for you as a pilot, but the passengers deserve what they get. Flying to NY from Philadelphia or DC should be illegal., but then Amtrak would have to get better, and Union Station is bursting at the seams.

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one time faceless airlines diverted my flight from its original destination of Dayton to Cincinnatti. So they could pick up 5 stranded passengers. Then they held the plane to see if they could find anyone else that wanted to go to dayton, nope. We were on the plane for 5 extra hours. I'm sure the stranded pax were there for lots longer than that. Now, they can get a bus and drive to the Dayton airport in around an hour and a half. We were barely in the air when they went into final approach into Dayton. One of the most ridiculous examples of airline "management" I've ever been a part of, and that's saying something. There actually were regular commuter flights between those two cities, but I suspect they were mostly just ferry flights. They flew so low they had to watch out for planes on VFR and there was at least one instance where they almost collided with a flight full of skydivers.

Red eyes in coach.

INS came into town today and shut down every ethnic restaurant. We are going to IHOP, want anything?

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Originally Posted by Britishbane

My grump: my son is 4 days late in arriving. Hurry up!

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My grump: childbirth classes that don't tell you "Due Date" is a statistical mean

(p.s. Congrats in advance!)

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Originally Posted by davids

My grump: childbirth classes that don't tell you "Due Date" is a statistical mean

(p.s. Congrats in advance!)

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Thanks!

Yup, we know. But there's still some expectation surrounding THE date, you know?

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Originally Posted by Britishbane

Thanks!

Yup, we know. But there's still some expectation surrounding THE date, you know?

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I know... Mine showed up 2 days "early" (21 years later I still remember!) so I never had to go through that waiting game.

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Originally Posted by davids

I know... Mine showed up 2 days "early" (21 years later I still remember!) so I never had to go through that waiting game.

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My first daughter is 23. To this day, when asked about her birth date, I always blurt out her DUE date first, then correct myself to her real birthday (which was 5 days latter). Weird how the due date was cemented into my brain.

My other 2 kids: I have no idea what their due dates were.

fucked up my right shoulder on sunday. asked my doctor if he could do a 2 for 1 surgery in september when im scheduled for my left, he said no :(

The term "hack" as it is so often used currently. Moving the pillows on your couch is not a "couch hack." Putting fresh blueberries into a boxed muffin mix is not a "muffin hack." Please stop.

Karen sees somebody that she really likes coming to a local venue and I get tickets far enough ahead that we're fifth row center. That ought to be great. Well, it would have been except for the stocky lady with a haircut that made her head look exactly like a cement block sitting directly in front of us. Well, not exactly sitting. Standing for the most part. Whaaaa you say? Complaining about somebody standing throughout a rock and roll show? No, I don't care if you stand, dance, wave your arms in the air, jump up and down and have a good time. I do care if you stand to film the entire goddamn show. Holding your camera up in the air over your head to get a better angle. Moving right and left to follow the performer when they move about the stage. Karen and I switched chairs because this person was directly in front of her and it was uncanny how Cement Block managed to cut off the sight line from that one chair behind her. It wasn't the thing, really, it was the idea of it. These were not cheap chairs. I could buy a perfectly serviceable set of wheels for what I paid for them. Somebody who's attitude is screw you and your good seats just gets on my nerves.

Ah, well. I'm watching yourtube. If those clips show up there, there's gonna be some commentin' going on.

OK, I'll do pushups but I just answered an application programmer for the third time.

Me: You need to encrypt the authentication flow. Him: But I don't have credit card data in my file. Me: That's not the requirement we're addressing. Please read the requirements document. Him: But we don't have credit card data in the file.

Repeat.

Repeat again.

Repeat again, but now he wants to have a phone call.

I suppose I shouldn't complain. Of the 75 application programmers on the project, a good 50 of them never respond to emails or meet simple requirements less than 30 days after they're due. So any answer, even from some bonehead that can't understand simple declarative sentences, is better than nothing.

No problem, I'll just install the IP Security filters and your ftp traffic just won't flow no more.

Here it is solstice week and I have a nasty head cold that won't go away.

fuckin allergies wont quit here in western New England!

Thanks to a cold my riding this week consists of 30 minutes on the trainer. I haven't been outside on a bike since Sunday and I'm developing restless leg syndrome.

Lower back spasms/strained muscles are the succubus.

Shoes were destroyed in the accident. I'm a 48 Sidi narrow. Or a 47 S-Works narrow. Thing is, Sidi stopped making the narrow for over a year. Specialized is putting their narrows back into production, but have now delayed release until September. I've been ready to get riding again for two months but no one currently has a shoe narrow enough for my feet. I'd considered going custom two months ago, but I didn't want to wait a month for shoes; and sources said these stock options were coming on line.

Client brought in a new Project Manager. I spend a week getting her up to speed, then she says she wants to take over, reschedules meetings, invites the wrong audience to the calls, then doesn't even show up herself. She then has the audacity to complain about not getting updates. SHOW UP TO THE FUCKING CALLS YOU ARE SCHEDULING AND YOU'LL GET YOUR UPDATES. Or, read the meeting minutes that I provided after the call.

Also, wanting to go for a mid day ride, but got asked to lunch. Can't say no to the lunch invite without being a total dick, but would rather ride my bike.

Hey Chase, can't you get a pair of these in Rapha livery? The Giro branded version is narrow and they offer a 48:
Giro Factor ACC Shoes - Road Shoes | Competitive Cyclist

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Originally Posted by roseyscot

Hey Chase, can't you get a pair of these in Rapha livery? The Giro branded version is narrow and they offer a 48:
Giro Factor ACC Shoes - Road Shoes | Competitive Cyclist

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I wish. The Giro narrow fit is "narrow for Giro."