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

A good friend got hit today and I'm having a hard time getting updates on his situation. Stay safe folks.

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Originally Posted by NYCfixie

It's early but I will gladly do the push-ups.

Having to walk through Fenway on Red Sox opening day as a born and bread New Yorker and Yankees fan.

It does not get much worse than this.

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Just read on another post Mr NY was a volunteer EMT…(much respect for that) now I have to cut him some slack! Something us mass-holes hate to do! Damn.

Having a wife with a chronic illness that results in cognitive degradation is bad.
Having to enforce boundaries to keep her safe in the face of her need for independence and watching it remind her of the losses she is incurring is heartbreaking.

Hurting someone you love in order to protect them is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.

Len

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Originally Posted by Matthew Strongin

A good friend got hit today and I'm having a hard time getting updates on his situation. Stay safe folks.

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I got doored yesterday. Tore my ear in half. It's stitched back together and sticks out even further than it did before. I'll spare the Evander Holyfield'esque pictures

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Originally Posted by roseyscot

I got doored yesterday. Tore my ear in half. It's stitched back together and sticks out even further than it did before. I'll spare the Evander Holyfield'esque pictures

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Shit. That sucks, man. Heal up soon. My buddy will be fine, but he's got some broken bones and is lucky to be around.

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Originally Posted by roseyscot

I got doored yesterday. Tore my ear in half. It's stitched back together and sticks out even further than it did before. I'll spare the Evander Holyfield'esque pictures

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it didn't happen unless there are pictures. I want to see.

My cousin, a mother of 3, has a very aggressive cancer.

I'm not sure the exact relation to my wife, I'll just call her an aunt... Last Sunday she died while mowing her lawn. She had just turned 78. This is back in Illinois. My wife says she doesn't feel the need to go, but I know it's all due to finances. She's doing okay, but also is good at putting up a happy front sometimes. I know it hurts her.

My wife flew to Seattle yesterday to be with her mother whose cancer not only returned, but is growing in spite of chemo. Reality is setting in for the whole family and I hate having to go through this again. I miss my wife like hell, the house is empty and I hate it. My mind wanders thinking of life without her. I hate it.

I want to go on a ride to clear my head, but my F'king ligamentless knee still hurts too much.

Bourbon !

Not Thursday, but it happened yesterday and I found out yesterday. A local cyclist in his 70s took a spill about 2 weeks ago. Solo accident, blew out a tire in a turn and went over the bars onto the pavement. He'd been in ICU since the accident, but unfortunately he passed yesterday.

I know, I know, it's not Thursday. I swear to God, though, this is giving me chest pains. Maybe the pushups will make them go away.

Tech architecture group makes platform decision with a faulty financial case, implementation is completely convoluted. Conversion could be done right on the same platform where the existing implementation is and cost less money. Since the project team couldn't articulate the setup we told them we needed a process diagram with input, output and protocol specifications.

Took two weeks. And its wrong. They took what the vendor sent them for another implementation, added a box or two but left all the specs in from the other implementation including components and destinations that won't be used in ours. Not to mention they typo'ed "FTP" in the protocol field.... you make three changes, you think you could see you got one obviously wrong? I guess that's why I'm just a technician, not an architect.

I have four teleconferences today. Three are problem solving based on incorrect premises. I let the leader know what was incorrect and why but we're getting groups together to discuss it anyway. Right now I'm on a call with a vendor and a staff guy (ours) is trying to play bad-cop with a vendor that we typically have a good relationship with. I want to reach through the Skype connection and strangle him. If a vendor is meeting our standard, there's nothing to discuss if you don't "like" what they sent.

Still unsure at this point whether this belongs in the Thursday or Friday thread, but I'm starting to run the numbers on taking a couple years out of the rat race and raise my three small kids for a bit. Daunting, on many fronts.

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Originally Posted by robin3mj

Still unsure at this point whether this belongs in the Thursday or Friday thread, but I'm starting to run the numbers on taking a couple years out of the rat race and raise my three small kids for a bit. Daunting, on many fronts.

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I hope the numbers work in your favor. Kids grow up unbelievably fast, and you can never “roll back” that time. Yesterday my 3 were eating in high chairs, now are young adults. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Corso

I hope the numbers work in your favor. Kids grow up unbelievably fast, and you can never “roll back” that time. Yesterday my 3 were eating in high chairs, now are young adults. Good luck!

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Thanks.
My job is so finance and numbers-oriented, that non-quantifiable pros/cons rarely weigh into any decisions I make at work, so this one will be a huge departure from my normal frame of mind. How do you put a price on that time in your kids' life?

I'm a week into bronchitis and 5 days into the Rx for antibiotics. This shit sucks the life out of me. Coughing so much I think I've pulled something and winded with one flight of stairs. No riding for another week at best.

Sucks getting old!

Mike

Absolutely sucks getting old!

I have had a nearly constant cough since before the new year. Full course of antibiotics took care of the sinus infection but didn't dent the perma-cold, which only really ended end of march. Just in time for the allergy season to kick in as hard as I have had it, with a post nasal drip that re-started the cough. Now we are into May and this cough thing is getting really old...

Oy!

Petty, but I am still annoyed. I bought a Miele pet vac which was pretty pricy, but should last forever.

Except it is no more reliable than a $75 Hoover. I have spent the purchase price again on repairs over the past five years. I just took it in for a $100 repair. This is the last time, I'm replacing it with a cheap vac next time it breaks.

Joe

2 weeks down. 4 weeks to go. On the positive side, I have been getting seats on the subway a lot more easily.

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At the end of my recovery ride tonight a road rager in a BMW threatened to kill me. I'm done with this shit. Headed to the police station tomorrow to see about pressing charges and Amazon tonight to buy some cameras.