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

It's 11 degrees F. right now.

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Originally Posted by shoney

B: all I've been thinking all day is getting into bed and watching season 2 of Downton Abbey. holy shit.

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If you throw knitting into that mix you'll sound like my GF.... which might be a set-up from a 42 year old male.
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In other news: New year = deductable restart for insurance. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy to have insurance and a decent deductable but since I didnt have champaign for NYE, I might as well start off with champaign problems.

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Originally Posted by shoney

I'm pissed because I've become an old fuck at 42. I've never been a barn burner that's for sure, but this shit is getting ridiculous. exhibit A: other day I caught myself telling a story about my cat to the lady cutting my hair. exhibit B: all I've been thinking all day is getting into bed and watching season 2 of Downton Abbey. holy shit.

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fuckin funny shit man. today i was firing on all cylinders: woke up to burst pipes cuz the furnace broke. $1k - thank you very much. IRS letter in the mail detailing my 2010 tax return "adjustment", a figure i can't bear to share. went to crossfit and was utterly humiliated w/a side order of excruciating pain - which was a bright spot. figured what the hell nothing to lose lets make it 3 strikes clean: went and asked a 21 yr old waitress i met last wk if she'd like do some drinking this wknd. she laughed. is that a yes? i think its a yes - not only getting older but more and more delusional.

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Originally Posted by mainemike

fuckin funny shit man. today i was firing on all cylinders: woke up to burst pipes cuz the furnace broke. $1k - thank you very much. IRS letter in the mail detailing my 2010 tax return "adjustment", a figure i can't bear to share. went to crossfit and was utterly humiliated w/a side order of excruciating pain - which was a bright spot. figured what the hell nothing to lose lets make it 3 strikes clean: went and asked a 21 yr old waitress i met last wk if she'd like do some drinking this wknd. she laughed. is that a yes? i think its a yes - not only getting older but more and more delusional.

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There's no good way to ask out a bartender or waitress while she's working. We both know this.

My grump? I don't have your balls.

Ungrateful kids not sharing their new tablets with their Dad. I wanna fuggin cut the rope!

And this shit

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my insurance company informed me that I needed to log on to their web site to see a message they sent me. Not having previously logged on to their website, I had to set up an account. Turns out there has been a claim filed against my car -- halfway across the country from where the car has been sitting in the driveway for the last week. They don't say who filed the claim.. Can't find out until tomorrow, maybe. Please USAA, stop advertising so much and just spend the money on customer service.

Not done.

The @#$%, the %^&* of cotton, the %*(&*@! of our #@$(ing lives. Ruined half my vacation photos.

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Nierman needs a hug.

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Originally Posted by Nierman

Not done.

The @#$%, the %^&* of cotton, the %*(&*@! of our #@$(ing lives. Ruined half my vacation photos.

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If you annotated all your pictures like that I would definitely be more interested in seeing you vacation pictures. THE GODDAM SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS OBSCURED BY GODDAM FUZZ.

That's interesting to hear. The IT people at work rave about them and can't wait to ditch their Droids get the latest Windows phone.

So, it sucks?

I was prepared to grump until I left the office tonight and saw the bike racks in front of our building. It was 7 pm, 15 degrees F out, a red alert air quality day (effing inversions), and there are four times as many bikes locked up outside as there was at 1 pm.

I should grump about the inversion, but seeing all those bikes being used on a day like today made me happy.

Its 10:30 on the correct coast and no one is grumpy about something yet? WTF?

The annual June-uary thaw is harshing my mellow (and snowpack).

I'm having one of those days where there are invisible things in my eyes that are wreaking havoc on my contacts. The typical wintertime lack of humidity is not helping. Ouch.

I getting tired of the current national pastime of taking offense at nearly everything.

Oh and I have a hangnail.

I'm out of toe warmers and the local hardware store doesn't have Barge Cement.

Finally got my new monitor at the office...


It's too big and hurts my eyes.

I've been waking up at something like 2:30 every stinking morning. can't get back to sleep, so I just say F-it and get up. I'm at work by 5. Which is okay for the afternoons, but my mind starts blanking and wanting to fall asleep by 7.

Took some melatonin last night.

I woke up at 1:30.

Paralysis-by-Analysis. When did the mere collecting and collating of Data,(which should never be confused with Information) become an end in and of itself? Great job, folks..we now have reams of data that can be made to support as many POV's or stategies as we want. Can we reduce the size of the "Team" down to the four or five real decision-makers in the org and actually come up with a plan that has some realistic timelines and deliverables attached? And then..can everyone please get off their sorry asses and go out and execute? No? Instead...we're going to have endless meetings with 30 folks in the room and another 30 dialed in from remote locations...all discussing how busy their teams are already and the 50 million reasons why this plan will never work? God Damn you all.

All the snow that had been sitting peacefully and beautifully on top of my barn chose 3am as the appropriate time to cascade off onto the hoods of our cars, waking me up in a panic as it crashed down.

Also, not thrilled about 50 degrees in Vermont in January predicted for this weekend.

Oh, and I've cut out coffee, alcohol, processed sugar, wheat and dairy. So I'm a fucking joy to be around.