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

[Britishbane]

Oh, I case you were wondering, I'm being blasted with a "news" story about whether or not the college of cardinals will have cellphone service during conclave.

[David Tollefson]

My wife is headed out of town for a long weekend. Bachin' it isn't all it's cracked p to be when you also have to entertain the 12-year-old. And I'm beat tired from not sleeping. Chemical assistance is all that's keeping me awake today.

Okay, that's more whine than grump, so I'll drop for 10.

Oh, but one more... One of my high school classmates was killed in Vegas this week. She was a passenger in the taxi that got caught in the cross-fire of a shooting/driving rampage of a wanna-be rapper and some other thugs on Monday. She was there for a conference... Mother, wife, 2-time cancer survivor... Senseless. And the guy who started it all? Still out there.

[Clyde]

DT I feel stupid responding to a legitimate gripe such as yours with my weeny whiny bs. Nonetheless, I am tired of being ripped off. Twice in the past 6 months. I still have my pride, but my wallet is looser. And the growth in it for me is to not behave like an 21 yr old steroid beast and want retribution.

You get what you give, and what goes around comes around.

Off to my day, now a little lighter.

[Tom]

Same as last week. 40 degrees, calm, working from home, can't with a good conscience disappear for two hours. Dang conscience. Also beautiful 6" snowfalls that get washed away by the rain within 18 hours. I hope you guys in NNE are still on the good side of this one.

[Too Tall]

Degrees of joy and pain. Riding knobbies 40 miles on the road buh-lows. Now if UPS would just GET HERE with my Schwalbe Big Apples I'd be in a better mood.

[Britishbane]

The woman sitting next to me started listening to a pod cast out loud over he phones speaker. What the hell. People's choices are sometimes very difficult to understand.

[Dave]

I have a hemorrhoid and it effing hurts.
I have IBS since I was 8 years old. I have about as much control over it as Marissa Miller has over her hotness.
I am a 37 year old grown ass man who has to find someone to "cover" his class when he has to go take a piss or a crap.
This combination makes me gurmpy.

My wife is going through allergy testing as she gets wicked hives on something she is eating.
She get's itchy and does not want to have happy time.
This has gone on for two weeks and...she is hot.

My baby boy turns 1 tomorrow and I get to host a bunch of family I don't care for in my house for the weekend.

The weekend.

My new IF cross bike hasn't shipped yet and I LOVE my IF bikes...especially new ones!

Yeah, my ass is chapped and for all of you silver lining mfers out there this bump that feels like a marble I am sitting on is devouring the positives.

[davids]

I had a bad, frightening day yesterday. But rather than grumpy, this morning I'm feeling grateful. Because rather than helping my wife in & out of the shower this morning, I could have been visiting her in the hospital.

So yeah. Today I'm one of the silver lining mfers. I'll do my 20 now.

[Dallas Tex]

A good friend I've known for 25 or so years was just diagnosed with Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis. Came out of nowhere. Absolutely nowhere.

Very healthly guy, we had a fist fight a while back and I believe he almost knocked me out. I undertsand its not especially treatable.

WTF, no warning, good guy, two young daughters. Why?

[znfdl]

I hate reviewing piss poor documents where my comments are longer than the actual document.

[robin3mj]

I'm presently in Roswell, New Mexico.

Theses three flights out of here a day (not counting the impromptu ones captained by little green men) and mine cannot leave soon enough.

[maunahaole]

Be glad that you are not in Gallup.

I'm presently in Roswell, New Mexico.

Theses three flights out of here a day (not counting the impromptu ones captained by little green men) and mine cannot leave soon enough.

[Brandon White]

I have to generate a massive (to me at least) amount of test data to make sure my over-engineered application is working correctly. I've spent more time on test data than I have work on the project over the last 2 weeks.

[liv2bike]

Been stuck in a hotel conference room since Tuesday in middle TN. Corporate stuff. Missing my family and my bikes. Fly home in the morning...cant come soon enough.

[Honus]

Got to play laser welder technician at work today! It's something I seem to get to do about every six months... laser welders are really cool but they can be a bit temperamental. I had to pull apart the shutter mechanism and fix it. Of course it happened to break down right in the middle of a job...

[KeithNYC]

Be glad that you are not in Gallup.

Ha! I'm from there! Can't really argue with ya- not from a visitors perspective anyway.

I'm dropping for 20 right now Toots.

[Matthew Strongin]

The housing market is a joke. I'm trying to buy a new house. I've tried 3 offers in maybe 2 weeks, but keep losing out to full cash buyers who don't care about the property appraisal. Who are all these folks with so much cash to burn?

Follow up grump. The day after writing this we get a call from my realtor about the dream house that we lost to a cash buyer. Deal fell through, are we still interested? YES! They accept our offer. We spend two weeks completely excited, running around like crazy to get loan specifics sorted out, resubmitting contract paperwork, pretty much in a tizzy. This is on top of very busy work schedules that are making for late nights and early mornings. One catch, our offer is contingent on the appraisal. The market here is surging, but inconsistent, and banks aren't covering loans on houses that don't appraise. Turns out there was a "miscommunication" on the square footage of the house and while the house appraised for roughly the same price per sq. ft. as our offer, the total value was significantly lower. The seller won't budge and think they can list the house for higher than our offer and get a cash, no contingency offer. So, yet another deal falls through, but this time after weeks of effort, a chunk of money spent, and tons of emotion. So, yeah, this market is a joke. Maybe I'll just build a second and third floor on my little bungalow to get the extra space we need.

[quickag]

Everybody wants to do everything on Thursdays. Boss, owner, doctor, Realtor, everybody. There are 7 days in a week people.

[WayneJ]

Industrial fruit.
You know, the kind you hand select and it looks soooo nice on display.
Then you bite into it and there's no effing flavor - probably no nutrition too.

Damn geneticists - why don't you work on something useful - like cloning me so I can go riding while my double goes to work.

[mnoble485]

Not insomnia but something like it. I fall asleep like a man without a care but wake up 3 hours later thinking all kinds of weird shit. The res of the night is toss and turn until I drag out of bed at 4AM when I could sleep until 5:30.
This has been going on for a few weeks now. I'm tired.

Mike

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