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

[j44ke]

I am reading a screenplay and find myself editing nearly every other word. Why would you write a screenplay if you were not any good at dialogue? Not only that, the dialogue (bad) is exactly the same no matter who is speaking! Man woman child wildebeest guava. Spoiler alert: the guava has sex with the wildebeest and then kills everyone but later gets figured out by (whatsit) a purple dinosaur or a cop. One or the other. Oy.

[Shoogs]

Posting this for Mssr Sep

@sepvanmarcke: At start of last AlpeDhuez my small 36chainring was broken, so had to do the whole climb on my 53ring. That really killed me!! #bigringclimb

I'll do his pushups as well.

[xjoex]

I wasn't going to post this, but it seems apropos... I was hired to be the chief security whatsit but the IT dept at this startup was terrible. It wasn't their fault, they had one really bad apple. They decided to make me Director of IT in addition to my regular job.

Would love to grump more... but I'll hold it in, like a smelly fart.

-Joe

[boxerboxer]

1. Will be in rural God's Country Vermont, gravel for days, and won't be able to ride.

2. It baffles me the way our (US) culture increasingly values fame of any sort - any publicity seems to be viewed as good publicity, such that putting a picture on a magazine with the word "monster" next to it is somehow glorifying a person or "giving him what he wants."

[Sbti]

No grumps yet?
My latest….. air travel. I don’t fly all that much but was reminded of the joys of flying on a recent trip. What’s the deal with people these days? Huge, ginormous people walking through the airports with their nice baggy gym shorts and flip flops. Hey, I don’t want to see your nasty black-green-brown-yellow fungus infected toenails. It’s called Lamisil, check it out. The airlines gouge you on checked bag fees so nobody wants to check anything and they bring all manner of “carry on” luggage. Huge guitars… other long musical instruments of some type. Giant wheely-on bags with a giant briefcase/computer bag on top of it. “But it “fits” in the airline provided size checker thing, so it must be okay”. Fits…. My ass. Then getting everybody seated is further delayed because the privileged few in first class can’t wait a few minutes to get their bloody marys so the attendants are in the way. Then getting hit in the head as everybody does the mad scramble for the choice overhead bin spots. Bang, bang, bang…. “see, it all “fits”… No problemo”. So, then we’re all finally in our seats wondering what the delay is and the co-pilots map light is broken. It’s 10:30am. Never has happened on this model plane before. Had to call a flight engineer. The plane is heating up in the summer sun. So, an hour and twenty minutes later we push off. Reverse the process on the other end, but wondering what the delay is on de-planeing. The jet way ramp thing is broken. Can’t get off. Had to call the jet way ramp thingy engineer. Fun, but better than a 15 hour drive I guess.

[Matthew Strongin]

Bought a new house. AC has been broken for a week. The guys were here installing the new one from 9am to midnight yesterday. They're still not done. Got it going well enough for us to actually sleep, but woke up to a big puddle under the new system. It's like adding insult to injury. A week with no AC in July. Bad. Shelling out for a new unit when the old one was supposedly fine for at least 5 more years. Really bad. Stepping in a puddle on newly refinished wood floors as I groggily wander from the bedroom to make some coffee. F me. And the cherry on top of the cherry on top, I have to take the morning off work and skip a ride so I can give a deposition in a lawsuit for the guy I was riding with last year when we got hit by a minivan. I could keep going, but I'll spare you all the overgrump.

[znfdl]

My grump is that I do not have much to grump about. I am going on vacation in four days and keeping my mid on the vacation.

[Jonathan]

Pulmonologist, respiratory therapists, general practitioners.
Lots of co-pays, deductible met.
Still can't breath that well, tired and short of breath.

This too shall pass, keep the faith.
Ill be back on the bike before you know it.
Riding in the Florida summer sucks anyway.

Prolonged illness brings reflection.
You can label me an expert.
Now, what model Ducati do I buy?

[David Tollefson]

Corporate red-tape and all the self-important bean counters and blow-hards.

I've been on a project that would save over $500M and 3 hours of production time per unit. It's been basically ready to implement since December. The Process has had this in grid-lock ever since -- just one more presentation (the SAME damn presentation I've made to another few dozen expensive sets of eyes last week) this week, and you'll hear the same thing next week. Oh, another form to fill out. We've probably spent twice what we were going to save just in the salary of the people in the meetings for all these presentations -- DOZENS! Is there anyone in the company that HASN'T seen this yet?

So after seven months of dicking around with the muckety-mucks and over-inflated egos, it's determined that we WON'T save that money because the window of opportunity to save that money has closed. Not enough units left in the production projection.

The Process is broken, the Emperor is truly, blissfully, ignorantly naked.

[nahtnoj]

A recent purchase leaves me with four lenses for my Oakley M-Frames. The case Oakley sells only holds three lenses. Not Baller, Oakley, not Baller.

[Tom]

OK, I'll do my pushups but correct me if I'm wrong - generally people come with an even number of eyeballs, don't they? Why does the case have an odd number of lens holders?

[turkish]

I don't like people handling buses, planes or trains behave like teenagers, not respecting speed limits. What the fuck was this guy thinking of when he drove the train at more than 150 km an hour through a 80 km/h zone? #AccidenteSantiago.

[devlin]

Tube fell out of my saddle bag. One munched DA rear derailleur and derailleur hanger. Then the washing machine packed it in. We have four kids. Do you know how much dirty laundry they create each day? The new to us, dog had to go to the vet.......um....... that will do for this week.

[WayneJ]

Just got the bill for my rabies shots received after being bitten by that cat. $13,800. I called my insurance company to ask if there was a decimal in the wrong place. The woman said the costs for the codes submitted by the hospital are reasonable. Over $10k just for the shots !

One thing is clear... The root causes of rising healthcare costs are NOT being addressed.

[RickM]

Just got the bill for my rabies shots received after being bitten by that cat. $13,800. I called my insurance company to ask if there was a decimal in the wrong place. The woman said the costs for the codes submitted by the hospital are reasonable. Over $10k just for the shots !

One thing is clear... The root causes of rising healthcare costs are NOT being addressed.

You had this done in the ED, or in an ambulatory setting...? {drops. 1, 2, 3, 4.....}

[Matthew Strongin]

OK, I'll do my pushups but correct me if I'm wrong - generally people come with an even number of eyeballs, don't they? Why does the case have an odd number of lens holders?

M-frames are mono-lenses so one lens per pair of eyes. Pushups in 1, 2, 3...

[Mike Mcdermid]

stupid companies who think they can dicatate on their terms what is expected...has been chapping my ass for a week.....

CHUMPS

[Too Tall]

DC is overrun with tourists. The only amusing aspect is identifying the ones who's native country walks/drives left AS I APPROACH riding my bicycle politely singing childrens songs. This too shall pass.

[WayneJ]

Walk-in clinic associated with the hospital for initial check, but rabies shots unavailable at the clinic, so those were administered by hospital.

[roseyscot]

On vacation, nausea, fever, 100s of work emails still pouring in each day, and the beach weather has turned to 60s and cloudy. And the 8 month old still won't sleep through the night.