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

[bigbill]

figure out what that costs, tell insurance that is your replacement value... enjoy having a custom bike made and enjoy the other bikes currently in your possession. Sorry you lost a bike that you love, but I wouldn't let that loss keep me from being on one that keeps the passion high. getting a CAAD10 out of it would suck, in comparison.

I have the luxury of having time to choose and wait. I'm not expecting to have anything new this year even if I ordered something next week. I've got time to wait out temporary lust of seeing something cool and make a good decision. That Colossus is not typical of Lewellyn and there are many US builders that could make me a bike that would be similar to that one without spending hundreds extra just to get it to the US. Dave Cheakas has also mentioned that he intends to build custom frames at a steep discount for the people who lost bikes in the fire. I hear that the CAAD 12's are nice.

[dashDustin]

ugh...poor guy. he's gotta feel devastated.

[bigbill]

ugh...poor guy. he's gotta feel devastated.

No matter how bad I feel about losing a bike, Dave lost a business and a bunch of stuff that can't be replaced. It was his whole world. The only positive I see is that he was always talking about relocating out of town, now may be his opportunity.

[EricKeller]

The rhetoric about the new minimum wage bill for California ($15 by 2022). Lots of people outraged. When you drill down to the core of their outrage, it all boils down to “In [19XX] I worked XX hours per week for $XX/hour! $15/hour is too high and low skilled workers aren’t worth that!” That’s it. An emotional response. Get over it already.

in the early '70s, people worked minimal wage for more than $15 an hour in today's dollars. I didn't start working until after huge inflation wiped out those wages, but it's not like these numbers are unprecedented at all. In fact, but 2022, $15 will not be enough again.

[bigbill]

in the early '70s, people worked minimal wage for more than $15 an hour in today's dollars. I didn't start working until after huge inflation wiped out those wages, but it's not like these numbers are unprecedented at all. In fact, but 2022, $15 will not be enough again.

I do taxes for low income people through United Way. I see a lot of teachers and social workers, people with college degrees and career paths. They start around $30K and work their way up to the upper 30's in 5-10 years. Do we need to pay the unskilled worker or teenager the same as we pay teachers? Do we need to fix teacher pay first? I work in manufacturing, we hire new people in the warehouse at $14 an hour. We're not hiring teenagers, we're hiring adults who want to start a career path. They come in knowing that the warehouse is a stepping stone to higher paying positions within the company, not their ultimate position in life.

[dashDustin]

close enough to thursday...

2 weeks ago today i felt pretty shitty (the night before, it had burned a little when i peed, which set off alarms). wife and i went for a ride after work, felt nauseous the entire time, light headed. got home, peed, blood. awesome. i know the signs of kidney stones, and this wasn't consistent for me. called wife's dad, and he prescribed 7 days of Bactrim. Took that for 7 days, feeling like ass every single day. i still wasn't satisfied with how i was feeling, but started to liven up. fairly certain the antibiotic was having its way with me. last week Thursday went and saw the doc. small amount of blood in urine. CT scan ordered. 6mm stone in left kidney. ugh. that tells me the worst was yet to come.

it hit last night at 2am. popped a Tylenol with codeine and held on for the ride. an hour later most of the pain had subsided. what a god awful feeling that is.

[Sbti]

When did everything become "perfect"?

"Excuse me, where's the bathroom?"
-Down the hall on the left.
"Perfect"

"Here's your ice water."
-"Perfect!"

[Lionel]

Heading to my parents tomorrow morning. My Dad had been in the hospital for almost 2 weeks now. Things are not looking good... He is in Urology with something that started as a urine infection and now looks like a big tumor on his prostate also touching his rectum and bladder. They are doing a biopsy tomorrow to see exactly what it is but given that his general health is degrading and he has lost a lot of weight I am afraid of what they will find.

[monadnocky]

Small potatoes compared to the above, but-

I teach a small class of doctoral students, all women, all between the ages of 26 to 30. Smart, articulate, what have you.
All speak with pronounced vocal fry.
Makes me want to jam sharp pencils through my eardrums.

[Britishbane]

Small potatoes compared to the above, but-

I teach a small class of doctoral students, all women, all between the ages of 26 to 30. Smart, articulate, what have you.
All speak with pronounced vocal fry.
Makes me want to jam sharp pencils through my eardrums.

Similar situation, but I'm one of the students. Every one of my classmates, male and female, uses "like" every ten words.

My grump, I'm still trying to get over a cold that started 3 weeks ago.

[davids]

Moving on to the second step. With a little luck it may also be the final step. He's found new ways to suck as an employee since the first go-around.

I spent a ton of my workweek dealing with this disaster employee. I wrote up his latest round of crap (missing meetings; failing to prepare for a major project; yelling at me & his staff when said project hit rough spots...) and shared it with my HR director.

As soon as she read it, she said, "We should get rid of this guy!" Creating the necessary paper trail and deciding on our strategy took the next couple of days. We finally sat down with him yesterday and, predictably, he fought back on every point I made. Until my boss, who was also in the room, started pushing back and corroborating my position. That finally shut him up.

Stay tuned, because tomorrow the grumps will be sucking it.

[roseyscot]

I got legitimately dropped by the crack of dawn ride this morning for the first time ever, I think.

[jdp211]

I've had to resort to running as a means for physical activity. 6 classes, 5 group projects, 3 weeks left in the semester has me batshit crazy.

[Chad]

New dog was spayed Monday. She is still on "light duty" but apparently feeling better as she is running amok, she's large enough that it isn't so cute.

Last week she somehow hamstrung the old lab and caused a torn acl. Didn't see it happen, just deduced it. Torn acl on an otherwise healthy 9.5 year old lab. Eff me. Local vet estimates repair at $800 - $1,000. Called a good friend, surgical vet, he recommends more extensive repairs to the tune of $4K.

[golivar]

The cost of applying for a Virginia nursing license and taking the state nursing boards. Ouch.

[JChasse]

When did everything become "perfect"?

"Excuse me, where's the bathroom?"
-Down the hall on the left.
"Perfect"

"Here's your ice water."
-"Perfect!"

Agreed. Worse for me is "no worries". Every time I say thank you to someone under 50 (60?), standard reply is "no worries". Everything's great, we don't know each other, I'm smiling, I said thank you...why are "worries" coming into this?

Oh, and I bought some good Swiss cheese for my kid's sandwich tomorrow. Got home, not in the bag.

[golivar]

Agreed. Worse for me is "no worries". Every time I say thank you to someone under 50 (60?), standard reply is "no worries". Everything's great, we don't know each other, I'm smiling, I said thank you...why are "worries" coming into this?

Oh, and I bought some good Swiss cheese for my kid's sandwich tomorrow. Got home, not in the bag.

"No worries" always makes me think of Crocodile Dundee or something.

[seanile]

"No worries" always makes me think of Crocodile Dundee or something.

hakuna matata

[dogrange]

"No worries" always makes me think of Crocodile Dundee or something.

My special disliked phrase in response to some experience is it was "something different". Like it had no positive or negative qualities, but was still emotionally humdrum, was different but it didn't matter at all, oh I give up.

[mmoore]

I say "cheers".

do you guys hate me?