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

[NYCfixie]

On a train to NYC for step 1 of 2 to get my tooth fixed and not happy about it. Nine hours of travel to spend 90 minutes in the chair. At least I'll get to see my dentist/uncle again; twice in 1 week.

Have had a rough few days so I could not wait until Thursday to share my grumps.

1) Last Friday while in NYC I stubbed my big toe and pulled back the nail so badly it bled profusely and I may lose the toenail. As a result, I had to cancel dinner and bowling with my brother, sister-in-law, and nephews because I could not walk. My wife was irritated because we spent our last night visiting NYC in the hotel room icing my toe/foot.

2) This morning I cracked my tooth eating breakfast . Now I get to take a train back to NYC on Thursday (see why I am grumping early) to see the dentist (my Uncle) to have the first of 2 appointments to have it fixed. The irony is I was at his office last Thursday for a checkup/cleaning and he said everything looked great. Unfortunately these things happen sometimes for no reason.

3) Not sure yet but I am worried because I have always heard that bad things come in threes....


I need a break....but not another body part.

[NYCfixie]

Last grump of the day.

Return train to Boston left NYC 1 hour late and keeps getting farther behind.

The irony Is that I cannot get to the Amtrak website on an Amtrak train using Amtrak wifi to check for updates (and the crew is being non comittal).

My wife is texting me updates from home. It's not like she had an easy day picking out a headstone for her father's grave because her mother could not deal.

Hoping for an easier year in 2017.

[rowdyhillrambler]

I don't grump to much.. However, this sinus/cold has gotten me down a bit. Still managing to ride every day, but the damn resulting toothache because of inflamed sinuses has got me on the bridge. Mother funker bout to get my will to live.!.! Sucking in cold air problem ain't helping, but I got to get sane.

[xjoex]

I really like my apple gear... but iOS 10 is junk.

Lets start with the lock screen.
- I used to be able to swipe up and turn on the flashlight, no more.
- I now have to hold my finger on the dumb thing longer... which launches the useless voice control. Thus misdialing someone.

I want to play music in iTunes, not launch an advert for apple music every time I open the app.
- What is with all of the "card" style shit. I want playlists and the ability to hit shuffle and repeat. Not swipe 20x times and play the wrong song.

[bigbill]

The wife dropped a glass pitcher of sweet tea in the kitchen. A half gallon of sugar water and glass on the kitchen floor. That's not the grump, the grump is that my teenage son was at a UIL meeting at school and wasn't there to quote Archer..............

[RichTheRoadie]

I really like my apple gear... but iOS 10 is junk.

Lets start with the lock screen.
- I used to be able to swipe up and turn on the flashlight, no more.
- I now have to hold my finger on the dumb thing longer... which launches the useless voice control. Thus misdialing someone.

This must be a settings thing - I can swipe up to get to my flashlight.

[Matthew Strongin]

I really like my apple gear... but iOS 10 is junk.

Lets start with the lock screen.
- I used to be able to swipe up and turn on the flashlight, no more.
- I now have to hold my finger on the dumb thing longer... which launches the useless voice control. Thus misdialing someone.

I want to play music in iTunes, not launch an advert for apple music every time I open the app.
- What is with all of the "card" style shit. I want playlists and the ability to hit shuffle and repeat. Not swipe 20x times and play the wrong song.

Don't forget how they made mail use conversation threading, which pretty much sucks for any conversation that involves more than 2 people and doesn't stay linear.

[cash]

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[Tom]

Four day week, so today is Thursday really.

Once again, instant messaging at work. It is apparently a vehicle to interrupt people with questions that are incoherent, inarticulate, given no thought ahead of time which only reveals that the person has no idea conceptually what they are trying to do. The problem is there's no face to face interaction with them. Early in my career a thought would cross my brain pan and without any more consideration I'd bounce into my boss's office and ask whatever idiotic question had occurred to me. He wouldn't say anything. He'd just stare at me. After, oh maybe ten seconds, I'd realize what I'd done. 'OK, talk to you later..' and go. Pretty soon I learned impulse control and to actually think stuff through. Can't do that to a popup screen on my desktop.

Also winter weather. How come when it is cold enough to snow it goes offshore and snows all over the fish, or dries out and puts down about a quarter of what is expected, but if it is warm it roars right up over us and rains heavy all night long? The bone chilling dry cold to warm up and rain rinse and repeat winters are beginning to get on my nerves.

[Jimmybagadonuts]

Getting 5+ feet of the best powder of the year only to have this nightmare coming in Saturday. 6-8" of RAIN below 8,500'. Gonna be an epic flood/mess.

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[Drew]

I really like my apple gear... but iOS 10 is junk.

Lets start with the lock screen.
- I used to be able to swipe up and turn on the flashlight, no more.
- I now have to hold my finger on the dumb thing longer... which launches the useless voice control. Thus misdialing someone.

I want to play music in iTunes, not launch an advert for apple music every time I open the app.
- What is with all of the "card" style shit. I want playlists and the ability to hit shuffle and repeat. Not swipe 20x times and play the wrong song.

Don't forget how they made mail use conversation threading, which pretty much sucks for any conversation that involves more than 2 people and doesn't stay linear.

Android rules... You gotta put some effort into setting it up.... But you can make it pretty much exact what you want.

[guido]

This blanking cold is over a week long and still getting worse. Started with a slight drip in the throat and zero energy, and now is up to stuffy head, chest congestion, coughing up green gunk and I'm looking for the truck that ran me over... Ugh...

[David Tollefson]

Today is my first day as acting lead engineer in my day job. "Acting" lead only because the actual lead is getting shoulder replacement surgery today, and is waiting on an announcement for voluntary layoff invitations that are supposed to come out tomorrow. He's had his finger poised over the retirement button for a year, waiting to get one of these invites (essentially it gives 6 months extra pay as the incentive to leave).

Second grump: I may get one of those invites as well. No way I can afford to take it, though my wife says I shouldn't dismiss it so easily. But if enough people don't accept the invite, involuntary layoffs will result.

Third grump: My wife and daughter are out of town for a week. The house is too quiet, though it is giving me some time to concentrate on getting some things done.

Fourth grump: I may or may not have overindulged a little bit in the ruby port last night.

[Tom]

- "January Thaw" now means that it stays above freezing for the entire month of January.
- We're having the "January Thaw" and I don't have time to ride outdoors.
- My primary care doc is annoyed with me. He wants a cardiac catheterization in the worst way and the cardiologist he referred me to agrees with me and we're not doing it. I respect my cardiologist, he's a very good marathon runner.
- I annoyed my cardiologist. He reminded me that the number one symptom of asymptomatic cardiac disease is sudden death. To which I went all Gene Wilder on him: "When?" You do need to maintain good relationships with your health care providers, they are your partners in this whole mess.
- Apparently I'm some kind of mystery to both of them. Primary hears goofy noise in CPE. Echo shows extremely slight aortic valve regression typical with age. However, echo also seems to show slightly weaker ejection than normal and they think because I ride a lot I should be kicking it out. Nuclear stress test shows no circulation issues but same slightly weak ejection. They're baffled. Primary wants pictures. I'm not in the mood. I'd rather have a theoretical black cloud than an actual one.

[Matthew Strongin]

I wore out another Flite saddle. It's a good thing I have them stockpiled, but you'd think they'd last more than 5-6K miles. More than anything I'm annoyed at needing to go through the effort of setting up the replacement. I may need to take this as an opportunity to just swap it for a different model that may last longer than a year.

[dasein]

I don't know if this makes me grumpy, terrified, or both, but the decisions that my children make when they are 3 years old. Poorly informed with highly dangerous consequences. No coat when it's 11 degrees, using their feet to lean a high backed barstool, doing ballet on the stairs, wanting to see if a house key would fit in an electric socket, etc. What if I had boys???? Same stuff while holding a power drill or blow torch?

[72gmc]

What if I had boys???? Same stuff while holding a power drill or blow torch?

If you're lucky. As one of two brothers I can confess to such brilliance as:
- standing 20 feet apart in the yard, aiming Roman candles at each other
- distracting my brother until he drove the tractor up onto the side of a tree (Dad was not impressed)
- tree skiing "just outside the tape" and winding up a long way down Century Drive at Mt. Bachelor, then thumbing a ride to get back to the ski area

At 3 we weren't too different from my girls.

[dasein]

Roman candle duel...nice

[Jimmybagadonuts]

Getting 8+ feet of snow in two days and wake up to find a tree has crushed my snowmobile.

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[cash]

Dropped a dumbbell on my finger last night working out ... that bastard hurts today. Black and blue and swollen.