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

[Len J]

Friday around 1 I got a call from wifey...she was crying. like, the bad cry. where you're like "fuck."

"my dad's in the hospital...he was having trouble breathing and swallowing...couldn't talk. they thought it was his diabetes, but it's not (he's Type 1)."

No one wants that call. Immediate thought is stroke, but given the time, I was hoping it was an allergic reaction.

Around 7, her mom calls. It's a tumor. Frontal lobe. Fuck. He's transferred to Baylor Medical in Dallas on Sunday. He's back to feeling good. More CT scans and MRIs...after waiting 2 days. Apparently it's CT Scan and MRI Season.

The texts coming through the pipeline are positive. Last major update was yesterday before wifey left for Dallas - 1.5hr procedure, in and out, transferred back home in as little as 24hrs. Incredible.

The reality isn't quite that polly positive...not bad, but hopes and sun flowers have become facing the facts of removing a tumor from the frontal lobe. He goes back in 25mins.

Wishing you, your wife and your family the best of news. Tough stuff.

[Mark Walberg]

...Baylor Medical in Dallas ....

Sorry to hear this. That is a good place to go, though. Level of care is very high. I work there.
Best of luck to your dad and family.

[dashDustin]

tumor was removed without much drama.

unfortunately it metastasized from somewhere else.

[Len J]

tumor was removed without much drama.

unfortunately it metastasized from somewhere else.

So sorry. Do they know from where it came?

[dashDustin]

So sorry. Do they know from where it came?

not yet...should know in a couple days.

[bironi]

I watched the "So called president's press conference today on CSPAN. I recommend it only for those with good core strength.

[Tom]

Hunter S Thompson is no longer around.

[Nierman]

I watched the "So called president's press conference today on CSPAN. I recommend it only for those with good core strength.

it compelled me to create

[Scott G.]

Hunter S Thompson is no longer around.

Missing the other defenders of the Faith.
Tony Judt, Christopher Hitchens and Molly Ivins.

[Tom]

I need the pushups.

I know, we're driving east on the interstate into the rising sun. I know, you need new windshield wiper blades. I know, your windshield is dirty. I know, the sun shining on your dirty windshield is making hard to see. What I don't know is why you feel the need to use your washer to try and clean it now, cry out Holy Mother of Obstructed Vision and slam on your brakes. Good thing I was four cars back and it was only a three car accident, I guess.

[Chad]

2nd time in less than 6 months some POS has tried to open a credit account with my info.

[Cookietruck]

2nd time in less than 6 months some POS has tried to open a credit account with my info.

bummer, how do you find out?

[Chad]

bummer, how do you find out?

Our current health insurance carrier threw in membership to All Clear, a credit monitoring company. They caught the first one, the actual credit card company caught the second. They seem to be pretty good at identifying the fishy looking applications.

I've filed a local police report, once I can get a hard copy of that I can file a 7 year fraud alert with the three services giving me extra protection.

Guard that PII heavily folks, those shifty bastards are out there trying to get your info.

[Blue Jays]

Have heard all GOOD reviews about LifeLock recently. Very professional.
Will likely sign-on with them given the utter insanity of identity theft.

[Britishbane]

2nd time in less than 6 months some POS has tried to open a credit account with my info.

Ugh. I went through that in November. Total disaster.

[Drew]

All three credit bureaus will lock your file for you, and in a lot of states I am told it is free. I know it is in NC, by state law. Basically they put a PIN on your credit file, and in order for somebody to run a check, you have to unlock it first. Otherwise the check gets declined and no report is sent. I.E., if you want to get a loan, you go unlock your reports for a fixed period of time, say 3 days. Do your applications, then it re-locks. So far, so good for me (knock on wood). Very easy to do, all online or by phone. Just don't lose the PIN....

I have been told this is essentially the same thing the LifeLock type of agencies do.

[joosttx]

My favorite cousin has cancer . It went awhile without being diagnosed correctly. Its serious. 40 years old a mom of three kids. Older doctor did nothing summed it up as women being women - in the bad sexist way.

She is an accomplished paleontologist - self taught. I remember us being kids and hunting for fossils in the hill country of Texas. Some of my favorite memories.

[Matthew Strongin]

Well, I was having an uneventful day...thanks for the excitement Amazon Web Services! I'm not sure you should call the issue "Increased Error Rates," however. An outage is an outage.

Increased Error Rates

Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue.

If your corner of the internet stopped working, this could be why.

[robin3mj]

In the winter I drive the first 4 miles of my bike commute, so as to avoid a couple busy roads in the dark.
Last night, driving that portion home, I was behind some idiot in a Jeep Renegade who had their iPhone mounted to the windshield. They were swiping through Instagram/Snapchat while driving 35+ mph on a busy road. Delayed/distracted getting off the line after red lights turn green, drifting into the parking lane then jerking the wheel back into the road, etc.

Come Daylight Savings, I’ll be riding that road again, and no amount of daylight is going to make us any safer on the roads from these folks, and it’s really sobering.

[guido]

My favorite cousin has cancer . It went awhile without being diagnosed correctly. Its serious. 40 years old a mom of three kids. Older doctor did nothing summed it up as women being women - in the bad sexist way.

She is an accomplished paleontologist - self taught. I remember us being kids and hunting for fossils in the hill country of Texas. Some of my favorite memories.

You'll all be in my thoughts Huston. Cancer sucks. Wishes for a full recovery.