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

[davids]

Commentators who say the political crisis in DC is the fault of both sides. It's not. It was planned and executed by a group of elected officials who choose not to govern, but to strike an ideological posture.

[Saab2000]

Commentators who say the political crisis in DC is the fault of both sides. It's not. It was planned and executed by a group of elected officials who choose not to govern, but to strike an ideological posture.

That is correct. That said, there is tons of blame to go around. It's not as though one side is totally irrational and the other side is totally rational. There is inflexibility and intransigence on both sides of that aisle.

[Matthew Strongin]

There's some change going on at work. The older I get, the more I find that it makes me very uncomfortable. Especially the feeling of being so highly dependent on my job due to a pair of mortgages and the desire to expand the family one of these days.

[Curt Goodrich]

Torn meniscus is keeping me grumpy. Back to the paint booth.

[Sbti]

Major grump.

Continued cell phone/social media addiction/distraction.

My wife recruits and trains new nurses. They have to have a couple days training for new hires on social interaction because, you know when you have patients it may be nice to be able and comfortable to actually have a conversation with them. You can't just FaceySpace, TweetyPage, InstaGrandma, Tumblerweed your patients to see how they're doing.

Lots of young people are delaying getting a drivers license. They would rather be a passenger with their nose in a gadget getting their instant crack hit of a "like' of a selfy from 5 minutes ago. WTF?

[Too Tall]

All commentary-ians

Honor the temple of grump or get on down the line, knuckleheads.

[Tom]

Grump two: Hunting Quail with a Cannon. I happened to be on call and respond when a simple BAU activity by one of my teammates caused a bunch of problems because some idiot coded screen scraping applications - bad technique and in this case designed and coded badly on top of it. Now I have meetings to go to and in the long run nothing will be accomplished from any of them. I have real work to do.

[72gmc]

The fact that it's cyclocross season, and my kids are smart, and RS kit is finally for sale, and I'm learning to make a decent Manhattan, and the government is still shifting its derailleur into the spokes. There is so much to be happy about if not for politicians.

[David Tollefson]

I've had a cold since Sunday. Decided that I was gonna ride anyway today.

[Brandon White]

Doing a small side project as a favor (a well-paid favor). The 3 people who are giving me "requirements" for the prototype all have different explanations for everything and different expectations of each functional portion. One of them even thinks I'm "developing" powerpoint slides for them to "demo".

[Scott G.]

If you come from a district where you won with 70%+ of the vote, the current situation is called a fund raiser,
not a fiscal crisis. Certain parts of America are now one party states, one party states have a history of
craziness, personality cults and cargo cult science.

[nahtnoj]

The developer down the hall from me who keeps talking to clients and co-workers about how "beautiful" his software/graphics/apps/whatever are.

Dude, you're 50 pounds overweight, wear tight t-shirts with stupid tribal-ish graphics on them, your pants are too low/tight to hide your ass/gut when you sit down, you wear prophylactic glasses, and your haircut looks like you walked into the barber and said "make me look like an 8 year old boy". I realize that its the buzz word, but you wouldn't know beauty if it ran you over with a car.

If I ever hear him say "robust" I'll be reaching for the nearest blunt object.

[bigbill]

Went to a podiatrist yesterday. I've got neuropathy in both feet that was diagnosed by VA to be service related. The podiatrist was highly recommended by my family doctor and the nurse at work. It was a three hour round trip to see him. What a total quack. He wanted to give me injections for pain within five minutes of seeing me. I wasn't in pain until he squeezed between my toes. I'm pretty sure that would hurt anyone. He said he could help me with surgery for long term pain relief. I wasn't in pain when he stopped squeezing between my toes. You don't get surgery for neuropathy, it only marginally helps Morton's Neuroma, which I don't have. I think I'll seek a second opinion.

[chasea]

Was going to bitch about two flights in a middle seat, being 6'3" with busted legs. To Atlanta, gross.

But no grumps today, cuz we're marrying up my baby brother to his baby mama. And a lady smoking a cigarette on the back of a motorcycle in the parking lot of a liquor store just said to me "That is a nicely coiffed beard, my friend."
#thesouth

[jitahs]

That is correct. That said, there is tons of blame to go around. It's not as though one side is totally irrational and the other side is totally rational. There is inflexibility and intransigence on both sides of that aisle.

One is the LAW, the other is a fillibuster on steroids, which should be unconstitutional.

Meanwhile Jimmy Carter is building houses down the street with Rosalyn. With his bare hands. And he's fucking


89.

My grump is the former.

[jmgorman]

Only grump today is that I have to drop the boy off at school and can't get back to work even earlier! That and 285-144 is the very same vote they would have gotten for a clean Continuing Resolution 20 effing days ago.

[dgaddis]

I had several wheels to build last night that customers have been waiting on....the box from Velocity didn't show up till 7pm. The polished Dually's took a ton of clean up work, they were full of chips and polishing compound. I didn't get in bed till after 1am...my alarm goes off at 5:45. Grump grump grump grump.

[Matthew Strongin]

Things at work are getting pretty messed up...I'm not sure what my job will turn into. And on the home front, I need a new front door and I'm now looking for the 5th company to do the work. The first 4 took the job, went through the quoting/door selection/permit application process and then stopped returning calls or keeping things moving. It's been months of trying to get someone to take my money. I need the door to lower my insurance (hurricane area), and the money I lose each month on inflated insurance is roughly equal to a new door...each month. I need this done.

[robin3mj]

When did Halloween become an acceptable holiday to warrant a months worth of gaudy decorations outside peoples houses? I'm not talking a little bit of fake spider web and a ghost, but a yard full of unfunny tombstones, six foot inflatable pumpkins with moving scenes inside them, ten foot long spiders crawling up the front of a house, etc.

Every walk through the neighborhood finds another few of these things to startle my dog. What startles me is that people continue to find new and stupid ways to waste their money.

[boxerboxer]

That sinking feeling that something is wrong. Just comes right out of nowhere.