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

[donevwil]

Monsoon coming in starting today and through the weekend. Some local areas are predicted to get up to 5" of rainfall. And then the winds will hit. Fun...

At least in the northwest most people can deal with it. Once it hits CA all hell will break loose when our lousy drivers have to deal with wet roads.

[Tom]

Riding in the cellar during bluebird foliage season days because of work but really what makes me bum out is I can't change things for people with real reasons. One of the guys on my team is retiring, he doesn't want to go but his heart problems won't allow him to work more than a couple of hours at a stretch and he knows they'll kill him in a couple of years. Hereditary. F-ing roll of the dice.

[seanile]

i need a career change something fierce..

[bigbill]

I'm a Process Engineer in high speed manufacturing. The machines I work on are getting capital improvements in December and January so we're having at least 2 teleconferences a week leading up to the projects. The engineering leader can't seem to show up for any teleconferences so I get all the emails with questions because I'm the one who actually shows up and answers questions. It's getting old. I'm a retired Naval Officer with a nice pension. I'm working while my son finishes high school and will continue to work as necessary until he's done with college. I'm helping him get his application together for the Naval Academy. It's in my interest that he gets accepted, I'm tired of working full time with people who have no sense of responsibility.

[pomole]

Its not thursday but i just have to vent: I have wanted a MTB for some time and found a cool bike i wanted to buy at a great price from a local seller. I OK'd the deal with my family finances dept and arranged a meeting with the seller via telephone. Within minutes of hanging up the phone the pipe to the laundry plumbing in my basement sink backs up and all drainage from my house is blocked. Spent hours trying to snake it myself but the line is completely blocked. Plumber arrives this morning and runs the camera through the line: roots have clogged my line 100% and cannot be cut. The solution: $6k+ to run a new drain pipe to the main sewer this week. I dont have that pipe insurance so i have to do some bank transferring to dip into the emergency fund. Fortunately i was within feet of the eruption when it started and only a couple of gallons of soapy water escaped so no damage to the house. Needless to say: no bike this week. I knew i had to do this eventually but, man-oh-man: the timing!

[dashDustin]

The company I work for is doing really, really well this year. So well, in fact, that boss went with some folks out to Vegas and covered their trip this weekend. Taking some other folks down to Cancun next month. The newly 'elected' VP, who a year ago was making $14/hr, is now in the $80k salary range, and has had a new F-150 Lariat FX4 purchased for him by the company.

Me? I got a $1 raise. 2.5 years I've been here, and all I have to be excited about is a $1 raise.
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We've been going through court drama since February. Looks like it's finally coming to a resolution. Plenty of grump stories to come when it's over. We're losing about 60% of child support, have dropped pretty much any sort of savings we had, all so the boys will stay in the same schools (if pops moves, we have 2 months to find a place to live in the school district). the boys' dad works from home, and lives in a nice neighborhood, so moving from his house that is less than 2 miles from the boys' elementary, middle, and high schools, shouldn't even be part of the equation. but it is, and he would.

and i just dripped oatmeal onto my shirt.

[Tom]

Greatest pro move ever. Tried the 'clip in and stomp' combo starting from a stop sign. Foot slipped off the pedal and in my surprise I failed to put my foot down right and it skidded out from under me. Landed right on whatever was in my right jersey pocket (I want to blame this on the company Blackberry but I can't prove it now) on the point of my pelvis. I sure as hell hope it isn't a bone bruise, just a normal one. It is very uncomfortable, the only time it doesn't hurt is when I am on the bike. Go figure. The best part was the lady that rolled her window down to ask if I was OK and offered up the excuse that there must have been a hole there or something. I laughed. No, ma'am, just a very embarrassed numbie.

[bigbill]

Day full of teleconferences made more special by a co-worker who likes to talk a lot and constantly misuses words in an effort to sound smart. It doesn't help.

[davids]

The closer we get to being done, the more little bumps we're hitting in the renovation.

• Bought a porch light timer because my electrician can't commit to getting the one I want. Two days later USPS can't deliver the package they've got on the truck.
• Missing connectors for the under-cabinet lighting. Amazon offers next-day delivery until I get 3/4 of the way through the check-out - Two day delivery is a day too long. So I end up buying local and taking two hours off in the middle of the day to fetch three $10 parts.
• Contractor finishes the brand-new stair treads and railings to match the existing floor. But they don't match. Red oak vs. white oak is the problem, he tells us. After first telling us the match was "great"... We had to choose a different stain altogether, and it's pushed the completion out another week.

On the other hand. Check out my new kitchen OK?

[defspace]

Day full of teleconferences made more special by a co-worker who likes to talk a lot and constantly misuses words in an effort to sound smart. It doesn't help.

Ah, you work in engineering, eh?

[Brandon White]

Ah, you work in engineering, eh?

Or management.

[Saab2000]

New airline, same BS. The honeymoon is ending.

[mmoore]

Something awful is happening in my right leg.

On the weekend it was a slight discomfort in the area above and below my knee. getting progressively worse now my whole leg hurts, a little of my lower back and its not comfortable to move my leg...

Couple that with the fact that driving home yesterday from work my truck decided to puke all of the coolant out as I get home (thankfully right as I was getting home) and now we are only left with 1 vehicle in the home with the wife off on maternity. its more inconvenient for her than anything. our city isn't dense and wide spread so doing things out of the house you almost need to drive; especially so with a 10 month old.

[rwsaunders]

^ irregardless...the mostly commonly used non-word that I hear uttered from the mouths of idiots who picture themselves as managerial wizards.

[roseyscot]

^ irregardless...the mostly commonly used non-word that I hear uttered from the mouths of idiots who picture themselves as managerial wizards.

Thank our last republican president for that one. And live in great fear of the new idiotic non-words that a president trump would add to the vocabulary.

Also, my grump - how can anyone say they don't trust Hillary Clinton and then turn around and say they support Trump? Seriously??? They're both lying, terrible people.

[nrs5000]

People who [try to] board crowded elevators and trains without letting others disembark first.

[bigbill]

Ah, you work in engineering, eh?

I are an engineer.

[bigbill]

Something awful is happening in my right leg.

On the weekend it was a slight discomfort in the area above and below my knee. getting progressively worse now my whole leg hurts, a little of my lower back and its not comfortable to move my leg...

Couple that with the fact that driving home yesterday from work my truck decided to puke all of the coolant out as I get home (thankfully right as I was getting home) and now we are only left with 1 vehicle in the home with the wife off on maternity. its more inconvenient for her than anything. our city isn't dense and wide spread so doing things out of the house you almost need to drive; especially so with a 10 month old.

Google piriformis stretches. It's your sideways ass muscle and when it spasms it can affect your sciatic nerve from your low back to down your leg. Mine was from a herniated disc but a regular old spasm will do it too.

[Tom]

It's Thursday somewhere. Traveling for work and I'm in the Hotel Without a Bar. At least the ice machine works. Impact bruises are down in my back, now the sprain is to the fore.

[joosttx]

I am in the office and it is 4:23 am