What first world problem did you have today?

[dave_the_nerd]

I'm in Austria at a music festival. I'm supposed to hike a glacier tomorrow, but the bands downtown carry all the way to my hotel and I'm having trouble sleeping.

Also, the beer here is incredible but I have to be up early for the glacier hike.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm in Austria at a music festival. I'm supposed to hike a glacier tomorrow, but the bands downtown carry all the way to my hotel and I'm having trouble sleeping.

Also, the beer here is incredible but I have to be up early for the glacier hike.

Oh like you've never hiked drunk before.

 

[highland145]

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[sdifox]

I'm in Austria at a music festival. I'm supposed to hike a glacier tomorrow, but the bands downtown carry all the way to my hotel and I'm having trouble sleeping.

Also, the beer here is incredible but I have to be up early for the glacier hike.

Have bartender pour beer in water bottle in the morning?

 

[smackababy]

It took me this long to discover scotch. I am ashamed. =(

 

[Jeeebus]

didn't book my flight home until last night. now I'm sitting at the airport stuck in economy plus because there were no first class seats available. need to figure out how to interact with common folk and make it through the flight without breakfast being served.

 

[IronWing]

My wife bought a new album today that she really likes. To me, it sounds like ten slightly different versions of the same song. The first three renditions were okay but it is getting tedious. The currently playing rendition has group clapping. Due to poor recording quality, it sounds like someone rhythmically plunging a toilet. The album is blessedly short.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Had our kid born recently prematurely around 3 months ahead of schedule. Just recently graduated from the NICU and was home for 2 weeks and randomly stopped breathing (Reflux or Apnea, doctors can't tell but they suspect one of the two). Basically shrugged it off and took her home with a note of "Might want to watch her close <or she might be dead if you don't catch it next time>". I made up that last part, but it's just frustrating how there just isn't an overall solution. Through this entire process over the last 3 months, we haven't gotten shit for sleep.

Oh, and I'm still fighting with insurance companies galore (Health insurance and disability insurance for the wife)

Oh, and perfect time for a water leak somewhere outside my house that I'm sure the city would love to say is our fault

Oh, and my car just decided to start giving me problems that I'm trying to fix.

And people wonder why I drink.

 

[lxskllr]

My ghetto phone with Boost that I use as a hotspot has music streaming that doesn't count towards your data allotment, but you need to use the streamer's proprietary (cr)app. I Finally broke down and installed the Slacker Radio program. Aside from ads, and highish cpu use, it seems to work ok, but I feel dirty :^(

 

[slowsociopath]

Many years ago I took care of an idiot teenager in ICU was in for a rattle snake bite. The conversation started with"It didn't bite me the first time I picked it up" would be been the type to smearcampaign peanut butter on his face to get a good selfie with the bear

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[IronWing]

"The fence is still in tacked." Thus wrote a coworker.

Fix my lighthouse.

 

[Drako]

Got an "Overdue Traffic Citation Warning" letter in the mail on Friday from UC San Diego. Said I had an invalid permit citation on 8/15/2016.

I've been to San Diego area once in the last 20 years, and I've never been to UCSD.

I googled parking violations contact for UC San Diego, and found a phone number. I called, was put on hold for 15 minutes, and then got to talk to a friendly traffic person. They seemed really confused, as they could not find my citation number in their system. Turns out the phone number I found online is for University of San Diego, not University of California at San Diego.

The helpful lady at USD Parking was able to give me the number for UCSD, and I resolved the issue relatively quickly after that. It turns out someone transposed two numbers in the license plate number when entering it into their system.

 

[IronWing]

I had to write a memo today explaining why a report I prepared last December was not in compliance with a company procedure developed in January and that was not rolled out until May. What makes matters worse is that the new procedure is stupid.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Missed out on northern lights because I had to work the next morning.

 

[highland145]

I had to write a memo today explaining why a report I prepared last December was not in compliance with a company procedure developed in January and that was not rolled out until May. What makes matters worse is that the new procedure is stupid.

Too bad you need your job. Could have had a ball with that one.

 

[IronWing]

Too bad you need your job. Could have had a ball with that one.

I looked at my 401k. "Not yet, not yet."

 

[highland145]

I looked at my 401k. "Not yet, not yet."

So when it is time, I wonder what they would do if you (or any of us) explained how and why they were idiots. You might get a promotion. I work for an asshole so it won't work for me.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Too much brisket.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I had to write a memo today explaining why a report I prepared last December was not in compliance with a company procedure developed in January and that was not rolled out until May. What makes matters worse is that the new procedure is stupid.

Paste copy of memo or GTFO.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Today and yesterday i had to hand solder some components on some test products that where just 620 micrometer in length and 230micrometer in width (2DFN package). But i succeeded with the help of 2 different magnifying glasses and when i could not use my magnifying glasses, i used the force.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ugh I suck at SMD, haha. Well it's probably not so bad when you have a pcb with proper pads/solder mask but trying to solder them free hand for breadboarding, forget it lol. I need to figure out a system for that, or just get some break out boards made. I could etch my own pcbs but that sounds more tedious than it's worth considering the cost of getting prototype boards made.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Ugh I suck at SMD, haha. Well it's probably not so bad when you have a pcb with proper pads/solder mask but trying to solder them free hand for breadboarding, forget it lol. I need to figure out a system for that, or just get some break out boards made. I could etch my own pcbs but that sounds more tedious than it's worth considering the cost of getting prototype boards made.

Well, on standard separate square pads with 0.1 inch spacing, i find 0603 or 0805 components very easy to solder. 0805 is quite big and 1206 feels humongous to solder.
This is great for experiments.

http://www.roth-elektronik.com/en/p...10-S1/category/Prototyping+Boards+Dual+Inline

But for making an actual low cost double sided pcb, i advise shenzen2u.
Cheap and if you are willing to wait for a few weeks because of shipment, these people are great.
http://www.shenzhen2u.com/
You can pay them with paypal.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah most SMD chips will have a smaller pitch than 2.54mm so those would not work, but that's still neat, did not know they had smd protoboards. They may have some with smaller pitch size.

But yeah think I will get some pcbs made eventually. I have some SMD components I want to play with but it's too hard to breadboard with. I'll just make some converter boards and treat them as a component on their own.

I'm kinda old school and still use through hole resistors and stuff.

 

[IronWing]

I sort of, kind of want a new PC but my current seven year old model (with newer SSD and video card) runs great and plays games just fine. But I still want a new PC.

 

[lxskllr]

My dinner tonight was three ears of corn, and I burned the shit out of my mouth. Trying to get over with a gin & tonic.

That wasn't the worst part of today. It was hot as shit, and really humid. Summer's the worst. The only thing I like about summer is going to sleep at night, and getting away from the misery for a few hours.

My wrist has been messed up. It feels sore and stiff, not too bad til I turn it just wrong, and then it almost brings tears to my eyes. I thought it was from computer use, but now I'm pretty sure it's from swinging a hammer. I caught myself using wrist action to direct the stake in the ground. I caught it cause it hurt like a motherfucker. I never paid that close attention. I just did it, and it worked. I need to concentrate on keeping my wrist straight. More summer bullshit misery.