What first world problem did you have today?

[Svnla]

Look like this....

She claimed she did not ask for anything special.

Uh huh.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5216023/Rep-United-flight-fight-history-bad-behavior.html

 

[highland145]

She claimed she did not ask for anything special.

Uh huh.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5216023/Rep-United-flight-fight-history-bad-behavior.html

"Do you know who I am?"

 

[Jeeebus]

Ughh I'm home and now I have the sniffles. I think the common folk in coach infected me.

 

[clamum]

I'll bitch about two things today.

Frickin Blade Runner 2049 is still not available to rent, only buy, on Google Play Movies? Jesus f'ing Christ, that's so stupid I don't even

 

[lxskllr]

I keep getting emails from the power company warning of excessive power usage. I look at the details, and everything looks in order. The only thing I can figure is my usage is so low, small blips trigger the alert and the computer sends off an email.

 

[sdifox]

I keep getting emails from the power company warning of excessive power usage. I look at the details, and everything looks in order. The only thing I can figure is my usage is so low, small blips trigger the alert and the computer sends off an email.

You didn't know about the grow op next door stealing your power :awe:

 

[Red Squirrel]

My power bill neighbourhood comparison chart always looks something like this:

[===] Efficient neighbours
[==========] your neighbours
[=========================================================================================] you

I guess the servers don't help. lol. It's not the usage that kills you though, it's all the fixed fees. There's no incentive to conserve when you're going to pay a lot anyway.

 

[lxskllr]

I paid about $1k last year for gas & electric, maybe a bit less. That's everything included.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Damn, I wish it was that cheap here. I pay about 170/mo for electricity and about 130/mo for gas. 100/mo for water (going to go up) and close to 400/mo for property taxes. Then add insurance and all the other misc costs. Basically about 3-4k/mo in bills.

I need to eventually move off grid in an unorganized township. Could cut most of those costs out. There's a property I'm eyeing, downside is it's not even close to any lake or river or anything, if I'm going to buy such property I at least want it to be lake front.

 

[lxskllr]

I need to eventually move off grid in an unorganized township. Could cut most of those costs out. There's a property I'm eyeing, downside is it's not even close to any lake or river or anything, if I'm going to buy such property I at least want it to be lake front.

I'd like to be in the mountains. I could do without big water if there's lots of hills. Flatlands are depressing. That's what I liked least about that shitty IT job thread a week or two ago. I looked the town up, and it's almost all flat. That was the worst part of the whole deal. A lake might make up for flat. An ocean definitely would. I prefer my water moving.

 

[Presper]

Bought a VR headset, tried to set it up. Turns out Laptop isn't VR compatible.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd like to be in the mountains. I could do without big water if there's lots of hills. Flatlands are depressing. That's what I liked least about that shitty IT job thread a week or two ago. I looked the town up, and it's almost all flat. That was the worst part of the whole deal. A lake might make up for flat. An ocean definitely would. I prefer my water moving.

It's generally flat here, not prairies flat, but somewhat flat. Like there is variation in the ground and lot of rocks and hills but no mountains. Trees and nature kinda make up for it though. Like you can be in the bush surrounded by trees and you would not even know whether or not there's a mountain nearby.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm on my last night shift and just realized that when I set my thermostat programming I set the first day off as "day off" mode. The problem with that is that the first day off of a night shift is technically the end of a night shift. So it means I will be getting home to a really cold house, because that program would normally assume I'm in bed at this time, not getting home from work.

Living Room: 12.125°C (-)
Hallway: 15.375°C (=)
Server Room: 15.6875°C (-)
HVAC Return: 12.8125°C (-)
HVAC Supply: 13.1875°C (-)
Outside: -25.3125°C (-)
Delta Temp: 0.375°C

Gonna be a little nippy when I get home. Oops. Just started the heat now.

 

[mikeymikec]

I bought a dimmable LED bulb with the intention of replacing a halogen bulb in a lamp my wife likes in order to save on electricity. The physical bulb size doesn't allow it to get into the position required for it to go in the socket (I did get the socket type right!).

I then remembered that there's another lamp in the house that uses the same socket. The bulb fits in the socket, but even when the lamp is set to 'off' the bulb is on. It gets brighter as I turn the switch up though

fail 2 - 0 mikeymikec

I hate halogen lamp/bulbs.

 

[lxskllr]

Days are getting longer, and it's depressing. Feels like jul never happened. The end of last week was obnoxiously hot, and today was sunny. Supposed to get some snow showers this week. Hopefully it's enough to pretend it's winter. I wanted to get in the woods this weekend, but had to do grocery shopping, which I like to do early. Same with getting in the woods. I like some time to myself before people start showing up, and ruin the experience. Maybe next weekend...

 

[Chaotic42]

It's snowing today and tomorrow which means that the roads will be absolute chaos.

 

[lxskllr]

Took the cat to the vet, and it's cost me $233 so far. Hoping the tests come back okish. Doc thinks it's hyperthyroidism. She's my favorite thing, and like to have her around for a few more years at least.

My day wasn't nearly as bad hers though. This was the first time she left the house in over ten years. She didn't enjoy the ride in the crate, nor the thermometer in her ass, and she especially didn't enjoy her shave and blood draw. She was one sad kitty. It's better now, but she had a traumatic day :^D

 

[IronWing]

Tried giving sub-dermal fluids to Smally again to help flush out a kidney infection. So far, she's the only cat to defeat us. We really need two people to pin her down while the third holds the needle.

 

[lxskllr]

Tried giving sub-dermal fluids to Smally again to help flush out a kidney infection. So far, she's the only cat to defeat us. We really need two people to pin her down while the third holds the needle.

My girl's fairly compliant. Needles would be a small issue, but doable. The boy otoh... It's hard to get him to do anything, and he's big and strong, so he's good at asserting his will. Last time I had to crate him, I had to take the crate apart, put him inside, then assemble the crate around him. He *would not* go in door for anything, and immediately seemed to grow four more legs to grab on to stuff to keep from being put in the box.

 

[IronWing]

Impy, our big boy, is easy to give fluids. He lies there and purrs until he gets bored. Then he tries to get up but doesn't fight much.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Played "89 lipitor pickup" because I forgot to tighten the cap on a new bottle.

#seniormoments

 

[Jeeebus]

flying to NY today... we'll see whether I get downgrade, wheter someone else poops themself on the plane, or maybe I luck out and get both this time.

 

[highland145]

flying to NY today... we'll see whether I get downgrade, wheter someone else poops themself on the plane, or maybe I luck out and get both this time.

Gotta be proactive. Poop yourself right after the plane takes off.

 

[Svnla]

Went out last night around 10 p.m. and it was cold and clear. Woke up this morning and it was snowing and icing several inches so a lot of places were closed. Could not finish my deposits (only 1 out of 4 banks/CUs were running).

 

[lxskllr]

Took the cat to the vet, and it's cost me $233 so far. Hoping the tests come back okish. Doc thinks it's hyperthyroidism. She's my favorite thing, and like to have her around for a few more years at least.

My day wasn't nearly as bad hers though. This was the first time she left the house in over ten years. She didn't enjoy the ride in the crate, nor the thermometer in her ass, and she especially didn't enjoy her shave and blood draw. She was one sad kitty. It's better now, but she had a traumatic day :^D

Bad news. The girl's got bad kidneys. I got some pills and vitamins for her(at $80). Hopefully that'll be enough to keep her going awhile. The vet suggested prescription food. Aside from being pricey, the girl's a picky eater, and "prescription" foods kinda bs anyway. I'll have to look into tweaking her diet a bit :^/