Random thing you loathe right now.

Antichulius wrote:

I am burned out something fierce

I genuinely don't know a person IRL who isn't.

Jonman wrote:
Antichulius wrote:

I am burned out something fierce

I genuinely don't know a person IRL who isn't.

This so much. My wife is a high school teacher and has seriously been considering moving to a different line of work.

Yeah, we can all disguise it to some degree. But a little thing here or there can cause a burst of emotion in an instant. Sometimes I use music as a trigger because the release of the emotion is more important than what type it is. Something like "Hello" from Adele, or a long lost hit from the 80's gets the job done. (Morrissey's "Suedehead" for example)

Not knowing how to reach more people / get more reactions in general on social media for my small business "venture" without turning into an A-hole? Even thou I know what I'm sharing is cool and people seem to like it when they accidentaly get exposed to it, I feel like it's a 90 degrees, vertical battle to scratch even the simplest interaction out of the internet nowadays, let alone growing your "audience", etc.

Oh..., and Covid-19, I loathe that right now as well as my wife and I seem to have it at the moment (both vaccinated already, not big deal we seem to be getting out of it without problem)

Its probably that you are diving in head first into the swirling masses that are getting bombarded with nonsense.

I think not being an ass on social media while promoting something is a skill. You might want to look into online marketing or social media classes. They should help you target better so you don't have to become something that you are not.

Spent three days trying to setup a program for debugging to find the actual problem.

Actual problem is one line of code commented out.

Glad it's a long weekend.

Snow and cold. I live in Minnesota, its unavoidable, sigh.

master0 wrote:

Spent three days trying to setup a program for debugging to find the actual problem.

Actual problem is one line of code commented out.

Glad it's a long weekend.

Unit tests, my dude, always unit tests.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:
master0 wrote:

Spent three days trying to setup a program for debugging to find the actual problem.

Actual problem is one line of code commented out.

Glad it's a long weekend.

Unit tests, my dude, always unit tests. ;)

Unit tests spotted the problem. Need to step through locally to find the cause. Which was the pain.

I will say I like how test heavy my new company is. Seems much more stable code for it

Rykin wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Antichulius wrote:

I am burned out something fierce

I genuinely don't know a person IRL who isn't.

This so much. My wife is a high school teacher and has seriously been considering moving to a different line of work.

Over the last year or so since the pandemic began, so many teachers in my wife's district have retired or left. It's really, really bad.

Had my first covid dream the other night. Dreamt I was visiting my parents, walked into the living room, and my mom was under a blanket in the recliner. As I'm standing there, breathing the air in the small living room of their house, that's when my dad tells me she tested positive.

Worst part is, most of my dreams are usually pretty abstract - nothing really resembles reality precisely, and is usually well far off. This dream was dead-on accurate for setting and my parents.

Sure isn't helping that so many articles are basically saying, "Well, we're all gonna get omicron."

Even if that's true, stop saying it. It just gives the anti-mask, anti-vax crowd even more excuses. f*ck me.

The trick with burnout is to acknowledge it and start saying "No" to the tasks that continue it. You have to switch over to me-time being your priority for at least a few months. This can be difficult, but the payoff is immense as you settle into a routine that is less damaging. To me, this was part of continuous learning to adult, in my late 40's, but I guess the earlier you learn it, the better. Self-care is best care.

2021 was a terrible year for my family. My uncle died, then my dad had a stroke that ultimately caused his death a few months later.
I was hoping 2022 would give me a bit of a breather, but my now my mother is in the hospital with a cough, phlegm, and low oxygen saturation so we're either dealing with covid or aspiration pneumonia or something. The aspiration pneumonia is a possibility as she has extremely advanced frontotemporal dementia and it's gradually making it more and more difficult for her to eat safely.
I think I'm as well equipped to handle this as anybody (I chose my handle for a reason), and I've got a good support structure around me, but it's a lot.

Sorry to hear that WellAdjusted. Wishing you and your family some relief.
Vent away if it helps.

I just renamed my "Japan trip 2021" Youtube playlist to "Japan trip 2023(?)"

Edit: I replaced the (?) with the fingers crossed emoji.

Yeah, after having to cancel my Thailand/Vietnam trip 2 times because of personal and business reasons, it seemed set in stone that it would finally happen when I booked it for late March 2020. It was so agonizing to think it was being thwarted again that after much hesitation I decided to bail on it a mere 48 hours before the Prime Minister announced that the government was changing all travel advisory to essential only, which meant I had to eat all the cancellation fees without my travel insurance covering it. I pretty much feel like God is telling me I'm not allowed to go to Southeast Asia at this point.

Glad I risked that Croatia/Slovenia trip in September - seemed to be perfect timing before everything shut down again.

Another heat wave. This time a Perth record - five consecutive days over 40°C. We're forecast to get a slight reprieve mid-week, then back up this time next week.

That's just melting weather.

I really hope this doesn't cause more wild fires for you guys.
We here in California understand your pain

fangblackbone wrote:

I really hope this doesn't cause more wild fires for you guys.
We here in California understand your pain :(

Seconded. Good luck y'all.

Thanks all. Unfortunately no reprieve today - it's now been 6 days over 40. Hopefully tomorrow eases up!

fangblackbone wrote:

I really hope this doesn't cause more wild fires for you guys.
We here in California understand your pain :(

We've been lucky that the fire season hasn't been too bad yet. Unfortunately the biggest one was deliberately lit. They've arrested the guy at least, been charged with starting 9 separate fires. Pretty disturbing stuff with how destructive they can be.
My brother-in-law lives in California - I think they've had a few close calls too. Very scary stuff!

Apropos to a different thread, one of my big pet peeves is people who reply to social niceties like "can I ask you a question?" with sarcastic comebacks like "I don't know, can you?" or variations on that theme.

If you unwrap the subtext, one person is basically saying "I need your attention for a moment, may I have it?", and the other is answering, "here is a sneery witticism, which vaguely implies that you were wrong to ask for my attention, and which doesn't answer your question and so leaves you at a loss for how to respond".

I could never fathom why people think that's a pleasant way to talk. At least between adults - maybe when it's parents and kids there's other stuff going on.

It's best used to let someone know they don't have to keep asking two questions for every one thing they want to know and they can just ask you the real question they have without wasting time on social niceties each time.

Sometimes it can be used to let someone know they're just asking too many questions, particularly when they're ones they could find the answer to themselves if they paid more attention.

Whatever nonsense, lasting, will-not-get-better illness I’ve got right now. 4 Covid tests in a week say it isn’t Covid. But it feels like Covid and the doctor this weekend says it sounds a lot like covid. So now I’m on 3 different symptom managing, get-through-the-day medications, and I’m starting up an antibacterial medication for the worry of a secondary infection. But being hopped up on Sudafed has wrecked what little sleep I was getting so that I slept maybe a combined total of 30 minutes last night, in 2-3 minute chunks. Gonna try tonight with everything but the Sudafed and see if it’s enough to get by and to let me sleep.

On the bright side, the doc said my breathing sounded excellent so there’s not pneumonia or any reason to go to a hospital.

But between Covid in October and this, I’m burning through 10 years of stockpiled sick leave to the point where I doubt I’ll have more than a handful of hours left, if any.

Had my Shop vac along a wall where there is usually nothing. In the dark and my rush to hurry and wake up my child for school as we both slept in. I f*cking punted a corner of the wheel caster with my 2nd smallest toe...f*cking really hurt or slightly broken...Great, just what I need 3 weeks before I go snowboarding out west.

Current Seattle weather which be like this until Thursday.

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Random thing I love: RFID-enabled credit cards. So much quicker and easier than inserting the chip.

Random thing I loathe: Every POS POS has the RFID reader in a different freaking place, and rarely any signage showing where to tap! Do I put my card against the screen? Or maybe up against the keypad? Oh, this one has an external RFID reader dongle above the screen, but these ones have it on the left side? Arrrrgh!

merphle wrote:

Random thing I love: RFID-enabled credit cards. So much quicker and easier than inserting the chip.

Random thing I loathe: Every POS POS has the RFID reader in a different freaking place, and rarely any signage showing where to tap! Do I put my card against the screen? Or maybe up against the keypad? Oh, this one has an external RFID reader dongle above the screen, but these ones have it on the left side? Arrrrgh!

We've had these for quite a few years now in the UK (contactless), you get used to it. Apple Pay (which I use with my iPhone) genuinely means I don't have to take my wallet with me every time we go out anywhere. It's a blessing and curse to be honest, keeping track of spending isn't always the easiest.

My Dad thinks it's witchcraft.

merphle wrote:

Random thing I love: RFID-enabled credit cards. So much quicker and easier than inserting the chip.

Random thing I loathe: Every POS POS has the RFID reader in a different freaking place, and rarely any signage showing where to tap! Do I put my card against the screen? Or maybe up against the keypad? Oh, this one has an external RFID reader dongle above the screen, but these ones have it on the left side? Arrrrgh!

I have a card with a chip and it started going ‘bad’. It started sometimes not working, now it’s almost always not working. And every place they seem to have the same sort of system- you HAVE to try the chip 3 times and have it fail before you’re allowed to swipe the card. And if you mess up at all you have to start over.

Every week I had to go through this when getting groceries and then with Covid they put up those plastic barriers and sometimes they would get in the way of me being able to swipe my card.

It drove me nuts for a long time, then one day a clerk asked “do you have a card where you can tap the screen?” I was like “what?” and they showed me the symbol that sure enough was on my card…

That clerk changed my life. So easy to just place it on the screen for a few seconds and it’s done.

I guess my loathe would be that I spent so much of this pandemic making my trips to the supermarket even more stressful than they already were because I didn’t know about this feature.

Stengah wrote:

It's best used to let someone know they don't have to keep asking two questions for every one thing they want to know and they can just ask you the real question they have without wasting time on social niceties each time.

Sometimes it can be used to let someone know they're just asking too many questions, particularly when they're ones they could find the answer to themselves if they paid more attention.

Call me a pedant, but using the same sneery sarcastic phrase to mean both "yes obviously" and "no go away" sounds, um, potentially non-optimal.