Random thing you loathe right now.

Random thing you loathe right now:

SNOW! It's less than 2 inches for the course of the day (though it has been accelerating in terms of how quickly it has fallen) and traffic reports are already stacking up. My 25 minute drive home is going to be an hour minimum and my only comfort is that I brought my soundtrack for the Hobbit I got for Christmas with me.

Lasherthecat has gotten a scrap of paper stuck in the STUPID printer!! Grrrrr!!! even worse - Strangeblades is trying to fix it... That'll never work! (she says)

Needing to put a disclaimer on my dating site profile specifically saying no married or poly women after running into these issues multiple times now. It isn't completely unreasonable to want to be the only male in the relationship is it?

Well... women can play the field if they want to but it should be an upfront issue. It isn't unreasonable if you show that you want to be the only fellow in the relationship.

In-law visits longer than one week.

Just want to go back to normal. With the kids I have about an hour of free time a night.

With in laws I get to sit around and talk about how someone I've never met is having a baby, or vacationing somewhere ill never be able to afford.

Strangeblades wrote:

Lasherthecat has gotten a scrap of paper stuck in the STUPID printer!! Grrrrr!!! even worse - Strangeblades is trying to fix it... That'll never work! (she says)

Dude, FIRE! It will burn the paper, and leave the printer pristine!

Psych wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Lasherthecat has gotten a scrap of paper stuck in the STUPID printer!! Grrrrr!!! even worse - Strangeblades is trying to fix it... That'll never work! (she says)

Dude, FIRE! It will burn the paper, and leave the printer pristine!

I approve this message.

But first, SB, you have to setup a camera to capture the magic of fire and put it on YouTube.

It'll probably look like this:

Strangeblades wrote:

Lasherthecat has gotten a scrap of paper stuck in the STUPID printer!! Grrrrr!!! even worse - Strangeblades is trying to fix it... That'll never work! (she says)

I have a surprisingly high success rate for fixing printers using the Fonzie method. Seems like that would be right up your alley.

Our two month old coffee maker is screwed up. The day after we bought a whole pile of coffee to make with it for our holiday break. We'll probably be able to get it fixed under warranty but not until well after we're back to work. Stupid consumer goods.

McIrishJihad wrote:
Psych wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Lasherthecat has gotten a scrap of paper stuck in the STUPID printer!! Grrrrr!!! even worse - Strangeblades is trying to fix it... That'll never work! (she says)

Dude, FIRE! It will burn the paper, and leave the printer pristine!

I approve this message.

But first, SB, you have to setup a camera to capture the magic of fire and put it on YouTube.

It'll probably look like this:

Is it OK for me to post here that I love that video and laughed my butt off?

(In case it's not, I loathe Boxing Day shopping; it's crowded, hot, and all the good stuff is gone five minutes after the store opens. Never again.)

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year due to the following two separate conversations:

Early December
Me - Do you want a list of things/suggestions for me for Christmas?
Wife - No, I will look around and get you something.
Me - Are you sure?
Wife - Yes.

Christmas morning
Oldest Daughter - Daddy...Where are your presents.
Wife - Santa Clause forgot daddy's presents.

Later on, when kids are busy
Wife - I couldn't think of anything, so just go buy yourself some stuff tomorrow. Here"s some money.

mudbunny wrote:

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year due to the following two separate conversations:

Early December
Me - Do you want a list of things/suggestions for me for Christmas?
Wife - No, I will look around and get you something.
Me - Are you sure?
Wife - Yes.

Christmas morning
Oldest Daughter - Daddy...Where are your presents.
Wife - Santa Clause forgot daddy's presents.

Later on, when kids are busy
Wife - I couldn't think of anything, so just go buy yourself some stuff tomorrow. Here"s some money.

I'd almost rather have this happen than the Cash & Gift Card Roulette that my extended family has been having for the last few years :/

McIrishJihad wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year due to the following two separate conversations:

Early December
Me - Do you want a list of things/suggestions for me for Christmas?
Wife - No, I will look around and get you something.
Me - Are you sure?
Wife - Yes.

Christmas morning
Oldest Daughter - Daddy...Where are your presents.
Wife - Santa Clause forgot daddy's presents.

Later on, when kids are busy
Wife - I couldn't think of anything, so just go buy yourself some stuff tomorrow. Here"s some money.

I'd almost rather have this happen than the Cash & Gift Card Roulette that my extended family has been having for the last few years :/

The in-laws and us did have a gift exchange of gift cards, but it was $30 and completely random. Stealing gifts and whatnot It was fun, mainly because we knew that it was gift cards going in. You bring one $30 gift card, nicely wrapped, and then the random draws and stealing begins.

mudbunny wrote:

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year due to the following two separate conversations:

Early December
Me - Do you want a list of things/suggestions for me for Christmas?
Wife - No, I will look around and get you something.
Me - Are you sure?
Wife - Yes.

Christmas morning
Oldest Daughter - Daddy...Where are your presents.
Wife - Santa Clause forgot daddy's presents.

Later on, when kids are busy
Wife - I couldn't think of anything, so just go buy yourself some stuff tomorrow. Here"s some money.

Oh gosh, I completely relate, I had the same problem with my husband this year. Stings even more since I got him an iPad, he's been wanting one for years. I'm just glad our son isn't old enough to understand yet, but hopefully, he won't make the same mistake twice. I don't even need anything big, just something, anything.

Ghostship wrote:

In-law visits longer than one week.

Just want to go back to normal. With the kids I have about an hour of free time a night.

With in laws I get to sit around and talk about how someone I've never met is having a baby, or vacationing somewhere ill never be able to afford.

I feel your pain. Boy do I ever feel it. I was told my in-laws were coming over 'for Christmas'. It turns out they're using the mercantile definition of Christmas, which starts at the beginning of December and ends just before February. Seriously? What the f*ck?

Coulda been worse. They could've gone with the Filipino definition of Christmas, which starts sometime in September and ends a week after New Year's.

f*ck insomnia. I want to go to sleep.

mudbunny wrote:

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year due to the following two separate conversations:

Early December
Me - Do you want a list of things/suggestions for me for Christmas?
Wife - No, I will look around and get you something.
Me - Are you sure?
Wife - Yes.

Christmas morning
Oldest Daughter - Daddy...Where are your presents.
Wife - Santa Clause forgot daddy's presents.

Later on, when kids are busy
Wife - I couldn't think of anything, so just go buy yourself some stuff tomorrow. Here"s some money.

In the future I recommend maintaining something like an Amazon wishlist to point your wife to.

Alternatively, it just means you need to make louder noises about which hardware or software you really, really want at the moment. The iPad Mini or the Nexus 7 are both all kinds of hotness. Wouldn't object to either gift from the wifey. Got something better, of course.

I hated it when my past girlfriends expected me to read their minds instead of telling me straight up what's what. I won't do the same thing to my wife. It's a good policy, IMX.

Ghostship wrote:

With in laws I get to sit around and talk about how someone I've never met is having a baby, or vacationing somewhere ill never be able to afford.

I can relate. Although in my case, we get to hear about all the illnesses of her various neighbors we've never met. This is as especially wonderful as you might expect when your own mother is in the hospital.

mudbunny wrote:

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year

Ugh, that's never fun. I always end up doing most of the stocking stuffers, including my own, and it's just not nearly as much fun to buy and wrap your own stocking stuffers.

Today's loathe -- waiting for test results from the hospital. Mom got moved to a different hospital yesterday, and today they are finally going to do an angioscopy. And I can't go and wait with Dad because I'm still getting over a cold.

McIrishJihad wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

That I had to buy my own Christmas gifts this year due to the following two separate conversations:

Early December
Me - Do you want a list of things/suggestions for me for Christmas?
Wife - No, I will look around and get you something.
Me - Are you sure?
Wife - Yes.

Christmas morning
Oldest Daughter - Daddy...Where are your presents.
Wife - Santa Clause forgot daddy's presents.

Later on, when kids are busy
Wife - I couldn't think of anything, so just go buy yourself some stuff tomorrow. Here"s some money.

I'd almost rather have this happen than the Cash & Gift Card Roulette that my extended family has been having for the last few years :/

It could have been worse. She could have gone out on a limb and gotten you something she thought you'd love that you really didn't care for. Cash/gift cards just postpone the Christmas goodies till Dec 26. You can spend the 25th browsing for what you want to buy while you eat ham and sip on some wine.

There's a new guy on the Data team that sits near me that always talks and mutters to himself. He also will groan and sigh every 5 minutes. Really effing annoying when I'm the only one besides him here.

My girlfriend and I did our individual budgets for next month (we split the bills but otherwise each maintain our own spending money) and I discovered that thanks to my stupid car, an ad campaign for my side business that completely flopped and this lovely commercial holiday we just had, I'm basically not going to have a cent to spend on anything (including a live streaming/YouTube project I wanted to start) until probably after my birthday in March at least. On top of that, I missed a shrink appointment yesterday because my calendar didn't sync to my phone properly so that's another $100 I have to come up with because my benefits won't cover no shows. And then today, the puppy was being extremely bad and chasing the cats around the house and managed to yank my primary monitor off my desk while it was on. It flittered a couple of times but appears to be OK now. I really hope so, I can't afford a new one for months. I'm supposed to do some volunteering for Operation Red Nose tonight and am trying me damndest to resist telling them I can't make it.

When I'm going to do some volunteering no less, karma still won't cut me a damn break. Went to start my car to head to Operation Red Nose and the battery won't turn the starter. When I recently spent $800 on what was supposed to be $200 of repairs, the mechanic warned me that the battery was getting tired (it's apparently the original) but that if I couldn't afford to replace it then (I couldn't), it should last the winter, it just might have a bit of a tougher time on super cold days. It's not super cold today, just cold and it won't turn over. That's a minimum of another $200 I don't bloody have that I now have to find without delay. I actually know how to install a car battery myself but the only place in Ottawa I can buy one over the counter on the weekend is Canadian Tire who only sells their own in-house brand which has nothing but 1 star user reviews from the start of 2012 until now.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

When I'm going to do some volunteering no less, karma still won't cut me a damn break. Went to start my car to head to Operation Red Nose and the battery won't turn the starter. When I recently spent $800 on what was supposed to be $200 of repairs, the mechanic warned me that the battery was getting tired (it's apparently the original) but that if I couldn't afford to replace it then (I couldn't), it should last the winter, it just might have a bit of a tougher time on super cold days. It's not super cold today, just cold and it won't turn over. That's a minimum of another $200 I don't bloody have that I now have to find without delay. I actually know how to install a car battery myself but the only place in Ottawa I can buy one over the counter on the weekend is Canadian Tire who only sells their own in-house brand which has nothing but 1 star user reviews from the start of 2012 until now.

Dude, I came online to complain about my fridge that decided to temporarily die and made me spend all night fixing it, but it pales in comparison to what you are going through. Best of luck.

Edwin wrote:

f*ck insomnia. I want to go to sleep.

This is not a regular problem for me, but it has been the last couple nights. Just... nothing. I've been to bed twice tonight and gotten not one minute of sleep. Start to feel tired, hit the bed. Don't feel tired anymore. Wait a while, stare at the ceiling. Roll over. Stare at the wall. Cover my eyes with blankets. Wait. Give up, roll over, stare at the clock.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

I have to leave for work in 2 hours.

Furnace isn't working today. Pretty cold upstairs.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

I actually know how to install a car battery myself but the only place in Ottawa I can buy one over the counter on the weekend is Canadian Tire who only sells their own in-house brand which has nothing but 1 star user reviews from the start of 2012 until now.

Man, really? That sucks. Here you can get a battery anywhere, from Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, etc.

I got sympathy over the suckage and the car troubles. It's really awful how you can't get the battery when you're paying so much for it. The local brand is under $200, and you can have it delivered and installed anywhere in the metro.

Taking down Christmas decorations.

MacBrave wrote:

Taking down Christmas decorations.

Technically yinzer humor, but it's still somewhat universal.