Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

grover said:

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

That nurse never replaces bags. Same for me every time. 

That nurse for us though literally took down and threw away two essentially brand-new bags of saline and hung two new ones... if my wife hadn't needed to be moved to a different room/floor a few hours later (from the general recovery to a cardiac floor- some of the better nurses who were hanging out in the room with us noticed that her heart rate was very low and were concerned and worked out transferring her to the cardiac floor- which was also much quieter and she slept much better that night) which also required new bags I would have fought to have those two removed from our bill. The pain meds though were much more infuriating.

In reply to wae :

They seem to have been much worse this year here as well- we've spent a lot less time in the hot tub this summer because there have just been so many of them that it's not relaxing spending the whole time trying not to get bitten up completely. We spent more time than usual out on the covered porch this weekend painting/cleaning/arranging and The Dancer got a lot of bites- weirdly despite my having been out there more time in total I haven't noticed any new ones at all. When trying to work on the E46 though I'm constantly having to swat them. I would love to have had the yard treated for them, but she's really paranoid that it will be bad for The Dog, and though I do my best to make sure there isn't any standing water for them to breed in around our place I can't do anything about out neighbors' yards or gutters that don't drain properly.

In reply to RevRico :

Funny enough,  it was once recommended on here that I return to Reddit where I belong, The period of time it takes you to read this is longer than I've actually spent there. And though I've never witnessed the E36 M3 show that it apparently is, I can't get past the UI long enough to actually read anything meaningful.

Rant:

I see a 500 Abarth every day right now, a white one with the red stripe and white wheels, a look I find so sexy. So I started looking at them again.

A semi-local Toyota dealer has one that looks pretty good, but in the ad it says:

PRICE BEING ADVERTISED IS FINANCE PRICE ONLY. ALL OTHER DEALS (CASH/DRAFT/ PAY-ORDER ETC) WILL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SURCHARGE OF $1000.

I've never seen that before. I've no interest in paying full price, and certainly no interest in paying $1000 more, or the 7.99% they want to finance it.

grover said:

Out of the hospital = awesome. 
Insomnia because of Prednisone =/= awesome. 
 

not sleeping sucks. I've gotta figure this out. 

Years ago my gastro prescribed me hydroxyzine for chronic itching.  I had been questioning him if one of the meds could be causing me to itch.  So he writes me another script!! At least it works for itching.  It is also prescribed for anxiety.  One side effect is it makes me sleepy as the dickens.  Try it, you'll like it.  

In reply to RevRico :

Reddit is a cesspool.

I follow a couple of subreddits that are actually relatively positive. They're also ultraspecialized. Two are for a lesser known role-playing game system, and one is just for tracking online sales of vinyl albums and includes no discussion.

Beer Baron said:

In reply to RevRico :

Reddit is a cesspool.

I follow a couple of subreddits that are actually relatively positive. They're also ultraspecialized. Two are for a lesser known role-playing game system, and one is just for tracking online sales of vinyl albums and includes no discussion.

I've been trying to use it a bit because theoretically there is info there that I don't have on various topics.

However, the app sucks and it's needlessly not streamlined so I hate the moments I spend on there.

In reply to Antihero :

I got rid of the app. It is obnoxiously intrusive hot garbage.

I just log in on computer, which is more than enough exposure to reddit to not have it literally in my pocket.

Cats cornered a mouse yesterday.

...and now my Dr. wants me to go to an ER to get tetanus and rabies shots. Yay.

Thank goodness I have money, a car, and a very flexible work schedule.

In reply to Beer Baron :

There is more to the story, between the first sentence and the second.  One does not lead naturally to the second...

spitfirebill said:

grover said:

Out of the hospital = awesome. 
Insomnia because of Prednisone =/= awesome. 
 

not sleeping sucks. I've gotta figure this out. 

Years ago my gastro prescribed me hydroxyzine for chronic itching.  I had been questioning him if one of the meds could be causing me to itch.  So he writes me another script!! At least it works for itching.  It is also prescribed for anxiety.  One side effect is it makes me sleepy as the dickens.  Try it, you'll like it.  

My VA doc prescribed me hydroxyzine for my anxiety. It's like a weapons grade antihistamine. The bottle has a bunch of warnings about causing drowsiness. Definitely heed the warnings. The first time I took the prescribed dosage, I ended up buying a berkeleying streetlight on ebay. I did not remember buying it the next day. But I did sleep AMAZING that night. Can't have anxiety if you are unconscious lol

Lumber prices. I know, old news, but still. All I need is a 4x8 of 1/2 birch. I used to buy that sheet for $34, now it's $90. 

Streetwiseguy said:

In reply to Beer Baron :

There is more to the story, between the first sentence and the second.  One does not lead naturally to the second...

Mouse bit me on my finger trying to get it into a glass so I could throw it outside.

Teeny tiny little mouse bite. Didn't really concern me. Just messaged my Dr saying, "Hey, I was bit by a mouse. I'm not really concerned, but you can tell me if I should be." So I get two calls from the Dr's office saying "OMG! You need tetanus and rabies shots! You need to go to the ER!" Apparently the rapid care does tetanus, but *not* rabies.

...

And I went the ER, and they said mice don't transmit rabies and I'm current on my tetanus. So they wrote a prescription for a basic antibiotic because bites commonly get minor infections.

$750.

I'm pissed at my Dr's office.

In reply to Beer Baron :

All could have been avoided by letting your cats have a delicious snack...

Lately I've become fairly laid back. An pure ego screaming toddler teaches you patience.

SWMBO,  on the other hand, has not. Her tactic of stubborn polite bullying WILL-NOT-WORK on this kid. Switch tactics, or ignore him. Yelling rarely ,  if ever works. I can't believe she hasn't recognized it.

The PMS-like attitude rears its ugly head so much that I finally said to her, "You are angry as berkeley. What is going on?"

I'm a patient man. You won't like the man who shows up where my patience ends.

Streetwiseguy said:

In reply to Beer Baron :

All could have been avoided by letting your cats have a delicious snack...

Yeah. Really expensive way to learn a not very important lesson.

They're not great at killing the mice they catch. They like to just toy with them. This time, they were at a standoff, with the mouse treeing itself in the bedroom blinds.

In reply to Beer Baron :

I learned something new today. 

According to the CDC: Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans.

Toyman! said:

In reply to Beer Baron :

I learned something new today. 

According to the CDC: Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans.

Don't go read about hantavirus, though.

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

If she ever needs to go back- earplugs are one my must haves, also my acorn leather bottom wool socks. It's the little things that make it bearable 

In reply to spitfirebill :

Thanks! 

Rabies is basically a death sentence once it's in you though- might as well be careful. 

barefootcyborg5000 said:

Lumber prices. I know, old news, but still. All I need is a 4x8 of 1/2 birch. I used to buy that sheet for $34, now it's $90. 

Although it sucks......that's actually a much better price than a couple months ago sadly.

At one point last year I went to my local lumber yard and wanted 8 2x6x8ft. The bill was $340. I did not build that set of steps that day 

Had to fill out the college financial aid application for my daughter tonight. I had to log in about 5 times. You don't just use your username and password, you have to enter the child's name, birthdate and SSN each time. I also had to log in to the IRS website at least twice. It was a complete waste of at least an hour. There's NFW she will qualify for any aid. 

So I did a neat backroad blat the other day. Was driving my friend's Lotus 7 replica. There were about 7 other cars in our group, and they were all in pretty formidable machinery: C8 Vette, M2, Z4, Stinger and such. They also pushed it hard. While we kept up, the heavier cars were clearly more settled so that keeping up a fairly breakneck pace just wasn't that hard for them. 

Now I've taken a certain amount of pride in building cars that can run with the big boys for a fraction of their prices, but at the end of the day I was physically sore and I just couldn't get the image out of my mind that they were probably listening to their favorite tunes in comfort while my friend and I were wrestling with our surly beast.

You know, having money might not be such a bad thing after all.

Dental work. 

Toyman! said:

In reply to Beer Baron :

I learned something new today. 

According to the CDC: Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans.

It's also nearly impossible for possums to get rabies as well. Something to do with their low body temperatures.