In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
I'll have to look into those. At the end of the day, I'm just glad the coffee is "free". I've been in a few places that charged the workers for coffee, which I'm pretty sure is against the Gevena convention.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
I'll have to look into those. At the end of the day, I'm just glad the coffee is "free". I've been in a few places that charged the workers for coffee, which I'm pretty sure is against the Gevena convention.
Datsun240ZGuy said:In reply to slefain :
I think bouillon cubes/hot water or jello is acceptable?
Once I stayed in the hospital and had to fast the entire day. Watching TV teaches you there are a lot of fast food commercials AND the crappiest food looks really good when you're starving.
Chicken broth is acceptable, but not jello oddly. So I had a few cups of English Breakfast tea to replace my coffee (gotta have cream in my coffee), two mugs of broth, and a bottle of an electrolyte drink. The broth really keeps the hunger pains away, kind of shocked actually. Really looking forward to lunch tomorrow though.
RevRico said:Hey thanks berkeleywads. You've known I've had this appointment for a month, I really appreciate the 22 hour heads up that I need to pull $400 out of my ass to pay for it. You better berkeleying find something. Useless berkeleying corporate medical E36 M3stains.
Well, at least I got something for my money. Gonna be an interesting few weeks.
In the plus side, my back issue is about 20 years early, progressive, and permanent. So yay constant pain that will only get worse. Forever.
In reply to RevRico :
Oooofff, that sucks, man. Best of luck and medical science to you.
Scotty Con Queso said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Been there and I sympathize. It usually happens at work and the drive home sucks. So I can't imagine driving cross country like that. May I suggest going onto 1800 contacts and having them over night shipped to an anticipated hotel on your stop?
Unfortunately, I have a massive astigmatism in both eyes that require toric xr (extended range) lenses. It takes about a month between ordering them and me receiving them.
My prescription expired in December and of course I forgot/procrastinated and now I'm suffering the consequences.
I really hate myself sometimes lol
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Yeah, I used to have multifocal toric contacts. They were at least 3x the cost of regular contacts and had to get custom ordered with long lead time. They worked great until they didn't, and a couple years ago I gave up and went back to full time glasses.
I've had to say "That's a product team decision" way too many times already this week. I'm a berkeleying QA dork, I don't have the authority to make these choices.
Edit: Two more times since I posted this less than half an hour ago! 
There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.
Okay, I really need for E36 M3 to stop needing to be fixed for just a damned minute here, people. So far this year it's been the water heater, the furnace, two toilets, a couple things at work, the Saab, and now my wife whacked a pothole and has a flat tire. What a pain in the ass.
Over the deep freeze (for here) 2 weeks ago, several things out at the cabin froze and need to be replaced/repaired in the plumbing system, for certain the filter housing. It took the cabin company nearly a week to get a plumber out to look things over to get them a quote for fixing everything (which I can't really complain much about- I don't doubt the plumbers have a LOT of work fixing frozen pipes). But the plumber was out there last Friday and they still haven't gotten an estimate for what needs to be done to maintenance (and thus, us, who will need to approve & pay for it).
Besides- why aren't the maintenance guys just replacing the housing themselves? I know they've done it once, and I've done it at least once (maybe twice). It's pretty easy since all of the plumbing under the cabin is PEX, and you can get the housings from pretty much any other hardware store that carries a decent amount of plumbing supplies. Hell, if there's other breaks in the lines from freezing (which still surprises me given the cabin has taken similar freezes without issue) they're also PEX which should again also be pretty simple to fix. Nothing in the actual cabin should have frozen (which they've pretty much confirmed). I get that this is one of the slowest seasons for rentals out there, but I don't think we've ever not had it rented over Valentine's, and if the weather warms up a bit it usually will get rented over the weekends even in winter.
Assuming nothing gets done before then (which seems pretty certain at this point), I'm going to have to go out myself on Friday with a new filter housing to see if I can get the place at least habitable for us to use even if it's not at the level we could rent it.
Dusterbd13-michael said:There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.
What do you think it's called?
Peabody said:Dusterbd13-michael said:There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.
What do you think it's called?
Duke said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Yeah, I used to have multifocal toric contacts. They were at least 3x the cost of regular contacts and had to get custom ordered with long lead time. They worked great until they didn't, and a couple years ago I gave up and went back to full time glasses.
I've been trying to get LASIK or PRK for the past 20 years. Either I was outside of the correctable range or my prescription changed too often. Technology has advanced to the point where they can correct my astigmatism but all the places I've had consultations with are leery of my vision changes.
I just want to be able to berkeleying see 
Dusterbd13-michael said:There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.
Just think, you could be in a hell where people piss on the seat just for you.
There is no such thing as "universal bolt pattern" on the wheels you're selling. There are two of many, so what two are they? If you don't know then tell us what berkeleying car you had them on....give us a clue.
Wife: You never express your feelings or tell me what's going on inside or ask for help. You just don't say anything and take it all on yourself.
Me: Okay. Well, I'm really exhausted and frustrated because it seems like for the last several weeks there's been one expensive thing after another that's been breaking and then there's all the other little things that don't cost anything but take my time. I just can't get ahead on anything because something new keeps coming along. Every day, it's like there's 28 hours of stuff that I have to do but only 24 hours to do it and that doesn't include sleeping!
Wife, now crying: Why are you blaming me for all of this and making me feel like crap??
Me: ...
In reply to wae :
Sucks to have to walk on eggshells
In reply to wae :
If I didn't know better I'd swear you were married to my 8.5 year old
In reply to wae :
You should have known better.
When you feel a physical "click" in your head as you walk up to the house, realizing you need to shift personality... It's a profound moment that leads to living alone happily.
In reply to wae :
Ooof... I've seen variations on this far too often.
I chalk it up to the difference between Empathy and Symapthy; and (as a broad generalization) women tending to be more empathetic.
In simple terms - Empathy is feeling WITH and Sympathy is feeling FOR. So if you come to a female partner and express that you are feeling unhappy, stressed, and emotional, she will take on those same emotions in response, where a male friend is more likely to respond with a flat, "That sucks dude. Can I get you a beer or something?"
This leads to the frequent phenomenon of a man starting to express unhappiness to a female partner, her becoming upset, and him having to comfort her when he was the one who started out with the problem. As I describe it to my wife, "If I've got an emotional issue, especially one that relates to you, I need to plan to take time to help you feel better about me being sad, before I get any help."
The good thing is, it means she cares. She's just responding in an unhealthy way.
So, what to do about it?
I've made some headway on this in my relationship, but haven't made it go away entirely. I'm also fortunate that our lives relatively easy (no kids, no debt, and jobs that we can mostly leave at work), so we have lots of downtime to get through these things.
I started out by waiting until we had a good time where things were relaxed and neither of us were in the midst of something frustrating us. When I'm able to talk about the situation dispassionately. Then I described to her the situation of: "If I tell you something that makes me unhappy, you get unhappy in response. Then I have to spend time and effort to comfort you before anything can be done to comfort me, even though I'm the one who has the problem."
From there... it's a lot of work and coming back to it over and over.
Although my wife falls into that trap frequently, she's also very good at being able to look back in retrospect at her responses and behaviors and recognize what she had done, take responsibility, and then work to improve things. We love each other, make our relationship a priority, and she also wants to make it the best it can be.
Streetwiseguy said:In reply to wae :
You should have known better.
When you feel a physical "click" in your head as you walk up to the house, realizing you need to shift personality... It's a profound moment that leads to living alone happily.
Yeah, we have our bad moments - or days - but I've never felt that. Luckily.
In reply to Beer Baron :
Great insight. I think think is a pretty common problem.
Sand blaster can be so much fun!
I just don't understand people. I went to look at a camper that looked good in pics today. This was a $30k when it was new. It's only 5 years old. Now it's junk. Don't people care? All they had to do to keep it nice is clean it and wax it and do regular maintenance. We looked at 4 campers total and none of them were close to as nice as ours. It's like people just don't give a berkeley about anything.
I tweaked my back tightening a ratchet strap and now my weekend will be spent laying on a heating pad.
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