It's My Party and I'll Complain If I Want To Complaint Thread

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I just arrived at a mall and now it is closing for the night.  The sun is shining and plenty of day left.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    Wonder when the security will try to tell me to leave.  The mall has been closed for 13 minutes now but no one has approached me yet.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Wonder when the security will try to tell me to leave.  The mall has been closed for 13 minutes now but no one has approached me yet.

    Don't be silly about it,  If the place is closed you need to leave before you get locked in

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546
    Chohole said:

    Wonder when the security will try to tell me to leave.  The mall has been closed for 13 minutes now but no one has approached me yet.

    Don't be silly about it,  If the place is closed you need to leave before you get locked in

    I doubt I will be locked in.  Mall employees are still here.  I will be gone before it is too late.  I will probably not be the last one out.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:

    Wonder when the security will try to tell me to leave.  The mall has been closed for 13 minutes now but no one has approached me yet.

     

    Don't be silly about it,  If the place is closed you need to leave before you get locked in

     

    being sundae may be a factor

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    Oh the key info you are missing is that I work at this mall and there is a meeting tonight.  I hope there is or I wasted a Lyft ride here for nothing.  It was supposed to be last week but got postponed till today.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Mistara said:
    carrie58 said:
    Tjohn said:
    Mistara said:

    a wombat = a lady bat smiley

     

    why does the eye dr want to dilate my eyes?
    if they dont have a plausible reason gonna say no.
    i already told them no air puff test.  they makin me sign a waiver to the air puff.

    I had an argument with them about the puff. Involuntary reaction jerks a knot in my neck every time!

     

    Isn't the "puff test" to check for glacoma?

     

     

    air puffed my eyes 40 years ago.  they no haz a newer test technology?

     

    I have the test done every year (glaucoma runs in my family), but the pressure puff test is not the only one they do. I get an optic nerve inspection - the're looking for changes in shape & colour, and a perimetry test (the little flashing lights box). There are further tests they can do if they start to have concerns. The puffer test is simple, cheap and reliable - no need to complicate it.

     

    is the retinopathy i'se worried about.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    Somebody from security just approached me.  I told him I am here for a meeting and he said it was okay.  

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    edited July 2018

    Complaint:  Hot again today (as predicted).  Took a long drive in my air conditioned car into the heart of the Seneca Indian Reservation to get gasoline and go to the indoor "flea market".  Actually it's a consignment antiques store where each vendor has a booth or shelf that they rent from the store.  Sometimes there's some nice stuff in there.  I saw several bronzes that if I had $400 to spend I would have gotten one.  There was one there for $1200 that I'd drooled over for a long time but resisted the temptation to wipe out my life savings. frown 

    Non-complaint:  However, I did find a really nice rose quartz lion about 2 inches long to add to my collection of animals.  Had lunch at Burger King and stopped at a roadside BBQ Chicken stand and picked up a half a BBQ'd chicken for meals tonight and tomorrow night. 

    Upon arriving home I found that despite leaving my bedroom air conditioner running while I was gone, my house was cooler than outside but not really cool.  I ran around and twiddled the air conditioner, room fans, and air guides to get some of that cool air up in the bedroom to slide down the stairs and spread out into the living room to make it at least tolerable. indecision

    I also found at the antique store a broken "Anniversary Clock" (one of those clocks with a horizontally rotating pendulum under a glass dome).  I keep my eye out for them.  I have one that works but many of them don't.  This one was priced at $5 and said "buy for parts".  Which is exactly what I did.  I don't give a hoot about the clock, I just wanted the 5" diameter, 8 inch high glass dome.  One can find the glass domes on the Internet for about $10 but it costs you $12 to ship them. frown  So, I've bought several broken clocks over the years and chucked away the clock parts and just used the base and dome to display some of my collectibles. yes

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I thought this meeting was about to start.

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,403

    Looking forward to a few days off at Independence Day. 

    It's been too hot here to do anything outside if it involves more than simple walking around.  Gotta almost be done by 9 am and/or don't start anything until about 7 pm.  And in the evening, it's usually raining, lightninginginging, or threatening to do one or the other.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I am wondering if my phone is still playing silent "music" or if it is playing at all.  I cannot hear it.  I need to go to bed soon.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,407

    ...frustrated with the flaky headphones, I dug out my old external speaker system, and hooked it up, thought something something must have gone bad with it since I last used it.  Either just the two satellite speakers work, or just the Subwoofer, but for some reason I cannot get both to work together. So I have a choice of nothing but treble, or nothing but bass and subsonics.

    The other oddity, for some reason I have to plug the speaker system into the microphone input on the computer and re configure it as an audio out jack as when I had it plugged into the usual headphone/speaker output jack I get a very weak signal.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,407

    ...some solar "pyrotechnics" before the holiday

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,435
    Mistara said:
    carrie58 said:
    Tjohn said:
    Mistara said:

    a wombat = a lady bat smiley

     

    why does the eye dr want to dilate my eyes?
    if they dont have a plausible reason gonna say no.
    i already told them no air puff test.  they makin me sign a waiver to the air puff.

    I had an argument with them about the puff. Involuntary reaction jerks a knot in my neck every time!

     

    Isn't the "puff test" to check for glacoma?

     

     

    air puffed my eyes 40 years ago.  they no haz a newer test technology?

     

    I have the test done every year (glaucoma runs in my family), but the pressure puff test is not the only one they do. I get an optic nerve inspection - the're looking for changes in shape & colour, and a perimetry test (the little flashing lights box). There are further tests they can do if they start to have concerns. The puffer test is simple, cheap and reliable - no need to complicate it.

    My point is that I have an involuntary reaction to jerk my head violently back in a whiplash pain causing motion when it is done to me. I therefore can not have it done without causing neck injury.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    edited July 2018

    Complaint:  Hot, hot, hot.  It promises to be a hot day again today and has started off in good form.  Only 8:00 AM and it's already over 90F on my porch. sad  My poor air-conditioner in the bedroom tries its best but starts loosing the fight about 3:00 in the afternoon and just runs and runs and runs till about 3:00 in the morning when it finally gets things cooled down again.  I need another air-conditioner downstairs but have no proper electric circuit that isn't already providing 3/4 of its rated load at times.  If I put an AC in the circuit then sometime during the day the breaker would blow. sad  Ah, but you would suggest putting a larger AC up in the bedroom?  I've thought of that but I'm already running an 8000BTU unit up there and I can barely lift that one 6 inches to get it in and out of the window as the seasons change and besides have you priced 10,000 and 12,000BTU units lately?

    No, I think a 5,000BTU unit down stairs in the one window I have available, and a long extension cord to a proper power plug on a less used circuit would be the only workable solution.  BUT, how many days would it actually be needed?  I guess I'll just put up with it.  But it's not just the heat.  The humidity is terrible.  I lived in Florida for a couple of decades so I should be used to humidity but old age is catching up with me and I seem to suffer it less well these days.  I wouldn't complain about the humidity except for having to swat annoying minnows out of the air now. frown

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sweltering-temperatures-bake-eastern-u-s-ahead-july-4-n888181

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009

    I'm sorry for my absence.  Thanks for the birthday wishes.  heart

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,102
    atticanne said:

    I'm sorry for my absence.  Thanks for the birthday wishes.  heart

    I usually apologize for my presence.

    Happy birthday!

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,102

     

    Saldaz said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Sizzling in the UK as well.  Glasgow Scotland had recorded a new record high of 89°.  Must be so hot that Swindon's weather page was knocked offline.

     

    It's been high 80s around Oxford all week. Pleasantly hot, but not as opressive as the heat we had back in May. Of course, in the office with the renderers going, it is a little hotter!

    Are the making hot renders?

    Please don't tell me you're rendering people. surprise But yes it can be a very hot process but one can get some quality tallow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

    You don't work for the Soylent Green company do you?

    It's a thing now...

    Okay... Just the name and brand... I may have photoshopped the label a little... Just a little.

     

    But seriously who names a company that?

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,410
    McGyver said:

     

    Saldaz said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Sizzling in the UK as well.  Glasgow Scotland had recorded a new record high of 89°.  Must be so hot that Swindon's weather page was knocked offline.

     

    It's been high 80s around Oxford all week. Pleasantly hot, but not as opressive as the heat we had back in May. Of course, in the office with the renderers going, it is a little hotter!

    Are the making hot renders?

    Please don't tell me you're rendering people. surprise But yes it can be a very hot process but one can get some quality tallow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

    You don't work for the Soylent Green company do you?

    It's a thing now...

    Okay... Just the name and brand... I may have photoshopped the label a little... Just a little.

     

    But seriously who names a company that?

     

    Must be people who've never seen the movie...or perhaps they did it on purpose?  They used to say that even bad publicity is publicity.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ugh

    TIME DESCRIPTION TEMP FEELS PRECIP HUMIDITY WIND

    2:45 PM MON

    Sunny 94° 102°

    0%

    44% SSE 10 mph

    3:00 PM MON

    Sunny 94° 101°

    0%

    44%

    SSE 10 mph

     

    eye dr didn go well  wasnt surprised tho.  retinpathy both eyes.
    my appt was 9:30, only slot bus could pick me up was 7:50.  they dropped me off 8:30
    hobbled arounf an hour, wasnt too hot yet. my pick up time was 11:30. dr was done by 10:15.
    tried calling the bus if they could move up my pick up time. nope.
    11:30 robo call tells me to be ready for bus in 15 minutes.
    went outside in the hot so the bus could find me.
    11:45 no bus.
    called bus again.  showed up 20 minutes later.

    no air puff.
    he dilated me, dyed me, tested pressure,
    i asked for new prescriptions for glasses and reading. he said it wouldnt help me, he wouldnt give me precriopt for glasses.
    gives me name of a retinpathy specialist to see and tells me come back in a week.
    i asked for a copy of the findings for my records and to give my primary dr.
    they said they didnt have anything to give me.
    i told them verbal diagnosis dissappears from my mmory in couple days.

     

    got celery and cucumbers for lunch.smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    McGyver said:

     

    Saldaz said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Sizzling in the UK as well.  Glasgow Scotland had recorded a new record high of 89°.  Must be so hot that Swindon's weather page was knocked offline.

     

    It's been high 80s around Oxford all week. Pleasantly hot, but not as opressive as the heat we had back in May. Of course, in the office with the renderers going, it is a little hotter!

    Are the making hot renders?

    Please don't tell me you're rendering people. surprise But yes it can be a very hot process but one can get some quality tallow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

    You don't work for the Soylent Green company do you?

    It's a thing now...

    Okay... Just the name and brand... I may have photoshopped the label a little... Just a little.

     

    But seriously who names a company that?

     

    Must be people who've never seen the movie...or perhaps they did it on purpose?  They used to say that even bad publicity is publicity.

    Dana

     

    never seen the movie, dont get the referencecool

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:
    atticanne said:

    I'm sorry for my absence.  Thanks for the birthday wishes.  heart

    I usually apologize for my presence.

    Happy birthday!

     

    Happy Birthday!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    edited July 2018
    Mistara said:
    DanaTA said:
    McGyver said:

     

    Saldaz said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Sizzling in the UK as well.  Glasgow Scotland had recorded a new record high of 89°.  Must be so hot that Swindon's weather page was knocked offline.

     

    It's been high 80s around Oxford all week. Pleasantly hot, but not as opressive as the heat we had back in May. Of course, in the office with the renderers going, it is a little hotter!

    Are the making hot renders?

    Please don't tell me you're rendering people. surprise But yes it can be a very hot process but one can get some quality tallow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

    You don't work for the Soylent Green company do you?

    It's a thing now...

    Okay... Just the name and brand... I may have photoshopped the label a little... Just a little.

     

    But seriously who names a company that?

     

    Must be people who've never seen the movie...or perhaps they did it on purpose?  They used to say that even bad publicity is publicity.

    Dana

     

    never seen the movie, dont get the referencecool

    Never seen the movie! surprise  How can you have missed it?  It was all the rage in 1973. indecision

    Movie: "Soylent Green".  Set in 2022.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green  The world is overpopulated.  Pollution contaminates land based food.  The oceans provide all nutrients but the the fish have all died, and the plankton are now nearly all gone too.  The government issues food wafers called Soylent Red made from the plankton.  Everybody lines up in long lines for it, but it's becoming rare.  A new product called Soylent Green appears on the market and is easier to get.   At the end of the movie the hero (Charleton Heston) sneaks into the Soylent corporation plant and discovers the source of Soylent Green.

    Hmmm... 2022, is this this generation's "1984"?  I'd think twice about ordering a bottle of Soylent Green. surprise  And watch out for Soylent Green wafers too.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    edited July 2018

    Non-complaint:  It's raining! smiley  The heat and humidity had gotten so bad that I turned off the computer, speakers, TV, & lights.  I went up to my bedroom, blocked off all cold air flow down the stairs, stripped the blanket from the bed and lay down for a nap just after noon.  About 2:30 I was woken by thunder & lightning, dark skies, rain and hail.  The lightning and thunder were severe.  It came in about eight successive thunderheads over the last hour and a half, that blackend the sky then lit it up with its lightning.  The rain came in buckets, the hail was pea-sized.  The temperature has come down to 70F outside, the humidity is tolerable.  Inside its now down to a tolerable 76F instead of the 89F that it was before the storm.  The air-conditioner is catching up.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • SaldazSaldaz Posts: 168
    McGyver said:

     

    Saldaz said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Sizzling in the UK as well.  Glasgow Scotland had recorded a new record high of 89°.  Must be so hot that Swindon's weather page was knocked offline.

     

    It's been high 80s around Oxford all week. Pleasantly hot, but not as opressive as the heat we had back in May. Of course, in the office with the renderers going, it is a little hotter!

    Are the making hot renders?

    Please don't tell me you're rendering people. surprise But yes it can be a very hot process but one can get some quality tallow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

    You don't work for the Soylent Green company do you?

    It's a thing now...

    Okay... Just the name and brand... I may have photoshopped the label a little... Just a little.

     

    But seriously who names a company that?

     

    So they are not making soap?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,407

    ...I though that was

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,346
    McGyver said:

     

    Saldaz said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Sizzling in the UK as well.  Glasgow Scotland had recorded a new record high of 89°.  Must be so hot that Swindon's weather page was knocked offline.

     

    It's been high 80s around Oxford all week. Pleasantly hot, but not as opressive as the heat we had back in May. Of course, in the office with the renderers going, it is a little hotter!

    Are the making hot renders?

    Please don't tell me you're rendering people. surprise But yes it can be a very hot process but one can get some quality tallow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

    You don't work for the Soylent Green company do you?

    It's a thing now...

    Okay... Just the name and brand... I may have photoshopped the label a little... Just a little.

     

    But seriously who names a company that?

    Well at least "you are what you eat" is true in this case...

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    If I eat a bunch of bad food, will I be bad?  If I eat a bunch of good food, will I be good?  Doubt it, I doubt that what I eat will make me good or bad. It might make me feel bad or good?

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546
    kyoto kid said:

    ...some solar "pyrotechnics" before the holiday

    wow!

    If I took a nap in the sun, would I die?

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