The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread
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If wisdom teeth truly granted wisdom it would be as difficult to convice late teen men to fight and die as it is the old men trying to convice them to do so.
Perhaps with some genetic tweaking we could cause wisdom teeth to come in at about 50 when we could use a few extra teeth.
...given the many "Fail" videos I see on YouTube, that is an accurate assessment.
Thank you... but I wish to register a complaint about the lessons... All that happened was the chap at the desk yelled at me and then kicked me out of the office... I was hardly hit on the head once.
...well apparently things have become terribly worse.
Tried to access some files on D:and the system doesn't even recognise the drive is there even though it's connected. I would expect if there was corruption it would still try to access the drive and then kick up an error message, but D: doesn't show up at all either in "Computer" or CPUID Monitor. Furthermore SATA 2 (which is the D Drive) in the BIOS shows as "Disabled". I powered down, unplugged the system, checked the redid the connections (unplugging both the power and SATA cables then plugging them back in) booted up and still no D: drive to be found.
There was BSOD Yesterday morning when I woke up that had a code that usually referred to a driver error, so I rebooted the system as usual, and everything worked fine then
I also checked the event log a short while ago and it had a series of messages from the 9th (yesterday) that posted at around 5:00 AM which stated "bad block detected". This does not look good as the backup I did the Sunday evening seemed fairly incomplete since it only took up about 278 GB of space and D: had 730 GB in use. If everything is unrecoverable I lost years worth of scene files and all my runtimes.
Do you have a spare SATA port and a fresh SATA cable that you can try using that hard drive with? On the other hand, the BSOD sounds like it could be a problem with your system and the hard drive might be ok. Man, this sucks. I've been there. I'm hoping for the best for you.
...yeah thought of that as a port can go bad. I guess I could swap the DVD drive to SATA4 and the HDD to SATA3 however the bad block error reported in the event viewer has me a bit concerned that something seriously flaked in the drive itself.as my DIM save folder was which somehow became corrupted Saturday night is. The odd part though is after attempting the backup on Sunday (which I believe did not work because the file size of the backup is about 1/3 of the space the data on the drive took up) ) I was still able to access files on the drive with no issue until today..
I cannot afford even a new drive let alone a new system if something is worse. .
...well that didn't work as when I switched the D: drive to SATA3 (E:), SATA1 (C:) also showed as not being connected in the BIOS setup.and it kept prompting me for a boot location after exiting giving me the only choice of the DVD drive or non existent floppy drive.
Removed the drive from the case and put it on the test blocks, restored all the original connections and when I powered up I heard a series of 6 clicks coming from the drive which usually means it's shot (most likely the FAT sector got corrupted which means no way to recover any files and six years of work lost)
Definitely not ion a very good mood.
So not looking forward to the expense of having to purchase another drive and rebuild my entire library/runtime structure all over again which also means having to search though all the original backup disks and USB sticks of all my freebies as well as Rendo/and very old Daz content. Also not looking forward to having to rebuild all my characters and scenes from scratch again either. Makes me almost want to throw up my hands and walk away from this all.
I seriously need a beer. Outta here for now.
complainy went for my eye inj yesterday, i've lost another 200 feet of vision, left eye is now 20/2200
i'se already eaten my day's sodium in 1 snack cup of olives.
my optimumrx ins doesnt pay anything towards test strips(~50 a month) or insulin pen needles (40 a month). the cost of insulin is a crime. think they expect me to pay it just cause my life is at risk, i'll show them, hah.
other complains need a higher capacity hdd
My not-so-bad complaint: After I got to my job today, I was told I can have the day off, so now I'm back home and I can go to sleep - but I already had 3 cups of coffee and I'm all wound up.
My real complaint: I'm about to admit defeat and give up my battle with the squirrels. We have two pecan trees in our backyard, and I've been engaged in a 4 year struggle against the squirrels. And for 4 years, I've been outnumbered and outsmarted by those pesky rodents each time. We haven't gotten an edible pecan from our backyard in nearly half a decade. I've tried painting the tree trunks with cayenne pepper juice and cutting the branches that were within jumping distance from the house or any other trees. Every day when I go outside I see fresh pecan shells on the ground with little teeth and claw marks on them. Sometimes I catch them in the act and chase them out of the yard, but it's only a minor victory. The war is lost. I'm going to send them a messenger and tell them to prepare a treaty and if the conditions are acceptable, I will sign it.
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dreams of pecan pie
The last time we really got any pecans out of our yard was when we had our dog living out there. But in her old age we had to move her inside and sadly she went to doggie heaven this year. Those dang squirrels have been strutting around like they own the place ever since.
If you do decide to get another dog think about getting a Border Terrier. Not too big, but they hate Squirrels Rats and Foxes without even being taught. The first one we had had caught his first rat before he was 9 months old. The 2nd was spotted at about 15 months old dragging a fox home. Squirrels I had only to start saying the word and they would both be outside waging war. In fact even the cat joined in, once he brought a squirrel home and dumped it in the bath tub. It was his fave place for hiding his trophies if he had been out late hunting. Usually it was mice, but we did get the occasional young rabbit, and that one squirrel. The dogs weren't keen on the bath tub, preferred to go swimming in the streams or ponds out side on their walks, so I guess the cat thought his stash would be safe there until the humans found it.
Question...
If You and I agree to meet at 10:30 AM at the Necropolis Dinner, and you show up at 10:30, but I left because you didn't show up fifteen minutes early... What was the point of making a 10:30 appointment?
Now the complaint...
Appointment times apparently have become an antiquated expression of some sort of belief in a kind of temporal reality in which "X = X" and not "X= Twinkie"...
I keep getting confirmation calls from doctors now that say "please arrive fifteen minutes early for your appointment"...
Well, fifteen minutes early isn't 10:30 then, is it?... It's 10:15....
And why?
To fill out the same form that I filled out the last time I visited?
What do they do with the forms?... Stuff them in the paper shredder the moment I walk away?
Basically, it takes me 30 seconds to fill out the form and sign in...
Then it's still 11:15 (minimum) before they send you into the exam room so a nurse can ask you a bunch of questions that take two minute to complete and then the doctor can take another twenty minutes (minimum) to show up...
And this is the one I that always gets me... The doctor walks in with your chart and says "So what's wrong?"... For once, just once I want the doctor to say... "Hi... Hmmm... It says here that..."
What is in that folder? A bunch of Ziggy comics?... Seriously... it must be, because what is it with doctor's offices and Ziggy comics? The only place I ever see Ziggy comics is in medical offices... I friggin hate Ziggy because every singled yellowed, wrinkled old Ziggy comic I've ever seen is hanging next to a receptionist with no damned sense of humor or next to some sign that says "Please note: Patients with ZombiCorp Health or ScrewdYa Life health insurance... We will no longer be accepting ZCH or SYL after January 10, 2003"...
Friggin Ziggy... Put some damn pants on you lewd little booger... Maybe you wouldn't be so lonely or hate Monday so much if you wore some damn pants... Everyone else in the Ziggy comics wears pants... Why isn't Ziggy constantly being arrested for public nudity?
Grrrrumph...
Okay...
All better now... Actually I'm not... I still hate Ziggy... But I'm more or less better...
Okay, as better a I can be... Which is not saying a lot.
Thanks for the recommendation. I probably won't get a dog anytime soon, but any dog that hates squirrels is a friend of mine. Ours was an Old English Sheep Dog.
I read somewhere that when cats leave a dead animal for you to find, it's because they're trying to teach you how to hunt. That makes me laugh every time I think about it.
My cat used to leave a loaded gun on my bed and hunting guide... I thought it was just because she wanted me to shoot the cat across the street, but in retrospect the hunting thing makes sense... But I think her leaving a picture of the cat across the street with a crudely draw bullseye on his forehead kinda sent the mixed message.
I'm not a big fan of squirrels either... In a park they are terrific... In my yard, they are my sworn enemies... They have done hundreds of dollars of damage to equipment and things I've built, as well as just plain vandalism... They even tried to blow my up by sabotaging the battery of my tractor (not kidding about that either... One of them nibbled a corner off the battery and the hydrogen gas ignited on start up.)
I need an autonomous drone programmed to harass squirrels... That would be a great use of those things... The hell with delivering pizza... Flying up a tree and raining sadness on a squirrel is a great use.
My technical support knowledge is so antiquated, however, I read in the newspaper the other day that this lates MS Win 10 upgrade has a bad habit of deleting the pathways to data. It doesn't remove the data, but the system shows it absent. If you have access to another system and plug your drive into that, you could confirm the theory. The paper said that it would require the Geek Squad (or similar) to actually recover your data to your system.
I've thought about that. First I'd get a drone and one of those single board computers like a Raspberry Pi. It would have a camera to detct motion and when it finds something, do a Google image search to see what it's looking at. If the result = squirrel, then open fire. Not real bullets of course, but something to scare away a squirrel. When the yard is clear, it would land on the roof and recharge with built in solar panels. This is starting to sound more and more like a Wile E. Coyote type of plot. I should probably give this up before something terrible happens to me.
The sound on my computer does not work now. I do not know why.
Have you tried giving them food...like feeding the birds, but squirrel food? There is a thing called a squirrel munch box. You fill it with somethign they like...I use shelled peanuts. It has a lid that they lift with their heads and eat to their delight. It keeps them away from the bird feeders. When I can afford the peanuts. They got expensive, and my finances are extremely tight. If you try this...get shelled peanuts, not whole ones...they make a mess of your yard with the shells. Also, be sure they are not salted. Most places that sell bird seed and feeders sell shelled peanuts. They also sell corn for the squirrels. There is a feeder that looks like a picnic table and chairs, with a spike on the "table" that you load a corn cob onto. Looks cute with the squirrles on the little seats! I tried the loose corn in the munch box once and the squirrels around here didn't seem to care for it...they ate all the peanuts and left the corn. So maybe try the loose stuff first, before buying the picnic table thing.
Dana
Sounds like you hate doctors more than you hate Ziggy! Would you still fee this way about Ziggy if his comics were never seen in any of your doctor's offices? Poor Ziggy, getting all this second-hand hate.
Dana
Turns out this is a rare thing. People who've used the "Redirect Known Folders" feature are the ones affected by this bug. Which has been fixed and the update has rolled out automatically. Only those who looked for updates and downloaded and installed have had this issue. Microsoft has support for those it has happened to, via their site and technicians, they can recover the files. But, as with any recovery...the more you do with your computer after the deletions, the more chance that the files will be overwritten with new data, thus making them unrecoverable. MS will do the service for free over the Internet, no need for the Geek Squad. Especially since you will have to pay them whether they are successful or not.
Dana
This Ziggy?
I have a Ziggy doll hanging from my pole lamp by my recliner. I friend gave it to me. I lost him to cancer over a decade ago. He was a good friend so keeping Ziggy hanging around makes me smile when I turn the lamp on or off.
A game is saying I have this special for about half an hour or less and I would save like 80% if I get it but I do not think I will have the funds in time.
Twenty minutes until the offer is over. Why do they do such a short period for the offer out of the blue?
It is over. Oh well. Their lost as they did not give me enough time to get the funds around.
Yep, just think of all the money you saved by not buying it.
True.
The trouble with feeding squirrels is that once the word gets out, every squirrel in a 5 mile radius joins the party. Finding a steady supply of food, they settle in and your problem just got ten times worse. There's a reason squirrels are called tree rats. Don't let the cute fuzzy tail blind you to their ravenous appetite, raking claws, exponential breeding and determined intelligence.