Makes them paranoid?
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Allergies.
Woke up around 01:30 to a head full of snot, burning eyes and a sneeze-a-thon. I long for the days when taking a Benadryl was a cure-all.
Oh yeah, the chapped nose is the exclamation point to the misery.
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I think my strong aversion to weeding stems from my childhood. My parents yard was about an acre & a 1/4 and probably 1/3 of the yard was split between 2 large vegetable gardens. Every day in the summer my siblings and I were assigned an hour or 2 of weeding before we could do anything else. So there I would be weeding as my friends were riding their bikes to the park to play ball or go fishing in the creek down the road. And I was stuck until my assignment was done to Mom’s satisfaction. I hated it then and still do now.
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We just did a “staycation” and weeded our entire yard (for like, the 3rd time since “the Fall”), threw down weed blocker and literally hurled 7 yards of loam that we unloaded by hand) on the beds as if we were on fire in a desperate attempt to block the heat and light of the sun within hours of the last observable weed being ripped out of the earth. The advancing arthritis made bending all day from dawn to dusk was an added bonus of the wonders of the aging spectrum.
So yeah, I hate weeding too
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A friend has this weed exterminator machine which is a lawnmower sized flame thrower beast that shoots flames downward.
He takes great delight in incinerating those weeds, like I haven’t seen since grade school when our nascent pyro custodian would giggle as he threw cardboard boxes in the school incinerator.
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Oh, 1,000% this.
My memories of childhood summers almost entirely consist of spending what felt like endless hours pulling weeds out of our yard. We spend at least 3-4 hours doing yardwork every single day because mom and dad loved it. I have absolutely loathed it ever since.
If there was a way I could afford to cover my yards in nothing but astroturf and plastic flowers so I never had to weed again, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
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There is a way. I’ve seen yards like that.
And weeds end up growing up through the astroturf.
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As a teenager, I vowed to myself to put in astroturf when I got to be an adult. I got fired from doing the lawn - twice - even though I didn’t get paid for the effort. My dad was a perfectionist on the yard stuff.
“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well…” - Me, quietly: “We have a real problem, then, don’t ‘we’, because this job ain’t worth doing!”
(Our older next-door neighbor was my childhood hero - that guy only occasionally mowed the lawn and used a squirt bottle with diesel fuel as his “edger”. In winter he never ever shoveled his driveway, letting his 4x4 flatbed compact the snow into 6 inches of ice, if need be. He’d haul home the food so his wife never had to leave the house. She’d practice the organ and was very pleasant, reminded me of Mrs. Olsen from the Folger’s commercials. But I digress…)
Weeding was another avenue of torture, but since I already did the lawn, my sisters got most of that twisted ritual.
If we complained too much, my mom would start singing the most annoying motivational songs - including pioneer songs like “Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel” - so we were boxed in.
It was hell.
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When you stupidly leave your wallet at the gas pump and then have to replace EVERYTHING. Every imaginable swear word is appropriate here.
yes, this morning
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I’m so sorry. That sucks.
Ask @Ma-ake what it’s like to be the guy to tell IT when one of my patients stole my phone.
Oi Vey!
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Mother Trucker!!!
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If you’re in IT long enough, you see a pretty broad cross section of humanity.
Eg, demented grandson of patient whose turn it is to accompany grandma to doctor’s appointment, uses the opportunity to “permanently borrow”… pretty much anything they feel emboldened to take home as a souvenir… or something to pawn.
A car insurance commercial nailed it: “Yep, they’re out there”.
Or as my boss put it: “Who the hell stole the projector out of the conference room?”
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A very kind soul just returned my driver license. He didn’t have to do that. One less hassle.
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There are a lot of good people out there.
It’s encouraging.
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I’m going to apologize in advance for the tone of my post here; it occurs to me that:
- I post here more than most Utefans,
- Whenever I post in this thread, I’m complaining about something an old man (which I guess I sort of am sort of reluctantly figuring out that I am, even thought I don’t feel like it) would be complaining about,
- And worst of all, I usually think that I should end the post with he phrase, “get off my lawn”
Perhaps the solution is a new thread called, “Get Off My Lawn”…
My pet peeve:
Has anyone noticed that network television shows broadcast on any of the three major networks (CBS, NBC, ABC), show audio and video that seem to be getting further and further out of sync?
I mean, tonight, I clearly heard Colbert drop a bleeped out F-bomb, but it was almost a second before his upper teeth were pressing deeply into his lower lip as he forced out enough air to create the requisite EFFFF sound.
What’s the deal here? In the old analog world, the audio and video were transmitted together as a singe wave form and the only possibility of the audio and video being out of sync was if a particular TV’s internal circuitry malfunctioned. Which I never once experienced, and frankly, as I’m thinking about the circuitry involved, I cannot fathom.
When TV broadcasts switched to digital, the audio and video was transmitted separately and synchronized by the receiving equipment. But again, for years, I’ve used seveal peices of equipment that did not fail to synchonize the two signals, including the two that I have now.
I’ve had my current two televisions for many years, never expereinced any problems, yet all of a sudden, every broadcast I watch on the three major networks is out of sync enough that it is very distracting. I’ll have to watch PBS tomorrow to see if see the same thing there.
Any one else getting their signal through the air, and noticing this on the the major networks in SLC?
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OK, this is toooooooo weird…
You may recall that 2 weeks ago I complained on the board to the board admins, that the Pet Peeves thread never showed up in my normal view when looking at the board main page.
Someone pointed out that there is an option, “muted”, that when set, causes the thread not to show-up with an updated status in the main screen. I changed this option to ‘Tracking’ as are all my other threads, after which everthing appeared to be working as I would have expected.
Tonight after posting on the pet peeves thread, I decided to go back and edit my post but when I looked for the thread in the standard view, it was not visible. I forceable loaded the thread, and discovered that it was marked as muted again!!!
Anyone understand this weird behaviour?
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No. Now get off my lawn !!!
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AI. Or Aliens.
I haven’t noticed this problem (occasionally on streaming, or sound goes to absolute zero when there is no talking/music which might be my TV/soundbar doing something), but a broader pet peeve is that with all the technological advances, I feel like some things are getting worse. My cell phone network is worse than it was 5 years ago - more 4G spots (like work, argh), CGI was better 10 years ago (we CAN do better, but it’s so computationally expensive they cut corners), connection and loading pages on my browser seems to be slower (probably because they are packing in more stuff and more security), etc.
It’s like I pine for the ‘good old days’ of 2019 sometimes. Now, other times would be nice (pre-smart phones - fighting this battle with teenagers and have it locked down) - we are going to have a few 90s days in the summer. If it didn’t exist in the 90s, you can’t use it. Price is Right on network TV? ok. Streaming something? nope. Phones sit on the table and if anyone calls, anyone can answer and hand it off.
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Maybe two different browsers or two different clients (where settings might deviate)?
Welcome to the Digital Age. 
Actually if your TV is one of the “Smart TV’s” everyone has now, sometimes the buffer gets overloaded and stuff won’t synchronize, creating your issue just before things freeze up and reset.
Follow your TV’s directions for clearing the buffer and try watching again.
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