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^ I try to reconnect with people all the time but only a few reciprocate. The onus isn't only on you. It worked last time though, a buddy who moved out of state expressed interest in playing VR casino games with me, he doesn't even have VR and I've never tried it, but I'm game. I bought whisper quiet, top of the line ceiling fans when I got my first house like 3 years ago and still haven't replaced them. I also have a new garage door opener that's still in the box. I've worked in construction 16 years!
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Fuuuuck. Could also be the fact that my period is starting and so everything is blown away outta proportion due to hormones. Being female sucks.
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May 26, 2022 13:46
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I am sick as hell today and my partner is out on a job, so I had to pay the extra money to Door Dash some sprite, saltines, and medicine.
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Jun 27, 2022 23:38
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I remembered this one spot in a city that was just this really cool area to hang out, but not only can I not remember how to get there, I can't even remember what city it was in or if I dreamed the whole thing. I kind of want to ask in the "What's your white whale?" thread but if someone actually came up with the answer out of my ramblings that'd be terrifying
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Jul 14, 2022 06:53
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I ordered my partner some books for his birthday, which shipped in three separate shipments. One of them never showed. Replacement order is out, but the second book of the series was in that missing one!
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Jul 21, 2022 17:54
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My little hawthoria was growing an absolutely ridiculous flower stalk longer than my forearm that branched off in four different directions and was taking over my windowsill, but the heatwave made it go dormant and I’m disappointed because I wanted to see just how ridiculous it was going to get 
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Jul 22, 2022 10:47
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The bank I use got bought out by one of the big lovely arsehole banks so now I have to move all my accounts to a less lovely bank before they start charging me bullshit fees for poo poo I won't or can't use.
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Jul 22, 2022 11:11
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My squash plants have plenty of flowers but I've seen no zucchini yet so I think rabbits are eating them. 
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Jul 22, 2022 16:50
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I have dropped to 100 lbs, and finding pants and underwear small enough has become a struggle.
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Jul 23, 2022 15:29
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I bought a history book called The Sultan and the Queen and loved it so much that when I found a book in the bookstore called This Orient Isle on the same subject I immediately bought it. When I got home I realized I had just bought the UK version of the same book.
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Jul 31, 2022 00:31
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I have dropped to 100 lbs, and finding pants and underwear small enough has become a struggle. Man, I miss the 2 years I had when I could buy clothes off the rack. When I was a kid I was super scrawny; at my worst I was probably 6' 170 lbs and buying pants was pretty much impossible. I could wear 30W 34L if it was made long but ideally I had to get 30W 36L. I had that problem until my 30s when I got a more average body composition, but when COVID hit I got myself a home gym and now I can't buy shirts that don't either explode at the chest or have a neck twice the size of mine.
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Aug 10, 2022 17:16
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I had a job interview for a position in my field on the other side of the state, full time with benefits, closer to family, etc, and I think I did pretty well on it. So now life keeps handing me reasons to stay where I am like social networks, possible relationships, job opportunities. It is going to be so difficult to make the decision if I get that job offer.
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Aug 13, 2022 19:46
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Had coffee with a friend from my old job (who's also moved on) last week since I'm thinking about making a move into his field, and he offered to pass my resume on since it turns out there's an open position in his group. It would be a decently big shift from what I'm doing now, but not that big a shift from what I was doing when we were working together, so I took a couple of days to think about it. I did end up sending him my resume, but he didn't acknowledge he got it/passed it on to the relevant folks and now he's off to Scotland for vacation. It's not the end of the world since I'm still talking through with my husband if this is a category of move I really want to make, but sending things into the void is so much worse when the void is a person you know.
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Aug 15, 2022 14:53
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Getting real agitated at media services buying up already-existing content and putting it behind their subscription service Make something new you turds. Move the medium forward instead of squatting
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Aug 15, 2022 16:09
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A thunderstorm rolled in and knocked my power went out as I was gaming hardcore in a normal WoW raid. Now the random strangers are going to think I’m a flake. And due to the new rotation thing they’re doing with raids, the one I was doing this won’t be available for two weeks once this “week” ends on Tuesday morning.
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Aug 22, 2022 02:32
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My waterbed mattress has a leak in it  I'd been hoping the wetness was just condensation from the skyrocketing humidity of three goddamn consecutive days of nonstop rain, but... no. It's a leak, there's no getting around that. This is going to be a pain in the aaaaaaass.
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Aug 25, 2022 05:58
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You're going to be drinking it empty for weeks A youtube mix I like used to have chapters which made it super easy to skip around. Then 3 days ago, the chapters were all gone and it's insanely unwieldy. Does anyone know what this is is about?
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Aug 25, 2022 06:24
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I have a cable modem provided by Cox but the wifi router is mine. The router is 11 years old and it looked (I assumed) like it died. So I went and bought a new one. Hooked it up, configured it and all was working well. For a day. Reset everything and it worked. For an hour. After that, I could not get connectivity. The cable modem was showing green across the board. But the indicator at the ethernet connection was no longer lighting up. The modem has 4 ethernet ports, but 3 are taped over. Supposedly they are disabled by Cox. But I peeled off the tape and plugged the router into one of the others. Sure enough it synced up within a few seconds and has been running fantastic all week. I am still using the default SSID and password. But now I am too lazy to plug the old one back in and change all of the connected device passwords. I also am to lazy to pack up the new router and return it to get my 80 bux back.
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Sep 1, 2022 19:35
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I got contacted about a potential job interview and had this thursday off anyway (working all the other days that they had timeslots so that was my only day to do it) but they were out of Thursday timeslots and now I'm going to be working 6 days in a row. Hopefully something else will come up that matches up with my schedule better.
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Sep 1, 2022 19:43
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My new mattress was supposed to be here like 3 days ago. The fuckers have already taken the first monthly payment for it. Some may enjoy sleeping on an air mattress, but it ain't for me.
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Sep 2, 2022 21:56
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I can tell it's the first day of school here because I can hear children screaming at a school 300 meters away. It was nice being able to relax on the terrace while.
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Sep 5, 2022 10:54
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Mattress was supposed to be delivered today, I'm told. I wake up, I go out and check. No mattress, but the delivery truck did come, I got the new screen protectors for my phone. I take out the trash, i see a ratty old twin mattress propped up by the dumpster. Now, I'm not saying the mattress got delivered and then immediately loving stolen by one of my neighbors, but that kinda coincidence makes a person go "hmm". It would help my ability to not be pessimistic about it if the family member who does have the tracking number would answer my text about whether it has updated, which I sent several hours ago. But hey, all the cracks on my phone were just on the screen protector and the actual screen beneath was immaculate, and the new one went on without a hassle. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
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Sep 12, 2022 00:57
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I had an incredibly chill job where I got to be on my phone all the time, but the pay sucked and it was going nowhere. Now I'm doing the whole "starting an actual career thing," and starting a new job pays much better on Monday, but it's a tech support customer service job. That means no more listening to lots of podcasts at work. Oh no!
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Sep 12, 2022 01:42
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I’m trying to change an upcoming flight. On most airline websites, you are constantly bombarded with “helpful” popups offering to connect you to a chat agent. This particular airline is definitely like that. Their chat popup even follows me around from tab to tab, like a lost puppy. Except right now. The one time I actually need an agent, they have disabled chat with an “ all agents are busy” message. And I wouldn’t even *need* an agent if their app and website were not both broken with regards to changing flights. And the reason I’m trying to change the flight? So that I can get from normal first class to a fully lie flat seat on my way to 2 weeks on Maui during peak whale season. It is the firstest of first world problems. Azathoth Prime has a new favorite as of 06:59 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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Met a dude today to sell feeder mice to. I have extra because most of my snakes are in cooldown, aren't eating, and the mice are getting crowded. So $10 for 10 mice should get rid of some of them! Seeing as the pet stores sell them for about $4-6 each. We arranged to meet at 8am, he was about 10 minutes late, but was caught by a train and texted me what happened. I get it, trains suck. So he texted me again and asked to meet again today because he wanted more mice. Perfect, I tell him where I'll be at 2pm, he thanks me a lot and agrees to meet there. 1:50, I text him to let him know I'm a bit early but am here, parked by two large white vans. He texts me he'll see me in a few minutes. 2:10, no sign. I text him again, and he says traffic is backed up, be there in about 5 minutes. 2:25: this time he's 5 minutes away. I tell him I am leaving at 2:30. 2:30: he gets to the parking lot, and starts driving in large circles, missing the two vans, and I text him again and he finally finds me. The first thing he says when he gets out of the car: IT ISN'T MY FAULT. "None of this is my fault!" he yells, and then tells me he doesn't have a tote to transport the 30 mice in, so can he please have the one I brought? I tell him no. He insists it isn't his fault he is late again, and finally offers me $5 for the tote, which is $10 at the store. I tell him it's $10, mostly because the rear end in a top hat could have least have apologized and not started out this deal with screaming how none of this is his fault. Now down my usual cage-cleaning tote, at least I got rid of some mice. Also had to block the dude because he tried to call and text me again after I left. Like, dude, had you at least apologized or offered to buy the tote right off, or paid me extra for my time, you'd still get the deal. As is? I'll never sell to you again.
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Dec 18, 2022 01:44
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I got a wrong piece in a Lego set. That apparently almost never happens! The set should have only a single 1x8 flat tile, but I got a second one in place of a 1x6 studded plate. It was so close to the end too!
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Jan 9, 2023 21:57
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I just received a laptop and it is fantastic. Couldn't have asked for anything better. EXCEPT...it has one, single dead pixel.  I have a two-year warranty and everything, it's just...ugh. I procrastinated replacing my cracked-screen, barely responsive keyboard, touchpad that randomly jams & stops registering clicks, 4-hour battery life laptop, so why can't I just wait longer for another laptop? But I don't want to. But I feel like I should.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:16
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My car passed emissions test Tuesday. On Friday, the check engine light came on. So car is in the shop getting about $500 of repairs, and I felt bad for the dude at the mechanic (who was not working yesterday) because I called for an appointment yesterday, as apparently many people did, and the rear end in a top hat who took in the appointments never put them on the calendar. Cue today of me and several people being told we had no appointments.
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Jan 21, 2023 20:07
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YeahTubaMike posted:I just received a laptop and it is fantastic. Couldn't have asked for anything better. EXCEPT...it has one, single dead pixel.
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Cowslips Warren posted:My car passed emissions test Tuesday. My pet peeve, the way we as a society are dependent on a complex, failure-prone, expensive to maintain mechanical device for transport and any attempt to improve this situation is immediately shot down by assholes who stand to make money from the status quo.
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Jan 24, 2023 05:40
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Wait until you see how we as a society are dependent on an expensive, unethically produced electronic device that you need to buy a new one of every couple years and that exploits you every step of the way!
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Wrong thread, I thought this was PYF Pet Peeve Cars still suck tho
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Oh medical bills. Paid my two bills to a skin treatment/test place on New Year's Eve. Paid online through my insurance website. A few days ago I got a paper bill from the clinic saying they never got payment. I called the office, and was told by a snippy woman in billing they hadn't received anything and I needed to call my insurance company so "we get paid." Called insurance company. On hold various times, finally get told I need to call the payment people. I've been emailing them all day as backup. Waiting for a reply, I get all the emailed receipts, proving they did in fact get their money, and forward to the clinic, with the dates marked clearly. The payment people from insurance send me copies of the receipts and say yes, the clinic has received funds and did about two weeks ago. And here's a number the clinic can call if they have issues. They have been paid. They got their money. I finally get a reply from the clinic, a simple "thank you for the receipts we found the payment." I almost wish the fuckers had tried to charge my card for this because the thing expired last year. Of course then I'd be dealing with collections. gently caress you, billing lady. You assholes got your money ALMOST THREE WEEKS AGO. I'd like to send them a loving bill for payment because I had to do the billing lady's homework for her. poo poo like this is why I don't want to deal with doctors overall. Why the gently caress is there so much paperwork and inefficiency?
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My 17-year-old cat passed away almost two weeks ago. I am getting ready for an interview for a full-time job for which I have been practicing and rehearsing since December, and the interview is less than an hour away. One of the companies helping me with Pixel's end of life care just sent me flowers and a card. It's an awesome, heartfelt, touching gesture, and I do not need to be bawling like a baby right before this interview. But I am.
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Jan 31, 2023 19:34
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I might have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. it would certainly explain some things. everything hurts right now.
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I brought my Drake posted:My 17-year-old cat passed away almost two weeks ago. I am getting ready for an interview for a full-time job for which I have been practicing and rehearsing since December, and the interview is less than an hour away. One of the companies helping me with Pixel's end of life care just sent me flowers and a card. It's an awesome, heartfelt, touching gesture, and I do not need to be bawling like a baby right before this interview. But I am. I'm sorry for your loss. One of the worst places I was ever at was the waiting room in the pound/vet area where people came to have their animals put down. Usually because their main vet was closed. I've never seen so many people from clearly so many different walks of life break down sobbing in that waiting room. I remember reading somewhere that tears were actually a huge reason humans became the dominant species; think back to caveman days. You're hurt, there are tons of predators around, how do you let people know you need help without screaming and attracting predators? That liquid poo poo from your eyes. It is amazing. My FWP: I don't see one of my friends as much as I used to because her work schedule is insane, her husband doesn't help with the house, and her toddler is super busy and won't go to bed/sleep until after 8pm which just seems way late to me.
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Been having to use Lyft as we just moved and my car wasn't in yet (it is now, yay!). Lyft has a lovely little option to put your pronouns on your profile for your driver to see. Cool, set my pronouns to they/them since that's what I prefer... consistently still getting ma'amed 
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Feb 17, 2023 04:39
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Good news, the higher-ups found someone to fill in the empty shift and make sure I'll get relieved at the end of mine consistently and on time. Bad news: it's the former site supervisor that literally no one likes. He's cordial enough to me but an absolute dick to every other guard, and if this is the prelude to them making him supervisor again I will quit on the goddamn spot. This motherfucker is the reason we don't have a table! My sole consolation is that his accomplice in management that helped him get away with his poo poo is no longer here, so it's actually pretty drat unlikely he'll retake the reins. I can already tell the group text is going to explode with complaints, though.
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Feb 18, 2023 12:29
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The power is out after an ice storm. It always feels like a “gently caress you” when everything is working just a couple blocks away. My job wants everyone to come in M-W-F, and gives us the option to work at home other days. We can also work from home if the local schools are closed due to weather. It takes me an hour to drive there, so I take the option whenever I can. Today is a snow day and work from home day, but the power’s out, and my car was covered in a sheet of ice, so gently caress that, I’ll take PTO. I made that commute two days I didn’t have to in the last week. Friday was a snow day I neglected to look up in my rush out the door. Car was encased in ice then too, but the roads were fine and actually less congested, cancelling the time it took to break my car out. Monday was Presidents Day, which is a paid holiday we get off because the main office is in California or something, which I had signed up to work on. I missed the memo that we can work from home on holidays.
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I currently have to go to the office two days a week. We just got an email from the boss for a mandatory meeting about "The future of working from home." They're going to take it away. Those fuckers.
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