Topic Author's Original Post - May 25, 2012 - 08:57pm PT
This thread is for us to vent regarding the stupid things that bother us. Things that would make people in 3rd world countries want to cuss us out.
I will start:
FWP #1
Had window seat on the flight from LV to SF today, specifically to look at Eastern Sierra from the air.. Refused to go on an earlier flight because no window sit was available. It ended up being cloudy!!!!!! :`(
Life has dealt me its share of first world problems. But one incident stands out:
A few months ago, I put my brand new Droid 4 in the middle of my pack and climbed up a chimney. Pulled it out to post on the Internets at the top of the route. Alas, THE SCREEN WAS CRACKED!
That reminds me Erik, WTF are people thinking with the HID bulbs in their stupid little car headlights?
I think I'll put a super bright light on my car so I can see oncoming traffic. That will make me safer. Nevermind that I'm blinding them in the process...
how come you have to be some sort of rocket scientist mind meld nerd to operate TV/DVR satellite remotes?
And how come websites have to change their layout every 6 months or so, so you can't find anything?
and how come cars are so damn complicated?
And how come when an automaker designs an engine that works really well, they have to change it 2 years later so that parts don't match and the new engine doesn't work as well as the old one.. substitute engine with every other auto part.
That reminds me Erik, WTF are people thinking with the HID bulbs in their stupid little car headlights?
I think I'll put a super bright light on my car so I can see oncoming traffic. That will make me safer. Nevermind that I'm blinding them in the process...
True HID is supposed to be shielded so that it doesn't blind oncoming traffic.
The blue bulbs are equally stupid. Blue causes more glare in the end.
But, I digress.
Being blinded by incorrectly installed HID and stupid blue bulbs is a FWP.
Decided to go to the local pizza shop to get a dough ball today because I was too lazy to make my own in my sweet kitchenaid mixer I got as a wedding gift. Paid $5 for the damn thing, and then waited 25 minutes for some dude in the back to bring it out while the person who readily took my money sat on a bench stool doing nothing all be cause my order was put in as #225 and the orders being brought out were cooked slices.
Went to grocery store and they didn't sell half the ingredients I wanted.
Annoying Gym Climbers?
Short-roping on Eeverest?
We got 5.14 is all?
Bolt-chopping at Fingerloaf?
Alfred E. Neuman is sixty?
The Pope's still Catholic?
The First World is about to be demoted?
No problem...
The intelligent class can not run the world because the self interested retards will just end up fuking them over, stabbing them in the back or killing them.
People do want the intelligent class to rule .....
the fact that my stupid 46inch HDTV and HTPC keep rebooting during a good episode of how I met You're Mother, because the 400mhz signal is so bad in the city...
the fact that I cannot leave my wine in a nice pretty bottle and it needs to be repackaged into a nondescript water bottle for walks around the music festival or the weekly concerts in the park...
that I have to walk through a cloud of smokers just to get into my building each day to work...
Tough decisions to be made on how to f*#k over the third world, not to mention how to f*#k over any others that get in the way.---I said that.
So the mad professor Mouse lends his energy, if not his expertise, so that this laudable intention is targeted at the right people.
Factors involved in the correct, approved definitions of first, second, and third worlds:
A) During the Cold War.
B) Industrialized.
C) Capitalist.
D) Communist.
E) Developing nation.
F) Geographically located in either Africa, Asia, or South America.
Use this key to identify first, second, or third world countries.
In this lexicon, a first world country will be one to which these factors can be applied: A, B, and C.
Second world countries: A and D--the USSR, basically.
Third world countries: A, E, and F apply.
I may be cynical about the world I inhabit, but at least I know my prey.
"... oh i got fifteen dollars, and im feelin fine,
i sure could go for a nice bottle of red wine.
walkin down liquor isle,
and there you are with a guilty smile.
so i reach inside of my right hand pocket,
and im searching around for your silver locket.
oh i wasn't so lonely till i met you.
but now i know what im gonna do..."
My team at work when I ask my manager for the rest of the day off.
JR-"Let me check with LW, can Mike take the rest of the day off?"
LW-"I was actually wondering if I could go home too, it's hot outside"
JR-"Yeah me too, I'd check with MS (his boss) but he already texted me this morning he wasn't gonna make it today"
LW-"Yeah, I have errands to run before rush hour"
Now I just have to wait til tomorrow to go to Lover's Leap. Ugh.
For which gorgeous miss should I root for in the Miss USA Contest?
And when the Yahoo screen lights up with the news that Miss RI has won before the show has hardly gotten underway in my living room, how should I react?
Boycott Rhode Island, the state with one of the highest unemployment rates.
Went to the bathroom at work. On the way back to my office had the desire to get some tea. Because I thought there was tea in my office I passed the kitchen without getting it. Got to my office and couldn’t find any tea there, so had to walk half a rope length back to kitchen to pick some up. Terrible day. It could of been worse though, if we did not have any cookies around here neither.
speaking of mirin... I can't believe the price has gone up to $44/quart bottle. I can afford only two of them now. SushiFesterers will have to suffer...
it's a dry year, and i determined neither to water nor mow my lawn. the lawn includes things like common mallow, peppergrass, dandelion and wood sorrel, all quite edible, so i've let them live their annual cycles and harvested when appropriate. however, the lawn looks a horror. my valley neighbors tend to mind their own business about it. one even got curious about the mallow harvest. but i soon had a steady barrage of caballeros del cespéd come a-knocking, telling me in not very good english that they would be oh so happy to fertilize my lawn for me.
fertilize? with all that good stuff growing in it i need to fertilize?
never mind, my spanish isn't good enough to express the complex issues involved. then a memory came to me. you had to live through the 60s:
ˇcuba si! ˇyanqui no!
i dove for the spanish dictionary.
ˇpradera si! ˇcespéd no!
i posted this on a small, discreet postage stamp-sized piece of paper next to the front doorknob. i haven't had a knock since.
(look it up, first worlders, you need to get into this.)
They called me [not bad maybe 10 minutes], went to the window to the right of the information booth, the first attendant says and points: turn right, then another right past the elevators. I get to the first window and the attendant is washing down the counter between us with anti-bacteria wash and says” Don’t get near me, I am sick”. I thinking great and you are working here today. Anyway she directs me to the next window, and a second attendant directs me to the phone inside her area and then they make arrangements for tomorrow.Hang up the phone, walk out the door and a different nurse follows behind me, I see one of those wash your hands bottle and put a good amount on my hands then the nurse says “I need that as well”. Jokingly, I say to her about the magazine, she laughed and assume they will take the magazine away.
Will see tomorrow if it is still there.
Fine and dandy, just one of checkups Uncle Sam wants to make sure you are still alive. Thanks for asking.
cremation is 2,000??? we paid for it ourselves but the VA is reimbursing us, they cover all that due to his military service. but i was surprised cremation is this expensive. wowzers.
#firstworldproblems
cremation is 2,000??? we paid for it ourselves but the VA is reimbursing us, they cover all that due to his military service. but i was surprised cremation is this expensive. wowzers.
#firstworldproblems
First World Problem: I have a cool climbing plan for the weekend and supposed to be in Yos to see Alex and Hans break the record on Sunday. My problem is that I do not have any problems to post in this thread at the moment!!! WHAAAAAA!
my mother just called to give me a guilt trip for not driving 8 hours to see my brother's new baby... not realizing i already don't have enough weekends to get in everything i want to do this summer, let alone visit a baby that won't even realize i am there.
Cremation can be $400 if you shop. There are wholesale places that actually do it with layers of middle men. Someone should start an MLM network! Hard to shop if someone close goes. Get a friend or relative to do it for you.
Edward Abbey died on March 14, 1989, at the age of 62, in his home in Tucson, Arizona. His death was due to complications from surgery; he suffered four days of esophageal hemorrhaging, due to esophageal varices, a recurrent problem with one group of veins.
Showing his sense of humor, he left a message for anyone who asked about his final words: "No comment." Abbey also left instructions on what to do with his remains: Abbey wanted his body transported in the bed of a pickup truck, and wished to be buried as soon as possible. He did not want to be embalmed or placed in a coffin. Instead, he preferred to be placed inside of an old sleeping bag, and requested that his friends disregard all state laws concerning burial. "I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree." said the message.
For his funeral, Abbey stated "No formal speeches desired, though the deceased will not interfere if someone feels the urge. But keep it all simple and brief." He requested gunfire and bagpipe music, a cheerful and raucous wake, "[a]nd a flood of beer and booze! Lots of singing, dancing, talking, hollering, laughing, and lovemaking."
A 2003 Outside article described how his friends honored his request:
"The last time Ed smiled was when I told him where he was going to be buried," says Doug Peacock, an environmental crusader in Edward Abbey's inner circle. On March 14, 1989, the day Abbey died from esophageal bleeding at 62, Peacock, along with his friend Jack Loeffler, his father-in-law Tom Cartwright, and his brother-in-law Steve Prescott, wrapped Abbey's body in his blue sleeping bag, packed it with dry ice, and loaded Cactus Ed into Loeffler's Chevy pickup. After stopping at a liquor store in Tucson for five cases of beer, and some whiskey to pour on the grave, they drove off into the desert. The men searched for the right spot the entire next day and finally turned down a long rutted road, drove to the end, and began digging. That night they buried Ed and toasted the life of America's prickliest and most outspoken environmentalist.
Abbey's body was buried in the Cabeza Prieta Desert in Pima County, Arizona, where "you'll never find it." The friends carved a marker on a nearby stone, reading:
EDWARD
PAUL
ABBEY
1927—1989
No Comment
In late March, about 200 friends of Abbey's gathered near the Saguaro National Monument near Tucson and held the wake he requested. A second, much larger wake was held in May, just outside his beloved Arches National Park, with such notables as Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry speaking.
i once overheard coworkers talking on a monday morning about how they didn't get to watch all the shows they tivo'd the week before, so they were already 4 hours behind going into the new week...
First World Problem of the day: Was setting up Fast Track. Went down to my car to write down my license plate. By the time I came up I realized it is also written on my registration. My trip down was unnecessary :` (
spider: i've heard the cheap cremations can be sketchy. sometimes they save money by doing more than one body at once even tho it's illegal to do so. blechh... you'd be like, "first world problem: picked up grandma, was someone else's dad!"
Neighbor hates my dog because Loki wants to eat her cat. Talks shiest to me in the morning as her dumb fat cat approaches my dog just beyond her leash just to tease Loki. I swear the cat is asking for it. I am seriously tempted to go for a walk without the leash. It can be fun.
I had 2 Siberians (a black and a red) who were both tied up outside my house. A local roaming cat came to tease the black as she had the day before. Unfortunately, she didn't know that the tease radius for the black fell within the munch radius of the red. I ended up taking that cat to the emergency vet at about 9:00pm, and then ended up paying for it to be euthanized and then a fee to take care of the body. I put up notes around the neighborhood but no one claimed it. It did have a collar but no tags, and it wasn't like a dirty feral kitty. My Siberian was just being the wolf that she was, it was too bad all the way around.
I'm having a tough time posting trip reports of my wannabe weekend warrior adventures because I can't get pictures from my memory cards to my home storage server. I can't do that because I'd have to plug in an Ethernet cable directly to the storage server to change it's IP address, and the darn thing is on the bottom shelf and I'd probably have to crawl on my knees.
I'm pretty anxious about not getting to post up real content.
I'm also not as satisfied as I'd like to be with my google homepage layout.
And damn if they didn't shrink the size of those Odwalla bottles but keep the price almost the same.
And when I go to the climbing gym, they have a $5 minimum credit card fee. So when I buy a Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip organic local cookie, and a Mo Beta Odwalla for the anti-oxidant boost, it only costs $4.75! So now I either have to buy another cookie which is a little more than I want, or another damn Odwalla bottle (which I sorta need since the bottles shrank, but really two is too much) or I have to buy more tape but I already bought some last week and tape is Rob Halford aid. So I've got no damn alternative but to donate 25 cents to the Access Fund to get my total up to $5.
Whenever I go home to visit my parents, it always overlaps with the cleaning people and I have to deal with those two awkward hours of having people clean around me while I try not to act like a spoiled brat.
I slacked at work in the first half of the month, and have to do more work now. Due to being busy at work, can't post on supertopo as much. Have to waste time and post from home : (
People who are just sitting in thier cars of store parking lots (WTF are they doing?). People who don't know how or when to use thier parking lights instead of thier headlights. People who get out of thier cars while in the drive-thru.
People who are just sitting in thier cars of store parking lots (WTF are they doing?)
they are procrastinating because grocery store shopping sucks.
first world problem: grocery store shopping! i HATE going into these big stores full of florescent lights and the several people you bump into when you least feel like talking to anyone at all which makes you feel like every time you go to the store you need to make sure you look like a f*cking supermodel.
don't get me started on the self checkout machines that stop functioning when you place your own bag in the bagging area, and then you have to wait for someone to come help you! how did the people who designed those machines not realize that more and more people bring their own bags to the store these days? and if you don't want a bag at all you have to place your item in one just to make the machine stop yelling at you. and then you have to look weird taking the single item out after you pay. and worry that while you do have it in there the one person you really want to impress will happen to be in the store at the same time, sees, and thinks you're a f*cking moron who takes a plastic bag for only one item. am i the only one who refuses bags if i forgot mine, and tries to juggle everything? or who takes only one bag if i absolutely have to, but then i try to juggle everything that won't fit but doesn't justify an entire other bag?
People who are just sitting in thier cars of store parking lots (WTF are they doing?).
here's one factual answer:
a friend of mine, from calif, has too many kids in her house to have a peaceful converstaion--when she is on the phone they 'swamp' her for:
"where's this..."
"when's supper..."
"will you drive me to town..."
"can you wash this, i need it now..."
etc, etc....
she CALLS me from the grocery parking lot, where she has peace to talk for up to two hours...
odd but true... :O
nowwwwwwww you have a one less 'wonder' in the world, as to this...
:))
oh, say, all--
as to 'first world problems'... if i ever get tempted over such,
i quickly remember--focus on GENERAL troubles, common to all, carry on with each day's, thankful for what they are, and all else will fall into place as 'non troubles' in the full
scheme of things...
why the H#LL does walmart have like thirty friggin check out lanes and only THREE open! BAZTURDS!
walmart
i have a master's degree that is useless to me
when the internets go down in the middle streaming some good porn
spending the last few months doing nothing but trail running/hiking, mountain biking, surfing and going to the gym - all day everyday - but not being able to afford to take a trip up the mountains to climb
Way too many options on cable- takes forever to scroll thru.
cable tv
the government won't give me anymore money for doing nothing
having to get a job
i have to pay for health care
forums like this one
watching videos online of people ice climbing ice bergs and not being able to do it
my arms being too tired to paddle out when the waves are peeling cuz i was lifting weights the day before
when the internets go down in the middle streaming some good porn
spending the last few months doing nothing but trail running/hiking, mountain biking, surfing and going to the gym - all day everyday - but not being able to afford to take a trip up the mountains to climb
HEARD THAT BROTHER
esp the last one. I am unemployed, ineligible for unemployment since my last work was a graduate assistant, so instead I run/bike/hike/go to the gym all day.
Is it just me or do they take all the pulp they've removed from the no-pulp juice and dump it in the yes-pulp juice? (I'm ignoring the lots-of-pulp freak juice. I'm pretty sure it's just unpeeled oranges that have gotten the once-over with a hammer.)
Hmm, what else? Oh yeah, I got to watch some lightning last night (rare in these parts) but no thunder! WTF? I want both!
When I did my last cardio workout I forgot to bring my mp3 player. Had to deal with gym music...FML.
Still have a mp3 player, no Ipod, so not cool.. :`(
yeah, i had an ipod until i got dropped down the elevator shaft for 6 stories....got it back and it still worked but was banged up.....then some bimbo dropped it on the road.....started cutting in and out and now it doesn't work at all. i gotta use my freakin' bulky phone to listen to mp3's off of at the gym and while running. so inconvenient.
"it pizzes me off - i HAVE to wear a seat belt..."
No you don't Ron.
Last time I drove my truck it ran just fine without my seat belt on. Is your vehicle different? On the other hand, I'm not going down any road without my seat belt on. Too many other drivers and cars go too fast. Mine included!
You just have to be prepared for the consequences if you don't. Tickets, liability, higher medical bills, senseless deaths, and disabilities.....
Human bodies are not designed for the stresses. vector = force in direction
I cracked the front face of my cell phone, before I can get a new one at no additional charge (other then the monthly fee). It still works mind you, but it's cracked.
the phone i am now using is not text-friendly in the least. it was the phone i got when i was eligible for an upgrade, but i didn't like it so i switched back to my old one which just broke. the keystrokes on this one take awhile and i keep accidentally leaving question marks where exclamation points should be.
friend: i got an "a" on my exam!
t*r: that's great?
i have some interviews next week for full time positions in my field. i *just* started putting out resumes. if i'm so fortunate as to be offered a position i'm not sure if i should take one now or keep looking for a little while. i'm hearing horror stories of long job searches tho, if i'm offered a position i think i should just take it. a job in my field with health benefits and a living wage sounds pretty good right now and i need the experience these offer so i can get to where i want to go next... i'm just not sure if i should look a little farther away first... but i don't think a huge move while i am still grieving is a good idea. i want to be close to familiar things right now.
Norwegian, I grew up in US, and am as spoiled as any of the other people here. Point of this thread is to laugh at some REALLY SMALL THINGS that annoy us on occasion.
My first world problem of the week. Had 4 days off to climb. My partner was only available for 1. :`(
Sorry Mighty Hiker. I yanked my post after the one I was responding to got deleted because it didn't make sense out of context. Then your post didn't make sense either.
Honestly though they seem like a reasonable engineering solution for a first world problem, namely traffic congestion.
Maybe they should install some of those diamond interchanges at key locations in Yosemite Valley. Maybe on at the main intersection in front of each village. Imagine how educational it would be for everyone!
i have some interviews next week for full time positions in my field. i *just* started putting out resumes. if i'm so fortunate as to be offered a position i'm not sure if i should take one now or keep looking for a little while. i'm hearing horror stories of long job searches tho, if i'm offered a position i think i should just take it. a job in my field with health benefits and a living wage sounds pretty good right now and i need the experience these offer so i can get to where i want to go next... i'm just not sure if i should look a little farther away first... but i don't think a huge move while i am still grieving is a good idea. i want to be close to familiar things right now.
Take the best job that's offered. While you're earning a living & gaining experience, you can look for another job.
I was told by a recruiter that the folks who currently have jobs are the most valuable candidates, they are valued enough by their current employers to still be working there.
May I be so bold as to suggest that far too many people spend far too much time mesmerized by the mindless drivel that too often inhabits television airwaves, videos, and other forms of electronic media.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
There is a war going on for your mind.
~ Flobots
“The Greeks never had obituaries, they only asked one question, ‘did he have passion?’”
The pool sprung a leak while we were vacationing at June Lake. Lost half the pool water. Had to get a friend to go by the house and stop the leak. Now the refilled pool temperature is only 75 degrees. Damn!!!! Have to put the solar blanket on - it has grass clippings stuck to it. How ever will we be able to entertain properly this weekend? We can't have guests in water cooler than 80 degrees!!
I climbed my first big wall to the top (Lost Arrow Spire Direct) and day-hiked SE Face Direct (IV 5.9+) of Clyde Minaret, but I can't write trip reports about it because I am going for a 2 week vacation north. : (
My stupid smart phone isn't posting pictures, so turned on my iPad and can't get it to work either. Luckily my MacBook came through, cause I was about to have a fit and the tears were starting to build.
When the sloper holds in the gym get greasy 5.11a is often harder. More like a b or god forbid c, and I fall. It makes me feel inferior when the blonde I like is close so I climb all the sloper routes right after the are put up. : )
i am so damn bored, stuck at home forever injured and read soo many damn books and watched soo many damn movies and cant really play video games... or leave my house and do anyhting... where was I, i am SOOO damn bored i am posting on this stupid thread.
Dave Kos, yeah that annoys me too. Why can't they figure out not to put the grey routes next to the dark blue routes. Sometimes when I go to the gym my theme is to only climb yellow and orange routes.
My FWP is that a piece of my tooth came off right at the spot where your tongue sits against the back of your front teeth, and it's annoying as hell and the dentist can't see me until next Wednesday. And of course I don't have dental insurance.
My stupid smart phone isn't posting pictures, so turned on my iPad and can't get it to work either. Luckily my MacBook came through, cause I was about to have a fit and the tears were starting to build.
I'm out of vacation. Used it all up on a ski trip to Whistler, climbing in the Meadow and the Hulk, and taking the family to the Grand Canyon. Now I have to wait a couple of months to take a long weekend with pay....
...walking in the crosswalk, almost got hit by the guy driving his convertible texting through a Red light. I stopped to keep from being hit, and two pedestrians bumped into me from behind because...they were texting!
They seemed pissed because I stopped in front of them. Really?
Waiting for the Sub-Zero technician who was to have appeared between noon
and 4 PM. It is now 3PM. He is soo gonna hear about my missing Happy Hour at Paco's.
I got a new car that only has one of those electronic fob things. You keep it in your pocket and the car locks and starts as long as it is near. That really annoyed me. I'm used to trad keys.
But it gets WORSE!
After driving the new car for a few weeks I got so used to the new keyless fob thing that now I'm bummed that I have to use a real key on my truck! It' such a pain in the ass to have to reach up and pull the key out of the ignition and put it in my pocket.
THEN I walked to my front door and it was lock and I had to use a conventional key to unlock it. I feel like a third worlder now because my keyless fob doesn't work on all my locks.
This is a real (underlined) First World Problem.
My tv is on "the box," the one I had to get to keep getting broadcast reception.
I am on the computer, watching the 49er game on the stupid tv.
Aside from the piss-poor, constantly interrupted reception, which is a hallmark of this "improved" method of airing programs, there is a big, big problem.
Every so often, when the interruptions peak, the box switches the program to a Spanish language channel.
What I found is that by turning off the box, I can recover the signal from the NBC affiliate.
BUT I'M MISSING TOUCHDOWNS, not to mention beer and truck commercials.
It's enough to frost my whine glass filled with Merlot, a wine best drunk at ambient temp, maybe slightly chilled.
Poor Mousie.
At least the Niners are looking like they're winning!
i thought i took a photo of something hilarious i saw while waiting in line at a store, but when i went to send it to the friend i took the photo for i realized it didn't get saved in my phone. shoot. it was going to be SO funny!
Had to change the batteries on the cordless mouse today, because the stupid interruptive wire drove me crazy. Now I got stupid disposable batteries to replace instead!
Well, then it's no problem, thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be. Thanks be.
Exactly 13, no more, no less. Descartesian, no? The bet?
I have a huge problem today.
Is it that I forgot what I was going to complain about? No. That goes in the retired life thread.
But I managed to solve one problem.
I knoticed the 'view original message' line down below 'post this reply.'
That solves a number of problems I won't need to insert here.
We are so fortunate to live in the First World and be able to lampoon shtuff with out some big-ass polizei coming in saying, "Up Against the Wall, Mofo."
My problem is, "Why didn't someone tell me that the "IT" wasn't "all that?."
That IT was only some of that.
I'm speaking of the venerable* Wes n' Wanda's IT CLUB in El Cerrito. I met Chuck Pratt there one night and solved all the world's problems. I never drank with him again. Late '73.
I told Pratt IT wasn't "all that" and he agreed it was a big problem. I forgot his solution.
*Read 'dive' or 'urban roadhouse.' On San Pablo, 123.
Cry me a river on the TV issue brah. Hah, you think you have it bad? Sh#t, I pressed the wrong button on the powerwand and now can't get the damned thing on. AND THE wife is in Hawaii ! Which means that until she gets home to figure it out I have to go upstairs and the TV up there is only 32", doesn't have HD and only gets about 100 cable channels instead of the 900 plus the big one gets.
The last two nights when pigging out at the Sizzler Salad Bar some kind of French Convention group came in and made a lot of noise and got in the way of me and my salads. They were very loud, laughing, eating all the salads and talking french - there must have been a hundred of them - WTF!
What the hell are they even doing in Bakersfield and why can't they go to a Burger King or Country Kitchen.
I hate them..
Today I am going to go early so I don't have to deal with them - I prefer to eat in the company of obese Americans and tweakers with tattoos...thank you very much..
I want to lodge a protest. Why did the ALDS ballgames stop recording? I did not see the end of 2 ballgames in the playoffs!!! For a woman who shares the same birthday as Derek Jeter, this is a catastrope. Must I stay at home to watch them in real time? SHall I take time off from my job to race home to see the game? Must I stop climbing so that I see the game in real time?
Oh - maybe I need to extend the recording option on the DVR to stop later........Stop Rant. Start New Rant.
Still protesting because I can't record The Voice, Dancing with the Stars and the Playoffs simultaeously. How can one choose between baseball, watching the frenchman exude charisma in motion, and see hopefulls singing their hearts out?
I thank some guy at some company for keeping the Roman Numerology accurate.
He's saved us all a lot of work.
Just too much old school shizz still on the MK market.
And now I see this retro-numbering craze. Geez.
MK iv vs. MK IV vs. Mk IV vs. Ivy Line vs. Mk iv vs (Mk I, II, & III) fighting in a cage match title fight like you've never before seen. In Fresno. This Sunday.
There was no free honey packets in the Yosemite cafeteria this weekend....I mean WHAT THE F*#K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you gonna charge 12+$ for dinner, give me some honey!
I really hate all the time and trouble it takes to re-balance my portfolio.
I hate having to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of taxable versus non-taxable bond funds.
I hate having to keep a four-figure balance in my checking account in order to collect interest.
I hate waiting for my woman to decide which Caribbean island we are going to this year.
I hate having young women throw themselves at me for my money.
I have a complete collection of Climbing and Rock & Ice that I'm selling.
I really hate not having SLR's problems. And his Climbing Magazines.
"...hell the flight attendants didn't even shave their armpits! Men!"
"...sitting in a prison chair in the sky..."
Double-dog Doh!
That's entirely bogus!
"Carnitage! Mmmm tasty. Then cake, and lots and lots of laughter, the teenage girl kind, some of the best laughter ever heard on the planet really. La famila, :-)"
Several grocery store owners claim Norway’s dairy conglomerate Tine, which regulates and controls the national market, still isn’t managing to produce enough butter to meet demand. Meanwhile, Tine’s role as market regulator remains under fire, food prices have been confirmed as the highest in Europe, and now the dairy has even landed in trouble over a controversial promotion.
Newspaper Aftenposten reported Wednesday that supplies of butter on grocery store shelves, especially in Oslo, aren’t lasting until the next delivery. Both the NorgesGruppen chain, which owns Kiwi, Spar, Meny, Joker and Ultra stores among others, report they’ve run empty for butter during the run-up to the Christmas holidays.
Who knows, you could meet the love of your life underneath that repairman's hat, t*r!
i'm focusing on my career right now :) plus i'm currently living in a rural area where most people have been married since high school... over the summer was going to start dating online, perhaps meet some folks farther afield, but deleted my profile... this has been kind of a big year... right now i need to focus on myself, and on healing... i feel lucky this pretty little spot i moved to, pretty far out in the country, is conducive to that :)
There was a HUGE freaking line at REI today. And I waited and was 5 minutes late to the dinner owners of the company I work for organized. On the way to the dinner I was nervous because I knew I will be a few minutes late. But when I got there I was one of the first people to arrive and felt stupid. :((
There was a HUGE freaking line at REI today. And I waited and was 5 minutes late to the dinner owners of the company I work for organized. On the way to the dinner I was nervous because I knew I will be a few minutes late. But when I got there I was one of the first people to arrive and felt stupid. :((
Of course you were at REI, internetwonderboy.
I showed a picture of you in line at REI to my old climbing partner and this was the first thing he said
"wehat is that, LOL the thinness is too cruxxorx you'll never make it wiht the 22cm screws, let's go NOOBz LOL die iceclimb"
Stupid NOOB, and you haven't been a skier long enough to satisfy my arbitrary time requirements.
Canadian Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve Theft: Police Close In On Culprits
MONTREAL - There has been a break in the case of a massive maple syrup heist, with police announcing that a months-long multi-jurisdictional search has yielded three arrests and the seizure of millions' worth of stolen sticky stuff.
Three people were nabbed Tuesday in connection with the theft of a large quantity of the national condiment from a warehouse in Quebec.
About 2.7 million kilos of maple syrup, worth up to $18 million, was reported missing after a routine inventory check last summer.
Or, if your preferred unit of measurement is pancakes, the stolen amount would have been enough to dump a one-tablespoon topping on a whopping 183 million flapjacks.
life sucks ---- too wet for bouldering --- should I go surfing tomorrow, or do work around the house that I should do --- Angeles forest is so nice after a good storm.
I might be forced to go to a movie ( that depends on what "she that must be obeyed" says ).
F*#kin' just got the email about our end of the year company lunch, you know, when the boss foots the bill and thanks us for another great year off hard work...
yeah, this year we have to pay for ourselves.
I just completed a 35 million dollar project WTF
i cannot find the power cord for my camera and i have a ton of recent photos to upload and share with my friends. i've been searching and searching and i just don't understand where it could be! i've never lost a camera power cord - or the power cord for anything, for that matter - i hope it didn't fall out of my truck somewhere :(
i hope posting this means i'll find it in a minute... that's how it usually works for me! :)
My dam computer is starting to act crazy
and is having memory problems.
If it goes completly BONKERS
I may have to resort to the OLD
way of communicating with people.
i love how i'm coming back to this thread like someone will have posted the cord's location. i just texted the girlfriends who were here for dinner last night - maybe one of them saw me put it somewhere! it was hectic - they came earlier than planned b/c i finally found a couch yesterday, and we moved it in. yes. up the stairs, all by ourselves. yeah!
For any of Tom Cosgriff's old buddies, I keep in contact with him, and he works for Statoil as an offshore drilling supervisor. Meaning he runs the whole rig. He has a masters in petroleum engineering.
He has been living in Norway for almost 20 years and says it is wonderful. Yeah, things are expensive, but pay is also high and work is easy to find.
He's thinking of moving back to Boulder. He has a 2 week on 2 week off schedule. He can live anywhere in the world, but misses the desert climbs.
I ran out of eggs, need to go to the store on Christmas eve. I wouldn't have to suffer so much if I had a wifi-connected smart fridge that detects the absence of eggs and places an order for delivery on Christmas morning. But the delivery person would probably just come too early and wake me up, or too late and interrupt the kids opening presents. It's so hard to get good service these days.
Had a grip of my gear stolen, truck wrecked, and then got roughed up pretty bad by a bunch of pissed off villagers while on an extended vacation in Peru AND then proceeded to get relentlessly hammered by a whole-freaking slew of internet armchair 3rd world travel experts who know exactly what happened even though they weren't there. It's been a tough week. Where's my Nano Puff? I think I left my Iphone in it and I need to call my Mom.
lolz! thanks cozmic. man,that pic is OLD! i forgot all about it - that was like 6 years ago! how funny, glad you found good use for it! thanks again for the laugh.
i don't really have fwp complaints tonight. i'm visiting my sister, who just got out of the davis med center where she'd been since tuesday. i'm feelin' pretty grateful tonight. i guess my first world wish would be that my loved ones stop having health problems, because it's really scary.
we're at our mom's, chilin' in front of the fire. hangin' out, watchin' antiques road show.
Thank you for telling us about your night t*r. That's really cute. lol
My evening is not much different. Since I went away for New Year's I promised my mom/grandma to spent some time with them. Highlight of the evening was showing them a video of some TV show host climbing Lost Arrow Spire. Since I climbed it, they wanted to see more details, and this video does an ok job explaining. My mom didn't quite understand what was the point of climbing a wall to the spire, if I had an easy hike to the actual high point of the 'mountain' (Yosemite point). Didn't know how to explain...
I'm really bummed because I don't know if I can do the Red River Gorge in March, the south of France in June and Spain in July and still have time to boulder in the Colorado high country in August. How can life be so cruel?
Okay, I don't really like Sirius radio 'cuz all the stations are lame. But my kids got it for me for Christmas, so I have it again in my Chevy truck. BUT, now it's set to the Pearl Jam station, which is really cool but I am sick of listening to Pearl Jam 'cuz all their songs are the same. But it's too much work to reach up and change the station to something else AND I might not like it as much as Pearl Jam even though I'm now walking around like a zombie humming, "...I've seen the whorled... through the rocking horse of time...."
I was hitchhiking back from Yosemite once (couldn't afford the gas let alone the car), and this Israeli guy gives me a ride (he negotiated for a place to stay). His family would be what we would consider upper class. During the long drive home I'm telling him about the problems I'd had with my moms used portable dishwasher and was asking for his help. (he was in university at the Technion and was also clearly smarter than me). He was unable conceive of the issue or the repair and told me that NO ONE had dishwashers back home. NO ONE. Too expensive. I'm like, "but my mom is poor and has a portable dishwasher....uhhh. " It made me consider the US standard of living.
I'm a telecommuter, and had to suffer through a few minutes of boredom, waiting for a file from another telecommuting co-worker, because her Internet connection drops when she uses her microwave. Upgrade your home wireless router already. Sheesh.
I just moved to LA, and the best climbing gym near my house is small, poorly ventilated, and chalk-dust fills the air. I have to wait for weekends or rearrange my weekday schedule to climb outside in beautiful sunshine and clean air.
Saw a TV ad for a pancake pan, looks like an oversized "camping pie" iron...the pitch includes shots of the DISASTERS that can occur while trying to use a spatula to flip pancakes....this gizmo, you flip THE WHOLE PAN....
Another FWP.....the cat doesn't like dry food so has to be fed canned....
The organic fruit home delivery guy put extra avocados in my box when I really wanted more oranges. Damn, going to have to log in and adjust my preferences.
Had to wait an HOUR in a HOT waiting room to see my doctor
That is for sure a first world problem. Two weeks ago, I had to walk three blocks in the searing heat to the ER in David, Panama. Cool, comfortable AC inside, and I only had to wait ten minutes to see the doctor. Total time spent, one hour. Total cost, thirty dollars.
My buddy was over last night and BARELY leaned on my wife's $350 nordic racing pole and snapped it! Now I have to give her mine if I want her to keep racing with me this season.
Getting my heart rate monitor on my running watch to work correctly. Arrrgh...without it working correctly it doesn't calculate expended calories correctly. Am I going to have to wear my GPS watch with HRM (which isn't working correctly) with my Polar Heart Rate Monitor only watch???????? Maybe if I just shut my pie hole more I wouldn't have to worry about expended calories.
when i go for a run in the city and everyone on the street is smoking and all the air along the whole block is saturated with cigarette smoke. f*#k i hate tobacco smokers!
:) I want my iPhone to work. Plus the new grass I planted isn't coming in. I also deeply wish my neighbor's kids would stop trampling my garden. The big one is... I really hope my kid would sleep in tomorrow.
Yes, I am also happy. These are more entertaining than "real issues."
The free "Peets" coffee at the lodge doesn't taste good enough so I have to pay $5 for espresso and add some hot water buy its still "Peets" so it's STILL not good enough.
Wanting a third chain ring for my road bike that was custom made in Italy, and has specially fitted for-my-hands Campi components and finding out that it may need to be fussed with somewhat to get the extra chain ring on. Oy Vey...and looks like it might cost close to a grand! All this so I don't have to huff and puff so much going up steeper grades. Age is a b***it....ch.
But she's my baby so ... it will probably be done...
Isn't picking, washing, sorting, and boxing processing enough? I guess not. Now, that label needs a sticker on it, too.
Chiquita Banana stickers were fun. And you didn't have to peel the sticker off if you didn't feel like it because nobody ever eats the banana peel.
Now, I suspect because the cashier can no longer be bothered to know the difference between a Poblano Chile and a potato, a grocer who sells produce without stickers stuck to it stands a good chance of going broke.
Let us know!