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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 12, 2016 0:32:14 GMT -5
Oh, and here's another thing that happened just to give me another little anoying zinger.
Got a bunch of DVDs from the library, mostly older films where it's the only copy in the entire system. So I popped one into the player tonight but it was rejected as unplayable. Turns out it's in the PAL format. WTF? It gave no indiction on the cover that it was PAL unless you looked at the small print on the back of the case. Why they have this in the NYC system where hardly anyone has a PAL format dvd player is beyond me
I got around it by watching it on the ancient laptop I'm currently using which gives you just a few chances to change your DVD region code. 4 changes is all you get. If I change it back, I'm down to 2
Just annoying. And venting.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 12, 2016 5:07:16 GMT -5
^^ Sometimes it feels like the universe is conspiring against you, Ish. I'm sure we've all had periods in our life like this. Hang on in there; it'll pass.
Hope your eye gets better soon.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 12, 2016 8:50:19 GMT -5
As Charles Bukowski wrote... death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood… no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse… The Shoelace - Poem by Charles Bukowski a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard… it’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood… no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse… not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left … The dread of life is that swarm of trivialities that can kill quicker than cancer and which are always there - license plates or taxes or expired driver’s license, or hiring or firing, doing it or having it done to you, or roaches or flies or a broken hook on a screen, or out of gas or too much gas, the sink’s stopped-up, the landlord’s drunk, the president doesn’t care and the governor’s crazy. light switch broken, mattress like a porcupine; $105 for a tune-up, carburetor and fuel pump at sears roebuck; and the phone bill’s up and the market’s down and the toilet chain is broken, and the light has burned out - the hall light, the front light, the back light, the inner light; it’s darker than hell and twice as expensive. then there’s always crabs and ingrown toenails and people who insist they’re your friends; there’s always that and worse; leaky faucet, christ and christmas; blue salami, 9 day rains, 50 cent avocados and purple liverwurst.
or making it as a waitress at norm’s on the split shift, or as an emptier of bedpans, or as a carwash or a busboy or a stealer of old lady’s purses leaving them screaming on the sidewalks with broken arms at the age of 80.
suddenly 2 red lights in your rear view mirror and blood in your underwear; toothache, and $979 for a bridge $300 for a gold tooth, and china and russia and america, and long hair and short hair and no hair, and beards and no faces, and plenty of zigzag but no pot, except maybe one to piss in and the other one around your gut.
with each broken shoelace out of one hundred broken shoelaces, one man, one woman, one thing enters a madhouse.
so be careful when you bend over. Charles Bukowski
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 12, 2016 9:12:08 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about all that Ish
When I went through my first divorce, I seriously thought the world got turned inside out and that I somehow must've been in Hell, and it was a perfect match but just kept slowly killing me.
There are just rough patches like that.
Sending my positive energies your way buddy.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 12, 2016 10:08:20 GMT -5
Oh, and here's another thing that happened just to give me another little anoying zinger. Got a bunch of DVDs from the library, mostly older films where it's the only copy in the entire system. So I popped one into the player tonight but it was rejected as unplayable. Turns out it's in the PAL format. WTF? It gave no indiction on the cover that it was PAL unless you looked at the small print on the back of the case. Why they have this in the NYC system where hardly anyone has a PAL format dvd player is beyond me I got around it by watching it on the ancient laptop I'm currently using which gives you just a few chances to change your DVD region code. 4 changes is all you get. If I change it back, I'm down to 2 Just annoying. And venting. Venting is good! Sorry to hear about the avalanche of problems. If it helps to share misery, a few years ago my dad died after years of Alzheimer's... two weeks before my mom's knees finally gave in, requiring a double knee replacement. Mom wasn't even out of the hospital when my sister (her only other child) died in a car crash. To say those were lousy days is an understatement, but I can vouch that with time, everything passes. (It just feels uncomfortably long when we're in the middle of things!) Hang in there, Ish!
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Post by Gene on Oct 12, 2016 12:21:21 GMT -5
Almost forgot to submit my midterm grades today. Apparently, that's a fireable offense despite no one knowing why we need to enter them into the system instead of just distributing them ourselves. Ah, the educrats... You don't know the half of it. When I have time, I'll have to share the story of the Chicken Wing Oversight Committee.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 12, 2016 12:36:10 GMT -5
You don't know the half of it. When I have time, I'll have to share the story of the Chicken Wing Oversight Committee. 37 years of teaching might make me ready to hear it. Whenever you're ready...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 12, 2016 15:31:18 GMT -5
Well the eye wash thing seemed to do the trick. It feels good wink-wink. Still slightly puffy underneath but not sore. Hopefully, by the time of my eye exam in 24 hours it will look decent enough
Today was the day Best Buy said the new laptop will be available for store pickup. Started calling at noon to confirm that since it's a bit of a long walk. Pressed the buttons to speak to a representative and it rang. And rang and rang and rang. No recording, no "Your call is important to us, please hold and listen to some Eagles music". For 3 hours I would call and never could get a human to pick up the phone. The store's website won't give me answers either
I'm convinced now someone is sticking pins in a voodoo doll. So finally I decided to trek all the way there and find out personally. Like putting your hand on a sizzling frying pan to check if it's hot
Well, what do you know? It's there, it's ready
And now I'm home and pooped. Maybe the devil blinked. Maybe tonight when I start setting up the laptop the curse returns.
Or maybe I've burned off all the bad vibes. We'll see
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 12, 2016 15:54:31 GMT -5
Well the eye wash thing seemed to do the trick. It feels good wink-wink. Still slightly puffy underneath but not sore. Hopefully, by the time of my eye exam in 24 hours it will look decent enough Today was the day Best Buy said the new laptop will be available for store pickup. Started calling at noon to confirm that since it's a bit of a long walk. Pressed the buttons to speak to a representative and it rang. And rang and rang and rang. No recording, no "Your call is important to us, please hold and listen to some Eagles music". For 3 hours I would call and never could get a human to pick up the phone. The store's website won't give me answers either I'm convinced now someone is sticking pins in a voodoo doll. So finally I decided to trek all the way there and find out personally. Like putting your hand on a sizzling frying pan to check if it's hot Well, what do you know? It's there, it's ready And now I'm home and pooped. Maybe the devil blinked. Maybe tonight when I start setting up the laptop the curse returns. Or maybe I've burned off all the bad vibes. We'll see You'd think they'd respect their customers that just spend hundreds of dollars with them better than that. I think we need to hire Dan to write an inflammatory article in the local newspaper about Best Buy and the way that they treat their customers. I know he's a talented journalist and well known for his dislike of the Eagles.
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Post by Gene on Oct 12, 2016 16:27:08 GMT -5
You don't know the half of it. When I have time, I'll have to share the story of the Chicken Wing Oversight Committee. 37 years of teaching might make me ready to hear it. Whenever you're ready... A few years ago, the college hired a new chef to run the cafeteria at one of its campuses. He was soon fired for calling the campus president a "stupid b-----" to her face and in front of other staff and students. The incident that led up to that confrontation is as follows: In an effort to increase business in the cafeteria, the new head chef began serving daily specials. The most popular of these was "Wing Wednesday." It was so popular, in fact, that the cafeteria completely sold out of wings for the first few weeks that they were offered. The normal response to this would be to order more wings in following weeks to meet the demand. The campus president's response was to form an ad hoc "Cafeteria Resource" committee comprised of teaching faculty and administrators to oversee the ordering of chicken wings for Wing Wednesday. An email was sent out campus wide proudly announcing the new committee. When the president went to the cafeteria to tell the chef about this, it didn't go over very well. Copies of the email began appearing on campus bulletin boards with clip art chickens and drum sticks in the margins leading to a ban on unapproved postings in both the hallways and offices. Wing Wednesday was soon discontinued.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 12, 2016 18:36:24 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my father was a teacher. He taught English and Drama at three high schools and a teachers' college, but only for two years at each school. He was always denied tenure despite great success with students. The problem was the school bureaucracy. It wasn't just that he disliked bureaucracy; he was unable to hide his contempt for the bureaucrats themselves. When McGraw-Hill started recruiting teachers for corporate jobs, he jumped and never went back.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 12, 2016 20:40:45 GMT -5
The house doesn't feel right without Greta. I'm so sorry to read this, hondo. Hang in there. I'll keep your family in my thoughts.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 12, 2016 21:42:30 GMT -5
Spent almost 4 hours with the new laptop this evening, a Dell Windows 10 model. So much time spent with registration, downloading and installing updates, downloading a few programs and whatnot
There was one big frustrating bugaboo tonight and that was connection to my wireless WiFi. No matter what I did with the internet settings, I couldn't get a list of available signals to connect to. Too much time spent with mucho frustration until I decided to deal with it later and use an Ethernet cable for now. At least I can now go on-line and research the difficulty with that issue.
When I bought this laptop, they threw in a free 6 month Kaspersky Internet Security Suite. Now though I see Dell included free McAfee for one year. I used to have that and chucked it because it was expensive, intrusive and resource draining. I'll mull it over if I want to keep it for the year since it's free and my laptop is pretty powerful.
So, it could have been worse. Have a lot of re-training to do with this new toy. Have a camera for Skyping too. My eye is looking fairly decent as well
It's a new dawn, it's a new day
PS-One thing I was really surprised and pleased about was after downloading Google Chrome and signing into Google, I got back all of my extensions and favorites automatically. Yippee
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 13, 2016 5:20:30 GMT -5
Happy for you , Ish. Yes, everyday is a new thing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 9:25:28 GMT -5
Biting my tongue --
Question from the corner office -- "How do you spell 'moron'?"
Oh, the answers I had to suppress ...
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