Post by mrsukyankee on Sept 26, 2017 1:51:03 GMT -5
Ugh. Went to the gym for my early morning workout and there was Gorka's face on the news (UK news). He was doubling and tripling down on support for Trump's idiocy on tweets and the NHS. Luckily the UK newspeople weren't having it and were bringing in a bit of reality and pushing him on it. Blech. Not the way I wanted to start the day.
I'm debating whether to work out at work today. I skipped yesterday at my regular gym, so I should, but I really REALLY don't want to shower and possibly have students walk in. No one should see that much of their own future. It's either that or be gross for 3 hours after the gym.
Post by eponinepontmercy on Sept 26, 2017 7:30:55 GMT -5
We have friends using our netflix account, and all they watch are stand-up comedy specials. So, our recommended shows are ALL comedy specials. I'm amused, but it's also annoying. It's $8 a month - get your own account. (DH signed in when he was there one night so the kids could watch something.)
We have friends using our netflix account, and all they watch are stand-up comedy specials. So, our recommended shows are ALL comedy specials. I'm amused, but it's also annoying. It's $8 a month - get your own account. (DH signed in when he was there one night so the kids could watch something.)
Also, read a book or something. LOL
Can you set them up with their own profile on your account? My ILs use ours, and my husband set them one up specifically so we wouldn't keep getting recommendations for whatever garabge shows they watch.
I hate my commute. I switched my hours this fall to come in a little earlier, and the traffic is a goddamn nightmare no matter which way I go. It took me an hour and 20 minutes yesterday on the back roads, and an hour and fifteen on the highway today, plus the 10 minute walk from my garage to my office. It's 9 miles! I think I've been on time once since schools started back up, and I'm leaving earlier now than I did when I was coming in at 7:30 over the summer.
We have friends using our netflix account, and all they watch are stand-up comedy specials. So, our recommended shows are ALL comedy specials. I'm amused, but it's also annoying. It's $8 a month - get your own account. (DH signed in when he was there one night so the kids could watch something.)
We have friends using our netflix account, and all they watch are stand-up comedy specials. So, our recommended shows are ALL comedy specials. I'm amused, but it's also annoying. It's $8 a month - get your own account. (DH signed in when he was there one night so the kids could watch something.)
Also, read a book or something. LOL
You should put the child lock PIN on your account. Then they wouldn't be able to watch anything unless they asked you for the pin. I'm curious to see if they have the balls to actually mention it to you. You could play it off as just wanting to keep your DD from watching inappropriate shows but really it's to keep them from watching on your account. You could change the PIN every few weeks by saying, "oh yeah, DD saw the PIN so we had to change it again." Make it really inconvenient for them until they just get their own account.
Post by eponinepontmercy on Sept 26, 2017 7:55:22 GMT -5
4speedy, tacokick, I'm pretty sure DH told them it was okay to use. I'll probably bring it up in a joking/ passive-aggressive way when we see them next weekend, and gently suggest they get their own account. (I'm a total chicken.)
4speedy , tacokick , I'm pretty sure DH told them it was okay to use. I'll probably bring it up in a joking/ passive-aggressive way when we see them next weekend, and gently suggest they get their own account. (I'm a total chicken.)
Then it's not their fault, it's your H's. Tell him to deal with it and you're changing the netflix password.
I'm annoyed with IKEA. I loved my couch but they discontinued it - and the slipcovers that caused me to love it so much - so I gave that couch to my sister and bought another one. The new couch is also slipcovered but you have to completely take apart the couch to change the base slipcover. So I never change the base slipcover. I was checking out the new IKEA app yesterday and they brought back my old couch. Argh.
I was out of town all last week and totally without a phone (and thus) internet for several of those days. I feel like there are SO MANY THINGS that I missed and I'm basically unable to catch up at this point because the news just keeps happening.
Post by sparrowsong on Sept 26, 2017 14:00:27 GMT -5
I ordered Thai delivery for lunch and it arrived in seven minutes! I wish ordering food was always like that! It's so good too, Tom kha soup. I love when something is exactly what you were craving.
The surgeon said most people can get back to typing about 2-4 weeks after surgery. FUUUUUCK. I will have 1.5 weeks of combined sick and annual leave when I go back to work.
I had a first this morning. It was the first time the EBS alarm went off on the television and I actually thought: "That's it, Trumpf is getting us all killed."
In the past, I wouldn't have given that a thought.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Sept 26, 2017 14:46:23 GMT -5
I actually have a good random.
I went to the grocery store yesterday to get cottage cheese and as I walked up to the cheese and yogurt case, I saw that there were several clerks standing around it and looking anxious. One turned to me and said "be careful, there's a squirrel loose in the dairy section." I thought it was a joke because there were some cups of yogurt knocked over on the ground. The clerk was dead serious.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Work wants me to go to a trade show in Massachusetts next week.
At least it's just one day. In the past I've stayed overnight, but I'm at the point in my life where even a hotel room isn't much fun anymore.
Last year I drove my car up. This year I'm taking the train. It'll require a Lyft/cab from the train station to the venue but at least work will reimburse me (and I can get the points on my credit card). And they're also letting me take the high-speed Acela train rather than the regular Amtrak car so that's neat. And every time I take Amtrak I get the little cheese and cracker tray from the cafe car, so I'm stupidly excited about that.
I wish East Coast train travel wasn't so pricey. We went to the Pacific Northwest for vacation a few years ago and took Amtrak from Seattle to Portland ... $25 each and beautiful scenery. I keep telling MH that I'd love to do a train trip to Boston or DC as a vacation sometime, but he likes having the car to make stops (plus most of our road trips involve a visit to a brewery, which are oftentimes outside the city limits).
A cross-country train trip also sounds like it could be fun ... I'd like to at least try the Chicago to San Francisco route. And I'd like to do a big Europe train trip as well (we did London-Paris and Paris-Brussels last year).
Work wants me to go to a trade show in Massachusetts next week.
At least it's just one day. In the past I've stayed overnight, but I'm at the point in my life where even a hotel room isn't much fun anymore.
Last year I drove my car up. This year I'm taking the train. It'll require a Lyft/cab from the train station to the venue but at least work will reimburse me (and I can get the points on my credit card). And they're also letting me take the high-speed Acela train rather than the regular Amtrak car so that's neat. And every time I take Amtrak I get the little cheese and cracker tray from the cafe car, so I'm stupidly excited about that.
I wish East Coast train travel wasn't so pricey. We went to the Pacific Northwest for vacation a few years ago and took Amtrak from Seattle to Portland ... $25 each and beautiful scenery. I keep telling MH that I'd love to do a train trip to Boston or DC as a vacation sometime, but he likes having the car to make stops (plus most of our road trips involve a visit to a brewery, which are oftentimes outside the city limits).
A cross-country train trip also sounds like it could be fun ... I'd like to at least try the Chicago to San Francisco route. And I'd like to do a big Europe train trip as well (we did London-Paris and Paris-Brussels last year).
Post by pixy0stix on Sept 26, 2017 15:36:56 GMT -5
We had a house cleaner lined up to give our house a "clean what we missed" cleaning for our annual home visit for the adoption agency. She canceled because she had a family emergency. She said she'd be there tomorrow for certain. Bets on if she actually shows up?
We have friends using our netflix account, and all they watch are stand-up comedy specials. So, our recommended shows are ALL comedy specials. I'm amused, but it's also annoying. It's $8 a month - get your own account. (DH signed in when he was there one night so the kids could watch something.)
Also, read a book or something. LOL
Create a profile for them. I have a profile for myself, each of my kids, my sister and BIL and their kids (who I share an account with). It is great because we watch some of the same shows and we don't have to try and figure out which episodes we are on.
Post by sparrowsong on Sept 26, 2017 18:08:52 GMT -5
I keep a basket of candy in my exam room, mostly as a treat for kids after I have pried open their eyes to use dilating drops. Occasionally an adult will ask if they can have a piece which I'm fine with. What's amazing to me is how fast the candy disappears. I can only think that when the patients are alone in there,not infrequently are they taking whole handfuls and stashing it in their pockets/purse without a word to me.
I'm more amused than anything. I just buy those cheap combo bags with dum dums and tootsie rolls etc at the grocery or dollar store. Maybe it's just that I'm not a sweet tooth myself, but I can't believe how many people just go nuts over free candy.
Post by jeaniebueller on Sept 26, 2017 18:26:12 GMT -5
I am really down in the dumps lately. To where I don't know if I need an AD again or just ride it out. Things with my H and I haven't been good. My BF has become better friends with someone else and now when the 3 of us hang out, I feel really left out and it hurts. I am very unmotivated at work. I haven't felt this way in a long time and it sucks.
I am really down in the dumps lately. To where I don't know if I need an AD again or just ride it out. Things with my H and I haven't been good. My BF has become better friends with someone else and now when the 3 of us hang out, I feel really left out and it hurts. I am very unmotivated at work. I haven't felt this way in a long time and it sucks.