ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I guess I caused Covid because our trip got cancelled. 

Also LED light bulbs don't last as long as they say they will /echo

LED lightbulbs do not last nearly as long as they claim they will. 

 oldviolin wrote:
 

We prefer the term "fuck off." :WINKYTHING:

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yea when I had mine they basically said congratulations you're old and have arthritis now GTFO of my sight.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Ugh...old people...

 sirdroseph wrote:
 
Xrays didn't show anything to operate on. Radiologist didn't comment on the mystery floating thing that looks like an oyster, so it must be nothing, right? Anyway, the meds are making me queasy still so it must be working, right? :lol:

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yea with you on that, my shoulders are shot.

Due to advancing age, my shoulders hurt. It used to be my left but I started protecting it by overusing my right. Now my right hurts, and has been off and on for a couple of years. I can take naprosyn and make it feel all better sort of sometimes and sometimes it doesn't make a difference. My boss said I should go get a cortisone shot and if that works for a while but wears off, that's basically saying it needs surgery. So I called and asked if I could get a shot but for some reason the dang Dr. wanted me to go in so I went in and she says mm-hmm mm-hah and gives me a script for SAIDs as opposed to NSAIDS and oo boy did they make me queasy but I might get to avoid more invasive stuff for a while, right? so okay good. Then she sent me around the corner to get an X-ray in a place that used to be a hair salon but now it's a freelance X-ray place so anyway they shot 4 ways of my shoulder and the one seemed okay, a little rough, and one has the start of a little bone spur maybe 2 or 3mm and that probably accounts for the pain when I move my arm to one particular spot but otherwise she didn't see anything crazy except for well one enormous blob of something that she could only guess might be what used to be my rotator cuff, now just sort of wadded up and stuffed in the void like a rag in the gas tank. So if the SAIDs don't really do the trick, I'm in for an MRI, a scraping-off of that bone spur and I don't know what they'll do, glue that rotator cuff back together? Seems like a longshot. So the complaint is ow, I hope I can sleep without fear of rolling over onto this shoulder.

Also, we leave for New Orleans in 2 weeks and if some SOB gets me sick in the next two weeks I'm going to stab him. I already know who the prime suspect is, guy came in and looked over my shoulder for half an hour, snuffling and coughing and touching everything. GET. OUT. 

On the happy front, the Dollar Store has a shelf full of hand sanitizer.

 lily34 wrote: 
soylent green is people
 
soylent green is idiots

 Beaker wrote: 

today especially. oy!

idiots.
people are idiots.

 winter wrote: 

that is exactly how they operate.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Could be - haven't had to hire one yet.

 winter wrote: 
Lawyers? 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if they had competition in the letter-carrying business, they'd be out of business.

Who else gets to charge for a service before it's even needed and offer no guarantee that they'll even do it - and no recourse if they don't? 

Porcupine Tree.  'nuff said.

At least you don't have to support them when they have problems with their computers, that would be me. 

My complaint; Pearl Jam. That is all.

Today's complaint is an oldie but a goodie: The Post Office. They're privatized, you know, not a government agency anymore. That's why they can't stay 10 minutes late to accommodate a customer that spends a quarter of a million dollars with them every year. I kill me.
 
Also, you know they're shutting down a lot of rural post offices and I'm all for that. I drive by one every day that serves about 100 addresses in an unincorporated area, and it's 5 miles from a real post office. Cost to run that little facility is surely in the six figures. But in town, the post office is trying to cut costs too. To that end, they're limiting lobby hours. Saturdays, they're open from 9 to 11. Excuse me, but if I want to spend money with you, you pretty much have to be open. Lobby hours have got to be the least effective way to cut costs, unless you're thinking "payroll saved: $100, cost savings from not delivering product that UPS took instead: $15..." etc. and not counting money taken in. I've stood in line in that lobby at lunchtime and I'll bet you're doing 1000 dollars an hour. Good idea, stopping that. You could stop Saturday delivery, fine with me because it all eventually gets to me but I work for a living... I can't use your services if you're not open. And don't say to use the website because that's just begging me to go to UPS again.
 
ahh.