What first world problem did you have today?

[MrSquished]

Have you tried sounding out the knuckles?

This is the way. Learned it as a kid and it's still working in middle age

 

[Red Squirrel]

Our water softener blew its top (some kind of seal failure between the resin tank and the mechanism on top) overnight yesterday. Fortunately it's in our basement, which is unfinished, but we have a lot of stuff down there. Based upon the timeframe that my network went down (UPS failed because it's on the floor and got wet), I estimate the water was running for ~6 hours. Wife and I worked non-stop from 6AM to ~8:30PM trying to clean up the mess, and there's plenty left to do.

Edit: the softener is less than 2 years old; our last one went 15 years with no issues until it just wouldn't recharge anymore

Ouch, that sucks! Sounds like quite the mess.

 

[Micrornd]

My tighty whiteys shrunk.
Even Cialis wouldn't stretch them out.
Guess it's commando for a while

 

[Motostu]

Yes. We do have a floor drain that helped a little, but the builder and concrete guys didn't bother to slope the slab right, so water still got to a large portion of the basement.

Turns out it wasn't a seal that failed. The lip at the top of the tank failed.

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[sdifox]

Why isn't there an easier way to remember the number of days in each month? That stupid poem is no use at all.

Had to work out a date today and was going "Thirty days hath October....no wait, is that right?...Thirty days hath November, Feburary, June and December...no that can't be right...Thirty days hath September, and the rest I can't remember...."

Nor could I remember how to do the knuckle-counting thing either, before someone suggests that.

Why didn't they (the Romans or the Anglo-Saxons, or the early Christians or whatever fools were responsible for this mess) make it something simple, like "the first five months have 31 days the rest have 30" No, they had to make it all unnecessarily convoluted so nobody can ever remember it.

 

[pmv]

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The trouble is you still have to remember which end of which hand to start at, and remember to omit the thumbs.

I guess the thing to remember is that they alternate, except it goes wrong with July/August (which, I gather, is a result of the egotism of Roman Emperors and their respective fan bases)

 

[lxskllr]

Should've been 13 months with day 0 being new years day, and it would have no month.

 

[sdifox]

The trouble is you still have to remember which end of which hand to start at, and remember to omit the thumbs.

I guess the thing to remember is that they alternate, except it goes wrong with July/August (which, I gather, is a result of the egotism of Roman Emperors and their respective fan bases)

Then tattoo the months on your knuckles. Normal people just pull up the calendar app on their phone.

 

[snoopy7548]

30 days hath September, April, June, and November. But February has 31.

That's how I remember it.

 

[sdifox]

30 days hath September, April, June, and November. But February has 31.

That's how I remember it.

I knew you were an illegal alien. 31 days in Feb...

 

[highland145]

Spend 37 years in low finance based around month end figures. Last day of every month is burned into my brain.

Hmm, I might go choke some people now.

Night.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Come to think of it it's rare I need to recall off hand how many days a month has. If I'm in a situation where I need to, chances are I'm already looking at a calendar anyway since I'm checking my schedule or booking something or what not.

 

[sdifox]

There is this random USB Camera that shows up in my devices list every time I start my machine and I don't have a usb camera. So I figure fine, I'll just go disable it in the device manager. Then it dawned on me that the document scanner I am using is really a USB Camera. Cuz in Device Manager it is called Document Scanner...

 

[IronWing]

There is this random USB Camera that shows up in my devices list every time I start my machine and I don't have a usb camera. So I figure fine, I'll just go disable it in the device manager. Then it dawned on me that the document scanner I am using is really a USB Camera. Cuz in Device Manager it is called Document Scanner...

And for a few minutes you thought you were going to get to watch your neighbors' sexy time.

 

[sdifox]

And for a few minutes you thought you were going to get to watch your neighbors' sexy time.

err no, I know I don't have a camera connected to this computer lol and webcams don't exactly have high magnification nor light gathering power.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Ran 30' of 18/7 control wire in the garage, over rafters and fed to where I wanted it. Made all the connections. Powered up the device. Nada. Nothin. No workey. Lights on the control unit worked, but not the remote device.

Rechecked all the connections, all looked good. Used squeeze splices, so figured one was bad, but no way to tell which one, so remade them all.

Nada. Squat.

Checked again. Not really a place to use a meter to check continuity.

Screw it. Ran new wire of a different type.

Bingo.

Working gooooood.


Or so I thought. Tried to log into it and got a comm error. Using a POE adapter (that worked earlier this morning) and I have power to the control unit, but no connect or traffic indicators on the adapter. Replace the POE adapter.

Bingo.

All good now.

No reason to believe the two issues are related, since the control wire to the remote device and power/LAN aren't connected to each other in any way.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Too much work, not enough time.

 

[pmv]

Got a really rotten stinking cold. Don't know if it's COVID or not (seems to match the symptoms of the current variant, but they are very cold-like). Don't really want to pay for a test (and have to stick a cotton bud thing up my nose, and I'll probably do it wrong and not get a clear result anyway).

 

[sdifox]

Got a really rotten stinking cold. Don't know if it's COVID or not (seems to match the symptoms of the current variant, but they are very cold-like). Don't really want to pay for a test (and have to stick a cotton bud thing up my nose, and I'll probably do it wrong and not get a clear result anyway).

wait, you don't get to pick up government provided test kits from supermarkets for free?

 

[pmv]

wait, you don't get to pick up government provided test kits from supermarkets for free?

No, they stopped the free tests a while ago. In line with generally not really bothering about the virus any more.

 

[sdifox]

No, they stopped the free tests a while ago. In line with generally not really bothering about the virus any more.

I still have ten tests left at home so maybe they stopped giving them out here as well.

 

[IronWing]

Swimming in the ocean is a journey of personal discovery. You find sand in places you didn't know you had.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I never took down my Christmas lights, summer just went by so fast that I never had a chance to do it. I turned them on just to make sure they still work and one strand is dead. FFS. They make these so cheap now, they just don't last. These are only a few years old. And since they're in series now it's a pain to try to find the fault.

I might just say screw it and buy commercial grade C9's. At least each bulb runs at 120v and has it's own conversion circuitry so if it fails it's only one bulb not the whole strand.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Swimming in the ocean is a journey of personal discovery. You find sand in places you didn't know you had.

Beach sand in your Virginia? It's more likely than you think.

 

[highland145]

Beach sand in your Virginia? It's more likely than you think.

He just now found he had a vagina.