What first world problem did you have today?

[igor_kavinski]

True enough, but I just never learned to drive, and turns out walking is at least as fast, and much more reliable, than the bus.

You sound like my long lost twin. I hate bus too and prefer walking. At least that way I don't have to suffer the bus stopping every now and then and having to stay vigilant about the location of the bus and not missing my stop. Walking is simply just more liberating and calming on the mind and body. I do know how to drive but haven't got a license. It's a good thing. I keep getting visions that I will run someone over if I drive. My mind wanders too much for me to be able to keep my eyes on the road and not lose myself in some stupid thought.

 

[igor_kavinski]

It was all far less time consuming when I felt well enough to cycle everywhere, though.

When I did ride a bicycle or motorbike, I was a hazard on wheels. It's best for the entire world that I just walk.

 

[pmv]

You sound like my long lost twin. I hate bus too and prefer walking. At least that way I don't have to suffer the bus stopping every now and then and having to stay vigilant about the location of the bus and not missing my stop. Walking is simply just more liberating and calming on the mind and body. I do know how to drive but haven't got a license. It's a good thing. I keep getting visions that I will run someone over if I drive. My mind wanders too much for me to be able to keep my eyes on the road and not lose myself in some stupid thought.

Absolutely (regarding the bus). For a while used to try to use them but soon realised they (a) usually took ludicrously indirect routes, and (b) were constantly getting stuck in traffic jams or behind roadworks, etc, and thus it was invariably faster to walk (and _way_ faster to cycle). There is of course the Tube, which I used to commute to work by a long time ago, but that just got more-and-more expensive, and would go through periods where the reliability was horrifically bad, and the overcrowding almost unbearable, so even then I'd often walk instead, to avoid ending up hyperventilating while stuck in a packed carriage in a train that had mysteriously stopped in the tunnel for no reason.

 

[Brainonska511]

I have to go to Florida for a Sunday meeting. Fortunately, I'll be there for less than a day.

 

[Chaotic42]

I have figured out what the people who wrote early 2000s printer drivers and software are up to. They now write discussion board and test taking software for universities. The free-form entry quiz I just took has buttons for super- and sub-script, but no button for "go back to normal", so you just type everything out and select each super/sub and push the button.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Click it again to toggle off?

 

[Red Squirrel]

The food industry has been very aggressive in telling people the best way to lose weight is to exercise. The best way to lose weight is to eat less. Run a mile? Good job you burned 100 calories, you can now eat 2 tbsp of peanuts!

My favourite is commercials that show people being active and then crack open a can of pop, like drinking pop is part of a healthy active lifestyle. Need that sugar for energy!

I guess the commercials would be boring if it just showed a guy sitting at the computer coding.

 

[BoomerD]

I just realized I replied to the very first post in this thread because I'm a moron.

#firstworldproblems

Dude...I've told you that for years...more than a decade.

 

[Chaotic42]

Click it again to toggle off?

Oh you sweet summer child. That makes it double subscript. Continual clicking goes lower to a point. Does the superscript button go back up? No. No it does not.

 

[Brainonska511]

I have to go to Florida for a Sunday meeting. Fortunately, I'll be there for less than a day.

And my flight into MIA got delayed because some orange VIP turd was apparently also flying in at the same time, slowing arrivals...

 

[BoomerD]

I use a relatively small pellet stove for heat in my 1700 sq/ft, 2 story house. We have Cadet electric wall heaters...but they suck...and can be a fire hazard...so we limit how much they're used. A couple of days ago, it didn't want to start...Finally, after completely filling the firebox with smoke...it lit. Last night, the pellet stove started throwing error codes.

6 Blinks : Indicates that the control has calculated poor or incomplete combustion occurring for more than 25 minutes. A six blink status may be set if the stove is allowed to run out of pellets. To reset, turn mode selector to "OFF" then back on to the desired mode. (turn it off then turn it back on...where have we heard that shit before?) If the unit was not out of pellets, see Troubleshooting section for more details.

A 6 blink status may be caused by several things: 1. Blocked or partially blocked flue. 2. Blocked or partially blocked inlet air. a. Backdraft damper on the inlet pipe may be stuck closed. b. If outside air is installed, the inlet cover may be blocked. 3. The air chamber under the burnpot may be filled with fines and small bits of ash. 4. The holes in the burnpot may be getting filled with ash or carbon buildup. 5. Combustion blower fan blades may need cleaned. 6. Fuel restrictions as noted above.

Shut it down and did a quick clean of the burn pot...which kind of helped...but something was still wrong. "lazy flames, pellets still not burning completely...so, today, I tore the thing apart. Did a full "annual" clean including running a brush around the inside of the exhaust pipe. Of course, when I cleaned the feeder chamber, I managed to put the cover back on wrong...and the stove threw different error codes and wouldn't start.

2 Blinks: Indicates an open feed circuit, typically from pressure switch or hopper switch. Blink status automatically clears when feed circuit is complete. Does not blink if door/ hopper is opened when stove is off. The cover being askew

fckn fck...took me a while to figure that out...Once I took the back apart again, found the wonky cover, replaced that and put things back together...again...VOILA! We have fire! A side benefit...for some reason...it's now operating quieter than it ever did since it was new!

 

[Red Squirrel]

A regular wood stove doesn't throw error codes and you can get your fuel from the forest.

 

[mindless1]

My favourite is commercials that show people being active and then crack open a can of pop, like drinking pop is part of a healthy active lifestyle. Need that sugar for energy!

I guess the commercials would be boring if it just showed a guy sitting at the computer coding.

Okay BUT, if you are very active, then the sugar gets fed to your muscles or at least that happens soon enough, instead of your liver having to compensate.

I was plenty healthy as an active youth while eating and drinking just about anything. Sitting around coding per the suggested example, not so much.

In other words, health is a sum of all decisions made. If you keep active, you avoid a lot of the pitfalls that sedentary people face. I suppose that's a double edged sword in that more healthy people are more able to stay active, kind of like a black hole's gravity where you want to keep your critical escape velocity high enough to not get sucked in.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, let yourself get too ill and you end up with digestive and or sleep problems and it's all downhill from there. Eat/sleep/exercise, all an important part of the health triangle.

 

[BoomerD]

A regular wood stove doesn't throw error codes and you can get your fuel from the forest.

Yeah, but fuck all that work...I've cut trees and cut firewood before. I prefer going into the garage, grabbing a 40 lb. bag of pellets, dumping it in the hopper. MUCH easier.

 

[snoopy7548]

Okay BUT, if you are very active, then the sugar gets fed to your muscles or at least that happens soon enough, instead of your liver having to compensate.

I was plenty healthy as an active youth while eating and drinking just about anything. Sitting around coding per the suggested example, not so much.

In other words, health is a sum of all decisions made. If you keep active, you avoid a lot of the pitfalls that sedentary people face. I suppose that's a double edged sword in that more healthy people are more able to stay active, kind of like a black hole's gravity where you want to keep your critical escape velocity high enough to not get sucked in.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, let yourself get too ill and you end up with digestive and or sleep problems and it's all downhill from there. Eat/sleep/exercise, all an important part of the health triangle.

Yep. I was just thinking yesterday how much soda/candy I used to eat as a kid, and it's amazing I never got diabetes or any health conditions. Then I remembered I was typically very active - always riding my bike, rollerblading, climbing trees, playing outside, etc.

It's hard to stay active as an adult, though. I've started walking for an hour (~3.5 miles) in place of running during the winter on the weekends, and also taking longer lunches at work so I can walk for ~40 minutes. Besides the physical benefits, there are mental benefits - walking really gives you time to think and clear your mind.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Yep. I was just thinking yesterday how much soda/candy I used to eat as a kid, and it's amazing I never got diabetes or any health conditions. Then I remembered I was typically very active - always riding my bike, rollerblading, climbing trees, playing outside, etc.

Age 35 is when the bad news comes knocking at your door or the damage starts accumulating. Between age 35 and age 50, one should be extra careful of their diet. After 50, I've read that even if you get diabetic, the body is better able to manage the damage than if you are younger. Something to do with slower blood flow and hardened arteries or whatever. Same reason why often heart attacks in younger men are often fatal whereas above age 40, men tend to survive heart attacks more.

 

[sdifox]

Some tuner app crashed on my Odyssey's entertainment system but the radio works fine. So I don't know if the app just restarted or it's not really the tuner app.

 

[pmv]

Courier company lied about having delivered something (again). Tracking says it was delivered, but it hasn't been. Suspect the courier just posted it through a random door, i.e. one of my neighbours, with a different door number - that happened before recently, and that time the recipient that time kindly redelivered it to me the next day. In fact it happened the other way round even more recently and I redelivered that item to the correct address. Suspect this time I just won't get the thing, but difficult to claim for it as the 'tracking' says it was delivered.

Courier companies are just awesomely-useless, they are all as bad as each other. Don't understand how they get away with routine lying.

 

[Brainonska511]

Went to buy eggs last night and the shelf was nearly wiped out. Maybe it was because I was there on a Monday night, and it was just an effect of being cleaned out from the weekend buyers, but I think this is just a harbinger of what's to come in Trump's America. Picking fights with countries that supply a lot of food, destroying public/animal health monitoring so pandemics run wild and drive up the costs of food.

Thanks Trump! Make Groceries Expensive Again as a share of household income, just like in the past.

 

[K1052]

Went to buy eggs last night and the shelf was nearly wiped out. Maybe it was because I was there on a Monday night, and it was just an effect of being cleaned out from the weekend buyers, but I think this is just a harbinger of what's to come in Trump's America. Picking fights with countries that supply a lot of food, destroying public/animal health monitoring so pandemics run wild and drive up the costs of food.

Thanks Trump! Make Groceries Expensive Again as a share of household income, just like in the past.
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It's been a total crapshoot whenever I go to a store if they have any. I'd say less than 1/3rd the time now.

Odds are we could start seeing certain products, especially produce/fruit, start to go missing this year.

 

[Brainonska511]

It's been a total crapshoot whenever I go to a store if they have any. I'd say less than 1/3rd the time now.

Odds are we could start seeing certain products, especially produce/fruit, start to go missing this year.

Bringing us back to the good old days with highly seasonal foods, far less fresh stuff available, and everything is more expensive.

 

[sdifox]

There is a CT parked at my kids' Taekwondo school. I may need to switch to another school.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I actually would love to see one in person just for morbid curiosity of getting a closer look, but I can't imagine anyone here having one. I've seen how they handle on non paved roads or roads that are snow covered, and they would not get very far here. For the price of a CT you can get a fully loaded F250 diesel or equivalent truck and have money left over.

I actually wanted to see that truck succeed, it was a really cool concept at the beginning, but they kept cutting corners while also increasing the price. I like the idea of stainless as in theory it should last longer, but that's assuming the rest of the vehicle is well designed too.

 

[sdifox]

I actually would love to see one in person just for morbid curiosity of getting a closer look, but I can't imagine anyone here having one. I've seen how they handle on non paved roads or roads that are snow covered, and they would not get very far here. For the price of a CT you can get a fully loaded F250 diesel or equivalent truck and have money left over.

I actually wanted to see that truck succeed, it was a really cool concept at the beginning, but they kept cutting corners while also increasing the price. I like the idea of stainless as in theory it should last longer, but that's assuming the rest of the vehicle is well designed too.

These are people that have trouble with drainage...

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Fried up a couple of frozen eggrolls. Realized I didn't have any orange or plum sauce.

BarBQue sauce it is.