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Been off for 2 days, and I double checked my schedule to make sure I'm off tomorrow too. Turns out I'm not and start back on 12h day shifts. Was planing on doing all my errands tomorrow but had to do them today.
 
Wiped off my Nexus 7 with a wet paper towel. Somehow, once I set it aside, water seeped into the crack around the edge. There is now a visible blemish under the glass. The touchscreen is unresponsive. So it's bricked, even though I can turn it on and off still.

They don't make them anymore.
 
I went full retard today and let my 7 lb, 3' long package tip over on the subway, possibly hitting a guy's foot -- he didn't say anything or kick my ass. Went brain dead and completely forgot I had to prop up my package that was resting on my foot. I woke up after hearing two bangs...
 
My bank is being bought out by another bank and the new bank has much less in the way of features (anyone use Key Bank? Their checking options are terrible). Found another nearby bank that looked promising and went in yesterday to find out what their account options are.

They had a checking account type which had almost everything I need, somewhat comparable to the bank I have now, and I sat down to read through the fine print of the account features. Wait - minimum balance to waive $50 monthly fee is $100,000? Oh, come on. What else you got?

The next level requires $25,000 to waive the monthly fee? Do you really think people in this town keep that kind of money in checking? What else you got?

The next level requires $10,000 balance? OK, I'll play along... what does it include? A debit card and up to $6/month reimbursement of ATM fees. Free checks? No. Free safe deposit box? No.

FWP I know but come on, I never heard of a bank offering so little for such giant minimum balances.

I'll still have the credit union as my main account but I need a B&M bank that's close to home also, the search goes on.
 
Imp said:
I went full retard today and let my 7 lb, 3' long package tip over on the subway, possibly hitting a guy's foot -- he didn't say anything or kick my ass. Went brain dead and completely forgot I had to prop up my package that was resting on my foot. I woke up after hearing two bangs...
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You'd probably get shot in the states for that. 😛
 
Bought the typical suburbanite wooden playscape. They would only do curbside delivery since I didn't pony up for assembly. Had to schlep about 1200lbs of wood, metal and plastic from the street in front of my house into my garage.

Now I got to spend the next few days after work assembling what seems like a million parts.
 
When I go up and do something, and it takes a while, my power saving on the PC kicks in. It kicks in right the second when I return back to my desk, the instant I am about to grab the mouse. EVERY.FRICKING.TIME.
 
Also:
My cat peed/sprayed on my (old) yet still functioning monitor. When I discovered this, I immediately ran and got Windex to wipe it off.

Some windex and/or cat pee ran downwards into the display's frame/gap , causing a nasty spot inside the display.

I already once had such a spot from Windex inside my monitor which I was able to "massage out".

This time I also tried to massage away the spot, but I pressed too hard (and the glass was probably already old and gnarly from the old spot)...I fricking CRACKED the display.

Now I have a crack, colorful lines and all kinds of spots on the right side of my display.

And I can't find the right monitor on classified sites respective those who sell a monitor I'd like don't ship but only do local pickup.
 
NoCreativity said:
Bought the typical suburbanite wooden playscape. They would only do curbside delivery since I didn't pony up for assembly. Had to schlep about 1200lbs of wood, metal and plastic from the street in front of my house into my garage.

Now I got to spend the next few days after work assembling what seems like a million parts.
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You poor bastard. If you think it's rough now, just wait until you find you're missing a part, or a part is defective or they gave you the wrong part. That's when the fun really starts. 🙁
 
Ugh, just found out the California primary is in June, so I have to put up with at least another few weeks of this shit. GOP race was set months ago, but the Democrat one isn't set enough for one party to back down.
 
I threw something on YouTube where I used some old flyers (for young'uns: they're like newspapers except for hawking your wares) underneath something. Now I'm concerned I'll get a take-down notice for violating copyright...
 
Stupid voicemail app updated on my phone today. I have all updates blocked, but I get forced updates for that, or I don't get to use voicemail. Lost the dark theme :^S I don't even want their stupid program. I'd like to wget the messages, and listen on vlc. ~1k of script instead of their spamming garbage.
 
It's 4:30 am just woke up to an odd beeping pattern, sounded like some kind of electronic thing. Prompted me to check around the house. Sounds are different when tired and walking around woke me slightly so I could better "understand" the sound. Turns out it's not a UPS, or fire detector, or power supply, or failed hard drive... The sun is rising and it's birds! Lmao. Back to bed knowing I don't have something electronic in alarm lol.
 
Imp said:
I threw something on YouTube where I used some old flyers (for young'uns: they're like newspapers except for hawking your wares) underneath something. Now I'm concerned I'll get a take-down notice for violating copyright...
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Has that ever happened? Doesn't seem likely.
 
Charmonium said:
You poor bastard. If you think it's rough now, just wait until you find you're missing a part, or a part is defective or they gave you the wrong part. That's when the fun really starts. 🙁
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The killer for things with a million parts is when you have things like L-brackets that are 2" long, 3" long, 4" long, and 2 1/16" long. So you sort things out but don't realize that pile of 2" brackets actually has two slightly different sizes in it.

But later after you used the 2 1/16" where you should have used 2" without a problem... but now you have to have a 2 1/16" for a specific place and there are none to be found.
 
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