What first world problem did you have today?

[shortylickens]

I fucked around too long and didnt buy the snow blower I wanted. Now its out of stock. And its priced much higher, so when its back in stock I'll be paying too much anyway.

 

[Muadib]

They have showroom stores in major cities. Wife and I checked it out at the store during the summer and then ordered it online like 6 weeks ago. We got the Peloton Bike+ Family package which comes with two pairs of bike shoes and other goodies.

Bike comes fully assembled minus the screen. They just attach the screen monitor in your house and will set it up at room and location of your choice. All you have to do is log in. You need Peloton All Access Membership to fully enjoy the bike. It's separate $39 /monthly fee. That gives you and everyone in your family access to all Peloton classes and their vast library of workout videos. Lot of people balk at the $39 monthly subscription fee but I think it's worth it. Real life studio spin classes are not cheap and that's sort of what you're getting with Peloton. All other workout genres are just bonus IMO.

We also have one of those cheap $500 spin bikes I bought from Costco couple years ago. While it's ok, the whole bike workout experience is subpar compared to Peloton. Without the precise bike pedal resistance displayed on the screen, it's hard to tell what actual resistance and cadence levels I'm riding with the Costco bike. Peloton Bike+ handles all that automatically as instructors call out, or I can manually adjust it if I prefer. But I always know the precise resistance and cadence because it's displayed on the Peloton bike screen. Peloton Bike+ also syncs with Apple Watch so I always know my heart rate, zone level, and strive score. And leaderboard is pretty fun to chase.

She bought a spin bike without the screen several years ago, and I rode it more than her. I use Zwift with my road bike and trainer, and the monthly fee is $15. I said I get the Peloton for her, but didn't want to buy it without seeing it first. I went to the website after I last posted, and it costs about what I thought. The monthly fee is higher than I thought it would be, but she is paying that. There is a store near me, but she doesn't want to go, covid and all. It will go in the basement, I just need to pull the trigger. Thanks for your insight.

 

[UsandThem]

Woke up at 5 AM to the power going out (crazy winds from cold front dropping down and knocking our temps from 75 F yesterday to 35 F today).

Thankfully it was only out for about 7 hours, which is a vast improvement for how long it usually is down for when something like this happens.

And I since it happened at the beginning of the month, it counts as running my generator for at least 30 minutes this month for maintenance (reverse first world problem in that regard).

 

[sdifox]

Woke up at 5 AM to the power going out (crazy winds from cold front dropping down and knocking our temps from 75 F yesterday to 35 F today).

Thankfully it was only out for about 7 hours, which is a vast improvement for how long it usually is down for when something like this happens.

And I since it happened at the beginning of the month, it counts as running my generator for at least 30 minutes this month for maintenance (reverse first world problem in that regard).

That's what happens when you use Future Inc hamsters

 

[balloonshark]

So yesterday UPS shows up at 8:37 when I normally get up at 8:45 to make sure the door is unlocked by 9AM so they can get in the building. They have never been here that early. Now their taking my RTX 3070 bundle to CVS and I don't have a damn car. My $1000 package I paid $10 to ship is going to be sitting in a store on a shelf with people who make minimum wage and where it can be easily be seen by customers. To make matters worse their site's tracking just stops working after a while.

Since when did UPS stop making 2nd delivery attempts to customers who paid to have a package sent to their home?

 

[sdifox]

Bought a downspout diverter, it goes missing after a month, probably wind storm. Order another one, it ships and then price drops 40%. Tried to cancel existing order but too late, will have to do a return

 

[NuclearNed]

This morning the sausage patty in my microwave breakfast sandwich was chock full of bits of beaks, bones, & toenails.

 

[snoopy7548]

So yesterday UPS shows up at 8:37 when I normally get up at 8:45 to make sure the door is unlocked by 9AM so they can get in the building. They have never been here that early. Now their taking my RTX 3070 bundle to CVS and I don't have a damn car. My $1000 package I paid $10 to ship is going to be sitting in a store on a shelf with people who make minimum wage and where it can be easily be seen by customers. To make matters worse their site's tracking just stops working after a while.

Since when did UPS stop making 2nd delivery attempts to customers who paid to have a package sent to their home?

People don't know it's a $1000 package, right? Unless they just slapped a shipping label on the original box.

 

[balloonshark]

People don't know it's a $1000 package, right? Unless they just slapped a shipping label on the original box.

Right but anyone remotely familiar with Newegg would know the box contains some sort of electronic parts and most are relatively valuable. This CVS is not busy and last time I went in there wasn't anyone by the register. The counter is right by the front door and the packages sit on a shelf right behind where the cashier stands. It wouldn't be hard to hop over the counter, grab a box and hop back over the counter and out the door to a waiting vehicle.

 

[lxskllr]

It snowed yesterday and was cloudy, so the solar jul lights I have on my dwarf Alberta spruce didn't get much of a charge. Apparently, when the batteries get fully depleted, it switches to demo mode, and a couple of the settings are epilepsy triggering spastic. I had to walk up the hill to set it on the mode I like. Spot came over and escorted me up the hill and back, and wanted to come in the house. Made me feel bad cause I can't let her in with the two kittiots I already have :^(

 

[highland145]

It snowed yesterday and was cloudy, so the solar jul lights I have on my dwarf Alberta spruce didn't get much of a charge. Apparently, when the batteries get fully depleted, it switches to demo mode, and a couple of the settings are epilepsy triggering spastic. I had to walk up the hill to set it on the mode I like. Spot came over and escorted me up the hill and back, and wanted to come in the house. Made me feel bad cause I can't let her in with the two kittiots I already have :^(

Do you want winter or not?

 

[lxskllr]

I'm great with winter! The snow yesterday was late, and light, but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully it'll snow more before it's done with. I was dumping ashes over the weekend(60s), and snowdrops and daffodils were coming up D^:

I'm just irritated my $7 Chinese lights don't hold the last setting, even when out of power. The nerve! :^D

 

[Captante]

they seem to be one of few places where covid is basically a thing of the past

Yep.... back to "normal" alrighty.


Covid cases rise by 948% in Florida as Omicron drives huge wave across US - Seven-day average for hospitalizations increased by more than 40% during week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve

 

[Leymenaide]

My wife broke her ankle walking the dog December 15th. We went to urgent care first then the Emergency room. Last week she had surgery for 4 broken bones. the bill: Duke Hospital $68,000, Urgent care $1,000, Emergency room $4,000. The surgeon called it routine. A routine ankle break costs $73,000. WTF is wrong with this picture?

 

[pete6032]

My wife broke her ankle walking the dog December 15th. We went to urgent care first then the Emergency room. Last week she had surgery for 4 broken bones. the bill: Duke Hospital $68,000, Urgent care $1,000, Emergency room $4,000. The surgeon called it routine. A routine ankle break costs $73,000. WTF is wrong with this picture?

Its mind boggling people think our health care system is the best in the world when crap like this happens.

 

[snoopy7548]

My wife broke her ankle walking the dog December 15th. We went to urgent care first then the Emergency room. Last week she had surgery for 4 broken bones. the bill: Duke Hospital $68,000, Urgent care $1,000, Emergency room $4,000. The surgeon called it routine. A routine ankle break costs $73,000. WTF is wrong with this picture?

What did they do, replace the bones with adamantium?

 

[BoomerD]

What did they do, replace the bones with adamantium?

pfft...that stuff is for the poors. Unobtainium is where it's at.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's almost enough to buy a Cybertruck. Does it have a hand operated accelerator option? Who needs ankles when you have a cybertruck?

 

[RearAdmiral]

Its mind boggling people think our health care system is the best in the world when crap like this happens.

I'm trying to articulate this decently but do you think it is the best from an actual merit standpoint, as in despite ourselves we can get very good care? If we were to detach the above cost/insurance/whatever nonsense from the overall care itself? I tend to have this overall thought which makes me worry that that is not sustainable and we will either have a brain drain somewhere else or collapse eventually.

 

[dank69]

My wife broke her ankle walking the dog December 15th. We went to urgent care first then the Emergency room. Last week she had surgery for 4 broken bones. the bill: Duke Hospital $68,000, Urgent care $1,000, Emergency room $4,000. The surgeon called it routine. A routine ankle break costs $73,000. WTF is wrong with this picture?

I'd say that's a 3rd world problem but I think that's an insult to 3rd world countries.

 

[pete6032]

I'm trying to articulate this decently but do you think it is the best from an actual merit standpoint, as in despite ourselves we can get very good care? If we were to detach the above cost/insurance/whatever nonsense from the overall care itself? I tend to have this overall thought which makes me worry that that is not sustainable and we will either have a brain drain somewhere else or collapse eventually.

That's a good question about which I have given some thought but don't know the answer. It seems like such a large number of doctors here are immigrants. Would that flow continue to happen if we switched to publicly funded health care and what impact would that have on our supply of doctors?

 

[pete6032]

The idea of a no pre-wash dishwasher is completely oversold. Sure you don't have to pre-wash your dishes. Sure it gets everything off and dishes come out clean, but damn does the dishwasher ever smell when you open it up and get a whiff of 3 day old non-pre-washed dishes.

 

[IronWing]

The idea of a no pre-wash dishwasher is completely oversold. Sure you don't have to pre-wash your dishes. Sure it gets everything off and dishes come out clean, but damn does the dishwasher ever smell when you open it up and get a whiff of 3 day old non-pre-washed dishes.

My mom went through a series of those things. None of them worked as advertised but she would get annoyed when I rinsed the dishes before loading, insisting that "the dishwasher will handle that." All the dishwasher did was bake the crud onto the dishes.

 

[BoomerD]

The idea of a no pre-wash dishwasher is completely oversold. Sure you don't have to pre-wash your dishes. Sure it gets everything off and dishes come out clean, but damn does the dishwasher ever smell when you open it up and get a whiff of 3 day old non-pre-washed dishes.

My mom went through a series of those things. None of them worked as advertised but she would get annoyed when I rinsed the dishes before loading, insisting that "the dishwasher will handle that." All the dishwasher did was bake the crud onto the dishes.

I couldn't agree more...although one dishwasher repair guy told me to leave a bit of sauce or gravy on things for the dishwasher detergent to work on...he said it would actually wash things better.
When I do the dishes, everything that goes into the dishwasher has been rinsed so there is NO food reside on it. (Damned near clean enough to eat off of)

 

[Red Squirrel]

I prefer to rinse dishes at least quickly before throwing them in for that reason too, don't want it to start smelling not to mention some foods will harden and not come off no matter what (eggs are bad for that). Not like I am scrubbing or dirtying a rag, just a quick rinse under the sink. Never got the big deal of that either, it's not really extra work, and I still don't need to actually sit there and wash them.