What first world problem did you have today?

[Captante]

I fell for a phishing test email at work the other day

it's still up to the idiot in front of the keyboard not to click on the damn thing

Sorry.

 

[Muse]

Ended up just ordering another one. I hate buying something when I KNOW I have it here but can't find it. I consider the other one a loss at this point. Looked all over for it. It could even be that I accidentally threw it out with the box when I originally got the package.

I have a noise cancelling set of Bose Quietcomfort 20 noise cancelling ear bud headphones. Not cheap: $240 shipped. I don't use them for music. I use my isolating Etymotic Research earbuds for music. What I use the Bose for is when I take a nap during the day. I do that occasionally and frequently if not usually the ambient noises in my neighborhood interfere to some extent. So, I put those headphones on and turn them on and the noise is cancelled by about 80%. I was looking for them the other day and they weren't where I normally keep them. I looked everywhere in my bedroom, knowing they had to be there, but couldn't find them. I got the idea to look in my trash can. Yep, they'd somehow fallen from my bed into the trash. If I hadn't looked or thrown out the trash without realizing I was missing the headphones they would have been history!

 

[snoopy7548]

Sorry.

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[BoomerD]

I have a noise cancelling set of Bose Quietcomfort 20 noise cancelling ear bud headphones. Not cheap: $240 shipped. I don't use them for music. I use my isolating Etymotic Research earbuds for music. What I use the Bose for is when I take a nap during the day. I do that occasionally and frequently if not usually the ambient noises in my neighborhood interfere to some extent. So, I put those headphones on and turn them on and the noise is cancelled by about 80%. I was looking for them the other day and they weren't where I normally keep them. I looked everywhere in my bedroom, knowing they had to be there, but couldn't find them. I got the idea to look in my trash can. Yep, they'd somehow fallen from my bed into the trash. If I hadn't looked or thrown out the trash without realizing I was missing the headphones they would have been history!

I have a decent (not great) set of Sony NC headphones. I'll put them on, connect to the Sirius app on my phone and nap while my wife watches here "crap TV" shows.

 

[Muse]

I have a decent (not great) set of Sony NC headphones. I'll put them on, connect to the Sirius app on my phone and nap while my wife watches here "crap TV" shows.

I have a set of Sony NC's too (Sony WF-1000XM3), but the Bose are much better at blocking out ambient noise... so far, anyway. For a long time they seemed incapable of doing that at all, but a different set of buds helped that a lot. The Bose don't AFAIK accommodate any kind of alternate wearing mode. They do NC really really well. They aren't isolating, though, so in really noisy environments they don't satisfy. Excellent for a nap, however.

 

[BoomerD]

I have a set of Sony NC's too (Sony WF-1000XM3), but the Bose are much better at blocking out ambient noise... so far, anyway. For a long time they seemed incapable of doing that at all, but a different set of buds helped that a lot. The Bose don't AFAIK accommodate any kind of alternate wearing mode. They do NC really really well. They aren't isolating, though, so in really noisy environments they don't satisfy. Excellent for a nap, however.

ear buds? No thanks. On ear or over ear for me.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Never been a fan of ear buds either. I don't like putting things in my ears. I have one ear that plugs up with wax once in a while and I need to get it professionally cleared out. I imagine ear buds would make that situation worse.

 

[VirtualLarry]

But for her, 99.9% of her car purchase decision is simply how it looks. Picky, picky, picky..........

My mom's like that with PCs and laptops. She cares more about the shape, color, size, than she does the specs, or whether the PC will be sufficiently-powerful for her needs or not, and cares not a whit about anything more powerful.

 

[pmv]

Ventured into a shop, and my glasses, my headphones, my mask and my hair all got tangled up with each other to a degree that meant I had to put my shopping down and go outside again to be able to take my mask off to disentangle everything.

 

[pmv]

My mom's like that with PCs and laptops. She cares more about the shape, color, size, than she does the specs, or whether the PC will be sufficiently-powerful for her needs or not, and cares not a whit about anything more powerful.

It really is 'two different tribes'! I tend to associate that approach with 'Mac owners', but I guess it doesn't perfectly fit with that divide.

 

[RearAdmiral]

My new bedroom ceiling fan wobbles a bit. Very glad to have the 80's one down but I don't want a repeat of wobbling and eventually clicking noises driving me crazy.

 

[sdifox]

My new bedroom ceiling fan wobbles a bit. Very glad to have the 80's one down but I don't want a repeat of wobbling and eventually clicking noises driving me crazy.

They come with a weight for you to balance the fan no?

 

[highland145]

They come with a weight for you to balance the fan no?

Or should have bought the self leveling kind.

 

[Muse]

ear buds? No thanks. On ear or over ear for me.

I've been an Etymotic Research believer since around 1999 when I had to sit in a cubicle surrounded by noise and do critical code programming that would have crippled the business if I made a simple blunder. I was desperate for a solution. Absent they putting me in my own office, those Ety ER4S were a godsend. They eventually did let me sit in a tiny office. I had to share it with a cool Turkish guy who fortunately did IT around the joint and was out of the room most of the time.

I love Etys in the gym, blocks out the grunts, groans and massive plate drops. Nothin' finer, especially I get to listen to my radio show, yeah, the one I do weekly on college radio!!!!!! I listen to my MP3 airchecks. They're great for watching video, movies, airplanes... Ety's rule. Hifi afficionado quality sound, and I tolerate them great for hours and hours. I can't stand over the ear headphones, they always hurt after a few minutes like torture.

 

[Ajay]

LOL! I was looking up Etymotic Research ear buds and this showed up in the search Amazon - Suckle Buddy

 

[sdifox]

LOL! I was looking up Etymotic Research ear buds and this showed up in the search Amazon - Suckle Buddy

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What you do in the pricacy of your own home is none of our business.

 

[RearAdmiral]

They come with a weight for you to balance the fan no?

Yes I've been working with the included balancing kit. I ran the fan for a little with no blades after I weighed them, there's still some wobble. Unfortunately detaching the handles and trying to weigh / balance them out might mean taking the whole fan down again. It wobbles back and forth about 1/8 - 1/4" which isn't that awful. 24" downrod too.

 

[Svnla]

Watching "Swamp People" right now and "Pickle" is a cutie. Yummy. I wanna be a reckneck.

 

[nutxo]

My wife and I ate lunch together everyday for almost 30 years. After quarantine ended we we so busy we couldn't do it anymore. The week before last the wife said starting next week ( so last week) We could do it on tues and thurs. Today would have been the 4th day we had lunch together but I got super crazy busy and at lunch time I went and got a burger without thinking about it.

She texted me 10 minutes before lunch was over, When I would usually call when we weren't able to have lunch together, so I called . ,She asked if she should just throw my lunch out... Then it hit me...

She has flowers, cheesecake and a steak dinner waiting for her when she gets home.

 

[IronWing]

“Your computer will restart in 30 seconds.”

Damn IT assholes. In the middle of the work day.

 

[IronWing]

“Your computer will restart in 30 seconds.”

Damn IT assholes. In the middle of the work day.

50+ minutes later... "I guess we're done f'in' with you."

 

[IronWing]

50+ minutes later... "I guess we're done f'in' with you."

I should add that since I'm teleworking, voice over IP means no phone as well as no computer.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

A Blackwater truck towing a flat trailer took my parking spot at work. Had to take an alternate spot.

 

[Red Squirrel]

“Your computer will restart in 30 seconds.”

Damn IT assholes. In the middle of the work day.

My company does this shit too, I absolutely hate it so much. At least give me until the end of my set of shifts. No update is that important that it needs to kill production for a couple hours.

 

[highland145]

Whiners. ATT does that shit with no warning...oops, network connection lost.

oops, and again....

oops...

And it takes 6 calls, and replaying the previous recorded call, to get a tech to come fix 40yo lines. 60yo, more likely.