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Svnla

Lifer
Nov 10, 2003
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Dominos has a 50% off sale of all their pizzas ongoing now so I picked up one earlier today and it was jam packed at the parking lot just to drive to the pick up window.
 
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BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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And you used to be our grammar Nazi. Sad days.

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JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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Our youngest son's 19th birthday was the other day, and we bought an ice cream cake for him.

For the last 3 months, I've been very strict on what I eat so I could lose some weight, but I had a very small piece of it on his birthday. However, there was so much of it left over, it's still in the freezer and the rest of the family have been eating a piece of it for dessert since then, and it has taken some serious will power not to join them. I imagine I have at least two more days before it's all gone so I don't have to see it anymore.
fastest way to lose weight is to be a 3rd worlder.
dont eat anything.

as for hunger pains, do something (away from the house) that you either enjoy or hate for 12+ hrs.
you wont care about the hunger pains.

for me, i spent 12hrs playing poker and winning $1000 at $1/2 no limit.
i was hit by the deck. almost any 2 cards i had won.
got home and went directly to sleep. no food the entire day.

2nd time, i screwed up on a project. i worked all Sat to fix it.
went home and directly to bed
 
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JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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got my covid shot at cvs.

the have a 3rd party company emailing me a survey on how they did.
i ignored it. they sent another.

i looked for the unsubscribe link.
there wasnt any!
F them. marked as SPAM!
 
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JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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McD app had BoGo on their new chicken sandwich.
so i got the spicy version, which was .20 more because of the sauce.
well, they gave me the order. I saw saw 2 items in the bag so i drove home.
discovered there wasnt any spicy sauce on either one. :(

Grr.....
so all subsequent times i got the spicy chicken samwich since then, it had spicy sauce.
but it was a paltry amount.

this time, in the app, i selected extra sauce. (no extra charge.)

the top bun had the same paltry amount of sauce.
but the bottom bun, which never had sauce, was smothered with it.
it oozed over the sides.

i like!
 

dtgoodwin

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Jun 5, 2009
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I use USPS Informed Delivery function from the post office. Every day I get an email with images of the mail that I should receive that day, also tells me if they will deliver packages. It's usually pretty spot on.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a scanned image of an envelope from my state's Department of Revenue, ah, finally getting my state tax refund.

It didn't come. The other mail listed (junk mail) did come, but no income refund check. Went to the site listed in the email to report missing mail. It states that I should wait a week before reporting missing mail.... well OK, I'll wait.

A week later it still had not been delivered, so I went to the link in the email... and it told me that the link has expired. WTF, the wait a week is so the link can expire.

The check did finally come, 9 days after the scheduled delivery.
I use that service and occasionally have that issue as well. In particular, it shows packages that are to be delivered or will be delivered "soon". About half of the time when I have a package from my mail-order pharmacy that shows a delivery for that day, it doesn't come. It's been up to two weeks delayed. Don't know why it's always the pharmacy deliveries that are most affected, but it is honestly about half the time that they actually get delivered when they say they will.
 
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IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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The clock on my work computer is linked to the company's time server and the link is admin controlled. The company time server is currently forty eight minutes ahead of its time. Last week, it was four minutes behind the times.
 
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MtnMan

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Jul 27, 2004
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At some point I paid with a CC, and instead of a paper receipt I entered my email address. Now when I use the card at places I have never been it wants to know if I want the receipt emailed to me, and displays my email. Sure, I'm good with that, less litter in my car.
 

JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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At some point I paid with a CC, and instead of a paper receipt I entered my email address. Now when I use the card at places I have never been it wants to know if I want the receipt emailed to me, and displays my email. Sure, I'm good with that, less litter in my car.
this is a 1st world problem?

is this is even a problem?!
 
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Ajay

Lifer
Jan 8, 2001
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At one company they decided we need to bill every 'customer' on and hour by hour basis. The customers were various engineering teams, QA, marketing/product managers, actual customers (escalations to engineering), etc. This lasted 6 infuriating months as we often switch back and forth, multitasking in any given day. Bah!
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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At one company they decided we need to bill every 'customer' on and hour by hour basis. The customers were various engineering teams, QA, marketing/product managers, actual customers (escalations to engineering), etc. This lasted 6 infuriating months as we often switch back and forth, multitasking in any given day. Bah!


Random number generator xd
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Had to adjust the threshold on my battery voltage sensor again now that I'm using the A/C. I have a feeling using just random resistors for a voltage divider is probably not the right way to go about it. I imagine I need to find some with a very low temp coefficient, or use two in paralell that have opposing coefficients.

Or if I want to get fancy I can always do something oven controlled lol.
 

nutxo

Diamond Member
May 20, 2001
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I got vaccinated yesterday morning and woke up sick as fuck. This is such BS, lol. My wife and I are pretty sure we've had covid since 2 people that live in my house had it. I just want to be able to fly in July...
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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My portable car lift arrived. Now I need to fix my car.
Friend got one. Days of putting it together but damn cool and useful.
I got vaccinated yesterday morning and woke up sick as fuck. This is such BS, lol. My wife and I are pretty sure we've had covid since 2 people that live in my house had it. I just want to be able to fly in July...
how old are you?
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Had to mow the fucking lawn again today...it's been less than a week since I did it last...it was over 6" long again...I'm kind of glad I haven't fertilized it yet... o_O
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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Had to mow the fucking lawn again today...it's been less than a week since I did it last...it was over 6" long again...I'm kind of glad I haven't fertilized it yet... o_O
Yet? Eff that. What happened to the deer? You need to ask shortdickathon for a rental goat.