Up there with Jesus toast.
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One implication of these ādivine intervention for trivial purposesā stories is that, for instance, when that tornado killed dozens of people on Sunday, God forgot to help. Guess it wasnāt important.
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Looking for chairs again.
No, ābigā and ātallā are not acceptable synonyms when searching for āsmallā and āshortā.
Iām actually average height, but far too small for standard furniture. Iād like to be able to find chairs by seat depth.
P.S. Not much, but this list may help:
http://officechairsforheavypeople.org/what-is-the-best-office-chairs-for-short-people-with-reviews
P.P.S. Of course the ones they say are good for small people have contradictory data-- some stating a seat depth of 20", suitable for someone around 6ā8".
P.P.P.S. Has anyone tried saucer chairs? Are their sizes more forgiving? Are they practical as desk chairs?
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Iām a few inches taller than her, but so true:
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We are both short and once went on safari to hunt couch. At one place, the sales woman looked up at us and said āI have the perfect thing.ā That was about 25 years ago, and we still have it, shabby though it may be. Itās perfect, but I still use a lumbar support pillow.
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Not only was my only contact info for my assigned primary care physician a pain number, it was a wrong number.
3 calls to the wrong number, friday and today.
2 calls to the right number, with long hold music the 1st time giving me a worse migraineā¦ and then a dropped connectionā¦ and getting through the 2nd time but finding Iād been assigned a pediatrician who doesnāt work with older patients.
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Iāve been walking around in a haze for the past two days. Thanks daylight savings timeā:+1:
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Yup. Iāve been getting hungry and tired at weird times (which donāt correspond to the old meal and sleep times either; happens every year).
I worked from home today because a service person was cleaning my air ducts. He was half an hour late due to car accidents.
Switching twice a year really makes no sense. And the āextra hour of daylightā in the evening? What-ever. If Iām too tired and out of it to enjoy it, it means nothing.
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If I may say so w/out minimizing your totally legitimate complaints (is there an emoji for āsincerityā?), Iām one of those people whoāve never minded daylight savings time. And I love the āextraā hour of daylight at the end of the day, mostly because Iām not a morning person, so to me it really does seem like extra sunlight. Itās a nice little mood bump that sort of emphasizes the transition from a long, dark winter to spring.
Also (and more in the spirit of Grinds My Gears), I suppose Iāve been chronically sleep-deprived for the better part of the last two years, so I literally didnāt even notice the time change until I got in my car and saw that its clock didnāt match my phone. It made absolutely zero difference to my disposition on Monday morning.
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I guess my thing is that thanks to the Earthās orbit, you will get both those things every year without subjecting an entire population to virtual jet lag, with all the health risks and accident risks that entails. It just wonāt be as abrupt.
Is the mood bump some people experience worth the heart attacks, car accidents, brain fog, increased energy consumption, and worsened mental health other people experience, especially when spring and longer hours of daylight are going to come anyway? Before Dubya changed the start and stop times for Daylight Saving, this still would have been Standard Time.
Iāll get my Vitamin D mood bump a few weeks from now, when Iāve totally adjusted to the abrupt change.
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Iām not a morning person either. Thatās why I need the sun blasting through my windows to help get me out of bed. Being instantly set back to dark mornings does not help.
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Iāve known the markups are horrible for decades, but this is the first time Iāve seen the costs. Even taking shipping, retail space, salaries, etc. into account, this is unconscionable.
Yet another industry the floor had dropped out of, with artificially maintained prices:
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Seeing how cheap (as opposed to inexpensive) most frames are, this doesnāt really surprise me. Weāre sold this piece of crap product that should be $5-$20 but we pay a couple hundred because thatās what weāre told it costs.
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I used to pay $800 just for high index of refraction plastic lenses, back when I had ridiculously bad myopia. I always suspected it was a scam, but I didnāt realize lenses could be made for a buck and a half.
I guess I imagined William Herschel and his sister in a back room, grinding lenses 16 hours a day.
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Last time I got a new pair of glasses, they were supposed to have been free with insurance, but because they were thick bifocals I had $200 in fees tacked on. After insurance.
Itās up in this thread somewhere but iām too lazy to look for it.
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Caroline.
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Thanks.
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re: @gadgetgirl and @RAvery, like I said, totally legitimate complaints.
Given the thread topic, I perhaps should have led with my second paragraph, and maybe eliminated the first altogether, but I guess I couldnāt resist including my subjective experience of DST.
I mean all I was saying wasā¦
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Iām trying to look for info to resolve whether Opanas Andrievsākyy was a āmoderateā or a proto-fascist fuck and pogrom enabler.
Iām not looking for plain-text lists of email addresses and corresponding passwords for a fucking porn site Google, that sounds like a someone is either very lax on privacy or is violating othersā privacy.
ā¦ and of course because of Googleās site issues I canāt send them any feedback.
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I know that this kind of comes with having a government job but, I hate bureaucracy.
Now, some of it, I get.
āHave your code looked at by a peer to make sure that you didnāt screw it up.ā Sure.
āGet approval from your supervisor before you move anything into a more-controlled environment.ā Makes sense.
āProve that this fix is actually needed urgently before we allow new code in the middle of busy season.ā Totally understand.
But then thereās the stupid stuff.
āFill out this paperwork for the problem youāre fixing, indicating how long it will take you to fix. Management wants to know what our teamās workload is.ā āUhā¦ I have no idea how long it will take me to fix; I donāt even know what the problem is yet.ā āWell, just give it your best guess; the numbers arenāt important.ā
Look.
Either the paperwork is important, and you need accurate numbers, which I donāt have, yet, or the numbers arenāt important, in which case the paperwork is BS bureaucratic make-work.
Similarly:
āFill out this form for the new project youāre doing. Hereās a copy from the last time a project like this was done.ā
The stuff on this form falls into three categories: stuff that I, as the person working on our end of the project would know, stuff that only people at the agency Iām sending this to would know, and stuff where I would need to climb up so far the management ladder to know it that Iād be in danger of being hit by passing aircraft. And theyāve completely revamped the form twice in the two years since this last project was submitted, so very little of the stuff I need is on the old form.
I am a programmer. I deal with computers because I donāt like having to talk to a dozen people to get my job done, or to make BS up to fill in empty spaces on a form. I figure out what I need to tell the computer to do for it to successfully process the information I give it; it does that. I wish that my job could just be that, but, sadly, the bureaucracy is inescapable.
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