That “supposedly” sure is doing a lot of work in that sentence…
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Looking for chairs again.
No, “big” and “tall” are not acceptable synonyms when searching for “small” and “short”.
I’m actually average height, but far too small for standard furniture. I’d 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 6’8".
P.P.P.S. Has anyone tried saucer chairs? Are their sizes more forgiving? Are they practical as desk chairs?
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I’m 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 “I have the perfect thing.” That was about 25 years ago, and we still have it, shabby though it may be. It’s 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 migraine… and then a dropped connection… and getting through the 2nd time but finding I’d been assigned a pediatrician who doesn’t work with older patients.
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I’ve been walking around in a haze for the past two days. Thanks daylight savings time:+1:
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Yup. I’ve been getting hungry and tired at weird times (which don’t 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 “extra hour of daylight” in the evening? What-ever. If I’m 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 “sincerity”?), I’m one of those people who’ve never minded daylight savings time. And I love the “extra” hour of daylight at the end of the day, mostly because I’m not a morning person, so to me it really does seem like extra sunlight. It’s 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 I’ve been chronically sleep-deprived for the better part of the last two years, so I literally didn’t even notice the time change until I got in my car and saw that its clock didn’t 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 Earth’s 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 won’t 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.
I’ll get my Vitamin D mood bump a few weeks from now, when I’ve totally adjusted to the abrupt change.
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I’m not a morning person either. That’s 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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I’ve known the markups are horrible for decades, but this is the first time I’ve 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 doesn’t really surprise me. We’re sold this piece of crap product that should be $5-$20 but we pay a couple hundred because that’s what we’re 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 didn’t 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.
It’s up in this thread somewhere but i’m 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 couldn’t resist including my subjective experience of DST.
I mean all I was saying was…
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I’m trying to look for info to resolve whether Opanas Andrievs’kyy was a “moderate” or a proto-fascist fuck and pogrom enabler.
I’m 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 others’ privacy.
… and of course because of Google’s site issues I can’t 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.
“Have your code looked at by a peer to make sure that you didn’t screw it up.” Sure.
“Get approval from your supervisor before you move anything into a more-controlled environment.” Makes sense.
“Prove that this fix is actually needed urgently before we allow new code in the middle of busy season.” Totally understand.
But then there’s the stupid stuff.
“Fill out this paperwork for the problem you’re fixing, indicating how long it will take you to fix. Management wants to know what our team’s workload is.” “Uh… I have no idea how long it will take me to fix; I don’t even know what the problem is yet.” “Well, just give it your best guess; the numbers aren’t important.”
Look.
Either the paperwork is important, and you need accurate numbers, which I don’t have, yet, or the numbers aren’t important, in which case the paperwork is BS bureaucratic make-work.
Similarly:
“Fill out this form for the new project you’re doing. Here’s a copy from the last time a project like this was done.”
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 I’m sending this to would know, and stuff where I would need to climb up so far the management ladder to know it that I’d be in danger of being hit by passing aircraft. And they’ve 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 don’t 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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I totally get the frustration, though. Sometimes, you just want to get on with the thing rather than filling out papers in triplicate to get permission to get on with the thing. If one knows the answer to the problem, and just wants to do it, that’s a pain…
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