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Painted this Epoxied this  gently caress houses. Closing on Friday, then I'll own two. This one still needs a bathroom remodel and the deck stripped and stained. Taking first week of May off. I got a mouthful of gasoline today. Can't touch cards and had no cash to fill lawnmower, so I siphoned the generator. What's the best way to wash gasoline out of your mouth? I chose bourbon. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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Whenever I think I have it bad, I just have to remind myself that I've never had to wash the taste of gas out of my mouth. Let us know if bourbon works though.
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Delivery story time. Mostly. Cat woke me up pretty early (for me)... 8:30ish am. FEED ME HUMAN, BEFORE I FEAST ON YOUR EYES AND TESTICALS.  Couldn't get back to sleep. Laid in bed tossing and turning for a couple of hours. Finally got up. Took a long rear end shower. Went and had lunch with a friend and a (dead) friend's dad. The 3 of us try to get together every time friend's dad is in town. This is the friend that died of a heroin overdose early last year (February). We wound up staying at IHOP for over an hour. Friend that was there got her new BRZ. Yes, with 3 pedals, as God intended. Took me for a ride in it. Scared me a bit. She's loving nuts behind the wheel, in a good way. Made me literally laugh out loud when she told me she took her daughter to a friend's in it yesterday, and her friend asked what was wrong with the shifter (her daughter is 15). Both mother and daughter laughed, as daughter has already started learning how to drive sti.... PHRASING... manual. Holy poo poo, that thing is insanely low to the ground, stock - she parked next to the Negative Ions, I looked over, and realized I was looking up at the keyhole for the door on my car. Wasn't due at work until 5 (working until 9), but I was way the hell up north, a good 20 minutes out of my delivery area (and about 35 from my preferred portion of the delivery area). Glanced at the schedule to see if there were any open shifts. Hey, 3-5pm is open, cool. Grabbed that. Got 2 deliveries done. Had a third one come in. Tapped "accept". App crashed. Kept trying to reopen it, kept crashing. Opened it on my personal phone, it went to the login screen (that's ohshit sign #1). Tapped login, "Server error" (poo poo just hit the fan sign). MOTHERFUCKER. A couple of minutes later my dispatcher hits me on Voxer saying the dispatch side just took a massive poo poo... nationwide. But the company hadn't taken down the customer side (this is when all of the poo poo in the world hits one giant fan at once). Confirmed this myself, tried to make a delivery order online, and got to the final payment screen. Normally when poo poo goes sideways, they shut down ordering immediately. NOT THIS TIME. So orders were sitting there piling up for over an hour before they finally got the driver/dispatch servers back up. This is the second Sunday in a row with a major outage, though last time they pulled ordering offline immediately. Last Sunday I jokingly told my dispatcher they need to tell the cleaning crew at HQ to stop unplugging the servers to plug in a vacuum. It happened at close to the same time today, suddenly that scenario seems a lot more likely. System finally comes back up after a bit over an hour. Mostly. Dispatcher tells me my GPS isn't working and asks the closest major intersection so she can assign me a boatload of orders, and I'm getting texts from the mothership HQ saying my GPS isn't working. So I reboot my work phone... just as my dispatcher lets me know I finally showed up and she sent me 4 orders. Glad I have the app on my personal phone too, otherwise they would have timed out and counted as missed orders (which can affect what day I get to schedule my shifts, if misses/rejects get too high - if they get too high, I lose priority access, which makes a huge dent in my wallet). 9:00 rolls around. I checked earlier in the day, the 9-11 slot only had 1 opening. I check again. It now has 6, and the previous overlapping shift had 11, so a lot of people took their toys and went home, pissed off about having to deliver late orders I guess. I ran into a couple of other drivers who were pissy, but rolling with it. And I'm still delivering hour and a half old orders at that point. Ask my dispatcher if she wants me to stay on. "I will personally come dance at your wedding if you do". I'm not sure if that's a promise or a threat, but I got the last order dropped off at 10:50. Contacted her again, asked how many orders she still had waiting to go (she told me over 100 about an hour and a half prior). "None. We're finally caught up". It's closing time for this delivery company. Thank gently caress. $193 bucks in a hair under 7 hours (I picked up the "3-5" at 4:00; we can grab an available shift up to the last 30 minutes if it hasn't been claimed). I'm really gonna miss working with this dispatcher when I move. She only handles Dallas metro (and in fact I drove past the local office several times today, and I've met her a few times over the years). She told me tonight, that out of all the drivers she had working, she could only trust two drivers that were currently working (out of over 100) to help bail her out. She named the other one... he's a longtime friend and coworker, and we've now worked at 4 (5 if you count an acquisition) jobs together (he was my "trainer" at this job, if you can call it that... it was more of a ride around and catch up/shoot the poo poo thing, since we knew each other from a previous delivery job). He and I were working opposite ends of the delivery area today, but staying in touch via Voxer. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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Apr 23, 2018 07:18
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InitialDave posted:The worst fanfic. Albeit believable. "Another totally unbelievable porno storyline, who actually has a complete set of o-ring picks and actually knows where they put them last?"
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Apr 23, 2018 07:26
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Maybe 7 whiskey rocks are too many for an "after work drink" with my coworkers. Either way, Tullamore Dew is good poo poo
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cakesmith handyman posted:"Another totally unbelievable porno storyline, who actually has a complete set of o-ring picks and actually knows where they put them last?" Generally speaking, in my mouth
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OZYMANDICKASS posted:Generally speaking, in my mouth At this point you should have had them embed a neodymium magnet while they did your mouth remodel.
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I used a washing-up bowl to catch the oil from an oil change. I spent yesterday afternoon and evening pondering on how I could clean it: Washing outside by a drain will contaminate groundwater Washing on hard ground will kill plants Washing in house will block drains Wiping with newspaper will result in dripping papers Wiping with kitchen towel will result in large pile of oily waste Sealing in a plastic bag will inevitably leak before I use it again. I woke up this morning with an eureka moment: 'throw it away you god-drat moron.'
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Apr 23, 2018 10:32
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I leave mine tipped up on one corner into a funnel in my waste oil container. Gets almost all of it out of its own accord.
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spog posted:I used a washing-up bowl to catch the oil from an oil change. I spent yesterday afternoon and evening pondering on how I could clean it: I'm not sure why you would want to clean it that well? Prop it to drain it like InitialDave says and then just leave it for the next use.
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InitialDave posted:I leave mine tipped up on one corner into a funnel in my waste oil container. Gets almost all of it out of its own accord. Tomarse posted:I'm not sure why you would want to clean it that well? Prop it to drain it like InitialDave says and then just leave it for the next use. I am embarrassingly unshedded and ungaraged, so anything I use keep has to stay indoors. If it's not dry, I will leak and make a mess. I spend far too long, leaning over the bath and decanting a 5 litre bottle of windscreen fluid into empty coke bottles. It had sprung a leak, but fortunately the shipping bag was sealed and caught most of it. My hallway does smell of Tutti-Fruitti - which isn't too bad (Meant to mention you to UK goods, Maplins seem to have a good clearance price on AA batteries) https://www.maplin.co.uk/search/?text=battery#Brand:Maplin:Category:AA%20Batteries:&sort=price-desc&page=0&productsPerPage=showAll E: Can;t see gently caress all else there that isn;t more expensive than Amazon, even at clearance prices. spog fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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spog posted:
Which is the main reason they are going out of business.
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trouser chili posted:
Bourbon is probably the best. But if you need to siphon from an open container in the future... Just shove a bunch of line down in the tank, pinch or plug end other end with your thumb, then snatch it up quickly and release your pinch with the hose end over the second container. May take a couple tries to get going, but is much better than a mouthful of gasoline.
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Goddamn Facebook marketplace is so Facebook. I put the Rugger on it, fill out the description, load up the pictures, description, etc. Immediately after posting Facebook blocks the ad and goes "THIS ITEM DOESN'T MEET OUR SELLING REQUIREMENTS". I think about it for two seconds, click the 'dispute' button and type "This is not a gun, it is a truck, and is perfectly safe. It's pronounced Rug-Er not Rooger." Don't they have hyper specialized software to examine pictures and poo poo rather than just going 'Rugger looks like ruger and must be a gun, despite the pictures being of a car and the description describing a car and the post itself being in the automobile sales section so FLAG'. Craigslist has a section to put the mileage outside of the description box that only shows miles. If you don't put anything in there it doesn't list the mileage in the side bar on the right. When I sell JDM tyte rides on there I usually leave this blank because there is no way to list it as km rather than miles. Sometimes I convert it to miles then explain in the description. Facebook, however, is so loving Facebook about it that exposes their outlook on information that people put about themselves. They have it the same way, a section outside of the description box where you can put the mileage. When I listed this Land Cruiser I have I didn't put anything there since it's optional. I put it in the description section though, that it has 280,000 kms on it, converting to around 175,000 miles. Put the ad up and go to bed. Wife tells me this morning that Facebook is showing (like I had put it in the non-description box mileage section) 280,000 miles. gently caress you Facebook quit assuming poo poo based on a set of numbers you have in the description box. Why that set of six numbers and not the other set? 
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KakerMix posted:Goddamn Facebook marketplace is so Facebook. Sounds about right. FBM is just Craigslist for the even stupider than normal crowd. I've spent the morning outside sporadically working on car stuff, started out power washing my summer wheels in the driveway and someone in the neighborhood just complained to the leasing office about it. ANd the kicker is, they don't even live on this street and can't even see my garage from there, so what's the problem?
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If people have an outlet to complain they will, every single time. The other day a guest at the hotel wanted his room comped because a palmetto bug flew into his OPEN loving DOOR [e] we also have people demand for a refund if the weather is lovely
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Being married to one of the PMs is nice. She copied the page of the bylaws where washing a car in your driveway is 100% allowed so I have that printed and ready to staple to that fuckstick's forhead.
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spog posted:I am embarrassingly unshedded and ungaraged, so anything I use keep has to stay indoors. If it's not dry, I will leak and make a mess. May I ask what your housing situation is? Apartment? House without garage or shed?
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KakerMix posted:Goddamn Facebook marketplace is so Facebook.  Applebees Appetizer posted:The other day a guest at the hotel wanted his room comped because a palmetto bug flew into his OPEN loving DOOR
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spog posted:I am embarrassingly unshedded and ungaraged, so anything I use keep has to stay indoors. If it's not dry, I will leak and make a mess. I pity the man without a shed or garage to call his own (or even a carport)
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Rhyno posted:May I ask what your housing situation is? Apartment? House without garage or shed? Apartment with a parking space Tomarse posted:I pity the man without a shed or garage to call his own (or even a carport) Every job starts we me having to schlep all my tools all the way down to the car. Then back up again afterwards. That includes a hydraulic jack and axles stands You can see why I get rightly hacked off when I discovered that the one socket/extension bar/adaptor is not in the kit I have and I have to go back and get it. Even though I take far too many tools with me, I'm always caught out by an odd-sized bolt, screw or the the fact that my 'professional' socket set was clearly not designed by someone who uses these things everyday. (Yesterday, I learnt that you can't use the 16mm socket on the biggest ratchet, just the medium-sized one. I'd willingly skip the lovely screwdriver bits if it meant they gave me the right adaptors instead.)
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Applebees Appetizer posted:hotel chat Last weekend was staying in a fairly nice place and at 9am (when it is a 12 pm check out) they used their key and tried to come into the room, that was insane! Won't name them because they refunded my points but man I was out all night and it was one night without kids and I wanted to just crash and sleep late.
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spog posted:Apartment with a parking space I regret to inform you that even when you are working from/in a proper garage that the tool you really want is never where it should be and is guaranteed to be the one that you used in the house/lent to a mate/left in the other car. everdave posted:Last weekend was staying in a fairly nice place and at 9am (when it is a 12 pm check out) they used their key and tried to come into the room, that was insane! Won't name them because they refunded my points but man I was out all night and it was one night without kids and I wanted to just crash and sleep late. I stay in a lot of hotels and now always lock myself in after that happening too many times and also after having had my room key reissued to someone else when I was already in the room. I now sleep soundly.
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everdave posted:Last weekend was staying in a fairly nice place and at 9am (when it is a 12 pm check out) they used their key and tried to come into the room, that was insane! Won't name them because they refunded my points but man I was out all night and it was one night without kids and I wanted to just crash and sleep late. It was probably a mistake, poo poo like that happens.
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Tomarse posted:I stay in a lot of hotels and now always lock myself in after that happening too many times and also after having had my room key reissued to someone else when I was already in the room. I now sleep soundly. I have to lock myself in all hotel rooms since I have the habit of sleepwalking and have woken up multiple times in hallways/stairwells of the hotel I am staying in. Luckily, I am usually at least wearing boxers, except when I was on my honeymoon in the DR and woke up 1 floor down in the stairwell of our open air hotel completely naked. And it was the middle of the day, so housekeeping was everywhere. Some hotels don't have the little latch to lock the door from the inside, so I have gotten into the habit of boobytrapping the doors, by either putting a chair or my luggage in front of the door, so I will trip over that and wake up before I can make it into the hallway.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:It was probably a mistake, poo poo like that happens. believe it or not the manager said they start "checking" the rooms at 9 since it is an airport location, man i was pissed but the manager made it right. he said put the do not disturb sign up and it wouldn't happen, but my thing is I don't like doing that. to me that just advertises that someone is in the room in case something bad was going down.
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I mark the door of my hotel room with the blood of a slaughtered lamb, and that usually keeps the staff out.
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Jesus, buying from Sears is a Goddamned chore I went in to buy a digital torque wrench, but the $60 price I saw was online only, so I do an "in store pick up" order from inside the store. That takes 15 minutes to process, and I go to pick it up at the counter. Instead I get a ticket to bring to a register on the other side of the store 20 minutes to buy a loving wrench at a brick and mortar shop
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The Door Frame posted:Jesus, buying from Sears is a Goddamned chore THE FUTURE
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Rhyno posted:THE FUTURE This is the future Ayn Rand wants.
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Oh yeah, interview for Service Tech position went well. Gotta go piss in a cup and they gotta do formal background checks and stuff.
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KakerMix posted:Goddamn Facebook marketplace is so Facebook. Firearms including your "truck" (weapon of mass destruction) are off limits, prepper.
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OZYMANDICKASS posted:Generally speaking, in my mouth Picks, not "dicks". ... was that too harsh?
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The Door Frame posted:Jesus, buying from Sears is a Goddamned chore This is why Sears and KMart are circling the drain. They just don't get it. Don't make it hard for me to give you money and get things. It's your raison d'etre. edit: you're-your, French accent thingy. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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everdave posted:believe it or not the manager said they start "checking" the rooms at 9 since it is an airport location, man i was pissed but the manager made it right. he said put the do not disturb sign up and it wouldn't happen, but my thing is I don't like doing that. to me that just advertises that someone is in the room in case something bad was going down. Realistically, the chances of your being abducted by a band of international terrorists is much less than the maid walking in while you are cranking one out to pay-per-view.
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everdave posted:believe it or not the manager said they start "checking" the rooms at 9 since it is an airport location, man i was pissed but the manager made it right. he said put the do not disturb sign up and it wouldn't happen, but my thing is I don't like doing that. to me that just advertises that someone is in the room in case something bad was going down. Lol then you can't be mad because that is exactly what it's for. You should have let the front desk know you weren't hanging the sign but didn't want to be disturbed, other wise if that was your checkout day they are going to assume you left, especially at an airport hotel.
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Hey I understand all that but I’ve been in 20+ different hotels the past year and this doesn’t happen, even Disney is taking away do not disturb signs. It is what it I should if I stay at this location again will have the sign out. I feel no ill will towards hotel they were cool.
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Darchangel posted:This is why Sears and KMart are circling the drain. They just don't get it. They can't compete with Amazon in the online marketplace while running the warehouse out of their fully staffed local stores, why does everyone keep trying?
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