The mild annoyances thread!

Shavano

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There has been a fly in my kitchen for a week now. It moves really fast, it makes no sound and it is impervious to the fly spray.

With the best will in the world, there's food and drink available for a fly to live forever.

Fucker bites too.

It is taunting me.

Honestly, it's like a cartoon now in our kitchen.
Two words: nuclear option

OK, that's four words, and here I am adding more.

Or you could go the organic route. Have you considered bringing in a spider to catch the fly?
 
Did you get into grad school?
Is he now known as Tom the Melanophile, Ph.D.?
Unfortunately for Lounge Amusement purposes - I didn't seize their identity to get into grad school. I already did that on my own and bailed when the program wasn't what it should have been. Admittedly due to the name recognition it would have been super amusing to get into Oxford.

I did let the universities know their applicant was unable to type in their own email address (which was related to my name, and unrelated to theirs).
 
I specifically bought the Merrell Moab Waterproofs. They are not any more apparently. At least it was warm and not cold I suppose.
I don't buy them because they're "waterproof." They're not. What they are is, better equipped for the - not so much any more - "colder" weather we experience here. They're actually quite warm if your local temps don't reach ~20F, and apparently that kind of cold no longer happens at my latitude. I buy them because they're kind of warm and - for my neutral pronation - comfortable out of the box. Probably won't wear them again until ~November. In the meantime I'm wearing Brooks Ghost 15's, equally good for my pronation and cool as hell in the airflow sense. I can feel a breeze on my feet with them, which is cool because it's kind of fucking hot here, if not Floridian.
 

headache

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The fact that the igniter in my stove is so hit or miss. It works RIGHT now, which is nice. But FFS. It didn’t earlier today, or yesterday at all. Will be hitting up a parts store tomorrow, and hoping for the repair folks to contact me.
If you don't have luck with the local shops, or your landlord actually doing their job in a timely manner, I'll offer an unsolicited plug for https://www.appliancepartspros.com/
 

rain shadow

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I don't buy them because they're "waterproof." They're not. What they are is, better equipped for the - not so much any more - "colder" weather we experience here. They're actually quite warm if your local temps don't reach ~20F, and apparently that kind of cold no longer happens at my latitude. I buy them because they're kind of warm and - for my neutral pronation - comfortable out of the box. Probably won't wear them again until ~November. In the meantime I'm wearing Brooks Ghost 15's, equally good for my pronation and cool as hell in the airflow sense. I can feel a breeze on my feet with them, which is cool because it's kind of fucking hot here, if not Floridian.
I had a brain cell allocated to the idea that you went barefoot everywhere. Is it time to kill that one off?
 

Ecmaster76

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Is he now known as Tom the Melanophile, Ph.D.?
I'm writing a TV synopsis for a reboot of a classic show.

Imagine if your email address was Douglas.Howser[@]server.com. You just started middle school and you know everything about medicine but who would let a kid enter med school? But one day...
 

SandyTech

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This depends on why it was warm, in my experience. I hate septic lift pits...
This is true. Fortunately none of that was involved, just that one spot in the yard that lives under an inch of water until November that has to be trimmed with a weedeater lest I get the stupid mower stuck (again).
 
I had a brain cell allocated to the idea that you went barefoot everywhere. Is it time to kill that one off?
I walk 50 miles a week, ~2600 miles a year. Ain't happening without the best shoes I can match to my stride. I expend a_lot of time researching what I should wear on my feet, and spend whatever money it takes to care for my feet. They carry me, they define me, but decades of research (I haven't driven a car in 30 years) have shown me how to take care of my feet while not spending stupid money. $100 is the amount you should spend on footwear worthy of you. It's that simple.

No, I don't go barefoot. I'd like to, but I live in Philadelphia.
 

Hound of Cullen

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Cameras and security nodes get manual IPs on their own vlan, since the system works better that way and we don't have that many caemras or security nodes.

I keep a list of assigned IP addresses, and give new ones to the subs when they come in to bring another building online.

Then, they completely ignore what I give them and assign the same IP address to both a security node and a camera, making both behave erratically. :mad:

At least it is a quick fix. But subcontractors always do crap like this, so it has put me in a bad mood this morning.