@thenomain It is okay, I do not live in the US so I do not have to worry about Best Buy.
There is Curry/PC World though which I understand is pretty much the same thing. Fortunately though I have Amazon Prime and my commute home every evening takes me past a post office.
For now I tried messing around with uninstalling and reinstalling my drivers and at this point the ethernet is not working at all, it is my motherboard socket as well so for now I will stick with the old wi-fi card I found in my crate of random cables and computer bits.
@thenomain said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Micro Center carries so much stuff that they often look like a warehouse more than a high-class store. As much as this could make them look junky, I find that this is in their favor; Best Buy looks like a 90s mall outlet with, as you say, about 3 things in any given category. And while BB is turning things around, their customer service is still largely shit.
Best Buy is where you go if you don't know what the fuck you're doing there.
Micro Center is where you go if you have an idea of what you're looking for.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Micro Center is where you go if you have an idea of what you're looking for.
Last I was in, I overheard a conversation about wireless, educating the customer between range extenders, ethernet-over-powerline, and mesh networking.
I would send someone who doesn't know a damn thing to Micro Center first.
I would send someone who doesn't care to Best Buy.
(I do have bad things to say about MC, but compared to BB it's like comparing a poor sculpture to a bronzed turd.)
Heat index of 115'F.
Just taking the trash out and going between building and car got me heat sick.
I kind of hate Austin right now.
Yeah, you were supposed to ship this important thing last week. I NEED this important thing to function like a human being who is not in a shit-ton of pain.
Asshole.
(aka Auto immunes suck)
I put on my FB that I wanted to learn Spanish.
It hadn't been a half hour when my mother calls me FREAKING OUT about 'why do you need to learn Spanish?!?!'
I don't think she believed me when I said I just wanted to learn it to learn it.
fml
ETA: Like seriously. Why else would I? more importantly, WTF is it a reason to freak out for?
@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I put on my FB that I wanted to learn Spanish.
It hadn't been a half hour when my mother calls me FREAKING OUT about 'why do you need to learn Spanish?!?!'
I don't think she believed me when I said I just wanted to learn it to learn it.
fml
ETA: Like seriously. Why else would I? more importantly, WTF is it a reason to freak out for?
You're obviously planning on moving to a Spanish speaking country.
@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
ETA: Like seriously. Why else would I? more importantly, WTF is it a reason to freak out for?
As a lark I took the Donald J. Trump "How Am I Doing?" survey, and wouldn't you know it, the "Do You Think English Should Be The Official And Only Language in USA?" question was there.
Sigh.
Still so sick. I guess the almost-the-biggest-guns of antibiotics are not kicking this pneumonia bug's ass. Which really sucks, because my income from my side hustle is what we were using to fund the kiddos' expenses for back to school stuff, and hopefully a very small family vacation before school starts up again. I'm out $1000 already, more if I cant get back to work by Sunday, and it kinda makes me want to cry.
The saga continues. She has now sent my sister to ask me why I want to learn.
I just. What. I.
Why on earth is 'because I have friends who speak Spanish' NOT a good enough reason to learn it?!?! Why do I REALLY want to learn, she asks.
ETA: Of all the weirdest fucking places for family drama to arise. WHAT?
@sunny If you really want her head to explode, tell her you did one of those ancestry.com or whatever DNA tests, it came back with something like 65% Mexican, and you want to learn the tongue of your true people.
(Never actually do this. Ever. Obviously. But imagine the look on her face for a moment if you did, and odds are you will feel at least a tiny bit better about the absurdity of it all.)
Oh fucking well.
It is a very funny mental image.
@sunny I am fascinated by this saga from a social experiment perspective. Keep us posted! And also, maybe turn it around on her and ask her why she's so worried about it? I bet the answer would be...intriguing.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
@cupcake Sadly, the answer to that question was flailing and then a baldfaced 'what do you mean? I'm not upset! I don't care I was just curious!'
@sunny Do we have the same mother?
Seriously, I was wondering the same...
Dear work,
The new schedule you gave me completely effs up transportation. I can not spend over 12 hours of my day devoted getting to you, working for you, and getting home. I would be sick in the space of 3 weeks, thanks to the BS my body is pulling. Please understand since you interviewed me, my transportation options have changed. 
I hear a lot of pop music at work. (I work at a mall.) And there's just two things that keep getting on my nerves.
One is the sad songs where the viewpoint character is super bummed that the object of their affection is either not interested, or is in a committed relationship with someone else. And I mean I get it, it sucks, we've all been there. But when he starts singing about how she should totally get with him instead, it leaves mournfully sweet and gets into entitled creepster.
The second is when they're trying to use Romeo and Juliet for any sort of love song. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, dammit. It's not just a love story, it's a love story that ends with the protagonists and all their friends dead. Star-cross'd lovers doesn't mean that they were really really in love, it means they were cursed by fate. I mean, it's cool if you're singing about a bad breakup or something, but not if you're just using them as shorthand for 'really in love.' Even if someone's parents don't approve. Read a goddamn book, Taylor.
I have always believed, and will argue to the death, that Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's greatest comedy.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@ganymede To be fair, arguing to the death is basically the entire plot. So at least it's on brand.
He/Him
The saga continues. She has now sent my sister to ask me why I want to learn.
I just. What. I.
Why on earth is 'because I have friends who speak Spanish' NOT a good enough reason to learn it?!?! Why do I REALLY want to learn, she asks.
ETA: Of all the weirdest fucking places for family drama to arise. WHAT?
