RL peeves! >< @$!#

[Sponge]

@Miss-Demeanor said:

Strange as it seems.. some people just can't get the hang of self-checkout. A lifetime of having someone else do it makes them complacent and resistant to learning, no matter how easy it is.

The self-checkout machines at the stores I go to have some kind of anxiety disorder I don't understand. "You took an extra 4 milliseconds to put your item in the bag. I'm gonna to wait for authorization. Brought your own bags? I'm gonna have to wait for authorization. Scanned your club card? Hold up, lemmie signal for authorization..."

If I have more than like three things I make the humans do it because the machines can't even. I also might be mentally deficient in ways I'm too mentally deficient to perceive.

[Miss Demeanor]

No, I get it. The self-checkout at Wal-Mart is tetchy like that here too. I try to only use it if I have one or two quick things.

My favorite is 'please bag your item'... but I did bag my item... 'please bag your item'... I DID DAMMIT. I can't help it if the item I scanned is too lightweight for your sensor to pick up!

[thebird]

Haven't had issues with insomnia since around high school.
It's apparently back with a vengeance, aside from one random 12 hour stretch of sleep.
Ugh.
Tossing and turning is lame, especially with work looming ever closer =|

[Luna]

When my ex brings back my kid badly sunburnt and sun sick. So mad. Soooooo mad.

[Arkandel]

I get public transit cards sent to me by mail. This morning I realized I forgot to put the one for June in my pocket so I had to pay for a ticket like some peon. The indignity!

[Rook]

Sciatic pain can die in a fire.

[TNP]

@Rook said:

Sciatic pain can die in a fire.

I hear you. I got this last year and it was horrible. I had to go buy a chair that wasn't acutely painful to sit in even with narcotics. I found acupuncture to provide some relief (note that I was, possibly still am a total skeptic about it but I was willing to do anything at that point) and saw a chiropractor too. The latter said it normally took 4-6 months to go away on its own. With treatment, it took... over five months. So maybe all that money spent on treatment was wasted. Good luck.

[Rook]

I have been undergoing electro-stim, adjustments and accupuncture. My chiro does it all. I also have narcotics for when the pain is too much to ignore. The bitch of this? This happened while doing P90X, an exercise program.

[Arkandel]

Until my 30s I had no issues. Then boom! A lifetime of sitting badly on crappy chairs for hours staring at computer screens caught up to me all at once, and when a nerve got pinched it'd last for ... quite some time.

I tried laser therapy, massage, medical solutions, gels, anatomic pillows... a good chiropractor seemed to be the best among those approaches. What worked for me in the end (?) was exercise and losing weight. These days once in a while I still do something wrong (usually lift something carelessly or just from sitting in the same position for a long time, as in a lengthy car ride), but the difference between now and before I was working out regularly is 4-5 days of pain/discomfort compared to weeks of it.

It's only empirical but that's what did it for me. So far.

[WTFE]

I got mine by breaking my back. (Well, OK, by rupturing a disk in my spine, but the fluid bulged straight into the spinal cord.) The downside was over a month of someone running a blowtorch up and down both legs and my crotch and ass, or so it felt. The upside is that it completely reset my definitions of "pain" to the point that pain that in the past would have been debilitating and caused me to stay home from work is now "meh". (Hint: this is really not an upside…)

Sciatic pain is not anything I'd wish on even people I hate.

[BetterJudgment]

My partner, who in his mid 70s is in better physical condition than most men in their late 40s, was rapidly and completely debilitated by sciatica last year. It took one x-ray for the first doctor to say "You need surgery" and one MRI for the second doctor to confirm that. (He had two badly extruded lumbar discs that were five vertebrae apart.) He says he woke up from the discectomy/laminectomy with the pain completely gone, and two months of PT followed by continuing exercise have kept it gone. I'm not one for advocating surgery, but it sure worked for him.

[Thenomain]

Goddammit face, now is not the time to decide to extract my sinuses through my cheekbones.

[Misadventure]

You have my mental and physical sympathy Theno.

[Luna]

The stench of mildew. So fucking over it. Good god. It's gross.

[Sunny]

I said this one before, and recently, too, but today was a good reminder.

I hate working for the government, particularly when I end up having to choose between being homeless and doing the right thing. I HATE IT.

Also, jackasses in the office of human resources that don't actually do their job, resulting in me losing my medical coverage and having to cancel both my respiratory therapy AND cardiologist appointments, as well as not being able to get any of these lovely medications that are KEEPING ME ALIVE refilled. Don't qualify for state assistance 'cos I'm back to work.

I swear, if that asshole doesn't satisfy me tomorrow one of a couple of things is going to happen. Possibly several of these things.

First is demanding a meeting with my sup, her sup, his sup, and a union rep, to explain how royally and illegally this asshole has fucked up. Second is filing an actual worker's compensation claim, which I had thus far avoided doing because it's going to be a fight, and three, getting a damn attorney. I have the established case law in hand now, too. My job itself has repaired itself and has been fantastic, which is amazing, but the agency itself is trying so hard to screw me over. I dunno, maybe they want the lawsuit of them being responsible for me dying on the job.

[Ganymede]

Be thankful you work for the government. You'll enjoy more protections than if you worked for a private entity that did the same thing.

[Roz]

That's what everyone wants to hear when they're having a super shitty situation. The ways in which it could be worse.

[Luna]

@Roz Well, being that Gany is a lawyer, it's sort of the type of things she says and it has actual meaning behind it. It's not some rando going 'well could be worse'. And frankly I know she'd do what she could to help.

@Sunny Hang in there. I'm so sorry and this is super fucking shitty. And I know breathing meds are CRAZY expensive. I hope things get better soon! Kick ass and take names!

[Catsmeow]

My RL peeve....

Dating

That is all.

[Derp]

@Catsmeow

Why can't we just make casual sex between random strangers socially acceptable? I mean, damn. We should be there already.