The Complaining and Bitching Thread

Tearing up a bit thinking about my dogs that have passed in the past 2 years.
I hope I gave them a good time here.

I guess it was triggered by a dream that I was able to save the oldest.
The brain is a strange thing.
Stop fuckin' with me.

 

Holy unnecessary guilt trip, Batman.

 

I wish.

 

I've been shut out of one of my guilty pleasures.

McDonalds has quit selling the Jalapeño McDouble.

Fashionable, I know, to hate Mickey Dee's, but it was a great little $2 burger.

Discard half of the bun, and it's reasonably low-carb, fairly low-cal too.

 

Went out on a date...got caught by the Honesty Trap.
"I want you to be honest..." Then told me I was too honest and she wanted mystery (her words) and to find out everything as time goes. (despite the fact the last two guys she was with deceived her and didn't tell her everything...her words again)
You'd think I'd know better by now.

But I'm going out again...glutton for punishment (and she's no better or worse than any other these days)
...this time I'll keep my mouth shut (yeah, yeah, I know...ME???)

Hey, it was good until she gave me feedback at the end...so there's that. AND she wants to go out again...so there's that.
What do you want??
I'm living the opening scene in "When Harry Met Sally" - Cocky vs. Particular
Maybe I'll make her "meow" (another WHMS ref)

 

The nice thing about allowing engineers to participate in conference calls that should be run by procurement team members is that you can pretty much mute your phone and ignore it for the first 75% of the scheduled time allotted. There is basically a guarantee that they'll spend at least that much time muddling through information that is only relevant to them. I've learned it is easier just to allow them to share all the unnecessary information and get it all out of their system before finally asking "so now if you can just share with me the tiny piece that impacts what you want me to deliver, I'll gladly address that and answer your concerns". If you interrupt them and try to skip straight to the part that is relevant, they can't seem to grasp that you don't care what work it requires to get to the question, or why they need what they need, you just want them to ask for what they need so you can give it to them.

 

UGH. Obnoxious upstairs neighbor is at it again. My next-door neighbor, who's a friend of mine, messaged me earlier to comment, "I presume the heavy bass coming through my walls is not you." Hubs is going to deal with it when he gets home--upstairs neighbor is an unknown single male, and I stay home by myself all day most of the summer, so I want to be safe.

 

That was the biggest, heaviest, longest lasting hail I've ever seen in my life. 30-40 minutes of hard hail, larger than quarters. For a few minutes it was literally bigger than golf balls. My work's insurance is going to be dumping some money into hail damage for my SUV I think. Too dark to tell for sure, but it had some pretty gnarly dents on the hood, I'm guessing the roof looks the same.

 

Made Nigella's mini pavlova recipe. Apparently one of the batches that came out cooled too quickly, because the pavlova retracted into itself. Oh well--I'll just flip them over and turn them into pavlova cups.