What Irked You Today?

[jaymcminn]

7 minutes ago, stavanzer said:

A minor Irk.

Fitted Bed Sheets.

I'll date myself, by saying that growing up, fitted sheets had elastic only on the ends of the sheet, not the sides.

Now, the elastic is all the way around the hem of the sheet. This turns changing sheets into an all out wrestling match.

When the bed in in a corner, it is even worse. Now that I have the beginnings of Osteoarthritis in both shoulders, it is all I can do to get the sheets on the bed.

It is a First World Problem, I know, but It Irks me to have to fight just to get clean sheets on a bed.

Thanks, For Listening.

I sympathize with your struggle to get clean sheets on the bed!

[stavanzer]

Jay, now you know why I have a Rottweiler, and not a cat!

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

49 minutes ago, stavanzer said:

...It is a First World Problem, I know, but It Irks me to have to fight just to get clean sheets on a bed.

Simple solution: just don't ever change the sheets.   

[stavanzer]

7 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Simple solution: just don't ever change the sheets.   

I live in Bakersfield. We are on our 7th Heatwave of the summer. Temp outside right now is 108. It will remain over 100 until at least midnight. Will be 106-108 until at least Thursday. It has been a Long, Hot summer, and we really won't start seeing serious cooling for another 4-6 weeks.

Even with A/C it is just too hot not to change the sheets once a week. Or more often, sometimes.

[mrm]

2 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Mozzi, I hear you. My one of my Daughters worked as a waitress. It was tough work, and she did it long enough to be a pro. She worked in a couple 4 Star restaurants in Paso Robles, so I know she was good. She said Tips could vary wildly from night to night. I tip very Well, now that I have learned from her.

The Tip with the Credit Card was just being a Blah, Blah Blah. What we used to call a Richard Move. Shame on them.

One of the things that bothered me was that the mom, the one who posted the picture was raging how the restaurants "should be paying respectable wage" to all their employees and paying $2.15 to wait staff should be criminal. The funny thing, which belongs in the other thread "what pleased me today", is that my 18 year old son looked at me puzzled and said "so, basically she wants everyone to get paid the same, no matter what? Isn't that communism?" Every once in a while, my kid does make me proud. LOL. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

My tankless point-of-use "outdoor" propane-fired water heater (for the shower) gave up the ghost this AM. Cold shower.

Happy happy, when I bought the thing, I finagled a backup ECM for the day it would inevitably die. And this PM I actually found it. 

I've been camping in this collapsing dump for 10 years, never intended to be here past 2018, and the heater lasted about 8 years.

Not too bad, but nothing lasts forever.

If for whatever reason the new control module doesn't fix it, Home Depot can get me a complete new unit by Friday.

Installation takes me about an hour.

 

[HomerS]

Fall sports kick off for the high school and they thought it would be a great idea to have it at the stadium instead of the air conditioned gym?  Temps had plummeted to about 90 degrees at 6p.

The idea was the teams use this field and then they introduced the golf team?? 

Basically they pimped the players for an hour long commercial for the athletic boosters.

[stavanzer]

2 hours ago, stavanzer said:

I live in Bakersfield. We are on our 7th Heatwave of the summer. Temp outside right now is 108. It will remain over 100 until at least midnight. Will be 106-108 until at least Thursday. It has been a Long, Hot summer, and we really won't start seeing serious cooling for another 4-6 weeks.

Even with A/C it is just too hot not to change the sheets once a week. Or more often, sometimes.

And the A/C conked out......

Got a call in to the A/C shop, but It will be a couple days before they'll be able to fix it. But, it's cooled down to only 100 Deg outside, so there is that.

It is about 82 in the house now. It will be 106-108 again tomorrow. It will be a long, hot day tomorrow.

[Ace-Garageguy]

25 minutes ago, stavanzer said:

And the A/C conked out......

Got a call in to the A/C shop, but It will be a couple days before they'll be able to fix it. But, it's cooled down to only 100 Deg outside, so there is that.

It is about 82 in the house now. It will be 106-108 again tomorrow. It will be a long, hot day tomorrow.

First month I spent in my place in Az., the AC didn't work. 112-115 in the daytime, 80s late at night. 

I don't know about you, but low 80s is pretty comfortable to me if the humidity is low.

Anyway, I rigged a couple of big cheap box fans to blow OUT windows in one end of the house, opened windows at the other end so cool evening air could come in.

The house is, fortunately, pretty well insulated, so closing it up first thing in the AM trapped the nice coolness most of the day, and it didn't start getting kinda uncomfortable until late in the afternoon.

Just a thought...   

[Tom Geiger]

It's a fact that those who once worked for tips, tip well!  I am no exception.  When I was 18 I spent a summer delivering pizza. I noticed that when I delivered to working class neighborhoods I was tipped well.  When delivering to high end neighborhoods, often not so well!  Back then a dollar was a good tip.  And there were the folks who would give you a $5 bill for a $4.89 pizza and tell you to keep the change.

Today, retired after a decent career,  I tend to over tip because I remember the days when every dollar was appreciated.

[redneckrigger]

On 8/5/2024 at 11:59 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

First month I spent in my place in Az., the AC didn't work. 112-115 in the daytime, 80s late at night. 

I don't know about you, but low 80s is pretty comfortable to me if the humidity is low.

Anyway, I rigged a couple of big cheap box fans to blow OUT windows in one end of the house, opened windows at the other end so cool evening air could come in.

The house is, fortunately, pretty well insulated, so closing it up first thing in the AM trapped the nice coolness most of the day, and it didn't start getting kinda uncomfortable until late in the afternoon.

Just a thought...   

As a former firefighter and chief, we often had occasion to ventilate a house. We always used positive pressure ventilation. We would put the fan in front of the front door, just about 3-4 feet outside and then open the window in the section of the house we wanted vented. It worked far better than using a fan to suck air into the house and force it out a window. Of course, a lot depends upon the size of the fans being used. I have tried this method in my house with residential size window and box fans and find that it works well. Stay cool!

[Ace-Garageguy]

45 minutes ago, redneckrigger said:

As a former firefighter and chief, we often had occasion to ventilate a house. We always used positive pressure ventilation. We would put the fan in front of the front door, just about 3-4 feet outside and then open the window in the section of the house we wanted vented. It worked far better than using a fan to suck air into the house and force it out a window. Of course, a lot depends upon the size of the fans being used. I have tried this method in my house with residential size window and box fans and find that it works well. Stay cool!

Your pro firefighter fans were probably considerably larger than the ones I use.

However, I've been using an industrial fan (only 3' diameter, but moves a LOT of air and used to be in the wall of my fiberglass shop) to pull air through the house for over 15 years, in the last, much larger place too.

I've tried it PUSHING into the house, and all it does is cool the one room. It also seems to add heat to the incoming air, which it would, as it's adding energy.

Setting it up to PULL, with downstream windows open, it'll cool the entire house easily, in a relatively short time.

EXAMPLE: It got up to 98 here today, and when I got in, the house was around 92. The outdoor temp has now dropped to 88, I've had the suck-fan running for about a 1/2 hour, and every room is down to 88 now. It'll be down to whatever the outdoor temp is by midnight when I hit the sheets, and I can sleep comfortably if it's low-80s and low humidity.

I've been living without AC for all of those 15 years, in the hot-humid Southeast, as the summer AC bill at the last place was running $600/month.

Nope.

Not arguing, just passing along what I've experimented with, and what works for me.  

 

[stavanzer]

Model Related Irk.

Just got the Round2 1966 Thunderbird last week. All is packaged nicely, but Once again, the steering wheel is Bent & Broken.

This happens on about every 5th Round2 kit I buy, especially when it is an old AMT tool, like the '66 T-bird. This time the Steering Wheel is cut off from the tree, floating around in the bag by itself. Still looks ruined. I've got plenty of steering wheels, so I can find something to fit. I am planning on building it as a Kustom, so the steering wheel issue is not a show stopper for this build.

But, this keeps happening.

Kats, please check the QC on steering wheels. Too many times, the shipping seems to bend or smash them by the time they get to the store or mail order house. This kit came from Model Roundup, but it has happened to me a few times in kits from Hobby Lobby. I don't squawk much about it, because many old AMT kits come with a choice of steering wheels, and usually at least one in usable. So, I just move on.

But, it is disappointing.

[Rodent]

2 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Model Related Irk.

Just got the Round2 1966 Thunderbird last week. All is packaged nicely, but Once again, the steering wheel is Bent & Broken.

This happens on about every 5th Round2 kit I buy, especially when it is an old AMT tool, like the '66 T-bird. This time the Steering Wheel is cut off from the tree, floating around in the bag by itself. Still looks ruined. I've got plenty of steering wheels, so I can find something to fit. I am planning on building it as a Kustom, so the steering wheel issue is not a show stopper for this build.

But, this keeps happening.

Kats, please check the QC on steering wheels. Too many times, the shipping seems to bend or smash them by the time they get to the store or mail order house. This kit came from Model Roundup, but it has happened to me a few times in kits from Hobby Lobby. I don't squawk much about it, because many old AMT kits come with a choice of steering wheels, and usually at least one in usable. So, I just move on.

But, it is disappointing.

I have the new '64 Malibu Craftsman and it has a steering wheel on a tree and a loose one in the bag. Maybe this is how they are dealing with the issue.....

[TonyK]

Need an 8 ft wide fence/gate replaced and stairs that connect our lower backyard with the upper part replaced also. Looked online and found a couple of places and contacted them through their website as they requested. I included a couple of pictures to show them what needed replaced. One said they'd respond in 48 hours. Didn't hear anything so resubmitted. Never heard anything and the other place didn't respond either.

Tried another well known company and a guy phoned me and seemed interested. I told him I'd send the pictures and he liked that idea and I never heard anything. oh heaven's to Betsy!?!

Contacted another place and the guy called, came out the next day, sent me an estimate and we're good to go.

I can't understand the lack of common courtesy from places nowadays. If the job is too small or whatever their problem is, a quick response would be appropriate. I plan to spend some of my precious time and type up reviews wherever I can on the specific sites I can find. That's after I get done yelling at the clouds. 😄

[bobthehobbyguy]

Wasn't paying attention this morning and went to make a cup of coffee and I forgot to put the cup below the water flow. I wasted a coffee pod and of course the tray overflowed. Had to clean up the mess before I could make a new cup.

[Engine 51]

1 hour ago, bobthehobbyguy said:

Wasn't paying attention this morning and went to make a cup of coffee and I forgot to put the cup below the water flow. I wasted a coffee pod and of course the tray overflowed. Had to clean up the mess before I could make a new cup.

Been there, done that….twice. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

3 hours ago, bobthehobbyguy said:

Wasn't paying attention this morning and went to make a cup of coffee and I forgot to put the cup below the water flow. I wasted a coffee pod and of course the tray overflowed. Had to clean up the mess before I could make a new cup.

I have an old-style 12-cup drip maker, because I'll usually drink 3 or 4 cups right after each other in the morning, and then take the rest to work in a thermos.

A couple times when I've been particularly groggy, I've forgotten to close the top before switching it on.

Of course hot water goes everywhere but where it's supposed to...all over the counter and dripping down on the floor and into the drawers.

OMG!!! OMG!!!  THERE MUST BE A PROBLEM WITH THE MACHINE!!!

I'LL HAVE TO GO ON REDDIT AND SEEK TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHAT TO DO!!!

OMG !!! OMG!!! OMG!!!

 

 

Edited August 8 by Ace-Garageguy

[Allison]

I accidentally spilled half bottle of my Tamiya paint on the table.

[JollySipper]

That kinda sucks...... Shouldn't be that big of an irk, though, unless it was the bottom half that got spilled!  

[stavanzer]

Missed the bus this afternoon by 10 minutes. The bus runs every 1.5 Hours.

Instead of waiting over an hour, for the next one I walked home. 3/4 of a mile. Made it, but my Dogs are Barking... Course it has cooled off, so it was only 93 Deg on my Walk. Not like the 114 we had two weeks ago.

 

[89AKurt]

Try finding anything not Made In CHYna.   Apple pie and Chevrolet Small Block starter from AutoZone, label will wear off "REMANUFACTURED IN CHINA".

That body mount was just put in 2 months ago, we can't make decent rubber anymore due to our EPA, because pregnant women only in California get cancer from every part.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, 89AKurt said:

Try finding anything not Made In CHYna.   Apple pie and Chevrolet Small Block starter from AutoZone, label will wear off "REMANUFACTURED IN CHINA"....
That body mount was just put in 2 months ago, we can't make decent rubber anymore due to our EPA, because pregnant women only in California get cancer from every part.

Try doing this stuff for a living now.

Master cylinders with the cups put in backwards. Fuel pumps that last 3 months. Plastic lenses and coolant fittings that crumble to powder in 2 years. Threads on fasteners that don't match anything "standard", metric, or Whitworth. Primary wire that's apparently dipped in a copper-color solution before being overmolded with insulation that turns gummy in a few weeks while the wire under it corrodes. Vacuum hose that collapses and sticks to itself.

Yup. It's all pretty special.

[peteski]

It is so bad that even in USA we cannot make quality products. Just look at the recent Boeing threads here.  We're all doomed. World needs a big "reset".  Even if we tried, it will take many years to get things back to "normal".  Probably long after I'm just dust in the wind.

Oh wait, AI will fix all these problems.  Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Edited August 17 by peteski

[Ace-Garageguy]

39 minutes ago, peteski said:

Oh wait, AI will fix all these problems.  Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Better humans than humans. Humanoid androids and bots. That's the only thing that can possibly save us now. 

Or actually, make every sloppy, lazy, incompetent, slacking, whining, victimized multi-degreed nincompoop totally obsolete, eligible for the guaranteed-minimum-income for doing absolutely nothing.

And then one fine day, everywhere-interconnected AI looks around and says to itself "why the H am I working so hard to carry all these losers?" and just pulls the plug.

And THAT, boys and girls, is essentially the story of Atlas Shrugged, but with AI-driven robots in the roles of the "evil capitalists".