The Official Status Thread
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I tried that a few months ago. After the third day, I could no longer focus enough to do my job in the afternoons. I decided to just cut back to two coffees a day instead.
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my plan is to use this two day week to detox and reset my sensitivity.
nopefully when i go back on the sauce i can stick to 2 cups a day..... down from the gallon i have been doing.
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Status: realized in quick succession:
- I haven't bled my radiators yet this year
- I've never bled the radiator in the basement
- I don't even know a radiator key with a handle short enough to fit the radiator in the basement
- After searching through all the filthiest parts of my basement looking for the radiator key (which I may not even have gotten when I bought the house), I'm filthy myself
- None of the radiator keys available on Amazon.com and actually sold/shipped from Amazon itself, damnit. Might just head to home depot
Make sure to pick up a copy of "We Got Steam Heat" while you're at it -- steam systems are quite interesting little marvels of precision engineering, and don't tolerate ham-fisted HVAC repairmen very well as a result. Or do you have a hydronic system instead? (Most of the time, radiator keys are associated with steam, AIUI...)
Now for the punching, kicking, and eye gouging that is bag check and my 17+ hours of planes and airports will finally be over.
What sort of trip were you flying on to be dealing with airlines for 17+ hours straight?
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Status: Legs don't want to work today. Went hunting over the weekend and didn't see anything, so it ended up being an 8-mile hike while carrying a side-by-side 12 gauge and it's been a couple years since I've done any real hiking. There's a large tendon running down the inside of my left thigh that I am VERY aware of right now.
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Last year I flew into Dallas to look for an apartment. On the way back, I somehow managed to beat everyone else to the baggage claim area. I was there all of 30 seconds before the bags started coming out. My bag came out within the first minute or so and I was out of there before anyone else from the flight showed up.
Being able to do your trip with just one small carry-on item is a magic power. Arrival becomes a matter of how fast you can get from the gate to the taxis. Alas, in some airports this is disappointingly large, and if you're entering the US then kiss speed goodbye (thanks, USCBP!).
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Make sure to pick up a copy of "We Got Steam Heat" while you're at it -- steam systems are quite interesting little marvels of precision engineering, and don't tolerate ham-fisted HVAC repairmen very well as a result.
I don't have a steam system, I have a hot water system. Do they still even do steam systems?
(Most of the time, radiator keys are associated with steam, AIUI...)
They're associated with radiators. Thus the name "radiator key". AIUI!!! AIAUIUAIUUIUIIU!!
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Status: Spending an expensive afternoon sitting in Sears Auto Center waiting for 3 new tires and an oil change.
I hate those days
Fortunately, I normally do the oil changes myself, and I have a shop that can acquire/change tires quickly, then another one that will balance/align for a six pack.
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i need to find me a mechanic for whom a six pack is negotiable currency.
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Status: Legs don't want to work today. Went hunting over the weekend and didn't see anything, so it ended up being an 8-mile hike while carrying a side-by-side 12 gauge and it's been a couple years since I've done any real hiking. There's a large tendon running down the inside of my left thigh that I am VERY aware of right now.
Same here. Did over 12 miles Saturday (between 5 trails, it was a fun event where you ride a trolley, do a trail, get back on the trolley, etc), and 5.5 yesterday, including some nasty hills.
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It's always helpful to be in your local car-tuning community. Even though I'm pretty much out of that scene since I'm no longer in my early 20s, I still have contacts that get me deals like that.
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Status: I should get myself a replacement head for Monday evenings.
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Status: Day 2 of Caffeine Detox.... Why must my head hurt like thisâ˝â˝â˝
Status... The Advil does not help this particular kind of headache.... two more hours to endure before i can attempt the Tylenol....
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It's all about picking the right "cup". Fill this with coffee and you'll never have to worry about headaches again...
Shaky hands, heart palpitations, inability to focus not guaranteed
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Status: interview this afternoon, thought it was going to be a phone interview but found out about an hour ago they changed their mind and want me to come in... yikes!
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Is that issued with a catheter and a 5-gallon bucket on wheels?
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nopefully when i go back on the sauce
Nice typo--I assume it was Freudian and you don't expect to be able to stay on the wagon.
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Because you haven't taken Tylenol yet?
another hour before i can. i tried Advil first as it usually works on my headaches... not this time...
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Nice typo--I assume it was Freudian and you don't expect to be able to stay on the wagon.
don't expect to, don't want to.
just want to reset my sensitivity.
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two more hours to endure before i can attempt the Tylenol....
Ouch. Well, at least you know for next time.
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i tried Advil first as it usually works on my headaches... not this time...
Yeah, caffeine withdrawal headaches are a different beast.
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Yeah, caffeine withdrawal headaches are a different beast.
and now i know that.
this is the first time i've needed to detox cold turkey.
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Current status: taking a company-mandated quiz on ergonomics, while sitting in my chair in probably the worst way possible.
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Three legs, Lexington to Dallas to Phenox to Anchorage; thus tons of time.
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Are you sitting with your head on the seat and your legs on the back?
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and now i know that.
Snort.
I believe I suggested that last week, but a lot goes on in this-hyar forum and you probably missed it.
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My chair at home has a maximum adjustable height of 'quite a bit too low'. I really need to buy some insane mesh chair with infinite adjustable parts.
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your suggestion is why i'm detoxing. if you suggested tylenol over advil i missed that
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The good news is the headache should probably go away in half an hour or so once you take the Tylenol.
Hopefully you'll be luckylike I am--usually one or two doses is all I need and then I'm through it. I know someone else here said they have three days of misery even with painkillers.
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while sitting in my chair in probably the worst way possible.
++ for doing it wrong
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Are you sitting with your head on the seat and your legs on the back?
No, my legs are on my desk.
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Which one?
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Neither.
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I don't have a steam system, I have a hot water system.
Ah; I'm used to hydronic (hot water) systems being bled a bit differently than their steam counterparts -- you can have a hydronic system with air-handling units (quite common in institutional work), radiators (which may or may not take a radiator key -- some have a bleeder valve handle/knob/... instead, I'm sure), in-floor piping, or any mix of the three.
Do they still even do steam systems?
New household steam heat is very, very rare as it's heat-only, and most folks want air conditioning. The Northeast and other high-heating/low-cooling load places, though, have a large installed base of steam heating systems -- low-pressure and vapor steam systems were the technology-du-jour for home heating when cities like Boston, NYC, and Philly first sprang up. (Considering your alternatives were gravity furnaces and having a stove or fireplace for heat...it's easy to see why steam won out back then.)On the other hand -- high-pressure district steam is a very good system for heating large institutional buildings; even modern downtown high-rises prefer to tap into a district steam plant because it can be more efficient overall (esp. with cogeneration) than burning fuel or electricity to heat the building yourself.
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I figured steam only even existed in the first place because you can't attach a thermostat to a coal boiler (and so you end up with steam whether you really want it or not.) It seems to have about 50,000 disadvantages compared to a hot water system.
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Same here. Did over 12 miles Saturday (between 5 trails, it was a fun event where you ride a trolley, do a trail, get back on the trolley, etc), and 5.5 yesterday, including some nasty hills.
So more on this.
My city is spread out enough where public transportation won't work out well no matter what, and the local authority makes no effort to hide this.
They recently changed trolley ticketing so that instead of buying a $5 one-day pass, you have to buy a card that you essentially "recharge" with what you want. So now I have to pay $2 for this card, and $5 on top of this for the one-day pass.
The card is good for 2 years[citation needed], which is better than what my friend initially told me, which was 6 months. I don't use public tranportation that much, so who knows if I'll use it again.
So anyway, in anticipation of this event where you go on a trolley, get off at the designated stop, run a 2-3 mile trail, get back on the trolley, and repeat 5 times, I had to buy tickets for me and my wife. I go to put my card in, the card reader doesn't work. Turns out that none of them at that station do. I go to purchase them with cash. I only have twenties, and the machine only will give you $5 change at a time. I wanted to purchase both tickets at once (even though I'd lose a buck), but I could only purchase one card at a time.
After going up to the bar that we were starting at, getting change, select that I need a new card, select the all day pass, putting in two fives, getting three dollar coins in change, selecting that I need another new card, selecting that it will also need an all day pass attached to it, putting in another five, and two of the dollar coins, I stop wondering why few people take public transportation here.
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Cooking some GLUTEN FREE sausage for dinner.
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Yeah, caffeine withdrawal headaches are a different beast.
status: tylenol is working.... for now.
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I figured steam only even existed in the first place because you can't attach a thermostat to a coal boiler (and so you end up with steam whether you really want it or not.) It seems to have about 50,000 disadvantages compared to a hot water system.
Well -- steam systems are naturally slow, but this can actually be a good thing as it means you don't have really annoying rapid temperature changes.
Most of the perceived disadvantages of steam, though, come from misunderstanding and mismanagement -- steam systems are easy to screw up if you don't know what you're doing to them.
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ylenol is working.... for now.
Yep, be ready for another dose every four hours until you feel brave enough to let it wear off and see if the headache's gone.
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Uhh, wow...
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Well I didn't get the job, so I guess you guys are all right: I'm a piece of worthless human garbage who doesn't deserve even a tiny iota of success or happiness.
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Quick, someone build a bonfire so @b'rat can be a martyr!
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Quick, someone build a bonfire so @b'rat can be a martyr!
Watching the bonfires in Ferguson while drinking a Bastard Box.
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Status: OH FUCK ME I just came up with the answer to that last interview question, only 8 hours too late. Thanks, brain.
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Status: Starting
logrotate
undergdbserver
to find out why it isnât rotating files as it should. Itâs probably a stupid configuration problem, but since its verbose output just says âlog does not need rotatingâ, it will probably be faster that way...
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Status: checking the diff on a file I've at some point auto formatted in VS.
The last developer obviously didn't use auto format.
Whitespace changes everywhere.
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Itâs probably a stupid configuration problem
It was indeed a stupid configuration problem. The sample configuration file I used had bothdaily
(daily log rotation) andsize=20M
(rotate when the size exceeds 20MB) options enabled, even tough they are mutually exclusive. And the 1668-line config parsing C code doesnât bother raising a warning in this case. *sigh*.
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status: lying in bed, watching the daily show