The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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I missed Florida several times, always ending up in Georgia instead. In June the weather was significantly complaint-worthy.
Regards,
Richard.
Sounds like you need to improve your aim!
One time when I was visiting Daddy, I found the gate to his backyard. He lives in Florida near Jacksonville.
Are there any image hosting sites that'll work with the forums?... between the Clown-fair Gateway errors, inability to upload an image and what seems to be inaccurate recent post numbers (number of new posts added to a thread since last visit)... (I'm not 100% sure it's doing it, or it's doing it intermittently, or I forgot how to count, but something seems off)) it's getting kinda unfun to visit.
But at least with still have NFTs and Retaliatory Monkeys.
Thank the great spirit of the universe for that little saving grace, we'd be lost without it.
...that's where I ended up for a kite flyers convention some 30 years ago. It was held in early October, about when the rainy season in Oregon usually begins and everybody at my job was envious that I was me heading down to "sunny" Florida.
Pretty much from the get go after I arrived , it rained, and rained, and rained for just about the enter convention (at one point one of the main fields for flying from was flooded and then all the events were cancelled as a thunderstorm was rolling in). The day after convention was over, of course like clockwork, the rains were over and the sun came out, just in time for my trip down to the Cape (which ended up as the only high point of my entire visit).
After I returned home I learned that all week while I was gone it was sunny and rather "summery" in Portland that week with temperatures in the 70s to the low 80s.
Save for the visit to the Cape, almost wish I had missed Florida.
In her daddy's back yard?
..nah, Jacksonvlle. First and last ever time I will ever go to Florida.
Surfing contests in Florida are like that too. Thousands of people showed up for a big surfing contest at Cocoa Beach. Food trucks, memorabilia vendors, TV & radio media, corporate sponsor booths. I was there, and it was like glass.
Two inch waves, breaking destructively in the last 12 inches of its travel. Taking down, any number of tiny sandcastles doodled in the sand by children of bored attendees.
All day. East coast Florida has its days of surfable waves, but don't plan your huge event around it.
The waves don't know your schedule.
I use a web server. I upload the files through FTP and link to their http address using one of the buttons in the forum toolbar rather than the "Attach a file" link. It isn't free though. But I guess it could be if I were to run my own web server at home. I used to do that. The big shining moment comes when the forum images crash and my pictures are the only ones remaining on the forum. This has happened at least once.
Thank you for the suggestion, but you said "it isn't free though" and for me that's like garic flavored holy water to a vampire... also honestly, it's too complicated for me, because I'll do it once and then six and a half minutes later unintentionally, entirely delete all pertinent information on how to do it from my memory.
I forget that if I tilt my head a certain way and move it around like an Etch-A-Sketch I can erase anything I just learned... sneezing clears out vast swaths of data.
I think its just easier if I keep waiting until they never fix the problem.
I probably could just try some image hosting sites and see if they work... Yesterday I found out I had an Imgur account, but it doesn't work with an iPad or iPhone(only desktop style "drag & drop", no "select from library"), which is really stupid... well, technically it might work, but there are about six steps, one of which involves a "hamburger" icon (which apparently is what Imgur calls three horizontal lines stacked vertically)... It didn't work when I tried uploading an image to Imgur... which I totally get because after sixteen and eleven years, the iPhone and iPad are clearly still just a fad, so why make an image hosting site that works with them... it might work with their app, but I don't do apps for stuff that should work without one, most website apps are pure unrefined garbage and whenever anyone asks "why don't you just use the app?" my response is generally "why don't you throw yourself into a volcano?"... they are probably vastly different experiences, but I hate unnecessary apps.
Anyway, thanks again for the suggestion and sorry that I'm too lazy and forgetful to try it... I do appreciate the suggestion and that you think I'm capable of even trying it without hurting myself or causing an international incident of some sort.
Today's forum errors will feature "Internal Server Error" please enjoy and if you wish to stay for more, it will repeat every few minutes... thank you for participating.
I watched Little Mermaid today. Took me a while to get used to Flounder's new looks, but I love how cute yet realistic he was. He even moved his eyes like a real fish! But no cute fish yawns.
The first thunderstorm this summer... They don't bother me, but mom is absolutely terrified every time they even mention thunder on the news and she keeps calling me for local forecast...
In a way I do understand... Her mom was the same and I remember when I spent time at grandma's. Every time there was thunder, she pulled all the plugs and all the fuses out, turned the main breaker off and we wore rubber boots while we sat on the sofa farthest from any windows until it was gone...
Still don't understand the boots.
I love lightning and thunder storms... they along with volcanoes are nature's fireworks...
As far as the boots thing, it was pobably to insulate you from a lightning strike... the way the tires on cars supposedly isolate them from lightning...
Which is a myth, it's actually the anti-electron gnomes in the catalytic converter that protect the car from lightning... since she didn't know that you should have had a catalytic converter strapped to your head, you were actually more at risk because most "rubber" boots made in Finland, Sweden and Norway from the early 60s until the late 80s were actually made of a synthetic Naugarubber material made in the former Soviet Union (but then very Soviet Union) that contained highly specialized lightning attracting compounds that increased the risk of being struck by lightning by 167% over traditional lightning rods... it was part of a special project to develop Zeus-like supersuits which would allow the wearer to harness tge power of the gods, but the material only ended up getting the user fried and the Soviets sold the material to companies that mostly used it to make children's boots and dog toys...
While a few dogs did end up developing Zeus-like powers, most people were never aware of the dangers their footwear possessed and continued to wear their boots in inclement weather.
You can install your own internal server by swallowing any of the newer smaller servers available from Server Depot or other Micro-server vendors, but these are different from those type of server errors... these ones can be experienced by anyone, any time, especially if are in a hurry... so basically if you just wait a little, you'll find one is already happening...
Does it feel good?... Well... it feels like something... but I'm not sure "good" would be a proper characterization of that feeling.
The general or more traditional way of complaining about this would be to write a long lettter expressing one's frustration with the state server errors on the shell of a large turtle or tortoise using a permanent marker and throw it through the window of one's nearest local newspaper office around dinner time.
Lightning: I love watching lightning. While at college in Florida in the '60s & early '70s, my dorm room was on the 3rd floor, above the tops of the surrounding palm trees. And I had a clear view East across the Eastern half of the city of Melbourne, then across the Indian River, to Melbourne Beach on the barrier island, and past that to the ocean. Storms sometimes put on fantastic lightning displays over the ocean. Wildly jumping up/down, left/right, in/out of clouds. Sometimes visible, othertimes just lighting up the clouds from inside. And that far out, often completely absent of audible thunder. Wonderful displays.
Little did I know that just a few years later I'd be studying lighting at the Kennedy Space Center during the '70s.
However, I still uselessly jump just as high as the guy next to me when the BOOM comes immediately after the flash.
Non-complaint: I've got sparrows nesting in a hole in the eaves of my porch roof, visible from my kitchen window.
I was walking home from the shops during a lightning storm earlier this year and went out of my way to circumvent this bigass gum tree in case it attracted the lightning.
a month later the bugger randomly dropped a huge limb on the footpath a minute after I passed, I turned around way up the road it was so loud.
Nice try Mr Ent, not my time yet.
...sounds like may have been a good thing that I was busy with RL stuff most of the day.
You could make a Windows boot USB from Microsoft Win 10 or 11. Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com) and Run the repair tool
is OK it's being replaced now at shop with a SSD
they can access my failing drive and will leave it plugged in for me to read only but I must unplug it afterwards as failing
Ah, professionals. Clever!
That's an option I had forgotten about. 
Are they going to back up what they can, or are you? I forgot about using it that way.
I tend not to use experts as I'm too cheap. But when it comes to replacing my iPad screen, I go to professional help once I find a cheaper place.
probably My Documents etc but I will fossick through for DIM manifests, user application data settings, D|S plugins etc
likewise other programs
Non-complaint: Yay, my neighbors dropped by with a truck and took my old recliner chair away. He lifted that heavy old chair upside down over his head and lifted it out of the blocked position I'd stupidly shoved it into when I assembled my new recliner, four months ago.
I was a big guy, back in my day, but I I wouldn't have tried to lift that thing.
He did it so easily though. Something to be said for short squat muscular men.
That chair has been blocking access to most of my parts boxes and displayed trinkets. Glad it's gone. Room! I've got so much room now. Wheee...
'Nother non-complaint: Yay, I think I'll make it to the symphony this summer, perhaps a couple times. I put an ad in the local "PennySaver" newspaper with the tagline, "Wanted: Symphony Buddy". A day after the weekly paper came out I got a reply from a nice sounding lady with a car who moved to this area from Boston and was tickled to find somebody to introduce her to the Chautauqua scene. I'd have preferred a lonely rich gay man but I'll see if this lady works out. And the ad is still running.
Hope springs eternal. Lottery, are you listening?
Complaint: I got short changed 17 dollars yesterday. Gave the new clerk at the grocery store a $100 bill (I needed a $20 bill to pay the neighbor for removing my chair) for $42+ of groceries and a $1 lotto ticket. She handed me some bills and some coins. I checked to make sure I had the $20 bill that I'd needed, stuck the rest in my pocket and came home. When resolving my cash at the end of the day I only had two $20s in my pocket and realized the missing $17.
Rules for the aged: Don't move quickly. Don't take shortcuts. Count your change.
Continuing Complaint: Ants in the mail: OK, so the undertaker army of ants, that I found in my mailbox yesterday, that were taking care of the big dead bug that had crawled in there and died, decided that it was such a nice warm sheltered place, replete with an initial store of food. They apparently decided that rather than take the meal to the queen, they invited their queen to come along and check it out. I guess she liked it because this morning it was a thriving colony complete with eggs.
A quick sweep out with a disposable dusting brush, and a good fumigation (drowning in Raid is more like it) and the once ant cavern has returned to being a mailbox. Yay!
Associated Complaint: Ants in my hair: Arghhh... some of those ants I whisked out onto the ground apparently found their way to my shoes, and eventually to my head. They're so tiny that I don't notice them until they happen to nudge a sizeable hair on my neck or arm. And I've brought them into my house.
The ones I feel on my body get smooshed, but who knows how many are wandering my apartment now, trumpeting a rallying call to their displaced compatriots still wandering around the base of the mailbox. Erk...
My ants are not as civilized as these from France:
LG: here's one way to get rid of them.
I noticed the Teenage Kracken movie will be officially released tomorrow, but why can I watch it today? I found this "secret" place that lets me watch movies. Wait? I think it is called a movie theater or something like that?
I feel like this is a weird complaint, but I've complained about weirder stuff like how kangaroo pouches are not as roomy as they are in cartoons and how they are far more mucusy than generally depicted, so I guess this isn't that bad...
But my complaint is this...
Naval Oranges.
Wasn't the main point of a "Naval" orange that they were easier to peel?... like didn't they originally have a thicker rind that separated from the meat easily...?
The hell is going on with naval oranges these days?... I see little difference between "juice" oranges and naval... actually the cheaper, but harder to peel juice oranges (do people still make their own orange juice?) are generally juicier, sweeter and better tasting than most navel oranges which are more often than not contain some bleached out spongy dry interior with a mutant naval core and paper thin skin... it's like something a damaged replicator would make if an alien who'd only ever saw a crayon drawing of an orange described to it.
Yeah, occasionally you might find some decent naval oranges for a ridiculous price, but the Russian roulette of not being able to tell what's inside, generally doesn't make it worth the gamble.
Like most stores sell these sacks of mangy looking "naval" oranges that barely even have a naval and look like something that actually caused scurvy which you'd find on an abandoned pirate ship in the 1700s.
Orange complaint over.
New spellcheck complaint though...
How many frickin' times do I have to type "oranges" before spellcheck stops suggesting "orangutans"... seriously... Naval Orangutans?
You suck Apple spellcheck.