The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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...with the pruchase of two Debut New Releases.
Hahahahaha
...and this is exactly why I sorely miss PDF tutorials and "dead tree" manuals.
...so it was only a matter of time, but woke up this morning to an orange sunrise and a slight haze of wildfire smoke. The entire Willamette Valley (where Portland is located) is under a "red flag" fire alert for the next few days due to hot and dry conditions. Not sure if it will force city to cancel the holiday pyrotechnics scheduled for tonight.
A good portion of he smoke incoming from fires in British Columbia, but several have flared up in the area here including one about 50 miles east in the Columbia Gorge which is still growing. In these conditions it is easy for a fire to start and grow fast (this happened back in 2017when a teenager playing with fireworks ignited a rapidly growing wildfire that consumed 50,000 acres trapped 153 hikers, and sent thick clouds of ash over Portland that persisted for several days). That's how quick a new fire can spread in these conditions.
A serious thunderstorm just rolled through. Lasted more than a half hour, and I can still hear distant rumbles, and an occassional one closer. At least one flash was very close. Thunder was less than one second after the flash...which means it was less than 1,100 feet from me (sound travels at 1,100 feet per second). I looked out all the windows to see if there was a fire nearby. Then I shut down the computer.
....indeed the strong storms that hit the midwest Sunday and were heading eastward. Chicago experienced flash flooding in an umber of areas from torrential rains while southern Wisconsin was battered by 55 - 60 mph wind gusts and hail
On the home front here in Portland, the winds changed and dropped off a bit so the smoke has cleared (for now, though stiflingly hot at 95° The one good (and bad thing for potential fires) is the humidity is low at 17%.so "real feel" is a few degrees cooler. We've actually been having a fairly "average" summer for here with temperatures in the 70s and 80s
here is that DAZ PostgreSQL laughing at me while after uninstalling, hunting down his CMS nut stash in in app data once again
reinstalling and sitting through metadata reimportation and dying of old age
so much
no luck with Octane render but I sent them a system profiler report
Zbrush I couldn't register so did it offline with a license.zact file they sent me
still many more painful reinstalls of crap to do
and fail
I think I might have to redownload bloody everything if I want to fix it
not today or on my full drive
Oh noes it;s downloading all the crap with connect
How many eyes does that squirrel have?
Two to look around at stuff in this world and what appears to be two on the side to see into your soul and know what you fear (?)...
Or those could be the eyes it uses to give "bombastic side-eye*".... (?)
Not sure if actual side eyes count for that...
*it's a TikTok thing... though I'm not even sure it still has the same meaning because stuff evolves, devolves and mutates fairly quickly there.
Given that I see two on THIS side, I'm not sure what to expect on the other side.
We can't assume can we? 
But who knows? He may have flounder in his ancestry.
Figures, trust DAZ to use mutant squirrels.
Not Daz, it's AI (which I suspect means Alien Infiltration).
Oh Zylox knows it's not a DAZ product, it's a DAZ slave employee like the hampster, there are a bunch of mutant critters behind the scene
Compliant: I got get a stress test and that stresses me out.
I must apologize. I realize now that there are no alien mutant squirrels, either working for DAZ or watching me through my window. I am making this statement voluntarily, free of any coercion. Now if you will excuse me, I must go serve my new fuzzy overlords.
Speaking of Aliens, I have to get my 3-year probing. They are here, and it is no joke. They prick you, test you, probe all your holes, and they go by the Title Doctor.
Welp, I suppose it's no surprise at all that the paint on my kitchen and bathroom ceilings has decided to bubble and peel off, but... the paint on my kitchen and bathroom ceilings has decided to bubble and peel off. I can only sit here and worry about how saturated the roof is at this point and how much nasty mold is currently growing in there.
Damn... three years is a long time for a probing... what species is doing this?... Generally Rectumians are over and done within a few minutes... Even Colonites and Anusians don't take years... Someone is up to something here... well, there... up there... wherever, whatever... just good luck, and hopefully whatever they are doing is over way before three years is up.
This+1
PAs are allowed to ddo this (or to post to the application forum instead of the Commons for plug-ins) if they wish. The old software let us mirror a single thread so that it was visible in both, but the current software doesn't have that so it's up to the PA to decide on one, the other, or both.
I went to watch Indiana Jones, but couldn't finish it as I forgot to figure out the previews into the time. It wouldn't be a big deal if the home didn't slash my unsupervised time to a very short time if one uses a bus.
...non complaint.
On Monday I ordered another box of my favourite tea as I was running out. It's a tea made in Yorkshire UK that comes in a carton of 100 bags and is 3.99$ on Prime with free delivery. I received the delivery notice from Prime this morning (complete with picture of it outside my door). When I opened the door to bring it in, I noticed something odd as the package seemed much bigger, It turned out they sent me 4 boxed shrink wrapped together for a total of 400 bags (which will last well into next year).
I checked the order as well my bank account and it indicated I was only charged 3.99$
On the little rating thingy they have on the email I checked "very satisfied" and for the comment choice "Went above and beyond" (like "way"...)
Now I have to figure out how to store the other three boxes so they stay fresh. Each is individually wrapped in cellophane as well but not sure of that will keep the air out totally for months.
Complaint [Non-Commercial]...
People be driving badly today...
In the space of less than fifteen minutes:
1: Leaving a short strip mall (it's a divided by the residential cross-streets, so each section is much shorter than a regular strip mall)... I get almost to the end of the aisle/street/place you drive and a car coming from the opposite side (shopping area on opposite side) comes to intersection (cross-street) rather abruptly and at a slight angle... no directional signals, but those are hard to operate, so most people don't use them and from the body language of the vehicle, the only logical thing he's about to do is make a left turn onto the cross-street... he's clearly impatient, we were both about the same distance from the intersection, but he sped up, so I don't care go ahead nipplehead, I come to a stop so he knows I'm letting him go he starts to move forward and almost slams right into the front of my car, driving onto the sidewalk to get to this parking spot at the end of the lot, next to the exit... there were like six other spots a few feet over, but apparently he felt life wasn't worth living without THAT one...
2: A few minutes later driving on the service road (in the US a "service road" is usually a local road that runs parallel to a highway or expressway) a guy comes flying past me, turns his left signal on, then pulls to the right shoulder (left signal, right turn), cutting right in front of me (never change lanes in back of another car if there's an opportunity to piss someone off) so I brake hard, slowing down, but the nincompoop keeps driving on the shoulder with the left signal on, I've slowed, but he's ahead slightly and coming to an intersection (a "T" intersection that end at the service road), so I'm guessing he's forgotten where he lives or he's gotta pee... who care, he's slowing as he's approaching the intersection, so despite the stupid move and confusing signal, the most likely scenario is a right turn...
Nope.
As I pass him, assuming he turned, he suddenly starts to pass me... sort of... not really much faster than I'm going... just enough to maybe be a few inches ahead of me... at this moment we've covered about two blocks distance more or less and my Spidey senses say he's going to do something very stupid because I'm about to pass the entrance lane for the highway... and yeah, sure enough, as I slam on my brakes, he makes an almost 90° turn to get on the highway... crossing straight out of the entrance lane not one lane, not two... but straight across to the third (leftmost) lane... but at least he signaled... it was for a right turn and that was left, but it's the thought that counts I guess...
3: So less than a quarter of a mile later, there's an intersection with a traffic light where there's an overpass for cross traffic... so I'm about a half block from the intersection and I see one of small box vans... basically a pickup with a separate cargo area that's too small to be really called a truck, usually landscapers or contractors have them... this guy is going too fast look like he's going to stop, I've got a green light, he's clearly got red and just as he's about to go through he comes to a confusing stop... not a stop... rolling stop... lurches forward, then guns it and goes through... well the light, not the intersection, he make what could only be described as a wiggly "G" turn... but the bottom of the doesn't point in, it angles in slightly then shoots off to the right... so basically whatever the hell that was sent him back in the same direction... but like not in the lane, following the center double yellow stripe... so, all the traffic that was on the road came to a stop as he did that and in the course of that the light did change... it wasn't by the way, a swift fluid move... there was plenty of time for the light to change... so he disappears around the bend and I guess the guy in the far left lane decides he could do better, so he goes through the light too... then way down in the distance I see the same looney truck come out onto the service road drive down a block or two and go back down the residential street...
So I get to the place I was going and after I park in the parking lot, I check Apple News for any information on a zombie apocalypse or maybe an alien invasion or at least an adorable chinchilla uprising... something that might explain that... maybe even a big fire at a pot dispensary... but ney... nothing.
Well, whatever... I have to go back out in a few minutes, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.
@McGyver: Perhaps you should check to see if you have a sign on your car that reads, "Please cut me off and drive crazy!"
Quite often, I feel like I should check for such a sign on my car.
...one explanation, a lingering effect of the full moon on Monday.
Yeah stupid driving is the norm here in Portland. Stop signs, turn indicators, lane markers, even red lights don't seem to mean a thing here.
Yesterday I was crossing a street with the green light and just as I past the halfway point this idiot suddenly decided to make a right turn from the centre lane.(which is not permitted) I shouted at her and pointed to the actual turn lane. She responded with a dirty look for "violating" her "divinely granted right" to ignore traffic laws and even had the audacity to sound her horn.
Yeah this is pretty typical of the morons I often see on the streets here. Sadly the "local gendarme" seem to have lost all interest in performing traffic enforcement anymore which doesn't help the situation.
Zip lock bag the individual boxes, Mostly zip it closed, then purse the last inch and suck out the air.
Then put all boxes in a big Ziplock Freezer bag and suck out the air from it too. Triple protection.
I do the ziplock sandwich bag thing for apples after they've been cut. Suck out all the air and the apple pieces don't brown in the refrigerator.
(I get big apples but only eat a half at a time) And I don't do the double ziplock bagging, I just keep my extra tea in sealed boxes, inside a ziplock bag (no large outer bag) with the air extracted. No complaints yet.
Pony up for the good bags with tight zippers.
Complaint: My air-conditioner isn't up to the job this year. Humidity high, temp in my TV chair is 81F.
The A/C is at least 10 years old and is making a lot more noise than it used to. It's a Sears/Kenmore 8,000 BTU unit bought back when there was a Sears.
Is it worth having it checked for needing a coolant refill? Although, I've already found a bigger replacement (12,000 BTU) via Amazon. Now I just need to find the $$$.
HOWEVER, a bigger unit means more weight, and I'm just barely able to lift the smaller unit into/outof the window each season. I'll have to rely on the neighbor for this now too. I hate giving up autonomy.
I may have to spend the summer up in my bedroom where the A/C is.
Hint: I've found that if I browse Amazon deep enough I usually find a good buy on quality ziplock bags that were made for special events and have images or writing on them that makes them hard to sell to general buyers in stores. I don't know how many hundreds of Glad snack-bags I still have left with figures from "Toy Story" on it.
But they were cheap. All I have to do now is live five more years to use them up.
...great idea for the box I open as I have a few tins like that from those Danish holiday cookies. However I'd rather keep the other three boxes sealed until I need them..
I think LeatherGryphon's suggestion is the best way to go for storing the others as I have both regular 1 gallon storage as well as 1 gallon silicone freezer bags (the latter with a very good airtight seal).which which the boxes will fit neatly into.
Each box is about 3 months worth of tea.