Things that are currently annoying you

Login pages where the caret doesn't automatically start in the text box.

Literally the only thing on that page is a text box for my username and password, why do I need to click the text box?

 

One coworker is refusing to do his job and it’s slowing everything else at work down.

 

the local college did a simulated emergency as an exercise for nursing/paramedic/police/emergency management students, and someone said something uhhh pretty insensitive

This gets a tw/cw for shootings even tho it was fake

Spoiler

it involved a fake shooting/stabbing in a "rave" (aka loud music/flashing lights playing in a darkened lecture hall) with actors playing the shooter, victims etc. There were signs all over the place to make sure everyone knew it wasnt actually real, but the nursing/etc students were supposed to treat it like it was.

so i happened to be there beforehand with someone else and we were let in to like, observe as long as we didnt get in peoples way. So the person at the door who was letting people in said, and i kind of had to hear him say it to the next person who came to the door, to actually believe it,

"welcome to pulse nightclub"

As he let one person in, said in a way to indicate he's bored holding this door for people, but has this one joke he just has to say because it livens it up for him i guess?

But uh. Jfc, dude, what the actual shit? Wow yeah let's.... fuckin, make a joke about how dozens of people died?? Holy shit??? What an asshole

 

That would be something I would want to report to whoever was running the thing tbh. Because wow, what the fuck.

 

It's been a week since I wrote this and I'm STILL SICK.

I managed to go to work at least half a day every day this week (twice for over 8 hours) but today I was coughing every four steps.

I went to urgent care and they put me on antibiotics and gave me a nebuliser treatment, so I can breathe now, and hopefully I'll be better soon?

 

that sounds shitty. :( I hope you feel better soon.

 

i just sent the email to the person who was in charge of notifying people about it, because i dont actually go to the college, so hopefully she can report that to whoever it gets reported to. And maybe there's nothing to be done but at least ive made it known? Bleh
(Edit: "about it"= about the activity itsslf, like putting up the signs and notifying local media who showed up to cover it and interview students)

 

Accidentally left the tumblr app running in the background for two hours, battery is now at 40% :/ rip me I guess

 

Thanks.

 

My teeth hurt. Not all of them, just - two of the upper back ones, on my left. I know why, roughly, and it's because those teeth have cavities and need fixing. (And more generally, I need to be less crap at taking care of my teeth.) The dentist even told me, last time I was in, that I really need to get those cavities fixed and gave me an estimate for how much to fix each set of cavities. (I have seven in total, with all but one being in the back molars; the last one is, I'm pretty sure, one of my incisors.)

The problem is that 1) it's Late and the weekend and I can't exactly call them up to book an appointment to fix my teeth asap, and 2) the estimate is a bit over 700 dollars just to fix the ones on the left. And my brain keeps going "that's a lot of money, can we afford that?", despite the fact that rationally, I know that it's necessary and I could afford to put it on my credit card if I had to, and Matesprit will make sure my medical expenses are covered, and I don't actually have any reason to believe that we're in dire financial straits. (In fact, everything would suggest the opposite.)

 

Tumblr app changed the way it shows some of its ads. You know how normally the ads are just in with the posts and you can scroll past them like anything else? Now it scrolls certain content over the ads while the ad remains in place. Like sliding one piece of paper on top of another.

 

Tumblr is a functioning website and their mobile app is extra functional.

 

Headcanon singing voices videos in which all the songs and voices sound pretty much the same.

 

The speaker systems and audio environments of my apartment and my car are different enough that I can't get any of the three tracks I'm trying to finish to sound right in my car. There's just too much lag between me adjusting mix levels on my computer and then rendering and playing the result in my car that I can't make corrections without overshooting.

 

The way voicemail systems are designed. Would it KILL them to let you just look at a LIST of "here's the calls you have received and the numbers they came from and when you got them" and then PRESS A DAMN BUTTON to listen to the message, instead of reading them out in a chronological roll? They're not recorded on actual cassette tapes anymore, you jackasses, so let me play the damn recordings when I want to, in the order I want to.

 

It's a thing with some carriers, but at least here it's pretty much always an option you have to pay for.

 

To make it worse, it’s not an option at all for home phones, as far as I know—we have a house phone as well as cell phones in my household, because reception in my area isn’t great, and I’ve had to deal with the answering machine’s bullshit SO many times. :(

 

Just found out a tool I was planning on using is not free (like most of the tools/data I interact with or use), but instead is subscription-based, and for a single end-user it costs 2000 dollars a year. Guess I'm not using that.

 

What the actual fuck, that’s an absurd price jfc

 

The "it's not shameful to admit you don't know something" post just came across my dash again, and I was struck by the recollection that during Hebrew school, not only did one of my teachers shame us if we didn't know the passage he wanted us to read, he'd force us to shame ourselves; we'd have to say, in Hebrew, that we didn't know. It's possible that he intended for this to be helpful and useful, but I don't recall that it ever was. As far as I can recall, I was the only one in the class who ever said the phrase more than once, and I do remember that he seemed exasperated every time I had to say it, and that I wasn't even allowed to try and figure out how to read the passage - I had to either do it flawlessly or I had to say I didn't know.

And then I wonder later why I can barely even read Hebrew!