There's not enough bitching

[Arakawa]

Human resources at its worst: people whose salary literally depends on wasting your time and distracting you from what you're being paid to do.

_{i.e. if HR in the head office have a mandate to organize 'social activities' in a branch office located several thousand miles away, cower in fear}

[Dracos]

Today I am tasked with fixing things in the Monument of Hate.

First step, reinstall the monument of hate on a new machine, so there's at least a second copy to debug issues on.

Initial Estimate: few hours.

Reality: It appears the software combination that makes up the Monument of Hate may possibly be unable to be recreated.  I have 3 possibilities left.  Apparently the Monument of Hate is also a ticking time bomb.

[Iron Dragoon]

Dog yanked my mom over while they were walking. In the doctor's office.

My bro, though he means well, is trying to give diagnosis without even having first aid training. He's also trying to say it happened because she was bent over when the dog pulled. Totally ignoring the fact that he's activily missed every dog training class for the past four months.

Stress is causing him to shift blame, I suppose. Still annoying.

Edit/Update: Mom's shoulder is broken at the ball joint and impacted further into the joint. Specialist appointment to be made on monday.

[Music-chan]

Ouch Iddy! That's not a good mother's day. :(

[Anastasia]

Well shit. Sorry to hear it, Iddy.

[Brian]

That's no good....  Hope things look up soon. :x

[Yuthirin]

:(

[VySaika]

Revenge of the return of the son of stomach bug. >_<

I have spent far more time then I care for being sick lately.

[Anastasia]

Are you sure it's a stomach bug and not something more chronic? You've had that a lot lately, you're right.

[Brian]

Stomach issues are a pain to diagnose....  :\

Hope you recover soon, or at least figure out what the cause is soon. :x

Edit: As a suggestion, it'd be good to keep a written record of what you eat and when, if this keeps happening.  That makes it much easier to track things down if it turns out you're having a reaction to something in your diet.  Even if you've historically never had problems with a given food, well, part of growing older is your body saying, "You can't enjoy ye favorite food because it contains X!"

It could be nuts, fats, certain types of dairy (and not others) or even something like 'whole meats' vs. 'ground meats'.  I've seen a lot of strange gastro issues in my life, so I hope this helps you.

[Dracos]

A DailyWTF occurred at my office this morning.  Also at several other sister studios.

Something like http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Core-Launcher.aspx to be specific.

It made for quite a surprise morning.  I'll be curious what ends up being the designated culprit of placing a "C:\program" logfile on every machine in the company.

[Anastasia]

So I have to give my dog a bath today. I get her in the tub, shampoo her and do all that. I'm kneeling by the tub to do it, and it's a small bathroom so I'm right next to the toilet. As I get up to turn off the water and start to dry the dog off, she decides to jump up, right into my chest. My dog weighs about 50 pounds and she became a wet canine torpedo right into my ribs. I end up falling back, slamming into the toilet and sending my glasses flying. Total tally? Bruised ribs, toilet knocked off the hinges and my glasses are crooked now.

[Brian]

I just woke up in a bad mood.  Maybe I had a dream about something I can't remember that upset me?  No clue, but I woke up wanting to get into a fight for some reason.

Got over that, did the normal waking up stuff, realized I took some advice on my latest fanfic that I really should have followed my gut instinct with in the first place and not gone with -- but it's really soured me on working on it any further, and was followed up with an analysis that even if some people are really nice to me about it, it was really poor quality.  Now I'm tired, grumpy, and something crashed half the equipment in the lab over the weekend.

And I really need to get my glasses replaced. >_<

[Brian]

Today has yet to stop getting worse.

[Grahf]

Sorry to hear that. I admit I was blindsided when I logged in and read that you'd dropped Precious Moments. Still, if you weren't happy with the way things were turning out then I can hardly blame you.

I hope that things turn around sooner rather than later.