What's bugging you? ~ 2022 ~

[Zad Fnark]

Got my 2nd Covid booster last Friday and it pretty much destroyed me on Saturday.

Repeat between extreme chills and overheating all day long as well as hurting everywhere.   Felt just like I had Covid again.  Took a couple days to recover.

I had Covid last year and I wasn't sure I'd survive it.  Didn't eat for 2 weeks and I was seriously wondering if I'd ever eat again.

I think I'm pretty much finished with any further boosters that come along for this.

[jerichoholicninja]

21 hours ago, madbad2000 said:

I can honestly say that I have never heard anyone say they hate fall before.  Most people hate winter.  I have heard plenty of people that dislike summer for the heat and bugs.  But personal consensus is pretty much Winter, Summer, Spring and Fall.  I personally love fall in Wisconsin.

I hate fall because it's a tease. It's summer on it's deathbed. Warm days, cold nights, plants dying, and total darkness by 6:00. I hate seeing and hearing leaves on the ground. Every day is a reminder that real summer is over and winter is coming. I hate the slow change and it just depresses the heck out of me.

I'm not fan of winter either but winter is what it is - cold and snow. There's no pretending to be something else.

[GAME05]

Fall in Wisconsin is only like a week, anyway.

[Fear The Chorizo]

55 minutes ago, GAME05 said:

Fall in Wisconsin is only like a week, anyway.

Some years that's true, but some years you get that nice pattern of upper 60's - mid 70's for highs and upper 40s for lows that stretches from mid september into halloween before winter starts flirting with us in November - biting bugs and wasps go away and it's tough to not find something to do outside.

It's actually been a pretty darn nice summer this year in terms of moderate temps/ pleasant weather over here near MPLS, too...probably just jinxed us into 6 months of brutal winter but that should at least get me ice fishing more often!

[nate82]

I keep thinking today is Friday……..

[stalton]

20 hours ago, nate82 said:

I keep thinking today is Friday……..

Today is Friday! Hahahaha

[Thurston Fluff]

On 8/25/2022 at 12:36 PM, jerichoholicninja said:

I hate fall because it's a tease. It's summer on it's deathbed. Warm days, cold nights, plants dying, and total darkness by 6:00. I hate seeing and hearing leaves on the ground. Every day is a reminder that real summer is over and winter is coming. I hate the slow change and it just depresses the heck out of me.

I'm not fan of winter either but winter is what it is - cold and snow. There's no pretending to be something else.

I feel that way about spring. You get two nice days and then go back to snow and crap weather. Everything is dingy and dirty. The nice days makes you want to go outside but there's nothing to do but get wet and dirty. If you're in direct sun it's nice but a little cloud cover or shade and it's just plain cold and miserable. March in particular. It's the single worst month for weather there is. Spring just sucks until mid May or later.

[LouisEly]

2 hours ago, Thurston Fluff said:

I feel that way about spring. You get two nice days and then go back to snow and crap weather. Everything is dingy and dirty. The nice days makes you want to go outside but there's nothing to do but get wet and dirty. If you're in direct sun it's nice but a little cloud cover or shade and it's just plain cold and miserable. March in particular. It's the single worst month for weather there is. Spring just sucks until mid May or later.

This right here.  The melting snow makes everything a mess.  I'd put February as slightly worse than March because Feb seems to be when we get the -20 temps or the 10" snowfalls, but it's Feb/Mar as the worst months of the year by a long shot.  Then Jan, then April.

[jerichoholicninja]

19 hours ago, LouisEly said:

This right here.  The melting snow makes everything a mess.  I'd put February as slightly worse than March because Feb seems to be when we get the -20 temps or the 10" snowfalls, but it's Feb/Mar as the worst months of the year by a long shot.  Then Jan, then April.

I agree on disliking all those things. However, those things mean winter is on the way out.

[hawing]

When I think of autumn, I think mainly of (1) extreme busyness at the library as a new school year gets underway and (2) baseball season is on its way out - even in years that are going better than 2022.   So I can't say it's my favorite.

I'll acknowledge that spring is messy, but it's also when baseball starts, and it's usually a relatively calm time at the library in terms of student staff knowing what they're doing.

Somehow I can find a silver lining in just about every time of year (except the first half of September, womp womp), but April to mid-May just might be the hawing sweet spot.

 

[Hacksaw Jim Duggan]

Why do individuals break glass bottles in the street?  My dog needs shoes to go for a walk.

[HarryDoyle]

[Joseph Zarr]

Living in the inland Pacific Northwest, I've come to utterly despise August. It's absurd nowadays. Way too hot for me. And, now it's fire season. At any given point in time in August/September we are liable to get lightning storms come through our brittle bones dry ecosystems. A week and a half ago one such storm swept through all of NE Washington and Northern Idaho. It started several fires. Today, now that the colder weather is pushing in with northerly winds, we have a literal blanket of dense wildfire smoke resting atop the Selkirk mountain ranges and our valley. I literally can not see the ridge less than a mile from our front porch. It's grotesque. The air is massively unhealthy. This has been my life every late summer/fall since 2019. And, man, it is really really intense. 

[owbc]

On 9/11/2022 at 11:48 AM, Joseph Zarr said:

Living in the inland Pacific Northwest, I've come to utterly despise August. It's absurd nowadays. Way too hot for me. And, now it's fire season. At any given point in time in August/September we are liable to get lightning storms come through our brittle bones dry ecosystems. A week and a half ago one such storm swept through all of NE Washington and Northern Idaho. It started several fires. Today, now that the colder weather is pushing in with northerly winds, we have a literal blanket of dense wildfire smoke resting atop the Selkirk mountain ranges and our valley. I literally can not see the ridge less than a mile from our front porch. It's grotesque. The air is massively unhealthy. This has been my life every late summer/fall since 2019. And, man, it is really really intense. 

The worst part is that there's no sign of any decent rain in the extended forecast, so the smoke season is probably going to drag on through the rest of September and possibly into October. 

[Samurai Bucky]

I'm shouting at the clouds, I think...

At the Brewers game last night and as I'm walking out, I see some guy who looked like he is in his thirties who has the waist of his pants down around his ass.  Sorry, dude... that is for teenagers and people in their early 20's.  Nice red underwear, though...

[MrTPlush]

I purchased a vehicle out of state what feels like about two months ago (from MA). Now I have bought a vehicle from a bordering WI state and it is just like from WI...you just get a temp plate day of purchase. Well for this 1,500 mile purchase I guess that isn't an option. I have to wait for them to use a 3rd party to do the titling/plate and have that all sent to the dealer before I can pick up the vehicle or ship it. Well, FINALLY Wisconsin titled the vehicle and now I wait for the plates to get sent to this MA dealer so i can either fly to get the vehicle or ship it to me.

 

I knew this going into it it, but it is so dumb how complicated and lengthy this process has to be.

[NeedMoreFans]

I changed jobs and thus changed health insurance.  My former primary (who I saw before I was forced to change insurance at my previous job) is accepting new patients, so I called to make an establish care appointment.  The earliest he can see me for that is February 9.  If something happens in the meantime, I have to go to urgent care.  

[LouisEly]

21 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

I purchased a vehicle out of state what feels like about two months ago (from MA). Now I have bought a vehicle from a bordering WI state and it is just like from WI...you just get a temp plate day of purchase. Well for this 1,500 mile purchase I guess that isn't an option. I have to wait for them to use a 3rd party to do the titling/plate and have that all sent to the dealer before I can pick up the vehicle or ship it. Well, FINALLY Wisconsin titled the vehicle and now I wait for the plates to get sent to this MA dealer so i can either fly to get the vehicle or ship it to me.

 

I knew this going into it it, but it is so dumb how complicated and lengthy this process has to be.

Titling/plating should be at the Federal level.  A national database would help with a lot of things.

[Samurai Bucky]

My mom is disabled and is able to walk around using a walker because she needs it (in her mid 70's).  She has a handicap window mount.  We went to a small restaurant this weekend and there were only two handicap parking spots.  As we were walking to the front door from the other side of the parking lot, I saw this couple who was probably in their 60's walk out and hop up into the Suburban that was parked in one of the handicap spaces.  They had a handicap window mount but, in my non-medical opinion, did not need it.  Later on, another person with a walker came in and they were fortunately able to get one of the two handicap spots.

When I got my hip replacement surgery a few months ago, I was offered a temporary handicap sticker.  I felt guilty getting it whether I needed it or not.  Sure, I could have used it, but I wasn't going to be driving anyway.  So, Mrs. Samurai would drop me off, park the car, and then pick me up when it was time to go.  

What I described in the first paragraph is one of my biggest pet peeves.  My dad was handicapped requiring a walker, too, before he passed.  My father-in-law doesn't use a walker, but has issues with his legs and really should be using a walker.  He has a handicapped sticker, but doesn't use it all of the time.  If a person is elderly and can't walk well, then it makes sense.  It is impossible for me to know what is going on with people who have a sticker, but there are too many occurrences where the 35-year-old mother of four hops out of her minivan from a handicap spot with kids in tow.

[SeaBass]

My 70 year old mother has MS and can walk without a cane or walker but qualifies as disabled and my parents' vehicles have disability plates. If someone were to see her walking into a restaurant or store they likely would think the same as you do.

Just a reminder that while some people may seem to not need it, there are disabilities that are very real that may not be immediately recognizable simply by observing an individual for a few seconds.

Also yes there are times when they choose not to use a disabled parking spot but it's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If they park in a regular spot that is still close to the entrance when there are several disabled spots available then someone else that isn't disabled loses out on a nice parking spot.

[GAME05]

It's really easy to get disability. Just tell the doctor you have anxiety or a bad back and boom there ya go. In my state, unless you obviously deserve it, you'll always get denied on your first application but never denied by your final appeal. Disability is the new welfare and the system is pretty broken. Unfortunately it can lead to stuff like that where people who really need stuff like close parking spaces being hugely inconvenienced by people who don't.

[hawing]

On 9/26/2022 at 9:40 AM, Samurai Bucky said:

What I described in the first paragraph is one of my biggest pet peeves.  My dad was handicapped requiring a walker, too, before he passed.  My father-in-law doesn't use a walker, but has issues with his legs and really should be using a walker.  He has a handicapped sticker, but doesn't use it all of the time.  If a person is elderly and can't walk well, then it makes sense.  It is impossible for me to know what is going on with people who have a sticker, but there are too many occurrences where the 35-year-old mother of four hops out of her minivan from a handicap spot with kids in tow.

It's such a gray area.  There are many types of invisible disabilities, and probably also many people misusing disability aids such as a parking pass.  That's frustrating. 

[Jimbo]

Posted December 31, 2021

Today is the final day of NBC Sports Network.

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And now The Olympic Channel is gone.  I heard this was going to happen as well.

 

[JimH5]

Regular baseball media consumers might be familiar with the work of Sarah Langs.  She's been a regular contributor on Buster Olney's podcast, MLB Network shows and others.

Today, she announced on Twitter that she has been diagnosed with ALS.  Her voice has been affected this year, so it seemed that something was up with her, but this is a much worse diagnosis than anyone deserves.  It's especially disturbing, as she's such a positive and cheerful representative of the game.  

When a young person with such promise and joy is stricken, it's such a tragedy.

[wallus]

Special needs kids are awesome. The majority of special needs parents are not.