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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?
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Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
Well as many as you know I hate shopping around, but here is the funny twist, I was just putting my cell in my right pocket, and it was fitted too well, I double checked my six pockets for them, I noticed a bit later on, I pull it out on my right pocket of my jacket, yeah was at walmart..
yeah.. Know how it is frustrating when you have only flash notifications
yeah.. Know how it is frustrating when you have only flash notifications
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
My sister's mother in law has heart issues with her heart.
A heart close by a murmur and everything like that.. Really going to be hard for them to let her go.
Yeah.. I am not touching my sister's mother in law with a ten foot pole hahaaa, no jokingly aside she is a good friend.
A heart close by a murmur and everything like that.. Really going to be hard for them to let her go.
Yeah.. I am not touching my sister's mother in law with a ten foot pole hahaaa, no jokingly aside she is a good friend.
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
Oh yesterday, I was at my sister's place as usual, and I was getting the trash for her, I place the lid on and without opening for a new bag, I walked around, and my sister or I threw down the lid, I tripped and fell down on my right side of my bum checks, I am okay just a little bit in pain.
joe71
Android Expert
I fall down and I end up having a debate with myself on whether I really need to get back up.
ozonetrooper
Android Expert
One side of my bed is against a wall. I awoke yesterday morning on my side and thought I had room to roll over towards the side to get in and out of bed.
Unfortunately I was on the edge already and half way through the roll I got the free falling feeling.
Like Joe, I just lay there and debated on if I really needed to get back up ....
Unfortunately I was on the edge already and half way through the roll I got the free falling feeling.
Like Joe, I just lay there and debated on if I really needed to get back up ....
At least you weren't on the top bunk. My cabin has four sets of bunks. I rolled my butt off the top bunk a few years back. I managed to kind of sort of grab the bed as I was falling and at least got my feet partly under me before I hit the floor.One side of my bed is against a wall. I awoke yesterday morning on my side and thought I had room to roll over towards the side to get in and out of bed.
Unfortunately I was on the edge already and half way through the roll I got the free falling feeling.
Like Joe, I just lay there and debated on if I really needed to get back up ....
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
yeah my bed is the same, sometimes I will kick my foot against the wall hahaaa...One side of my bed is against a wall. I awoke yesterday morning on my side and thought I had room to roll over towards the side to get in and out of bed.
Unfortunately I was on the edge already and half way through the roll I got the free falling feeling.
Like Joe, I just lay there and debated on if I really needed to get back up ....
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
My entire left foot, calf area and quad area with my Siactia (almost healed up yay) has been non stop in pain since a spell ago.. BOOOO.
Fifty plus years ago I was attending an estate sale from an obviously affluent family for years prior. I was hoping to buy an ornate walnut hall tree but my pockets were far too shallow. I bid on this and that but the only auction item I won was a box of old postcards. The family traveled and it was interesting to follow their trips in postcards and mail. I bought the box for a dollar in hopes that a stamp or something might have some value. I eventually sold a large collection of postcards from a son to his parents. He was serving in France in world war one. They were fascinating in print and correspondence. Through a connection, I sold those cards to a lady that drove across the state and paid $30 for them. Thirty bucks for my dollar investment seemed quite handsome. Today that collection would be worth close to a grand. I just needed to be patient and wait a half century 
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
Wait a minute, then why are you smiling buddy.Fifty plus years ago I was attending an estate sale from an obviously affluent family for years prior. I was hoping to buy an ornate walnut hall tree but my pockets were far too shallow. I bid on this and that but the only auction item I won was a box of old postcards. The family traveled and it was interesting to follow their trips in postcards and mail. I bought the box for a dollar in hopes that a stamp or something might have some value. I eventually sold a large collection of postcards from a son to his parents. He was serving in France in world war one. They were fascinating in print and correspondence. Through a connection, I sold those cards to a lady that drove across the state and paid $30 for them. Thirty bucks for my dollar investment seemed quite handsome. Today that collection would be worth close to a grand. I just needed to be patient and wait a half century
I pulled a respectable profit in a couple of years. I saved a lot of junk that is still junk after fifty years. I have no reason to sulk.
I have no reason to sulk.
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
My friend went to the hospital for a hotdog stuck in his throat, they did an endoscopy and now he is in the hospital for an ulcer.
Yeah..
Yeah..
I was on the net this morning doing my normal cruising. I did my thing and then went out to the shed, pulled my bike out, and did some light maintenance. I wiped down my dusty bike and lubed the chain while waiting for it to warm up some. I came back in to be put on my bike kit and noticed that my AT&T router/modem was showing a red light of not connected to the net. I did the normal user things such as to a reset and a hard reset to no avail. I went out to check that the overhead fiber service to my home was still in place. I then spent an hour and a half jumping through ATT's automated BS procedures over and over again until I finally got to speak with a rep that English was her second language. After repeating the reboot dance one more time for the lady she agreed to send out a tech. I chose the earlier time slot between noon and four. I received an automated text around three thirty informing me they were running late and I could text reschedule to do just that or simply wait until the tech showed up. He arrived around five and found the modem/router had failed and had to be replaced. He couldn't leave without installing a junction box on the back of my house. He said it should have been installed from the beginning. He was here an hour or so. At least I have internet access tonight.
ozonetrooper
Android Expert
How long has the modem been in service ?
I use an underground streaming service that is constantly being messed with by buffering/blocking by the net popo. I have had to reboot it twice since I got it back in September. I came from Xfinity where I had to reboot the modem at least 3 times a day ....
I use an underground streaming service that is constantly being messed with by buffering/blocking by the net popo. I have had to reboot it twice since I got it back in September. I came from Xfinity where I had to reboot the modem at least 3 times a day ....
I'm thinking I've been with AT&T four perhaps five years. It is their equipment. I have rebooted it now and then, about every other month. I bet it ran over a year before it required a reset when it was new. The service tech, though not on time, did his thing without causing any frustration on my part. What pissed me off was dealing with the auto fix loop a number of times before finally getting to a rep who made me repeat the same reset and then hard reset before scheduling a tech. It should be just a phone call... hey, unless your fiber is down, my modem refuses to connect after multiple attempts. I do believe it needs replaced. Done deal
Now you know full well that it don't work like that.
I'm not sure what the customer service program that answers all the business phones is actually called, but they're relentless with the repetition ín the way they take calls.
The 2 I deal with, most, are spectrum and the pharmacy. Sometimes I just want to do the cartoon thing and reach through the phone and slap someone.
We lost that ability when we dropped landlines.
I had Cox internet and Cable TV for decades. I was one of their first customers and actually signed up while they were running the lines. I was a customer before ESPN went live (1979). The original contract I signed granted me five IP address. Instead of a LAN or router, I used a hub and the six consumers in my home used those five IPs. Every time they did an upgrade or reboot, I would have only one IP and have to jump through all of their hoops and fight for my grandfathered IPs. There came a time that I didn't need them... but I wanted them out of principal. They finally hosed me one time too many and I moved to AT&T. I had many a grand fight with the representative's supervisor countless times through all of those decades. I became quite proficient at jumping through their system with all of that practice.