First World Problems

[Qingdai]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

I bet it was floor polish, or maybe dessert topping.

GLIMMER!

[Miisa]

My hypochondria is getting out of hand. Listening to a podcast about leprosy and guess what?

[Ensign Steve]

[JoeP]

[SR71]

Don't pick at it, you'll make it worse.

[curses]

The roads in Atlanta are so bad they're causing my fitbit to register steps every time my car hits a bump. It logged 2000 steps today before I noticed. I think that third world countries may have better infrastructure than we do down here.

[Dingfod]

Based on this, I need to stop being so impressed with my FitBit wearing friends who drive on the bumpety-ass, bomb-cratered battleground knowns as Tulsa's streets and highways.

[Sock Puppet]

Originally Posted by curses

The roads in Atlanta are so bad

No, sorry, this thrad is for FIRST World Problems.


Did somebody beat me to that joke? I didn't search to find out.

[curses]

So tempted to make just for you, sack.

[BrotherMan]

show spoiler

[curses]

[Janet]

My coworker is having the same problem with her fitbit. But Michigan roads are notoriously bad so we aren't a bit surprised.

[Dingfod]

Imagine how many steps Fitbit would think I made if I strapped it to the forks of my motorcycle.

[ImGod]

I have the opposite problem. My Polar device thinks I'm not doing anything if I don't swing my arms.

If I mow the yard it over counts my activity when compared to doing something like lifting weights or cycling. Unless, I remember to use the heart rate monitor or GPS.

It sucks to get to the end of an exhausting day of working in the yard and taking care of plants and pulling weeds only to notice you are only at 25% of your recommended daily activity. That's when I walk behind my self propelled mower to pad my stats. Becasue, who cares if you're healthier, if it screws up the fitness logging you share with people online?

Note: several people have complained about cycling apps like Strava that use the fastest time to rank people on segments. Because you can make your own segment, then drive it with a car and win.

[Nullifidian]

The Los Angeles area classical station is annoying me with the blandness of its allegedly modern music program, "Modern Times". But today they gave me a perfect symbol of what's wrong with them.

The way Judith Weir's piece was introduced by mentioning the news that she'd been appointed Master of the Queen's Music and that Arnold Bax and Edward Elgar had also held the post is symbolic of why I find this program so often disappointing. The man whose name was notable by its absence was Weir's predecessor, Peter Maxwell Davies. He's something of an important figure in 20th century music. But he doesn't always write stuff that's easy listening, so we're going to skip over him and hope nobody notices.

Come on, KUSC. This program airs at 10 p.m. It's safe harbor and there are no impressionable kiddies likely to be up to have their morals depraved by hearing a major seventh or a minor second interval. Not all of us are into modern music to hear the same sort of thing we can hear from 19th century composers, so it would be nice to hear the occasional dissonance without somebody having to die first (referencing the Boulez retrospective they did earlier this year after he died—I missed it because it honestly didn't occur to me that they'd ever play his music, even to mark his passing, so I didn't bother to look for it).

I recognize that it's a very first world problem to be worrying about, but it does annoy me that two or three generations or more of continental European composers (plus those Anglo-American, Asian, African, and Latin American composers who don't fit the easy listening criterion) are being neglected by a program that ostensibly exists to celebrate modern works. It blunts the appreciation of people who might like this music if they were only exposed to it, and it condescends to the rest of us who tune in because we enjoy modern music.

One of Peter Maxwell Davies' more challenging works is the brilliant but disturbing Eight Songs for a Mad King, which I bought on a cassette tape years ago paired with another monodrama called Miss Donnithorne's Maggot.

At the other end of the spectrum, he might actually sneak on to "Modern Times" playlist with An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise and the simple, meditative "Farewell to Stromness" (part of an anti-nuclear suite for piano and reciter called The Yellow Cake Revue).

[lisarea]

So FIRST, we have to get up an hour earlier than usual because of the stupid time change to do bunnies this morning. I couldn't even find my dirty terrible shoes I usually wear for bunny days, because Flossy is always carrying our shoes around different places and hiding them, so I had to wear some of my normal shoes.

Then, we go out to the car to go, and someone has rifled through it overnight. The center console thing and the glovebox are sitting open, but it didn't look like they took anything. Even the change in the center and my Leatherman, which I keep in the glovebox, were still there. Still: Ewww, fuckers looking at and touching our stuff.

Then, on bunny days, I get McDonalds from the drivethrough for breakfast. And they hand us our coffee with the lid ajar, so it spills all over us and the car (at least we will now get like 4 billion dollars, right?) And then I also drop the orange juice.

And I forgot my phone, so I didn't get the text from the fourth person on our team saying she would be late. Which I guess isn't a big deal, because she did show up, but there was about an hour there where we really thought we were fucked.

And we had to break up a big bunny fight, and the whole thing ended up taking about an hour longer than usual.

I am still all dirty right now, covered in bunny poop, orange juice, and coffee, and my back hurts, and I'm tired, and my normal shoes are wet and caked in dirt.

And enough things have sucked today that I'm looking at everything that happens with the suck lens.

ETA Oh yeah, and I ripped a big hole in my favorite jeans last night so now all of my pants are stupid.

[ImGod]

I just now have gotten my world re-adjusted for DST. I found a clock last night tucked in the corner telling me the wrong time which time warped me into staying up later than my normal bedtime. It was like reliving Sunday all over again.

The auxiliary microwave inside the basement bar never got changed so it is now temporarily correct.

I spent 8 hours at work verifying information was lined up to the correct hours in my financial calculation spreadsheets to account for a 23 hour day. Much easier to do then the 25 hour day when some them got confused and added the repeating hour's information to hour 25 to avoid having 2 repeating hours rather than just doing it the right way.

I'm not sure they understand just how stupid it is for people who have to account for an entire day down to 5 minute intervals when pulling information from multiple places across several states and time zones and states that use DST and states that don't use DST and entities that use DST and entities that don't use DST.

Not to mention if you have an old school clock that requires changing, you may accidently get caught in a time warp just by entering and exiting certain rooms in your house.

[ImGod]

I'm not Irish so today is weird. Everyone is trying to get me to drink to celebrate some guy who did something with snakes a long time ago. It's usually not hard to get me to drink, but for some reason people wanting me to get drunk on a Thursday morning to celebrate snake handlers is wierding me out.



PS. I'll drink anyway.

[ImGod]

PPS. I shouldn't have drank.

[JoeP]

Just puke into the river like millions of other revellers

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Miisa

My hypochondria is getting out of hand. Listening to a podcast about leprosy and guess what?

[Angakuk]

That won't be quite so funny when it turns out Miisa does have leprosy and has to start ringing a bell whenever she goes out in public so that she can warn people to stay away from. It will still be funny, just not quite so funny.

[JoeP]

At least in Finland people stay away from each other anyway and the bell won't be needed.

[Miisa]

Day 15,679 of not having a study with a revolving bookcase revealing a secret part of the house.

[Angakuk]

I know. Sucks don't it. It is day 22,616 for me.

I don't even want to talk about the nearly 6,000 days my flying car is past due for delivery.