Trivial Irrelevant Aggravations

[arcturus]

The delivery was made three days late, and instead of the two books I had ordered, I got a box of diapers. Now I'm waiting on the reorder and have to return the wrong one. Grrr.

I can't help but think that if you were the other household - the one which got books instead of diapers - that this might have ended up on a different thread entirely...

[fishbrains]

Kid #4 eats loudly. Very loudly. When she eats her cereal in the morning, it sounds like she's munching on BBs. The same sound with mashed potatoes. Weird.

[mamselle]

Does she have TMJ?

M.

[Juvenal]

Kid #4 eats loudly. Very loudly. When she eats her cereal in the morning, it sounds like she's munching on BBs. The same sound with mashed potatoes. Weird.

Don't serve grits...

[fishbrains]

Does she have TMJ?

M.

Nothing medical there. Kid #3 actually goes "glug, glug, glug" when she drinks, so there might be something hereditary. Since the older ones have moved out, we've gotten to know the younger ones a little better.

[mamselle]

^ unrelated, also a sort-of "wish-I-could-say"...

If your comfort zone is no bigger than a zip code I foresee difficulties....

M.

[Thursday's_Child]

Making toast this morning set off the smoke detector.  I did not burn the toast.  Also, I make toast almost every morning, on the same toaster setting, without setting off the smoke detector.  So, what gives here??

[sinenomine]

Making toast this morning set off the smoke detector.  I did not burn the toast.  Also, I make toast almost every morning, on the same toaster setting, without setting off the smoke detector.  So, what gives here??

Maybe it's the morning for random alarms -- I'm the only one in my office building right now, and a loud alarm sound has come a couple times from a colleague's office. Campus patrol came to check it out, but it was of course silent then, and my colleague has no idea what it could be.

[fishbrains]

Why the hell does my computer not let me finish the internet's-gone-down dinosaur game when the internet pops back up?

There's nothing on the internet as important as me beating my high score.

Just sayin'.

[FishProf]

I do not love the new version of BlackBoard.

[Antiphon1]

I do not love the new version of BlackBoard.

Who does?  Sucksliciousness continues in Blackboard world. 

[Parasaurolophus]

I have become mysteriously susceptible to splinters in the last year or so. Sometimes from wood or blackberry thorns, often from just touching a thing. Often hair splinters, or just random invisible ones. Ugh.

[FishProf]

I do not love the new version of BlackBoard.

Who does?  Sucksliciousness continues in Blackboard world. 

It's like a Word update. 
Was that a nice feature? Now it's gone.
Did that location make sense?  Now it's over here.
Need a shortcut? Easy it is CTRL+@+F3+Summon Cthulu.  Why can't you remember that?

[Antiphon1]

I do not love the new version of BlackBoard.

Who does?  Sucksliciousness continues in Blackboard world. 

It's like a Word update. 
Was that a nice feature? Now it's gone.
Did that location make sense?  Now it's over here.
Need a shortcut? Easy it is CTRL+@+F3+Summon Cthulu.  Why can't you remember that?

Feeling your pain.

Be glad you aren't in Brightspace.  Updates happen seemingly spontaneously.  Set up a class?  Ha!  A week later you have to scroll backward through 14 unrelated options to get to the toggle you need to move a widget from one location to another in the same module.  I work in both Blackboard and Brightspace.  I may be bald before Thanksgiving. 

[Langue_doc]

Our local grocery stores have been out of Saran wrap for several months, so I had to get another brand that is difficult to tear out and keeps sticking to itself.