I got frostbite! 3 fingers, a thumb, and three toes. Now they’re just blisters, and they feel and hurt like a mild, 2nd degree burn.
I was skiing in Colorado when the cold front that’s freezing the country came through; actually, I was hiking a traverse at the top of one of the Peak 8 bowls in Breckenridge when it happened. We were near our destination when I noticed how cold my fingers were, and by the time we got to where we could drop in (it started whiting out) my fingers and toes were actually hurting. By the time I could get to a warming hut (I actually missed the one at mid-mountain in the heavy snow conditions) I had the mild bite on those fingers. I could also barely hold my poles or carve turns.
Oh, and yes, I was wearing a fairly new pair of Swany gloves and SmartWool PhD ski socks. When the temperature drops nearly ten degrees (to below zero), it wasn’t enough.
Leah_C
4602
I think my house turned against me.
First, it was the bathroom. This is how it’s supposed to look:
…and this is its current state. A tiny leak turned out to be a Much Bigger Problem so now there’s a team of guys here for two weeks ripping shit out.
After coming home to that lovely sight, I discovered the contractors let a BIRD in the house. While trying to get the bird free and keep the cat inside, I got locked out of the house. I called the hardware store and they sent over a dude that looked like he’d been teleported out of Andy Griffith. By the time I got in, I was $100 poorer and the hallway was covered in bird crap.
This new house can suck it.
But still, it looks like it will be an awesome bathroom when it’s working right.
Leah_C
4604
It’s amazing when it works! And to be honest, I don’t mind that it’s out of use and I don’t mind projects like this in the house. It’s mostly annoying because the guys working on it are really rude and messy. They messed up the neighbor’s motorcycle and they filled our bedroom with tools, dirty drop cloths, trash bags, and large pieces from the bathroom. 2/3 of the bedroom is covered with construction material and there’s a near empty 2 car garage where they could be putting all that crap.
Brendan
4606
But more than your extended holiday so congrats and lets hope it leads to better (paying) things.
So why not tell them that? They work for you.
I have an old email address I’ve not used in a long time, since I transitioned to gmail a while ago. But since it’s associated with my web-hosting account I couldn’t close it completely. This week I got some notices that I was approaching my disk limit with my webhost. I went looking to see what I could delete and discovered my old email box was over 145 MBs now. I tried to log in to Squirrel Mail for the account to delete all the messages, all spam btw, but since there’s over 18,000 messages it causes a memory error. To empty the box I added it as a POP3 account to gmail so it’ll download everything, delete the messages from the server and solve my disk issue. It’s taking longer than I’d hoped.
Leah_C
4609
Because I don’t see them. They come after I leave for work and are gone before I get back. Also, I don’t speak Russian.
I don’t know why, but this puts the image in my head that renovating your bathroom has suddenly become a GTA4 minigame.
“Hey, Nico, my cousin! Let’s-a go across the bridge and fix this chick’s shower, eh? I mean, uh, I’d go with you but I’m expecting a phone call, you know?”
Brendan
4611
Whitta,do your manly duty and deal with the help damnit.
Leah_C
4612
They were over on Saturday and I admit, when I first heard them talk, Nico’s cousin saying “TITTIES, TITTIES, TITTIES!” popped into my head. Best part of the game. Maybe they’ll put in a titty bar.
WarrenM
4613
Maybe they’ll put in a titty bar.
Gary is SO excited right now. :)
Don’t call them the help. That’s such a douchebag thing to do.
Shadarr
4615
Saying “deal with the Russians” sounds more sinister.
I just learned that the entire company I work for is not doing well at all. Bleeding money, in fact. My department managed to stabilize things last year after taking a beating in the spring, but now this unusually long and cold winter is beginning to hurt (we have many clients in and around the construction business which has ground to a halt) and with what happened last year we don’t have any liquidity buffer to deal with short-term setbacks.
It doesn’t exactly help that upper management, as a whole, is hopelessly inept. It’s going to be a fun couple of months.
Shouted at someone at my cable company until they reduced by cable rate by nearly 30%.
My justification? “I want you to!”
WarrenM
4619
Shouted at someone at my cable company until they reduced by cable rate by nearly 30%.
My justification? “I want you to!”
That reminds me … there was some guy on the radio a few weeks back talking about ways to save money. He says he always asks for a discount whenever he goes to a store for groceries or whatever. The radio host asked him what was his reasoning for that and the guy said, “Because I want one”. Apparently he gets one more often than not.
Yeah, someone linked an article about that on here a while back. I like the idea, but I’m not sure I have the gall necessary to walk into a Target and tell them I want a BluRay disc for $15 instead of $20, but I found a while back that it’s easy to cow cable services as long as A) you talk authoritatively and B) they have competition in the area.
