The cranky thread

[death tribble 3,500]

My cold has now developed a tickling cough which is a nuisance. You suddenly want to cough and can't stop.

[Old Man 9,433]

Oh god, I hate that.  Fits of wracking cough that get worse and worse until they become actual gagging.

[tkdguy 2,749]

And the cough is the last thing to go. I've been coughing a lot too.

[death tribble 3,500]

I posted this originally in the Unpleasant Start to the Day thread:- 

The ex-tenant of my mother has sent her a letter threatening court action if he does not get his deposit back. Strangely enough he included a photocopy of the rent book which shows arrears of £125, which is over half of the deposit.

 

So we are trying to settle this by getting rid of him. Only he writes to his lawyer again threatening legal action. And I found that out today. So I had to write him an email pointing out the errors his client made and also forwarded him the e-mails his client sent which contain the errors. And I also confirmed that he had received and signed for the cheque. Hopefully this is the end of it.

[Pariah 6,224]

Lady Pariah took everything out of the diaper bag-- not a trivial undertaking, mind you--and washed it last week.

 

Today, in the store, Little Boy Pariah was fiddling around with an umbrella that we don't need and in the process knocked mom's shake into the said diaper bag.

 

Pretty much everything in the diaper bag was then covered with chocolate chip peppermint shake, which means the bag itself and most of its contents will need to be washed.

 

Fantastic.

[Old Man 9,433]

I’ll clean up peppermint shake all day compared to poop and vomit. 

[Pariah 6,224]

2 hours ago, Old Man said:

I’ll clean up peppermint shake all day compared to poop and vomit. 

 

You'll get no argument from me on that account.

[death tribble 3,500]

Over Christmas the 1996 version of Twelfth Night was on. I saw part of it. No problem I thought. It'll be on BBC iPlayer Just found out it ain't. And I could have recorded it. Oh sugar.

[L. Marcus 2,134]

Was that the version with Nigel Hawthorne?

[Pariah 6,224]

On 7/7/2018 at 11:13 PM, Pariah said:

Found out today that one of my wife's best friends--she and her now-husband introduced us, in fact--has Stage 4 colon cancer.

 

She's 45 years old.

 

She has a son who's younger than ours.

 

Shit.

 

She was admitted to the hospital over the weekend to try to remove a blockage in her lower intestine.

 

After two days of tests, they discharged her to spend her remaining days with her family.

[L. Marcus 2,134]

3 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

She was admitted to the hospital over the weekend to try to remove a blockage in her lower intestine.

 

After two days of tests, they discharged her to spend her remaining days with her family.

... *bleep*. ?

[Old Man 9,433]

?

[Hermit 5,444]

[tkdguy 2,749]

Condolences.

[Hermit 5,444]

Problems remain the same. I need a break from this woman. Fortunately, she'll be away sometime next week for a week.

[Old Man 9,433]

Quick, hire a moving van and sell the house!

[Hermit 5,444]

This weekend was particularly bad to the point where a pow wow of "Maybe should tell her ass to get out and if she ends up in a week and a half on her face in her drive way again for another 20 hours don't call us"

[kukuli 55]

Today I had to put down my 16 year old Shiba Inu, Foxy Dude.  He has been failing for a few months and  sometime last night he collapsed,  He may have thrown a clot or had some other  kind of stroke.  He couldn't stand and was showing signs of some brain damage.  I know that I couldn't let him suffer, but I'm feeling guilty.  I decided to kill a creature who could love.  It's going to take some time..  He was 2  years past his experation date, but it is still hard.

[Hermit 5,444]

kukuli, sympathies. Letting go of a pet is tough enough, having to make  the hard choice so they don't suffer is rougher still.

[Old Man 9,433]

I've been there.  It's not an easy call to make and it's even harder to be there when it happens.  But it would have been selfish to keep him when he's suffering.  Sympathies.

[tkdguy 2,749]

So sorry to hear that, kukuli.

[Pariah 6,224]

My sympathies as well.

[Pariah 6,224]

It's 58°F in my house right now, and the system is blowing cold air. I have tried checking and restarting the furnace, as well as resetting the thermostat, all to no avail. I've texted the landlord, but so far I haven't heard back from him, I don't know what to do next.

[Old Man 9,433]

When you discover that they sent you the wrong part... after you take out the old part... and the old part is too destroyed to reinstall.

[Cancer 5,816]

Today marks my first time I've read an obituary of a grad school colleague of mine ... a colleague a year younger than me.