BS: What ruined your day today

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: goatfell
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 12:37 PM

my d drive on my computer has died need a new one £26

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 07:41 AM

The parking light lens I got doesn't fit.

I'm waiting, Foolstroupe....

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 08:11 PM

Hoped to call up some friends & invite them to dinner & a movie I have bought & they would like. Found I am afraid to do so.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 06:50 PM

From the thread list...

BS: What ruined your day today         
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Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 02:01 PM

That gang of old car nuts that I hang out with had a date to go to a local retirement home where we give the residents rides in cars that they remember from their youth. The day dawned foggy, and later, rain. I don't know who is more disappointed.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 01:58 PM

And they probably can't spell either !! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 02:55 PM

Not me: I'm at work (Radiology transcription) and just typed the Indication line: "Uncontrolled diarrhea and urinary incontinence". Now that person's day SUCKS!

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 03:57 AM

And now finding out the exhibition I wanted to see as a birthday treat, closed 2 weeks ago.... GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 06:40 PM

Getting to work only to get a phone call from Limpit who wasn't well and having to come all the way home again... then finding 912 items in a Spam folder that's supposed to delete itself automatically but won't...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 02:50 PM

Planning a family day out to the zoo and illuminations tomorrow and then discovering the Tesco vouchers I'd saved to pay for it ran out on 31st August - £70 worth. Rang them to see if they would still accept them but of course they won't. We had originally planned to go in the school hoidays but couldn't!

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 08:26 PM

Wow. People who mind conversations they don't have to join?

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:57 PM

Many of my soffits and facias are rotting on their ends.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 06:49 PM

Nothing. It was a great day.
A new cat showed up at the house (we lost the much-beloved Henry recently)and came in, ate a meal, jumped on my knee several times. She returned later, she interviews really well.
It may be we have a new furry friend.
A good day.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 05:17 PM

All the POLITICAL CRAP on Mudcat. I'm NOT a Palin admirer, but I am SICK of the bashing. Grow up

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 04:32 PM

Limpit's piano teacher who rides a bicycle everywhere, got mobbed on her way home tonight... she had a football kicked at her and about 10 teenagers surrounded her. Luckily, she's got a good bike and got away before any physical damage was done, but it's scared her silly and she doesn't want to do lessons that end after dark any more.

Can't say as I blame her really.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Eye Lander
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 04:31 AM

last night our Van wouldn't start, we decided we'd call the AA this morning. I suddenly woke at at 7.30 remembering that I had a hosp appoint at 10.30 this morning and it would cost me about £6 each way on the bus. Who say use public transport, here on the IOW it costs a fortune not easy.   

OOOPS    Wrong thread, I just heard the van start. Clever AA man.


Jillie

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 04:25 AM

All the computers at work are down... no-one can do anything.... such a shame! :D

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 12:15 AM

Linn - such good news about Sabinellllllll

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 05:55 PM

To date I have avoided this post. No more!

What the hell....the car repair guy says my main car will not be ready until Saturday. There goes the week-end plans.

But., maybe something "more fun" will evolve.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 05:43 PM

They turned on the Large Hadron Collider and the solar system didn't collapse into a resultant black hole. Rats! I was so hoping for a bit of excitement.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 05:37 PM

400 people all wanting pizza at once. WHY Wednesdays? I understand why Fridays, but Wednesday?

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 05:23 PM

I saw some of those....as far as I could tell, all 'over there' where postage way exceeds value of item. The problem really is, that is not considered an actual Myford 'part'. It is like a screwdriver...you are supposed to just have one.

Thanks anyway...I will find some local machine shop who knows what it is.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Ythanside
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:06 PM

Bill D, try looking for Myford lathe spares on Google. I did it a minute ago and found a number who supply parts by post.
Not as helpful or convenient as buying locally, I know, but it's a good standby.
Cheers,
Ythanside

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 05:26 PM

There ain't no freakin roses here

but there are some nice Crysanthenum and Star Asters.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:58 PM

Take a breath, Donuel, and smell the roses.

Welcome back, Sabine.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:30 PM

computer attacks disabling photoshop, tooth infection, migraine, achilles , and the 24/7 red/liberal baitng, racist, stool pigeon, fundamentalist Christian attitudes.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:23 PM

Rained so hard,with lightning and heavy rain and water logged traffic, so I canceled my appointment with one of my docs , which took me since APRIL to get. And of course it stopped raining the minute I cancelled. Not a drop since.

Phooey.




But I'm glad Linn's cat came back.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 10:02 AM

Got a very welcome phone call at 7 a.m. from my up-the-hill neighbor, Izo -- Sabine was safe and in good health after being trapped in her cellar since last Wednesday. Izo found her huddled under the beams atop the stone cellar wall on the side of the house closest to our house -- and directly under Izo's bedroom. (The cellar is in two parts, one 18th century and the other not much newer with a wall between. The only communication is a cat-sized passage between. Don't know how long Sabine was in the seldom-used side under Dan's office which was open last Wednesday when they took trash to the dump.)

Whew!

I guess I can trust my instincts -- I'd had a stronger feeling that she was stuck in a cellar or garage than that some woodland predator had gotten her. She's a very savvy cat. And, though worried about her, hadn't felt an urge to mourn -- I had too much hope that she'd turn up.

What a wonderful way to start the day!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:44 AM

No, it's not the ink, it's the collating and feed. It picked up two pieces of paper at once and thus half the music is on the wrong page. I'll not waste it all, because I can paste up some copies for the organist and musical director, but it's a pain in the ass when I'm trying to make 40 books of music. Not to mention the ink cartridges used, even on speedy print low resolution.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:25 AM

Liz, maybe your ink is drying up and the ports are plugging up so it can't run?

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 03:53 AM

Someone wants to pick up their Technics piano ensenble, and sell it. It's not the best piano/synth on the planet, but its Steinway samples, and its weighted keys, are the best!..I'll miss it....unless I buy it, but she thinks its worth $15,000 dollars, and its not(too old, the electronics have come a long way, since 1989)

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 03:37 AM

Another 20 pieces of music ruined by this bloody printer... I wish it would tell me when it's running out of ink instead of gaily printing away with the gauge showing half full....

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: skipy
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:20 PM

Try putting your request into "want it now" on Ebay
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:55 PM

today I heard stuff on TV, read stuff in the paper and on Mudcat that has me despairing about the future...because of ignorance and the seeming refusal of many people to CARE whether they are ignorant or not!

(Ignorance is not 'stupidity'...ignorance can be overcome: it is curable...with some help & effort. One of my favorite saying is "It's too bad ignorance does not itch.")


oh...and my major lathe in my shop is not working properly. To find out what is wrong, I need a bolt with a certain thread to unscrew a part. This thread is used primarily in England, where the lathe was made, and I have been to two hardware stores who 'should' have odd items, but without luck! I cannot fathom why, if a English company (Myford) cannot be bothered to make items sold in America have the threads WE use, they could not at least supply a bolt worth less than 1 pound to ALLOW me to disassemble this thing!

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: emjay
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 12:06 AM

Oh, Liz. You read the passage from Romans today, I read something from Ezekiel, someone else read the Romans passage. I don't know what either one of them was about. I didn't listen to either one of them. I just make sure I am reading the right passage and pronounce all the words correctly, then I sit down.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 11:57 PM

Oh, Linn...I hope she will show up. I always visualise a beam of light going out form our house directly to whatever pet might be missing, then pulling them back, like a tracter (sp) beam on Star Trek! It's always worked. Remember when Rue's dog was missing for over a month!

Susan..hope you get good news!

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: bobad
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 08:49 PM

Nuthin.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 08:47 PM

Occasionally Freddie pulls this. I lay awake worrying and he is cuddled up somewhere warm. I hope ahe is just trying to get your attention, Linn. Try wam food on the porch to lure her home.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 08:26 PM

Sabine didn't come home again last night -- despite the rain. My neighbor checked her Hav-A-Heart trap in the field above our house and Sabine hadn't gotten inadvertently trapped.

She's our sophisticated black lady cat who loves being outside mugging small woodland creatures. When she didn't come home Wednesday night, I wasn't happy, but I wasn't worried. I didn't worry Thursday night either, as she often will stay out several nights when the weather is good.

It rained yesterday and poured last night. She's still not home.

I'm trying to be optimistic, but I'm definitely worried.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 06:56 PM

I just got back from a 3-hour drive and now I have to go to WORK!

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Eye Lander
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 06:32 PM

Sciatica , in my bum and going down my left leg, using the tens machine helped a bit.

Jill

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Mooh
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 05:57 PM

F#@%ing mice in the cupboard...For once I miss having a cat...Maybe it did things I didn't suspect...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 05:46 PM

Liz, I've often wondered, did the Romans, the Corinthians or the Carthaginians ever write back?

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: GUEST,beachcomber
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 03:08 PM

Kilkenny Hurling Team !

Don't ask !

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 02:25 PM

then there is the damn printer that insists on skipping every 5th or 6th page... a bugger when I'm doing a multiple copy document of 20 pages.... I've go so many wrong sided bits I could make 3 whole books up without duplicating any pages, but it would be impossible to follow by anyone with even a modicum of logical thought.

So I'm using it and it's fine!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 12:27 PM

I had to read the lesson in church this morning. One of the Letters to the Romans.

Why is it always my turn when the lesson is about mad people, tax collectors or drunken debauchery and licentiousness?

Talk about bloody typecasting!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 10:34 AM

PS the typos will continue until further notice. Don't mind if clones fix em or not.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 10:23 AM

Although I do use a form of venting (RC) to avoid building up stored frustrations, I seldom think of unfortunate occurrences as having "ruined my day." For me it's more the case that I wake up, usually, pretty happy to be starting another day (after my morning cuppa, LOL, not as soon as I open my eyes), and looking forward to what it will hold. Only after several things go poorly does it usually dawn on me, "Oh! I think I may actually be having a bad day....."

And then once I see that, I try to limit my damages-- cut back on things I'm trying to get done on that day, keep an eye out for the positive alternatives that may be right in front of me, learn something from whatever is happening, etc.

Case in point-- vision issues.... had been counting, subconsciously, on getting the new glasses. Been waiting.... Crushed to find, Friday, that not only no glasses NOW, but it would still be several MORE long days off. Cried hard, in surprise at how much I'd invested in them-- you see, they will be a huge indicator as to whether I've had another stroke. If the glasses solve the vision (and related) issues, I'll be so relieved, and if not, I'll have a series of doctor visits to negotiate with possible bad news all the way around.

But after about 120 seconds of that grief-- just tasting it and letting it flow out I mean-- I began to notice that Some Other Thing might be in store for me, other than the driving and Usual Activities that have been suspended while I explore this vision thing. And I got right on with those Other Things, and had a good day. A better day than the day before when my brain function had been pretty screwed up all day and I'd bumped, hard and often, into all sorts of "can't do THAT" little failures (and the cost of having not just waited for a better day).

See? I let my smarted brain take charge absolutely the moment it's able to do the job.

Day ruined? Uh no..... redirected.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: kendall
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 06:35 AM

Art, that is such a bummer. There are times when I wish the great spirit had never given me a singing voice to start with. The loss is far worse than it would be if I never had it at all.

I still enjoy your recordings so much. That story about the lock moss nesters always tickles me.

Subject: RE: BS: What ruined your day today
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 06:14 AM

my very sore knee & back seemed likely to ruin my day half way around an Antiques & Collectables fair, but after a long (seated) chat with a dealer friend I was rested enough to continue, & even have a second wander after another chat. Tho I had money burning a hole in my pocket, I only found 4 very small things to buy (total cost $18) but the rest of money is tucked away for another fair next week!

hmmm, maybe I should have posted this on the What Made Your Day thread.

sandra