Random Fail: First World Problems

[Brill Weave]

Let's get this straight right now. Catholicism is a business, not a religion.

[Ksandra]

All I meant was that the Catholic faith tries to embrace science rather than be like "NO! THE WORD IS 2000 YEARS OLD STAHP." Kinda stuff.


Way to over think things.

[BaneTheBrawler]

embrace science but not condoms. condoms touch penises, thats a no-no.

[Vendog]

Condoms are science.

[Ksandra]

p. sure they don't deny condoms exist or do what they are meant to do.

[BaneTheBrawler]

but they don't embrace them

[Ksandra]

ok

[Nephlite]

https://www.usps.com/manage/forward-mail.htm?

Will that change the delivery address through UPS? Technically the item hasn't been purchased yet and isn't in it's shipping stage...

Also found out today when I came in that I've been placed on 5 weeks of administrative leave. Problem? Possible TB exposure. 5 weeks off is gonna suck without a PS4...

[Xantavia]

Gives you 5 weeks to wait outside this guys house waiting for it to arrive.

[Aksannyi]

Should be able to call UPS customer service and see if they will allow you to pick it up from them rather than have it delivered, especially when you explain what happened.

Random Fail: The only piece of equipment that changed time on its own today is my cell phone. Both of my computers and my cable box seemed to have forgotten to go back an hour. Either that or my cell phone went back two hours ... I'm so confused right now ...

[BaneTheBrawler]

Got my wisdom teeth and back 4 molars removed today. Hurt like hell, even with the anesthesia. Retreated/detached into the nitrous as much as I could, but was still barely tolerable. I groaned. For me, that's like an all out scream. Surgeon and his assistant said I was a good patient. Yay.

Dunno why anyone would ever use that shit as a recreational drug, though. It's exactly like fainting, and doesn't feel good. Dunno why the wiki describes it as "euphoric" either. Certainly didn't make me want to laugh.

[Rooney]

Had a similar experience with my wisdom teeth. I opted for the IV and just being knocked out for the whole procedure. I could not walk afterwards without hanging on to someone (dunno if that's unusual or not?). I still woke up in the middle of everything when the dentist broke one of the teeth to pull it out. Shit just hurts like hell.

On the plus side, I don't remember the next three days afterwards due to all the painkillers and antibiotics I was on. Good times

[guartz]

ugh, I kind of want to know how he ties the electric universe theory to his religion but then again I don't want my brain to bleed.

[Qeomash]

I opted for full knockout when I had mine pulled. Didn't feel a thing, was just a little sore the afternoon after.

[BaneTheBrawler]

i considered it, and was originally going to try to do the knockout, but ended up forgetting to arrange a ride so i had to do nitrous. honestly, now that'm out of the chair, i don't regret it. i've been under dozens of times for scopes, but this was a new experience. even though it was incredibly painful, I feel like that makes it worth it. Now when people bitch about having teeth pulled, I know exactly what they mean, and can compare it to other experiences I've had. For example, I would rate my abdominal pain from Crohn's as "worse" than the bone-snapping of oral surgery. The intensity of pain is higher with the teeth, but the abdominal pain stays more consistently high for much longer periods and is completely internal, making it much more difficult to detach from. Also, no anesthesia for the Crohn's. You either take tylenol, which does fuck all, or you take powerful painkillers that often have side effects and dull your thoughts.

The way the nitrous functioned as a painkiller fascinates me, too. You still feel the same level of pain as you do w/o it, but the nitrous just makes it infinitely easier for you to detach from it and not be consumed by it. i had this mental image of a car tunnel, with the lights and everything, and would imagine myself moving into this tunnel, lights flashing overhead, any time i felt like the pain was getting to be too much. then my vision would blur and i'd basically faint but not lose consciousness. Then I would mentally wrap myself in that feeling, like a cocoon or a safety blanket, until the pain passed. Very strange. Overall a VERY interesting experience.

[AoE]

EBay account hacked. Don't really care because I haven't used it in years and it only has my old invalid debit card info on there so not a big deal. Didn't feel like dealing with the hassle of securing my account and re-securing all my e-mail accounts though just to be sure. Kinda overdue for a thorough virus scan though.

[Melena]

I'm a pussy when it comes to pain, so even for cleaning I get nitrous. Just makes me feel mellow and almost like i'm floating. I am still coherent, chat with the dentist, and about 5-10 minutes after i'm done I'm good to go. My two wisdom teeth i've had taken out though were easy. few shots of Novocain, then just grab the tooth, twist, pull yank and i'm done. I still have two to go but they are fully in and don't bother me so not going to bother. One would have to be cut out since it pretty much went in sideways, I don't think enough of it is past the gum line to yank.

[Mojo]

I can't stand the feeling of novocain/octocain, so I opt out whenever the dentist allows me to. I had nothing the last time I went in for a filling.

[jmc]

Just sat down for a training course in our new CAD (computer aided dispatch) the department is getting in the next 2 months.

Crashed, and threw a shitload of errors during my training course.

Turns out it's the same system that has been crashing weekly in NYC.

Awesome

[Boyiee]

Weird. We get issues here but not usually full crashes like that.