What pissed you off today?
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DVS
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You can pick any day to be a "special" Father's Day.
seela
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You can pick any day to be a "special" Father's Day.
True. I was just really looking forward to seeing him today. I even baked for him yesterday.
Instead of sitting in a car for hours and hours today, J and I sorted through a couple of closets and found absolutely nothing we want to keep, except for a hammer and two rolls of duct tape. A day well spent, after all.
DVS
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A hammer and duct tape? Sounds like an extreme session of bondage and S/m.
game_master24
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*sigh* wall of text incoming...
Last week, I bought windows 8, now all complaints about the operating systems aside, the operating system itself runs really well on my system and is not why I'm pissed off.
What pissed me off then? Well.... For those that do not know until Jan 31st I believe it is, anyone that has a previous version of windows and buys it through Microsoft's download service can buy Windows 8 for $39.99 US. I think that's great lets do it; I was having issues with the computer running sluggish anyhow. It was due for a formatting, so I go through their process, buy it, and get it downloaded.
Now there are three different ways to install it this way. First way, install it with all of your setting still intact, which pretty much takes Windows 8 and puts it over the one you have now. That's nice for inexperienced users, but not for me. The second way, burn it to a disc and create a boot disc, this is for more advanced users as you can format this way. If I had the disc to do it I would do it this way, but alas I do not. The last way and way I wanted to do it, Burn it to a usb drive and make it boot-able. I think great I have an acceptable drive, and everything should be golden.
In order to do it my way, I have two ways of doing it. I could have done it manually via the cmd prompt or I could let Microsoft's tool do it. So trying it the easy way, I let the tool go at it. It gets to 80% and promptly fails saying, "There is a problem with the USB drive you have selected please try again." I go WTF.
I got looking for a solution and end up on Window's help chat. The guy in the chat ended up remotely taking control of my computer, and promptly uses the tool again. This time the tool gets to 99% and stops. They guy on the chat asks me if there is another usb drive we could use. Luckily I have another we could try. I insert it and we start the process over again. It gets to 99% and stops.
Fresh out of USB drives, I say thanks for the help I guess I'm doing it another way. I ask the guy point blank, "If I choose the install over windows 7 option and say do not save my files, will it format my drive?" I get a "Yes." I say thanks and start my process thinking that my computer will gets it format after all.
*sigh* I get my computer back up and running and get to the desktop. I open my computer to see how much free space I have on my SSD. It says I have 4 gb left on a 120gb drive.
The guy from the chat lied to me. I ended up manually setting up my USB to be boot-able. It WORKED. I formatted my computer and everything works the way I wanted it too.
Moral of the story, do not use Window's Boot drive create thingy cause it DOES NOT work, and do not trust their chat help people.
Last week, I bought windows 8, now all complaints about the operating systems aside, the operating system itself runs really well on my system and is not why I'm pissed off.
What pissed me off then? Well.... For those that do not know until Jan 31st I believe it is, anyone that has a previous version of windows and buys it through Microsoft's download service can buy Windows 8 for $39.99 US. I think that's great lets do it; I was having issues with the computer running sluggish anyhow. It was due for a formatting, so I go through their process, buy it, and get it downloaded.
Now there are three different ways to install it this way. First way, install it with all of your setting still intact, which pretty much takes Windows 8 and puts it over the one you have now. That's nice for inexperienced users, but not for me. The second way, burn it to a disc and create a boot disc, this is for more advanced users as you can format this way. If I had the disc to do it I would do it this way, but alas I do not. The last way and way I wanted to do it, Burn it to a usb drive and make it boot-able. I think great I have an acceptable drive, and everything should be golden.
In order to do it my way, I have two ways of doing it. I could have done it manually via the cmd prompt or I could let Microsoft's tool do it. So trying it the easy way, I let the tool go at it. It gets to 80% and promptly fails saying, "There is a problem with the USB drive you have selected please try again." I go WTF.
I got looking for a solution and end up on Window's help chat. The guy in the chat ended up remotely taking control of my computer, and promptly uses the tool again. This time the tool gets to 99% and stops. They guy on the chat asks me if there is another usb drive we could use. Luckily I have another we could try. I insert it and we start the process over again. It gets to 99% and stops.
Fresh out of USB drives, I say thanks for the help I guess I'm doing it another way. I ask the guy point blank, "If I choose the install over windows 7 option and say do not save my files, will it format my drive?" I get a "Yes." I say thanks and start my process thinking that my computer will gets it format after all.
*sigh* I get my computer back up and running and get to the desktop. I open my computer to see how much free space I have on my SSD. It says I have 4 gb left on a 120gb drive.
The guy from the chat lied to me. I ended up manually setting up my USB to be boot-able. It WORKED. I formatted my computer and everything works the way I wanted it too.
Moral of the story, do not use Window's Boot drive create thingy cause it DOES NOT work, and do not trust their chat help people.
CutieMouse
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Standing in line at the grocery store behind two women who are trying to negotiate the prices of every single piece of produce in the cart.
Lettuce rings up at .97. "I give you .79!"
Mushrooms ring up at $1.29. "$1?"
10 minutes...
Sigh.
Lettuce rings up at .97. "I give you .79!"
Mushrooms ring up at $1.29. "$1?"
10 minutes...
Sigh.
midwestyankee
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Have you recently begun doing your grocery shopping in Cairo?
DVS
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Long summer without any rain finally hitting the produce prices?
DeepGreenEyes
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I am a one-man superstorm of fuck ups today.
Really. It's actually impressive!
Really. It's actually impressive!
CutieMouse
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Nope... WalMart price-match policy + 2 (otherwise lovely I'm sure) Hispanic women ready to bargain down/barter/argue every.single.price. Between the price-match policy and language barriers, I was stuck in line (stuff on the conveyor belt, people in line behind me) for 25 minutes.
All I wanted was to buy my 23 items and come home to play in the kitchen*.
Gotta give 'em props though... they left the store with two overflowing grocery carts for a grand total of $113.57.
*Brandied Apple Butter is in the crock-pot
* Pickled Cranberries are cooling in jars on the counter
*Maple Pumpkin Butter is simmering on the stove
Friday I get to play with Bourbon Soaked Cranberry Sauce and Ruby Red Grapefruit in Mint Syrup + candied grapefruit dipped in dark chocolate
midwestyankee
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The grapefruit would be a severe problem (forbidden due to intake of statins), but I'll be by on Saturday to try the brandied apple butter. That sounds like sex in a spoon.
Words cannot even describe how this makes me feel when this happens to me.
Yeah. But you're damn good at taking care of those horns with hedge-clippers
Sir_Winston54
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Heh. It's already been pulled down via copyright violation notice from TV4.
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game_master24
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I understand the need to barter things but 18 cents is a bit much.
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