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[Caz]

my chicken is very sick

[LordBaal]

Crap.. poultry is hard to take care when sick ans very suceptible. Do you took it to the vet already?

[Great Order]

I have a thing happening today which is going to be stressful. So it's the last day I need the whole universe to seemingly conspire against me to stress me out.

Take a wild fucking guess as to what's happening now.

[martinuzz]

Your car won't start?

[LordBaal]

You have a Great Disorder? Covid results came back positive? Your papers were eaten by your dog? Your house is on fire?


On my own sad, wife and I decided that if we cannot make the money to Laika's chemo before it starts being painful and all, well put her down instead. I hope we dont come to that and I see it wasteful as she is only 7 years old and with luck could live another 6 or 7 years easily. Also my biggest worry is about pete wondering were the hell "puppy laika" went when it suddenly dissapear one day.

[Lord Shonus]

Bought a retro PC online, got refunded. 486 machines are getting hard to find.

[martinuzz]

Is that because they were pretty quickly made redundant by the Pentium 1? Or are older models, like a 8086xt even harder to find?


EDIT: oh good old memories.  My first computer (or rather, my dad's, I was only like 8 or 9 years old) was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 64k.
Then my dad upgraded to a Sinclair QL for himself, and a 8086xt turbo for me (with a whopping 20mB harddrive and glorious CGA colours!!! Soooo much space!).  Then came the 286at, followed by a 386. I remember skipping the 486 because the Pentium was already being hyped on the horizon.

[Lord Shonus]

It is simply an issue of them being ~30 year old machines. The even older stuff is even more difficult to find.

[LordBaal]

Ha, I threw a couple of those 486 today, really old stuff that did not worked anymore. I was tempted to rescue them and make a retro pc, but why for? No one gives a dam here so no one would buy it, and I have not the time to do it or play with it anyway.

[MrRoboto75]

Best I can offer you is a Timex Sinclair in need of a good home.

[dragdeler]

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[LordBaal]

Nah, it was in a work place. I was working cleaning a old unused warehouse, organizing stuff, moving furniture and materials around, sweeping floors and came into them.

[Vector]

Every single day of getting a math PhD: waking up with the goal of, by nightfall, proving that you aren't lazy or stupid.

Then waking up the next day with nothing.

[Greiger]

Quit my job at of 3 years at DG march of last year because of covid.  I live at home and my mom is recovering from lung cancer and while she's mostly good there's some things she can't do.  As soon as covid became a significant thing I made sure it was well known that I may need to quarantine with little notice.

As predicted one day her doctor recommended she quarantine, so I had to as well.  I didn't get much notice, but I made sure I told my boss as soon as possible.  She is supposed to have a schedule up 2 weeks in advance, but she didn't have it for even the next day.  I asked for a time off to see about setting up my own little place in the garage, to not have to enter the house and to see if the whole covid thing was gunna blow over. I regularly covered for other employees, including her, and took maybe 1 day off a year for doctor's appointments. She denied my time off.  So I had to quit.

I got unemployment successfully, so apparently the state didn't think I was in the wrong, despite me thinking there wasn't a chance in hell.

Fast forward to last week, mom's much healthier, still needs help around the house but her immune system is back to decent shape, so her doctor tells her its safe for me to return to work.  I reapply for dollar general, I expected a different location, but my coworkers from my previous location contact me and ask if I'm interested in coming back there.  Apparently the manager I dealt with before quit without notice, so I was welcomed back, I was ecstatic.

A few days go by with no word, and I contacted them today and found out that apparently the previous manager had blacklisted me for 'quitting without notice'.  And since the district manager was also new and did not know me, he would not override it when requested.

Despite it being a crappy retail position I liked that job, and liked the people I worked with, many of whom are still there.  Sucks how much one person who dislikes you can ruin an entire career with a company despite everyone there wanting you back.

[martinuzz]

I'd try sending a polite letter to the new manager explaining the whole situation again.