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Things that frustrate us all

tell me about it. I am terribly impatient myself: I have 5 quilts, 2 sweaters, 2 carpets, a cardigan and a bag waiting to be finished. I seem to never get around to finish things I started. However, I am extremely patient with animals. I can sit still for hours watching some insect or a bird. No idea how these two go together. Maybe I just spend all my patience on animals so that none is left for other things :)

Argh of the day: a meeting with other biologists has been cancelled. Not because of Corona but because the Minister for the Environment requires the room. We ought to strike back and hold our meeting in his office! :evil:
 
When you have dental pain for days and think it's a gum infection. When you finally get to the dentist, you're still having pain but there's no indication there's an infection. The dentist thinks you've cracked a tooth so they do some x-rays. But nope, there's no sign of any damage to the teeth. Then the dentist does the cold test and the tap test on all the teeth in that part of your mouth. Nothing out of the ordinary there, either. But the spot in your gumline still throbs with pain. The dentist even checks your bite and your nightguard to make sure you're not damaging your teeth at night. Nope, not that either.

So the only answer is that there was damage but now it's healing OR there's a nerve in one of your teeth going bad and you'll have to wait for it to become severe and excruciating before you can pinpoint the exact location, and THEN get a root canal.

Great.
 
BTDT. I had pain for a long time, off and on, in a tooth that shouldn't be having pain. Grr. We did all the stuff you went through, several times for a couple years, and I was basically told there was no reason for my pain, therefore it wasn't a problem. My new dentist finally determined that my crown was built up too much, which was causing the crown to push into the gum when I clenched my teeth, which was aggravating the nerves in the gums (not the tooth). She filed the crown down a little, and voila! Problem solved!

Hopefully, your dentist is more adept than my previous one was, and your pain will resolve quickly.
 
Dang it... forgot to grab my fin bag this morning. Our team tries to do a quick ‘snorkel session’ each week, usually on Wednesday afternoon after work as a team builder/stress relief/reset. Not for me this time - had the mask, snorkel, weight belt, camera... everything but the fins. They tend to be helpful. :rolleyes: Gggrrr...

Cheers,
-CM-
 
couldn't you snorkel propelling yourselfs with armstrokes? Or - since it's supposed to be team building - couldn't your team drag you along?

@antichristhill commiserations. Maybe it is really a gum inflammation? Perhaps some object got into a fold of the gum by accident, maybe a poppyseed or a bit of caraway? I had something similar a few weeks ago when a tiny morsel of cement got stuck alongside an implant. It took me days to wriggle it out.
Can you get chamomile tea in the US? It is extremely helpful with all sorts of inflammation. Gargling with an infusion of sage (the herbal kind ;) ) helps as well.

Frustration today: my lab gets a new ceiling but what it actually needs is thicker walls. I almost fall of my chair when someone in the next lab sneezes.
 
One of my neighbors has the world's loudest, squeakiest brakes. I can always tell when they leave and return from their garage. I can even identify their driving pattern from inside my house with all the doors and windows closed.

*SQUEEEEEEEAAAAALLL* "Oh, Bob's leaving his garage......"

*SQUEAL-squeak-SQUEAL* "and backed into the street.."

*SQUEAK--SQUEAK* "..and he's slowing down as he rounds the corner of the street. Bye, Bob."


One of these days, I'm going to run over to their house and slide a coupon for Brake Check under their door. Either his brakes are shot or there's something else really messed up with his car.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
I'd advise to use neither of the three as they all ruin the soil. Any plant you'll put there for several months will die. Vinegar changes the acitity of the soil - only rhododendrons and other swamp plants will survive that. Salt is deadly for every plant, except for coastal ones. Dish soap kills the microorganisms that make the soil fertile and it might seep into the ground water.
The best way to get rid of weeds is still the mechanical one: tearing them out. If they grow only on small patches, you can cover them with a thick layer of newspaper or card board to make them starve to death from a lack of light. However, some plants simply grow faster and peep out from under the cover. If you have any weeds that propagate by root shoots, the only option you have is to dig them out and sift the soil to get even the tiniest bit of root out. Ground elder is among those who can regrow from tiny bits but it's very tasty in soups, stews, cottage cheese or herbal butter. Many a weed problem can be solved in the kitchen :)
The best solution in the long run is to plant or sow quite densely so that weeds have no space to settle in.
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The weeds and unwanted grass are in the middle of our alley, want to get rid of all the weeds and grass and put more gravel down. Don't want anything to grow there ever. So that is why I am using the vinegar and such. I don't use it anywhere I might want to plant anything, and not on my grass or anything. Thanks for the advice.
 
Ah, I see. In that case the salt might be the best solution. Or how about concrete? You could cement gravel onto it in a pretty pattern. Here's a how to in German but the images are self-explaining, I think. They use sand but you can also use concrete, you just have to work in smaller patches or faster so that it doesn't dry before you set all stones.
If you google for images of "Kiesmosaik" or "Kiespflaster" you get a lot of examples, some ornamental, others more functional. Maybe you find something you like.
If anything grows on such a concrete-based mosaic, you can simply wash it off with the garden hose and a broom.


Frustration today: there are so many things I'd like to do and I can't find the time. I am always so tired that I just drop into bed after work instead of doing the other things I'd love to do.
 
I had a two and a half gallon fish tank on the entertainment center near my tv. Just had a betta fish and a snail in it. Overnight it started leaking for some reason. When I got up this morning it was mostly empty.
Big mess but at least I was able to save the critters.
 
I hope they'll survive the shock without any lasting damage!
Fish tanks have a way of leaking the instant they can do maximum damage. To my knowledge none has ever started leaking while being watched.

Seems to be Murphy Day: I started work by cutting my hand with a cardboard box. All the way down to the bone so that I had to use a few steri-strips to close the gash. At least it's a very clean cut, as with a scalpel. There will be hardly any scar. =)
 
Okay, here's something frustrating that's happened to me several times recently and probably everyone here can relate to in some fashion or another (I'm too lazy to go back through the thread to see if this has already been mentioned. Sorry.)

When an artist/creator who's work you admire and enjoy turns out to be a crap human being. Especially when that crap is something extra creepy, like, say, going on the make vs. underage fans.

It's especially frustrating in this day and age where the chans and the Q-scum and the Deepfakers will make up anything, so part of you is always wondering "what if this is one of those?" because you really don't want to believe it.
 
Naah, it's healing nicely. Doesn't hurt at all. Don't worry - I'm the human version of Ground Elder - perfectly indestructible :D

Frustration today: it's so dark that for the first time this fall I need a light all day :( I had planned to do some origami in the afternoon but with artificial light it's difficult to see the folds in the paper.
So, instead of folding poaper, I'll fold my laundry :D
 
I got a loaf of bread with a best-by date of October 20, and it's already moldy! :mad:

Kor
 
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