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Things that frustrate us all

Avro Arrow said:
On that note, I have a huge problem with those new LED headlights that are becoming more and more common on the road these days. I have a light sensitivity, and those headlights are blindingly bright. I keep worrying that someday they're going to cause me to have an accident or something.
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My car has factory HID projector Bi-xenon headlamps. They are brighter than LED headlights. I try to keep them on low beam, and they are aimed correctly. They use less current than, and are twice as bright as Halogen headlamps. At night, someone coming the other way with the same type of headlights just as bright will flash me with their high beams. Then the oncoming driver will turn their high beams on and keep them on as they approach, then I will have to flash them, and blind all the other drivers behind them. This causes a daisy chain of cars coming toward me to start flashing their lights at me.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
LED bulbs can't be used in fully enclosed fixtures, and I have a lot of those in my house.
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Thank you for mentioning this. I have to admit, I was not aware of this, and I also have a lot of fully enclosed fixtures. And of course, I use LED bulbs in them, because, as you note, those are pretty much all you can buy these days.

After reading your post, I did some Googling, and generally, it seems to be more of a case that you shouldn't, not that you specifically can't. It looks like the main problem is that the bulbs will overheat and shorten their lifespan.

Apparently they have bulbs that can specifically be used for enclosed fixtures. I checked mine, and they are not. :( I guess I will have to look for those ones the next time I am out. I can only imagine that they will probably be more expensive. :sigh:
 
The Golden 1 Credit union has sent an email for me to log in and check my refreshed credit score.
I go to the login page, enter my account number and password, receive a text on my cell with a code to enter on the next screen. The next screen is blank, with no place to enter a code. Refreshing the page doesn't work.
Now I remember why I make my Credit Union and credit cards send me snail mail. It's because their websites are s#!t.

Update. After numerous tries I finally get the screen to enter the code, it goes to my account, but I get the following message:
My Credit Score

My Credit Score is not accessible at this time. Please try again later.
 
I must have a cold. I keep getting the same micro dream where I need to accomplish something in order to fall asleep but I can't because nothing I'm given matches the goal and then I wake up. Can't really explain it. It's like busy work and it feels like I haven't fallen asleep even though I'm having the same micro dream over and over. I know I'm having them too so why can't I turn it off and just go to sleep? It's really exhausting.
 
Hey, at least that's better than the month+ I have to wait to get my scans done for whatever is going on with my bladder or kidney.
Avro Arrow said:
On that note, I have a huge problem with those new LED headlights that are becoming more and more common on the road these days. I have a light sensitivity, and those headlights are blindingly bright. I keep worrying that someday they're going to cause me to have an accident or something.
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Yeah, those drive my mom and I crazy. I can understand wanting them to be bright enough to see while you're out driving in the dark, but it would be nice if they could do that without blinding all of the other drivers going in the opposite direction.

I'm glad I finally have a job and I'm making money, but now I'm getting a lot more hours and I'm getting nervous I'm gonna be kicked off Medicaid. If I do get kicked off I can probably get Affordable Care Act insurance, but that means I will have to start paying some for it, and I'm not sure if I can afford that now that I'm having issues and seeing doctors a lot.
 
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Avro Arrow said:
Wow, two weeks?! :eek: That's amazing, congratulations!!

I'm used to specialists being 4 - 6 months here... if you're really lucky.
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Well, it's just a dermatologist, so not really *that* hard to find. But they're still technically a specialist. It's taken months--at least 6--to go back and forth between doctors, and I'm far worse than I ever was.

I'll spare you the long story but I've been disfigured for 6 months & after several visits to the GP, and several calls to different dermatologists, I finally got one that takes my insurance and is within 45 minutes drive from my house. But I still have to wait another two weeks.
 
auntiehill said:
Well, it's just a dermatologist, so not really *that* hard to find. But they're still technically a specialist. It's taken months--at least 6--to go back and forth between doctors, and I'm far worse than I ever was.

I'll spare you the long story but I've been disfigured for 6 months & after several visits to the GP, and several calls to different dermatologists, I finally got one that takes my insurance and is within 45 minutes drive from my house. But I still have to wait another two weeks.
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I'm sorry to hear that. :( I hope the dermatologist is able to help you out.
 
I'm pissed at my work: the work schedule is Monday to Thursday 8 am to 16.30 and Friday from 8 am to 3 pm, they’re going to change it to Monday till Friday 7.45 to 16.30. Those working full-time get more PTO days and the mandatory closing period will be changed from 3 weeks to two weeks. God, I wish I was fired already. It's not fair that can't put in my two weeks notice and not get any unemployment money
 
The package delivery driver didn't knock or ring, and I wasn't near my phone or computer to receive the email, so my package was sitting out there for an hour. The worst part was there was no effort made to hide that it's there by putting it behind the pillar. Nope, just leave this big giant box that's obviously from Target sitting out in the open.
 
Aragorn said:
The package delivery driver didn't knock or ring, and I wasn't near my phone or computer to receive the email, so my package was sitting out there for an hour. The worst part was there was no effort made to hide that it's there by putting it behind the pillar. Nope, just leave this big giant box that's obviously from Target sitting out in the open.
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They almost never ring the doorbell, but at least my porch isn't visible from the street or from the canal bank that provides access to the house. The porch is hidden from the canal bank road by a grapefruit tree, and I live 500 feet from the nearest paved road. The house blocks the view of the porch from the paved road, and the branches hang low enough on the grapefruit tree that you can't see the top of the porch from the canal. I also have 4K security cameras aimed at the porch. I haven't had any deliveries stolen yet.
 
Aragorn said:
The package delivery driver didn't knock or ring, and I wasn't near my phone or computer to receive the email, so my package was sitting out there for an hour. The worst part was there was no effort made to hide that it's there by putting it behind the pillar. Nope, just leave this big giant box that's obviously from Target sitting out in the open.
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I get that anger.

We have two chairs and a pillar that's right next to the front door. Packages are always left right in front of the door instead of behind the pillar where it's more hidden or on one of the chairs so the box doesn't get hit when we open the door... hell, it would be easier for them to just put it on the chair since they won't need to bend down to place the package.

Never mind that the fact they don't knock or ring the doorbell. (We have a Ring camera and a Nest camera, so we know when they arrive. But if we aren't home... well, we aren't around to make sure people don't try to get the 5 finger discount.)
 
As bad as package delivery has gotten, I'm fortunate to have not yet experienced drivers who don't even make an effort to deliver the package and instead mark it as missed delivery and claim I wasn't home. People have shown their home security videos where the driver walks up to the door with no package and leaves the missed delivery sticker. Or they idle in front of the house for a while, don't get out, then drive away.
 
The thing that always gets me... why would you park your delivery truck at a house next door to where you are making the delivery instead of right in front it? (This has become more and more frequent in the last couple years.) Even when they are not making multiple deliveries around a few houses.
 
Aragorn said:
The package delivery driver didn't knock or ring, and I wasn't near my phone or computer to receive the email, so my package was sitting out there for an hour. The worst part was there was no effort made to hide that it's there by putting it behind the pillar. Nope, just leave this big giant box that's obviously from Target sitting out in the open.
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Luckily we have our dogs, and they're pretty quick to let us know when someone is parked in front of the house. We do feel a little bad though, because the place that we get their meds from puts treats in the box, so now every time a delivery comes they expect to get something.
We did run into a situation one day where we were either gone or missed the alert that the delivery had come and the package ended up sitting outside until either that night or the next morning.
 
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