What's Vexing You Today?

[Trilby]

I just think we should have a 'vex' thread to go along with all the others.

[footfootfoot]

What's vexing me today is myself. I still have a package sitting here for Ortho and I just can't seem to get to the post office. It's some sort of mental complex. Even as a child I couldn't get it together to go to the post office when it was my chore.

That and pick up the dry cleaning for my dad.

I am disappoint in me.

[infinite monkey]

I am teh worser. I still have flint to send you.

Procrastination: it's what's for breakfast.

[DanaC]

Oh, I still have a book i was supposed to post to my second cousin months ago.

What's vexing me is the module I am teaching this coming semester. It's turning into a bitch. managed to get the module outline sorted out and emailed today (weeks late!) and still have to figure out some of the detail for each class and write a couple of introductory lectures for the main topic and its historiography.

I left it way too late to get started. because I was comfortable with the basic shape of it in my head. But when I started it that shape unravelled and I realised it was woefully weighted towards a specific historical approach and had to go scurrying off looking for other angles, and remind myself of stuff I last read a few years ago as an undergrad.

It'll be fine in the end, but bloody hell it's been doing my head in for days.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I am the worse. I still have flint to send you.

Procrastination: it's what's for breakfast.

It's gonna get stale.

[monster]

who has the cellar gnome?

[DanaC]

is it in France?

[Razzmatazz13]

I've got three packages sitting around not being mailed... one needs to go overseas, one needs to go for a birthday party last month... and one was supposed to be a mother's day present. Oops...

[Lamplighter]

I bought four tools today at the local hardware store.

One was a cutting tool,
one was simple pliers,
one was a package of screw drivers,
and one was diagonal cutter pliers.

In order to open the bomb-resistant packaging of the pliers, I needed a cutting tool.
In order to open the cutting tool, I needed diagonal pliers to cut the plastic wrap.
In order to open the packaging of diagonal pliers, I needed a screw driver.

I had to go out to the garden shed to find the pruning shears
to cut open the package of blades for the cutting tool, to open the ....

There is a special HELL for all people who work in the packaging industry.
I will hold the boat until each and every one of their damned souls are on board,
and I'll push them out into the Phlegethon.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

I bought four tools today at the local hardware store.

One was a cutting tool,
one was simple pliers,
one was a package of screw drivers,
and one was diagonal cutter pliers.

In order to open the bomb-resistant packaging of the pliers, I needed a cutting tool.
In order to open the cutting tool, I needed diagonal pliers to cut the plastic wrap.
In order to open the packaging of diagonal pliers, I needed a screw driver.

I had to go out to the garden shed to find the pruning shears
to cut open the package of blades for the cutting tool, to open the ....

There is a special HELL for all people who work in the packaging industry.
I will hold the boat until each and every one of their damned souls are on board,
and I'll push them out into the Phlegethon.

I completely agree!

I know the special hell of not getting it together for the post office, too. It's really so easy so why do I torture myself by not just getting the thing boxed and going in to post it? It's not like the postoffice people are mean or weird or smell funny. I don't get it.

I DID manage to get a box of books to orthodoc and a few things to Cherry (a bit late, ahem) but otherwise I'm shite at it.

[Lamplighter]

I just experienced another episode of anger over plastic shrink-wrap,
and commented under my breath again:
"There's a special place in hell for those who design packaging".

My wife overheard, and said:
"Wouldn't it be funny if they died and went up to the pearly gates,
and found they were closed and sealed in shrink-wrap."

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wrapped gates.

A sharp pocket knife is a plus, not only for cutting shrink-wrap, but if you ever meet the inventor you can stab him.

[glatt]

Apparently, paint stripper will eventually eat right through the can it's being stored in.


And if there are plastic paint cans on the same shelf, the stripper will melt those cans too.

Turns out having a huge pile of saw dust in the workshop is very helpful in cleaning up a mess like that.

[orthodoc]

and now you have solvent-soaked sawdust in your workshop? Please be careful.

[footfootfoot]

That's unusual. Probably water got in there or some other caustic material or salt got on the outside. Is that an MEK stripper?

I'll google BIX

Looks like Alcohol and stoddard solvent. Perhaps the cap wasn't tight enough or it was left open on a humid day. The Alcohol will take on water from the air.