People using my tools without proper care.
Score this weekend:
a) found my good garden scissor (only for roses and other fine pruning) way back in the yard, rusted. Trying to revive it with wd40 but it will never be the same.
b) You know when you quick need someting and want to grab it and find out you need to clean it first? Straight edge tool. …Argh…
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Another option is a trick used with Chinese-style dumplings or pierogis: after the frying, add a SMALL amount of water and cover for a couple of minutes. You can then serve as is (flip over for presentation) or add a little more oil and flip over for a minute or two to get browned on the other side.
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My family thought I was unreasonable for flipping because of the dozen hammers in my workshop they took my grandfather’s metalworking planishing hammer to pound things on the sidewalk.
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Csb:
I love driving manuals. Because I am a nerd, when I lived in Arizona with a 16 mile each way commute I challenged myself to make the round trip without touching the breaks once. During rush hour.
I succeeded two times. That was the absolute Pinnacle of my game. (Yes, I ebraked to park)
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This is the only method I use now (unless just tossing frozen potstickers into soup) because it is so easy. Just use a good non-stick pan (I prefer ceramic) because the some starch dissolves into the water and then when the water is absorbed or evaporates, will try to create a thin layer of adhesive in the pan.
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Overcooked pasta.
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Hitting those toddlers and that nun totally worth it.
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Given the data set [good, bad, good, good], this analysis of the data:
% Good : 0.75
% Bad : 0.25
Guess why this grinds my gears
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I’m guessing you’re working for the government or a bank, if they’re that blatantly ignoring 99% of something.
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Nope, all data is accounted for and displayed (badly)
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I know.
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whoops, sorry, I may have missed the humor on first reading
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Working in cubicles, because of the people who stand there fucking hovering outside them while they chit chat.
I don’t mind the chatter but I loathe people hovering over me as I’m sitting at a desk; even if it’s just by proxy.
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My new 3rd party phone case, which if I am not careful how I hold it, will trigger the magnetic sensor that makes it think the cover of the official 1st party folio case is closed–and then shows the notifications screen meant to shine through the window of the folio case.
Of course the notification screen isn’t touch-sensitive. Took me weeks of shaking the phone and tapping on the screen to figure out what was going on.
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My “cubicle” is really just kind of a stall with one side open, and I only have the lame half-height walls. I have my monitors on risers and I can block out most of the random movement of people in my sight line, if they’re far enough away, but sometimes people come to talk to the guy on the other side, or they just stand in the walkway to chat, so that they’re right in front of me. It. Is. So. Distracting.
I do mind the chatter, but that’s why I wear earphones 
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I used to have an entire mail/copy room to myself; I miss that autonomy.
Of course there was no wall on one end of the mini-suite, so I often had people taking a short-cut through my workspace, but that was still better than the infernal hovering.
I also keep my headphones on for most of the duration of the day, so maybe that’s why the chatter doesn’t bother me.
And yes, these cubicles are the cursed half-wall type.
#>_<
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Something women may be unaware of, but it is quite common for men to urinate into a toilet bowl standing up.
There are good reasons for this, for example when all the urinals are in use.
There is no excuse for not lifting the seat and urinating on it. None. Fuck it drives me nuts when I see this. Shitty, lazy people.
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We have 4’6" cube walls in the cubical areas.
For whatever reason, the Height Adjustable Desks have come into vogue.
But then you have people standing at their workstations, peering down at their neighbors.
So now a bunch of 2 foot extensions have popped up on several cubes.
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You know meatwalling, where the only place you need to be is the only place where people are gathering and chit chatting, and they have no reason to be there? This is like that, but different.
Like, when some dude is walking by and pulls out his phone and checks his texts right next to my table in the café and nowhere else, and he has no real reason for stopping there. He’s just stopping there, standing and hovering, while I’m trying to enjoy my coffee.
The cubicle hovering chit chat is a lot like that.
I’ve worked in a place like that. This guy came by to talk to the guy in the next cube about weekend plans, and how he was planning on painting a shed or some shit like that. I put my headphones in, put on a podcast, and got shit done. Then, an hour later, the podcast was over, and I took my headphones out. I was still working, and this guy was still talking about his damn shed.
That’s corporate America for you. And we say poor people are lazy 
I’m wearing my headphones right now, but I had to turn the volume all the way up because it’s four-o-clock monkey brain time, and everyone is chit chatting. The guy across from me has an insanely loud voice too. I swear to Christ I’m going to blow my eardrums out.
I have a height adjustable desk, but I prefer not to use it, for many reasons. My cube walls are 5’6" but that’s like shoulder height for me, and I’m peering down at my neighbors over the walls. Also, work standing up? Fuck that noise. I’m going to work in my chair, slouched down, and leaning back. I work out after work, I don’t need to stand while working, nor do I really consider that exercise or anything productive.
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