Fail: My mom found a lump on her left breast and I am not taking those news very well. The Doctor told her that it might be a mammary gland infection but I won't be ok until we find out for sure.
Do not worry, they are probably right about what it is. My mother and one of her friend had the same thing. Their doctor talked about how most of the time they find something it is along those lines.
Eeech, the Mighty van can be mighty expensive - Got it to the shop, and the rear drum on the driver's side is rooted beyond belief, the brake master is gone(not paying for that one at least), the clutch master and clutch slave are gone for reasons nobody can determine, but it's suspected they're just at the end of life for those parts. Fuck it, might as well get the oil changed too.
Just as I'd made it back to the comfortable section of my accounts ledger after PAX AUS and made a little profit on the election, too. What a pisser.
I know someone else driving something like the Mighty van. It has not be a very economic investment.
Just that time in the lifecycle of a vehicle. A lot of the parts in it are 23 years old, and they don't last forever, even if they last a long time. I knew it was coming, just not the best time for it to happen, y'know?
Plus, the van isn't so bad of an investment - I'm still ahead on what it's bought in, as opposed to what I've paid out over the time I've owned it.
You also are willing to put work in on it yourself. That counts for something.
That's true, I do most of the work on it myself, from bodywork, to paint, to mechanical. This outlay is a rare occurrence, I simply don't have the tools or time right now to remove the old, super fucked up brake drum, let alone replace a whole drum brake unit, nor do I have access to a lift and the right gear to replace the clutch slave and master.
My interview today was cancelled due to the interviewer being in Boulder Colorado. Luckily her house is at a decently high elevation so she is safe. It just sucks to get pumped for an interview then it not happen.
There is a non-insignificant overlap between the M:TG community at my school and the hard drug community at my school. I realize this is the perfect set up to a million jokes (all of which I've made), but at this point I've seen it happen so much I can't even laugh anymore. It's just sad.
There is a non-insignificant overlap between the M:TG community at my school and the hard drug community at my school. I realize this is the perfect set up to a million jokes (all of which I've made), but at this point I've seen it happen so much I can't even laugh anymore. It's just sad.
My friend's first experience with marijuana was with his D&D group.
So apparently all my computer problems are because my external hard drive (that wasn't even accessible through windows because shit's broke yo (the drive is fine, windows is broke)) was somehow preventing essential Windows services from starting.
Final update to the Van Saga Episode 451: Final total of damage, Clutch master, clutch slave, two rear drums(One drum, the driver's side rear having gotten so hot it had softened some components while they were under load and friction-welded part of the drum together), One starter(Started slow-but-normal getting it on the truck, getting it off the truck, wouldn't even turn over. Inspected the starter myself at the shop - it was fucking slagged completely).
Brake master was fine - that was a combination of miscommunication and an unforeseen symptom that didn't have an attached problem - the reason it seemed to be pissing out brake fluid into the driver's floor? Because there was a shitload of fluid trapped in the wrapping of some of the wiring harness, and every time you disturbed the harness(or just slowly over time) some would drip out, which gave the appearance of a busted slave seal.
Got the oil done for the hell of it too - it was in the shop and I was already paying a packet, so a needed oil change and filter weren't going to sting too much.
Final total: $1100, with long term customer/mates rates. Most of it labor - it took them an hour and a half(rounded down) to get the welded drum off, for example.
Fucksocks. At least it's done with, I suppose, and I've got the van back again.
I had some drum brakes fail while going down Sutton Bank, one of the steepest main roads in England, just as I reached a hairpin bend. Just my luck! I wrote about it at the time and posted the full story to my blog a while back.
Fuck, I know exactly the spot you mean - nearly lost it coming around that corner, my first long trip on my bike, came in too hot like a twit. That's a hell of an accident, though, your van looked like it's been stepped on, and thank fuck you didn't have a passenger.
Yeah, drum brakes can be a real bitch - they're solid as a rock for reliability and work really well, but when they fail, they don't do it by halves, it just goes straight from working to buggered, and almost always when you'd really like to be able to use them.
I may have now accidentally made a second subscription to NHL GameCenter Live as the NHL's website apparently does not provide any sort of overview of your subscription status and it lets you buy a subscription whether you already have one tied to your account or not. However, the buy form prefills all your billing information from your account...
The Customer Support form they have also does not send any sort of e-mail to your address confirming that they received an inquiry.
Yay for terrible programming and user interaction models.
iOS7 update required iTunes 11.1 update and now podcasts are FUCKED!!!!
I don't even try and manage podcasts from iTunes anymore Only the Podcast app.
Until this update you could simply not have the podcast app installed. They would all simply turn up in a tab in the normal music player. It was just like it always was.
Now if an audio file is a podcast (one option of audio file type along with others) it WILL NOT show up on your iPhone at all! Not even a playlist containing podcasts! It just decided I can't see them.
So installed the iOS podcast app, which is a pile of wank, and the podcasts I'd put in the playlist turned up there, but not in a playlist, just in a list organized fuck knows how, with no option to change it.
All the podcast feeds on the phone show episodes that aren't on my phone, and that I don't want. There's no alphabetical view. There's no view which shows me only podcast shows with downloaded episodes both listened and unlistened, only a view which shows unlistened podcasts, and then if you select one by accident it is classed as listened despite only playing ten seconds sand then it disappears from that view.
And then, over on iTunes 11.1, podcasts are even more fucked. There is no way to not show old non-downloaded episodes in every feed in the list view! Which means I can't show all my podcasts feeds plus all the unlistened episodes on a single page. I can either show all the feeds, but no episodes, or I can show every episode if every feed ever, and have to scroll through hundreds or dozens of non-downloaded and already listened to episodes (pages and pages full!) just to check if a new podcast has downloaded.
I can't believe anyone thought this was remotely suitable for anyone.
Basically, you've gotta go and turn off subscriptions in the options for the podcast app - that should stop it showing episodes you don't have. It's either that, or switching off the subscription in the app - which doesn't affect your actual subscription in itunes. If the actual podcast file is on your phone, listened episodes shouldn't vanish, and shouldn't mark as listened until you've completed it. It will still show all the feeds(though it doesn't show the podcasts), but everything with a show that's not marked as listened to will show a number next to it.
Still can't figure out the apparently entirely random ordering of the podcast list though. While you can scroll to the top of the list, hit edit, and drag them around manually, there's no alphabetical sort option other than "Do it yourself, lazybones." And doing so on the phone is a pain in the arse, and one that only increases with the number of podcasts you have listed.
And yeah, the podcast app is a complete pile of wank. Which is, surprisingly, an improvement from how the podcast app started, because now it's actually a somewhat usable pile of wank.
I have two other apps which control music playback, a sleep timer and a running app. These simply don't work with the podcast app! The sleep timer counts down and then doesn't recognize anything is playing, and nothing stops. The running app says the live progress update, and normally pauses the music app (playing music or an audiobook) to do so. It used to do that with podcasts too, but now just talks all over the podcast.
Podcast app has a built-in sleep timer, when you're looking at the postcast screen, it's right in the middle under the progress bar, right next to the one for listening speed. Looks like a wee clock with Zzzs coming out of it. If you're not seeing the progress bar, just tap the album art, it'll pop up.
No idea what the solution is for the running app, but I remember hearing that the podcast app works essentially the same as the music app at the level that it's interacting with other apps, so if you send a message to the devs, there's a good chance they can include that functionality, I guess? Wish I could tell you something better there.
I don't understand why they don't really ever feel the need to, I don't know, tell you any of this.
The sleep timer is not a solution. This is the description of the app I use:
"iTired
Listen to audio books or podcasts in bed? Don't you hate falling asleep then spending minutes the next day trying to find your spot? iTired solves this problem. Play your audio then launch iTired. It prompts you every few minutes to see if your'e still alert. If you don’t respond, it stops playback and optionally rewinds to the last time you were last alert. iTired is a simple solution to an annoying problem."
iTired now shows the last played item in the music app, not the podcast app.
I have submitted bug reports and feature requests and asked on the Apple community support forums.
Ooooh. Sorry, I assumed when you said it was a sleep timer that it was literally just a countdown, rather than a more functional app. Yeah, no replacement for that, unfortunately, because that would be far more useful than a simple timer - I don't know about most of you, but I sure as hell don't fall asleep on the tick of a seven minute timer.
It's more important for audiobooks, to be honest, but already last night it annoyed me, and I'd only had iOS7 installed for 20 minutes by that point. The running app? I'll just turn off the live updates when listening to a podcast.
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The Doctor told her that it might be a mammary gland infection but I won't be ok until we find out for sure.
Just as I'd made it back to the comfortable section of my accounts ledger after PAX AUS and made a little profit on the election, too. What a pisser.
Plus, the van isn't so bad of an investment - I'm still ahead on what it's bought in, as opposed to what I've paid out over the time I've owned it.
Brake master was fine - that was a combination of miscommunication and an unforeseen symptom that didn't have an attached problem - the reason it seemed to be pissing out brake fluid into the driver's floor? Because there was a shitload of fluid trapped in the wrapping of some of the wiring harness, and every time you disturbed the harness(or just slowly over time) some would drip out, which gave the appearance of a busted slave seal.
Got the oil done for the hell of it too - it was in the shop and I was already paying a packet, so a needed oil change and filter weren't going to sting too much.
Final total: $1100, with long term customer/mates rates. Most of it labor - it took them an hour and a half(rounded down) to get the welded drum off, for example.
Fucksocks. At least it's done with, I suppose, and I've got the van back again.
I had some drum brakes fail while going down Sutton Bank, one of the steepest main roads in England, just as I reached a hairpin bend. Just my luck! I wrote about it at the time and posted the full story to my blog a while back.
Yeah, drum brakes can be a real bitch - they're solid as a rock for reliability and work really well, but when they fail, they don't do it by halves, it just goes straight from working to buggered, and almost always when you'd really like to be able to use them.
The Customer Support form they have also does not send any sort of e-mail to your address confirming that they received an inquiry.
Yay for terrible programming and user interaction models.
Now if an audio file is a podcast (one option of audio file type along with others) it WILL NOT show up on your iPhone at all! Not even a playlist containing podcasts! It just decided I can't see them.
So installed the iOS podcast app, which is a pile of wank, and the podcasts I'd put in the playlist turned up there, but not in a playlist, just in a list organized fuck knows how, with no option to change it.
All the podcast feeds on the phone show episodes that aren't on my phone, and that I don't want. There's no alphabetical view. There's no view which shows me only podcast shows with downloaded episodes both listened and unlistened, only a view which shows unlistened podcasts, and then if you select one by accident it is classed as listened despite only playing ten seconds sand then it disappears from that view.
And then, over on iTunes 11.1, podcasts are even more fucked. There is no way to not show old non-downloaded episodes in every feed in the list view! Which means I can't show all my podcasts feeds plus all the unlistened episodes on a single page. I can either show all the feeds, but no episodes, or I can show every episode if every feed ever, and have to scroll through hundreds or dozens of non-downloaded and already listened to episodes (pages and pages full!) just to check if a new podcast has downloaded.
I can't believe anyone thought this was remotely suitable for anyone.
Still can't figure out the apparently entirely random ordering of the podcast list though. While you can scroll to the top of the list, hit edit, and drag them around manually, there's no alphabetical sort option other than "Do it yourself, lazybones." And doing so on the phone is a pain in the arse, and one that only increases with the number of podcasts you have listed.
And yeah, the podcast app is a complete pile of wank. Which is, surprisingly, an improvement from how the podcast app started, because now it's actually a somewhat usable pile of wank.
Sigh.
No idea what the solution is for the running app, but I remember hearing that the podcast app works essentially the same as the music app at the level that it's interacting with other apps, so if you send a message to the devs, there's a good chance they can include that functionality, I guess? Wish I could tell you something better there.
I don't understand why they don't really ever feel the need to, I don't know, tell you any of this.
"iTired
Listen to audio books or podcasts in bed? Don't you hate falling asleep then spending minutes the next day trying to find your spot? iTired solves this problem. Play your audio then launch iTired. It prompts you every few minutes to see if your'e still alert. If you don’t respond, it stops playback and optionally rewinds to the last time you were last alert. iTired is a simple solution to an annoying problem."
iTired now shows the last played item in the music app, not the podcast app.
I have submitted bug reports and feature requests and asked on the Apple community support forums.