Other What's ruining your life right now?

Dog has could have Meningitis.

Lame.

 

This has turned up on my desktop for absolutely no reason that I can fathom:


(It's a snip of a smallish section of my desktop, the black line has appeared from nowhere)

It's certainly not in the wallpaper image the desktop uses. If I move an icon in to the same position the black line still shows over it, so I thought maybe it was a monitor issue, but when the mouse cursor goes over it, or a window etc. then it covers it, so it's like some weird almost semi-circular corruption in the desktop image file. Anyone else had **** like this?

 

Suspicious, boot up in safemode see if its still there. If its not boot back to normal an check taskmanager etc. Spam the hell out the AV while your at it.

 

I don't have an AV. Haven't had one for many years.

I'm a bit closer to solving it. I found I could actually drag the line about (thought I'd already tried it but apparently not)

So it turns out it was my desktop clock (the 'gadget' available on Win7), which I hadn't noticed had morphed into that line. Why it did it though...? I closed it and opened a new one fine.

 

Something has set off my Colophonium allergy again and it's the worse it's ever been, my face looks like someone has thrown acid on it and is swollen to twice it's normal size and is driving me mad with the itching.

 

Spent a good few hours today trying to change the brakes on my car - as someone once said "no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy" but I was prepared, had all the correct tools (including a borrowed 465Nm professional grade Dewalt impact gun - from the motorcycle tyre shop around the corner).

First wheel off - driver side front......
Caliper off, attempt to undo the carrier bolts via standard 1/2" ratchet, no dice, goto short (8") breaker bar and 4lb lump hammer..... nothing! Ok I thought - lets get serious, impact gun comes out - it's an E20 bolt (basically a reversed torx style) so no risk of rounding in reality so give it the beans........ nothing! Ok I thought again, time for the nuclear option..... Blowtorch on the bolt and carrier to expand and contract it a bit, 18" breaker bar and my 85kg fully on it.

Guess what happened............


Bolt 1 Me 0


To add insult to injury, the reducing adaptor for the breaker bar to E20 socket completely sheared! It's a Halfords pro advanced one too, so not a garbage silverline and should take the abuse pretty well but WTAF is the breaking torque on one of those buggers!

Changed the pads and moved to the back drivers side wheel, got one of the carrier bolts out and it had 1" of locktite on it...the other refused to come out.... gave up at that point and just did pads all round.

Who locktites carrier bolts that if tightened to spec are already 210Nm anyway!

 

Haha, you are turning it the right way, yeah?

Last time I did a quick brake job it turned into a sheared wheel bolt, specialist tooling, two revisits and caliper rebuild kits!

 

Ate a few chocolate chips in my birthday cake. Now chewing Zofran and Benadryl, hoping no epi shot. I don't remember being this sensitive before.

Also, birthday. They scare/depress me, being terminally ill, even if they are proof of how preternaturally tough I am.

 

My mom was told she has breast cancer also cancer in her lymph node. I am totally gutted and emotionally drained

 

Hurt my throat. Worse part is that my uvula seems to be swollen - It keeps touching the back of my tongue and it's really unpleasant, combined with a sore throat it's just really uncomfortable. I've never had this with my Uvula before, not sure if it's something to worry about as it feels longer since it's swollen.

 

I had that after some surgery as they intubated me. Took all sorts of getting used to, always felt like I had something stuck in my throat. Everything went down just fine. Have a gargle with a salt solution or something more dedicated, like rum...

 

My Crohn's disease is acting up something terrible. Haven't really eaten anything decent in a week. Ugh, I hate this.

On the plus side (If you can call it that), I have surgery booked for december, to remove some of the colon that's diseased. I should hopefully feel much better, once it's gone down.

 

Does it take long to go back to normal?

 

Nah, around a week I think.

I have had it swell up again once since then and that was a mild throat infection that cleared up pretty quickly once I started using Corsodil mouthwash after brushing my teeth. I sometimes get that little ridge behind my top front teeth swelling up as well, normally if I get some food stuck between them and that mouthwash gets brought out again for that, seems to take things down quite nicely, even if it tastes foul.

 

Work, much stupidity and chaos all very mundane and crap

House, sold it had a call this morning to say the buyers found somewhere last week, agents only just telling us now.

Car, front wipers wash function seems totally dead. no jet, no sound from the jet an the wipers arms dont run when the stalks pulled, but they work otherwise.

Great Monday so far

 

A minor annoyance, but an outlay I'd rather not have - my alloys need refurbishing as they no longer seal against the tyres.

 

Overdid things a bit at the weekend. Stripped wallpaper off 90% of a bedroom as well as pulled the carpet, underlay, and gripper rods (gods, I hate those things) up in readiness for laminate flooring. Next day got half the room laid out with underlay.

My back is absolutely screaming, walking is a painful chore due to the twisting, my right palm is bruised from levering up the gripper rods (did I mention how much I hate those things?) but the main thing is my back, painkillers are helping but they work nicely for a while then don't so much fade out as turn off, it's like flipping a lightswitch.

 

At least you might get rid of the Humira

 

I have just had a phone call from my GP and he suspects that I might have Malaria. I think this is a bit fantastical given I haven't been anywhere I might have contracted this for at least 30 years. But he says it can lie dormant and might well have been triggered back into life by my recent cancer treatment. I am not convinced though.

 

I already have

I got septic Arthritis a couple months ago, and they decided to take me off the Humira.

Unfortunately, that's why my symptoms have come back.

I've been given 6MP, but that takes a couple months to kick in.

At least I'm losing weight like no-ones business.