Venting Thread

[dovecanyoncat]

Cats are evil. They're gatekeepers to the underworld. Kittens are adorable, but it's an ephemeral nature because they grow up to be cats.

[UAEebs86]

Re: Cats

Never have a roommate that has an attitude that doesn't pay rent.

[azgreg]

Looks like we might have committed a $300,000 blunder at work.

[UAdevil]

Ouch!

[Merkin]

Looks like we might have committed a $300,000 blunder at work.

"We" meaning "I"?

Cats are evil. They're gatekeepers to the underworld. Kittens are adorable, but it's an ephemeral nature because they grow up to be cats.

There is a reason old horror movies the witches have cats.

[azgreg]

Looks like we might have committed a $300,000 blunder at work.

"We" meaning "I"?

No, We made some parts that required the material be ultrasonic inspected prior to machining. It wasn't done.

[dovecanyoncat]

Every single fucking brick and mortar restaurant's website should have the hours/days of operation emblazoned across the to top. End of story. Full Stop.

Forcing you to hunt around for hours of operation is just lame.

[Chicat]

Every single fucking brick and mortar restaurant's website should have the hours/days of operation emblazoned across the to top. End of story. Full Stop.

Forcing you to hunt around for hours of operation is just lame.

I like it when they forget to update their hours on Google and Facebook.

[azgreg]

My car needs an engine.

[azgreg]

Car shopping is a ginormous pain in the ass.

[Merkin]

HMOs can be great since your overall expenses are very low, esp when you age or have family with health issues, but I am constantly fighting to get things covered.

Took me 2 months to get my Shingrix vaccine covered for each shot. It was denied 3 times due to various extremely minor reasons.

Now they refuse to cover my anesthesia for a recent colonoscopy. Who in the world can have a colonoscopy with no anesthesia?

They just deny so many things, and hope that eventually you will give up.

[dovecanyoncat]

HMOs can be great since your overall expenses are very low, esp when you age or have family with health issues, but I am constantly fighting to get things covered.

Took me 2 months to get my Shingrix vaccine covered for each shot. It was denied 3 times due to various extremely minor reasons.

Now they refuse to cover my anesthesia for a recent colonoscopy. Who in the world can have a colonoscopy with no anesthesia?

They just deny so many things, and hope that eventually you will give up.

It's no help to you now, but the anesthesiologist probably wasn't in the same network as the gastroenterologist. Then you'll find out the pathology, if needed, wasn't scheduled with an in-network lab.

[UAEebs86]

HMOs can be great since your overall expenses are very low, esp when you age or have family with health issues, but I am constantly fighting to get things covered.

Took me 2 months to get my Shingrix vaccine covered for each shot. It was denied 3 times due to various extremely minor reasons.

Now they refuse to cover my anesthesia for a recent colonoscopy. Who in the world can have a colonoscopy with no anesthesia?

They just deny so many things, and hope that eventually you will give up.

It's no help to you now, but the anesthesiologist probably wasn't in the same network as the gastroenterologist. Then you'll find out the pathology, if needed, wasn't scheduled with an in-network lab.

It's such bullshit that this happens over and over and over again.

Both my kids births, the anesthesiologist was out of network. I'm supposed to ask when my wife is in pain and needs her epidural now if they are in our fucking network?

Everyone practicing in a particular medical facility should take the same insurances.

That's our exceptional American healthcare for you.

[dovecanyoncat]

HMOs can be great since your overall expenses are very low, esp when you age or have family with health issues, but I am constantly fighting to get things covered.

Took me 2 months to get my Shingrix vaccine covered for each shot. It was denied 3 times due to various extremely minor reasons.

Now they refuse to cover my anesthesia for a recent colonoscopy. Who in the world can have a colonoscopy with no anesthesia?

They just deny so many things, and hope that eventually you will give up.

It's no help to you now, but the anesthesiologist probably wasn't in the same network as the gastroenterologist. Then you'll find out the pathology, if needed, wasn't scheduled with an in-network lab.

It's such bullshit that this happens over and over and over again.

Both my kids births, the anesthesiologist was out of network. I'm supposed to ask when my wife is in pain and needs her epidural now if they are in our fucking network?

Everyone practicing in a particular medical facility should take the same insurances.

That's our exceptional American healthcare for you.

Totally agree. It's appalling. And then it can become weirder and more incomprehensible: I don't know how many times (at least four iirc) I have chased down a billing error and called a lab or a provider to get the bill reworked, and after renegotiating a lower cost ..... they never resend the new bill!!!!! One place I called twice after waiting and waiting, and finally just gave up. It's as if they're making so much $ they won't bother to follow up. Lazy corrupt fucks.

[azgreg]

Looks like we might have committed a $300,000 blunder at work.

Looks like I might have saved these parts. Should know by the end of the week.

[legallykenny]

Looks like we might have committed a $300,000 blunder at work.

At least you aren’t the guy at Citibank who fat fingered $900 million.

[legallykenny]

Dear god the LA housing market is out of control. How do normal people live in this city?

[pc in NM]

Dear god the LA housing market is out of control. How do normal people live in this city?

1 They live in houses without furniture

2 They live in vehicles

3 They live under bridges

[Merkin]

Dear god the LA housing market is out of control. How do normal people live in this city?

1 They live in houses without furniture

2 They live in vehicles

3 They live under bridges

Even in the Bay Area. People living in RVs in Mountain View.

[UAEebs86]

That's the price of living in paradise.

[legallykenny]

Dear god the LA housing market is out of control. How do normal people live in this city?

1 They live in houses without furniture

2 They live in vehicles

3 They live under bridges

Even in the Bay Area. People living in RVs in Mountain View.

The tent city on the VA lawn and along San Vicente in Brentwood is unreal.

[UAdevil]

Wow.

[EastCoastCat]

I grew up about a mile from there and when I was back there for my father’s funeral in December I said the same thing.

I couldn’t believe it, especially the surreal juxtaposition of the tent city on San Vicente sidewalk and then you curve around the bend and end up in one of the most expensive, high rent neighborhoods in the country.

For the record, Vicente Foods has to be the most expensive grocery store in the world.

[Chicat]

I looked up my old house in Downey and it’s worth $1.5M according to Zillow, which I guess isn’t bad for a 5 bed/3 bath with a pool. When we left in ‘88 I bet we sold it for like $325k.

[UAEebs86]

I looked up my parents old house is Duarte (near Arcadia, Azusa) 4 bed, 3 bath, less than 1700 square feet, up to $812,000. My mom sold it for $600,000 about 5 years ago. They paid about $140,000 in 1981 and I thought that was insane LOL. (Houses in Arizona were about 60,000 - 70,000 back then)

[Merkin]

I live in an old 1959 1800 sq ft tract home in northern Santa Barbara county in the cheapest neighborhood in the area. Zillow says it is worth $538K. Bought it for $216K in 2001. My prior 1300 sq ft house I paid $135K for in 1990 and sold for $159K in 2001 is now worth $423K.

The tent city on the VA lawn and along San Vicente in Brentwood is unreal.

Amazing. Has quite a history.

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater ... terans-row

[EastCoastCat]

I looked up my old house in Downey and it’s worth $1.5M according to Zillow, which I guess isn’t bad for a 5 bed/3 bath with a pool. When we left in ‘88 I bet we sold it for like $325k.

I have a funny story about Downey. When I was “younger” I went home with a girl who lived there. I woke up the next morning in her apartment and she had left for work and I had no way of getting home (this was way before Uber). I called up a friend and he says to me “wtf are you doing in Downey??!!”. Still a running joke to this day.

[azgreg]

Just looked at my house on Zillow. I live in a modest 3 bedroom 2 bath 1480 sq ft house in a basic middle class neighborhood in N Phoenix near ASU West campus. We bought it 25 years ago for $84,000 and Zillow estimates it $302,000. Crazy.

[Chicat]

I looked up my old house in Downey and it’s worth $1.5M according to Zillow, which I guess isn’t bad for a 5 bed/3 bath with a pool. When we left in ‘88 I bet we sold it for like $325k.

I have a funny story about Downey. When I was “younger” I went home with a girl who lived there. I woke up the next morning in her apartment and she had left for work and I had no way of getting home (this was way before Uber). I called up a friend and he says to me “wtf are you doing in Downey??!!”. Still a running joke to this day.

When I lived there (82-88) it was described as “a rose in a toilet bowl”. No idea what it’s like now. It might be the toilet bowl.

[scumdevils86]

The house my mom grew up in was built in 1963 in Corte Madera in Marin County on the north side of the Golden Gate. It was sold when her dad died in 1993 for something like 200-250k. It's worth close to $1.8M now. For a 58 year old 3 bed 2 bath 1700 sq ft ranch house. It was a regular middle to lower middle class suburb in the 60s and 70s.

[Merkin]

The blue house was where I lived in San Francisco where I rented the top flat in 1985/6 when I graduated from UA and was hired by PG&E. This is in The Sunset, on the far west foggy side of the city.

At the time, homes in that neighborhood were going for $250K. Many of the homes being sold were to the Chinese who were leaving Hong Kong before Britain turned the island over to China, so even then we thought the home prices were inflated for that reason.

Look at them now.

[UAdevil]

So my chihuahua mix just got attacked by a big pit bull. At the emergency vet. Does not look good. Fuck.

[Alieberman]

So my chihuahua mix just got attacked by a big pit bull. At the emergency vet. Does not look good. Fuck.

Oh shit.... I'm so sorry. That's horrible

Hoping for the best.

[UAEebs86]

Damnit R. that sucks. Hope the vets can save your pup.

[84Cat]

So my chihuahua mix just got attacked by a big pit bull. At the emergency vet. Does not look good. Fuck.

So sorry to hear this. I hope he gets better

[dovecanyoncat]

I feel for you and your friend. When I was a kid one of the most traumatic things for me was when my dog got torn up in a fight. Dogs deserve better.

[Chicat]

Dammit, I am so sorry that happened. Hoping like hell your pup is ok.

[azgreg]

Hope your dog is OK boss.

[UAdevil]

Pupster is stable. No major vessels involved. Vet is very concerned about depth of some puncture wounds on her chest that may have gone into the chest cavity. They ha e to surgically explore the wounds and clean and close her up. Even if nothing else is found to be wrong I'm looking at a $4k vet bill, while not working. Lovely.

Thanks for the kind words folks.

[dovecanyoncat]

Good to hear. Good thing the UA president wasn't involved.

[UAEebs86]

Great news!

[UAdevil]

Pupster may have gotten lucky. Looks like no broken bones or punctures to her chest or abdominal cavities. She's getting loads of pain meds and antibiotics overnight. They will clean her wounds again in the morning and stitch her up. She may get to come home tomorrow afternoon. She'll be sore as hell for a while and I'll have to monitor her closely for a few weeks, but the news looks pretty good at this point.

[Chicat]

That sounds like about the best news you could have gotten. Bear Down Pup!

[Alieberman]

Any pup updates Devil-

So relieved she’s going to make it! But vet bills are always awful especially emergencies.

Was the dog that attacked out loose or were owners there... or do you know who owner is?

[UAdevil]

We were on a walk in the neighborhood, about 2 houses down from us. Someone was coming out their door right as we were going by and this huge pit bum rushed out the door and just grabbed my 17lb dog and tried to run with it. The owner burst out of the house and tackled his dog which after 5-6 seconds released my dog. They've already put that dog down and have offered to help with the bills. We'll see on that.

[Alieberman]

We were on a walk in the neighborhood, about 2 houses down from us. Someone was coming out their door right as we were going by and this huge pit bum rushed out the door and just grabbed my 17lb dog and tried to run with it. The owner burst out of the house and tackled his dog which after 5-6 seconds released my dog. They've already put that dog down and have offered to help with the bills. We'll see on that.

That is scary as hell. It does sound like the neighbors are taking responsibility so that's a positive. Is your pup still at vet?

[UAdevil]

Yeah, she may be able to come home today if all goes well. She'll be hurting for a while.

[scumdevils86]

Glad to hear she's doing better. That's our greatest fear with our chihuahua.

[UAdevil]

Pup made it out of surgery ok. She gets to come home this afternoon. Lots of aftercare unfortunately. Things like wounds draining and such. But overall much better outlook. When that pit bull had my entire dog in it's mouth...I assumed she was gone right then and there.

[azgreg]

Great news boss!