I've never looked through my wife's phone. I've made a few calls using it, but that's it.
Maybe I am overreacting or something, but I just don't see how you can hide things from loved ones and call it a healthy relationship.
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Maybe I am overreacting or something, but I just don't see how you can hide things from loved ones and call it a healthy relationship.
It's not, that's why i said they were both wrong.
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My rant is about work. My shop has for people who work on bench, answer phones, and go on road-trips to fix airplanes.
Our sister shop, located elsewhere, has fourteen techs who work bench, and nothing else.
They have something like twenty items in shop, where our count is somewhere around 160.
The boss doesn't seem to understand our frustration with this disparity, and doesn't appear to be ready to try to balance things...
I think I may just have to start seriously looking for another career.
Our sister shop, located elsewhere, has fourteen techs who work bench, and nothing else.
They have something like twenty items in shop, where our count is somewhere around 160.
The boss doesn't seem to understand our frustration with this disparity, and doesn't appear to be ready to try to balance things...
I think I may just have to start seriously looking for another career.
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I'd hide tech from the Vulcan. Not because of what's on a phone, tablet or e-reader, but he is capable of doing a factory reset or messing up something else without meaning to. I complained here once, and got the reply "never let an engineer touch it"
I don't touch his computer or phone unless he needs something fixed. He won't touch mine. The desktop is Linux, the laptop has too many filters, and he doesn't get the Android.
He never did learn to double click with a Wacom tablet.
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As far as my fiancée and myself are concerned - we do everything together (I'm still trying to get her to join AF).
We hide nothing from one another. We're both from the last generation of old school (I'm 53, and was raised by parents that were 30 + years my senior; my fiancée's mother, 25 years).
We trust each other, but we don't trust many people in American society. It's sad to be that way, but once bitten - twice shy.
She knows all of my emails and passwords, and I, hers. She was once stalked by a guy she gave Remote Access to on a Winblows PC running XP. I've put paid to that, as all of the nifty features in Win 10 are turned off, uninstalled, and only basic data goes to Microsoft for updates.
Our new computer is registered under pseudonyms, and all email accounts and social stuff - ditto. All the old ones were deactivated from a different computer and IP address.
We love each other. I finally bought her a very nice ring. We're moving to Colorado.
Starting fresh.
LW
We hide nothing from one another. We're both from the last generation of old school (I'm 53, and was raised by parents that were 30 + years my senior; my fiancée's mother, 25 years).
We trust each other, but we don't trust many people in American society. It's sad to be that way, but once bitten - twice shy.
She knows all of my emails and passwords, and I, hers. She was once stalked by a guy she gave Remote Access to on a Winblows PC running XP. I've put paid to that, as all of the nifty features in Win 10 are turned off, uninstalled, and only basic data goes to Microsoft for updates.
Our new computer is registered under pseudonyms, and all email accounts and social stuff - ditto. All the old ones were deactivated from a different computer and IP address.
We love each other. I finally bought her a very nice ring. We're moving to Colorado.
Starting fresh.
LW
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When working at my desk in the evening, and see something moving in the corner of my eye, and it's a great big locust crawling across the desk....YUCK!
New York apparently has alligators in the sewers, Jinan probably has giant grasshoppers living in the sewers.
New York apparently has alligators in the sewers, Jinan probably has giant grasshoppers living in the sewers.
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My very expensive cordless mouse won't connect to the transceiver.
I'm not happy about this.
I'm not happy about this.
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People who don't even want to stop for pedestrians. At work, another lady & I usually take a little walk, & we have to cross a 2 Lane, 30mph street to get to the trail. She's always tentative about crossing, because I swear some cars see you're about to step into the crosswalk so they speed up.
If they're at least a half block away, I just go - because I figure hey, I'm in the crosswalk! I also keep an eye on them until they've stopped so I can be sure I'm not going to get run over. But I'm not a slow poke, & I'm not going to stare them down while crossing, that's just weird!
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Psh, I don't even care anymore... go ahead, hit me! Unless it's a half-ton or heavier, I'm likely to do more damage to them than they to me.
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At least they're using the crosswalks. Around here certain people like to walk down the middle of the street, then give you dirty looks when they have to move over. Use the sidewalk or get run over, idiots!
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Here jaywalking is a national past-time, although it's supposed to be prohibited, as well as sometimes driving on the wrong side of the road, as well as ignoring stop signs and red lights. And in most cities now they've put fences up in the middle of main roads, where jaywalking is illegal, to prevent pedestrians from doing it. Eye contact with other road users is often avoided in China, you just go and damn the consequences usually, e.g. doing a U-turn. But then motor transport like cars for many people, is something that's relatively new to this country, <35 years. Previously you just rode your black Flying Pigeon or Shanghai Phoenix roadster bicycle where and how you liked, and none really cared.
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People who can't admit they are wrong. They'll argue until the sky looks green instead of blue. You'll let them be right just to shut them up!
No matter the facts, the irrefutable details, they'll insist on being right. It's more of a headache than it's worth to keep it up.
"Sure, you're right. Yes of course the earth is flat. Can we move on now?"
No matter the facts, the irrefutable details, they'll insist on being right. It's more of a headache than it's worth to keep it up.
"Sure, you're right. Yes of course the earth is flat. Can we move on now?"
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Narcissism.
There's also Vulcanism of the Star Trek variety. If it can't be proven scientifically to a Vulcan's specifications, it doesn't compute.
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My rant for today is on behalf of my daughter. She & her boyfriend bought a house together a couple years ago, but their relationship has been a tumultuous one because he's an alcoholic. She finally seems serious about breaking up with him but the house situation needs to be resolved. I just want my baby girl to be happy & I wish I could magically fix this for her.
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My sympathies. You can't fix, only help out and support the doubts. Keep that up, she'll need it.
Our kid married and divorced twice. No house and no kids fortunately. We got the cats and ferrets. First husband made her feel stupid (he was a geek), second one she made him feel stupid and he had a domineering mother. This one seems to be treating her as an equal. This one is an Englishman and she moved to the UK. So far, so good.
Our kid married and divorced twice. No house and no kids fortunately. We got the cats and ferrets. First husband made her feel stupid (he was a geek), second one she made him feel stupid and he had a domineering mother. This one seems to be treating her as an equal. This one is an Englishman and she moved to the UK. So far, so good.
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As a parent who compartmentalized my 'road musician' lifestyle, kept my bad habits away from home, while my ex lived her life drinking a minimum of twelve beers a night, while we were caregivers for my late grandfather, who lived to the age of ninety (d. 1996); my mother had an intracranial bleed in November, Thanksgiving Eve, 1989 ; we took her off of 'life support', after doctors told us she wouldn't last much longer - to our surprise, she awoke, badly damaged from a stroke that had nearly crushed her brain stem. She rallied until 1991, when a Teflon treatment to her tracheotomy failed miserably, and she nearly drowned in her secretions; of course, they ruled it 'respiratory failure', as she emerged in a vegetative state, until her death from a massive infection in 1998. I've seen death take its time, as well as happen in one month, after a cancer diagnosis to my father in December, 2005; he died January 18th, 2006.
Through all of that, my ex-wife and I raised two children. Our relationship went from bad to worse, and the kids, oddly enough, took their mother's side, once they learned that Dad had a separate life as a 'party man' while doing his musical career, and that their father had been diabetic all of his life, yet kept it hidden. Not to mention that he suffered from mental illness, for most of his life.
My kids went haywire. My oldest, started using drugs, and drinking alcohol in his teens. My youngest, began using drugs and engaging in sexual promiscuity well before her age of consent.
Long story short, @PattiCakeUS, @zuben el genub is entirely correct. All that you can do is give support where needed, with no judgement trump of any kind on your part. Yes, it is heart-wrenching - watching one of your progeny go through what you described. At least, you weren't a 'ringmaster' like my ex and I had been.
Now, I hear stories about my alcoholic ex that should make me feel better about how my behavior, though surreptitious and bad, wasn't as heinous as my ex's continual drinking in our home. Yet, when the kids found out about me, it was just as...
I have forgiven myself. I've tried to make amends, where I could - for the hiding of my insulin-dependence, my own mental health history, and drug abuse. I now only wish the best for my former partners-in-crime, and hope for a better future for my adult children. I wish only the best for you and yours, @PattiCakeUS - now, I've got one more thing to work upon - my trust in my fellow human beings. I'm a cancer survivor. I live with type 1 diabetes (Bret Michaels has taught me life lessons). I struggle with anxiety, panic attacks and depression.
I will continue. Your daughter will, too, @PattiCakeUS.
LW (here's a picture of me, trying to seed the clouds with safe, max vegetable glycerin e-liquid
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The first time I saw someone vaping with a car window open, I wondered what the hell was the matter with the car. Usually stuff comes out of the tailpipes.
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I'm waiting for someone to get in a fender-bender because they were blinded by 'vapor'...
I'm annoyed by people who use that stuff in buildings: I choose not to breath your habit, please refrain from pushing it into my air space.
Bear in mind, that's not a criticism directed at you, LW...
I'm annoyed by people who use that stuff in buildings: I choose not to breath your habit, please refrain from pushing it into my air space.
Bear in mind, that's not a criticism directed at you, LW...
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Had a guy cut me off in traffic this morning, then at the next light he jumped out of his car and threatened violence. WTF?
I've been procrastinating getting my Nevada CCW too long...I need to go get it already.
I've been procrastinating getting my Nevada CCW too long...I need to go get it already.
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@Dngrsone, the e-liquid that I 'vape' with is made here in the USA, and contains none of the bad chems you may find in the cheaper, overseas e-liquids.
Even so, I wouldn't go into an office building, and exhale vapor clouds like you saw in the picture; that's just bad form, and makes it more difficult for us vaping people in the public opinion perspective.
Though, I have snuck a vape in a grocery store... not a cloud seeder like in the picture, but just a quick puff.
The nicotine level in my e-liquid is only 6 mg - the equivalent of a smoker with an eight cigarette a day habit - what gets emitted from my mouth is actually less than what a guy who dips snuff, or chews tobacco breathes out, while in public.
What I emit dissipates quickly, and contains no tar. Yes, the vape people who use RDAs (rebuildable drip atomizers) that use unregulated box mods (potential Lithium-Ion bombs) that you see at the vapor expos, and on YouTube, don't give us good media coverage.
Yet, my doctors consider me a non-smoker, and my lungs are 'back in the pink'. That's something, huh?
LW
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I like the dash cam idea. Weapons that fire bullets may be good for home invasion protection (we have a registered handgun); yet, if you look at the statistics for people with CCWs (it increases gun violence - sad, but true) - what I mean to write, is, people drive like idiots, and worse - but, people with CCWs can get angry, too.
Thoughts to ponder.
LW
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But my concern is that this guy was the one losing his temper, and he was coming at me. I was boxed in and could not drive off. If he could have broken through the window he would have had a physical advantage over me. I should have every ability to protect my own safety and that of any occupants I might have(in this case I was alone).
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I suppose vaping is better than "coal rollers"
We seem to have a bunch around here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-purposely-making-cars-spew-black-smoke-2014-7
We seem to have a bunch around here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-purposely-making-cars-spew-black-smoke-2014-7
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