MattPie

It's complaint clearing house here. Can't find skates that fit. Long-term girlfriend is leaving. Slow leak in one of my car tires, so I have to inflate it every couple days. Left my Thermos in Buffalo last visit. I haven't seen a home Sabres game since the late 90s. I've been to several away games though. Too much salt on the roads to ride my bike.

That's surprising, it's rare that I find a laptop here at work of that vintage with a battery that works at all. That sucks. Not that it helps now, Apple's guide to Li-Ion batteries (what just about all electronic devices use these days) is pretty good. You shouldn't discharge them all the time (like the old NiCD and NiMH batteries), but you should discharge them at least every month otherwise the battery loses capacity. Apple explains it better than me: http://www.apple.com/batteries/

The continuing Complaint Thursday Format. I don't want to have to figure out where today's ports start.

I dunno, I was working from a coffee shop on my laptop while my car was being worked on, that was kinda nice rather than rent a car for the day and go into the office.

I haven't been on skates in a long time, but the heat-and-mold ski boots I have are 1000% more comfortable anything I had before them. I have to think someone is doing the same thing with hockey skates.

Perhaps so you don't have 5 people helping you look up answers?

I rode 60 miles in a thunderstorm (I was moving right along with it) on Tuesday and I'm still cold.

I have nothing to complain about. I make enough money to survive well, I have food to eat, and a few people seem to like me (not on here, of course). What more does one really need?

And Black 47? I'm not sure that any of 311's songs qualify as 'catchy' though.

The grass in my yard grows too damn fast. I'm out there cutting it all the freaking time. :)

I use the back-side of a butter knife. No shavings that way!

My complaint is that no one has started this topic already.

Well, what do you expect from the Albanians? :) :) The have them here in the Philly Suburbs and they generally list the time and distance to some exit up ahead. It's really nice since it'll be "Time to US322: 5 miles 6 minutes" if it's clear ahead, or "5 miles 15 minutes" if it's all hosed up. Plus they do announce accidents. My only gripe is they don't always update them quickly, so it'll say there's a problem and I'll be on the back road looking over at an empty highway. :(

I don't doubt it, I've polished off three dozen before. Perhaps not in Buffalo, but you find some rather small wings in other places.

Just keep walking, it's not like they're going to chase you or grab you. It seems rude, but they started it. :)

I could go into a technical explanation on how HD signals require 4x times the bandwidth, and satellites are expensive, but they have something you want, and they can charge you for it. Capitalism, baby.

Before you bag on Toyota (and maybe other manufacturers), you should read this: http://edgehopper.com/what-toyota-knows-that-gm-doesnt/ Executive summary: Toyota hasn't laid any full-timers off in the US since 2006. They have their workers take classes, do drills, etc. in hopes that they'll be productive and happy when the production lines start rolling again. Estimated cost? $50mil, or one CEO golden parachute.

Mine didn't. She was actually up-front and mentioned before we got to them that a few houses were listed by the same agency, not even by her directly. Sounds like you need a better realtor.

I had my bike at a track last week and now riding near the speed limit seems so slow and undramatic.

I hate it when people use a clich?d line incorrectly. :) The phrase is 'queerer than a three dollar bill', because there is a real two-dollar bill.

I live in Philly.