Complaint Thursdays

[Jorcus]

On 8/14/2025 at 10:35 PM, Porous Five Hole said:

I have a bat in the house 🤬

I’m up at the family cottage and the place has 24 foot high ceilings. The mud and tape at the seam of the ceiling has come loose and this thing (we’ve named him Swoop) is currently wedged where the seam got loose. This thing was flying around the living room an hour ago.
 I guess I’m going to leave the screen doors open and hope he finds his way out before I wake up tomorrow 🦇

 

If you have some kind of spotlight that you can put on outside.  When it gets dark turn off all lights inside open the doors and put light on outside. I would stay in the room and watch for the bat to find it's way out then close the door. The outside light draws the bugs and the bat will go after them. Good luck. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Jorcus

[mjd1001]

The language that seems to be more and more common in public:

-About a month ago, my wife and I were out to eat a quick-service mexican place (kinda like Chipotle but a local one).  We sat in a booth, and right next to us 4 guys (probably 30-40 years old) sat down. No problem, no issue.  I think they worked together...maybe security, maybe corrections, maybe even law enforcement.  Again, no problem..yet.  Then they started talking...one guy, its seemed like every single adjective and adverb was replaced by a version of f**k.  When he talked it was something like..." It was f****n strange.  I got out of my f*****n truck  and I went him and the f*****n door wasn't locked so I f*****n pulled out my f*****n phone to call my wife, and she said everything was f****n OK she was just in the f*****n backyard."   The guy wasn't mad, wasn't angry, but that is just how he talked, about everything.

Now earlier this week it was a little cooler so we were out to eat again, this time we sat outside at a place on picnic tables, and the people next to us, probably a group of 5 or 6 poeple...mix of men and women probably 25-35 years old...and a different guy from above is talking the same way.  Not angry, not talking about an emotional topic...just that is how he talked. And we are right outside on the sidewalk, there are families and little kids going by occasionally, but this is just how he talked.

I'm noticing it more and more often in recent years.  I guess we can complain about things about everyone, but this just seems....out of place and happening more and more often.

[Pimlach]

2 hours ago, Weave said:

I base 4yrs on my projection of where my retirement savings will be, when I clear my debt, and how long I will be paying for 100% of my health insurance.

I haven’t done a detailed study but Ive made some estimates of what my budget will look like.  I will probably do a trial run of living at that budget for a year or two first before pulling the trigger.

I do plan to do something part time at first.  I have an idea or two in mind.  I have grown quite weary of corporate life and have to actively fight the urge to say “Im done” these days.

I was in the same boat with corporate life, and I was one of the exec's.   I did not want to stain a good career so I moved on.  

Sounds like you are doing the right preparations.