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A couple days ago I was swapping out my GPU. As I was carefully removing the glass side cover, it basically exploded in my hands. I don’t even know how.

There’s glass all over the room and I’m bleeding from the little shards that hit my hands and arms. Every time I think I got all the glass I find another piece. I finally get it all, replace the GPU and fire up the PC.

I hear crunching sounds that seem like they’re coming from the fans on the front. I shut down so I can vacuum out the remaining shards. As I’m taking off the glass front cover, that shit slips out of my fingers and fucking shatters on the floor.

I couldn’t do anything but laugh at that point. I cleaned up again and decided I’m not going anywhere today because it’s one of those fucking days.

5 minutes into my shift the other day I took a hydraulic shower because some dingleberry didn't report an accident where they broke a hydraulic hose on their forklift

They just parked it, grabbed a different forklift, then finished their shift

Then I came in to do my forklift inspections and got blasted with hydraulic fluid from the severed hose the moment I started my testing

So I had to fill out a shit ton of additional paperwork and scrub all the fluid off of me with the soap we had available (foaming hand soap)

I'm just happy that I had extra clothes in my car because if I didn't that would have really ruined my day

All in all, a really shitty way to start a Friday

Wife had an important conversation with her adult son. One of those, "I didn't tell you this before because you were a kid; you are clearly an adult now. There are things in family history that you should know."

Went well. I wasn't there because I'm not blood and wasn't around for the relevant events. Besides, they need time without step-dad.

Spent entire day worried for them and hoping it would go well. Sounds like it did. Good outcome for a kind of draining, high-stakes day.

Welp, I woke up again.

Just yesterday, work was not going very well, and I received a phone call from my mother saying my sister had a fever. I was supposed to spend New Year's with them, so those plans were canceled.

It's ok, I went shopping, got a massive amount of snacks and food and am going to have an amazing New Year's Eve by myself, and nobody can stop me. Plus some friends invited me to play video games online with them and I rarely ever have the time, so that's going to be fun.

It happened over two days.

Thursday 2 weeks ago I got laid off due to the economic environment.

The stock market hit a new record high that day.

The next day a grant I got one of my programs named in came through for 80k. Between that and my other program revenue, I’d have been fully paying for myself the next 2 years.

Well, I flew back from the holiday break at my mom's house. It was stressful and not relaxing because she's getting up there in age and there was a lot of stuff I needed to do with her.

Anyway, a few things happened with getting home that made the trip longer. Had to check in my carry-on at the gate because no room, so I had to wait for my bag to come through on carousel. Then, I had to walk 20 minutes to where my car was parked, because I took the cheap park-and-walk option like a chump. Finally got to my car, but by the time it was evening traffic, so it took me 45 minutes to get home.

I pull into the garage and am getting my bags out of the trunk, when my neighbor comes up with a cheery "hi!". Then she rails into me about how much she hates my dog barking, and that it's been 2 years of my dog barking, and I'm super inconsiderate because I don't bring him in after he barks twice, like she does with hers, and all the neighbors think the same. Also, she rents another house close by with tenants who work night shift and go to sleep at 2am, so my dog barking at 9am is also inconsiderate.

I was so fucking tired. This dumbass lady... I hadn't even been living here for two years. Her dog barks a ton, my dog sometimes replies to her dog barking. My dog barks but not for hours on end, just a normal amout before I get him in, which is a fucking miracle in itself because he's a great pyrenees. I've spoken to the neighbors, none of them think my dog barks too much, and how tf am I supposed to know you rent to night dwellers?? Tell them to get a fucking noise machine and put it on blast while they sleep, it's fucking 9am, there's a shit ton of noise everywhere. They're replacing the roof two houses down and start at 6, the day time is fucking loud. Also, lady, I haven't been home for a week. DO YOU SEE THE SUITCASE IVE PULLED OUT OF THE CAR??

What I said though is "thanks for letting me know, have a good day."

3 days ago. Main drain pipe for the house clogged. Poo water came up both shower drains. We had the house cleaned that morning. Toilets unusable for most of the day. $800 to get it fixed due to complications because of old house. At least it was fixed same day I guess.

... diarrhea

Yesterday I had a major "I am living in a movie and I'm the character everyone loves when bad things happens to them" vibes

Cause I woke up yesterday and a not insignificant chunk of my electonics were broken/nonfunctional.. Some of them werent even plugged in, so its not like it was a power issue or something.

They were all bought at different times, from different stores, and different brands. The only thread tying them all together (and this is where the movie character shit kicks in) is that all their warranties expired within like 2 weeks of eachother, Which means they all just fell out of warranty.

The Few replies from the various companies I've gotten so far can be basically summed up as "1 day out of warranty is still out of warranty, go fuck yourself"

It sounds so ridiculous that even I don't believe it, and I'm living it. Do they just put kill switches in stuff to make them die immediately after warranty now? Cause I sure as fuck feel like they do.

A colleague dropped about 450 kg of ready to use drywall filler from 6m height right before his shift ended and mine started. I spent about 8 hours just cleaning up the biggest blobs with a snow shovel, that's how much it was.

This was maybe a month or two ago. I was woken up in the morning by my fiancée who told me I'd left the fridge open over night. When I logged onto work HR informed me the day of annual leave I had carried over was lost due to technical reasons (cut off to take was end of march, I took it first day of April due to work time prrssures. They have no flexibility on rules), then a major headache kicked up from a new keto diet I was on. Then to top it off, I was selling my car, and someone was coming round to look. As I loved it put from the driveway to viewing it sprang a massive oil leak, like 10 mins before they showed up. So they viewed it spewing oil everywhere, not exactly a solid selling point. Needless to say they didn't buy it.

All in one day. That was a shit day for sure.

Covid. Can’t see friends that just arrived for nye

I was visiting family for Thanksgiving. While we were watching the news, my father and his mother got into a massive argument over politics. It got so bad that I had to go upstairs and ride it out. It was an immensely stressful expirence for me, and I hope it never happens again.

All in the same day:

• I was very sick and exhausted
• My venue/the only practice space in the city announced it was shutting down
• Batshit tweaker neighbor bugged out and forced my partner and I to barricade ourselves inside
• Cops came and suggested we seek a restraining order
• Half a bottle of coquito got spilled

I went to open a can of frozen lemonade concentrate and the plastic strip holding the lid snapped off in the first 2 inches.

I spent half the day in the bomb shelter and the other half losing at cards.

Neighbors showing their unneighborly side again. The people here have a saying, "a cat giving birth to her kittens in the oven doesn't make them biscuits", meaning you're not viewed as one of the community members unless you and the generations before you were raised there. And they somehow think that's a virtue.