What Annoyed You Today? (1 Viewer)

[Airframes]

Not so much annoyed today, more like 'How to be an Idiot ' !

I was trying to use 'Aperture Priority' on one of the Nikons I got to replace my stolen camera gear, the D80, and couldn't get it to work. All the other Mode functions worked as advertised, via the command dial on the rear of the camera body.
So I tried the other camera, the D90, with the same result.
Strange, thought I, as it always worked on my other Nikon D3100, although I only ever adjusted 'Shutter Priority' on my previous D80.
Thinking it might be something to do with my still stiff and painful hands, I set the cameras down and started to think-through the problem.
Then I saw it - the sub-Command dial on the front of each camera, used to adjust 'Aperture Priority'.!!
(it's on the front to avoid accidental adjustment !)

After banging my head against the wall 20 times whilst uttering "Thy shalt not be a ****ing idiot !", I now have a headache !!!

 

[mikewint]

Terry, take better care of your head, it's not easy to grow a new one

 

[Airframes]

Ah, but it's easy to grow a bl**dy big lump on top of the existing one - as I found out a couple of days back, when I missed the chair, got entangled in the castoring chair legs, and fell sideways, connecting with the edge of the coffee table !
Coffee table = 1 Vs My head = 0.
At least, where there's no sense, there's no feeling !!

 

[at6]

Be more careful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a harder time healing at our age.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Be more careful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a harder time healing at our age.

DITTO!

 

[Airframes]

Yeah, so I've discovered. I keep forgetting that I'm not young, fit Para anymore !

 

[vikingBerserker]

Yikes, please tell me the mustache is ok??????

Seriously take care my friend!

 

[Airframes]

Thanks, but I'm sorry to inform you that I lost the old moustache over a year ago - although I grow it back if I'm going to meet my daughter, as she'd have fit if she saw me without it !!

 

[at6]

Had to empty all of my emails as something brought back ALL of them and so I spent an hour deleting everything.

 

[mikewint]

I'm still pretty agile with chairs though our 1.5 year old German Shepherd has knocked me down twice, once landing hard on my side onto the concrete patio breaking 3 ribs in the process and last month she pulled me into one of the wooden deck support columns wrenching my shoulder and almost dislocating it. Was about three days before I could move it. Been a year and a half since the tree attacked me and the leg is sill not completely healed.

 

[Airframes]

I'm normally fine with chairs, and other inanimate objects, but this one decided to play silly b*ggers.
It's a typical, revolving office chair, although not the normal one I use (the gas strut packed in on that one). As I went to sit down, the seat revolved, and the chair moved sideways, just too late for me to 'correct my aim', as it were. The result was that, instead of sitting down, I caught the edge of the chair, which of course then moved long on its castors, and ended up falling sideways, as one of my feet was now caught under one of the legs !
Unfortunately, the edge of the coffee table was just within the apogee of the arc I described when falling, and made direct and positive contact with the top of my head, causing a gash and momentary unconsciousness. I must have also smacked my left wrist into my mouth, as there are 'teeth shaped' cuts on the top of my wrist, one missing tooth, and another very loose tooth !
If I carry on like this, people will call me Juanita - one tooth, one eater, get it ?
I'll get me coat .......................

 

[Wurger]

Any posibility of getting the chair fixed, Terry?

 

[Airframes]

If you mean the one with the collapsed gas strut, then it will be cheaper to just buy a new chair, which I'll probably do. The one I'm using at the moment, which caused the fall, is normally only used for relatively short periods when spray painting, and isn't that comfortable after a long session sitting on it.

 

[Wurger]

I see. Shame that the fixing is more expensive then a new chair. I hope you can buy the new one for a good price.

 

[mikewint]

Terry, all I can say is:

Any chance you had a home surveillance system running and can post video?

 

[Totalize]

Sloppy accuracy on Revell kits.....

 

[Wayne Little]

Received some product today we had to reject, shrinkwrapping pulled in to tight distorting the shape.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Frost heaving has buckled my garage floor. Now I can't close the door with the remote.

 

[at6]

Frost heaving has buckled my garage floor. Now I can't close the door with the remote.

Living in California, I've never heard of that before. Hope that warmer weather will help or will you have to replace the floor?

 

[mikewint]

Larry, don't want to steal his thunder but a "frost heave" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Liquid water gets under something, the temperature drops and the liquid water freezes, ice expands as it forms, it's why frozen pipes crack. So as the liquid water freezes and expands it pushes up (heaves) on whatever it is under. You see the effects anywhere the temperature falls below the freezing point. Sidewalks heave and crack/tilt, potholes develop in roadways, nails rise up out of wood planks as wet wood freezes and expands, gutters can pull away from roofs and so can siding