What Annoyed You Today?

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I've just found out that the only manual for the Bristol Hercules XVIII available on ebay, for £135, was sold by the same guy who won it in a bid for NINETEEN F*****G POUNDS . And now, a tribute to all price gougers out there:

Just look at this sh*t : bidded manual being resold here.
 
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What annoyed me today?

The fact that I live in a Canadian province run by a hopelessly incompetent or horribly corrupt or maybe both premier who's advised by hopelessly incompetent or horribly corrupt or both public health "experts" who decided to implement (semi)lockdown #3 on the basis of misleading at best or utterly false data at worst.

Welcome to Month 13 of the 15-month mass hysteria cycle. Some time in June the hysteria should finally break, and when it does, I hope it breaks so hard and so completely that these incompetent or corrupt or both "journalists" and politicians and public health bureaucrats who have done so much to fuel the mass hysteria quickly find themselves standing trial at a Nuremberg Trials 2.0.

It's been 75 years since the original. Time for a sequel.
 
Ok, my turn. Changed jobs last year. Hired after a 6 month contract. Resolved a 300,000 USD management issue from 2019 only to be terminated a week later for making the company look bad. Really, I'm not the one that did not know what they were doing. Former employer blocked my unemployment check. Since I walked out twice on them and they talked me in to returning, I was surprised by this. So it is 30 days later and only 4 interviews. Just hit 60 so I think I am not going to find much. The only interest has been in commission only insurance sells and the wife has said no to that. The only good thing was watching 4 Tora birds flying formations around the house for two days. Keep hoping to see Texas Raider. She is about 15 minutes down the street. Another note, Lone Star Flight Museum is not renewing memberships at this time. At lease Air Classics is printing again.
 
When you hit 60 the options become fewer and fewer. At 62, I went 18 months with one interview and decided to just hang it up and take early Social Security. You are still too young for that option and I hope that you can find something soon. I haven't worked at a job in 9 1/2 years but volunteer work in a no kill animal shelter is more rewarding than slaving away to make some a$$hole rich anyway. I was always loyal and tried to give 150 percent at work and once they have used you up, they toss you like yesterday's tampon.
 
I was with an insurance company for 12 years a while back. It was sold after the owner was killed in a car accident. The new owners promised to pay laid off workers 2 weeks for every year with the company. At 12 years, I was a new guy. There were ladies that had worked 20 years years and never worked anywhere else. We all got 2 weeks and were laid off over a 2 year period. The accounts were all moved to another city. THe sales department was the first to go. When sales dropped to 0.00 they justified to 2 week package. What a life. I will have to raid the retirement fund next month. It is bad when I cannot get a job in retale. I was told that I would not be hired because I would just quite once I found better paying job. This was after 6 months of not working. My small business use to cover the house note. COVID has killed that off. ANyone want to buy an extended warranty for their car ?
 
Work. My bay has become the dumping ground for everybody else's crap to the point that I can't maneuver a forklift or even get to my racks to change them out when they need refilling. Then the powers that be decided that the aisle would be a great place to kit stuff up for shipment. Total gridlock!
 
Suggested by a a college kid efficiency "expert"?
 
I noted the hydraulic clutch on my Toyota pickup was leaking a few months back. I ordered a new clutch slave cylinder and a new clutch master cylinder from Rock Auto, figuring that covered the possible failure modes. I put the slave cylinder on first and that seemed to fix it but yesterday it became obvious that the master cylinder was leaking. So this morning I decided that I would install the master cylinder, made by "Platinum Driveline."

Got the old one off and found that on the new one the "yoke" that attaches to the pedal was too large to fit through the hole in the firewall. I put the yoke off the old one on it and bolted it in. Eventually I found out that the mating surface for the clutch fluid line was deformed on the new master cylinder and would not seal. So it goes back to Rock Auto and it will cost me $6.95 to ship it back.

This is the second time Rock Auto has shipped me a bad hydraulic clutch part. I guess it is time to give up on them. And I may have deformed the fitting on the line so badly that I'll have to buy a new line, too. And just like my last truck, I guess I'll have to give up and buy a new clutch master cylinder from Toyota.
 

I recall going to a home improvement store in Melbourne, before we got a Home Depot near where I live. I was trying to carry some rolls of fence wire to the check-out and was unable to get the cart there easily because they were using the center of aisles as storage for orders that were waiting to be picked up. The store employees laughed at me as I tried to get past all that stuff blocking my way. I was so happy when they went out of business!
 
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