First World Problems

[protege]

The new HO scale hopper car I bought the other day...came with plastic wheels instead of metal ones. Sooo there's another trip to the hobby shop in my future

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I would love to get rid of these seasonal allergies. *sneeze*

[smileyeagle1021]

Desert boy disagreeing with you here. AC is the way to go. At least in Phoenix, and here's why: during the two months when it gets mildly humid (August and September), swamp coolers are utterly useless.

Also, it's been my experience that AC is just better all around and keeps the place cooler. At least central AC does. Of course, it's a matter of personal preference, and Reno may be different than Phoenix when it comes to the first part of my comments.

Reno's humid months are December and January, in the summer it varies from merely dry to being about as humid as Mars.

Other first World problems... deleting paragraphs to do the quote just of what I want is more difficult on a tablet than PC.... Also swype doesn't recognize PC.

[darkroxas45]

I somehow cut a chunk from my finger opening my Xbox 360 [just removed the faceplate)

[Tama]

Ouch...what do they make those faceplates out of?

[darkroxas45]

Ouch...what do they make those faceplates out of?

I don't know. I don't even know how I cut it

[mathnerd]

I keep getting flustered because of the differences between PC's and my new macbook.

ETA: I'm super happy to have a macbook, but various keyboard/mousepad habits are hard to break.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

Somewhat off topic but are you getting the hang of driving the automatic yet?

[mathnerd]

Kinda sorta. I still don't like it when it shifts when it wants to instead of when I want it to, and haven't quite gotten to where I know how to manipulate the gas pedal to get it closer to what I want, though I'm getting better. I still try to push in the clutch and forget to put it in park before I turn off the ignition every blasted time. And the few times I've had to maneuver quickly, I've tried to press the clutch in before I remembered there wasn't one, but at least i'm not doing that anymore when trying to start the engine.

[Deserted]

Back on topic: I can't believe I left that strap on a passenger's chair. Replacement cost came out of my pocket.

[strawbabies]

I only have one Tazo earl gray tea sachet left from Starbucks. I'm going to have to make my lattes from frigging Tazo earl gray tea bags.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Presently neither my Xbox 360 nor my PS4 seem to be able to connect to their respective networks.

The problem isn't with the router here at the house. Every other device is able to connect to it without issue and gets a strong signal and can connect to the Internet. And even when I do reset the router, the problems persist.

The PS4 can't seem to get a strong connection, however, as the connection speed can be measured in single-digit Kb. Every time I try to connect to download a needed update for a game or for the system, it starts out strong enough, and then drops. I had to dig out a mobile Wifi hotspot device I have, and set it on top of my PS4, before I could get a strong enough signal for it to connect.

My Xbox 360 has worked fine. Sometimes I'll get dropped, but that's usually down to a router hiccup (such as Mom resetting it to try to fix her laptop's connection) or a network outage in general. Tonight, it dropped me while I was watching a video. When I tested the connection, the signal was strong, it was able to connect to the Internet, but not to Xbox Live.

I've reset the 360's network settings to default and re-added the house network to it, but it still won't connect. I've reset the PS4 to default completely-- I didn't lose much of anything that isn't synched to the cloud-- and still it won't connect to PSN to download the system update.

I'm hoping the 360's issue will go away on its own. In the past, when it won't get immediately fixed, I wait a day and the problem goes away. But the PS4, since this issue has been going on for more than two weeks, I may just take back to Gamestop with my warranty and ask for a replacement.

No, seriously, the warranty does work like that. When I bought it, the Gamestop employee said "If it breaks or doesn't work, bring it back with your warranty, we'll replace it, no questions asked."


ETA: Ha ha! I was right about the 360 fixing itself!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My North Face is full of dog hair and I have to get up early tomorrow to go to the Brewers game.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

After my kid was listening to it (but 'I didn't push any buttons mommy!'), I had to spend 45 minutes today trying to convince my MP3 player to stop displaying in what looked like either German or Dutch. It now displays in what is either Spanish or Portuguese. That's closer to something I can read. Kind of.

[mathnerd]

My son's first world problem: Does he want mom's cheesecake or mom's "brownies that will cure anything" for his birthday cake. He has to decide before I go to the grocery store in the morning, as his birthday is Sunday. He's conflicted.