I’m getting my own sweet sweet per diem for an upcoming teacher conference I’m going to. 
(Mine isn’t an annoying thought [yet] though, since I specifically wanted to go to this one.)
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Upscale restuarants, here we come!!! 
Somehow the stem of my watch that I don’t wear very often got pulled out and it stopped despite the fact that it works fine. There’s a date on it and you can’t go backwards, so now I have to advance the watch about 650 hours to get the date & time correct. 
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Time sure flies when your watch is spun.
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I get a bit of grief trying to check in for my flight tomorrow, since it’s a code share. It didn’t like the booking code, so I had to input the eticket number. About 10 minutes after I get it all sorted out, I get the check in email from the flying airline with the NEW booking code. 
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Our son has a psychiatrist through our agency, who he sees every other month. His appointment was scheduled today for 10. He is going to respite afterwards with his former foster mom, and he gets to see his best friend and hang out there, so he’s really excited for that.
The agency called us yesterday to see if we could push the appointment back to 11, because they had two siblings they wanted to get in back to back. Ok.
Then they texted this morning that they were running an hour behind already, so it would now be closer to noon.
I hate that doctor’s offices constantly get away with this. I don’t even understand how a practice can already be an HOUR behind only 1.25 hours into the work day! If someone shows up that late, force them to reschedule, it’s only common courtesy to everyone else.
We need a refill on meds and are going out of town, so we have to go today, otherwise we would have just rescheduled.
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Annoying for sure but maybe there was an emergency patient they had to see. I know I’d want to squeezed in for an emergency even if it inconvenienced the rest of the schedule for the day. Of course these things seem to happen with Drs. Often enough that they probably aren’t all emergencies.
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Totally agree, it just seems to be the norm rather than the exception, across all my doctors and their specialties.
Annoyed thought: Trying to end a conversation…especially on a Teams/Zoom call.
Commentary: Back in the days of landline telephone with the big honkin’ handset, we used to make fun of the old, crusty actuary who would just hang up without any valediction. These days, I admire his abruptness.
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My favorite liquor store has blocked me from viewing their website on my Chromebook. They apparently believe I am a robot, despite me correctly completing a captcha. The message said something about me moving quicker than a human normally does. WTF.
I can still view the website on other devices
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Paging Dr Johnny Fever…
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How do you know that you’re not a robot?
There is no fridge in this hotel room!
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The horror, the horror.
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What are you gonna do with all of your mayo???
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Ugh, expenses. This year both my SOA dues and my AAA dues were $750. My manager isn’t an actuary and she thought I submitted one expense twice and she denied it. I told her they were separate and re-submitted and she approved it. Then the expense folks saw it and thought it was a duplicate, and they rejected it. So I had to tell them the same story, re-submit, my boss approved it, but now they don’t like the receipt I attached so I had to do it again.
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It’s enough to make you hope for a dues increase on one of them just so they aren’t the same.
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Next year I’ll sign up for an extra section with the SOA if it means avoiding this scenario again.
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Except all section memberships are now included with your basic membership
Oh, I missed that, or forgot it.
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