related annoyances:
- Some critter left a little pile in the back yard
- I’m sitting by the water at a friends’ cottage enjoying a beer. I feel a tap on my shoulder: stoopid bird pooped on me!!!
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I periodically get these swaths of pain on my skin. It’s often in my scalp, but today it’s on my inner thigh, a large area. It’s how I imagine shingles pain feels, as my husband described it, but there is no rash and no cause, and it goes away after a couple days. Doesn’t seem related to my cycle or anything else I can figure out. Just very annoying, thus the post.
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- is good luck! for your friend, that bird coulda pooped all over him!
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I tried firing up the dishwasher yesterday and today, but no go: all the lights would come on, but the start button would not work. After my gf washes all the dishes and I dry, I press the start button for and giggles - and of course the dishwasher fires up to life. 
I ran a sanitizing cycle to at least make it worth our while.
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I’m in the unpacking phase of moving, and realized that at least one of the electricians who worked on this place didn’t care about leveling light switches or outlets. So I now know how to do so (and seriously dude, it’s not that hard, but was part of your job description).
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When you tighten the screw on the cover, do you leave the screw’s slot vertical or horizontal? Apparently some electricians have thoughts on this one.
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I’m squarely in the not caring camp, as was whoever did it originally.
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I’m definitely team-horizontal.
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Same. I spent some time on the electrical sub-Reddits and some really like vertical, I heard one electrician argue you accumulate less dust that way. Talk about picking nits.
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Wut? No. That’s incorrect. Screw slots get aligned vertically. Stop being absurd.
Source: All receptacle cover screws in my house are aligned vertically. Because I don’t live like some kind of animal.
In Canada you go vertical, but south of the border it’s flip flopped because we don’t use the metric system.
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Related, I’ve got a buddy who used to be an electrician at a nuclear plant. He was a supervisor. They had specs on how tight the wires were screwed into receptacles that the electricians had to follow, and part of his job was confirming that the wires were tightened to specs.
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I have one of those colleagues who responds to every FYI kind of email with “received.” 
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Hopefully he does this as a Reply All message
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She did 
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This is why texting now has a quick thumbs up reply button. I like knowing the message was seen, don’t need a full reply.
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Lol
I use thumbs up with emails now too. Reply All of course.
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That’s a lot of thumbs up