I got stranded here last winter. When I arrived it was cold but clear. Then we got hit by a blizzard that dropped close to a foot of snow in about 3 hours. I had to spend the night in the office then work the next day with no shower or clean clothes.
(10-06-2015, 09:19 AM)Riven Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2015, 09:15 AM)SicketySix Wrote: [ -> ]Well that sucks!
Being stranded from going to work is one thing, but this? What cruel fate did the gods bestow upon you?!
The fact that my damn battery is wanting to not last until Friday when I get paid and me wanting to make the damn thing last until Friday when I get paid. XD
I believe if you remove the battery terminal cables from the battery itself when it's not in use, you can get more reliable service from a dying battery.
I don't know if that works or not, never had to try it myself.
I finally bought that new computer I've been wanting and spent the weekend setting it up and downloading games from my Steam library as well as various MMOs. I can run FFXIV on it at max settings with little to no frame rate drops!
(10-06-2015, 09:26 AM)Sylentmana Wrote: [ -> ]I finally bought that new computer I've been wanting and spent the weekend setting it up and downloading games from my Steam library as well as various MMOs. I can run FFXIV on it at max settings with little to frame rate drops!
Oh nice! I have a shiny new pc as well, able to run all the Skyrim ends no problems whatsoever. I plan to one day get those and the xpack for the pc, bit rigjt now my ps4 is handling the job nicely.
Although I donate mouse/keyboard. I don't know how people play the game with just the controller.
(10-06-2015, 09:22 AM)SicketySix Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2015, 09:19 AM)Riven Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2015, 09:15 AM)SicketySix Wrote: [ -> ]Well that sucks!
Being stranded from going to work is one thing, but this? What cruel fate did the gods bestow upon you?!
The fact that my damn battery is wanting to not last until Friday when I get paid and me wanting to make the damn thing last until Friday when I get paid. XD
I believe if you remove the battery terminal cables from the battery itself when it's not in use, you can get more reliable service from a dying battery.
I don't know if that works or not, never had to try it myself.
Huh. The problem with that is my battery is in the trunk of the car and I don't want to even consider messing with it in there @_@ I remember when I first bought it going 'wth why?'
Had my car battery die at work once, luckily a co-worker was nice enough to drive me to a nearby Wal-Mart so I could buy a new one, and he even installed it for me. Whew :3
(10-06-2015, 09:13 AM)Riven Wrote: [ -> ]Go out just now to take my break and run to a Walgreens when I find out my battery has gone poof. Can't really call Onstar because we open in an hour and given where I work (FAARRR OUT IN TEH STICKS) it will take them the grand total of an hour to find somebody to give me a jump. So waiting for one of my managers to come back and see if she can't help me get some leads and give my car a boost so I can actually leave this place today hee 
Anyone else ever get stranded at their job?
Last winter I had a spree of shitty days. On the way to work one morning my car slid on the ice, went off the road, smashed through a fence and into a tree so the next day I had to get a new car. Well I bought my brother's old car (he's a marine in Japan and has little use for it) and he failed to mention to me his gas meter wasn't working. So the next day on the way back from work I ran out of gas just outside of work. It was like -10 that week as a high. I got lucky because one of the guys I worked with traveled down the same road and helped me get gas, but still in Colorado at winter I had maybe an hour to an hour in a half before the sun went down and it was already -10 outside.
When I was younger, I got stranded at work a couple times.
...in the sense that as a non-driving teenager in a town with crappy buses, I was completely reliant on my parents to pick me up and drop me off at work if anything went wrong with taking the bus. (Like it just not showing up/ showing up late/me missing it). At about 4 miles (~6.4 KM), the walk was erm....a bit long.
Fast forward in time a few years and I still don't drive, but I can walk to work in under 30 minutes with my current job!
I don't drive because with all my medications I feel it wouldn't be any different than driving under the influence of alcohol, and we didn't have public transportation where I used to live, so I was quite frequently stranded at my jobs. Â To make matters worse, my jobs were never within reasonable walking distance of where I lived either, so walking home wasn't an option.Â
Fortunately, if push came to shove, I usually only had to wait an extra hour or two to get a ride home from a coworker or my boss after they clocked out. Â Worst case scenario, I just had to walk about an hour to a friend's house for a ride or to crash on their couch. Â
But most of the places I worked were pretty cool and my coworkers and bosses were usually great, so I was never all that upset about being stranded.
I went one day without a vehicle and I thought I was gonna die.
You people are much stronger than I for sure!
I would have but you stopped skyping me! D;
(10-06-2015, 09:44 PM)Rosekitten Wrote: [ -> ]I would have but you stopped skyping me! D;
No I didn't lol did it not send?
Having been stuck in that airport myself...
Is it snowing? At least that was kind of cool to watch.
No it did.. xD I'm just a derp and forgot to reply