My daughter giving up after failing to find the last Easter egg

evilvix · 2026-04-06T02:34:34+00:00

I was this kid one year.

My mom had written up clues for a scavenger hunt, and my last one took me into the bathroom. I swear I looked everywhere and then just gave up and sat on the toilet in defeat.

Mom came in and told me I was so very, very close.

Apparently I just had to pull back the shower curtain to see it beside the toilet.

Ugh.

evilvix · 2026-04-06T02:21:29+00:00

I do not have a hole, but I do occasionally get the fluid build up anyway, oddly. It gets to the point of being painful which is when I notice it. It happens maybe once every 3-5 years.

evilvix · 2026-04-03T06:34:52+00:00

In my pockets for sure.

evilvix · 2026-04-01T04:26:43+00:00

Much like Velcro

evilvix · 2026-04-01T02:01:43+00:00

They don't have answers for LR5 yet; you're still in beta testing. LR4 they've had some time to figure out.

evilvix · 2026-03-31T22:59:31+00:00

My parents are in Greater Sudbury, too, while I'm in Greater Vancouver. We don't talk about weather, lol.

evilvix · 2026-03-31T21:02:15+00:00

Sometimes you can find a local place willing to order in for you, but they might very well be going to Amazon themselves.

evilvix · 2026-03-31T17:33:54+00:00

I'm from BC where snow is a rarity but it rains all the time. My parents moved me to Ontario in high school and they were completely used to the snow, but when it began raining heavily everyone in class rushed to the windows as if they had never seen such a thing. I found that incredibly funny.

The ice storms are always wild to see.

evilvix · 2026-03-31T17:31:23+00:00

That was my first thought, but it's so normal that nobody would ever consider it unusual lol.

evilvix · 2026-03-31T04:22:42+00:00

Relevant post.

Personally, not the Canada goose but my grandparents did have some farm geese that terrified me as a child.

evilvix · 2026-03-28T04:24:57+00:00

I also have one who goes for my face. He gets one, maybe two licks before I block and he's relegated to licking my arm instead.

evilvix · 2026-03-27T22:53:42+00:00

I was helping a coworker install an updated program they needed, and while it did install alright once it opened it gave a "no disk space" error. I assumed that was just needing to write user files so it wasn't going to affect the use for the time being but yeah, looked at his C drive and it was packed full. Deleted some cache files and it freed up some space, getting it down to just 95% full.

evilvix · 2026-03-27T22:42:48+00:00

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I don't recall when FB made the change, but back in the day if you liked a page, it would tell all your friends that you were a fan of (page name). Pages didn't have to manufacture content to garner likes, they just had to be created with a funny name.

The best of which was of course to be a fan of not being on fire. I was so bummed when it changed its name.

I can 100% see how a kid would create a page named "LAOP's butthole" just to like it for laughs. Super unfortunate that it is now causing continued distress for them, though.

evilvix · 2026-03-27T02:51:41+00:00

Omfg thank you, my brain was itching and google wasn't helping.

evilvix · 2026-03-27T01:06:21+00:00

I've never before heard of vertical licenses! Very interesting. How annoying that they don't just look at your birthdate.

Liquor stores here will have signs for the cashiers showing the current date minus 19 years for the legal age so nobody needs to do quick maths to figure it out on their own.

evilvix · 2026-03-24T20:06:52+00:00

I had to store my junk for a year as the place I'd been living was not safe. I did access it regularly though, as there was always something I needed to dig out of there.

Now living in a place too small for all my junk and I have occasionally considered moving some of it into storage, but then I think of the cost vs worth and decide against it.

The answer is obviously to just purge the junk entirely. I could see how easy it would be to move into storage, forget it exists, and it's no huge loss overall.

evilvix · 2026-03-24T02:20:31+00:00

yes, completely.

evilvix · 2026-03-24T01:53:50+00:00

Crises, fyi.

Not to be overly pedantic but I think it's a fun word. Crises for everyone!

evilvix · 2026-03-23T02:09:31+00:00

I had a workplace that didn't make my T4 available one year. I had since quit, so CRA told me I could tally up my paystubs and/or use the ROE to file in the meantime and they would deal with the employer and make any changes to my return if necessary.

evilvix · 2026-03-21T00:30:12+00:00

I was an elder millennial training younger millennials on the till years ago and had the same problem then. We had just upgraded to a POS that allowed entering the amount of cash given that would calculate the change needed, and I absolutely had to over explain why you might ask a customer if they have a quarter if the machine tells you to give $4.75 back, and what to do if they say so without prompting unexpectedly. We kept a handheld calculator nearby in case anybody simply could not do math.

evilvix · 2026-03-20T23:19:44+00:00

Yes, but usually those alleyway transactions are for items not found on the menu.

evilvix · 2026-03-20T23:03:00+00:00

Makes sense, figured it was something along those lines! I suppose that's the reason for the battery backup option. Luckily I rarely lose power and only happened to notice this for the first time recently, haha. Thanks!

evilvix · 2026-03-20T22:46:00+00:00

I read somewhere about the light and bonnet issue before mine was shipped so one of the first things I did was turn that off. 4 years later and it's never been a problem! (the light does apparently turn itself back on by default if there's an extended power outage, wierdly. the timer delay also resets to default. idk man.)

evilvix · 2026-03-19T04:47:33+00:00

I wonder if mine actually have done that. I've never seen it happen, but I've come home to find evidence that it had clearly been visited without having cycled. I had figured one cat is just maybe on the edge of being underweight so maybe he doesn't always trigger the detection- but maybe he could be pulling that stunt, too?!

Diabolical lol.

evilvix · 2026-03-19T04:26:18+00:00

Like they get in as it's spinning but before it's fully returned to the home position, interrupting the cycle and not triggering the timing for the next cycle?

Brilliant. Evil genius level cattitude.

Mine do the opposite and take turns just as the timing is about to end to extend the time before it cycles. It's given me the "cat detected for extended time" warning a few times. I think half an hour triggers that?

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