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Rant away, friends, rant away.

Currently on the topic: Dave's wayward son, and the case of the money-stealing wife.

Now I have to subscribe to a new rant thread. Rant rant rant.

Is Dave's wayward son carrying on? Hopefully he won't wind up in Kansas.

Null said:

Is Dave's wayward son carrying on? Hopefully he won't wind up in Kansas.

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*rimshot*

(I've actually sang that one at karaoke.... I was JUUUUUST drunk enough to consider it a good idea)

And Dave, bear in mind that I spent 6 years in the Corps, volunteering for every assignment that I came across, and never went further than NYC for Fleet Week. *eyeroll*

You're actually more likely to be forward deployed if you're in the reserves, from what I hear. Stationed soldiers have occupations that need to be filled; transferring them out for combat means pulling other people out of other slots, and so on. Reservists can be deployed without screwing up ten different bases' TO&E. However, the same holds true for new recruits, so your mileage may vary on that one.

There's no such thing as a "safe" occupation in a wartime military, but as far as the war in Afghanistan goes, the Navy's non-aviators aren't so much in it, so that might be a way to go. On the other hand, when tensions flare between the PRC or North Korea and our allies in Asia, the Navy is the main force involved.

Officer_Charon;432819][QUOTE=Null said:

Is Dave's wayward son carrying on? Hopefully he won't wind up in Kansas.

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*rimshot*

(I've actually sang that one at karaoke.... I was JUUUUUST drunk enough to consider it a good idea)

And Dave, bear in mind that I spent 6 years in the Corps, volunteering for every assignment that I came across, and never went further than NYC for Fleet Week. *eyeroll*[/QUOTE]

I did my entire 4 years at Pendleton at Edson Range. Whee.

But you know, Dave, the same sort of thing happened to me - failing out of college. Granted, that was because I was fighting a crippling depression and stopped going to class, or even getting out of bed some days, and didn't get help until it was almost too late. Hell, I only got out of it because my little sister caught me attempting suicide. It's fucked my life up for years, and I can never get that opportunity back. So, you know, talk to your kid. Probably joining the military will be good for him, but find out what's going on that he did so bad.

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But you know, Dave, the same sort of thing happened to me - failing out of college. Granted, that was because I was fighting a crippling depression and stopped going to class, or even getting out of bed some days, and didn't get help until it was almost too late. Hell, I only got out of it because my little sister caught me attempting suicide. It's fucked my life up for years, and I can never get that opportunity back. So, you know, talk to your kid. Probably joining the military will be good for him, but find out what's going on that he did so bad.

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I have - he has no ambition and is lazy. He only does what we tell him to, including brushing his teeth and showering. He only comes out of his room to eat and crap. He's been to a psychologist and he's not been diagnosed with depression, autism or anything else - he's just totally uninspired to do anything.

Dave;432832][QUOTE=Null said:

But you know, Dave, the same sort of thing happened to me - failing out of college. Granted, that was because I was fighting a crippling depression and stopped going to class, or even getting out of bed some days, and didn't get help until it was almost too late. Hell, I only got out of it because my little sister caught me attempting suicide. It's fucked my life up for years, and I can never get that opportunity back. So, you know, talk to your kid. Probably joining the military will be good for him, but find out what's going on that he did so bad.

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I have - he has no ambition and is lazy. He only does what we tell him to, including brushing his teeth and showering. He only comes out of his room to eat and crap. He's been to a psychologist and he's not been diagnosed with depression, autism or anything else - he's just totally uninspired to do anything.[/QUOTE]

What does he do while he's in his room?

Plays video games, plays on the computer and watches tv.

Dave said:

Plays video games, plays on the computer and watches tv.

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Take the video games, computer and TV out of his room. Grades will improve drastically.

Hey, I used to do that... when I was 14.

I recall you saying some of the issue was because of mom sheltering him over time--I'm not sure if they'll keep him in boot camp if he's gonna be more trouble than he's worth in that sense. But I suppose it's worth a shot.

Adammon;432839][QUOTE=Dave said:

Plays video games, plays on the computer and watches tv.

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Take the video games, computer and TV out of his room. Grades will improve drastically.[/QUOTE]

My dad would have just kicked me out and took all that stuff away cuz he bought it.

Actually...that's pretty much what happened. He never took my car though. Needed that in order to find a job and apartment.

LittleSin;432842][QUOTE=Adammon;432839][QUOTE=Dave said:

Plays video games, plays on the computer and watches tv.

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Take the video games, computer and TV out of his room. Grades will improve drastically.[/QUOTE]

My dad would have just kicked me out and took all that stuff away cuz he bought it.

Actually...that's pretty much what happened. He never took my car though. Needed that in order to find a job and apartment.[/QUOTE]

hell, I'm in school NOW and I have to take away video games, computer and TV or my grades drop. It's not an individual thing, it's a societal predilection for being distracted.

Oh yeah.... he sounds like 13 weeks on my Island would suit him juuuuust fine

Dave said:

Plays video games, plays on the computer and watches tv.

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Ah, that's why my dad took away my NES in middle school. I got it back once my grades went up.

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Ah, that's why my dad took away my NES in middle school. I got it back once my grades went up.[/QUOTE]

PS2, middle school, same result. My marking period grades sucked, I would be allowed to have it back when the next marking period grades came in saying I did better.

He bought them all with money from his job before he quit.

Dave said:

He bought them all with money from his job before he quit.

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But he's not paying for the power to his room! (or some such nonsense, you'll find a good reason to confiscate).

Right now, his job is going to school. If he doesn't like going to school, he can move out and not afford power to play those games (or sell them in order to get money for food)

So?

I bought my Gameboy Color with my own money--my mom took it away when I misbehaved. I even gave the whole "it was MY money" argument--her response was "it's MY house".

The Dad Mantra: "It's my house, you live by my rules"

Adammon;432859][QUOTE=Dave said:

He bought them all with money from his job before he quit.

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But he's not paying for the power to his room! (or some such nonsense, you'll find a good reason to confiscate).
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Shame the breaker isn't limited to each room Then you could remove power from just his room and put a lock on the breaker box. >

^^^^
That right there. It's the only way. (meaning the Dad Mantra...)

"But it's my money!"
"Shut up and keep shoveling, the fire's dying down!"

I'm sure it's been discussed before, but why isn't charging him rent an option?

"Weeeell, you know son, I appreciate that you want to live in my house, really the pleasure is all ours, trust me. Problem is the economy is down around these parts and looks like the price of square footage is going up, up, up. So... yeah, I'm gonna need the rent you are going to be paying us from now on."

Yup. Thats what I'd say

But seriously, good luck Dave.

He has no job. He quit it to go to school full time. But he only worked part time. Anything I do is going to depend on how his mother reacts, too.

Sure, he has no job because there's no need. He has everything he wants and you guys give him what he needs, mainly a place to sleep. Start running a tab and tell him he can either start paying or find someplace else to live.

Personally, I'd play that card before the military one, because he might just flunk out of that too.

My parents charged us rent whenever we weren't in school. Even when I dropped out in '07 with the full and complete intention of going back in '08 I was charged for that year. My brother worked during most of his electrician apprenticeship and pays rent even now, but the couple of times he was in school for a semester as part of the apprenticeship, he didn't have to pay.

Your son doesn't have a job? Tough shit. Either he continues school or he contributes to the household to such a degree as to necessitate a full time job. Either as a student or a labourer, he needs to become a productive member of society.

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He has no job. He quit it to go to school full time. But he only worked part time. Anything I do is going to depend on how his mother reacts, too.

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Yeah, I see that going nowhere fast :/.

I'm not even sure I'd offer him the same deal as that, as good as it is. Sounds like he isn't ready for college quite yet, if he's flunking freshman classes. Start a tab, and maybe allow for honest efforts at finding a job to lower it. Say he owes you 300 a month in rent. Each completed application could be worth knocking off 10 bucks. A job fair could be worth 50 or something. That way it's not completely overwhelming for the couple of months it might take him to find one. But I think the running debt is important because if you give him like 2 months to find a job he'll spend 1 month and 3 weeks in his room saying he's looking online and then say you didn't give him enough time once the time limit is up.

i wish you luck Dave. Too bad you can't show up late at night and soap sock him.

Krisken said:

i wish you luck Dave. Too bad you can't show up late at night and soap sock him.

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But there's 10 bucks in it for your daughter if she does.

phil;432935][QUOTE=Krisken said:

i wish you luck Dave. Too bad you can't show up late at night and soap sock him.

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But there's 10 bucks in it for your daughter if she does.[/QUOTE]
Capitalism at its best, or worst? You decide!

phil;432935][QUOTE=Krisken said:

i wish you luck Dave. Too bad you can't show up late at night and soap sock him.

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But there's 10 bucks in it for your daughter if she does.[/QUOTE]

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Taking his stuff away is probably just going to piss him off. I'd be surprised if he learned anything or tried any harder. Likely he's just going to think you're a dick.

ProTip: This is from experience. I was just like him for awhile, except it was a combination of apathy and depression.

I hear CK got over his funk when he grew out his mutton chops and became rad.

I wasn't allowed Computer games/NES/SNES/etc when I was a kid during weekdays, regardless of grades. Friday Afternoon-Sunday was it. That only began to taper off once I was in late high school.

Baerdog said:

I hear CK got over his funk when he grew out his mutton chops and became rad.

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It's not the beard on the outside that counts, it's the beard on the inside.

Thank you Action Hank!

CynicismKills said:

Taking his stuff away is probably just going to piss him off. I'd be surprised if he learned anything or tried any harder. Likely he's just going to think you're a dick.

ProTip: This is from experience. I was just like him for awhile, except it was a combination of apathy and depression.

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Yeah, but he doesn't have depression.

escushion;433178][QUOTE=CynicismKills said:

Taking his stuff away is probably just going to piss him off. I'd be surprised if he learned anything or tried any harder. Likely he's just going to think you're a dick.

ProTip: This is from experience. I was just like him for awhile, except it was a combination of apathy and depression.

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Yeah, but he doesn't have depression.[/QUOTE]

True, but I had apathy in spades so I'm just saying this from the kid's possible point of view. I don't know that there's a better way to get him motivated, though. Eventually I shaped up on my own and realized I was being a useless leech on my family.

CynicismKills;433190][QUOTE=escushion;433178][QUOTE=CynicismKills said:

Taking his stuff away is probably just going to piss him off. I'd be surprised if he learned anything or tried any harder. Likely he's just going to think you're a dick.

ProTip: This is from experience. I was just like him for awhile, except it was a combination of apathy and depression.

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Yeah, but he doesn't have depression.[/QUOTE]

True, but I had apathy in spades so I'm just saying this from the kid's possible point of view. I don't know that there's a better way to get him motivated, though. Eventually I shaped up on my own and realized I was being a useless leech on my family.[/QUOTE]

I got into a car accident and got lazy... one day I decide to go back to school and turn myself around.

When I was younger and living with my parents, regardless if I bought something with my own money, as punishment, my parents can take it away. The old rule "My house, my rule" I use that in my house too my house my rules, if you don't like it, get out!

Agghahahghghgh! This Nepal thing is seriously stressing me out, and I've remembered why I don't want to include my parents in this shit ever.

Basically the final payments to the GVN are due this Friday, and while I've got most of the money ready to go, I'm still a few hundred short. The few hundred that I'm short is the $500 my mother had pretty much committed to contributing, but she won't contribute anything until I can "prove" that I'm going to have enough money to buy my plane ticket by November.

Essentially what she's saying is that while she's committed to contributing $500, it's going to be the LAST $500 of the $5500+ that I have to gather. This is a problem, since if I don't get this program fee paid by Friday, then there's not going to be any need to buy a plane ticket at all, because GVN is not going to foot the bill which is my responsibility.

So she won't contribute now, because she's afraid of contributing to a cause that is going to fail. But if I don't have her contribution now, then it'll likely fail anyway. It's a @#$% self-fulfilling prophecy.

Also, I have a few friends and family who are interested in contributing, but want me to see if I can set up a fund through a church, since that'll be easier on them for tax reasons. I think it's a good idea, and I'm checking it out, but it adds another level of bureaucracy that I really wish I didn't have to deal with. Going 'through' a Church might draw more, or bigger, donations, but it means the money has to get to the church, into their coffers/accounts, and then through their accountant to me via a check, which is a lot more complicated than paypal.

I'm going to go for a walk now.

That's really shitty Rob. I wish I could help....oh wait. I can a bit.

I sold one painting at the marathon...and it was the one I made for your cause!

The down side is it only went for 50 and after gallery cost we only get 25.00 back. It's 25.00 more then you have though!

Thanks so much, Sin

You're right in that $25 is $25 closer, and it always picks me up to see that people are willing to help out, even if it's only a little bit

I still feel a bit bad that I didn't get a chance to come down and see the auction-thingy. It's seriously the first weekend I had spent out of town in months, and it just HAD to be that weekend

It's cool man. I only showed for the last hour of the auction, opting instead for more sleep after being up for close to 24 hours.

PRO TIP: Mention your friend is going to Nepal and needs the cash...then your art work is a sure sell! God damn hippies...bought my god damn abstract because I mentioned Nepal.

"Oooooo...that sounds so spiritual! I'll support that journey!"

Hahah.

Continuation of my rant: it's looking even less likely that this is going to work today, even with the extra $25 help. The bottom just fell out of the whole thing, and the rest of my day is going to be me struggling to put the bottom back in.

Wish me luck!

30 days to get himself together or he gets the boot. He has no motivation to do anything because he doesn't need to do anything for himself. He has to be responsible for himself and sometimes that means learning the hard way. You and your wife have coddled him. This is the result.
My parents made me learn from an early age that I didn't get anything unless I earned it. Of course I wasn't naked or starving, but if I wanted certain clothes I had better have my own money or else my parents bought me what they wanted me to wear. If I wanted to go to the movies, unless I had my own money, or my date was paying, then I wasn't going. Your son is old enough now that he should be able to take care of himself including personal hygiene without being told to do it by mom and dad.

Wildsoul's right.

ffs he's a college student. Brush his teeth? wtf, man

Put an ad in the paper to rent out his room. Offer him first chance to rent it, unless of course some one else offers more.

Math242 said:

Wildsoul's right.

ffs he's a college student. Brush his teeth? wtf, man

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He's not a college kid any more.

Here's an idea of how my son does things.

Say there are pieces of paper on the table and some of it has fallen on the floor. I ask him to clean up the table. He won't touch the floor. He does no more no less than asked. He always does it, but he won't take any initiative to do anything without being told. Yes, that means even so far as showering, brushing teeth, wearing clean clothes, etc. He just doesn't care about anything.

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Oh. Something else. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can either kick my son in the ass and have issues with the wife or please the wife and he gets away with it. And I guarantee if he goes into the military and (God forbid!) anything happens, it'll be my fault and my marriage would be over.

Basically everyone in the world sees what needs to be done except my wife and her mom. So I'm stuck between doing what needs to be done and putting a strain on my marriage or letting it continue in blissful ignorance.

Sorry to hear it Dave. My first room mate was like that. No ambition, no desire to do anything. We got him to work for a few years, but a few months before I had it and moved out he quit his job and tried to O.D. on sleeping pills. Luckily being 260lbs kept the 2 bottles from being enough.

I wish I knew how to help or had encouraging words. I know my old room mate is still living at home with his parents, where he moved back to after I left. That was over 10 years ago.

Good luck, man.

Honestly Dave, it sounds like he needs a push, and maybe a term of service would be good for him. The Navy (aviation & Special Forces aside) and the Coast Guard aren't currently in line for a lot of combat but the training, discipline, and development may do him a lot of good. You may be better selling your wife on those relatively "safe" branches of service, but since something can happen (something can ALWAYS happen) I'm not saying it's risk-free. But there are options that have a very low likelihood of him chewing dirt in a country he can't pronounce against an enemy that only attacks by ambush.

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Oh. Something else. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can either kick my son in the ass and have issues with the wife or please the wife and he gets away with it. And I guarantee if he goes into the military and (God forbid!) anything happens, it'll be my fault and my marriage would be over.

Basically everyone in the world sees what needs to be done except my wife and her mom. So I'm stuck between doing what needs to be done and putting a strain on my marriage or letting it continue in blissful ignorance.

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Well then best of luck with your deadbeat son.

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The Navy (aviation & Special Forces aside)and the Coast Guard aren't currently in line for a lot of combat...

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This is not entirely true. He could be sent into a combat situation very easily these days since they send any and all rates in to do security details for 6 months to a year. I can't speak for the Coasties, but I know this happens very often now in the Navy.

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Also, Dave, if your mother-in-law is so keen on taking care of your son, send him to live with her. She can let him be a man-child in her house.

Maybe your son should run for public office then.

Otherwise, Coast Guard.

Otherwise, mother-in-law idea sounds like a good idea.

God-fuckin'-dammit...

*bonks his head on the table*

I just came back from the most horrifying job interview of my life. It's an opening for a high school EFL teacher's post, but after meeting with the principal, I am actually afraid of getting the job. The principal disappointed me terribly: the vaunted "emphasis on the international" in the high school is complete and utter bullcrap, basically the principal coming back from conferences with big ideas and trying to impose them on language teachers; they take "guest lecturers" from a nearby reception center for newly-arrived immigrants; and the previous English teacher had to go over the principal's head to get administrative leave. Not only that, but half of the interview was spent with her reminiscing how horrible her own teacher training was (we trained at the same university) back in the late 70s - basically lambasting my alma mater - and how she has all these fabulous ideas that the teachers refuse to implement. Not to mention bitching about how difficult it is to read electronic CVs...

The sad thing is the high school looked really nice; but the principal has "Imminent Train Wreck" written all over her...

Thank God for substituting...

^Well, do what you gotta do to stay sane! One uniform piece of advice I've received from teachers (besides don't cry in front of the kids--it gives them power ) is to try and work at a school with a good principal--one who makes you comfortable and works with you. The principal at my school is not used to overseeing education students or teachers, but she's doing her best and keeping upbeat. That really makes a difference.

Good luck, whatever you decide!

Well, it's not really my choice anymore. Plus, I can't begin right away even if I do get picked; I'm tied with substituting until the 19th, almost two weeks after the job is about to start, and I lack in experience. I just thought there was something horribly... off about the whole thing. I also keep wondering if I got the interview just because I'm a guy; something she said when she invited me to the interview made me wonder if I was the only man who applied for the job.

Wasabi Poptart said:

Also, Dave, if your mother-in-law is so keen on taking care of your son, send him to live with her. She can let him be a man-child in her house.

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Good suggestion. We have a guy like this in our family... maybe not so much apathetic as stubborn. He thinks everyone he's worked for is "too stupid" and therefore can't hold down a job. The result is that he's been homeless for a good portion of his life. The other part he was either living with my parents, another one of his siblings, and finally--to this day--his mother. All he does is play disc golf and fiddle with computers. He might have a part time job now, but I'm not sure. Back when I was a kid, I remember he disappeared for years, never contacting anyone. When he finally showed up again he still avoided us even though we always try to include him.

I don't know what he's going to do when my grandma dies. There's no way my grandpa will take him in, and I don't think he's faced any of his siblings in years. Come to think of it, I don't even know if he made my godmother's funeral. Long story short, nothing's ever lit enough of a fire under his ass to really try. Mom says he's depressed like Aunt Karen was. Maybe.

mr_thehun said:

Parents should be like your drill sergeant, you hate em while your being trained but when your in the shit your happy they were such a hard ass.

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That's what drill sergeants are for.

Most parents I know aren't like that and their kids didn't turn out apathetic do-nothings. The only person I know whose parents acted like drill sergeants has been in therapy for much of his adult life and still can't carry a conversation with his father.

I am about to take my first real vacation in 3 years. Now about 1/4 of the computers in my company fuck up. I really have a hard time leaving for a good time while others struggle until next week, when I can come around and fix them.

They'll get by. Enjoy your vacation.

Went in to see the doctor again today. He has no idea what's wrong with me. Even said so. I didn't think I'd ever hear that from a doctor. The thyroid medication he put me on didn't help. The diet hasn't helped like it should have. Very little has gone as expected.

So, brain scan (SPECT) to see if there are any areas of my brain that aren't working. Then a big expensive allergy test, and some other tests. No definite direction though.

Only good news was that I get to try some food that's not on the diet to see how I react. Yum, starch. I got to eat my hamburger on a bun this evening.

Well, I guess ruling out some things has been nice. No diabetes. no celiac. Yay.


Shit. As nice as it is to have a doctor who actually believes this isn't just depression... Shit, this sucks.

Dave, your kid didn't break up with his girlfriend during the summer, did he? That can often lead to a general listlessness for a time.

Ooh, I like Wasabi's suggestion for the son living with his mother-in-law. Let's see how she deals with him, even only for a few weeks.

I'm taking my cat, my little buddy, my best friend, Diomedes, to the vet today. He's been really slow and sluggish since yesterday. He's barely eaten. I gave him some wet cat food and he threw it all up early this morning. I tried playing with him, but he didn't have the usual energy.

Really worried about him. He got into the garbage a few days ago, hunting for some chicken that I'd thrown out. I think that might have been what's making him sick.

So...yeah, any fellow animal lovers or cat owners, prayers are needed.

ThatNickGuy said:

Ooh, I like Wasabi's suggestion for the son living with his mother-in-law. Let's see how she deals with him, even only for a few weeks.

I'm taking my cat, my little buddy, my best friend, Diomedes, to the vet today. He's been really slow and sluggish since yesterday. He's barely eaten. I gave him some wet cat food and he threw it all up early this morning. I tried playing with him, but he didn't have the usual energy.

Really worried about him. He got into the garbage a few days ago, hunting for some chicken that I'd thrown out. I think that might have been what's making him sick.

So...yeah, any fellow animal lovers or cat owners, prayers are needed.

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This SAME THING happened to one of our cats. Turns out some dental floss had been thrown away and it's what he was after. It wrapped around his stomach and they had to do surgery to get it out.

Jesus. I should've gone to vetrenarian school. The tests alone for my little guy are almost $600. X-Rays, etc. Fortunately, after selling the house, selling a lot of their stuff and moving to Halifax to be closer to my sister, my parents are relatively well off. They're going to transfer the money to me. I hate, hate, hate asking for money, but...well...Diomedes has been the one and only constant in my life for 6 years. He's my best friend. I held him last night and cried because I so worried.

I always steal the joke about the ultimate bargaining chip - kittens are free. Seriously, I'm sure I would unhappily drop the cash if one of my two cats started getting sick though. Hope the furball is okay.

Aww. Poor kitty. Hope your fur-buddy is back to his usual self soon, Nick.

$550 dollars worth of tests and they come up nothing. X-rays showed a lot of gas in his little tummy. They said he was pretty alert, even though not very energetic. Bit of a high temperature (40 c). Blood tests won't come back until tomorrow.

So...yeah, still no word, yet. They think it might be a flu.

Cat flu, yikes.

I have been having issues with my laptop for awhile now mainly it has been over heating. I have the extended warranty so I sent it in for repair and that started a nightmare. So it took them a month of stalling before they came forward and told me that they could not locate the part I needed. So they said that they would send me a check for my laptop minus any claims they had against it.

Well it turns out that they automatically put a $350 claim against it as soon as I sent it in. Now I only spent $700 on the laptop in the first place so I was only going to get half my money back. So I called my warranty company to make sure they were sending me my laptop back as well as the cash. They said they were so I figured I could send my laptop into the original manufacture for an out of warranty repair and use the money my warranty company was going to be sending me to pay for the repair.

So I finally received my laptop back from the warranty company and to my surprise I found out that they replaced my processor with a lower model one. I had a 2.30 ghz processor and they sent it back with a 1.60 ghz processor.

And than on top of that the laptop has a huge chink of plastic out of the bottom, there is a crack on the side, and they didn't screw in a piece correctly so it is sticking out a bit. I called them up but they said they would not be able to give me an answer about what they will do until Monday. But they did say they were not sure what they were going to do about it since it in their words "a very unusual circumstances" I included some pics below for you all to see.

Cripes, man, I'm pretty sure that's a viable lawsuit on them right there.

ThatNickGuy said:

Cripes, man, I'm pretty sure that's a viable lawsuit on them right there.

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Only if they fail to deliver. And even then it'll be small claims court.

Not even the part about replacing it with a lesser processor?

Sounds like fraud to me. I swear, you can't trust anyone!

While I am still waiting to hear back I am afraid there is a possibility in the way the contract is worded that they may not have to do anything. I was reading the warranty info and it state that the warranty company has the choice on whether or not to send you your unrepairable laptop back once they write you a check. Now as I have already said they did agree that they would send me back my laptop but they did agree to send it back in working condition.

I know I am probably being overly paranoid but I am worried they are going to say "well we did not have to give it back to you at all so you should be grateful just to have it back" The worst part is they knew that when I asked for it back that I was wanting to repair it. I even told them I had found a place that had the part I needed but they still sent me back my laptop all jacked up.

And it really sucks cause I was looking forward to sending my laptop out to the original manufacture next week so I could get it fixed but now I have to wait to hear back about what my extended warranty company is going to do about my laptop they jacked up. I mean I expected it to come back in the same condition I sent it to them in but instead they send it back in worse condition. Man as it stands now I will never buy an extended warranty from Newegg again and in fact since Newegg sold me the warranty I am finding it hard to even shop at Newegg themself.

After spending over $1,200 for tests, IV and antibiotics...

...I have a healthy cat again.

Money well spent. I used to think people who spent thousands on keeping their pets alive were crazy and/or stupid. I mean, yeah you love 'em but they're just animals. Then my dog got sick. We spent a lot of money on her. They really are a member of the family.

Glad to hear it Nick. I hope your kitty stays healthy for a long time.

I just got off the phone with my warranty company for my laptop and they just got done trying to tell me that the laptop was like that when they received it. I told them that it was not. They than said they had pictures showing that it had cracks in it and that the broken piece must have been from that. I informed them that there were no cracks when I sent it adn and even if there was that would not explain the miss screwed piece of plastic or the processor being swapped out. They than told me that they would contact me again later on with more info.

Seriously, why is it that every school year feels like it's adding a ton of stress to my life? It's the goddamned third grade. I realize that I can't remember anything before, say, fourth grade, but I'm pretty sure my parents weren't constantly having to fill out paperwork, thwart fundraising attempts, and concern themselves with whether or not I could manage the homework load I was, as I do recall, NOT being given.

Of course my parents were high on the couch watching TV the whole time*, so maybe they aren't the norm.

*Allegedly. (Never know what will start a lawsuit these days.)

Fun Size said:

Seriously, why is it that every school year feels like it's adding a ton of stress to my life? It's the goddamned third grade. I realize that I can't remember anything before, say, fourth grade, but I'm pretty sure my parents weren't constantly having to fill out paperwork, thwart fundraising attempts, and concern themselves with whether or not I could manage the homework load I was, as I do recall, NOT being given.

Of course my parents were high on the couch watching TV the whole time*, so maybe they aren't the norm.

*Allegedly. (Never know what will start a lawsuit these days.)

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My son just started kindergarten yesterday. He had homework! The teacher emailed instructions to us so we could help him with it. Turns out, he will get some homework every day except Friday. WTF? I don't remember having homework until I was in middle school.

Wasabi Poptart;435568][QUOTE=Fun Size said:

Seriously, why is it that every school year feels like it's adding a ton of stress to my life? It's the goddamned third grade. I realize that I can't remember anything before, say, fourth grade, but I'm pretty sure my parents weren't constantly having to fill out paperwork, thwart fundraising attempts, and concern themselves with whether or not I could manage the homework load I was, as I do recall, NOT being given.

Of course my parents were high on the couch watching TV the whole time*, so maybe they aren't the norm.

*Allegedly. (Never know what will start a lawsuit these days.)

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My son just started kindergarten yesterday. He had homework! The teacher emailed instructions to us so we could help him with it. Turns out, he will get some homework every day except Friday. WTF? I don't remember having homework until I was in middle school.[/QUOTE]



I started getting homework in 1st grade.

Where I teach at the Korean school in china, if I don't give homework everyday for every class, parents start to get pissed, so I just pile it on

My mentor teacher is pretty cool about homework. They have it, but it's not really a big deal. Every night they have a tiny little booklet to read about animals or a new place. It's 10 pages and mostly pictures, and we guide them through it the first time. It's mostly a fluency exercise. They read it 4 times in a week and then do a comprehension activity. They bring home what they can't finish in a day--usually a math or spelling review. It's pretty light stuff, and they don't have homework at all on Wednesday or Friday. She calls Wednesday "Family Fun Night" and encourages kids to do something fun with a relative then share a story about it on Thursday morning.

She makes the homework fairly easy and short every day--mostly it's practice for tests. Bringing things home and then returning them to be checked seems more an exercise in responsibility and learning a routine than anything else. And I remember getting homework in Kindergarten. Granted, it was coloring and handwriting and didn't take more than half an hour, but still.

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My mentor teacher is pretty cool about homework. They have it, but it's not really a big deal. Every night they have a tiny little booklet to read about animals or a new place. It's 10 pages and mostly pictures, and we guide them through it the first time. It's mostly a fluency exercise. They read it 4 times in a week and then do a comprehension activity. They bring home what they can't finish in a day--usually a math or spelling review. It's pretty light stuff, and they don't have homework at all on Wednesday or Friday. She calls Wednesday "Family Fun Night" and encourages kids to do something fun with a relative then share a story about it on Thursday morning.

She makes the homework fairly easy and short every day--mostly it's practice for tests. Bringing things home and then returning them to be checked seems more an exercise in responsibility and learning a routine than anything else. And I remember getting homework in Kindergarten. Granted, it was coloring and handwriting and didn't take more than half an hour, but still.

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Also, teachers in lots of schools are required to send an email, a letter home, or both each week in order to try and keep parents up to date. It can seem annoying to some parents, but they do it because administration is stressing the importance of at least trying to keep guardians informed about what and how their students are doing. I never took weekly newsletters home from teachers, but I've never assisted at a school yet that didn't have something like that brought home.

So this week has been pretty stressful so far. My company is moving our office to a new building at the end of the week so I spent Tuesday in a frenzy trying to get as many things done and out of the way as I could so I wouldn't have to worry about them not getting done while being distracted with the actual moving. On top of that, I had the first test in my capstone class for my finance degree (a financial cases and modeling course0. We had four cases that we went over during the past couple weeks and then got another four sample exam cases to study over the weekend. Out of the eight cases, one would be chosen for the test. It was a pain, I'll tell you what. On top of that, the deadline for my spring study abroad is coming up on October 1st and I've been feeling behind when it comes to finding money for it.

So anyway, on Tuesday I manage to get the big majority of my stuff done that I needed. I've just got a couple of things that I can finish Thursday morning and then I'll be ready to devote myself to the move. Today I had a meeting with the coordinator for my particular study abroad and found out that I'm pretty well on track. She pointed me in the direction of some scholarship resources that are geared for studies abroad and many of them require me to be accepted to the program in order to apply, so I'm feeling less rushed about that. I got my passport application turned in and I've chosen my classes so really all I need to do is focus on completing my application in time. This afternoon was my test and it ended up being on the easiest case in the unit, much to the pleasure of the entire class. So all in all, I was feeling good when I left school today.

Then my car blows a coolant hose as I'm approaching the off ramp on my way home. :mad2:

Baerdog said:

So this week has been pretty stressful so far. My company is moving our office to a new building at the end of the week so I spent Tuesday in a frenzy trying to get as many things done and out of the way as I could so I wouldn't have to worry about them not getting done while being distracted with the actual moving. On top of that, I had the first test in my capstone class for my finance degree (a financial cases and modeling course0. We had four cases that we went over during the past couple weeks and then got another four sample exam cases to study over the weekend. Out of the eight cases, one would be chosen for the test. It was a pain, I'll tell you what. On top of that, the deadline for my spring study abroad is coming up on October 1st and I've been feeling behind when it comes to finding money for it.

So anyway, on Tuesday I manage to get the big majority of my stuff done that I needed. I've just got a couple of things that I can finish Thursday morning and then I'll be ready to devote myself to the move. Today I had a meeting with the coordinator for my particular study abroad and found out that I'm pretty well on track. She pointed me in the direction of some scholarship resources that are geared for studies abroad and many of them require me to be accepted to the program in order to apply, so I'm feeling less rushed about that. I got my passport application turned in and I've chosen my classes so really all I need to do is focus on completing my application in time. This afternoon was my test and it ended up being on the easiest case in the unit, much to the pleasure of the entire class. So all in all, I was feeling good when I left school today.

Then my car blows a coolant hose as I'm approaching the off ramp on my way home. :mad2:

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aw po baer.

tomorrow it will just be you on your motorcycle off to work singing All the Single Ladies!

hey guys, baer drives a harley!

It's true. Here's a picture.

One of the kids in my son's class spit in his face yesterday on the playground. I wish I could tell my son to punch that little brat in the nose if it happens again.

Wasabi Poptart said:

One of the kids in my son's class spit in his face yesterday on the playground. I wish I could tell my son to punch that little brat in the nose if it happens again.

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Hell, if any of my students tried to do that to me, I'd probably punch him as well.

The only time I actually did get spat on was when I was in the army. Some asshole in my company was pissing me off, and then he went and spat on my uniform. I immediately bullrushed him. He was in better shape than I was, but I outweighed him heavily. I had him pinned against the wall when we were pulled apart.

Ugh! This morning was a lot of pain and effort... 100% wasted. *sigh* I'm not looking forward to doing this over again because of someone else's mistake.

Wasabi Poptart said:

One of the kids in my son's class spit in his face yesterday on the playground. I wish I could tell my son to punch that little brat in the nose if it happens again.

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Can't you?

I don't think he'll get in too much trouble if he hit back. Boys will be boys, you know.

There's a zero tolerance policy in effect at more and more schools now that pretty much states, "I don't care who started it. If you fight, you're out." I've seen teachers turn their heads and/or deal with it privately, though, and I think that's usually best. Sometimes you can't avoid confrontation. Sometimes it starts with suspension and then expulsion if the behavior continues.

The ticket I got two weeks ago for biking through a red light (during a pedestrian-only walk) is now settled. I went to the court office today, spoke with a justice of the peace and the ticket's fine (which was minimum $300 and at most possible $550) was reduced to $125. And I paid it. Still sucky, but a hell of a lot more manageable than before.

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I don't think he'll get in too much trouble if he hit back. Boys will be boys, you know.

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Actually, like CG said, his school does not tolerate kids hitting (or spitting at) others. They get two or three infractions before they get expelled. I don't need him getting kicked out of kindergarten.

If the system works, then the other kid should have one infraction now.

Shit. A pile of people were over at my house an hour ago, and I felt myself going into a funk, so I left to go for a short walk and clear my head. I came back and everyone's gone, and it makes me feel like that asshole who ended the party too early, despite that being the exact opposite of what I was trying to do.

And the funk was about: I feel so conflicted these days about the direction I'm choosing for my life. A few months ago I was in a relationship, and while the relationship ended, I know now that I'm fully capable of being in a healthy adult relationship. But looking back, I realize that I was prepared (and was in the process of) sacrificing a huge part of my dreams and desires ... my very identity to make it work. It looked a lot like compromise at the time, but looking back it strikes me as giving up too much.

But if in the end I don't compromise, and I charge forward into the lifestyle that I dream of (one of endless travel and adventure: not staying much longer than a few months in one place over another, in case anyone is wondering) it has the potential to be a very lonely existence. And I don't do well with loneliness. But I don't do well feeling caged in one place, either. Not having left Newfoundland in the past two years has been a challenge to cope with.

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one of endless travel and adventure

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Like Caine from Kung Fu?

I had a customer from hell at work today.

She called me, screaming and being irate right off the bat. I knew this would be a fun call when the first thing she asked me was if a manager was present. When I told her no, it was only me today, she started going off. She had just checked her bank statements, and had discovered that we had erroneously overcharged her when she made her last bill payment. We had charged more money to her credit card than she paid.

So, this is an obvious mistake, but pretty easy to fix. I apologize for the error, and tell her that it was a mistake, and that we'll refund the balance to her. This isn't good enough for her. She calls me a theif, her exact words being "You, it was you I talked to, and you're taking money straight out of my account!"

Now, our records record which employees handle which customers for every transaction. I had already pulled up the transaction in question, and could see that it was Samantha, the store manager, that she had dealt with. Not me. I decide to ignore this for now, let her yell, and once again tell her that I can refund her money.

It's still not good enough. She asks to speak to Samantha's (again, the manager) boss. I tell her that he is the district manager, and isn't available on weekends. If she wants to call monday...

"I want his personal number. I want to talk to him right this minute."

Sigh... I inform her that I don't have his personal number to give. It's not a complete lie, while I do have his personal number, it certainly isn't to give out to irate customers. I give her another phone number she can call, which directs her to our company customer support, who can take complaints and send them to the proper channels. She doesn't want this either, now she asks for the owner's number.

Again, I give her the customer support line, and remind her that I can still give her a refund on the overage. She claims I just don't want to help her, makes a vague threat that the last person who did this got fired (which isn't true, that employee was fired for completely different reasons), and that she's going to call *name of company that we have no connection to, except that we're a retailer of their products* to report me, and then hangs up.

The best part about all of this? The overage was $2.00. Two dollars. She was overcharged two bucks. It was nothing but a simple typo in the billing.

There's just no pleasing some people.

Ravenpoe said:

I had a customer from hell at work today.

She called me, screaming and being irate right off the bat. I knew this would be a fun call when the first thing she asked me was if a manager was present. When I told her no, it was only me today, she started going off. She had just checked her bank statements, and had discovered that we had erroneously overcharged her when she made her last bill payment. We had charged more money to her credit card than she paid.

So, this is an obvious mistake, but pretty easy to fix. I apologize for the error, and tell her that it was a mistake, and that we'll refund the balance to her. This isn't good enough for her. She calls me a theif, her exact words being "You, it was you I talked to, and you're taking money straight out of my account!"

Now, our records record which employees handle which customers for every transaction. I had already pulled up the transaction in question, and could see that it was Samantha, the store manager, that she had dealt with. Not me. I decide to ignore this for now, let her yell, and once again tell her that I can refund her money.

It's still not good enough. She asks to speak to Samantha's (again, the manager) boss. I tell her that he is the district manager, and isn't available on weekends. If she wants to call monday...

"I want his personal number. I want to talk to him right this minute."

Sigh... I inform her that I don't have his personal number to give. It's not a complete lie, while I do have his personal number, it certainly isn't to give out to irate customers. I give her another phone number she can call, which directs her to our company customer support, who can take complaints and send them to the proper channels. She doesn't want this either, now she asks for the owner's number.

Again, I give her the customer support line, and remind her that I can still give her a refund on the overage. She claims I just don't want to help her, makes a vague threat that the last person who did this got fired (which isn't true, that employee was fired for completely different reasons), and that she's going to call *name of company that we have no connection to, except that we're a retailer of their products* to report me, and then hangs up.

The best part about all of this? The overage was $2.00. Two dollars. She was overcharged two bucks. It was nothing but a simple typo in the billing.

There's just no pleasing some people.

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You know me. I'd love to make a snarky joke about this, considering how it's 9/11 and all... but I think I'll pass. Good job on handling the client, though... Personally I would've told her to sit down and rotate. On a giant pine cone.

The wife of a good friend just died. She was one my wife's best friends. This really sucks. I don't know what else to say. I'm home from work early to catch my wife before she gets home and finds out via email. I'm just dreading her walking in that door right now and me having to tell her.

That really sucks

You and your family have my condolences

Can you find three friends and matching outfits? Bad news don't sound so bad when sung by a barbershop quartet.

Okay, in all seriousness... I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope that the missus will take the news well.

North_Ranger said:

Can you find three friends and matching outfits? Bad news don't sound so bad when sung by a barbershop quartet.

Okay, in all seriousness... I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope that the missus will take the news well.

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wrong thread?

Hylian;436592][QUOTE=North_Ranger said:

Can you find three friends and matching outfits? Bad news don't sound so bad when sung by a barbershop quartet.

Okay, in all seriousness... I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope that the missus will take the news well.

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Why? I was expressing my condolences. Granted, my ability to express myself in any meaningful way has been seriously impaired by lack of sleep and surplus of nightmares, but still...

I'm sorry for y'all's loss, Espy... Don't have anything else to say that's not a platitude...

North_Ranger;436594][QUOTE=Hylian;436592][QUOTE=North_Ranger said:

Can you find three friends and matching outfits? Bad news don't sound so bad when sung by a barbershop quartet.

Okay, in all seriousness... I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope that the missus will take the news well.

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wrong thread? [/QUOTE]

Why? I was expressing my condolences. Granted, my ability to express myself in any meaningful way has been seriously impaired by lack of sleep and surplus of nightmares, but still...[/QUOTE]



Hey you are abusing your mod powers! That post was originally in the random crap thread! :humph:

Hylian;436601][QUOTE=North_Ranger;436594][QUOTE=Hylian;436592][QUOTE=North_Ranger said:

Can you find three friends and matching outfits? Bad news don't sound so bad when sung by a barbershop quartet.

Okay, in all seriousness... I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope that the missus will take the news well.

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wrong thread? [/QUOTE]

Why? I was expressing my condolences. Granted, my ability to express myself in any meaningful way has been seriously impaired by lack of sleep and surplus of nightmares, but still...[/QUOTE]



Hey you are abusing your mod powers! That post was originally in the random crap thread! :humph:[/QUOTE]

No, it wasn't.

He's not using the Mod Voice, y'all. Dude's legit.

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. I told her and she took it... about as can be expected. She had to rush off to work, it's gonna be hard to deal with clients today for her. We got to cry and spend a little time together though and I'm sure there will be more of that tonight. It just really really sucks.

If this question is to nosy feel free to ignore it but was it a quick and unexpected death or had she been sick and fighting for awhile?

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So guess who was up all night doing damage control after the AC decided to dump what looks like a few of gallons of water, which has thoroughly soaked both my hall carpet and has gotten under the hardwood floors in my living room...

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The son you sent up on the roof in the storm?

Tin, after spending only a week wrangling with my A/C company (who we have a warranty through), I feel your pain.

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If this question is to nosy feel free to ignore it but was it a quick and unexpected death or had she been sick and fighting for awhile?

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She's been in the hospital for a bit but she was actually getting better, they were going to move her out of the ICU today in fact but then lat last night everything went to hell. It's even worse that they had just had their second child about 2 months ago.

Espy;436670][QUOTE=Hylian said:

If this question is to nosy feel free to ignore it but was it a quick and unexpected death or had she been sick and fighting for awhile?

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She's been in the hospital for a bit but she was actually getting better, they were going to move her out of the ICU today in fact but then lat last night everything went to hell. It's even worse that they had just had their second child about 2 months ago.[/QUOTE]


I am sorry to hear that

And once again I offer my condolences to you and your family/friends family

AC systems? It is firmly autumn here in SW Ontario. It's like the weather consulted a calendar at the beginning of September or something.

Lucky bastard. It's still sweltering down here.

I love sweltering.

Gusto said:

I love sweltering.

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Then why do you live in the eternal winter wonderland of Canada?

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I love sweltering.

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Cause this is where I was born and my people are here and I love it here.

I don't have to defend myself to YOU, Allen.

Woke up at 5am, threw up dinner. Slept on and off since, got up at 8am for work. Still feel like nine kinds of hell, but I'm going in anyway because I hate calling in sick.

I also have a double shift today so I won't get off work till 9 or so.

So not only is our little community dealing with the loss of the woman I talked about but the pastors wife has now been diagnosed with glicoblastoma, one of the most common and aggressive forms of primary brain tumors. She's beginning an intense 6 month radiation treatment. They have 8 kids ranging from 1 1/2 to 13.

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Woke up at 5am, threw up dinner. Slept on and off since, got up at 8am for work. Still feel like nine kinds of hell, but I'm going in anyway because I hate calling in sick.

I also have a double shift today so I won't get off work till 9 or so.

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And what a delightful chance to get everyone else sick!

aaaaaaAAAAAAH!

God damn husband. Why? WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE A SHIT FIT AROUND THIS TIME OF THE MONTH?!

Are you secretly woman?! Are you PMSing?!

I'm just-EUGH!

You never know. He'd end up like a guy I went to high school with. He found out after graduating that he really WAS PMSing every month because he had a uterus that somehow every doctor he went to before seemed to miss. Last time I saw him years ago, it was a week before he was about to get the sex change operation. Haven't seen him since he became a women (that I know of).

Adammon;437179][QUOTE=CynicismKills said:

Woke up at 5am, threw up dinner. Slept on and off since, got up at 8am for work. Still feel like nine kinds of hell, but I'm going in anyway because I hate calling in sick.

I also have a double shift today so I won't get off work till 9 or so.

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And what a delightful chance to get everyone else sick![/QUOTE]

It was food poisoning, no chance to plague. D:

That's just what the plague wants you to think man!

With each passing day this is quickly becoming one of the worst weeks of my life and most of it is my own fault.

Frank said:

With each passing day this is quickly becoming one of the worst weeks of my life and most of it is my own fault.

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Sorry to hear that man. Anything we can do to help here?

:hug:

Frank said:

With each passing day this is quickly becoming one of the worst weeks of my life and most of it is my own fault.

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I hope things start to get better for you man

Whomever pushed a bottle brush into my sinuses, please come remove it. Thanks.

Wasabi Poptart said:

Whomever pushed a bottle brush into my sinuses, please come remove it. Thanks.

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My bad, yo.

I have three important job interviews next week. i have never had real job interview before, you know, the kind you have to dress up for and be competent. Haha. I have always been hired pretty much over the phone or whatever. I am so stressed about it. The worst thing is I found out about it on Thursday and the first one is Monday.

It's normal to be nervous before an interview. Just be yourself and you'll be fine.

Honest-to-goodness although I know it sounds silly, do research on what to do. I always look up what kinds of questions are typically asked during an interview for the particular position, and if I know people in those positions I ask them. Also come up with questions to ask the employer, to show you know a little bit but are interested in the position enough to know more. My favourite question to ask is "What do you like about working here?" as it gives me an idea of what's good about the job and what I can expect/look forward too. My current manager (who conducted my second interview) said it was the best question he's been asked, so I think that adds some cred to it.

The girl I invited to come over canceled at the last minute yesterday with a very "I didn't actually want to come anyway" sounding excuse.

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Honest-to-goodness although I know it sounds silly, do research on what to do. I always look up what kinds of questions are typically asked during an interview for the particular position, and if I know people in those positions I ask them. Also come up with questions to ask the employer, to show you know a little bit but are interested in the position enough to know more. My favourite question to ask is "What do you like about working here?" as it gives me an idea of what's good about the job and what I can expect/look forward too. My current manager (who conducted my second interview) said it was the best question he's been asked, so I think that adds some cred to it.

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Thanks those are good suggestions. Right now I am trying to figure out what each of the places I applied to actually does. Lol I know it seems backwards but a legal internship is a legal internship. There are two I really want and one I would still be satisfied with. Im not really thinking Im going to get either of them because I have no experience. But ah well.

I have to admit I'm a little jealous. I'm not even in law school yet. ONE DAY I WILL BE IN THE SAME NERVOUS BOAT!

Just remember that, at least for the people I know, there is a point in the first year where your soul just plain dies and you lose hope in all humanity. But you are then reborn as a lawyer-pupa and will someday mature into a fullfledged lawyer leaving your old life and existence behind.

My soul and hope in humanity died so very very long ago.

Chad Sexington said:

My soul and hope in humanity died so very very long ago.

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My appendix staged a revolt this morning. Luckily its plot was thwarted before it became serious. Enjoy your trip to the medical waste incinerator, you evil little bastard!

So I get an overnight in the hospital and I feel like someone kicked me in the gut. Bleargh. At least the room is really nice.

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My soul and hope in humanity died so very very long ago.

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We can rebuild her, we haz the technology.

Feeling pretty down lately.

I mentioned over in the Win thread that I had a date. We went for dinner, where we had some pretty good conversation. Though, admittedly, she did a lot of the talking. I've been feeling really discombobulated, with school and all, and my life has been incredibly uninteresting lately. It's been just reading, reading, reading for school. Anyway, she mentioned how she's only had about four hours of sleep two nights in a row and was really tired. We had plans to see a movie after dinner, but being a nice guy, I said I wouldn't be offended if we called it a night early, since she was so tired.

She wound up taking me up on the offer.

I don't know. Getting the feeling she won't be interested in a second date. I felt like such a schlub compared to her. Here she is, 28, career in place, volunteering, playing sports (Ultimate and ball hockey) and I'm...32, still working on my Bachelor's and working at Blockbuster. I lead such a boring, uninteresting life and I didn't know what to talk to her about.

So yeah, feeling down because of the whole "32 and feeling like I've wasted my life" thing that crops up often when I get down.

She mentioned wanting to go to this new cafe in town called Snakes & Lattes (coffee and board game spot). Might see if she wants to join some friends of mine next week. Expecting a no, though.

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North_Ranger said:

*bandaged kitty*

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D'awww! Poor little kitty! What happened to the little guy?

well had my first interview. I have no idea how it went and it was completely not what I expected.

Lol

ThatNickGuy said:

D'awww! Poor little kitty! What happened to the little guy?

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He posted on halforums.

Obviously the cat couldn't cut it in law school so they fucked him up.

I've seen it happen. Poor kitteh.

Total Tortoise Revenue said:

well had my first interview. I have no idea how it went and it was completely not what I expected.

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Did you drop trou and say "This is why you should hire me!"?

Because I do that for every job interview.

*sighs, puts his hands behind his head* I've been banned from so many places with that method.

ThatNickGuy;438759][QUOTE=Total Tortoise Revenue said:

well had my first interview. I have no idea how it went and it was completely not what I expected.

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Did you drop trou and say "This is why you should hire me!"?

Because I do that for every job interview.

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Im not sure my pink flowered panties are job getters. Maybe that is where I've been going wrong.

ThatNickGuy;438715] [QUOTE=North_Ranger said:

*bandaged kitty*

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http://www.halforums.com/forum/t13813/

It was bad enough back when people just kept shuffling avatars... now everybody keeps shuffling full-blown usernames and I have no idea who half the people are any more.

aw I just did it one time... grumble grumble

Bah. Surrender. Whiny, youthful, premature surrender. It's all I see on a college campus. Youth in rebellion? Youth hiding in a hole in skinny jeans when the professor says something "mean," more like. CHRIST.

aw have you lost it?

Ive been really trying to be upbeat about my sister's girlfriend moving into my parent's house and taking my room, but I am starting to not be able to.

I love my room I have always had a master bedroom and now Ill be in a little tiny room and the door doesnt even lock.

I know that I am living at school so it won't be a constant issue but one of the things that is a constant consolation to me at school is knowing my room and my home is waiting for me. Now it is different.

Cajungal said:

Bah. Surrender. Whiny, youthful, premature surrender. It's all I see on a college campus. Youth in rebellion? Youth hiding in a hole in skinny jeans when the professor says something "mean," more like. CHRIST.

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Not to mention the complete unwillingness to do a goddamn thing for themselves. "I can't find this book." "Oh, it wasn't on the shelf?" "Uh..." "Did you check the shelf?" "How do you do that?" "Well, what's the call number?" "The what?" "When you looked up the book, and it said 'call number' in the catalogue." "Um... could you just show me where it is?"

Is it? That's what I started to believe only AFTER I started living in China.

Igor is flooding my basement!

STOP IT IGOR!

mr_thehun said:

ughghghghguh Whats up with the majority of younger north americans complete lack of independence? I thought that was the defining thing about us.

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The umbilical cord now lasts until after college, with parents holding their children's hands through school to protect them from grades, teachers, judgment, achievement, and life in general. Too many college students, living miles and miles from their parents' home, need to text in or call every couple of hours with status updates--and do so of their own volition because they've been raised to be incapable of doing things on their own.

Turning a child into something of dependence and no will may make him/her easier to raise, but it makes for a poor adult.

I've had parents come in who wanted to get their kid's student ID and books... without the student even there. Now, the student ID is a photo ID, and yet one helimompter couldn't see why it was a problem to make the ID without the student, and she got rather rude about it, calling me incompetent and obstructive. I said, "Well, unless you plan on going to classes for your child as well, they're going to have to come here to get it done. If you ARE planning to go to class for your student, I don't really see why you're paying for them to come here in the first place." To which she said, "Because if they're a student they're still covered on my insurance."

*facepalm*

Crap. My computer stopped charging and is now running off battery. Approximately an hour and a half remaining, and I have no idea why it won't charge. I've checked the cord and there is no breakage, the wall socket has power, and everything seems to be connected. This is bad news

escushion;439520][QUOTE=mr_thehun said:

ughghghghguh Whats up with the majority of younger north americans complete lack of independence? I thought that was the defining thing about us.

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The umbilical cord now lasts until after college, with parents holding their children's hands through school to protect them from grades, teachers, judgment, achievement, and life in general. Too many college students, living miles and miles from their parents' home, need to text in or call every couple of hours with status updates--and do so of their own volition because they've been raised to be incapable of doing things on their own.

Turning a child into something of dependence and no will may make him/her easier to raise, but it makes for a poor adult.[/QUOTE]

Luckily it's not that bad over here... Though I admit my mother showing some helicopter parent tendencies the first year I moved out. We had some fights about it, and she and dad agreed to back off. I still do call them a few times a week, but that's because I genuinely like talking to my mom.

In relation to the topic, however, I sometimes fear for the reading comprehension skills of my pupils. In one of the two exams I held today was an exercise I had to explain fifteen times in the classroom because the students (fourth-graders) could not understand what they were supposed to do in that exercise despite the directions being there in writing, in bold font and clearly understandable. Granted, they're fourth-graders but come on! Plus, there was this girl who kept complaining about how they should not do a reading comprehension exercise IN A CLASS INTENDED FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE SKILLS.

Scud said:

Crap. My computer stopped charging and is now running off battery. Approximately an hour and a half remaining, and I have no idea why it won't charge. I've checked the cord and there is no breakage, the wall socket has power, and everything seems to be connected. This is bad news

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Your charger itself might be dead. It happened to my laptop just a couple months ago and I had to go out and get a new one.

Could be the battery overcharged or no longer working too. Power off the computer, remove the battery and attempt to boot the computer up without the battery in it's socket and with the power cord attached. If this fails, see if you can take to a computer shop and have them attempt to plug it in and verify if the power cord is working. It's possible it may not be that big a deal with the charger.

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Why does one repeat customer feel he can ask me technical questions and not be charged for it? I finally had to lay down the law on it today, as his computer was in and out yesterday and I got it working fine.. for him to fuck it all up again and ask me for help (expecting a freebie!) through email (he's deaf). And on that note, I have communicated very well in the past with deaf people before, in fact one of my friends a few years ago was deaf... but this guy - caveman can communicate better!! ARRGGHH!!

Ok, now think I know why it stopped working. While I was in the garage, I dropped the power cord, which hit the cement pretty hard. I'm hoping that is the cause of the problem and the fix will be fairly cheap in comparison to what could be the issue. Since it is a laptop, digging around in the computer isn't really an option. I'll still try to power the computer up without the battery attached and see if that is the issue. 'till I get the chance to do it, I'll use my old brick of a computer.

Thanks for the advice fellas!

I just have to say that this week could possibly rank as one of the worst work weeks I have had in my entire career. My immediate supervisor could possibly be the smartest book smart person I know, but she has absolutely no common sense nor people skills. 75% of my coworkers are ready to change jobs because of the lack of organization and the total chaos we have had to put up with since she was hired. I have absolutely no respect for her at this point. I have never been so happy for Friday to come in my life. But was really put out to realize I don't have any more bubble bath to help take the stress away!

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So, about my brother...

He's 42 now, I guess, and I haven't really had a relationship with him since we were in our 20's. When we were kids, he was always putting me down. We took kung fu together (though he started a few months before me) and he was always beating me up until I eventually got better than him. When he moved out, he stole about half of my stuff.

My brother is an alcoholic. He doesn't have a job. He is a heavy drug abuser, and does whatever drugs he can get his hands on. He married again last year and had a kid this year, and his wife does all of the work and he's a stay at home dad. Before the kid, he was just a "stay at home husband". He's taken a few classes in college and cosmetology school, and business school, but dropped out of everything he's started. When he has worked, it's been at jobs like titty bar DJ, car wash detailer, though he did work in radio at a very small station in north dakota for a few months. He washed out of the Air Force, though he's told so many different stories about how he got out that I don't know what they actually kicked him out for. He has a daughter and I have a better relationship with the girl than he does. He spent months harassing her and calling her a whore and a slut because she was choosing to marry someone that he didn't particularly like, because the kid was in his 20's and didn't have an awesome job yet.

I'm not really ranting to talk about how much of a loser he is. What I'm mostly ranting about is how he stalks my social networking pages (facebook, and myspace when I had it) and my website. He does this with everyone in the family. He'll look at all of our pages, and stew over our lives, and then when he can no longer stand it, he'll write or call us at 2 in the morning and leave drunken messages about how we're all fuck ups. He takes this smug moral tone and sends these pronouncements on high about how we should be conducting our lives when he really should reserve his reflection over how his own life is turning out.

Like, for instance, when Calli and I got married, I had to wipe his drunken rantings off of our wedding guestbook site. He posted some asinine bullshit about how it was "interesting" that I would praise my mom so much on the wedding website, but not send her a wedding invitation, how I was a shitty two-faced son, and how I was making our mom cry her eyes out by not including her. I had to remind him that nobody had gotten one yet because you don't send them out until about two months before the wedding, and that I was talking to my mom on the phone several times a week. She knew when to expect the wedding invitations and his story about how I was ripping her heart out was just bullshit. He hadn't even been talking to my mom. He just made it up. Stuff like that.

Anyway, I suppose it was that time again, because out of the blue last night at 2am, he left me a drunken facebook message basically telling me how I was a shitty martial arts instructor, and then followed it up at 5:30am with more ranting.

God, I wish the alcohol would do its job and kill his liver already.

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Cockroach factor, man. The more societally worthless you are, the closer to indestructible you become. Sounds like he could survive a Napalm strike to the face. You, well, I'd be extra careful on stairways in your case.

The stairways (and maybe his brother) better watch out.

He knows kung fu.

I love KUNG FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....

escushion said:

The stairways (and maybe his brother) better watch out.

He knows kung fu.

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Right, but the cockroach factor works against that... oh, nevermind.

*sighs*

Girlfriend had a bad day today, and she came over tonight because she couldn't stand some relatives. I'm not going to tell anything more about that, but I'm afraid what this means to a friendship of mine. I have this online gaming buddy, we've been playing for the better part of a decade, but lately she's been getting pissed off at me because I've had to cut back on gaming time due to work and friends. We were supposed to play today, and half an hour before our meeting my girlfriend comes here. Naturally she takes precedence, so I contact my friend and tell her there's a small emergency and that I can't come online today. I know this young lady, and I fear she'll be mightily pissed off at me now.

Oh, and the girlfriend's fine now. She just needed a shoulder to lean on for a while.

It's a weird thing with friends of the same gender as your significant other, because while they know in their heads they're friends, there's still a temptation to get aggravated about being put in second by the significant other. I've had a situation where my best friend (a girl) would be annoyed with me for a week or so because I had to put off talking to her or even visiting due to something coming up involving my fiancee.

That said, a real friend--however frustrated--will understand and know that they have done or will do the same thing in return when it comes to her significant other.

Ignore the gender thing in cases of bromance though.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... hulk SMASH!!!!!!!........former friend tweeting lies and misperceptions about me. Why should I care, but I do. GRRRRRRRRRRRR. Also claims he was "at risk youth" when he was a teenager, when he was white collar youth! LIAR!!!!!!!!! PANTS ON FIRE!! (and what huge pants they are!)

Seriously, every fucking car I look it is automatic transmission. I want a pickup truck, but every goddamn truck I look it is automatic. Fuck all you lazy ass, horrible drivers who can't drive a goddamn stick!

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Seriously, every fucking car I look it is automatic transmission. I want a pickup truck, but every goddamn truck I look it is automatic. Fuck all you lazy ass, horrible drivers who can't drive a goddamn stick!

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Most of Europe uses stick shift. You'd like it here

I miss that as well, Chaz. Dad made all of us learn. I'm gonna get a newer used car pretty soon, and I'd love to go back to driving stick if I could.

Why are there always morons who act like superman when they have ten beers in them? Seriously, if you act like a cockmonger when you're drunk, maybe it's a good idea you don't drink at all!

Agreed, Idiot. The big thing that keeps me away from parties and bars is all the bullshitting that comes from drinking too much. I get so sick of hearing it, and I end up having a lousy time. That way everyone is happy. I'm not there to be a wet blanket, and they can jump off a roof after boasting about their strength.

I discovered a new drunk person I can't stand. I actually went out and had some drinks with friends the other night and encountered Drunk-Chick-Who-Talks-Way-Too-Loud-On-Her-Cellphone that chick would NOT shut up. She was sitting at a table a ways away from us and we could hear everything she said, nothing interesting of course. I wanted to smack her but then she would have just fallen over and kept talking.

I can tolerate it at bars and parties as long as I'm not being with it personally. But I was at a friends house doing my laundry, and his mother asks me to watch over the place as she decided to have "girls night out" with her friends. Her BF comes homes all drunk and raging, yelling, insulting, and swearing at her because she didn't want to out with him that night, then his drunken ire turns to me. So she drives me back home in a hurry, obviously very upset about the whole affair. I cannot understand why she would put up with that.

Yikes.

*sigh*

So, the wife is off to the big city for work for 4 days. For those of you who know our situation, this is causing me no end of emotional stress.

It's around the anniversary of D-day when my trust was first shattered and she's going back to the same city where the problem became physical. It's been a long year, full of ups and downs. We've had many, many, many hours of counselling and she has made huge changes in her self and committed herself totally and fully to our relationship. She's grown more confident and mature, communicates more and has cut herself off from the online community which she used to run to.

Still, it's a brutal reminder of what happened. I know she has to go - she's been putting it off for months knowing that it's going to cause me pain. She's changed the entire environment in which she's going to. Staying with a female friend, taking the bus and not driving down independently, not taking her laptop, etc.

I intellectually 'trust' nothing to happen. Emotionally it's a different story. I don't feel panicky, I feel anxious, self-aware, introspective. I feel the need to lose myself in distractions for the next couple days just to stay sane.

To those spouses who are or are considering being unfaithful. FUCK YOU. Your six seconds of fun lasts years of pain.

:\ Sorry, Adammon. I remember how rough all that was. Trust is hard after all that. Good luck to y'all.

So, I have this wisdom tooth, which for a long ass time, had a piece of popcorn kernel skin in front of it. I tried everything to get rid of that damn kernel - brushing, flossing (didn't really work, it was in front of the tooth embedded in the gum), tooth picks, floss picks, fingernails, everything. Finally, I managed to get the kernel out of my gums, and low-and-behold, there's a cavity in the face of the tooth. Which reaches back to the surface of the tooth. Nice little hole that reaches from the surface of the tooth, to the front of the tooth. Food can pass through the hole - and frequently did, until the little bit of tooth surrounding the hole finally broke off. That was about, oh, a year ago, little more. No dental insurance, tooth extractions are incredibly expensive, and it's been hard as hell to find a decent dentist in the greater Seattle metroplex. I could go back to the guy that botched my root canal, or I could go to one of the myriad of dentists that friends, family members, and family members of my fiance have told me to avoid at all costs. Now however, the pain has overcome my ability to, well, overcome it. Excedrin, Tylenol, nothing. Almost to the point of taking some left over Vicodin. This tooth must come out of my face.

Update - Vicodin taken. Spinny has begun, when does the lack of pain and/or caring about the pain begin? Fuck. FUCK!!!!

I can take care of that tooth for you. Just open wide.

You forgot the anesthesia

How silly of me. Thank you, nurse.

*sighs*

The girlfriend chewed my ear off, and not in the good way. Basically she had been pissed about something for days, and suddenly she just couldn't keep it in anymore. She told me she hates it everytime I do certain things, how I say I try to change but then apparently don't put enough effort into it. How she's angry at me for what she considers lack of trying...

The thing is, she's right. I want to change. But it's not so easy, once you've fallen into that rut for most of your life. It didn't help that I had done some of those things in order to be a good host, and not brought up one of her suggestions of doing something together because I had thought her too tired and stressed out these days. Goddammit, I wanted to tell her how much it pained me to hear her say those things, the same things I've been hearing ad nauseam from just about everybody. But I couldn't bring myself to yell at her; she means well, and I was in a bit of a shock, seeing how we had met earlier today and she had said nothing about these things. Guess I suck at empathy or catching subtle hints...

*deep sigh*

Don't yell, but tell her how it makes you feel. It may not help your relationship, but it will help you. Keep you calm no matter how heated a conversation gets.

My unsolicited advice depends on what these unwanted activities might be.

Roommate and his gf are going out of town this weekend, so I'll be home alone yet again for Saturday/Sunday. My weekend plans will involve large bottles of unfiltered sake and a lot of movies.

I lead a charmed life, truly.

Gusto said:

My unsolicited advice depends on what these unwanted activities might be.

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Pretty much what he said. Some things you'll be able to change and will be a better person for it. Other things won't change. To some degree, people are what they are. The trick's knowing what to filter out as good advice among all the griping. (Frankly women get away with this stuff notoriously well when they're just as flawed as their men.) Hope things get resolved soon, though. I know how frustrating it is to be nagged about something that you beat yourself up about all the time anyway.

CK--do you like Summer Snow?

I've sadly not tried a lot of different kinds of sake yet, I just recently started buying it at home. Don't have the last bottle so I can't see what brand I've been buying. D:

I don't know if it's a "good" kind or not... but I've ordered it a couple of times when I go out for sushi, and I brought it on a convention trip once, too. It's very nice unfiltered sake, to my untrained taste buds at least. ;P I'd recommend it.

Gared said:

So, I have this wisdom tooth, which for a long ass time, had a piece of popcorn kernel skin in front of it. I tried everything to get rid of that damn kernel - brushing, flossing (didn't really work, it was in front of the tooth embedded in the gum), tooth picks, floss picks, fingernails, everything. Finally, I managed to get the kernel out of my gums, and low-and-behold, there's a cavity in the face of the tooth. Which reaches back to the surface of the tooth. Nice little hole that reaches from the surface of the tooth, to the front of the tooth. Food can pass through the hole - and frequently did, until the little bit of tooth surrounding the hole finally broke off. That was about, oh, a year ago, little more. No dental insurance, tooth extractions are incredibly expensive, and it's been hard as hell to find a decent dentist in the greater Seattle metroplex. I could go back to the guy that botched my root canal, or I could go to one of the myriad of dentists that friends, family members, and family members of my fiance have told me to avoid at all costs. Now however, the pain has overcome my ability to, well, overcome it. Excedrin, Tylenol, nothing. Almost to the point of taking some left over Vicodin. This tooth must come out of my face.

Update - Vicodin taken. Spinny has begun, when does the lack of pain and/or caring about the pain begin? Fuck. FUCK!!!!

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Pretty much the same, except it was two years ago, and mine only hurts occasionally. Doesn't seem infected. I'm leaving it be for now.

Cajungal said:

I don't know if it's a "good" kind or not... but I've ordered it a couple of times when I go out for sushi, and I brought it on a convention trip once, too. It's very nice unfiltered sake, to my untrained taste buds at least. ;P I'd recommend it.

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It's funny, 'cause you think "unfiltered" and you think 'oh nasty it's gonna have grain and crap in it' not 'oh man this is delicious and I'm getting toasted.'

CynicismKills;441023][QUOTE=Cajungal said:

I don't know if it's a "good" kind or not... but I've ordered it a couple of times when I go out for sushi, and I brought it on a convention trip once, too. It's very nice unfiltered sake, to my untrained taste buds at least. ;P I'd recommend it.

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It's funny, 'cause you think "unfiltered" and you think 'oh nasty it's gonna have grain and crap in it' not 'oh man this is delicious and I'm getting toasted.'[/QUOTE]

I had my reservations, but my dad ordered it, and he usually orders good alcohol. ^_^

The only sake I've ever had was legit stuff my friend brought back from his teaching stint in Kyoto.

There are two types of "unfiltered" sake. Muroka, which means 'unfiltered', which means sake that hasn't been carbon filtered, but has been pressed and separated from the lees and so is clear, not cloudy. It has a strong flavor comparatively due to that lack of carbon filtering. Nigori is cloudy, having only been passed through a loose mesh to separate it from the mash, and not filtered further. Nigori has a lot of rice sediment in it, so shake the bottle first to mix it up.

There's also doburoku, which is basically rice moonshine, and legally not sake at all. It's described as being a "chunky" variety of nigori.

Yeah, I buy the cloudy kind that tastes a bit sweet. I've not tried Muroka that I know of, but I will have to keep an eye out for it.

My mom told me today that my doxin is having issues moving lately. My dad had to build him a ramp so he could get in and out of the dog door.

She told me 10 minutes ago, and I'm already crying. I don't know if I can handle losing him without being there.

I was very confused by doxin initially but now i understand.

That's really sad. I know someday we are going to have to accommodate our pitbull/german shepherds hip dysplasia and i get sad just thinking about it.

makare said:

I was very confused by doxin initially but now i understand.

That's really sad. I know someday we are going to have to accommodate our pitbull/german shepherds hip dysplasia and i get sad just thinking about it.

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Hip displacia (sp?) is what led to my doberman being put down last Easter. I'm really not doing well right now.

dude.. it's spelled the way i spelled it.

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dude.. it's spelled the way i spelled it.

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Oh okay I'll worry about that next time I'm afraid a pet might die. Thanks for being so considerate.

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dude.. it's spelled the way i spelled it.

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Oh okay I'll worry about that next time I'm afraid a pet might die. Thanks for being so considerate.[/QUOTE]

hey don't get snippy with me. im sorry about your pet but seriously the spelling was an inch above yours. there is really no excuse for that.

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dude.. it's spelled the way i spelled it.

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Oh okay I'll worry about that next time I'm afraid a pet might die. Thanks for being so considerate.[/QUOTE]

hey don't get snippy with me. im sorry about your pet but seriously the spelling was an inch above yours. there is really no excuse for that.[/QUOTE]

Okay, I guess you misunderstood. I wasn't questioning your spelling, I just wasn't sure if the way I usually have spelled it was right. (sp?) is something I've always used to say 'hey I don't know if I spelled this right.' Apologies.

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dude.. it's spelled the way i spelled it.

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Oh okay I'll worry about that next time I'm afraid a pet might die. Thanks for being so considerate.[/QUOTE]

hey don't get snippy with me. im sorry about your pet but seriously the spelling was an inch above yours. there is really no excuse for that.[/QUOTE]

Okay, I guess you misunderstood. I wasn't questioning your spelling, I just wasn't sure if the way I usually have spelled it was right. (sp?) is something I've always used to say 'hey I don't know if I spelled this right.' Apologies.[/QUOTE]

It's not a big deal, I didn't mean to make you feel crappy about it. I was just bewildered that you would ask for spelling when the spelling was right there. I sure as hell don't have perfect spelling and/or grammar but it was just the close juxtaposition that confused me more than anything else

im sure your input has really helped though. well done.

Jerk.

I may be a jerk but at least I got lucky with mr_thehun*


*if he says otherwise he's a damn liar aranoid:

Cops on strike all over the country. Schools, banks and commerces closed. President maybe on the way out. I hate this place. USA, please invade this country!. Ecuatorians don't deserve democracy.

Cog said:

Cops on strike all over the country. Schools, banks and commerces closed. President maybe on the way out. I hate this place. USA, please invade this country!. Ecuatorians don't deserve democracy.

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and you think we do...?

Keep safe.

Makare used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Suddenly she isn't cool anymore. It'll happen to you.

Cog: what sixpack said. Be careful.

Fuuuuuck. My opinion of a friend if mine changed pretty drastically yesterday. This normally wouldn't be so bad except that he's such a big part of my group of friends. Everything I'm invited to he'll be invited to as well. He's even a roommate to my other good friends in the area so if I go hang with them today he'll probably be there.


I should probably just avoid that house until it blows over? I've got other things I should be doing anyway I guess.

Cancer is still too quick a death, and I don't recall if I said goodbye to her.

Wow. I can't really follow up after that, but I am extremely annoyed. Someone stole my nice $200 HJC helmet that perfectly matched my motorcycle color scheme and backpack right off my bike at the university gym last night. I mean, they tell us to park motorcycles right next to the front door, so someone did it in plain sight of everyone. I've been leaving it on my seat-back for 3 years now, and someone decided last night they'd like to have it. So I had to get my wife to load up the bathed and pajamaed kids to come bring me my crappy backup helmet. I filed a police report, but what good will that do. The silver lining is that it's probably someone who goes there regularly, and they may have video of whodunit.

I'm sorry, FLP...a friend of mine's uncle died of cancer recently, and I agree. It's far too quick, even when you're able to say good-bye.

As for my own rant...*Possibly political, but I'm more angry about the stupidity she exhibits. I'll edit if I need to.*

After a pretty bad day today, I read the paper and found out that Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, spoke at my University last night about abortion, is pro-life, and has anti-gay sentiments. I was already annoyed, then dug a little deeper and just wanted to rage.

She's claimed her uncle, MLK Jr., was a staunch Republican and pro-life when his track record was Democratic and a documented supporter of Planned Parenthood. She claimed that Rosa Parks, despite serving on an advisory board in Planned Parenthood, was a leader in the pro-life movement. She's claimed that homosexuality can't be elevated to a civil rights issue because she argues it's a biblical issue and that, "To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights." (Link).

Fucking hate-filled woman hiding behind the banner of her uncle's legacy.

Enresshou said:

I'm sorry, FLP...a friend of mine's uncle died of cancer recently, and I agree. It's far too quick, even when you're able to say good-bye.

As for my own rant...*Possibly political, but I'm more angry about the stupidity she exhibits. I'll edit if I need to.*

After a pretty bad day today, I read the paper and found out that Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, spoke at my University last night about abortion, is pro-life, and has anti-gay sentiments. I was already annoyed, then dug a little deeper and just wanted to rage.

She's claimed her uncle, MLK Jr., was a staunch Republican and pro-life when his track record was Democratic and a documented supporter of Planned Parenthood. She claimed that Rosa Parks, despite serving on an advisory board in Planned Parenthood, was a leader in the pro-life movement. She's claimed that homosexuality can't be elevated to a civil rights issue because she argues it's a biblical issue and that, "To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights." (Link).

Fucking hate-filled woman hiding behind the banner of her uncle's legacy.

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Not sure why you think Planned Parenthood supporters can't be Pro-life. In many cases, Planned Parenthood is tremendously beneficial to the pro-life cause - I can't think of any other organization out there that has reduced more unplanned pregnancies than PP. What Planned Parenthood does, more comprehensively than anyone else, is to distribute the means and knowledge to control your risk of getting pregnant when you don’t want to be pregnant.

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I'm sorry, FLP...a friend of mine's uncle died of cancer recently, and I agree. It's far too quick, even when you're able to say good-bye.

As for my own rant...*Possibly political, but I'm more angry about the stupidity she exhibits. I'll edit if I need to.*

After a pretty bad day today, I read the paper and found out that Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, spoke at my University last night about abortion, is pro-life, and has anti-gay sentiments. I was already annoyed, then dug a little deeper and just wanted to rage.

She's claimed her uncle, MLK Jr., was a staunch Republican and pro-life when his track record was Democratic and a documented supporter of Planned Parenthood. She claimed that Rosa Parks, despite serving on an advisory board in Planned Parenthood, was a leader in the pro-life movement. She's claimed that homosexuality can't be elevated to a civil rights issue because she argues it's a biblical issue and that, "To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights." (Link).

Fucking hate-filled woman hiding behind the banner of her uncle's legacy.

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Not sure why you think Planned Parenthood supporters can't be Pro-life. In many cases, Planned Parenthood is tremendously beneficial to the pro-life cause - I can't think of any other organization out there that has reduced more unplanned pregnancies than PP. What Planned Parenthood does, more comprehensively than anyone else, is to distribute the means and knowledge to control your risk of getting pregnant when you don’t want to be pregnant.[/QUOTE]

Also not sure why pro-life equates to hate-filled.

Adammon;443362][QUOTE=Enresshou said:

I'm sorry, FLP...a friend of mine's uncle died of cancer recently, and I agree. It's far too quick, even when you're able to say good-bye.

As for my own rant...*Possibly political, but I'm more angry about the stupidity she exhibits. I'll edit if I need to.*

After a pretty bad day today, I read the paper and found out that Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, spoke at my University last night about abortion, is pro-life, and has anti-gay sentiments. I was already annoyed, then dug a little deeper and just wanted to rage.

She's claimed her uncle, MLK Jr., was a staunch Republican and pro-life when his track record was Democratic and a documented supporter of Planned Parenthood. She claimed that Rosa Parks, despite serving on an advisory board in Planned Parenthood, was a leader in the pro-life movement. She's claimed that homosexuality can't be elevated to a civil rights issue because she argues it's a biblical issue and that, "To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights." (Link).

Fucking hate-filled woman hiding behind the banner of her uncle's legacy.

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Not sure why you think Planned Parenthood supporters can't be Pro-life. In many cases, Planned Parenthood is tremendously beneficial to the pro-life cause - I can't think of any other organization out there that has reduced more unplanned pregnancies than PP. What Planned Parenthood does, more comprehensively than anyone else, is to distribute the means and knowledge to control your risk of getting pregnant when you don’t want to be pregnant.[/QUOTE]

Just remember many pro life people feel that a condom is the same as an abortion.

sixpackshaker;443369][QUOTE=Adammon;443362][QUOTE=Enresshou said:

I'm sorry, FLP...a friend of mine's uncle died of cancer recently, and I agree. It's far too quick, even when you're able to say good-bye.

As for my own rant...*Possibly political, but I'm more angry about the stupidity she exhibits. I'll edit if I need to.*

After a pretty bad day today, I read the paper and found out that Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, spoke at my University last night about abortion, is pro-life, and has anti-gay sentiments. I was already annoyed, then dug a little deeper and just wanted to rage.

She's claimed her uncle, MLK Jr., was a staunch Republican and pro-life when his track record was Democratic and a documented supporter of Planned Parenthood. She claimed that Rosa Parks, despite serving on an advisory board in Planned Parenthood, was a leader in the pro-life movement. She's claimed that homosexuality can't be elevated to a civil rights issue because she argues it's a biblical issue and that, "To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights." (Link).

Fucking hate-filled woman hiding behind the banner of her uncle's legacy.

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Not sure why you think Planned Parenthood supporters can't be Pro-life. In many cases, Planned Parenthood is tremendously beneficial to the pro-life cause - I can't think of any other organization out there that has reduced more unplanned pregnancies than PP. What Planned Parenthood does, more comprehensively than anyone else, is to distribute the means and knowledge to control your risk of getting pregnant when you don’t want to be pregnant.[/QUOTE]

Just remember many pro life people feel that a condom is the same as an abortion.[/QUOTE]

Granted, the word "many" is nebulous, and can mean as few as "more than one", but that is also a bit of a logical jump.

aw yeah semantics turn me on.

Piotyr;443378][QUOTE=sixpackshaker said:

Just remember many pro life people feel that a condom is the same as an abortion.

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Granted, the word "many" is nebulous, and can mean as few as "more than one", but that is also a bit of a logical jump.[/QUOTE]

OK, nearly a billion Catholics...

sixpackshaker;443393][QUOTE=Piotyr;443378][QUOTE=sixpackshaker said:

Just remember many pro life people feel that a condom is the same as an abortion.

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Granted, the word "many" is nebulous, and can mean as few as "more than one", but that is also a bit of a logical jump.[/QUOTE]

OK, nearly a billion Catholics...[/QUOTE]

I know a LOT of Catholics. None of them believe this exactly. Catholics are the epitome of pick & choose religious beliefs. No, that's not a dig on Catholics, but of their archaic and illogical (read as against most Human nature) views of how people should act.

I wish my boss would learn that E-Mail is not instantaneous.

He will send/forward some request to me, hit send, hop out of his seat, come directly to my desk and start asking me questions about the E-Mail, and why I have not received it yet.

Well... crap. So, been unemployed for a little over a year now, since my previous employer dissolved around me. Been looking for work (seriously looking, not just occasionally putting in an app or two), I'd say I've applied a few thousand times for jobs. I've had one call back, worked a few temp gigs at Microsoft, and received a grand total out of all of those apps of 5 rejection letters, and not heard back from anyone else. I'm out of time, I'm out of money, and I'm having to seriously consider moving (with my fiance, two cats, and full apartment) back to Wisconsin to live with my parents. There are more jobs available there, that's good, right? Yeah... I didn't think so either.

Gared that sucks. Job hunting is so frustrating. I hope everything works out the way you want.

Sorry you can't find work where you're at, Gared.

I like Wisconsin.

GRRRRrrrrr.. I got stung by a Yellow Jacket, IN MY HOUSE!

I had to drive miles to buy Benadryl at convenience store prices. Now I am on anaphylaxis watch.

I hate family law.

Now we are moving into child support cases. I don't know how divorce attorneys do not murder their clients. The clients are mostly self centered assholes.

Sigh.

makare said:

I hate family law.

Now we are moving into child support cases. I don't know how divorce attorneys do not murder their clients. The clients are mostly self centered assholes.

Sigh.

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You could state that about MOST plaintiffs in civil suits

Officer_Charon;445807][QUOTE=makare said:

I hate family law.

Now we are moving into child support cases. I don't know how divorce attorneys do not murder their clients. The clients are mostly self centered assholes.

Sigh.

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You could state that about MOST plaintiffs in civil suits[/QUOTE]

And most citizens in criminal cases...

Hmm no i stand by people getting divorced as a special breed of asshole. I guess it's mostly because of the way their petty selfishness hurt their children in those cases.

What about childless divorcees in no-fault dissolution states like Washington? It sure as hell made my divorce easy, especially since my ex didn't even bother to show up. Though, it would have been interesting to be in an at-fault dissolution state and have her try to introduce evidence that I failed to support her to a level commensurate to that at which her parents supported her. It would have been funny as hell asking her in court to please show the pre-nuptial document that stated that I would continue to support her $400/wk pot habit.

*Oops, forgot my rant.

On the plus side, I finally have a few job contacts, and probably won't have to move to Wisconsin in the next two weeks. On the negative side, following my successful wisdom tooth extraction of week before last, I have apparently strained every single (external) muscle right of my spine and above mid-back while unconsciously over-compensating for the pain/jaw strain that the abscessed tooth caused. I haven't been able to sleep without the use of Hydrocodone for a week, and can't get in to see my LMT until Saturday afternoon. Also, I can't take NSAIDs.

Sodak is fault only. That's so stupid.

Hopefully someday Ill be able to have something to do with changing that. /hope.

In that case, I wish you a hearty and sincere good luck.

don't fucking say you'll write me a letter of recommendation if you wont actually fucking do it. fuck you

Starting Wednesday of next next, I was suppose to do some long-term subbing for my mother's math classes because she is getting her stomach stapled. Was going to be three weeks worth of work, which is a big deal for me. The principal waits until today to tell my mom that I CAN'T sub long-term for her because it would be a conflict of interest. WHAT?! FUCKING SERIOUSLY?! That's bullshit! So now all the lesson planning my mom made for me for those weeks are out the door because the district is now going to get someone she doesn't know to cover the three weeks. I'm so damned pissed right now, not only for myself but my mom as well!

This.

The girlfriend just dumped me. Over the phone. After a three-day trip to visit some of her friends in Helsinki.

Apparently I'm an amazing guy, but she just isn't in love with me anymore. Ain't that just a fucking riot? That's kinda like someone complementing your clothing while punching you in the kidneys.

Truth be told, I kinda knew something was wrong. She barely kissed me once this weekend, leaving me out of conversations with her friends (her excuse? "I haven't seen them in two months"), and today when we were coming home on the train she barely spoke a word.

Fuck.

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This.

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I feel for you dude. My son did that a month or two ago. All over the bathroom. I mean all over. The walls, the door, out of the bathroom onto the carpet.

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The girlfriend just dumped me. Over the phone. After a three-day trip to visit some of her friends in Helsinki.

Apparently I'm an amazing guy, but she just isn't in love with me anymore. Ain't that just a fucking riot? That's kinda like someone complementing your clothing while punching you in the kidneys.

Truth be told, I kinda knew something was wrong. She barely kissed me once this weekend, leaving me out of conversations with her friends (her excuse? "I haven't seen them in two months"), and today when we were coming home on the train she barely spoke a word.

Fuck.

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Sorry to hear that, Reindeer.

I'm sorry, NR.

That really sucks NR

Aw, NR.

IfI may, that's a really fucking cowardly way for her to do it. I hate phone break-ups.

Sorry about that, NR.



Hear ya go.

Sorry to hear that NR.

Sorry NR. That sucks man...

Well, this is one of the worst weekends of my life.

I learned the very real possibility that one of my close friend's recently, may have (I do not have all the facts or stories and am not going to act on anything until I do) raped another close friend. Apparently this MAY have happened a month or so ago. No one wanted to tell me anything for obvious reasons. Now, I know. Now, something is going to happen. This fucking sucks.

Sorry to hear that Chuck. I was in a similar situation a year ago and understand that there is no positive outcome. Either you support your male friend and feel like an ass for doubting the woman, or you support the female friend and feel like you are abandoning your friend.

Anyways, I know it sucks, man. Wish I had more positive things to say on it.

My back has been hurting lately but nothing to major. Starting on Saturday my back starting hurting really bad. I laid in bed resting but it was still hurting today (Sunday) so I decided to go in and get it checked. They informed me that it is sciatica which is what I had though it was. They gave me some percocet and told me to take a day or two off from work to rest and than to try some stretches. If it doesn't get better after that they said I would need to go in for physical therapy. They want me to go in for an x-ray tomorrow but I am not sure if my insurance will cover it so I will have to call them up tomorrow to find out for sure. But as of right now my back hurts but I have some percocet and that seems to be helping somewhat but there is still pain. But hopefully it will get better quickly cause right now it is driving me crazy and as stupid as it sounds I hate calling out of work and I am hoping I don;t have to be out for more than a day or so.

Thanks, guys and gals... I've been feeling really down about the whole thing, and it's nice to hear someone cares. *sighs* I've been going through the last weekend in my head, and I cannot help but thinking that me going along with her to Helsinki was a mistake. I had fun, sure, but the whole trip just raised some issues all the time. She hates living in our current hometown and wants to move to Helsinki, while I, a country boy still at heart, couldn't even dream of moving into that concrete monstrosity that is the capital city. She barely spent any time with me and a mutual friend (whose birthday we were actually celebrating), to the point where she and her two friends kept leaving me and the friend behind when we were walking, like we weren't even part of the group. And I swear, the way she just kep pawing that friend of hers... If I didn't know he was gay, I would have been jealous as hell.

The funny thing is, I went along with her because I wanted to spend time with her, come to know her friends... Hell, with a throbbing headache I still decided to come with them downtown, because I wanted to be with her. Guess I just shot myself in the leg with that...

North_Ranger said:

Thanks, guys and gals... I've been feeling really down about the whole thing, and it's nice to hear someone cares. *sighs* I've been going through the last weekend in my head, and I cannot help but thinking that me going along with her to Helsinki was a mistake. I had fun, sure, but the whole trip just raised some issues all the time. She hates living in our current hometown and wants to move to Helsinki, while I, a country boy still at heart, couldn't even dream of moving into that concrete monstrosity that is the capital city. She barely spent any time with me and a mutual friend (whose birthday we were actually celebrating), to the point where she and her two friends kept leaving me and the friend behind when we were walking, like we weren't even part of the group. And I swear, the way she just kep pawing that friend of hers... If I didn't know he was gay, I would have been jealous as hell.

The funny thing is, I went along with her because I wanted to spend time with her, come to know her friends... Hell, with a throbbing headache I still decided to come with them downtown, because I wanted to be with her. Guess I just shot myself in the leg with that...

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Wow, just wow. Is she on the younger side? Because that whole display she put out just reeks of high school antics. Sorry to hear about it, bro.

I'll spare you the plenty of fish in the sea bullshit and have a shot of vodka tonight in your honor. I hope you do the same.

That's what I was thinking Chaz. It just sounds so childish.

My first love (I really mean that) broke up with me over the phone. He told me the long distance thing wasn't going to work. I was coming up his way the very next day and I still had to go...I just didn't tell him. It was going to be a surprise. Welp, turns outhe was dating someone else. A fat, ugly 16 year old. He was 19 at the time, I was 17.

I was mortified that I was dumped for....that. I was horrified that he dumped me on the phone without even mentioning her to me. When I asked him about it he said "It was easier." Well thanks.

He got it good though, she was caught banging two guys in the school bathroom. He called me the next day, but I was already dating the Hubby by then. He lost.

Chazwozel said:

Because that whole display she put out just reeks of high school antics.

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DITTO.

Something was really frustrating me and pissing me off. Then I realized that something was me... well rather my stupidity. I stopped being stupid and the issue resolved itself.

I'm really happy no one was here to witness that. So this half rant/half win.

Well when I drove away to lunch, I had a major rant in my head, I was ready to burst out and say what I felt about it...

Now, I don't fucking remember why I was mad.

Getting old sucks.

North_Ranger said:

The girlfriend just dumped me. Over the phone. After a three-day trip to visit some of her friends in Helsinki.

Apparently I'm an amazing guy, but she just isn't in love with me anymore. Ain't that just a fucking riot? That's kinda like someone complementing your clothing while punching you in the kidneys.

Truth be told, I kinda knew something was wrong. She barely kissed me once this weekend, leaving me out of conversations with her friends (her excuse? "I haven't seen them in two months"), and today when we were coming home on the train she barely spoke a word.

Fuck.

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I still think you're a hoopy frood.

Chazwozel said:

Wow, just wow. Is she on the younger side? Because that whole display she put out just reeks of high school antics. Sorry to hear about it, bro.

I'll spare you the plenty of fish in the sea bullshit and have a shot of vodka tonight in your honor. I hope you do the same.

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She's 19... so yeah, she's on the younger side.

As for the vodka, well... I'll have to do that tomorrow. Last day on antibiotics, and all that... Thank you nonetheless.

North_Ranger;447031][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:

Wow, just wow. Is she on the younger side? Because that whole display she put out just reeks of high school antics. Sorry to hear about it, bro.

I'll spare you the plenty of fish in the sea bullshit and have a shot of vodka tonight in your honor. I hope you do the same.

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She's 19... so yeah, she's on the younger side.

As for the vodka, well... I'll have to do that tomorrow. Last day on antibiotics, and all that... Thank you nonetheless.[/QUOTE]

I'm going to be in Poland next summer. I'll have to get your address so I can send you some of my grandma's homemade vodka. Aww yeah dawg (uh, it's pretty good for degreasing engines too).

@ NR: Been there, brah. Yes, it sucks - but believe it or not, better now, than later down the road when she's been stringing you along for a while whilst going behind your back. Yes, it burns now. No, no platitude is going to make you feel better, but at least she had the guts to tell you.

In a childish manner, true, but still...


@Frankie: Dude. I know you're going to make sure that you've got the facts straight before you act... what a messed-up situation

Frankie Williamson said:

Well, this is one of the worst weekends of my life.

I learned the very real possibility that one of my close friend's recently, may have (I do not have all the facts or stories and am not going to act on anything until I do) raped another close friend. Apparently this MAY have happened a month or so ago. No one wanted to tell me anything for obvious reasons. Now, I know. Now, something is going to happen. This fucking sucks.

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Getting dumped is terrible for NR, but this one? Holy FUCK! Dude!


And NR, I once had a girl I was dating let go of my hand when she saw some friends. She then introduced me to them as "her cousin". Back then I was but looking back I'm all and about it.

Dave said:

And NR, I once had a girl I was dating let go of my hand when she saw some friends. She then introduced me to them as "her cousin". Back then I was but looking back I'm all and about it.

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Of course the proper response to this is to explain to her friends that the cousin thing makes the sex that much hotter.

Take our income. Cut it in half. That's our life right now.

My wife got fired today. Yippee. Gonna be another fun Christmas.

Dave. Dude. Life keeps crapping on your head, man. Sorry to hear that.

Anything we can do to help?

Ah fuck Dave

Didn't this happen like a year ago? What, did you pinch a loaf in Santa's stocking or something?

Yes, this happened almost exactly a year ago. She started working there in February. She got sent home Monday with strep throat and was told that she was contagious for 24 hours. So she didn't go in yesterday as the 24 hours would have been about 1/2 day. When she went in today they told her she'd missed too much time. No warning, no "if you miss another day" or anything. EVERY absence was approved.

Time to hit the street again.

Dave said:

Yes, this happened almost exactly a year ago. She started working there in February. She got sent home Monday with strep throat and was told that she was contagious for 24 hours. So she didn't go in yesterday as the 24 hours would have been about 1/2 day. When she went in today they told her she'd missed too much time. No warning, no "if you miss another day" or anything. EVERY absence was approved.

Time to hit the street again.

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Wow, that's kind of bullshit. She does them all a favor and they shit-can her for it.

Holy crap, Dave, that's just terrible to hear. I hope everything best for you and the missus, and hope she finds suitable employment soon. There oughta be at least seasonal work coming up, right?

Also, my own rant... My friends suck donkey balls today My ex-girlfriend was in a roleplaying group where I GM'ed for her and mutual friends. I asked her and the friends if they would like to continue soon. Everything's okay on that front, right? Because we broke up but decided to stay friends?

WRONG!!

My ex, now my "friend", tells me she's not interested in playing anymore, because "the schedules just don't fit anymore" (hell, we played when people had time! We did not have a set date!). And our mutual friends? Well, apparently it's "not the same anymore" and they'd "feel awkward" and all that song and dance. So basically I've been told that weeks of planning, setting up story hooks, helping people make characters and having barrel-loads of fun when we did sit down and play don't mean jack shit.

Fuckin' brilliant...

That's the bad thing about having mutual friends. It's great when everyone is together and happy, but when ANYONE breaks up it gets weird.

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

Yeah, you need to give that some time, that's all. I've seen friends break-up that ended up being close friends afterwards, but not until a good amount of time had passed.

TIME MOTHERFUCKER!

And Dave, I hope that the smallest amount of time passes before your wife is gainfully employed.

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Chazwozel said:

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

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I couldn't agree more, and I run 4-5 miles 3 times a week. Least favorite part of a workout.

Frankie Williamson said:

Yeah, you need to give that some time, that's all. I've seen friends break-up that ended up being close friends afterwards, but not until a good amount of time had passed.

TIME MOTHERFUCKER!

And Dave, I hope that the smallest amount of time passes before your wife is gainfully employed.

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Chazwozel said:

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

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I couldn't agree more, and I run 4-5 miles 3 times a week. Least favorite part of a workout.

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I run a solid mile every time I work out about 4 time a week (5 laps around the local high school track) at like 80%. I hate it so much. The only thing that drives me is the anger of knowing that I'm running.

Chazwozel said:

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

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Agreed. I used to run a lot, but then I realized it's just boring. Plus, I feel like a sheep, because it seems like everyone and their brother runs (at least here). How are we such a fat country when everyone I see runs?

Soccer is a good alternative. You still do the long distance running, but you have an objective. The problem there is that there are too many soccer douches who are better than you and they douchily like to make it clear.

Dave said:

Take our income. Cut it in half. That's our life right now.

My wife got fired today. Yippee. Gonna be another fun Christmas.

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anything we can do to help?

fade;447508][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

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Agreed. I used to run a lot, but then I realized it's just boring. Plus, I feel like a sheep, because it seems like everyone and their brother runs (at least here). How are we such a fat country when everyone I see runs?

Soccer is a good alternative. You still do the long distance running, but you have an objective. The problem there is that there are too many soccer douches who are better than you and they douchily like to make it clear.[/QUOTE]

This right here is why I stick with a stationary bike and a PSP. Lots of cardio, no boredom whatsoever.

I do my running on a treadmill staring at a TV. I still hate it. The only thing I hate more than running on a treadmill is a God damn shitfuck who makes me run to chase him down. Those guys are always 100 percent lucky I don't fucking shoot them.

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Yes, this happened almost exactly a year ago. She started working there in February. She got sent home Monday with strep throat and was told that she was contagious for 24 hours. So she didn't go in yesterday as the 24 hours would have been about 1/2 day. When she went in today they told her she'd missed too much time. No warning, no "if you miss another day" or anything. EVERY absence was approved.

Time to hit the street again.

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You must live in one of those shitty states like Indiana. Next time she gets strep, she should come visit for the day and cough in everyone's coffee. "That's team spirit! You're hired!"

I'm sorry this happened again.

Chazwozel said:

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

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I don't exactly love running, but I mostly enjoy it. I just let my mind wander and let my legs do their thing. I run early in the morning when most other people aren't around except for the other occasional runner; I find it to be peaceful and relaxing.

drifter;447594][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:

I fucking hate running. I hate it. It's so goddamn boring outside or in. No one likes running. If a runner comes up to you and claims they love it, they're lying. Look them right in their dead eyes and call them a liar. Running serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to run away from shit that's trying to eat you. It's not fun, it's a last resort survival tactic.

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I don't exactly love running, but I mostly enjoy it. I just let my mind wander and let my legs do their thing. I run early in the morning when most other people aren't around except for the other occasional runner; I find it to be peaceful and relaxing.[/QUOTE]

LIAR!

If you imagine the bedazzled shark yelling liar in a low class jerry springer way, it is kind of amusing.

Chazwozel said:

LIAR!

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I will admit my enjoyment is occasionally reinforced by the semi-regular girl with the nice butt who walks the same path I run.

Frankie Williamson said:

I do my running on a treadmill staring at a TV. I still hate it. The only thing I hate more than running on a treadmill is a God damn shitfuck who makes me run to chase him down. Those guys are always 100 percent lucky I don't fucking shoot them.

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Word. And the bastards ALWAYS know the terrain better than you.

Dave, if I can shake some loose, I'll see what I can do.

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Yes, this happened almost exactly a year ago. She started working there in February. She got sent home Monday with strep throat and was told that she was contagious for 24 hours. So she didn't go in yesterday as the 24 hours would have been about 1/2 day. When she went in today they told her she'd missed too much time. No warning, no "if you miss another day" or anything. EVERY absence was approved.

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I'm sorry this happened again.[/QUOTE]

Ditto that.

I can't believe they fired her for that, thats horrible.

I don't like running unless I have music. I flat out will not run if my mp3 player isn't charged. I'll find some other way to work out. But with music I *do* love it.

Dave, I'm so sorry to hear that. Jeez... they're really wrong for that.

Seriously, someone needs to take the hex off of Dave.

I love running, more now because chaz hates it. His hatred pleases me.

Of my three bosses the one who regularly runs and does triathlons is by far the most unhappy and difficult to deal with. I wonder if there is a correlation.

Baerdog said:

Of my three bosses the one who regularly runs and does triathlons is by far the most unhappy and difficult to deal with. I wonder if there is a correlation.

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you don't share his love of running, and he is disappointed in you?

It's just a theory.

Nah, it's because he rides a bike. Cyclists are a miserable and unhappy lot.

drifter said:

Nah, it's because he rides a bike. Cyclists are a miserable and unhappy lot.

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Don't even get me started on cyclists.

Espy;447678][QUOTE=drifter said:

Nah, it's because he rides a bike. Cyclists are a miserable and unhappy lot.

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Don't even get me started on cyclists.[/QUOTE]

Hey espy. How about those cyclists?

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

Man, cyclists can take their $35.00 socks and shove it.

Dave said:

That's the bad thing about having mutual friends. It's great when everyone is together and happy, but when ANYONE breaks up it gets weird.

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I call it "sharing the kids in the divorce." Some friends choose sides while others will only hang out with you if the ex isn't around.

And it sucks about the missus getting fired. I hope she gets a new job soon.

UDFy-38135539 said:

I love running, more now because chaz hates it. His hatred pleases me.

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I also really hate jumping off cliffs onto big pointy rocks. After you...

Chazwozel;447708][QUOTE=UDFy-38135539 said:

I love running, more now because chaz hates it. His hatred pleases me.

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I also really hate jumping off cliffs onto big pointy rocks. After you...[/QUOTE]

I really hate that too. So yeah, I'll just go for a run. because it is fucking awesome.

drifter said:

Nah, it's because he rides a bike. Cyclists are a miserable and unhappy lot.

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No, that's very untrue. Cyclists, especially mountain bikers, will get together to party, have an awesome time, and drink good beer at any convenient opportunity. They're tons of fun to be around.

Baerdog;447733][QUOTE=drifter said:

Nah, it's because he rides a bike. Cyclists are a miserable and unhappy lot.

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No, that's very untrue. Cyclists, especially mountain bikers, will get together to party, have an awesome time, and drink good beer at any convenient opportunity. They're tons of fun to be around.[/QUOTE]

True, but the street bikers who do nothing more than snarl traffic and flip you off when you finally get the chance to get around them are total dickwads. And I don't know about where you live, but in Omaha the dipshits come out of the woodwork during the Tour de France. Every year when the Tour is going on you'll see these asshats on every street wearing their little tight outfits that they pull out once a year.

Dicks.

I bike to work everyday I can, but I REFUSE to wear biker gear (other than a helmet). I bought it once, but there seemed to be zero benefit to wearing that stuff, but loads of discomfort. The only benefit I can see to bike shorts is the prevention of accidental junk exposure.

Also, bike shop employees are the douchiest douchebags of them all. 18-25 year olds who snort at your entry level derailleurs, and scoff at your bike model.

Dave;447769][QUOTE=Baerdog;447733][QUOTE=drifter said:

Nah, it's because he rides a bike. Cyclists are a miserable and unhappy lot.

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No, that's very untrue. Cyclists, especially mountain bikers, will get together to party, have an awesome time, and drink good beer at any convenient opportunity. They're tons of fun to be around.[/QUOTE]

True, but the street bikers who do nothing more than snarl traffic and flip you off when you finally get the chance to get around them are total dickwads. And I don't know about where you live, but in Omaha the dipshits come out of the woodwork during the Tour de France. Every year when the Tour is going on you'll see these asshats on every street wearing their little tight outfits that they pull out once a year.

Dicks.[/QUOTE]

As an avid mountain biker, let me just assure everyone that we don't like the "road-kings" either. Smug bastards - with their fanny packs, tights, and sponsor adorned gear.

Around here its just the asshole college students who know the law is on their side so they ignore every law, run every red light and stopsign (half the time without even checking to see if anyone is coming) and even ride outside the bike lane. The problem is, every car that ends up hitting them around here (and it happens ALL the time) is a hell of a lot bigger than them. One of these days I know one of them is gonna jump out in front of me and I'm gonna thwack his ass and I will get in trouble despite me not breaking any laws.

Actually the cops here pop cyclist students daily for running red lights and stop signs. 20 years back I knew a guy that lost his driver's license for DUI on a bicycle.

Sometimes I hate my coworkers. I was out for two days and tehy left all my work for me to do when I got back. Nothing what so ever was done for those two whole days. now some of it I can understand cause they have not been trained to do it but some of the stuff (especially emergence requests) could have been done. I mentioned to one of my coworkers that they didn't even try to help take care of any of my work when I was out and they told me that "they are not responsible for my shit". Now as I said I did not expect much to get done but here I am 2 days behind on work plus several out of the usual tasks to be done and on top of that I am moving slow cause of the medicine I am on. I was going to try to talk to my boss but he won't be back in until next week so I will have to wait until than to deal with any of this crap.

Sometimes I hate this coworker I have. He left for two days and then came back expecting us to have completed all HIS work that he was supposed to do it. I mean, we're not trained on some of it at all, but even the emergency stuff we didn't really want to touch, but somehow that's our fault? And then he comes and blows his stack at us for not 'helping'. WTF? We're not responsible for his shit. I'm sure he's gonna complain to the boss too, whatever.

Also, he's walking like Robby the Robot. WTF?

Adammon said:

Sometimes I hate this coworker I have. He left for two days and then came back expecting us to have completed all HIS work that he was supposed to do it. I mean, we're not trained on some of it at all, but even the emergency stuff we didn't really want to touch, but somehow that's our fault? And then he comes and blows his stack at us for not 'helping'. WTF? We're not responsible for his shit. I'm sure he's gonna complain to the boss too, whatever.

Also, he's walking like Robby the Robot. WTF?

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very funny

But seriously I help back fill for them as much as possible when they are out but they don;t feel the need to do anything to help me out. And it's not like I was hoping for for them to do much. I was just hoping they would bring the packages that arrived into a locked area so they would be safe. Maybe send out a shipment of laptops to another site when it was requested for an overnight delivery and I was not in to fill it. That type of thing. And no I am not going to purposefully get anyone into trouble with the boss. I just want to clarify a few things with him becuase as far as I was understanding there is supposed to be someone to perform back fill for at least some of the stuff when I am not in. That way I don;t get slammed with a crap load of stuff when I get back from vacation/being sick.

I getcha, just teasing. We try to help out for people away here too. It's supposed to be a 'team', there is no 'i' in 'team', etc. Sounds like it's lose/lose for you though.

"There's no I in team. So fuck you, I ain't doing anything"?

But there is an "i" in "pie". As in "meat pie". And meat is an anagram of team, so....

there is a "me"

fade said:

there is a "me"

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"me no help you" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

There may be no 'i' in team, but there's an 'i' in win, and I want to win.

UDFy-38135539;447946][QUOTE=fade said:

there is a "me"

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"me no help you" just doesn't have the same ring to it.[/QUOTE]

Heh. I laughed.

Piotyr said:

There may be no 'i' in team, but there's an 'i' in win, and I want to win.

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So eat the team meat?

Talk about taking one for the team.

There are many major players in my department that have transferred out or changed positions. It's like rats jumping off a ship. I have no idea what's going on but the winds of change are a-blowing.

There's no "I" in paycheck, either. Just throwin' that out there...

But there is in retired. Haha.

... Byte me

Yes/no.

Ooh! Multiple choice!

My kingdom for a save point!

My sister is a drama queen and a bitch. I may or may not expand on this later. Augh tonight blows.

I have been putting off going to the dentist cause of the money as well as the fact that I am scared to death of them. Fast forward to today and one of my teeth felt a little weird and I touched it and a little piece broke off. I don't think it broke all the way to the root but it did chip and so now I am having to make an appointment for the dentist. I know I shouldn't have waited so long but I am still scared as all get out and on top of that I just went to the doctor last week for my back and I haven't even received the bill in for that yet.

Damn man you are just falling apart. Did your warranty wear out?

Either that or someone decided to make a nice little voodoo doll of me. Hmm has anyone see Shego lately?

Dissolve salt into water and then boil it with a bay leaf. Rub the (cooled) water all over your body.

Bam no more evil eye/voodoo.

Officer_Charon said:

My kingdom for a save point!

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Fight, Item, or Run?

So, the school I work for uses a third-party webapp for online applications. This webapp "requires" a social security number entered for all US citizens. I misjudged this "requirement" and made an assumption I should not have, which was that the webapp would require a valid SSN (XXX-XX-XXXX). Turns out, it just checks to see if something is entered there, even if it would be, for example, a blank space.

So, then, if I, hypothetically, wrote code to match all existing data entries that include the user-entered SSN to avoid entering in duplicate individuals, and that SSN is blank, my program would match every individual in the database, and update them with this individual's information. So, it appears my program may have just wiped out about three million records. Time for disaster recovery and repeated swearing.

Jesus, I hope you've got a backup somewhere.

Baerdog said:

Jesus, I hope you've got a backup somewhere.

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Yes, I have the data scheduled for backup before the automated import scripts run, so fortunately it was a quick fix once the data server became responsive again (turns out that updating three million records simultaneously is a bit taxing on the data server). Now I just have to "fix the glitch". And continue swearing.

So I went to the dentist today and the tooth I chipped is fine but there are several cavities that need to be fixed and possibly 2 root canals (it depends on how it goes when they start drilling) Even with my insurance I am going to be looking at a lot of money here. I am going to try to spread the procedures out over a couple of months but still.

Step 1: Go on long family vacation with car that you just spent a cool grand on fixing with the mechanic still going, "I just don't know why it's still misfiring!"
Step 2: The electrical system completely dies... then comes back to life the second day of the trip.
Step 3: Find a parts store with the alternator in stock, find a mechanic willing to replace it last minute, same day. (aside - the auto parts place comes out and tests the alternator and declares it good - but they're still happy to sell me a replacement. Go to mechanic and they've got a really nice in vehicle alternator tester, and it fails immediately under load. I no longer trust the "testers" the auto parts stores have, yet you'd think they would want to use testers that really deeply test parts in order to sell more parts. Anyway.)
Step 4: Travel for two more weeks until we start experiencing electrical problems again - only this time getting over voltages instead of undervoltages, and only after driving for 6+ hours (ie, it won't fail on the tester at the auto parts store)
Step 5: After months of waiting for it to fail in a way that we could cause regularly (because I know it won't fail at the auto parts store on their bench tester) I finally have time.

Fast forward to today:

A: Charge car (alternator no longer charges the car)
B: Start car and warm it up for 30 minutes (Alternator needs to be hot)
C: Drive to auto parts place and request they come out and test it, on vehicle, while it's obviously failing (Yeah, 8 volts is a little too low...)
D : Listen to them explain that they don't care if it's failing on the car, I have to bring it in and test it on the bench.
sigh...
E: Take it home. Remove alternator. Take alternator to store. By this time it's cooled off.
F: Thankfully it fails the bench test! Woo! Home free!
G: They ask if we want to bench test the replacement. Sure, why not?
H: Oh, the replacement also fails. Test all the others they have in stock. They all fail.
I: Listen to them explain that they can no longer assume mine is broken, that the tester may be broken, and I'll need to go to another store to have them test it.
J: Go to the other store. Alternator is now below room temperature (it's 45F/7C outside).
K: They test it. Three times. It passes each and every time.
L: I explain the symptoms, and they agree that if I put it in the car and demonstrate the problem with their in-vehicle tester, they will replace it.
M: I go home, put the bad alternator back into the car, and go through the procedure I've developed to drag the alternator down.
N: I go back, and the problem isn't as bad as it usually is, but it's very slightly undervoltage, so they will replace it anyway.
O: Go home, remove alternator, go to store, get it replaced, go home, put in the new alternator.

tldr version:

I wasted 6 hours on a 1 hour car fixit problem because of the stupidity and/or ineptitude of the auto parts chain who didn't want to honor their warranty.

The only advantage I now have is that I can remove or install an alternator on a 2000 ford windstar in under 15 minutes. Not sure where that particular skill will ever come in handy, but by golly it's going on my resume now.

Dear students: I understand your professor told you that the library has the book you're looking for. We probably do. But if you don't know the title, author, or subject, I'm not going to go through each one of our 30,000 books to see which one sounds vaguely familiar to you. When your professor tells you to find something, you'd be better off writing it down than trying to remember it while high. Yes, you are. I can smell it on you.

Null said:

Dear students: I understand your professor told you that the library has the book you're looking for. We probably do. But if you don't know the title, author, or subject, I'm not going to go through each one of our 30,000 books to see which one sounds vaguely familiar to you. When your professor tells you to find something, you'd be better off writing it down than trying to remember it while high. Yes, you are. I can smell it on you.

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Dear librarian, fuck you man! You're totally a tool for the man! Do you have any Cheeto's on you, man. I love you, man. Why am I here? WHOAOOAAHHH! Like, look at my hands... they do what ever I tell them to.

I really wish I hadn't had almost that exact exchange with someone today. They wanted white-out instead of Cheetos.

We had to give up our rat, Odin. He was withdrawing from us and depressed, and everything we tried couldn't bring him out of it. When he wouldn't be sitting at the top of his cage, staring in the corner, he would be biting at us or the baby rats we brought home to try to socialize him. He tore at his own skin at times and we'd come home from work to find bloodstains in his fur.

I've had pets die and I know how to handle it, but I've never had to voluntarily hand one to a stranger knowing I'd never see him again and having to wonder if he's going to be confused, why he isn't home, or why I'm not calling to him in his cage (which for all I knew just annoyed him). The vet seemed like a nice guy and really concerned, and he said he'd only put Odin to sleep if he seemed like he couldn't recover from the year of isolation he'd spent in the pet store and was too aggressive, otherwise he'd go to a rat recovery place where a couple rehabilitates them. I told the doctor that he's not vicious; he just doesn't have any experience socializing with humans or other rats, so he bites.

I'm sure the vet will understand the situation and put him in the recovery, but he said he'd call; he hasn't, so I don't really know. He took Odin's treats that we brought, so I hope that means well. The separation was also very abrupt, and I blame myself for not popping open his carrying box to pet him and let Julie see him once more. I blame myself for not being experienced enough with rats--he was our first and I feel like if we'd had rats before, we could've had the knowledge to help him. Our attention has to go to the baby rats now and give them a good life so they don't turn out like Odin.

Aw that's terrible that he is that way. At least he had some people who really care about him for a time. *hugs*

Hopefully he will be rehabilitated and be able to have a happy life.

Thanks, makare. I'm hoping we did right by him in acknowledging we just didn't have the rat chops to help after what the pet store did.

escushion said:

We had to give up our rat, Odin. He was withdrawing from us and depressed, and everything we tried couldn't bring him out of it. When he wouldn't be sitting at the top of his cage, staring in the corner, he would be biting at us or the baby rats we brought home to try to socialize him. He tore at his own skin at times and we'd come home from work to find bloodstains in his fur.

I've had pets die and I know how to handle it, but I've never had to voluntarily hand one to a stranger knowing I'd never see him again and having to wonder if he's going to be confused, why he isn't home, or why I'm not calling to him in his cage (which for all I knew just annoyed him). The vet seemed like a nice guy and really concerned, and he said he'd only put Odin to sleep if he seemed like he couldn't recover from the year of isolation he'd spent in the pet store and was too aggressive, otherwise he'd go to a rat recovery place where a couple rehabilitates them. I told the doctor that he's not vicious; he just doesn't have any experience socializing with humans or other rats, so he bites.

I'm sure the vet will understand the situation and put him in the recovery, but he said he'd call; he hasn't, so I don't really know. He took Odin's treats that we brought, so I hope that means well. The separation was also very abrupt, and I blame myself for not popping open his carrying box to pet him and let Julie see him once more. I blame myself for not being experienced enough with rats--he was our first and I feel like if we'd had rats before, we could've had the knowledge to help him. Our attention has to go to the baby rats now and give them a good life so they don't turn out like Odin.

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Sorry you had to give up your rat.

Was Odin neutered? One of my rats became very aggressive when he reached adulthood. He gave me two serious bites and had his cagemate cowering in the corner. I had them both neutered and it was like someone flipped a switch on him--he became the sweetest, cuddliest rat ever. It may not help Odin (considering his background with the pet store), but it's something to keep in mind for the babies (if they're male).

Sara_2814;450471][QUOTE=escushion said:

We had to give up our rat, Odin. He was withdrawing from us and depressed, and everything we tried couldn't bring him out of it. When he wouldn't be sitting at the top of his cage, staring in the corner, he would be biting at us or the baby rats we brought home to try to socialize him. He tore at his own skin at times and we'd come home from work to find bloodstains in his fur.

I've had pets die and I know how to handle it, but I've never had to voluntarily hand one to a stranger knowing I'd never see him again and having to wonder if he's going to be confused, why he isn't home, or why I'm not calling to him in his cage (which for all I knew just annoyed him). The vet seemed like a nice guy and really concerned, and he said he'd only put Odin to sleep if he seemed like he couldn't recover from the year of isolation he'd spent in the pet store and was too aggressive, otherwise he'd go to a rat recovery place where a couple rehabilitates them. I told the doctor that he's not vicious; he just doesn't have any experience socializing with humans or other rats, so he bites.

I'm sure the vet will understand the situation and put him in the recovery, but he said he'd call; he hasn't, so I don't really know. He took Odin's treats that we brought, so I hope that means well. The separation was also very abrupt, and I blame myself for not popping open his carrying box to pet him and let Julie see him once more. I blame myself for not being experienced enough with rats--he was our first and I feel like if we'd had rats before, we could've had the knowledge to help him. Our attention has to go to the baby rats now and give them a good life so they don't turn out like Odin.

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Sorry you had to give up your rat.

Was Odin neutered? One of my rats became very aggressive when he reached adulthood. He gave me two serious bites and had his cagemate cowering in the corner. I had them both neutered and it was like someone flipped a switch on him--he became the sweetest, cuddliest rat ever. It may not help Odin (considering his background with the pet store), but it's something to keep in mind for the babies (if they're male).[/QUOTE]

Well, we surrendered Odin to the vet's care, so we couldn't get him again.

He wasn't neutered, but I don't feel it would've helped his non-aggression problems.

Anyway, we got an answer from the vet and he's doing good.

Toyota messed up the date to pick up my car.....I thought all day it was today and now I find out it's tomorrow! I'm totally bummed I spent all day super excited to be let down........It's almost like a bad date but expect with a car lol BOOOOOOOOOOOO TOYOTA!

After a big rainstorm yesterday I went out to the backyard of my parents' house to help clean up. I went into the garage to get some tools, and that's when I saw a very special container I had been keeping at their house. The bin has clear sides, so I could see all the water that was sitting at the bottom of the supposedly water-proof container. I quickly opened up the seal and frantically dug through the contents. The container was where I stored some classic comic books that were given to me by my uncle when I was a kid, some of my own old comics, and some valuable keepsake stuff from high school. All paper products, and I would say that 50% was completely water damaged (despite each individual comic book being supposedly seal in plastic).

So, to review, the roof of my parents' garage sprang a leak during the storm. A supposedly water-tight container filled with water despite being sealed. No other container that was stored on top of it, under it, or next to it leaked. Roughly half the comics inside, which were individually bagged and should have been protected also, allowed water in and damaged the comics. Some of them were quite old and valuable.

I'm still so fucking angry I want to go on a rampage smashing things in my house. I think the random, ridiculous nature of it all is what has me most upset.

Man that truly sucks Tress


I can't imagine how I would feel if something like that happened to my collection of games

Thanks. It just shouldn't have happened. About 5 things had to go wrong together at just the precise wrong time.

My dog died. My parents woke my brother up to drive to the emerg and put him down (when they found out he had internal bleeding), but no one told me until I got a call at work the next day! Sad day.

Gah, I hate doctors and especially going to the lab for blood tests. I had to take this particular test to rule out diabetes as a cause for my high blood sugar, and it involved drinking a high-glucose drink that tasted like someone had mixed fruit juice, glue, Mountain Dew and five pounds of sugar, and getting needled three times for blood to check how my body reacted over the next two hours. The smalls of my elbows look like I'm a junkie...

On the bright side, got a brand new scale. I actually weigh 15-20 pounds less than I did two years ago.

I got kicked out of my office so a TRAINEE could work in there and NONE of my bosses so much as thought it might be NICE to talk to me about it AT ALL.

:mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2:

Just one day of hell out of many, but no more.

Here was my day yesterday.
I was called by my older brother who asked if mom called me yet
when I asked why he said dad got started taking certain medication.
NOW this medication he wasn't supposed to be taking anymore but he had some leftover from when he was on it.
This medicine cause major issues when he takes it. It makes him hallucinate, he will not remember taking the medication so he takes more, and it can cause seizures.
So back to what happened my dad took way to much medicine, and over course wasn't acting right.
My mom finally called me and said she took the medicine and hid it.
I ask where she was she said she was hiding from him to call.
She wanted me to come and take the medicine and hold on to it until later.
I told if I came over I was going to flush the medicine because he was not supposed to even be taking it. She wanted to see if he starts feeling better she wanted to give him it to help him sleep.
I told her it was stupid she could kill him.
I told her that she needs to flush it. But she did not want to flush it because he gets mad.
This debate went on for a very very long time.
I asked if I needed to come by she said no.
I told her I would flush it and I would be the SOB who flushed if he asked.
She said no. She kept saying she wanted to keep it so he could take it at night if he needed it.
I got so fed-up with this whole ordeal it was now almost 4hrs in.
I told her she should do it yes kill him. Heck why not it is a perfect way to one he has sleep apnea, two asthma, three blood pressure issues, and last but not least it can give him seizures. So heck go for it. If she wants to kill him just do it. She yelled at me and said I was a jerk I shouldn't have said that. And that she loves him and would never try to kill him. I told her if she gave the medicine she would be killing him. So if she truly loved him she flushes the medicine. She got off the phone very mad. But not even 30 minutes later she called my older brother and said she flushed it. Which I am glad she did. I know she is still hurt what I said. I told her I was sorry for being rude I was just was tired of the BS. She is still hurt with what I said. My father called my older brother and apologized but they never called and apologized to me. The last thing I heard was my dad never wanted to see us kids again. I really don't care I still love them I know it isn't them. But this drama is old been it has been one thing to the next for over ten years. And yes this wasn't the first for the medicine issue. The only difference is she actually flushed it this time. So all said I am glad I will be leaving Washington and moving to Oregon just in time to start a new year and a new life.
I can only hope this is a wake-up call for my parents.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Cheers.

Just one day of hell out of many, but no more.

Psychotic-One said:

Here was my day yesterday.
I was called by my older brother who asked if mom called me yet
when I asked why he said dad got started taking certain medication.
NOW this medication he wasn't supposed to be taking anymore but he had some leftover from when he was on it.
This medicine cause major issues when he takes it. It makes him hallucinate, he will not remember taking the medication so he takes more, and it can cause seizures.
So back to what happened my dad took way to much medicine, and over course wasn't acting right.
My mom finally called me and said she took the medicine and hid it.
I ask where she was she said she was hiding from him to call.
She wanted me to come and take the medicine and hold on to it until later.
I told if I came over I was going to flush the medicine because he was not supposed to even be taking it. She wanted to see if he starts feeling better she wanted to give him it to help him sleep.
I told her it was stupid she could kill him.
I told her that she needs to flush it. But she did not want to flush it because he gets mad.
This debate went on for a very very long time.
I asked if I needed to come by she said no.
I told her I would flush it and I would be the SOB who flushed if he asked.
She said no. She kept saying she wanted to keep it so he could take it at night if he needed it.
I got so fed-up with this whole ordeal it was now almost 4hrs in.
I told her she should do it yes kill him. Heck why not it is a perfect way to one he has sleep apnea, two asthma, three blood pressure issues, and last but not least it can give him seizures. So heck go for it. If she wants to kill him just do it. She yelled at me and said I was a jerk I shouldn't have said that. And that she loves him and would never try to kill him. I told her if she gave the medicine she would be killing him. So if she truly loved him she flushes the medicine. She got off the phone very mad. But not even 30 minutes later she called my older brother and said she flushed it. Which I am glad she did. I know she is still hurt what I said. I told her I was sorry for being rude I was just was tired of the BS. She is still hurt with what I said. My father called my older brother and apologized but they never called and apologized to me. The last thing I heard was my dad never wanted to see us kids again. I really don't care I still love them I know it isn't them. But this drama is old been it has been one thing to the next for over ten years. And yes this wasn't the first for the medicine issue. The only difference is she actually flushed it this time. So all said I am glad I will be leaving Washington and moving to Oregon just in time to start a new year and a new life.
I can only hope this is a wake-up call for my parents.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Cheers.

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STOP.
PUSHING.
ENTER.
AFTER.
EVERY.
SENTENCE!

Just one day of hell out of many, but no more.

Chaz, do you get better orgasms when you act like a tool, or is it research for your class?

Just one day of hell out of many, but no more.

Chazwozel;452880][QUOTE=Psychotic-One said:

Here was my day yesterday.
I was called by my older brother who asked if mom called me yet
when I asked why he said dad got started taking certain medication.
NOW this medication he wasn't supposed to be taking anymore but he had some leftover from when he was on it.
This medicine cause major issues when he takes it. It makes him hallucinate, he will not remember taking the medication so he takes more, and it can cause seizures.
So back to what happened my dad took way to much medicine, and over course wasn't acting right.
My mom finally called me and said she took the medicine and hid it.
I ask where she was she said she was hiding from him to call.
She wanted me to come and take the medicine and hold on to it until later.
I told if I came over I was going to flush the medicine because he was not supposed to even be taking it. She wanted to see if he starts feeling better she wanted to give him it to help him sleep.
I told her it was stupid she could kill him.
I told her that she needs to flush it. But she did not want to flush it because he gets mad.
This debate went on for a very very long time.
I asked if I needed to come by she said no.
I told her I would flush it and I would be the SOB who flushed if he asked.
She said no. She kept saying she wanted to keep it so he could take it at night if he needed it.
I got so fed-up with this whole ordeal it was now almost 4hrs in.
I told her she should do it yes kill him. Heck why not it is a perfect way to one he has sleep apnea, two asthma, three blood pressure issues, and last but not least it can give him seizures. So heck go for it. If she wants to kill him just do it. She yelled at me and said I was a jerk I shouldn't have said that. And that she loves him and would never try to kill him. I told her if she gave the medicine she would be killing him. So if she truly loved him she flushes the medicine. She got off the phone very mad. But not even 30 minutes later she called my older brother and said she flushed it. Which I am glad she did. I know she is still hurt what I said. I told her I was sorry for being rude I was just was tired of the BS. She is still hurt with what I said. My father called my older brother and apologized but they never called and apologized to me. The last thing I heard was my dad never wanted to see us kids again. I really don't care I still love them I know it isn't them. But this drama is old been it has been one thing to the next for over ten years. And yes this wasn't the first for the medicine issue. The only difference is she actually flushed it this time. So all said I am glad I will be leaving Washington and moving to Oregon just in time to start a new year and a new life.
I can only hope this is a wake-up call for my parents.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Cheers.

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Some habits die hard. Some just refuse to die.

heeheeheee

my dog has been having seizures today. Luckily they haven't been all that big but it's still a reminder that he doesn't have that much time left. I just hope that when he does go it's not during one of his seizures.

I hope not too.

Ours went during her last one.

Me too. All you can hope is that a dear old pet goes peacefully. When our family cat Yogurt died, she was a ripe old age. We found her in her favorite spot under a tree in the yard. She looked just like she did every afternoon, dozing peacefully. It was sad, but I was glad she seemed to go without any pain.

Thanks

He's doing much better today. I was able to take him for a walk and while he's having some trouble eating he IS eating. I think the worst has come to pass this time around and hopefully it'll be another 6months to a year before he has another fit. I just don't know how he'll handle it next year, assuming he's still here. I think he has that long left but he'll be about 12 by then so it's hard to say.

I guess the so called reverend Phelps and is psycho minions are going to be in my town on Monday. One of my profs, the former JAG lawyer, is really fuming. This should be good.

NOOOOOOOO!

My video is gone! All of it is gone! I worked 6 hours on this fucking thing!

FUCK YOU COMPUTER!

.....I can't believe I'm going to have to re-record all of this.

Oh, man, that sucks. I'm sorry.

Holy crap on a cracker it is cold in my classroom today. I'm wearing jeans and a jacket and I might as well be naked.


So cold. Sigh.

Wut?

Oh come on Krisken. You've heard of a 90 degree angle.

Maybe it's another funny Chinese word problem because 90=jiu shi 九十, and it sounds like 就死...(die now)....amirite? It wouldn't surprise me. I keep being told I live on the Hell floor (18)

mr_thehun said:

all the walls in my new office are off by one or two degrees from being 90. There is no way I can put things flush against the wall if it is near the corner. This same aversion to 90 degrees applies to every room in this building, including the urinal separators and parking spaces.

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That sounds like a plan to drive the occupants slowly insane.

Espy said:

Oh come on Krisken. You've heard of a 90 degree angle.

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Yes, but I had no idea what it was in reference to. Glad that worry is now over

lol, I know, I was just being silly.

I'm not always super serious.

One of my high school classmate's sisters got drunk last weekend fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck. She was only 25.

And one of my sisters friends who is also the mother of a little boy I used to care for at the daycare is dying as I write this of cancer. She only has an hour or so left.

It is a really depressing day.

Man that really sucks makare


I hope things get better for you soon *insert e-hug here*

Egads, that's awful! I'm sorry to hear it, makare. :hug:

makare said:

One of my high school classmate's sisters got drunk last weekend fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck. She was only 25.

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Really, Chaz? Fucking really? Read it to yourself again and ask why what you said wasn't being an asshole.

Ouch, Chaz.

Even if a friend of mine did something stupid that got themselves killed, I'd still mourn.

Just ouch. That was cruel.

Aw mak, that sounds very sucky

*group e-hug*

Chazwozel;454961][QUOTE=makare said:

One of my high school classmate's sisters got drunk last weekend fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck. She was only 25.

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I don't think she intends to mourn the stupidity of her classmate's sister. Rather, I think she would be inclined to feel compassionate and sympathetic of her friend's pain.

Chazwozel;454961][QUOTE=makare said:

One of my high school classmate's sisters got drunk last weekend fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck. She was only 25.

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Whether or not you agree with the rant, makare certainly feels bad enough about it without having her feelings questioned.

I guess having chaz on ignore is really the gift that keeps on giving.

Thanks to everyone else though. It's really a sad thing especially this time of year.

Let's see... revenge fantasies based off of news articles, check. Making fun of Darwin Awards candidates, check. Super-hindsight towards situations, check. Yep, you've all done the same things I have. Get off your fucking high horses. Yes, I was intentionally being a jerk to makare. I don't like her. She does the same thing to me all the time. You're telling me some of you don't have an ounce of schadenfreude when something bad happens to me? I know she'd purse her fat lips in glee and waddle around the room in a happy-dance before exhaustion. So once again fuck off.

Dave, how bout another dead baby in the washing machine joke?

Come to think of it, I'll put her on ignore as well. I'm sick of hearing her constant whining over every boring detail of her equally boring life.

sounds like a plan

Math242 said:

sounds like a plan

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Now where's the peanut brittle?

Chazwozel said:

Let's see... revenge fantasies based off of news articles, check. Making fun of Darwin Awards candidates, check. Super-hindsight towards situations, check. Yep, you've all done the same things I have. Get off your fucking high horses. Yes, I was intentionally being a jerk to makare. I don't like her. She does the same thing to me all the time. You're telling me some of you don't have an ounce of schadenfreude when something bad happens to me? I know she'd purse her fat lips in glee and waddle around the room in a happy-dance before exhaustion. So once again fuck off.

Dave, how bout another dead baby in the washing machine joke?

Come to think of it, I'll put her on ignore as well. I'm sick of hearing her constant whining over every boring detail of her equally boring life.

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The difference, Mr. Wozel, is that we joke about things that are impersonal to us. The dead baby joke? Nobody here knew said baby or the family. When you had bad things happen to you how many people came out & made a fucking joke about it? None. Did they want to? Maybe, I don't know. But they were HUMAN enough not to. In fact, I remember that when you posted said bad things you got nothing but compassion and support. DId certain individuals bring it up later in an argument? Yes, and they got slapped down for it just like anyone else would.

Justify your terrible behavior any way you want but you know it was wrong.

Dave;455040][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:

Let's see... revenge fantasies based off of news articles, check. Making fun of Darwin Awards candidates, check. Super-hindsight towards situations, check. Yep, you've all done the same things I have. Get off your fucking high horses. Yes, I was intentionally being a jerk to makare. I don't like her. She does the same thing to me all the time. You're telling me some of you don't have an ounce of schadenfreude when something bad happens to me? I know she'd purse her fat lips in glee and waddle around the room in a happy-dance before exhaustion. So once again fuck off.

Dave, how bout another dead baby in the washing machine joke?

Come to think of it, I'll put her on ignore as well. I'm sick of hearing her constant whining over every boring detail of her equally boring life.

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The difference, Mr. Wozel, is that we joke about things that are impersonal to us. The dead baby joke? Nobody here knew said baby or the family. When you had bad things happen to you how many people came out & made a fucking joke about it? None. Did they want to? Maybe, I don't know. But they were HUMAN enough not to. In fact, I remember that when you posted said bad things you got nothing but compassion and support. DId certain individuals bring it up later in an argument? Yes, and they got slapped down for it just like anyone else would.

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I'm not trying to justify anything. What I posted wasn't nice in the least. But I'm not sorry about it.

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Come to think of it, I'll put her on ignore as well. I'm sick of hearing her constant whining over every boring detail of her equally boring life.

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Good call.

I started today with my mom waking me up warning me that she is thinking of kicking my sister out today. She didn't want it to upset me. Well, I don't know if it does or not I've been saying just lock the damn door for the last two days. But I guess it does upset me because why can't we have a normal fun holiday with our family. We have actually been excited by the prospect of her being in jail over Christmas so we don't have to worry about her. How fucked up is that?

I'm always so happy and excited to come home but at times like this I honestly can't remember why.

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II'm always so happy and excited to come home but at times like this I honestly can't remember why.

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Nostalgia, perhaps? I know that's the reason why I keep going back to my parents' place for Christmas, even though it always involves a certain level of stress and arguments about getting everything done in time as well as melancholy due to my big brother and his wife not visiting. Again.

Also, I'm keeping an eye on this thread. Currently in neutral Medium Turquoise.