Rant VIII: The Reckoning

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How dare you. How dare you criticize me for holding back, convince me it's safe to open up and talk to you, and then twist my words and get angry - especially when I'm the one who should be upset. You awful, emotionally manipulative... Well, I won't go there just yet.

But I haven't been this furious in a long, long time.
 
How dare you. How dare you criticize me for holding back, convince me it's safe to open up and talk to you, and then twist my words and get angry - especially when I'm the one who should be upset. You awful, emotionally manipulative... Well, I won't go there just yet.

But I haven't been this furious in a long, long time.
I think the most upsetting thing to me about this is that I can't tell if it's about a peer, or about Halforums.

--Patrick
 
I avoided a major accident tonight on the way home, a gentleman crossed 4 lanes of 494 and almost collided with me, I dodged him by inches and skilled driving. I am fine, the car is fine, etc etc. as for him I have no idea, I didnt look back or stop after he went flying off the road. I am taking a a double dose of my drugs to help me relax and to help me sleep, it was nuts and I am still shaken as hell.
 
Today has not been a good day on the family front. Came home to news that the husband of a cousin had died. He'd been in extremely poor health for some time, so it was really only a matter of time. And now word just arrived that another cousin, also in very poor health over recent years, passed this morning.

Cousins, but really more my mom's age than mine.
 

Dave

Staff member
Sucks, man. So this begs the question as to whether there are going to be dual funerals in different places or if you'll have to choose.
 
Sucks, man. So this begs the question as to whether there are going to be dual funerals in different places or if you'll have to choose.
One is in Florida, and the other is in Princeton, WV. Essentially the far opposite end of the state from us.

Sad to say, there is no choice to be made. It's neither. My mom can't really travel right now, and I'm kind of the rock holding the fort at work after my manager's mom died over the weekend.
 

Dave

Staff member
So my fantasy football league this year lost a lot of people. We are a 24 team league, but because of the dropouts, I changed it to a 20 team league. Here's why the people dropped out:
  • Quit all fantasy football due to declining health. (This one sucked.)
  • Moved.
  • Got a new job and has no time.
  • Joined a league at work and didn't want to be in more than one pay league.
  • 2 guys didn't respond to any communication.
I got a couple slots filled and then went down to the 20 team format. Guess what? One of the guys I hadn't heard anything from just sent me an email. "When's the draft?"

Now I have 1 too many teams or I tell a guy I've known for years to suck it. I've only been emailing for two fucking months!
 
I live not too far from Mobile. Just give me a mask of your face and I'll go in your stead.
Looks like I'm not going to be able to attend my grandfather's birthday celebration, so @doomdragon6, I'm counting on you.

1. You need to show up wearing all black. My family thinks I'm a goth Satan worshiper, so don't confuse them by wearing bright, cheery colours.
2. I don't drink alcohol but they always offer me drinks anyway. Go ahead and accept as many as you want. They stock a good bar and a little confusion now and then is good for them.
3. Make sure you perpetuate the following stereotypes about Canada:
  • It's a land of permanent ice and snow.
  • We ride polar bears and moose wherever we go.
  • We get our mail by dog sled.
  • We live in igloos.
  • We hunt seals for food.
  • We have a substandard health care system.
4. Use as many weird nerdy references as you can. I'm nothing like my family (I swear I'm adopted) and they think I'm crazy anyway, so let's reinforce that idea.
5. Football is a religion to them. Mention hockey as much as possible.
6. If they mention my "vermin", offer to bring a suitcase full of them on the next visit.

Thanks! Have fun!
 
we have a house full of kids and not all of them are ours. I could go for fried chicken and a bucket of diet coke. Or a diet coke and a bucket of fried chicken.
 

doomdragon6

Staff member
Looks like I'm not going to be able to attend my grandfather's birthday celebration, so @doomdragon6, I'm counting on you.

1. You need to show up wearing all black. My family thinks I'm a goth Satan worshiper, so don't confuse them by wearing bright, cheery colours.
2. I don't drink alcohol but they always offer me drinks anyway. Go ahead and accept as many as you want. They stock a good bar and a little confusion now and then is good for them.
3. Make sure you perpetuate the following stereotypes about Canada:
  • It's a land of permanent ice and snow.
  • We ride polar bears and moose wherever we go.
  • We get our mail by dog sled.
  • We live in igloos.
  • We hunt seals for food.
  • We have a substandard health care system.
4. Use as many weird nerdy references as you can. I'm nothing like my family (I swear I'm adopted) and they think I'm crazy anyway, so let's reinforce that idea.
5. Football is a religion to them. Mention hockey as much as possible.
6. If they mention my "vermin", offer to bring a suitcase full of them on the next visit.

Thanks! Have fun!
So my dream job. Got it.
 

Dave

Staff member
My car broke down earlier this week. $205 for a water pump. No problem. Today Sammi's car broke down. It's going into the shop tomorrow. We were just getting ahead of shit and saving and now with her moving costs and everything we're back to square one. Can't a brother get a break now and again?

Oh, and my sister is still refusing to put my mom into an assisted living facility. She's just not fighting and doesn't see the wall in the middle of the road coming up. She signed mom up for Life Alert, which is nice, but you have to be able to use it for it to be effective. Last week she tried calling my sister for a half an hour on the TV remote control. And it's okay if you laugh at that.
 
My car broke down earlier this week. $205 for a water pump. No problem. Today Sammi's car broke down. It's going into the shop tomorrow. We were just getting ahead of shit and saving and now with her moving costs and everything we're back to square one. Can't a brother get a break now and again?

Oh, and my sister is still refusing to put my mom into an assisted living facility. She's just not fighting and doesn't see the wall in the middle of the road coming up. She signed mom up for Life Alert, which is nice, but you have to be able to use it for it to be effective. Last week she tried calling my sister for a half an hour on the TV remote control. And it's okay if you laugh at that.
HAHAHAHAHAHA...but seriously Dave, that blows and I am sorry horrible things happen to great people like you.
 

Dave

Staff member
HAHAHAHAHAHA...but seriously Dave, that blows and I am sorry horrible things happen to great people like you.
Thanks. I know others have it worst and I really shouldn't complain. But when it hits with me it seems that it does so all at once. At least I have my health, right?
 
Thanks. I know others have it worst and I really shouldn't complain. But when it hits with me it seems that it does so all at once. At least I have my health, right?
Hey, just because others may have it worse than you, doesn't mean your problems don't matter. Or at least that's what my boss keeps telling me when I say I feel bad for complaining about my day when he frequently works 16 hour days 5 or 6 days a week.
 

doomdragon6

Staff member
Here's something I heard that I always liked:

"Just because others have it worse than you doesn't mean you can't be down about something. That's like saying you can't be happy because others have it better."
 

fade

Staff member
My car broke down earlier this week. $205 for a water pump. No problem. Today Sammi's car broke down. It's going into the shop tomorrow. We were just getting ahead of shit and saving and now with her moving costs and everything we're back to square one. Can't a brother get a break now and again?
At this rate, you'll have that new car. You're just getting it one piece at a time.

*cue Johnny Cash
 
Thanks. I know others have it worst and I really shouldn't complain. But when it hits with me it seems that it does so all at once. At least I have my health, right?
I hope you realize i was just joking when you cracked the line about your mother making the phone call on the tv remote and feel free to laugh, I am not saying your problems are not worth talking about. I mean my last two rants have been some asshole just went all mario kart on me and tried to take me out death race style! :)

edit: I didnt post the second one, yesterday some woman blew out from a stop sign and almost t-boned me. I dodged her by a pivot turn and a lot of praying to my impudent god to save me!
 
Within seconds of turning my alarm off, my mom call from downstairs, "there's a bat!"

I stumble down there, grabbing a set of work gloves and a bath towel as I go. The bat is in one corner of the basement den, and the cats are safely in another room. After first warning my mom not to talk to me in my no-coffee five seconds awake state, I gently as possible grab the bat with the towel ant take it outside where it flies away.

NOW... I have to deal with the bat-panic. Mom wants to move her stuff back upstairs. She's closed off the den from the rest of the downstairs, forgetting that the cat's food is in the den and the litter boxes are in another room.

While I get my breakfast ready, I text my more awake sister to call mom to talk her down. There's no way I'm willing to rearrange the entire house over something that can be dealt with via a phone call or two and a visit by a trained professional.

(IIRC, this is the third bat incident in a year... I told my sister to tell mom it was the same bat all three times. It likes her. :D)
 

Dave

Staff member
I so tried to find a "This American Life" episode where a guy killed a bat, but alas I can't find it.
 
Within seconds of turning my alarm off, my mom call from downstairs, "there's a bat!"

I stumble down there, grabbing a set of work gloves and a bath towel as I go. The bat is in one corner of the basement den, and the cats are safely in another room. After first warning my mom not to talk to me in my no-coffee five seconds awake state, I gently as possible grab the bat with the towel ant take it outside where it flies away.

NOW... I have to deal with the bat-panic. Mom wants to move her stuff back upstairs. She's closed off the den from the rest of the downstairs, forgetting that the cat's food is in the den and the litter boxes are in another room.

While I get my breakfast ready, I text my more awake sister to call mom to talk her down. There's no way I'm willing to rearrange the entire house over something that can be dealt with via a phone call or two and a visit by a trained professional.

(IIRC, this is the third bat incident in a year... I told my sister to tell mom it was the same bat all three times. It likes her. :D)
Tell your mom it's just trying to remove the criminal element from your house. And stop using the Bat Signal as a night light. It's the infestation your deserve, not the one you need right now.
 
New roommate seems to be a cool guy. He passes his background check with the apartment. We move him in, planning to get him on the Lease on Tuesday.

The next morning he announces the room was too hot for him and will be instead moving to another place he looked at, ignoring all suggestions to make the room cooler and even a compromise to run the A/C lower. He's packed up and is gone. The hell?
 
It's annoying, but he may have done you a favor. Imagine if he showed that sort of prima donna bullshit after you were stuck with him on the lease.
 
New roommate seems to be a cool guy. He passes his background check with the apartment. We move him in, planning to get him on the Lease on Tuesday.

The next morning he announces the room was too hot for him and will be instead moving to another place he looked at, ignoring all suggestions to make the room cooler and even a compromise to run the A/C lower. He's packed up and is gone. The hell?
The next roommate will say this room isn't hot enough. Cue cheesy jazz porno music followed with stripping.
 
The next roommate will say this room isn't hot enough. Cue cheesy jazz porno music followed with stripping.
Don't worry. After the montage of highly questionable applicants, you'll get the one that fits all your criteria...IF you look past that person's minor exterior defect(s).

--Patrick
 
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