Random Rants 91 - Semiprimal Rage

[amadeus]

How many times must I say this? Japan. Small country, not that small. Worse yet is I’m standing outside, not even on a busy street... or so I thought!

Also, I’m going to have to make an appointment at the dentist or something. I could do it now, but I don’t feel like it.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Studying going really badly

 

[JohannaK]

Life going really badly

 

[Arakhor]

Sorry to hear that, Jo.

 

[choxorn]

Studying going really badly

Life going really badly

 

[Zkribbler]

Life going really badly

Sounds like you should be spending more time with us.

 

[Zkribbler]

The power went out last night when we were watching T.V. I awoke around midnight to find it was back. I stumbled around turning off lights. Heading off to bed, I saw that the light in the downstairs library was still on. My balance is no longer good, especially if I'm sleepy. I didn't want to risk the stairs. So I left it on.

 

[amadeus]

Sounds like you need THE CLAPPER

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm an idiot.

(Assembled Civfanatics: 'well, those of us who cared to keep track have been suspecting it for years, we just couldn't find a polite way to put it in words').

Granted, but this is a new development.
Last night I felt tired, so tired I told myself, 'oh, surely I can sleep without taking my sleeping pill'. And I did.

(CF Assembled, again: 'do please tell us, how many police procedurals did you watch where it turned out the The Guy Who Did It was also The Guy Who Did Not Take His Meds?')

A thousand. And I did fall asleep last night. Unfortunately, I also woke up hours before sunrise, and now it's 9.45 here, and I'm ragged already.

1. It's best not to become dependent on sleeping pills. Would reading help? Or listening to quiet mood music? Or if you can find it, I recommend listening to Arthur C. Clarke read his own short stories. It's not that the stories are bad. It's just that Clarke's voice was so dry and boring.

2. So lie down and rest. If you accidentally fall asleep for an hour or two and don't have anywhere you need to go or anything you need to do, it might help.

My local supermarket now stocks Jarritos Cola regularly and every other cola tastes bad by comparison but it's so expensive :c

I love that stuff, especially the lime flavor.

Alas, it's so sweet that it would not do my diabetes any favors. All I can do now is gaze longingly at the ads in the weekly grocery flyer and remember how it tasted.


My rant: Covid cases are through the roof here. My housekeeping helper was over yesterday and fumed that somebody had called her an anti-vaxxer.

Well, when she flat-out refuses to get vaccinated and whines about her "freedom" and spouts excuses like it's so superduperdangerous to more than a relative few (she also claims to be vegan but has no problem drinking Clamato; I guess she didn't get the memo that clams are animals)... yeah, she's an anti-vaxxer.


I've been getting emails from that store over in the mall where I bought one of my penguins. They were closed for quite awhile but are open again, and trying to entice customers back.

Well, if about 20% more people would just get their damn shots, I might feel safe enough to actually go to the mall. I haven't been there since March 2020, and had my eye on a Great-Horned Owl they had for sale (I should phone and ask if they do mail order).

I got my second dose in July and I'm still alive - no blood clots, no weird stuff happening. It gave me a worse kick than the flu shot normally does, but I just took extra naps and got through it

 

[Sofista]

1. It's best not to become dependent on sleeping pills. Would reading help? Or listening to quiet mood music? Or if you can find it, I recommend listening to Arthur C. Clarke read his own short stories. It's not that the stories are bad. It's just that Clarke's voice was so dry and boring.

2. So lie down and rest. If you accidentally fall asleep for an hour or two and don't have anywhere you need to go or anything you need to do, it might help.

I've found some Clarke reading his stuff online - I agree, he's not good at it. But I'm afraid the task of following the narrative would be a big distraction. Reading, or listening to music, have the same effect: passages and especially tunes have a tendency to stay with me vividly, for days even.

I've always been an insomniac, as far as I can remember. Already in kindergarten I used to spend the afternoon nap staring at the ceiling. Considering my father was a sleepwalker, it could just be that it runs in the family. I can't even think how it would be like now, with tinnitus in my ears every waking hour (I've seen the ENT just earlier, he gave me a spray and prescribed further tests).
My pill comes with warnings, for sure ('if you're thinking of taking more than one pill per night, think again. Don't. Ever'), but it beats hours of laying in the dark waiting for sleep to come. I used to lose patience about 4-5 a.m., getting out of bed to have a quick stiff drink - or two. Now I don't have to, I fall asleep regularly. My doctor knows, she writes the prescriptions after all; she said it has no adverse effects to speak of, so I'm sticking with it for the time. The meds are working perfectly, so far!

 

[Sommerswerd]

Studying going really badly

Life going really badly

 

[Sommerswerd]

fyi, when I'm Godkingemperor, the phrase "The _________ of it all" will be verboten. Just 'cause I like you guys, I thought I'd give you all a heads-up before my ascension.

Please add "The fact of the matter is________" to the verboten list as well. Thanks in advance your majesty.

 

[Zkribbler]

Sounds like you need THE CLAPPER

Not cost effective. In the eleven lights I've been here. I've left that light on once. It's an LED light and was only on for an additional 6 hours.

 

[Sarin]

Ugh. Got some kind of boil or something like that starting right next to a fingernail on my right index finger. Doctor said it's no big deal and it's too early to pop it, and gave me some kind of ointment that stinks like hot asphalt.

Ugh. Only now I noticed I posted this in wrong thread. Too many open tabs I guess...

 

[warpus]

I HATE it when somebody sends me a programming request that includes an "email to be sent" portion, and when the first request is sent there is ZERO content to the email.

Then when I am finally finished coding they say "Oh, here's the email text" and it includes a bunch of implications that mean I have to throw everything away and rebuild it from scratch

Those people are the destroyers of days

 

[Ajidica]

Working on assembling my kit of the HMS Exeter air defense frigate and the model piece/instructions are a weird mix of the pre-refit and post-refit type 45 frigates. Like, it has the widened deck amidships designed to take on close-in weapon systems to improve air defense capabilities after the Falklands War demonstrated the air defense frigates were not good at air defense. However, the widened deck forced the removal of the ship boats and replacement with inflatable small boats. However, the model features the widened amidship deck, the rigid boat amidships, and the inflatable small boat. Further, while the sprues include the ciws, they are not mentioned anywhere on the instruction. Additionally, the widened amidship deck features additional external supports, but pieces for that are not included in the kit sprues.
Ended up having to do some plastic surgery on the pieces in order to get the HMS Exeter into Falklands War version.

 

[amadeus]

If you get a kit of the Belgrano, does it come fully assembled and then you take it apart?

 

[amadeus]

I was reading this WSJ article on—prepare yourself for barf city—a former monk and now L.A.-based “viral life coach.”

I am convinced they are just New Age Televangelists, substituting “purpose” for Jesus.

But Wait... There’s More!

But unlike the old Swaggarts and Popoffs, they can write and hawk their own scripture from scratch, $24.95 plus $6.95 S&H*. A whole vertically-integrated pseduo-religion. What’s even more is that since they have no need for religious distinctions, they can capture 100% of the market, get their own programs syndicated on the secular networks, and they don’t have to risk controversy hurting anyone’s feelings.

*CA, MI, NJ residents add sales tax.

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[The_J]

Ugh. Got some kind of boil or something like that starting right next to a fingernail on my right index finger. Doctor said it's no big deal and it's too early to pop it, and gave me some kind of ointment that stinks like hot asphalt.

I have a big one on my back, and apparently that affects me so badly that I had a stiff neck for 2 days .
I think it's getting better though, since I slept well today, unlike the 2 nights before...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I can't say why I'm so angry right now, because it would violate one of the rules I pushed for ten years ago.

(nothing against anyone on the forum, though, unless one of you is secretly Jason Kenney)