Random Rants LIII: F My Life

[H4run]

my kitten just pass away today, and he is the best and the kindest cat I ever had in my life. 8 days being with us, and he really appear like a blessing. I really regret every tiny second that I pass with him without patience and grateful feeling.

 

[Cutlass]

I'm sad to hear that.

 

[salty mud]

my kitten just pass away today, and he is the best and the kindest cat I ever had in my life. 8 days being with us, and he really appear like a blessing. I really regret every tiny second that I pass with him without patience and grateful feeling.

Sorry to hear. How come he only had eight days?

 

[Kennigit]

Sad to hear, one of my friends just had a dog pass away too

anyways, I'm mad at myself for not understanding gravity. Bought a desk at a garage sale and disassembled it, but instead of laying it down or something when removing the side 2 side pieces I just removed one and it shifted on the other, ripping? (dunno right word) the region of the screws connected it. So now the screws don't fit nice and tight.

not describing that well but point is now it isn't sturdy by itself. I can lean it against the wall but that doesn't really seem to be a great idea.

edit-- should say I was holding it at least, not completely dumb. I thought "yeah I'll just hold it for a sec"

 

[Farm Boy]

Is there enough room where they connect to make new holes for the screws?

 

[Kennigit]

Probably

 

[Borachio]

You could chip out any loose bits, fill the holes with wood filler, sand it down, and make new holes in that.

Or just clue a bit of spare wood over it. And off you go. Wood is very forgiving. Unless it's chipboard, of course. In which case, I'd chuck the thing away.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Last night I had a dream that has been disturbing me - not so much in a nightmare sort of way, but in a very subtle, "I dunno what exactly is wrong but something doesn't sit well with me" sort of way. The general plot of the dream was nothing that bad - just me going back to visit my high school friends in Maryland - but there was a subplot involving a cute blonde prostitute that I was kind of fond of, and that's what leaving me feel a bit wary. The subplot at any rate seemed to develop into a (perhaps mildly chauvinistic) Victorian era-seque redemption of a fallen woman sort of thing before the dream ended, but there's something about it I just find off. Not the girl herself - she was very sweet and adorable, mind you - but the subplot in and of itself.

There's just something off about it that I find unnerving. Maybe because I've forgotten some key emotional or psychological aspect of that subplot that is unnerving. But something just isn't right. And I don't think it's because the dream didn't finish and I didn't get to "save" her, either; there's just something a bit off about the subplot in and of itself.

Of course, the fact that I usually don't prefer blondes while the blonde girl was clearly the most attractive girl in the dream is a bit of a curiosity in and of itself, but whatever. Though she seemed to lean more towards Asian ideals of beauty rather than Euro-American ones, so there's that.

 

[H4run]

I'm sad to hear that.

Sad to hear, one of my friends just had a dog pass away too

thanks for the concern and sympathy

Sorry to hear. How come he only had eight days?

Since the first time we picked him up, we already notice there is something wrong with his stool, the colour is pink and the smell is very awful. He also seems not so active and playful for a kitten in his age, because of this we bring him to the veterinary. The vet check him for 5 min, and give him worm medicine, and then he said "nothing wrong with this kitten" and he handle the kitten so harshly and fastly and after that he charge us with awfully expensive price.

We did everything for the kitten, he hardly eating, so we buy anything that we though he going to like it. He eat itvery fondly in the beginning, but after couples of bites he stop eating and doesn't want to continue with the same food until we change it with other food. This was made me quite angry at him, something that I regret also after he pass away because it is related with his sickness.

He die when I went out buying something, my wife saw him going out from the bathroom with head looking at the floor walking in a weak unbalance step, not long after that he fall, and cannot get up, each time he get up he is fall again. When I went back home he already having seizure, and keep calling us to be near him. We wait for hours, covering him with blanket, until I saw blood coming out from his anal, my wife said that is internal bleeding, and I really feel angry with the doctor why he don't check up the kitten more seriously so we can anticipate this sickness. And you already know what happen, he die in the morning.

This kitten loves us so much, he never complain, he never poop in the carpet, since day one I teach him to poop in the litter, he always use his litter. He always want to be near us and never fought us back in the time when normally any cat become aggressive (like each time we bath him or hair drying him) and he always observe our behaviour and always obsess on following me to toilet and bathroom. And 2 time he not using the litter but he use the toilet to poop without anyone teaching him. Many good things that I found in him, while the things that he don't want to eat or play it is because he holding a great pain within himself and no one understand, not even that bloody doctor.

 

[Borachio]

Dream

Dreams are really tricksy things. I wouldn't get hung up on any particular one, if I were you. (And of course, I'm not.)

If your subconscious mind is trying to tell you something, and you don't understand what it is (and only you can know what your dreams mean, I think), it will likely keep telling you until you do understand.

So, unless this dream repeats itself, pay it no more attention. It's probably just "noise".

(The "dream interpreter" has now left the building.)

 

[Farm Boy]

Your mind is struggling with your attraction to Western women and culture. Casting including blonde hair and a lifestyle of sexual promiscuity, yet still deeply attractive. The more traditional minded section of your mind puts the features of you typical Asian beauty on it and wars within the dream to redeem/rescue the object of attraction from her wicked, yet intoxicating ways.

Actually, that's not how dream interpretation works. Rather, it probably just means you want to sleep with your mother. Or father. Or both. Or that you find women attractive and you ate too late in the evening. Seriously though, I feel ya on hating at least some dreams. I haven't remembered a good one for somewhere around ten years. I only remember the nightmares.

 

[The_J]

[...]

Oh man, sad to hear that .




Rant on my own: I know a half ton of people, but exactly nobody to go out with on a Saturday evening.
Either I don't know them good enough, they're busy or in a relationship which occupies their time.
Half past 10 on a Saturday evening, and I'm bored, posting here.
And I really feel like going somewhere. If I don't get to see some girls, then I'm probably going to explode.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Meanwhile...

We had to go to school on Saturday, and exactly then the weather decided it should be raining heavily with depressing skies. At least, the school day was shorter.

 

[Zack]

I've been having a lot of trouble going to sleep the past few nights. Usually I fall asleep around 1 or 2 am, but for whatever reason I suddenly wasn't able to anymore. My approximate sleep schedule the past few nights (more like days, really):

6 am - noon

6 am - noon

10 am - 4 pm (this was last night/today)

The past few days I wasn't any more or less tired than usual, but now I feel exhausted, just awful. I'm not doing anything different at night, and I haven't been drinking any caffeine. My sleep schedule is like I'm having a sleepover every day. I've never had any serious problem sleeping before, and there doesn't seem to be any reason why it should suddenly happen now, but man it sucks.

 

[H4run]

Oh man, sad to hear that .

Yes, learn from my experience, if you ever have a pet, before you chose a doctor, better check up some pet forum and see peoples experience and recommendation.

Stray cat also quite fragile I must expect the outcome can be like this, however his sweetness and kindest really touch me and how I misunderstood his sickness as a sign of spoil and snobbishness is the one that sad me most out of regret. I already have and lost so many cat in my life, and I never shed tear despite of my sadness, but this time I shed my tears.

@Zack

in my case, sleeplessness is cause by pain (I get injured in my early teenager due to over-training) and the noise of my inner mind. I usually dealt it with listening to some lecture, it make my mind concentrate and tired which lead me to sleep.

In many case game also make me sleepless.

 

[Ajidica]

I finally got around to watching The Desolation of Smaug and I was totally unimpressed. Ignoring all the lore issues (WTH is Legolas and some female elf doing running around in Laketown saving Fili/Kili from a the Morgul poison that turned Frodo into a Ringwraith?) there was way too much movie-logic going on when Smaug was chasing the dwarves: Unless Smaug was not actually breathing fire all of the dwarves should likely have been dead from oxygen deprivation. Plus that whole fight in the forge was just silly, incoherent, and the golden-statue-thing that melted (?) made no sense.
Plus, the action scenes felt so over the top and out of place when compared to the LotR movies I couldn't take them seriously and just got bored during them.
I mean, the Charge of the Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields or the Siege of Helms Deep are some of the most impressive movie battles I've seen, while all of the battles in Desolation of Smaug were remarkable only for how silly they were.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It took me a while but I think I kind of figured out why that dream was bothering me: what makes me uneasy about the dream was the ambiguity surrounding my motives and the girl's motives. As something of a weak analogy it's sort of like in a piece of fiction when you can't tell whether, say, someone's on the good guy's side because he genuinely believes in the good guy or is doing it for selfish reason. All in all anyhow this ambiguity ties into some personal dilenmas I've been dealing with recently, so my unease makes sense to me now.

Of course, within the dream in and of itself I wasn't considering this consciously per se, but whatever.

All that said, it was nice walking arm in arm with her for some reason, ambiguity aside. I guess it's supposed to be pleasant if you (happen to be a straight guy and) are walking arm in arm with a pretty girl. Well, I guess unless if you're married and the girl isn't your wife and your wife sees you.

Dreams are really tricksy things. I wouldn't get hung up on any particular one, if I were you. (And of course, I'm not.)

If your subconscious mind is trying to tell you something, and you don't understand what it is (and only you can know what your dreams mean, I think), it will likely keep telling you until you do understand.

So, unless this dream repeats itself, pay it no more attention. It's probably just "noise".

(The "dream interpreter" has now left the building.)

Thanks. I've always found dreams fascinating, though I agree most of the time it's just random noise. That said, I've learned that the dreams that tend to have more coherent plots such as the above (and can range from rather simple and typical hunt and chase dreams to more complex ones such as the aforementioned one), tend to be more emotionally and psychologically relevant for me. For instance, not too long ago I had a dream which happened to symbolize my sadness over my parents' shaky relationship with each other.

Your mind is struggling with your attraction to Western women and culture. Casting including blonde hair and a lifestyle of sexual promiscuity, yet still deeply attractive. The more traditional minded section of your mind puts the features of you typical Asian beauty on it and wars within the dream to redeem/rescue the object of attraction from her wicked, yet intoxicating ways.

That is probably something I'd use if my dream was a novel or something and I had to write an essay for an English class. Or an Asian-American/Asian studies class. Or I guess even a history class, as I could probably produce a gold mine of BS for that...

Actually, that's not how dream interpretation works. Rather, it probably just means you want to sleep with your mother. Or father. Or both. Or that you find women attractive and you ate too late in the evening. Seriously though, I feel ya on hating at least some dreams. I haven't remembered a good one for somewhere around ten years. I only remember the nightmares.

These days if I have dreams that aren't weird and silly, they tend to be bittersweet/ambiguous in terms of being 'good'; which isn't that much better, at any rate. Many of my dreams within the past few years seem to have a bit of a darkness to them - perhaps sort of like how a film director might use lighting to affect the mood of a scene.

 

[madviking]

a hot banger in the mouth has burned my tongue

 

[Zack]

a hot banger in the mouth has burned my tongue

here in the states, we call that a sausage in the mouth

 

[Tee Kay]

Thanks for that mental image