Random Rants LXXXVI: OH, FUDDLE-DUDDLE!

[Birdjaguar]

@Lemon Merchant I don't really like it, but need to acknowledge your terrible situation.

 

[Takhisis]

People who throw remote controls at their spouses, then beat them up because they subsequently require stitches, should have their thumbs pressed in a vise until they pop.

Having to help stitch up a sobbing, black and blue mess of a woman is not a fun way to spend an evening... Grrrr.

And lunch is over. Back to the circus.

I'll do something to cheer you up tomorrow.

 

[H4run]

People who throw remote controls at their spouses, then beat them up because they subsequently require stitches, should have their thumbs pressed in a vise until they pop.

Having to help stitch up a sobbing, black and blue mess of a woman is not a fun way to spend an evening... Grrrr.

And lunch is over. Back to the circus.

You not only do the right thing, you fix the wrong thing, what you are doing is good Lemon. It must be a tiring job, but your job is that few kind of job that makes you work hard and strive for the betterment of the society. At that moment you are a hero(ine). Keep it up Lemon.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the cheers.

 

[Snerk]

I need to study right now yet I'm not studying right now. Help?

Also I just biked half way down to the mall just to remember that everything is closed due to labour day.

 

[H4run]

I need to study right now yet I'm not studying right now. Help?

Also I just biked half way down to the mall just to remember that everything is closed due to labour day.

Recently I just learn something call dopamine detox, it's basically to deprived yourselves from any indulging activities in order to revitalized the quality of life and mood.

Just do sucks things everyday, like 2 hour?that's include studying. sucks things mostly are blessings in disguise.

Or challenge yourself with push ups for every 15 min you delayed studying.

 

[Synobun]

It's officially sweating-while-wearing-shorts-and-a-t-shirt weather. The people around me haven't clued in yet, since they're all still wearing parkas.

My laptop is going on a sightseeing adventure. It went from China to South Korea to Alaska. Then I waved at it flying overhead as it went all the way to Kentucky. Now it's in Ontario. Perhaps it will go for a quick jaunt in the EU next. The day on the tracker keeps changing as well; now it says May 6th.

I have no idea how I'm going to shop for groceries in the near future. The distance of the store is beyond my limit, and that doesn't take into consideration the weight of the groceries and now the debilitating heat. I hope, sooner rather than later, that the grocery stores can adjust for demand and open up delivery windows again.

My roommate uses an ungodly amount of toilet paper. At least a quarter of a roll per day. He also does not buy toilet paper, so he's ultimately been wiping out my stockpile with reckless abandon. Before quarantine, I had three full 18-roll packs. This would last me over a year. But with his use, I now only have half a pack left and everyone is still hoarding toilet paper here.

My physical health is in shambles. To the point that I had to close my business indefinitely. I don't know what this means for the future. Nothing good. But it took me 26 hours to edit 19,000 words, and at the prices I charge and the clientele I cater to, this is untenable. These people expect quick turnarounds, and that's not something I can currently provide. I had 10 days to complete 115,000 words and in that time I edited 19,000. Normally I could blame procrastination, waiting until the last minute, but I actively worked at it every single day. My brain is just incapable, and has been for quite some time. This has been a slow degradation over three months. Thankfully, the work I still have to do is work more easily done, and far less stressful. The big picture of this, though... is worrisome. I'm hoping time will remedy it, so I might largely disappear into a video-game hole when the new laptop arrives, although every hour spent gaming is two hours spent admonishing myself for not doing more to fix things. Good luck convincing me that fixing things requires functionality, and a lack of functionality kind of makes that plan dead on arrival. I guess i'm just tired of not seeing a meaningful payoff for the work I've done, and then knowing that there's so much more I should be doing but can't. But then, what is can't? Is it just an excuse? What happens if I get comfortable in "I can't"?

What's worse is that I was hoping to spend some time in 2020 diversifying future income. I wanted to finally write a novel and publish it (well, again, but I don't count the previous attempts), and slowly build up a backlist for future payoff years from now. But it turns out the above issue applies to recreation as well. My brain can't seem to make any of the connections necessary for complex thought or action, regardless of how "fun" it may be or how much I may want it. So it's nice to know I'm not just being bratty, but not nice because it helps to be able to do something even if I can't do what's technically most important. As-is, I'm just kind of floundering. You would think this means I'm burning through media with all the dead hours I'm working with, but I'm not. April was a good reading month, but other media has fallen aside. I've watched almost no movies, almost no television (compared to my norm), and talked to almost no one. Honestly, I couldn't tell you what I've spent my time doing.

Tuna has started tasting gross to me. @cardgame posted a while back about how cereal is disgusting to him now, and I have the same issue. It makes every "just eat rice and beans" suggestion immediately bogus for me, even if I liked them or even if my intestines could tolerate it. Every time I eat a food in a short frame of time, it actively becomes less palatable with each serving. I've eaten tuna almost every single day for two months now because it keeps well and it's relatively cheap, and it's really starting to test my brain. After a while, things just start to taste like how they taste when they've gone bad. This usually happens far quicker than two months, so I'm really working with bonus time here, but it's finally starting.

Let's see, what else can I whine about...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Small rant: Accidentally hitting 'save as' instead of 'open.'

 

[Ajidica]

It's officially sweating-while-wearing-shorts-and-a-t-shirt weather.

I thought you lived in Vancouver? Never realized it got above 70F there.

I've eaten tuna almost every single day for two months now

That's your problem right there. You need to vary things up. Tuna for a night or two, then rice and beans, then perhaps pizza or chicken strips. I'm happy to eat chicken strips and pasta, but I at least vary the cheese and bbq sauce used. (I also use the old standby of pretending different shaped pasta tastes different!)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's officially sweating-while-wearing-shorts-and-a-t-shirt weather. The people around me haven't clued in yet, since they're all still wearing parkas.

My laptop is going on a sightseeing adventure. It went from China to South Korea to Alaska. Then I waved at it flying overhead as it went all the way to Kentucky. Now it's in Ontario. Perhaps it will go for a quick jaunt in the EU next. The day on the tracker keeps changing as well; now it says May 6th.

I have no idea how I'm going to shop for groceries in the near future. The distance of the store is beyond my limit, and that doesn't take into consideration the weight of the groceries and now the debilitating heat. I hope, sooner rather than later, that the grocery stores can adjust for demand and open up delivery windows again.

My roommate uses an ungodly amount of toilet paper. At least a quarter of a roll per day. He also does not buy toilet paper, so he's ultimately been wiping out my stockpile with reckless abandon. Before quarantine, I had three full 18-roll packs. This would last me over a year. But with his use, I now only have half a pack left and everyone is still hoarding toilet paper here.

My physical health is in shambles. To the point that I had to close my business indefinitely. I don't know what this means for the future. Nothing good. But it took me 26 hours to edit 19,000 words, and at the prices I charge and the clientele I cater to, this is untenable. These people expect quick turnarounds, and that's not something I can currently provide. I had 10 days to complete 115,000 words and in that time I edited 19,000. Normally I could blame procrastination, waiting until the last minute, but I actively worked at it every single day. My brain is just incapable, and has been for quite some time. This has been a slow degradation over three months. Thankfully, the work I still have to do is work more easily done, and far less stressful. The big picture of this, though... is worrisome. I'm hoping time will remedy it, so I might largely disappear into a video-game hole when the new laptop arrives, although every hour spent gaming is two hours spent admonishing myself for not doing more to fix things. Good luck convincing me that fixing things requires functionality, and a lack of functionality kind of makes that plan dead on arrival. I guess i'm just tired of not seeing a meaningful payoff for the work I've done, and then knowing that there's so much more I should be doing but can't. But then, what is can't? Is it just an excuse? What happens if I get comfortable in "I can't"?

What's worse is that I was hoping to spend some time in 2020 diversifying future income. I wanted to finally write a novel and publish it (well, again, but I don't count the previous attempts), and slowly build up a backlist for future payoff years from now. But it turns out the above issue applies to recreation as well. My brain can't seem to make any of the connections necessary for complex thought or action, regardless of how "fun" it may be or how much I may want it. So it's nice to know I'm not just being bratty, but not nice because it helps to be able to do something even if I can't do what's technically most important. As-is, I'm just kind of floundering. You would think this means I'm burning through media with all the dead hours I'm working with, but I'm not. April was a good reading month, but other media has fallen aside. I've watched almost no movies, almost no television (compared to my norm), and talked to almost no one. Honestly, I couldn't tell you what I've spent my time doing.

Tuna has started tasting gross to me. @cardgame posted a while back about how cereal is disgusting to him now, and I have the same issue. It makes every "just eat rice and beans" suggestion immediately bogus for me, even if I liked them or even if my intestines could tolerate it. Every time I eat a food in a short frame of time, it actively becomes less palatable with each serving. I've eaten tuna almost every single day for two months now because it keeps well and it's relatively cheap, and it's really starting to test my brain. After a while, things just start to taste like how they taste when they've gone bad. This usually happens far quicker than two months, so I'm really working with bonus time here, but it's finally starting.

Let's see, what else can I whine about...

I don't know what to say, other than please reach out to someone, even it's just a help line. At the very least there would be a real human to listen, and they might just have an idea that would be useful for you.

²

(and find a place to hide your toilet paper; if the roommate complains, tell him it's his turn to buy it)

I thought you lived in Vancouver? Never realized it got above 70F there.

Whatever gave you that idea? It can get insanely hot in BC, and I don't just mean the interior.

 

[Synobun]

I thought you lived in Vancouver? Never realized it got above 70F there.

Anything over 53F is sweating-while-wearing-shorts-and-a-t-shirt weather.

 

[Snerk]

Just discovered a leak in my ceiling from the kitchen upstairs. This is probably going to develop into a situation.

 

[Cutlass]

People who throw remote controls at their spouses, then beat them up because they subsequently require stitches, should have their thumbs pressed in a vise until they pop.

Having to help stitch up a sobbing, black and blue mess of a woman is not a fun way to spend an evening... Grrrr.

And lunch is over. Back to the circus.

Want me to send you baking supplies?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Want me to send you baking supplies?

Awww thanks, but I don't have time to bake.

 

[Takhisis]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the cheers.

Here you go. Just for your birthday.

I need to study right now yet I'm not studying right now. Help?

I can help you. I'll join you in not-studying.

 

[Zardnaar]

Is banana safe for birds? Feeding them grain bread I know they eat fruit idk about bananas.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: When Google tries to intervene and changes my search terms around. Grr.

 

[H4run]

It's quite annoying to joke with someone who doesn't understand sarcasm. Today I call an employee he is not answering, so I call his superior and he told me he will coordinates with him, I ask him is there the third phone that he can easily pick up where the only person who knows it is you and his wife? His superior told me while laughing "now we usually call his son to be able to connects with him." And we laugh.

After that this guy drop me a whatsapp, Sir did you call me? yeah and please I thiink I need your son phone number (1 years old 11 month btw, very obvious irony) so I can connects with you better, so if you don't pick up the phone I will call him instead. He answers me "yes sir of course, btw why you call me?". I feel so awkward so I want to imply that it is a joke "is your little one even have a phone?" he answers "wait a moment sir, I will give information" dang, perhaps he think I'm talking about his coworker or something so I just call him.

I want to tell him to be more ready on picking up phone but in a less tense way, but instead I got a reverse effect.

 

[Cutlass]

Is banana safe for birds? Feeding them grain bread I know they eat fruit idk about bananas.

If they don't like it, they won't eat it.

 

[Snerk]

I can help you. I'll join you in not-studying.

I did get a little done, but not very much. I'll try harder today. Probably.