Random Rants XLIX - IT CHAFES MY ARSE!!!

Well I've been experimenting with herbal solutions for a wide variety of ailments for quite some time and for a while even mixed some of them for various enhancements. (not a thing to be undertaken lightly, it's somewhat like eating random herbs in Oblivion except the damage incurred to your body is quite real). Some of them work quite well when you find the right dosage for your weight and reaction. Anyway from personal experience I would not recommend Valerian, main use that I've found for it is to put someone down who had a trauma or a highly stressful event. As a sleeping agent it feels like being knocked out with a club and makes you really slow.

 

Spoiler :

WTF man?! Okay, first off not possible just simply because Kansas and Louisiana exist. But even beyond that... WTF?! It's a great State, probably the best! Stupid tubes...

(spoiler only because it's big)

 

Everyone knows the reincarnation cycle places you in mississippi -> alabama -> somewhere else in the US.

 

I needed to go to the library today to sign two contracts that would have literally been the foundation to a solution to 90% of my problems. I checked the hours beforehand... Opens at 10AM. So I leave at 10 to be sure it'll be open by the time I got there. It's hailing and storming, no big deal, this is worth it.

I get there, it's closed. Oh. Check the opening time... 10AM. I got there at 10:30, soooooo? I decided I would wait for an hour in a local food establishment just to see if it'll open in the meantime. There are three local food establishments. Every single one said, "Our cooks aren't in right now." Oooookay? So I step back outside into the hail, and it's gotten worse. I have no where to really stand and wait in the off chance the library opens, so I walk home without food and without a job.

I'm very content right now.

 

Hahaha V you got totally pwnt.

 

Hmmm... Is it a local holiday you forgot about, perchance, Synsensa?

 

No holiday. No notice of closure. Just... closed. This is a common theme in my town. No one really feels obligated to actually go to work here.

 

Is it some kind of a ghost town? Is it in a declining economic area?

I'd rather think the reason restaurants aren't open is because there aren't enough potential customers for it to be worthwhile. Rather than a disinclination to work.

 

Also what the hell is Ohio trying to steal our thunder? Virginia IS for lovers!

 

Instead of ranting and panting about things in detail, I will instead list 50 things which I dislike the most in ascending order. Mostly because I don't hold grudges against anyone or really "hate" people in any fashion.

50. NASCAR Fanatics
49. Guests at a house dinner who want to play a game or decide to answer cell phone calls
48. People who major in "Social Media studies" or the likewise at a university
47. Dr. Who
46. British historians of imperialism
45. People who keep the water running while brushing their teeth
44. Miami Heat "fans"
43. Jeffery Loria
42. Sabermetrics devotees
41. Egg Nog
40. Sweet Tea
39. Leftover Mac and Cheese
38. Having more than one Blu-Ray player
37. Hipsters who are "hipsters" to spite others
36. Environmental fanatics
35. Someone who tells me to chill out and "Take some E" or "Smoke some weed"
34. Stores that aren't named after what they sell
33. The gypsies who yell at people in Heroes Square in Budapest
32. People who urinate in public on the street in the middle of a city (I'm talking about you Richmond!)
31. Any modern artist that is associated with the YBA
30. Polish food
29. Social justice redditors
28. Reddit in general
27. Chocolate Coffee
26. My job on some days
25. Any popular author of "beach reading" (Danielle Steele, John Grisham)
24. Final Fantasy XIII (Seriously, the game scarred me)
23. The Likud and Kadima parties
22. Religious fanatics
21. Vladimir Putin
20. When it is like 30 degrees Fahrenheit and it's raining with heavy wind
19. People who think Jesus was a white man
18. Pop history
17. Alex Trebek
16. Coach K
15. Rob Ryan
14. Rex Ryan
13. Tim Tebow
12. "Hi my name is (Insert blue-blood here) I GO TO AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL"
11. Thomas Jefferson
10. The Corsican Anti-Christ
9. Lost Cause Historiography
8. People who are all like "The Dark Ages weren't THAT bad."
7. Herodotus
6. Ted Cruz
5. Ken Cuccinelli
4. Leaving the tv on while going to sleep
3. the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles)
2. Using ellipses for periods
1. Juggalos

 

My microwave started shooting sparks out of the magnetron and I don't have transportation to fix it because my wife is using our car to get to work.

We also forgot to schedule necessary repair work on the car before she started back at work.

 

@Wrymouth: As Vladimir Putin would say: chill out and take some E or smoke some weed..... After all, as Niall Ferguson's detailed Empire would point out, NASCAR is really the world's greatest sport, at least Rex Ryan would agree -- if he had put the "son of man" Tim Tebow in to play....

Sent via mobile form "The happiest place on Earth," the DMV -- been here since January.

Edit: @Hobbs: bummer about the microwave. That happened to me once and we found out the magnetron was still under warranty and got a free repair! I hope you are so lucky.

Re: the car -- get it fixed. 22 years ago I almost had a terrible accident because of unbalanced wheels.

 

Ah! Sometimes life seems too hard!

Sometimes the harder I try the less I succeed.

And I never seem to succeed if I don't try at all.

 

This represents my mood and what I'd like to do after a day like today.


Link to video.

 

Dentists.

 

Rob Ryan, would, of course, disagree, taking a phone call at a dinner party at which Egg Nog, Sweet Tea, Leftover Mac and Cheese, Polish Food, and Chocolate Coffee are served, arguing that his crack team of Sabermetrics Devotees have determined that Alex Trebek is the one who should play.

 

Well I've done the totting up and it transpires I agree with Wrymouth on 19 irritants, disagree on 6 and have no strong feelings one way or the other (either through ignorance or genuine ambivalence) on the remaining 25, I think. I kind of lost count at some point

 

But NASCAR is the world's greatest sport

Wikipedia is not loading for me right now, and therefore progress on my NES update has ground to a halt. Again.

 

Yes! A great day indeed.
Try another source.

NB: sorry about the delay in your NES update, though, I am not a fan of wikipedia.

Sent via mobile.

 

I have 2 more days at my summer internship remaining, and yesterday while I was away at all day meetings they took out my desk/computer and I think knocked down the wall to the room I was in (unconfirmed, I haven't gone in to see it yet). They knocked down the walls to some other rooms because they're doing some renovations and all to shift people around.

regardless, it was without any warning.

but these developments may prove difficult to do work under! good thing I have all day meetings scheduled for today at least (hilariously, probably only instance in life where all day meetings are a good thing!)