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The "why I am miserable thread"
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I would guess because he is squatting, and the water department isn't in the habit of delivering water for free.
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From what he's said in the past, it was somewhat obscure as to who was actually paying the bills for the place Jon is currently living.
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Nobody was paying for it, and no one ever received any bills for it, either. The notice for the shutoff was never posted, either. So, just ended up coming home to no water. That was last Friday. It's sort of like an adventure, except I love showering daily. Can't get all the people living here to come to a consensus on paying the past-due amount, so it may be infeasible for the few of us willing to chip in.
Smuggling gallon jugs into BP's bathroom to collect water == exactly what I expected to be doing at 28. -
I will preface this by saying FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS, but:
Got a package in mail.
Wasn't expecting package.
Hm, could be Tales of Graces review copy. Haven't heard from the guy, but sometimes they mail stuff out without conversation.
Says 'Otaku Usa' instead of my name on the mailer
OH MY GOD IT IS.
Run upstairs to open it, get super pumped.
It's Resident Evil: Revelations.
Already bought it three weeks ago, assuming they weren't getting me a review copy.
WOMP WOMP. -
Lost my key resulting in the postal service putting a hold on my mail sending back packages that I was expecting.
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The hard drive with my OS on it died last night.
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Ouch. I had that happen only to find both hard drives in my comp died. It was a rough time.
Weather here went from 23 to 59 in a day. Everyone is outside having fun while I'm stuck fighting off a migraine. -
Oh right. I keep forgetting you too.
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I got a new hard drive, and... now my windows xp pro product key isn't working.
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It's probably a sign to move on from XP.
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XP is excellent. That is what it stands for: eXcellent Product.
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My father in law helped me get that straightened out.
I do plan on moving to Windows 7 with my next machine (whenever that might be), but XP Pro has served me well. -
It has indeed. Good thing you're giving Vista the miss.
Curious thing is I don't mind Vista as much once I started using Win7... Strange isn't it.
But I reckon they're just getting lazy with names now. I mean really Windows 8... -
At least they're going up in numbers. How long have Macs been on OS 10?
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The Florida Legislature and Rick Scott decided to be meanies and approved the budget cuts for state universities, $300 million in total. My school, FAU, is getting $24.7 million in cuts. That's pretty low compared to UCF and FSU which are getting $52.6 million and $65.8 million in cuts, though they are much larger schools. Bad time to be a college student come July 1st.
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Things aren't much better in Arizona. On top of continued antagonism from the Legislature towards the state universities, they're now getting more personal and going after students. A bill to make every student pay at least $2,000 out of pocket for tuition got passed out of committee, but subsequently died, for now. A concurrently proposed bill would allow for lower than minimum wage for part-time employees aged under 20, and an even lower minimum wage for tipped employees (currently it's $4.65 I think). They also keep pushing to allow carrying guns to be permitted on campus, which would cost the universities millions in order to comply with the various existing statutes. Oh, and they're trying to pass a bill to make instructors' speech comply with FCC broadcast rules: both in and out of class.
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The Discovery Channel fired Bear Grylls.
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Now who will I watch drink their own pee?
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What was the reason?
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Some contractual thing he refused to do. I think he was supposed to host something.
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It's kind of funny to think about a guy who drank the liquid he squeezed from bear crap refusing to do something. "Eat roadkill? No problem! Host the Boy Scout Survival Awards? fuuuuuuck THAT."Getter said:Some contractual thing he refused to do.
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No spring break for me. Debate tournament. I haven't had a real Spring Break in two years. I probably won't have a real Spring Break in college either...
Not a big problem, but I can't wait until after the break... -
There is NO FUCKING WAY I am getting out of work any time remotely resembling my normal quitting time and I still haven't had lunch.
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I feel your pain. I quickly ate a banana before I left this morning, and that's it until I get home at around 10PM.
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It can get pretty miserable if I skip lunch.
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I can imagine, meanwhile I had roast pork with all the trimmings for lunch. Mmmmmm crackling...
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I finally got to leave work nearly 4 hours after my shift ended. I got home half an hour before midnight. Yay. I'm almost back to work now.
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Battlefield 3 doesn't want to run with my graphics card on my laptop (apparantly a problem that the manufacture doesn't care to address, aka updating their graphics drivers) so I have to wait till I get home to play it for real. Saints Row the Third is downloading on Steam right now, hopefully that one does better.
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My daughter has strep throat and it sucks that I'm pretty much limited to giving her medicine and comforting her.
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I agree with the second commenter, "poopsypants": nuke it from orbit.
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Man, that lady walking her greyhounds through the spider webs in picture 7 sure is brave. But then again, it is Australia! b(^o^)d
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Spankminister said:
I agree with the second commenter, "poopsypants": nuke it from orbit.
Hudson would agree!
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Arrived home to a bare kitchen. Half that food was supposed to be mine =\
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House sharing 101, label all your food with a black marker.
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Or pee on it, just to be extra safe.
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Or live with adults who respect you as a person.
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To his credit, he restocked the fridge after work. All is well. Six pounds of fruit!
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I've always been of the mindset that, unless i'm specifically eating something at that moment, anything I add to a communal fridge or cabinet is everyones. I don't know why I'd feel guilty taking something out that I didn't put there, but have no issues with someone else doing so.
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That's because you were raised right, sonny.
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I am one that if I eat something from the cabinets that isn't mine, I make sure to buy double than what they had. My roommate had some dinner mints that I kept eating all the time, so I wound up buying 2 packs of it to make it up, which he didn't seem to have a problem with it. I try to use that principle from Matthew 5:41 which you can put that into context for just about anything.
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So you're just going to assume people know what Matthew 5:41 is?
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I'm just going to assume it's the part where jesus says it is ok to beat slaves/servents.
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So you two were too lazy to plug it into Google.
It's the verse that says "if someone compels you to go one mile, go two." -
That's it, I'm just going to quote Chairman Mao's little red book for everyday situations. The bible is not some god damn reference book where you take quotes from, like it's a message from god on your every life situation (not personal, just in general).
What would've been better is "Sharing is Caring". You don't need a bible for that. -
Too lazy or not interested enough?
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Why not quote from Gaddafi's Green Book?
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I prefer the Aircraft Blue Book. It goes better with my outfit.
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I just think it's ridiculous to quote a Bible verse and assume people will automatically know what it means. That's like me assuming you will know what I am talking about if I quote an obscure skate punk band from the '80s. Except I didn't actually quote it, and was just like, "Well, you know what The Faction said in their song about whales."
