[Adjutant Stormy~]

Two things.

1) I've been doing some side-job type stuff editing some drivel that's being put out for this friend-of-a-friend's videogame (I wonder if they have a kickstarter by now) and it's crap. It's all crap. All of the characters are cookie-cut archetypes of archetypes. All of the dialog that this one guy in particular has written is at a 5th grade level. Even for someone who hopes to 'make it' in writing of any kind - every single scrap of writing of his that I've seen over the past I-don't-wanna-think-about-it has had at least one spelling mistake.

2) Trying to organize my birthday get together. Realizing that I've invited 2 ex girlfriends accidentally by virtue of the friends of mine they're attached to. Realizing that we'll never agree on where to eat. At least we decided on where to drink.

[Tiste Simeon]

It's your birthday. You say where you want to eat & if people don't want to come along, they are pretty sucky friends...

[Obdigore]

Loki, on 06 December 2012 - 09:51 PM, said:

WHO DOES HOMEIMPROVEMENTS BEFORE 8AM!

People who need to get stuff done and don't hang about their place all day playing video games or reading or whatever?

I do lots of stuff before 8am. In fact I work 9 hours a day before 8am, get home, and generally head to the gym as well.

People who don't realize that 1/4th of the world has night jobs are currently messing with my groove.

[Loki]

And Matador works 12 hour shifts helping to save lives and doesn't get home til 7am. So being annoyed that people schedule loud landscaping for 7am instead of later in the morning given they aren't doing it themselves is hardly being unreasonable. Especially since residential permits for that kind of noise in our area start from after 8am.

This post has been edited by Loki: 07 December 2012 - 01:04 PM

[Matador]

Obdigore, on 07 December 2012 - 11:17 AM, said:

Loki, on 06 December 2012 - 09:51 PM, said:

WHO DOES HOMEIMPROVEMENTS BEFORE 8AM!

People who need to get stuff done and don't hang about their place all day playing video games or reading or whatever?

I do lots of stuff before 8am. In fact I work 9 hours a day before 8am, get home, and generally head to the gym as well.

People who don't realize that 1/4th of the world has night jobs are currently messing with my groove.

Loki, on 07 December 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

And Matador works 12 hour shifts helping to save lives and doesn't get home til 7am. So being annoyed that people schedule loud landscaping for 7am instead of later in the morning given they aren't doing it themselves is hardly being unreasonable. Especially since residential permits for that kind of noise in our area start from after 8am.

People who do loud tree lopping and home improvements at 7.00am are messing with my groove. You know, being as they don't appreciate that people like myself work nights and have to try and get to sleep at that time.
I'd appreciate a little more gaming or reading at this hour, instead of industrial earth moving. Maybe they could join a gym.

[Obdigore]

Loki, on 07 December 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

And Matador works 12 hour shifts helping to save lives and doesn't get home til 7am. So being annoyed that people schedule loud landscaping for 7am instead of later in the morning given they aren't doing it themselves is hardly being unreasonable. Especially since residential permits for that kind of noise in our area start from after 8am.

Are you really mad about 1 extra hour? I mean really?

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Feeling a vague sense of frustration and anxiety. Can't really pin it down to one thing, mostly a jumble of things, but I feel like time is running out and I'm going nowhere. Hate this feeling.

[Loki]

Obdigore, on 07 December 2012 - 01:26 PM, said:

Loki, on 07 December 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

And Matador works 12 hour shifts helping to save lives and doesn't get home til 7am. So being annoyed that people schedule loud landscaping for 7am instead of later in the morning given they aren't doing it themselves is hardly being unreasonable. Especially since residential permits for that kind of noise in our area start from after 8am.

Are you really mad about 1 extra hour? I mean really?

We don't all have your sleep habits. Hard to believe, I know but some of us find it easy to sleep through noise but not fall asleep to it.

[QuickTidal]

I used to get mad about early noises like that (they are always building another building by our condo...the perks of living downtown...and the banging and hammering always starts at like 6AM), but Obi has a point...there are whole swathes of humanity who work the midnight shift, or like construction workers (the early shift), or those that serve you your pints at the bar who don't get home till 3 or 4AM and just like everyone else spend a few hours winding down before crashing mid-AM...it sucks, and they don't want to do it either but everyone has to make a living. And sometimes that living is going to intrude on your sleep. I've come to realize this and begrudgingly accept it.

Look at it this way, what if that neighbor works the night shift at a bar? Then the only time they get to do their home improvements is between 4AM and 9AM (just like you might do when coming home in the late afternoon or evening). Yeah it totally sucks and yeah it messes with your groove...but it's actually more necessary than you probably know. The world doesn't shut down between 10PM and 7AM, but that doesn't stop Mrs. QT from getting pissy with me for getting ready for work "too loudly"...and every time she does it I think to myself "I HAVE to get ready for work, what would you like me to do?"

[Abyss]

Noise cancelling headphones.

Or earplugs.


First world problems..... SOLVED.


BOO-YAH!


- Abyss, don't need none cuz

[Puck]

Insomnia. And I can't get onto chat. Meh.

[worry]

I'm getting waaaay too much uninterrupted, resting, relaxing, health-affirming sleep lately. Just an over-abundance of it, you know? So annoying!

Now to read the last few pages of this thread and see how everyone else is doing!

[Slow Ben]

I hate packing.Moving in general, but mostly the packing.

[Illuyankas]

So I finally get a new phone now I actually have reasons to use one regularly and get a Nokia Lumia 610 - nothing big, just a reasonable touchscreen phone - for £17 with the whole texts, calls, bandwidth deals thing. And then I get home and it requires a micro sim card where they gave me a standard one, and it's Sunday tomorrow so if they already started the process of porting my old number across I'm going to be a bit boned for calls, such as the ones I need to receive from nurses and whatnot. What a useless fucking birthday present.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Sir Patrick Moore

Granted he was 89, and he lived a hell of a life, but i'll miss seeing him on telly.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Work Christmas dinner this evening. Can't stand the things. There's one guy in the office that I grab the odd beer and/or game with, but I really have no use for most of my co-workers outside of the work environment.

So I get to spend a few hours nodding and smiling while listening to inane stories and anecdotes about people's kids or the new coffee table they just bought. Things like bar or restaraunt Christmas parties were fun, but attending office ones is a necessary evil.

[Silencer]

Too. Hot....*melts*

[Mentalist]

trying to learn trusts.

than I read this:

"to pay and apply the whole or any part of the annual income of such one-fourth and the investments thereof or if they shall think fit from time to time any part of the capital thereof unto or for the maintenance or personal support or benefit of the said Lilian Aspinall or as to the income of thereof but not as to the capital for the maintenance education support or benefit of all or any one or more of the children of the said Lilian Aspinall and either themselves so to apply the same or to pay the same for that purpose to any other person or persons without seeing to the application thereof And during the period of twenty-one years from my death if the said Lilian Aspinall shall live so long to accumulate the surplus if any of such income at compound interest by investing the same and the resulting income thereof in any the investments aforesaid by way of addition to the capital of such fund as aforesaid and so as subject to the same trusts as are hereby declared concerning the same and during the remainder of the life of the said Lilian Aspinall in case she shall survive the said period of twenty-one years to pay or apply such surplus incomes (if any) to the person or persons for the the purposes to whom and fro which the same would for the time being be payable or applicable if the said Lilian Aspinall were then dead And after the death of the said Lilian Aspinall as regards both capital and income both original and accumulated In trust for the child or children of said Lilian Aspinall who either before of after her decease shall being a son or sons attain the age of twenty-one years or being a daughter or daughters attain that age or marry and if more than one in equal shares"

all one sentence. Kill me now.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

That is a criminally long run-on sentence that only legalese seems to get away with.

[MTS]

I read a classical inscription from western Turkey once whose text typed out covered about an A4 page, and there were two full stops in the entire thing. Made it very hard to decipher what the hell was going on.

This post has been edited by MTS: 10 December 2012 - 11:47 PM