[EmperorMagus]

Graablick, on 03 July 2014 - 09:36 PM, said:

Just find something terrible boring to read, like an old phonebook or a school book.. I remember when I was trying to read to a test in relgion I allways fell asleep.

This. Just start reading something religious, preferably written as a propaganda piece/for teenagers, Instant sleep!
I swear to god, I once slept an entire Friday then went to my religious studies class at 10:30 the next day(after more than 26 hours of sleep!). I was snoring before 10:45...

[Messremb]

Illuyankas, on 03 July 2014 - 09:39 PM, said:

Listen to the audiobook of famously dull people's auto/biographies. Aim for someone like John Major but without the affair.

You found it too exciting?

[Kanubis]

Messremb, on 03 July 2014 - 10:25 PM, said:

Illuyankas, on 03 July 2014 - 09:39 PM, said:

Listen to the audiobook of famously dull people's auto/biographies. Aim for someone like John Major but without the affair.

You found it too exciting?

I imagine it's that the thought of John Major shagging Edwina Currie will give anyone nightmares, which is obviously bad for an insomniac that finally falls asleep.

[Stormcat]

Cracked tooth. Holy shit this hurts.

[Loki]

Baby Hulk just went down for a nap so I am doing the usual 'What should I do?' internal monologue that mostly revolves around me trying to decide whether to read a book (and which book), play Xbox (and which game), play on Steam (and again, which game), or do housework (housework very rarely wins).

Currently narrowed it down to playing Mass Effect on the Xbox or playing Mass Effect on the PC.

I suspect I'll waste another hour deciding and will just sit down to my chosen activity when Rip decides to wake up.

~ Loki, is thoroughly hopeless.

This post has been edited by Loki: 04 July 2014 - 03:27 AM

[Gothos]

Work is being obnoxious this week.

[Studlock]

The only good thing I can say about my life is at least I live a life that will eventually look good and dramatic in the autobiography.

Woke up in a man's backyard, with no shoes or socks and I had to transverse from the southside of the city to the northside in bare feet, barely conscious, and by the time I got home my feet were bleeding (fun) but I was so tired I just passed out and slept so hard I slept passed my shift at my new job...which I just got fired from. I got to stop drinking, because one day I'll probably die.

I realize it's fully my fault but still sucks a bit. Time to start a looking again tomorrow, for a job that is.

[worry]

Hey it's like Stormy never left.

[High House Dark]

I'm sick on my 3-day weekend (for a holiday i couldnt give two shits about, but it's been a long while since I got a good break and rest.. or not). Temp was 101.4 saturday night, and after a bath today. It was lower this morning, so hopefully it was just the bath. ANYWAYS, my externship starts tomorrow, and our school treats us like fifth graders, so we get 3 unexcused absences, and if we're sick WE HAVE TO SEND IN A DOCTOR'S NOTE or it uses one of the unexcused absences. CUZ, YANNO, I TOTALLY WANT TO GO SOMEWHERE, PAY MONEY FOR A VISIT, ALL TO TELL A SCHOOL SHIT I ALREADY KNEW.

We also aren't allowed to get paid on this externship. >:|

So if I'm still sick Monday, my two choices are suck it up and go in and prolong how sick i am, or potentially fuck over the number of hours i need to complete by missing the first few days AND paying for a doctor's visit so i can get a stupid note.

[Gothos]

So another tourist was found dead on the slopes of Rysy, my little country's tallest mountain, and one of the taller ones in the Tatry range (there's quite a few taller ones on the slovak side). That's about 4 this season alone. Don't people read the news or something? They have no respect for nature and then you have shit like this. Bit more of this and some stupid ass politician will start a campaign to close access to the summit. Bloody assholes.

[Abyss]

Gah, i was happier on vacation.

- Abyss, cruelly sober.

[worry]

Same way you forget anything, like something is in the oven or you have the sprinklers on or you set your soda on the car roof.

[Traveller]

My wife wants to book a holiday for my two weeks off in August.

This is messing my groove as.. we just got back from one.
It was a nice week, but with two little kids it was hard work, all day keeping them safe and busy, and I really hate all the driving, airport crap, queues, bus transfers, and not getting a minutes peace.

She wants to go away again as a few weeks after my son turns two, and will cost loads more. Also she likes holidays, but this is mainly because I end up with both kids all day while she lays in the sun.

I want my two weeks at home, where we can do beach trips, have a couple of days to ourselves (with the kids at nursery,) and get a few long overdue jobs done.

Also she just wants to pay for it out of our (my) savings, which aren't going to last if we keep dipping into them.

So now they think I'm being a grumpy old man as I'm not jumping at a second trip abroad in two months.

Actually I do sound a bit like a grumpy old man.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 17 July 2014 - 04:24 AM

[HiddenOne]

No, stand your ground Traveller - sounds like you have all the reasons to stay at home

My gripe to day started with an email from a senior auditor "Well, these numbers are about $50K out of balance, so fix it." This means I am re-doing a year's worth of payroll breakdowns by month, by employee, and by job description, looking for where the numbers went wrong. This will force me to actually work, which is just plain evil. Spreadsheets all over until I want to vomit. And then punch somebody in the face. And to top it off, I hear the secretary coughing & sneezing with a summer cold, which causes me to view each piece of paper coming my way as a biohazard.

[HiddenOne]

Briar King, on 08 July 2014 - 02:17 PM, said:

upworthywort, on 08 July 2014 - 03:56 AM, said:

Same way you forget anything, like something is in the oven or you have the sprinklers on or you set your soda on the car roof.

I've been guilty with most of those once. I'm quite sure I've got a triple alarm layout in my brain in regards to my kids though.

maybe you love your kids more than other people, I wonder sometimes at the stuff I see.

EDIT: talking about the bad parents of the world here, obviously not anyone here, before it even starts

This post has been edited by HiddenOne: 08 July 2014 - 03:37 PM

[worry]

You have to remember, brains are idiots. Scientifically speaking, brains are just fungi: they're mushrooms with the stem as your spinal cord. Would you trust your kids with a large mushroom, just because it had arms and legs?

[Andorion]

The weather...I so ardently hate the weather....it's the monsoon.....In India now it's supposed to be pouring with rain....last two days its beasically been oven temperature in sauna humidity....no rain and since this morning the sun is shining so brightly my eyes hurt. I was up all night watching the World Cup and now its 9.30 in the morning and I wish I was dead....

[Tsundoku]

Phone just up and died today, at a very inconvenient time. A Nokia C5, it was only 4 years old! Nothing is built to last these days. Even Nokias.

Now I'm going to have to get a new one stat, instead of taking my time picking one out. I don't think C5's are available any more.

#firstworldproblems

This post has been edited by Sombra: 10 July 2014 - 07:38 AM

[Tapper]

UUUURGH.

There's a snag in the plan to attend the meet-up.

Apparently, between the agency I booked with (flightnetwork.com) and the actual airline, my adress was changed to a US adress.
I checked with the agency's page and it's correct there.

However, the airline website can't take my zipcode since it asks for 5 digits instead of 4 numbers and 2 letters as is customary for the Netherlands. Result: I can't check in. So I call the airline. The airline guy tries for 30 minutes, then tells me it has to be done at the airport before the flight. Which has boarding at 6.05 AM, when probably everyone with authorization will still be fast asleep.

So, I go to the airport now. FUCK.

[Gothos]

Hangover after... 5 beers? I'm growing old and weak. I've also noticed I've forgotten what being drunk feels like. Can't say I fancy the feeling much. Tipsy is great, drunk is horrible.