[Illuyankas]

Wow, I didn't know 'orthodox' meant 'chronologically impaired'. Though I can see it, now that I think about it.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Don't really want to go on this holiday to QLD in a week's time. I know, that sounds incredibly spoilt, but I'm not hugely complaining about it. It's just that I'd rather stay here, where I can spend more time with friends and be better equipped to get schoolwork done before I head back for the dreaded Twelve.

[Macros]

Stuck with the cold, can't shift it at all.
Bastard

[Adjutant Stormy~]

WHERE THE HELL IS MY STONEWIELDER!

[Captain Beardface]

Damn you the work week and the gym for curtailing my reading of Stonewielder... Sorry Stormy, my copy finally got here...

[Illuyankas]

Playing Crysis on the high graphic setting on my computer and the beginning cutscenes crash the game every level when it loads directly playing from the last. So I'm basically playing one level through at a time, then reloading the game after the crash.

This minor nuisance is, of course, due to me having both Firefox and Chrome running a ton of tabs each at the same time. I love my machine. It could probably do a decent job of very high with nothing else running too.

EDIT: Welp, scratch that, the second to last boss battle on the carrier demanded a switch from high to medium in order to play it, regardless of what else I have running. My PC has failed me. Also Crysis is anticlimatic as fuck.

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 08 January 2011 - 03:11 PM

[Illuyankas]

Found myself tagged in a picture from New Year's Eve on bookface. It was taken by a friend I haven't seen in a long time, and she's in the pic with me. I don't remember meeting her that night, let alone the pic being taken. That's really really depressing.

[RodeoRanch]

I took a hockey puck right in the knee. I can hardly walk today. Good game though. I wasn't the worst player on the ice! Yeah!

[Mentalist]

m7y inability to focus.
that, and I think I'm addicted to expert difficulty Spider Solitaire. fuck

[Puck]

My mother borrowed money from me AGAIN. Damn her promises to pay me back in a week, I know it's not gonna happen. And there I was trying to save up money for a new pc for the.. what.. third time? At this rate I can forget passing some courses ever, not even talking about this semestre. That's somewhat depressing, because I repeatedly have to listen to the rich kids with their big macbooks at college moaning about not getting along with Photoshop and related programs while I don't have a pc that's runs the programms and STILL know my way around them WAY better than them. Simple logic can't be bought, idiots.

[amphibian]

Puck, on 09 January 2011 - 02:09 PM, said:

My mother borrowed money from me AGAIN. Damn her promises to pay me back in a week, I know it's not gonna happen. And there I was trying to save up money for a new pc for the.. what.. third time? At this rate I can forget passing some courses ever, not even talking about this semestre. That's somewhat depressing, because I repeatedly have to listen to the rich kids with their big macbooks at college moaning about not getting along with Photoshop and related programs while I don't have a pc that's runs the programms and STILL know my way around them WAY better than them. Simple logic can't be bought, idiots.

Do not put your money into the communal account. Get your own.

Quit being a doormat.

[Puck]

It's my own account, all of this happens the sly way. Like, I'm paying my college fees on my own but she's supposed to give me money for my train ticket, but then she goes and says she can't give me the money until, say, next week, but the amount I have to pay for the ticket is being charged automatically from my account [because she made a mess with the ticket company in the past and they refuse to do any business with her now]. So it ends up the way that the money is charged from me whether she gave me any or not and she 'forgets' she promised to. But if I pull the money from my account there won't by enough left to pay the ticket and I'll be the one with troubles with the ticket company. It was bad enough to beg them to give me the ticket after they initially refused because of the troubles my mom had with them. Same story with some other minor stuff, which in turn amounts to more than it sounds at first.

She also knows how much I earn [which is barely enough to pay my college fees every month] and the main problem is that she takes this into consideration whenever it suits her plans.

Mmh, usually, my mom and I get along pretty well, it's just that she's got a problem with money. But sadly that's not even entirely her fault, which is why I can't just tell her to stuff it. There's also the matter that we're from a different cultural background and that whole 'it's family' stuff is somewhat bred into me. After all, she put up with all these years. But then, it's starting to seriously affect my education and studying is about the only thing I ever really asked for.
She also once threw me out of the house for two months and I just don't have the luxury to risk that again until I earn enough money on my own, in which case I'd be out of here faster than she and her pet monkey.. err, I mean her husband can blink.

Uh, sorry for the long rant. This issue is about the only thing that really gets through the thick hide I usually sport.

This post has been edited by Puck: 09 January 2011 - 02:52 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

Unlucky Puck, it's an annoying fact that we can't choose our parents. Just get on with college as much as possible, one day you will be in a position to control all of this stuff. You should only feel like you owe her so much, you didn't ask to be born after all. The best thing you can do is make a stable life for yourself and then decide if you want to help when you are in a position to do it.

[RodeoRanch]

It's -27 C with the wind chill right now.

My pants froze. My jeans are stiff and I don't even have an erection. Terrible!

[RodeoRanch]

-16.6 F


Unpleasant.

[MTS]

Fucking cold. Dunno how you live like that.

This post has been edited by MTS: 10 January 2011 - 12:21 AM

[RodeoRanch]

Lots of booze and fornication.

[MTS]

I'll remember that when I go to Canada.

[Grief]

I'm going back to school the day after tommorow. Well, tommorow really, but it doesn't count if you've not slept yet. The holiday has felt pretty mediocre because of the work being constantly at the back of my mind, so my holiday hasn't felt like much of a holiday, which I would mind less if I had at least got a bit more work to show for it. So I'm going to be really damn busy, on top of which my sleep is really messed up. Which I told myself I was going to help fix by going to sleep earlier tonight, but instead I've stayed up until half past four in the morning listening to Porcupine Tree.

[Tsundoku]

After a wonderful week here, the GF went back to Canberra today.

Shit.

At least we got my books all up on the shelves. Had to buy 4 202x80cm (about 6'8"x2'6") bookshelves from Ikea - $79 each FTW - to add to the 4 180cm high ones (2x60cm wide, 1x90cm wide and 1x120cm wide) I already own and they almost didn't fit. We ballparked it at somewhere around 2000 books. Added together they run 6.5m (21') in length along the wall.

Donating about 100 books, including Wizard's First Rule, Last of the Renshai and 6 Ann Rice books (basically anything I had of hers after Body Thief). Might just bin WFR though, to prevent the taint spreading.

EDIT: this state (Queensland) is already waterlogged, with an area the size of Germany and France combined under water at one point recently, but earlier today massive torrential rain led to flash flooding in Toowoomba, which is about 100km west of here. Watch the brief video. There was no warning.

http://www.news.com....e-1225985113281

Years of drought and then straight into massive flooding that wiped out crops that would have had people out of debt.

Fuck you El Nino/ La Nina. http://en.wikipedia....ern_Oscillation

This post has been edited by Sombra: 10 January 2011 - 09:41 AM