[Macros]

Sleep paralysis is horrible.
Most people have no idea what I'm talking about when Im describing it.
I usually get it as an accompanyment to the horrors, so it's lying in bed, fucking unable to move.
While the bed spins
And there's a man. Or a monkey. or a boogie monster. Standing in the room with a knife.

Fuck I'm queasy just thinking about the last run I had through it.

What's messing with my groove?
I don't know. Well some things in life are going grand. All is well.
But there's other parts of life I just can't figure out in the fucking slightest. I think things are heading in the direction they should be or I want them to be then it's just a dead stop and I'm left totally fucking baffled why. Then my head will go down and I'll start to live in my head over thinking everything and lie in bed at night completely unable to sleep.
I'll probably go to the pub to watch the match tomorrow. And Macros drinking when he's in this kind of a dump mode generally ends in a mess. (Last time my head was screwy we had wonderful drunk threads to enjoy, better than macros ringing people he shouldn't at 3am)

This post has been edited by Macros: 03 March 2017 - 08:36 PM

[Loki]

Macros, on 03 March 2017 - 08:35 PM, said:

Sleep paralysis is horrible.
Most people have no idea what I'm talking about when Im describing it.
I usually get it as an accompanyment to the horrors, so it's lying in bed, fucking unable to move.
While the bed spins
And there's a man. Or a monkey. or a boogie monster. Standing in the room with a knife.

Fuck I'm queasy just thinking about the last run I had through it.

I know what you mean. This time I woke up on my back in the water in one of those giant sewer tunnels they have under New York in movies etc. And there's rubbish and rats and I'm slowly sinking and this giant black apparition that's vaguely man shaped is slowly walking towards me and I can't move or do anything.

Even after the waking dream part ends I still can't move my limbs but I can finally talk so I end up yelling at my partner to wake up and he then physically shakes my limbs to fix them and then they are back to normal.

Some nights it's just the paralysis, those are the good nights. Tonight was a moderately bad one. Bad nights are BAD.

Whenever I'm in a bout of like this I get so anxious about sleeping which creates a cycle because anxiety increases the likelihood and severity of the episodes.

It's like you just can't fucking win at times.

[worry]

Wait till you start getting sleep diarrhea paralysis.

[Macros]

Man that would be a shitty night

[Macros]

You know when you wake up and you've been sleeping at a funny angle and your arm or leg is asleep. And it's just non reactive.
It's kind of like that, but all your limbs are asleep, only your brain is awake, sometimes the eyes are open, sometimes not.

It's just frustrating sometimes. But usually it gives your mind times to play tricks on you.
Like when you hear a creak in the night, and you know it's nothing, but if you want you can get up and look. Or bury yourself in the blankets a little deeper. When your body is still asleep you can't check. You cants roll over, so the shadow in the corner, which you know is is really a dressing gown, if you could but shift your head to see it clearly and thus dispell all chances of it being a murderer. You mind has fun times and it's definitely a murderer.the second you can finally move you tilt your head and, god damnit, dressing gown all along!

This post has been edited by Macros: 03 March 2017 - 10:40 PM

[worry]

I had it happen once in college. I was having a pretty normal dream and then as I was walking past a billboard I heard Satan's voice address me, and the billboard flipped to saying 666 like one of those alarm clocks with the numbers painted on tiles.



Then I woke up totally frozen, half-conscious, and afraid for my soul.

[Thirteen]

The last one I had I woke up to a creepy throaty low pitch voice and had this overwhelming feeling of threat and horror. Goes without saying that I wasn’table to move or speak. My partner was across the room sitting behind a computer. I couldn’t actually see him (coz i couldn’t open my eyes), but I could sense he was there and I could hear the clattering of the keyboard and the music. I tried to wake myself up, but couldn’t. So I just started shouting at him in my mindto come and wake me up. And he did 😊.
But usually the sleep paralysis is accompanied with some skeleton thing lying on top of me.

[Macros]

for some stupid reason I put my phone in my back pocket today.
then jumped in the car.

CRACK

screen shattered and splintered into shite.
ok, I'm insured.

rang the phone company. £80 excess.
excuse me? to replace a screen?
oh we just replace the whole phone.
ok, so I pay £8 a month and then have to pay an £80 excess?
well its to do with the value of a modern phone sir
ok, so whats the excess on and samsung galaxy s7 edge?
£80
That phone is literally twice the price of my phone
uh......
put me through to repairs.
your insurance won't cover repairs, we only replace
...... what? just cancel my insurance policy please.

....hello repairs
yes, cracked screen, bla bla bla, how much
£120 to replace your screen sir.
you were going to give me a new one for £80
uh......

what the actual fuck.
I can get the screen replaced in town for £80
I can buy a screen and tool kit online for £35 and fix it myself in an hour


fucking phone companies man, they do my fucking head in

[HoosierDaddy]

Sounds like every conversation I have with Customer Support, Mac.

"How much?"
xxxxx

"Seriously? I can do this for xxxxx"
xxxxx

"You are going to lose me as a customer."
xxxxx

"Nice script. Anything original?"
xxxxx

"Well fuck you. Dick."

*Click

I don't fuck about anymore. Meh.

[Tsundoku]

Australia loses 6 for 11 to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[Puck]

Eurovision is infested with ballads this year. The finals are going to be a snoozefest par excellence. Bleh.
#firstworldproblems

In other news, work sucks donkey balls and I fell behind on the bookclub reading because I can't be arsed to do anything but get into bed as soon as I'm home because meh, work.

In other other news, yes, it's asthma.

This post has been edited by Puck: 07 March 2017 - 08:19 PM

[Abyss]

Puck, on 07 March 2017 - 08:18 PM, said:

...
In other other news, yes, it's asthma.

Good news considering the alternative...

[LadyMTL]

I'm shopping around for a new PC and I'm getting annoyed. My budget isn't huge but I want something that's at least a bit better than what I have now - my PC is 7 years old, so you would think this would be easy - except there's always a catch. Most of the time it's because the processor speed is ridiculously slow; one bundle was half the speed of what I have now. Half! It had the same 1TB hard drive space as my current build and twice the RAM, but what good is that if the processor is 1.6Ghz?

I'm thinking I might be better off just buying more RAM for my current computer, because I currently only have 4MB, but I'm afraid of getting the wrong kind or otherwise messing something up. I do know how to open towers and take basic things apart (e.g. removing a hard drive) but I've never actually upgraded a computer myself.

First world problems, I know, but still. Why is it so difficult to find a computer with a decent hard drive, RAM and a processor speed that makes sense?

This post has been edited by LadyMTL: 08 March 2017 - 12:35 PM

[HoosierDaddy]

Finally watched Inside Out.

Good god that tore me apart. Pixar at its best right there.

Bing Bong.

[Itwæs Nom]

LadyMTL, on 08 March 2017 - 12:33 PM, said:

I'm shopping around for a new PC and I'm getting annoyed. My budget isn't huge but I want something that's at least a bit better than what I have now - my PC is 7 years old, so you would think this would be easy - except there's always a catch. Most of the time it's because the processor speed is ridiculously slow; one bundle was half the speed of what I have now. Half! It had the same 1TB hard drive space as my current build and twice the RAM, but what good is that if the processor is 1.6Ghz?

I'm thinking I might be better off just buying more RAM for my current computer, because I currently only have 4MB, but I'm afraid of getting the wrong kind or otherwise messing something up. I do know how to open towers and take basic things apart (e.g. removing a hard drive) but I've never actually upgraded a computer myself.

First world problems, I know, but still. Why is it so difficult to find a computer with a decent hard drive, RAM and a processor speed that makes sense?

I'm not sure how worth it would be with a low budget but have you considered building it? Here some of the eshops have handy tools for that purpose and some even offer the to do the assembling for free.
There are people around here who know this stuff well, feel free to create a thread and ask if you have any questions I say, someone even created a PC building help thread recently I think.

[QuickTidal]

LadyMTL, on 08 March 2017 - 12:33 PM, said:

I'm shopping around for a new PC and I'm getting annoyed. My budget isn't huge but I want something that's at least a bit better than what I have now - my PC is 7 years old, so you would think this would be easy - except there's always a catch. Most of the time it's because the processor speed is ridiculously slow; one bundle was half the speed of what I have now. Half! It had the same 1TB hard drive space as my current build and twice the RAM, but what good is that if the processor is 1.6Ghz?

I'm thinking I might be better off just buying more RAM for my current computer, because I currently only have 4MB, but I'm afraid of getting the wrong kind or otherwise messing something up. I do know how to open towers and take basic things apart (e.g. removing a hard drive) but I've never actually upgraded a computer myself.

First world problems, I know, but still. Why is it so difficult to find a computer with a decent hard drive, RAM and a processor speed that makes sense?

Have you tried Tiger Direct? They do a bunch of different builds tailored to fit different needs, and barring that can even build you one that fits your needs. I find their prices are better for what they are offering you as specific parts of there bundle too.

[Macros]

Echoing the others. There's a lot of tech minded people on here. And there's plenty of companies that will let you spec a computer component by component (possibly pushing the cost up over a generic off the shelf bundle)

ETA I know Dell let you build what you want but I have no idea where they are in regards to cost or quality these days

This post has been edited by Macros: 08 March 2017 - 01:55 PM

[Loki]

HoosierDaddy, on 08 March 2017 - 01:01 PM, said:

Finally watched Inside Out.

Good god that tore me apart. Pixar at its best right there.

Bing Bong.

I liked the message it gives to kids about emotions,especially how there are no 'bad' emotions, but I actually found the movie pretty boring. Basically, I like the movie as a parent but don't really enjoy watching it myself.

But then, I laughed so hard at the end of the Mist that I almost induced an asthma attack so I'm pretty sure I have no soul...

[worry]

Make sure whatever PC you ultimately get is Vault 7-compliant.

[Mentalist]

Tiger Direct also sells "barebone kits" for quite a cheap, and you can then just add assorted parts to them piecemeal when you see a good deal.

I built my PC based off one of those some 6 years ago. It's very easy, and the motherboard instruction manual guides you pretty much step by step on how you put everything together.