Well I had to work today and it was surprisingly brutal, but it was a holiday ("Family Day") so that could be the reason why. The main problem was that two of the people that do the cooking didn't show up, which made everyone more than a bit frustrated. The good thing that came out of this is that Igot paid time and a half, which definitely made the hard work worth it.

S****.
Zarre, your "friend" sounds like a proper a**hole. Screw him. As for Valentine's, screw it too.

Get rested and re-hydrated. I am serious, don't even log onto this pile of crud called 'internet' filled with more crud until you're feeling better.

I can relate to then 'brutal' and 'frustration' part, except it's nearly every 2nd day like that for me. I wish one of these days clock would just freeze at 08:00 and let me sleep eternally.

Oh well. Another day, more pointless singing in the Pit of Despair.
Calavera no llora
Serenata de amor
Calavera no llora
No tiene corazn
I want out, god damn it.

edit: Yes, yes I still want out. Let me the **** out. Out of this monkey house in which terrorists are awarded their own countries.

This post has been edited by milanius: Feb 23 2008, 12:54 AM

I just saw Rambo (4) yesterday, it was pretty dang sweet (metaphorically). I haven't seen the other movies, but I've got a new favorite action hero. It's hard to believe Sly Stallone could do all of that whilst being out of his youth and directing the movie himself.

Rambo's pretty brutal, but that's to be expected I suppose. It takes place in Burma, where there is a real-life genocide going on. I give the movie a 4.5 out of five.

There was much fear at Casa Treydog Friday and Saturday. My computer would not start Windows. Finally got into Safe Mode and backed up essential files- (thank Azura for USB flash drives). Did some research and was re-introduced to msconfig.

Disabled all Startup items and rebooted successfully. Slowly added items back, leaving off all the NVidia stuff (I have a Radeon card and have had for a couple of years). So far, still running happily. I will be getting a new HDD from TigerDirect, which will become the repository for pictures, Word files, etc.

Well I definitely had an interesting few days. Where to start...


Well since my birthday officially fell on a Monday I decided to start my celebrating early on the Saturday just with the people I live with. I decided to cave in a try some "special" brownies. This was my first experience with weed and I'm not a fan of smoking so I opted for this option. Bad idea as we decided to eat the whole batch at once which we figured that we ate about 3 grams of the stuff. The next bad idea was that we wanted to go downtown to eat, which means an hour trip on the bus/subway. We didn't make it downtown. The brownies were so strong that one of my roommates and I vomited while on the subway. My roommate continued to get sick so we headed back home where I struggled the rest of the night to not throw up. I've definitely learned my lesson.

Sunday, I was expecting a good turnout to go to the Clutch concert but since most of the people in my house were recovering from the other day, they didn't show up. Then many of my friends that I invited changed their minds because they realized that they couldn't afford it. So, in the end it just ended up being 4 of us. The concert wasn't amazing, though Clutch and Murder by Death were really good. The opening band was horrible though, all they did was hurt my ears with their excessive use of feedback.

Monday, was my actual birthday and I decided to celebrate by not going to class. I did end up going to work though because I figured that since I work at a restaurant, I'd get free food. It was really easy day too, not very busy at all. I actually managed to go on my break an hour early. Of course, I got pied in the face before that break though, but I expected that to happen.

Then, closing time happened and I was just about finished, I had probably 15 minutes left of work to do. As I was cleaning the floors, I saw a knife on the floor and I bent over to pick it up. As I stood up, I smacked my head against the bottom of this large, metal fire extinguisher we have in the dish pit. The bottom of it has a thick rim and it ended up splitting my head open. This happened just before my manager comes back and asks me what beer I want because he was going to buy one for me. He sees me rubbing my head and kinda laughs because he's smacked his head against the fire extinguisher too. I then look at my hands and see them covered in blood. Great.

So, one of my co-workers drove me to the nearby hospital where I ended up waiting 7 hours before the doctor could put 9 stitches in my head. Hooray Canadian Health System! Here's a little picture of the aftermath (still bandaged up so it's not gruesome or anything):

Having our first snow of the winter here in E. Tennessee. (Yeah, yeah. I know- it's almost March). So we have daffodils sticking out of the snow. Headed out to work because the road in front of the house looked good. It was a trick. The "main" road was much worse- even with 4WD, I wiggled and slid. Decided it was a great day to drink hot chocolate and stay home.

On the geek front, I got myself a new toy... It is a USB drive adapter that allows me to hook up any kind of IDE or SATA drive and do file transfer via USB 2.0. The thing is, I don't have to open up the host computer and fool with IDE and power cables. I love things like that.

This post has been edited by treydog: Feb 27 2008, 02:39 PM

Ouch. I've hit my head before, but I've only once needed stiches and that was a pain.
But you know, the waiting isn't so bad; would you rather wait 4 hours and have a 1000$ bill?

Well that is one nice bandage, Mallet... battle damage from the duel with the dreaded extinguisher? Also, ouch to brownie overload, lousy opening bands and healthcare in Toronto.

Anyway. Surreal days. Today, those 2 colleagues opened it with a very heated exchange of proverbs, all over some guy who returned a laptop which proved too costly to him [I guess 20 euros do make a difference to some people... me, for one]. So I thought the day was going to be lousy and poisoned after that & 2nd consecutive failure of driver's exam of our main serviceman [doesn't have the license yet], who was pissed all day afterward... surprisingly, both atmosphere and music became laid-back, as the work wasn't as cumbersome as yesterday. I guess sun and warm weather in February do make a difference sometimes.

I'm alright for now. What did I forget? Oh yeah. Welcome to Chorrol forums, LadySaira. Coffee is free, as well as brownies [regular ones, sadly].

Yea, I wouldn't like paying $1000 for stitches. But I could do without the 7 hours of waiting. I know it would be better if our doctor situation wasn't as terrible as it is right now. Still, I could deal with 3 hours... it was the extra 4 that were excruciating.

Ouch. Bad luck hitting you're head but at least you didn't fall on the knife... Still seven hours is a long wait when you feel grotty, in fact thats a really long time.

And that is quite a bandage, I can just feel how much you like fire extingishers now.

Well I return to active work duty later today. I think I'll spend most of it glaring at the thing that injured me.

And I think I'll also be eating up all the sympathy my fellow employees will give me. Hehe.

So I heard on the radio that Gary Gygax had died. That may not mean much to most of us, but I imagine Ibis and a few others will realize why that is significant to a group of RPG folk. Gary was one of the original developers of D&D. I spent many a late night with my friends playing this amazing game that didn't require a board or cards or even a fixed set of rules. If there was no D&D, I daresay there would have been no Elder Scrolls. Godspeed, Gary- enjoy your adventures beyond the Prime Material Plane.

Hear hear. I agree with Trey a great man has passed beyond the mortal plane now to adventures unkown. As Trey have I too have spent countless hours playing D&D with my friends..

On a lighter note I have recently recieve new inspiration, that will hopefully continue to drive my various fanfics forward (I might get an update or two during the weekend). cheers.

Yesterday I bought a bike. I just wanted something cheap that'll get me from house to work cheaply and in short time, but family advised me to get something sturdy, strong, with Shimano gear on it. So, I ended up paying around 90 euros for this friggin' huge 18-speeder... bike looks awesome and, although I still dislike metal mudguards around wheels, it kicks boat.

Main problems now are: 1. Where the heck am I going to keep it? [it's temporarily in sister's old room]; 2. How the hell am I going to get in shape fast? Yesterday I drove it for 20 minutes and I came home sweating, barely breathing. That didn't help my mood much. -_-

Speaking of mood and condition... I 'wake up' at odd, early hours, like 5AM. My mouth is completely dry and I have no wish to get out of bed [thank goodness it's Sunday]. I barely have any wish to talk to people anymore and, while it doesn't show, it can be felt. Family pressures me to eat more and more, as if that could help anything, and I refuse all the time. Food alone doesn't solve anything.

In any case, I'm off to pump up bike's tires and go search the flea market for decent locks [for the bike]. Cheers.

@V: meh, Treyman, my mellon's hard as a rock, as anyone will tell you... but even if it cracks, meh.

This post has been edited by milanius: Mar 9 2008, 03:11 PM

Actually, the bike may be the best thing for your current state. Even though doing much riding is a strain right now- you will get better at it. Exercise that actually has a goal beyond- "so I'm not out of shape" is far more beneficial. If a "side-effect" of riding is that you get in better shape, so much the better- but meanwhile, you have reached a destination (literally). And, when you are riding, you can be alone without being "anti-social". Get a crate for your melon (riding helmet). I know they can look a little silly, but not as silly as lying on the pavement with a cracked... well, you get the picture.

Oh that is so nice Mil that you got a good bicycle. We have one each here in Florida. Mine is purple and Cain's is blue. But he wishes now that he'd bought a mountain bike, which your's sounds like or similar to. Another benefit to bike riding besides the ones that Treydoggie mentioned is that biking gets you out into the sunshine and sunshine causes your skin to create Vitamin C and this helps lift your mood. That's one reason why going out and getting a breath of fresh air makes you feel so good. That and the actual fresh air you are breathing in to improve your respiratory system.

LOL clean air, sunshine, vitamine C and breathing... oh well. You should be here to understand, I guess.

In any case, Diazepam helps. I sleep without dreams and, although I am groggy in the morning, it helps. What doesn't help is feeling of being able to do nothing about anything. Here's a fine example:

I have flat-rate internet right now, and means to pay for it, as well as part of [very] increased power bill. In spite of all that, my father, who can't grasp the meaning of 'flat rate' orders me not to leave my PC on while I am at work, even with monitor turned off.

So, few days ago, he notices a report on FreeRice in morning news, while we're both having breakfast. "Why don't you do that?", he asks, and I look at him dully. "I have tried it, I have tried Folding@Home [even with 3-4 hours of PC activity during the day on my crappy machine], I have tried loads of things, but it just doesn't do anything. I can't help anything or anyone, since this is all a farce. We can't feed the world or find the cure for cancer, or at least I can't. Just drop it". He then gets agitated and demands that I try to do it every day. I just nod and don't even think about it, or about people who are wealthy enough to buy off the damn rice, as well as those entire countries.

So yeah, boneheads will be boneheads. I am really happy about my gene pool.

Then again, Alex might be right. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stop giving a ****.


edit: There was this event that made me giggle all the way from flea market [where I went today], and I just gotta share it with you.

So I went down to look for several things - a decent pocket knife that doesn't cots much [found it - it's a beautiful John-Benzen Tools knife, costs 3.50E ], a decent flashlight [only found some cheap chinese crap] and some summer wear [overpriced junk, got to search more thoroughly next week]. On my way back, while I'm unlocking my bike from market's fence, I hear a voice out of nowhere and turn my eyes toward it, to see this 60-something old geezer talking to me trough the fence, from his improvised stand:

GEEZER: Hello there lad, I got all you need, Seka Aleksic, Sasa Matic, porno DVD's, take your pick!
ME: [supressing the urge to burst into laughter] Paps, what makes you think I'm a fan of those 2, or porn?
GEEZER: Ah, but porn is good for you, it rejuvenates and lifts you up when you're down.
ME: [completed unlocking the bike & wrapping the chain around it] Umm, no. That's love. Love rejuvenates you and lifts you up when you're down... besides, I'm 30 years old and I've given up on both porn or love.
GEEZER: Oh well, okay.
ME: No problem, you had to try... [at this point I can't stop grinning, but still I am not laughing like a maniac]

This post has been edited by milanius: Mar 16 2008, 02:22 PM

My dad is dying, he's in hospital now, his kidneys have stopped working and he's had a few heart-attacks the last days. The doctor told my brother they're not reviving him if his heart stops....And I'm sitting here 350km away unable to do a damn thing....

Life certainly is not good at the moment...

I'm really sorry to hear that Minque. I hope you manage ok.

Try and take care of yourself...

I'm so sorry to hear that Minque, I wish you all the best in the coming time.