Annoying things that happened to you today

[German Sausage]

And just to be nasty, I am not putting a sign on the dryer for the next guy.

Nooooo! You're just adding to the chain of anger and disappointment! It is not the next guy's fault!

if the cycle lasts for long enough, the guy (i presume) who broke it will be the next guy. think about it.

[parkaboy]

i'm sick. my entire day has been annoying. i work downtown, i go outside to use the phone, the cat calls from cars are annoying (i'm wearing jeans and a frumpy sweater for heavens sake!) and i discovered that i hate 3/4 of Radiohead's Kid A and everything they made after that. at least the majority of their career is acceptable. but still, i gave it many many tries and to find i cant bring myself to like the sound of thom york bitching and moaning in tune is very irritating.

[aldimond]

i'm sick. my entire day has been annoying. i work downtown, i go outside to use the phone, the cat calls from cars are annoying (i'm wearing jeans and a frumpy sweater for heavens sake!)

Being male I don't get that so much but once when I was out running I was stopped waiting for a stoplight and a van full of girls blasting punk rock started shouting at me. Unfortunately it was a really long stoplight and instead of being an amusing moment the whole thing lost steam and got awkward. I waved sheepishly. I guess it's better than the endless shouts of, "Run, Forrest, run!" that I got running at college.

and i discovered that i hate 3/4 of Radiohead's Kid A and everything they made after that. at least the majority of their career is acceptable. but still, i gave it many many tries and to find i cant bring myself to like the sound of thom york bitching and moaning in tune is very irritating.

Ditto on everything after Kid A. I like Kid A pretty well and OK Computer a lot (even though it has ending issues, as in, the last several songs have a closing vibe to them, so the album seems to string on for a long time... which is unfortunate because they're mostly good songs).

[hermaj]

Sympathy for everything but the Radiohead. (Though I will admit I did have a hard time sticking in there for Amnesiac. ) Out of curiousity, does that stretch to Thom Yorke's solo effort, The Eraser?

And especially sympathy for the cat-calls. I have to walk past a construction site every day on my way to and from uni and work...

[aldimond]

Nobody asked me, but I think Radiohead is a band that is better under pressure. I get a feeling that Thom never would have showed up for a meeting with the band with the kind of weak lyrics that plague the later albums and particularly his solo record during the OK Computer period when there was so much tension in the band.

I really like his singing on his new album, and while it's nice that they took some of the reverb off his voice, making it sound more intimate and warm, I think the style could use a bit of a kick sometimes... a lot of the interesting elements in Radiohead's music over the years came from odd mistakes and stuff by all the band members (Jonny's infamous crunches on Creep, a mistimed cue during Fake Plastic Trees, etc.) and you could tell there wasn't any of that on The Eraser, it was meticulously assembled.

EDIT: You know what's really obnoxious? After taking a month off running, working on strength and flexibility I came back and after a month of running I am getting the same fucking upper hamstring problems I had before. Fuck my stupid body.

[boethius78]

The most annoying thing that's happened to me so far is that there's still no bread at work, so I had to have porridge for breakfast instead of toast. No matter, I like porridge and don't often spare the time to make it.

Life is hard...

Still, there's always the possibility that I'll be subjected to The Ordinary Boys at some point today. I wuv oo has to be the worst song ever. Even worse than that, I've heard it live on Radio 1. Golly Gosh Darn Gee Wiz, no wonder he still sounds tuneless even after a studio edit...

[hyperion]

The most annoying thing that's happened to me so far is that there's still no bread at work, so I had to have porridge for breakfast instead of toast. No matter, I like porridge and don't often spare the time to make it...

why not just bring some bread in? or eat breakfast at home?

[warriorness]

My hard drive died on me.

However, I wasn't determined to let a shitty hard drive rob me of all my data, so I booted up a LiveCD, and discovered via IRC that dd_rescue would help me out. My dad graciously gave me the smaller (120 GB, same as the one that died) of his two external hard drives, and I set about recovering my data. Regular fsck (with --fix-fixable) didn't do it though - I had to use --rebuild-tree, it said. After doing so, I discovered that half my filesystem - my entire /home and /usr directories, plus some other mysterious stuff - had been shredded apart and strewn nameless across /lost+found/.

At that point, I realized that copying over a stripped-down backup of my home directory from my Windows drive (40 GB) was probably the most painless option. But in order to make it fit on my Windows drive, I'd had to omit several gigabytes of stuff, and also since it was a few weeks old, it didn't have my most recent programming work. So I spent a good hour exploring all the folders cryptically named crap like "52135_1103249" to find any precious gems worth rescuing, which actually turned out pretty well - I found all my .torrent files, my programming work, even my kernel's .config file. But in doing so, I realized that my filesystem had been so torn apart that there was pretty much no hope of getting it back in order, and reinstalling completely was my best option.

So I prepared to make another backup to my Windows drive, and then realized that none of the LiveCDs I had burned have ntfs-3g (the program that lets you write to ntfs) on them. So then I went to download, burn, and boot a Knoppix 5.1 ISO, and began copying my files. Then I realized that 39 GB of stuff was not going to fit on a 40 GB drive that already had Windows installed, so I stopped copying, deleted some large files that could be torrented again, and began anew.

And now here I am, waiting for my crappy ancient Windows drive to finish writing 31 GB to it at 1.5 MBps. And knowing NTFS, it'll probably be down to about 200 KBps by the time I get home later today.

[thefiddler]

Yeah, I love the story behind "Creep." But I disagree; I think that "Hail to the Thief" was a fairly good album, though my favourite is "OK Computer." I really don't have much of an opinion on the others, but I like select songs from each of them.

Uhh... lesse.

I didn't get to bed until six hours ago, and woke up two hours ago.

[parkaboy]

my brains are still trying to run out through my nose and i just woke up. i can tell this is going to be a "stumble around in a general stupor" kind of day and i have so much to do! i do not, however, see going into work as one of those things. I'm sure the people in the cubicals around me will be pleased that i am not contaminating their air today. This almost makes me want to go in, for that purpose alone. misery loves company, and with me its contagious, baby!

[Belial]

Girlâ„¢ and I have our six year anniversary today. We were going to go to another town nearby, get a hotel, and hang out, have a little mini-vacation.

Unfortunately, she is *crazy* sick right now. Like, fever, cough, sore throat, weakness, and so on.

And we are sad.

[parkaboy]

that sounds like what i have. i'm fighting it as hard as i can right now so i can knock out this todo list but i plan on collapsing and sleeping for 5billion hours as soon as i'm done.

hope she gets better soon. this is not fun stuff =(

[Belial]

Thanks. I hope you feel better, too.

Tons of sleep really does sound like the answer.

[boethius78]

The most annoying thing that's happened to me so far is that there's still no bread at work, so I had to have porridge for breakfast instead of toast. No matter, I like porridge and don't often spare the time to make it...

why not just bring some bread in? or eat breakfast at home?

Basic laziness I suppose. I usually get up, sort myself out, and leave for work before I have breakfast. It seems like a waste of time to sit at home eating breakfast, when I can just go straight to work, and eat there while I check my email, wander through xkcd/slashdot, etc. Plus I don't have to pay for the food I eat at work, so I've just got into the habit of not going to the shops...

[Tractor]

Breakfast? What's that?

[Belial]

So sleepy....probably coming down with Girl's fever. Just want to curl up in a corner and die...

[aisling]

You two should curl up and die together

[Belial]

Best anniversary ever...

though, knowing us, I'll wrestle with this for about two hours, and she'll be incapacitated for a week.

[thefiddler]

Aww, Jordan that's horrible. I would give you a hug, but I don't want to get sick.

Anyways, annoying things for me today: school. It as horrible. I guess I posted it under the confessional thread, though, so... *shrug*

[lanicita]

The inside of your eyes is like sleeping in the snow,
Shrouded in white fantastic silt lets me know you're that you're no hoe,
But when you fucked that man whore George in our apartment shower,
I just busted a god damn nut and saw you lose your flower.
So whenever we fuck at night with violent angry rapture,
I know i love you mom goodbye the first time's gone, a thing I'll never capture.

Rofl.

When I woke up this morning, my roommate's mom, who I've never actually met, was here I blinked, said "Hi..." and disappeared into the bathroom until they left. Hee.

Edit: The reason I quoted something from the first page is because I thought this post was one page. I should really learn to be more observant.

[thefiddler]

My mother just told me they might have to put my dog down because she has a bladder infection that is "too expensive to fix". Note that the dog is mine and not theirs and I take care of her, etc.

Which is complete bullshit because they told me how much and we could easily afford it.

I don't know what to do.

I think I'm going to go cry. I've had her for six years and she's one of the few inhabitants in this house that I can talk to without being judged.

[aisling]

You should offer to pay them back for it, with interest. Like, 5% or something. How much is it? Are we talking hundreds? Or thousands? It's really not right to put an end to a life because they'd rather keep that money for their own personal wants... You really should try and do something yourself for her. You love her more than your parents do because you've spent more time with her. So you should try and extend that time through personal effort.

[thefiddler]

It's nearly $1000, but I don't have a job so I can't pay them back anyway.

Their argument? Said money is going toward my college fund, but the best part about that is that they said they won't pay a cent for my college, so that's actually a lie. Woohoo.

[aisling]

Hmm. Do you have any personal savings at all? I save my babysitting money and some pocket money every week, and I have about $600 in my savings account right now. Do you have any government bonds? My parents buy them for me every couple of years (as well as for my sisters) so that some day we'll have a bit of padding if we're ever in financial trouble. But I'm sure if I was in this situation, I'd be allowed to take out a few of them and cash them to go towards the operation. I was just thinking, if you have even $200 spare cash (well, savings) towards your name, you could use that as a kind of deposit. You don't have to pay it all back now, just eventually. Before the end of your post secondary education, let's say.

[thefiddler]

No, my parents pretty much don't do anything for me, financially, except provide the necessities. Unfortunately, with four AP classes, orchestra, band, and a few other activities, I don't have time for a job.

I'm definitely going to try to talk to them about it, but they generally don't listen to anything I say. *sigh*

[LE4dGOLEM]

No, my parents pretty much don't do anything for me, financially, except provide the necessities. Unfortunately, with four AP classes, orchestra, band, and a few other activities, I don't have time for a job.

I'm definitely going to try to talk to them about it, but they generally don't listen to anything I say. *sigh*

Wait, and they pay for "four AP classes, orchestra, band, and a few other activities,"?

[Owijad]

With tax money, I imagine.

Thems are provided by the gummint where I come from, anyways.

[warriorness]

With tax money, I imagine.

Thems are provided by the gummint where I come from, anyways.

Seriously? We have to pay $84 each for our AP exams here in North Carolina. (Although my parents pay for that so I have no right to complain >_>)

[thefiddler]

No, my parents pretty much don't do anything for me, financially, except provide the necessities. Unfortunately, with four AP classes, orchestra, band, and a few other activities, I don't have time for a job.

I'm definitely going to try to talk to them about it, but they generally don't listen to anything I say. *sigh*

Wait, and they pay for "four AP classes, orchestra, band, and a few other activities,"?

That all comes out of my savings of birthday and Christmas money. It's $83 / AP test. Band and orchestra are free, but I bought my own instruments, two and three years ago (I own both my violin and clarinet). Everything else I do generally comes out of whatever I have saved.

If it were up to them, they wouldn't provide for me at all, now. Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for me) they are fiscally responsible for me until I turn 18.

[Belial]

How soon does your dog need the operation?

[thefiddler]

My mother didn't tell me.

I'm guessing it will be in the next week that they decide for sure what they'll be doing.

[Belial]

Umm...well, shit. I was going to offer to transfer you some money, but I don't think I'll be able to spare a thousand dollars by next week.

[thefiddler]

No, that's OK.

I'll figure something out.

At most, I might borrow some money from my grandparents or one of my brothers, who are a lot nicer than my parents.

Don't worry about it. They can't possibly be cold-hearted enough to put down Jill, could they?

They only reason they put down my mum's dog, three years ago (who was blind and had cancer and several costly operations) is because she was hit by a car.

Surely, then...?

[Belial]

Yeah, I think, at the very least, if you still have viable options to pay for the operation, then they probably won't put her down.

At the very least, you can tell whatever vet you use not to do it, because you're still exploring your options, and it's your dog.

[Lani]

Caitlin, I am so sorry to hear about your dog. I am of the camp that pets are family members, and it is amazingly painful to lose one. I really hope you'll be able to borrow the money from your grandparents or someone, and save your dog!

*hug*

[Belial]

If you find yourself coming up short, let me know. I need to...eat, and have a place to live, and other such things, so I can't spare the full thousand right now, but I might be able to fill in some small gaps.

[thefiddler]

Thanks, guys. I'm going to try talking to my parents when they're both home. It's more my father that would want to have her put down because he's a dick.

I know, though, that at least one of my brother's is on my side.

Also, Jordan, I'd feel really awful borrowing the money from you with not definite knowledge of when I'd be able to pay you back. And my family would get suspicious.

*huggles all of you*

[Belial]

This sort of shit would happen to me *all the time* when I was younger. Never to this degree, but that sort of "Hahah, you don't have any money, so you can't fix this" is the sort of stuff my parents would do all the time.

In other words, I would feel good enough about it that I'm not terribly worried about being paid back.

::huggles::

[thefiddler]

But I would feel really bad.

Anyway, don't worry about it.

I'm leaving here as soon as I can (and I'm taking my dog with me), and not looking back.

[Belial]

Good call.