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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

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00:35 / 24.07.07

I've misplaced a tube of silver wax that I need for a job as well as my cell phone charger (which phone is now dead). Common sense and past experience suggest that both important items are sitting somewhere in a "safe" place where I put them so that I wouldn't lose them, but fuck if I know where that is.

08:57 / 24.07.07

Do you have any kind of phone that you can connect to your 'pute? If you do, you could charge it using that in the meantime...

Whisky Priestess

10:29 / 24.07.07

This is really for "rage and anger", but it seems to have morphed almost entirely into the "moral outrage and anger over genuinely important stuff" thread, in which I feela bit silly posting about how much I HATE LOTUS NOTES.

What a sick fucking joke of a system. Anything Outlook can do, it can do worse or, in most cases, not at all. Sort by subject? Hell no! Remember and autcomplete email addresses you use ALL THE TIME so you don't have to retype everyone's difficult-to-spell typo-prone names EVERY TIME? Why the fuck would it want to do that?

This is an email and calendar programme so shit, so user-unfriendly, so appalling, that only a government department could possibly have been stupid enough to buy it.

Really.

That.

Bad.

18:08 / 24.07.07

Weekly World News, alas, we hardly knew ye.

I'm not going to say much else in a public forum. This was the paper that made me decide to do what I do rather than, well, something else.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:14 / 24.07.07

Oh, that's horrible. And I have a friend who is going to be mightily heartbroken.

18:48 / 24.07.07

Well, if they've been looking at the paper over the past few months...

no, sorry, not going there.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:06 / 24.07.07

I'm sure my friend will have to ready himself for being without a subscription for the rest of his life.

There will probably be crying.

19:38 / 24.07.07

No no Whiskey, I can confirm that elements of the charity sector are also annoying enough to use designed-purely-to-drive-me-round the bend Lotus Notes.

It's so rubbish.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

21:26 / 24.07.07

no more weekly world news! arrgh!

...and to add insult to injury, I learn of the existence of Bat Boy: The Musical - and then discover it's now playing in London. Just like the Evil Dead...I finally get to live in NYC and all the good stuff is already gone.

21:50 / 24.07.07

Will have to go down to London and see it, I suppose.

Purely to spite you, obviously.

23:32 / 24.07.07

Fucking office politics.

07:43 / 25.07.07

Hand luggage that is as big as my suitcase. I imagine that hand luggage was originally meant to be for make-up, ciggies, babywipes, book, water. You know, stuff that you may need to have to hand on the flight, not a full second backup set of clothes and towels. If it has wheels and a handle, it's a suitcase. Hurrumph.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

08:18 / 25.07.07

If you want to travel light and, more importantly quickly without hanging around waiting at a carousel for your checked luggage to appear, then a piece of hand luggage that is in fact your suitcase is a very useful thing. Also, if you're flying with airlines who now want to charge you for checked luggage, putting more of it in as hand baggage saves money.

08:39 / 25.07.07

That's cheating, somehow.

08:41 / 25.07.07

...and my point entirely, that luggage is luggage and goes in the hold, and hand luggage is for the cabin. Gah. My anal side coming out again.

All Acting Regiment

12:32 / 25.07.07

To the tune of the Venga Boys, "Boom Boom Boom, I want You In My Room":

JOB, JOB, JOB
I really want a job
Working (to) make a living
And filling wastes of time

NO LUCK YET
Oh agency, fuck off
You said that you would ring me
But haven't fucking yet

WITH-NAI-L
And the "I" from the famous film
I now live out your lifestyle
And feel perfectly vile.

Well, it's not that bad, I suppose, but for fuck's sake, I got beaten to a job where the other interviewees were a compulsive-shiverer who hadn't washed his hair for a year and some bloke who said his life's hero was "Neil Diamunnnd" (he said it like that).

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

12:46 / 25.07.07

of course, now that I've wiped my hard drive after weeks of preparation and backup, the one disk I cannot fucking find is the one with the drivers for the ethernet card. with working internet I could, of course, download any other driver I needed. but I've got all the other CDs. fuck.

so I come to work and download it here and surprise! I forgot my goddamn flash drive at home...bah.

it speaks ill of me, I suppose, that I'm so annoyed at having no internet in my bedroom for a day or two. but in fairness I'm also largely annoyed at having a project get stuck at about 20% completion. there's only about 8000 tools and patches and things I need to download before my computer will be solid again...

17:40 / 25.07.07

43 degrees celsius for five days straight with no end in sight. Not fun when you work in a kitchen.

17:53 / 25.07.07

I can empathise with your pain. The only thing I found that worked was to find a spare sink (if possible), half-fill it with water then dump lots of ice in it, then for the next half-hour to hour you can wander over and submerge your arms in it up to the shoulder (or elbow) and it gives you lots of cold-extremity-blood to pump back down to the centre mass.

Not the greatest situation in the world, but hey.

Whisky Priestess

07:46 / 26.07.07

Our problem in the UK is the opposite of yours, Matthew - according to Yahoo it's the wettest May-June EVER. I will never get to wear my new perfect white shorts.

Also, I have a spot which looks hideous but I must. not. touch.

Oh thank God for the ticked-off thread, where I can air my petty grievances. I will listen long and with sincere sympathy to anyone who has lost hair straighteners, banged their toe, had a mildly disappointing date etc.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:22 / 26.07.07

Britain as a whole fucks me off today. Has ever a people deluded themselves into mistaking surliness for sincerity, and grumpiness for insight, to such an irritating degree and with such smugness?

Whisky Priestess

10:25 / 26.07.07

Big Brother housemates? Rudeness for "straight-taking", bullying, malice and idiocy for "being themselves". I suppose they're just the rest of the population of the host country turned up to 11 ... in a bad way.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:23 / 26.07.07

The Darwin Fish. A Christian fish symbol but with DARWIN written on and little feet: a neat representation of evolution, summing up the conflict between the scientific and Creationist ideologies. Simple, elegent.

Fish with feet and also a an arm so they can wave Thor's hammer or a bit of antler (big nob optional) and in extreme cases a fucking Batlith and fucking Klingon: WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE I MEAN SERIOUSLY.

17:10 / 26.07.07

For you LTIY

02:25 / 27.07.07

I will listen long and with sincere sympathy to anyone who has lost hair straighteners, banged their toe, had a mildly disappointing date etc.

What? Have you been reading my diary, Whiskey?

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

20:15 / 27.07.07

Now can I lodge an old grievence? This is techincally an elderly one, but I'm frowning right now. Basically I've just re-read John Smith's absolutely sublime Scarab series from the mid-ninties - the one that was cancelled at issue #8 before the first issue even hit the stands. And having re-read the thing for the first time in over a decade I'm really hurting that there was never more of it - Smith apparently had plenty of ideas to keep it going either as more short series or an ongoing but it just didn't happen, and for my money the thing was easily as good as Shade or the Invisibles, and it's a real shame for those of us that like good comics that the book didn't get a 50+ issue run like those books.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:42 / 27.07.07

I feel your pain. I fucking loved Scarab.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

05:48 / 28.07.07

Yeah, I liked it back in the day as a teenager, but coming back to it now as an adult I got into it way more and crossed into loving it as much as I've ever loved any comic. Why-oh-fucking why was it not continued? I've heard somewhere that Karen Berger killed it because she didn't like it, which if true is even sadder, since it's the only really negative thing I've heard about her, and she's otherwise very much in the plus column as far as contribution to comic books goes. But if she did kill Scarab I don't suppose I have much forgiveness.

21:07 / 28.07.07

I put my dog down of 13 years today. I thought I was ready for it. I thought I would be all stoic and square-jawed like Billy Parham or John Grady Cole. I was going to be all "circle of life" and shit like that. When they stuck the needle in her paw, I broke down and sobbed like I'd never sobbed before in my life, no hyperbole whatsoever. It was incredibly painful and harrowing like nothing I'd ever experienced before. I've never felt the loss of something or someone so close to me. I can't even imagine the pain of losing a person is in comparison to this.

We went home and took the other dog to the park and played with her for hours and then went home for a nap and for food.

I put this in this thread because I'm sad, but it wasn't a tragedy. The dog was old and unhappy and in pain. Why prolong it or make her suffer? And her two favourite people were there to talk to her and help her through. She's dead now and I feel conflicted: sad to miss her, happy to see her gone.

Thanks, Barbelith.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:11 / 28.07.07

That must have been painful. I remember when my old kitty got put down; she was a dim but ridiculously sweet creature who had been with us since her birth, and was very old and very sick. It still hurt to lose her, even though she'd had a jolly good innings and had people around who cared about her right till the end.

It's always sad to say goodbye to a companion, even if you know it's his or her time. Honour the loss.

22:22 / 28.07.07

I really feel for you, that's got to be so difficult. We've got a 16 year-old dog who I don't know how is still alive , a 13 year old who seems nearly as old as the other, and two 17 year-old cats. I think it's going to be a really harsh year, they've all been with us for a really long time. It's hard to see your friends go, even if it is for the best.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:53 / 28.07.07

Even the right time feels awful. Hugs.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

23:25 / 28.07.07

Yeah, much sympathy. I think having to have a beloved animal put down is one of the most horrible things many of us will ever go through. My mom had to have it done with a lot of cats while I was growing up, and even once I was of an age I never got the nerve up to ask to come along and honestly I don't think I could. It hurts when they die naturaally of course, but having one put down is a whole different world of hurt in my opinion, so again much, much sympathy to you.

08:51 / 31.07.07

I don´t know for sure, where to post this unnerving news, so I´ll try doing it here:

Apparently the U.S. Army plans to implant computer chips into their soldiers´ brains in the near future.

"The Department of Defense has awarded $1.6 million to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable biochip that could relay vital health information if a soldier is wounded in battle or a civilian is hurt in an accident."

Could be a convenient way to monitor every (even private) move of the soldier. And will it get removed, if the soldier decides to leave the army? Will he have to pay for the removal? What about complications? Who would say yes to such an implant, and under what circumstance? Does the USA want a Manchurian Army?

Mysterious Transfer Student

09:09 / 31.07.07

The next person I hear say that they are about to 'double-check' something, when it has not been checked once already, will be subject to the kind of 'undreamt-of measures' deployed by the judge who puts down the devil-worshipping cult at the end of Blood on Satan's Claw (GB, 1971).

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