[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Dave

Dave

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blotsfan said:
Aw shit the gig is up! Book it, fellas
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Cheese it! It's the cops![DOUBLEPOST=1474376684,1474376225][/DOUBLEPOST]This is only a minor rant because it's more than a minor annoyance but not anywhere near the level of full on rant.

When we had to switch hosts and had such a hard time getting our files, one of my sites got completely deleted. And it's the one for my entertainment company. I initially paid $250 to have someone to set it up and it was great. Now, though, everything is gone. All the reviews, all the historic gig date information, the bios. Everything. I've been trying to build it back up but it never looks as good as it did so it's still basically nothing more than a "Hello world" with some paint slapped on it. And I can't find the drive to continue but I know I need to. I'm pretty much the only active person still in the troupe and it's been demoralizing. I've been doing shows by myself for a year now. Marketing, performing, contract work. It's all me. I want to give it up but at the same time I know I'd miss it. If I only had someone else interested that would help out even a little I think I'd get excited about it again.

*sigh*
 
fade

fade

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My left thigh has been killing me. Like 6/10 pain when I bend over. I went to the doctor, and she told me (and demonstrated) that it was not my leg at all, but referred pain from my back. That was interesting because the pain is definitely coming from my leg. But she proved it. Says it's sciatica, and I need to take a couple weeks off exercise. Which I don't want to do.
 
strawman

strawman

If I've learned nothing else talking to the elderly about back pain it's this: take it seriously and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. You don't want to be the guy that winces every time he hugs his own grandkids.
 
Gruebeard

Gruebeard

I'm sitting at the bar, there's only me here at one end and a woman at the other. About half an hour ago, she came down here to hit on me. Now it just feels awkward.

I should've just let her pick me up, even though I'm not at all interested.


The rant here is that I'm not at all interested. Maybe I should get that looked at.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

fade said:
My left thigh has been killing me. Like 6/10 pain when I bend over. I went to the doctor, and she told me (and demonstrated) that it was not my leg at all, but referred pain from my back. That was interesting because the pain is definitely coming from my leg. But she proved it. Says it's sciatica, and I need to take a couple weeks off exercise. Which I don't want to do.
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When I was pregnant with Li'l Z and he was laying in certain positions, parts of my left thigh would go numb. Or on three occasions, would feel like someone stabbed me there with a live wire, which I'd say was a 10/10 on the pain scale. All because of nerves in my back.

While I was able to evict the literal and figurative pain-in-my-back, I'd take your doctor's advice. Better now than when you past the point where you can do anything about it.
 
Null

Null

fade said:
My left thigh has been killing me. Like 6/10 pain when I bend over. I went to the doctor, and she told me (and demonstrated) that it was not my leg at all, but referred pain from my back. That was interesting because the pain is definitely coming from my leg. But she proved it. Says it's sciatica, and I need to take a couple weeks off exercise. Which I don't want to do.
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in which Hugh Grant talks about his back pain occasionally manifesting itself in his testicles.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I have wild pain in my thigh often which is actually my knee trying to flare. Now that I'm on biologics, the flare never happens so I only have s few days of pain before the flare gets squashed.

My rant: I can't have nice things. My children have filthy hands and leave my iPad in a revolting state. I went out and bought cleaning wipes for it so their finger-slime didn't make me sick.

They also have no concept of battery life. I want to play my Pokemon game on my DS and I had a full battery earlier. I fell asleep for a bit before supper and its battery was completely drained by my son. The worst? The kids get nasty and snarly with me and act like I'm a puppy murderer when I expect halfway decent behavior.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Blargh, fuckin Fitbit. It worked fine with my S7 until yesterday. Now it's not syncing. I have the dongle thingie, so I hope that works.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk
 
Dei

Dei

I have been giving my daughter 15 minute warnings before we have to leave for gymnastics or dance class. Which is plenty of time to get ready to go. But surprise, when it's time to go she's still in her normal clothes and hasn't gotten ready at all. I could spend those 15 minutes making sure she gets ready, and I desperately want to because I HATE being late with a neurotic passion, but she's almost 11 and has to figure this shit out for herself. Unfortunately, my husband is a perpetually late kind of person, and he's clearly having a bad influence on her. :p
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Dear translator,

No, "debugging" does not have anything to do with pesticides. You're thinking of the term "pest control" or something similar. Saying the farmers debugged the field gives your reader a very odd mental image.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

WELP-my mom got conned by tech support today. By the time I realized bull-shit and asked her to restart the computer to show they were full of crap-TOO LATE! They then proceded to clean out her computer of temporary files and disabled pointless add-ons...which we could've done on our own for free. It is also worth noting, that the problem we CALLED about fixed itself while were on hold, but he kept us on saying the keyboard was messed up because Norton Anti-virus...was using too much ram...not a thing. BY THIS POINT he began pitching different types of security payment plans, making it painfully obvious what we payed for as tech help was in reality a sales meeting for fucking anti-virus programs. I now have a stress head-ache from this whole ordeal.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Yoshimickster said:
WELP-my mom got conned by tech support today. By the time I realized bull-shit and asked her to restart the computer to show they were full of crap-TOO LATE! They then proceded to clean out her computer of temporary files and disabled pointless add-ons...which we could've done on our own for free. It is also worth noting, that the problem we CALLED about fixed itself while were on hold, but he kept us on saying the keyboard was messed up because Norton Anti-virus...was using too much ram...not a thing. BY THIS POINT he began pitching different types of security payment plans, making it painfully obvious what we payed for as tech help was in reality a sales meeting for fucking anti-virus programs. I now have a stress head-ache from this whole ordeal.
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At least once or twice a day for me.
"Did you call the number? Did you give them your credit card?"

--Patrick
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Called immigration again re: green card, since the letter they sent me 3 months ago confirming that my case is way late said to call again if I didn't hear from them within 90 days. I should be receiving another letter within 30 days telling me to wait another 90 days.

Also asked about my other case, since it's been 50 days since I filed it and it's still not showing up on their eSystem. Apparently it's been happening a lot lately, and I should just not worry about it. Says to call back when 75 days from filing have passed so she can put in a notice (which will make them send me another letter like above). Meanwhile the expiration date on my work visa sits there on the calendar.
 
Dei

Dei

OH GOD MY HUSBAND JUST TRIED TO REFUTE SOME RANDOM UNTRUE ALT RIGHT THING ON MY MOM'S FACEBOOK PAGE WITH FACTS! If you don't hear from me in a few days, someone in my family is dead.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

HEY NOW-remember those snake-oil salesman who tried to sell my mom a bunch of software she didn't need under the guise of tech professionals? WELL-she called them again, and despite paying them 200 bucks all ready they said they'd only send an on-site technician if she'd pay a-NOTHER 100 bucks. This was an hour after we had to explain it wasn't a freaking software problem but a messed up keyboard!
 
Frank

Frank

I literally cannot tell if my brother has just become a massive, massive troll or if he's just losing his mind. He's always, since childhood, been a complete contrarian to everything anyone says to him. He's arguing flat-Earth shit now. Not against it, for it. He's so stoic about it that it's actually become impossible for me to tell if he's serious. He likes Alex Jones too. He shouts down people who say anything negative about Trump, while always prefacing it with, "I don't like Trump." He's also getting worse in his raging alchoholism.

I know he's not stupid, so I have to hope in my heart that he's just being an asshole.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Frank said:
I literally cannot tell if my brother has just become a massive, massive troll or if he's just losing his mind. He's always, since childhood, been a complete contrarian to everything anyone says to him. He's arguing flat-Earth shit now. Not against it, for it. He's so stoic about it that it's actually become impossible for me to tell if he's serious. He likes Alex Jones too. He shouts down people who say anything negative about Trump, while always prefacing it with, "I don't like Trump." He's also getting worse in his raging alchoholism.

I know he's not stupid, so I have to hope in my heart that he's just being an asshole.
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There's a very real chance that there could be a mental health issue. A very close friend of mine had schizophrenia, and some of the earliest signs of irrational thought was how he would begin jumping on conspiracy theories. He would argue them as if the evidence of their existence should be obvious, confounding everyone around him that knew him to be much smarter than that. I really wish I had pushed harder to try to get him help.
 
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