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That zipper HURT!!!
The not-so-serious but I want to rant thread.
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Not a comment you want to see from someone associated with Calleja.[/QUOTE]
Veeeeeery funny ¬ --[/QUOTE]
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figmentPez
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GRRRR! Damn Comcast, stealing my analog cable channels! Give me back Syfy!
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Wasabi Poptart
Red velvet cake yogurt does not taste like red velvet cake. Hmmph.
*sigh* Just found out a girl I was sweet on had a drunken hook-up tonight. I cut off ties to her, I won't begrudge her since I'm not in a relationship with her. But I don't want to be with people like that anymore, I'm done with that lifestyle.
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Element 117
interestingly, red velvet cake does not taste at all like red velvet.
Cakes and lies, people, like wet on water.
Hottest day of the week, and my patrol car's AC is out. @NorthRanger, I'm feeling positively Suomi! *grins*
I can't seem to figure the balance between being cold and distant with people, and being too eager for contact with them. There's a couple of people I talk to like every day, and people I never talk to, with very little middle ground. People have got their own things going on and that's fine. But after a while, it's been so long since you talk to them, you have nothing really to say because, well, where do you start? It's like, with my sisters. They have pretty much none of the same interests as I do, so very often, I have really nothing to say to them because they don't care about anything I've got to say. I don't mind listening to them, though apparently if I talk about what I've been up to for more than 5 minutes, it's too much. Little sister has actually put up her hand and said, "Okay, that's all I can listen to."
I just feel like I should have this shit already figured out by this point in my life.
I just feel like I should have this shit already figured out by this point in my life.
Cajungal
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You're never alone there.
My tiny rant: I've been waking up after sleeping 3 hours without fail for the past 2 weeks, and I'm a little tired of it.
Relationships with people are difficult for some people... But I recently watched "Harvey" and heard a piece of advice that was pretty spot on in what I did in my life. The main character's mother told him that, to have success in life, he should either be very intelligent or very pleasant. I tried to do the first thing during most of my childhood and early teenage years... I don't recommend it.
Since then, I've been a pleasant person. Even if I'm weird, even if I spend months without speaking with some friends and even if I feel awkward sometimes, it works. I have lots of friends (of various degrees) and I'm very appreciated by most people in my day to day life. I listen to them, try to give them good advice and, as I have a natural tendency to monologue about my life, I try to shorten it transforming my soliloquies into short explanations full of jokes.
Jokes are also my main social weapon. I'm alwais joking. Good jokes, bad jokes, whatever. It's always been something I've done, so it comes kinda natural, but I find this works great.
My social life is far from perfect, and I'm still anxious and disoriented, and, of course, this isn't exactly adivce, just my personal experience... but I hope it may help you get some ideas.
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Philosopher B.
I freaking love Harvey. It's an awesome movie.
Dave
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I'm naming my ass crack. I know this is weird but it deserves it. I'm calling it the San Andreas Fault.
See, two weeks ago my daughter got very sick with the flu. Last week it was my son. This weekend it was me. I had a DJ gig Friday night and I wasn't feeling too spiffy then but I held it off, probably because when I DJ I'll drink nearly a pitcher of water and that hydration helped me get through it. Saturday, though...
Saturday was when the fault line erupted, followed by uncountable aftershocks. I went to bed at 2 am Saturday morning and didn't get out of bed again until Sunday (with one exception to help Baerdog out in EvE). At 3 am Sunday my body decided that simply evacuating my bowels wasn't making me lose weight fast enough so I went into violent vomiting stage. Fortunately, I'd eaten nothing for a day and a half so it was a lot of noise and that was about it. I wonder how bad it would have been had I not been chug-a-lugging Pepto Bismol since Saturday.
So today is the first day I'm really up and around. I'm not at work because I'm still getting aftershocks at inopportune times. I should be in tomorrow but I am so God damned sore. My back hurts from lying around for two days, my stomach muscled ache because they haven't been used as anything other than a shelf for "muh belleh"!
But you know what? That's not even my rant. That's just the background story for my rant. The wife and I were supposed to go to a wedding out of town Saturday and we didn't get to go. She says she isn't mad at me but the whole time I was sick she either ignored me or treated me like shit. I'm sorry you couldn't go to your friend's wedding! I told you we could go and I'd tough it out (which would have been very, VERY hard) or you could have gone by yourself. But it isn't my fault I got sick!
She realizes that what she was feeling was irrational, but she was still mad at me. That's my rant.
See, two weeks ago my daughter got very sick with the flu. Last week it was my son. This weekend it was me. I had a DJ gig Friday night and I wasn't feeling too spiffy then but I held it off, probably because when I DJ I'll drink nearly a pitcher of water and that hydration helped me get through it. Saturday, though...
Saturday was when the fault line erupted, followed by uncountable aftershocks. I went to bed at 2 am Saturday morning and didn't get out of bed again until Sunday (with one exception to help Baerdog out in EvE). At 3 am Sunday my body decided that simply evacuating my bowels wasn't making me lose weight fast enough so I went into violent vomiting stage. Fortunately, I'd eaten nothing for a day and a half so it was a lot of noise and that was about it. I wonder how bad it would have been had I not been chug-a-lugging Pepto Bismol since Saturday.
So today is the first day I'm really up and around. I'm not at work because I'm still getting aftershocks at inopportune times. I should be in tomorrow but I am so God damned sore. My back hurts from lying around for two days, my stomach muscled ache because they haven't been used as anything other than a shelf for "muh belleh"!
But you know what? That's not even my rant. That's just the background story for my rant. The wife and I were supposed to go to a wedding out of town Saturday and we didn't get to go. She says she isn't mad at me but the whole time I was sick she either ignored me or treated me like shit. I'm sorry you couldn't go to your friend's wedding! I told you we could go and I'd tough it out (which would have been very, VERY hard) or you could have gone by yourself. But it isn't my fault I got sick!
She realizes that what she was feeling was irrational, but she was still mad at me. That's my rant.
The lender is just jerking us around in the mediation process. Their offer to modify our mortgage to get out of foreclosure is the same offer they made before we sent them copies of our financial information, and just as unreachable as it was then. We can't make the lump payment - if we could, we wouldn't be in foreclosure - and while we could potentially make the payments they want, we then couldn't pay our other bills. And even after that, they could just revoke the modification after 12 months.
Okay. What I'm really stuck on is being unable to tell when I'm trying too hard to be in touch with someone, and when I'm not trying hard enough and have let things drift apart, though. People that we seem to get on real well, have a good time in each other's company, that sort of thing... that you never really spend time with, because of work schedules, and distance, etc. There's 5,000 ways of keeping in touch with people in this day and age, but none of it means as much as actually being there with that friend. I don't want to be the schmuck that pops up with a greeting every time someone's available, but then you don't talk to them for months... it's like, is it even worth keeping their contact information?
Eh, I don't know. My problem isn't being with people, it's getting to be with people.
I had a caller at the end of the day that had a major issue. I had to send it up to the next level of support. I asked them if there was anyone staying late to answer the phone. She gives me a name of someone there, who would be in until midnight. When I asked what phone number to call, she tells me that guy is deaf. So, when I explained that we'd just call her back in the morning, she then said that we could just call the supervisor and gave me another name.
Sometimes, there are just no words.
Sometimes, there are just no words.
Dave
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You have a deaf call center worker? I hope he's the main TTY person.
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Chazwozel
Be more interesting.
Dave
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Be more interesting.[/QUOTE]
Interesting to one person is boring as shit to someone else. Come on man. You know that as well as I do. A guy who would fit in well with your crowd might be someone that my friends and I might not want to hang out with. "Be more interesting" is about as helpful and insightful as telling someone they need to "be more ethnic".
You have a deaf call center worker? I hope he's the main TTY person.[/QUOTE]
No no, the site gave me a person to contact, then told me he was deaf. They then gave me the name of a second person to call who would be on duty at the same time.
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You think you can take her?
I used to have a business partner that always said "Alls you do is..." (yes, with the "s" at the end of "alls"). I must have heard him say it 6 or 7 times a day. It was so annoying after a while.
You suppose she goes head on with head?
Ok, breaking away from the Final Justice references, my work has me scheduled for a training session today. They will be training me on the new phone systems they are installing. The center I work in is closing in two months and so will not be getting the new phones. The new center where they are transferring everyone will have them, though. But I am not moving with the company. Why they are training me is beyond my grasp.
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Chazwozel
Be more interesting.[/QUOTE]
Interesting to one person is boring as shit to someone else. Come on man. You know that as well as I do. A guy who would fit in well with your crowd might be someone that my friends and I might not want to hang out with. "Be more interesting" is about as helpful and insightful as telling someone they need to "be more ethnic".[/QUOTE]
His problem is with his sisters, specifically. Be more interesting as in talk about shit that they're interested in. Do shit that would be interesting to hear about in a broad sense. Go surfing, go tiger hunting in Africa, go skydiving, mountain climbing. Expand some horizons instead of being narrowly focused on his own interests. That's how you get people to open up to you and accept your own ideas etc... Not everyone gives a flying crap about who Wonder Woman banged in issue # 306 of DC universe, a lot more people would be interested in talking about something like how you learned to play guitar -or hell- how you managed to fix a broken toilet without flooding the house. Geek culture is very focused and unfortunately many, many people just don't give a rat's ass about it, so you have to ease them into it.
Just like any story, you need to hook your audience to make them want to hear more. So my advice of "being more interesting" was good advice.
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makare
I work with this bizarre guy. I don't know what to make of him.
We had to ride together today to go to the social security office and he's like "one time i stabbed a guy in the neck. just enough to make him bleed you know not to kill him."...ok..
"yep back then no one messed with me i was into martial arts and weight lifting. we thought the war was going to spark up again in Vietnam so me and these two other martial arts guys, all white you know because back then was the race wars (wtf!?), we joined the military."
yikes!
Then later he tried to convince me that the Lakota tribe was transplanted to south DAKOTA from Nevada. What the hell man!?
He's such an odd guy.
That isn't really my rant though. My rant is that today and every weekday I work for the rest of the summer I have to clean a fish grinder. EWWWW.
We had to ride together today to go to the social security office and he's like "one time i stabbed a guy in the neck. just enough to make him bleed you know not to kill him."...ok..
"yep back then no one messed with me i was into martial arts and weight lifting. we thought the war was going to spark up again in Vietnam so me and these two other martial arts guys, all white you know because back then was the race wars (wtf!?), we joined the military."
yikes!
Then later he tried to convince me that the Lakota tribe was transplanted to south DAKOTA from Nevada. What the hell man!?
He's such an odd guy.
That isn't really my rant though. My rant is that today and every weekday I work for the rest of the summer I have to clean a fish grinder. EWWWW.
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