not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption

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Dear Kris Straub:

Yesterday's chainsawsuit was funny when Robot Chicken did it 5 years ago. Actually, their's was funnier because it included the full complement of standard D&D characters.

Love,
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(and yes, that was my comment that said the same thing)
 
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makare

Quotemander Prime said:
Monday
Her: "I'm so tired."
Me: "You should go to bed earlier."
Her: "I will."
Monday night = Failure to go to bed earlier.
Tuesday
Her: "I'm so tired."
Me: "You should go to bed earlier."
Her: "I will."
Tuesday night = she puts on 4 hour movie. :/
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I'm always tired until night time. True story.
 
Mathias

Mathias

Krisken said:
Yeah, no it doesn't. Take it from someone who suffers from bouts of insomnia, exhausting yourself doesn't mean you'll get to sleep.
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Regular exercise can actually help with insomnia. The problem I have with what you said is that it's not established that Quote's wife is suffering from insomnia. It seems like she's just punishing herself with bad habits. In which case, yeah, doing a whole bunch of physical work throughout the day will help you sleep.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Insomnia can be a living hell, but yeah, you should still take every step you can. I exercise if only to hopefully exhaust myself, try to read instead of late-night TV or somesuch, and spend 6-8 hours lying down, in bed, doing nothing. That's easily the most hellish part because you're physically exhausted but your mind is running at a million miles a minute and that makes you restless to get up and do something, so you have to will yourself to stay in bed because supposedly it helps you gain some kind of sleep pattern...

But I still only get like 4 hours of sleep on a good night. Rargh.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Mathias said:
Regular exercise can actually help with insomnia. The problem I have with what you said is that it's not established that Quote's wife is suffering from insomnia. It seems like she's just punishing herself with bad habits. In which case, yeah, doing a whole bunch of physical work throughout the day will help you sleep.
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This is the case; she has medication for insomnia and it works. She's just watching stuff or playing Dragon Age 2. I wasn't trying to criticize people like Krisken.
 
Mathias

Mathias

Quotemander Prime said:
This is the case; she has medication for insomnia and it works. She's just watching stuff or playing Dragon Age 2. I wasn't trying to criticize people like Krisken.
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TV and computer are like the worst things ever if you're trying to sleep (insomnia or not) Wavelengths at the blue end of the spectrum screw with hormones that your body produces at night that get you sleeping. I think one of them is melatonin. Essentially, your tricking your body into thinking the sun's out.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Mathias said:
TV and computer are like the worst things ever if you're trying to sleep (insomnia or not) Wavelengths at the blue end of the spectrum screw with hormones that your body produces at night that get you sleeping. I think one of them is melatonin. Essentially, your tricking your body into thinking the sun's out.
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I never knew that. I think you just helped me with my issue on weekend nights when I only get a few hours sleep. Thanks.
 
Krisken

Krisken

Too late. I've been overtired lately and a bit snippy. I prefer being reasonable and acknowledging when I am unreasonable. :p
 
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FnordBear said:
Minor Rant:

I don't mind my job but I -hate- the people I work with. I work in in office monitoring network traffic for problems/outages to high-dollar fiber optic customers and the network that provides the data backbone to a major cellular company in the southeast. I share workspace with people doing a similar job for the cable TV/internet portion of the company.

That said there are TVs in the room for work purposes, monitoring channels for outages, quality, etc. Over night we have no supervisors in the room. Once midnight hits and the sups walk out the door the TV turns immediately to BET, the volume is turned up to obnoxious levels, and the room turns in to the night at the Apollo as the people take advantage of slow nights to hoot and holler at the TV.The N word is thrown around with wild abandon, and sex is usually the topic of discussion.

I am not racist by any means but being the only white person in the room for 8-10 hours depending on the day...that environment gets pretty uncomfortable. I bring this up to management once and I am told I am insensitive. FML.
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I can stand witness to what Fnord says. I work with him, all this asshatry is truth
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

I doubted it. But now, with corroboration, now I know....

that Fnord is part of a vast conspiracy and he's bringing his agents in to infiltrate the forum!

RESIST
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

So, I stayed home Tuesday slightly ill*, which was kind of okay because while I hate being sick, it gave me an excuse for some quality time with the new Xbox. Unfortunately, once I had hollowed my body out thoroughly, things turned strange, which I kind of blew off but my wife and doctor seemed really concerned about. Apparently, blood is not the expected result of that transaction unless you have some kind of physical injury, which I don't.

I just figured it took sixteen years for me and my wife to finally sync our cycles.

*To borrow a phrase from Nick Di Paolo, "miscarrying Satan's child".
 
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makare

When reading through a class syllabus the phrase, "wait.. what!?" is /never/ a good sign.
 
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I had a nightmare last night about the girl I have a crush on. In it she and her boyfriend (who doesn't exist in real life, as far as I know) were in my room mocking me about my taste in clothes, my hygiene, my health, the mess in my room and other stuff. In the dream it was all true, my clothes didn't fit, I stank, my room was piled with even more stuff than usual and there was even shit in my bathroom sink (WTF?). It got really strange when nega-crush started saying things about herself that were completely untrue about real-life crush. Nasty horrible stuff. Ewww, I just still feel icky from that.
 
Frank

Frank

Aww man, I've had those. That shit suuuuuuuuuuucks. Things where all the women in my life (friends or no) take turns mocking me on every neurosis I have. Chilling.
 
Cajungal

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Ouch. Do our hearts ache some days just for the sake of it? There's absolutely no reason for me to feel this sad--absolutely no reason to cry. Even a walk couldn't pick me up. It stinks going to bed with the blues. :( I had such a nice afternoon, too. D'ah well, at least I know it's temporary. Just stupid. Stupid feelings.
 
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Fun Size said:
So, I stayed home Tuesday slightly ill*, which was kind of okay because while I hate being sick, it gave me an excuse for some quality time with the new Xbox. Unfortunately, once I had hollowed my body out thoroughly, things turned strange, which I kind of blew off but my wife and doctor seemed really concerned about. Apparently, blood is not the expected result of that transaction unless you have some kind of physical injury, which I don't.

I just figured it took sixteen years for me and my wife to finally sync our cycles.

*To borrow a phrase from Nick Di Paolo, "miscarrying Satan's child".
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I've had this problem before. I was told that most likely it's nothing to worry about. Everyone bleeds from there at some point. There's a lot of vessels, and you just did a lot of squeezing. I was just told to wait it out, and only worry if it didn't go away, or my anus turned into the elevator doors at the Overlook.
 
Terrik

Terrik

Thanks guys, headache went away mostly, although it came back full force later on when I arrived at my girlfriends home for dinner (her mom and grandmother are visiting) and she was crying. I asked why and she told me her mom had said that she was going to be sent to a nursing home when she was older because she was dating a foreigner and it's our culture to do so.

So yeah, that was awkward. However, I took a walk with her mom and grandma (who is very nice) and somewhat awkwardly in Chinese had a chat about everything that was bothering her, talked about her daughter among other things. I think it turned out pretty well, and I think her mom looked more visibly relieved because it was the first time I had really had a decently long (1 hour) conversation with her and one of her fears was that I wouldn't be able to communicate with her in Chinese.

So yeah today turned out OK after all. Tomorrow we're all going to see the Chinese pavilion from the EXPO last year that recently reopened to the public. Looking forward to it.
 
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