I'd rather have that than the assetbar. At least the newsletter is free.North_Ranger said:Great, Kurtz did it again.
For months, he's had trouble updating in time (save last two weeks).
From what we've heard from Ed, the PvP Fanclub is a place of vomiting vaginas and hard-boiled dildos.
And the weekly Ding! is... dammit, do I even need to say that?
Now he's offering the PvP Newsletter.
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Just please.... please.... if you get one, don't wear it to a damn little league game. Don't they own jackets?!ZenMonkey said:I don't even begin to deny that the infomercial is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Why do you think I haven't gotten one yet?
As for me, my bio teacher's a fucking idiot. She's a GA, and I've had good luck before with GA instructors for huge lecture classes. But this chick... oh my God. She has this set of notes she uses that were probably done up by her professor (who sounds so awesome, damnit), and every time I ask her to explain something again, she just reads the paper again word for word. AND she gave my group the wrong information for our independent project, so I had to take these plants home instead of keep them under the little plant lamp, and now I've almost killed them because everything I touch dies. :waah: I hate you and it makes me sad that you want to be a teacher because you can't explain anything to anyone! And stop saying "can I aks you something"!!!! I'm so glad I'm almost rid of you.
WoW gripe. Yesterday's patch destroyed my lvl 19 twink. I had enchants on that character for 3 years that were removed last night. About 3 months of game play and lots of digital gold ruined. But my main complaint is now people with no interest in competing feel more comfortable with joining in the battle. Last night in WSG I sat around for over 15 minutes holding the flag ready to capture. Nobody from either side bothered to attack the flag carriers. I finally logged out while holding the flag because I would get no honor and end up wasting huge amounts of time (silly to say that about WoW, I know...)
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Wind brings cold weather.. Sigh. It's April. Where's my scorching hot April?
I hate the perfect yet lethal confluence that is my health.
Step 1: Peptic Ulcer Disease. Forget that you have said disease as it has been years since you've had serious flare-ups aside from random times when you've just imbibed/ingested too much acid (citric).
Step 2: Decaying Wisdom Tooth. Get a job that has no health/dental benefits and hold that job for 2+ years, while your boss promises frequently that he's almost ready to start offering insurance. While waiting for insurance benefits to kick in, develop a massive cavity in a completely unnecessary tooth.
Step 3: Economic downturn. Decide just before the beginning of a major economic downturn to start rebuilding your credit. This will ensure that you will be able to get a loan when you have to replace your car, but that your finance company will suck balls and your rate and payments will be murder.
Step 4: Aspirin derivatives.. After successfully forgetting that you have an ulcer disease and that Aspirin pain relievers are your arch-nemesis, start taking Excedrin Extra Strength religiously for 10 days because your tooth hurts and you can't afford to have it pulled. Stop taking Aspirin only when you realize that the nausea, burning, cramping, and acid reflux that you've been having for 4 days is a warning sign and that your mother (who also has peptic ulcer disease) very nearly died from ignoring the exact same warning signs and taking the exact same meds...
Crap.
Also, CG, I'm sorry that your teacher sucks. I hated bad teachers in high-school and even more so in college when I knew that I was paying out of my own pocket for a crappy teacher, so I can relate.
Edit: Also, Comcast Rant. Comcast started streaming a warning message across several of our channels back at the end of March that warned us that our service may not be set up for the new digital service they were switching to between March 30th and April 3rd. April 3rd came and went and nothing changed.
April 5th we received a mailer telling us that they were upgrading all of their service in our area to digital only and that starting April 30th we would need to upgrade to a digital service with a digital receiver, and providing us with a nifty code we could use online at that time to upgrade to digital for no additional charge and order our digital receiver.
April 7th all of our "premium" channels (and by premium I mean Food Network, Travel Channel, strangely enough not Spike or Comedy Central) would display nothing more than a white background with a picture of a digital receiver telling us we had to upgrade in order to get our channels again. Attempting to use our codes online was pointless because it's not the 30th yet and calling Comcast on that day got us absolutely no where, because apparently no one told the Comcast service center that they were upgrading our area (and that they were either doing it 4 days late or 26 days early).
Finally, we were able to call yesterday and get someone who (after consulting something/someone after each question we asked) managed to figure out what was going on and get a new digital receiver in the mail to us which we should get within the next 5 business days. And are they going to compensate us in any way for us being without 75% of our channels for over a week? Of course not.
Step 1: Peptic Ulcer Disease. Forget that you have said disease as it has been years since you've had serious flare-ups aside from random times when you've just imbibed/ingested too much acid (citric).
Step 2: Decaying Wisdom Tooth. Get a job that has no health/dental benefits and hold that job for 2+ years, while your boss promises frequently that he's almost ready to start offering insurance. While waiting for insurance benefits to kick in, develop a massive cavity in a completely unnecessary tooth.
Step 3: Economic downturn. Decide just before the beginning of a major economic downturn to start rebuilding your credit. This will ensure that you will be able to get a loan when you have to replace your car, but that your finance company will suck balls and your rate and payments will be murder.
Step 4: Aspirin derivatives.. After successfully forgetting that you have an ulcer disease and that Aspirin pain relievers are your arch-nemesis, start taking Excedrin Extra Strength religiously for 10 days because your tooth hurts and you can't afford to have it pulled. Stop taking Aspirin only when you realize that the nausea, burning, cramping, and acid reflux that you've been having for 4 days is a warning sign and that your mother (who also has peptic ulcer disease) very nearly died from ignoring the exact same warning signs and taking the exact same meds...
Crap.
Also, CG, I'm sorry that your teacher sucks. I hated bad teachers in high-school and even more so in college when I knew that I was paying out of my own pocket for a crappy teacher, so I can relate.
Edit: Also, Comcast Rant. Comcast started streaming a warning message across several of our channels back at the end of March that warned us that our service may not be set up for the new digital service they were switching to between March 30th and April 3rd. April 3rd came and went and nothing changed.
April 5th we received a mailer telling us that they were upgrading all of their service in our area to digital only and that starting April 30th we would need to upgrade to a digital service with a digital receiver, and providing us with a nifty code we could use online at that time to upgrade to digital for no additional charge and order our digital receiver.
April 7th all of our "premium" channels (and by premium I mean Food Network, Travel Channel, strangely enough not Spike or Comedy Central) would display nothing more than a white background with a picture of a digital receiver telling us we had to upgrade in order to get our channels again. Attempting to use our codes online was pointless because it's not the 30th yet and calling Comcast on that day got us absolutely no where, because apparently no one told the Comcast service center that they were upgrading our area (and that they were either doing it 4 days late or 26 days early).
Finally, we were able to call yesterday and get someone who (after consulting something/someone after each question we asked) managed to figure out what was going on and get a new digital receiver in the mail to us which we should get within the next 5 business days. And are they going to compensate us in any way for us being without 75% of our channels for over a week? Of course not.
T counter you people with cold weather, here it's lovely, quite sunny but with enouhg clouds that I don't need to sunscreen my head, some 18-20°C ("pleasant with a t-shirt but not too warm if you feel like wearing a sweater or light jacket, and women start wearing short skirts") and a light breeze. However, I'm stuck working 12h shifts in a building where the windows won't open with a boss who insists on putting the airco in a horrible way.
Blerg. Grandmother-in-law (Wife's maternal grandmother, for those keeping track at home) at hospital for likely stroke and heaven knows what else. Being flown (helicopter - hope this one doesn't crash) to the university hospital for better emergency care. She's got a DNR on file, so she probably won't last the night.
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We had horrible weather here today. 'Twas raining like the dickens. Cold as all get out, too. WHY WON'T IT GET PERMANENTLY WARM. :waah:
Nooooo! Oh shit...do you still have the reservations and everything?Gusto said:This afternoon, the company through which I had booked my trip to Cuba WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
Details after food, headache pills and boozahol.
Waiting patiently for details.
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And now ... the scroll button of my mouse appears to be broken. :grrr:
FOOD'D.ZenMonkey said:Nooooo! Oh shit...do you still have the reservations and everything?Gusto said:This afternoon, the company through which I had booked my trip to Cuba WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
Details after food, headache pills and boozahol.
Waiting patiently for details.
MEDICATION'D.
Booze pending.
Okay so this afternoon I was doing some vacation shopping with the girl I'm going with, and my mom calls my cell to tell me that Conquest Vacations has gone out of business.
This means that we've lost our vacation, and since then prices have skyrocketed to keep up with the demand of everyone who's out on their asses.
So after dealing with Visa in order to cancel our payment, we started trying to book a new trip. But the markets in Cuba/Dominican/Mexico are really fucked right now because everyone's trying to deal with this vacuum now. We could have paid $3200 to go to the same resort that we paid $2400 for last week. After poking around at that for a while, we were able to get into contact with a travel agent (and they're even more stressed than I am, for obvious reasons) and got a line on a good deal at a Dominican resort that I went to seven years ago.
BY THE TIME OUR AGENT WAS ABLE TO CLICK TO THE BOOKING SCREEN THE PRICE HAD GONE UP $300.
So after about three hours on the phone with a travel agent (AND on my cell phone with ANOTHER agent) we struck gold. The prices are going nuts right now, going up and down by hundreds of dollars every 5 minutes. It's like the goddamn Stock Market Crash. Anyway, we were able to find booking at the number 1 rated resort in Cuba for $350 LESS than we ad paid for our original trip.
So the problem has resolved itself, and I ended up getting a much better deal out of it, but GODDAMN if I didn't spend 3.5 hours on 2 phones while the vein in my forehead fucking POUNDED. :explode:
What a stressful day. :smoke:
The good news is now I'm apparently staying in a frou-frou palace for a week with the cute girl from work.
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Here.stienman said:
*hugs*
A hug for the wife on this difficult day. But if you tell anyone, anyone that I hugged you, I'm going to hunt you down and kill you.
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I'm sorry to hear it, Adam. My thoughts go out to your wife and her family.stienman said:
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Silvanesti
my roomate is fucking his bitchy girlfriend right above me. god i want to find an apartment
@Gusto, what a pain but glad to hear it all worked out.
@Adam, another modhug and good thoughts for your family.
@Adam, another modhug and good thoughts for your family.
I log onto my email account, only to find everything deleted. I immediately send email to tech support explaining what happened, requesting they restore the mailbox. Tech support doesn't respond for about 36 hours. Then I get an email asking me to follow a link, at which time they will restore my mailbox. RESTORE IT TO WHAT IT WAS 24 HOURS AGO. That's only about 8 hours *after* it was wiped in the first place.
Stupid, lazy, slow fuckers.
Stupid, lazy, slow fuckers.
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Gusto: Holy crap man, glad you were able to straighten it out!
Dear Mr. "The Fellow's Older Brother": I understand that you've had a lot of rough times, but you only have one brother and he loves you. He wants to have a relationship with you now that your home. It is MOST uncool to flake out on him all the time, never call, and not show up when you say you will. He's a good guy, and he wants to keep up with you. If you could show a little effort and stop hurting him, that would be just peachy.
I can't say anything to him... he really has had it tough. Neither he nor the fellow are what I'd call disciplined (well that's different now... Jake's more adult than his brother is), he had a terrible time in the army, and I know he had a bout with depression... OH and he's married, and I know they really missed each other. But come on, dude, if you say you're gonna meet your brother for coffee and catch up, please show up!
:tear: I hate it when my sweetheart gets so disappointed.
Dear Mr. "The Fellow's Older Brother": I understand that you've had a lot of rough times, but you only have one brother and he loves you. He wants to have a relationship with you now that your home. It is MOST uncool to flake out on him all the time, never call, and not show up when you say you will. He's a good guy, and he wants to keep up with you. If you could show a little effort and stop hurting him, that would be just peachy.
I can't say anything to him... he really has had it tough. Neither he nor the fellow are what I'd call disciplined (well that's different now... Jake's more adult than his brother is), he had a terrible time in the army, and I know he had a bout with depression... OH and he's married, and I know they really missed each other. But come on, dude, if you say you're gonna meet your brother for coffee and catch up, please show up!
:tear: I hate it when my sweetheart gets so disappointed.
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Anubinomicon
god fucking damn it. so i find out today because of stupid partitioned drives i can't play WOW because the new patch needs 3 GBs and i have 2.97 for the drive its located on.
Ticks! I hate wood ticks. They are the sole reason I wish for winter to come again. So far this week I have found on me and my dog 4 deer ticks and 2 regular ticks, and it's only going to get worse. I can handle regular ticks, you can see them easily and the don't carry diseases. Deer ticks are the size of a damn pin head! When they attach to you the dig down so deep it's hard to get them out of your skin. Plus their saliva irritates your skin so it swells up around them making it even worse. Add to that they carry lymes disease, which I have already been treated for once! At their worst I have to stop every hundred feet and pick them off of both me and my dog. What the hell is the point of living in the woods if you hate to go walk in them! :explode: I'm going to scratch my skin raw. I keep feeling them crawling all over me.
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So I got dumped last night. Via sms. How nice. Well, fuck it. The warm springtime weather is awesome, I like my new job and family/friends are safe and sound. Life is good :uhhuh:
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Sorry you got dumped, but I have to say you're taking it with the right attitude! It's refreshing.Yoink said:
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It must be the weather ... I can´t help but feel good I´ll go to catch some more comforting sunlight Springtime, here I come !
I´ll go to catch some more comforting sunlight Springtime, here I come !God Fucking Dammit we cannot afford to become a one income family. Not now, not any time soon, and especially not when it's so damn hard to find a job!
Edit: Ok, I can breathe a sigh of relief this time. She wasn't late because she overslept, she was late because there was a hit and run on the freeway in front of her and she was the first person on scene and therefore had to wait for the cops to show up.
Edit: Ok, I can breathe a sigh of relief this time. She wasn't late because she overslept, she was late because there was a hit and run on the freeway in front of her and she was the first person on scene and therefore had to wait for the cops to show up.
Did they at least offer to share? If you don't bring enough for everybody....Silvanesti said:
rly: or :angry: .Aren't bunk beds a bitch?
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I was comming in to bitch about being incredibly grumpy today.
You guys made me laugh, Thank you. (im still grumpy, but less so)
You guys made me laugh, Thank you. (im still grumpy, but less so)
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