RANT III - Anything and Everything

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stienman said:
There are only 24 hours in the day.

WHY ARE THERE ONLY 24 HOURS IN A DAY!?!?!

Oh well. At least I got to spend a few of them with my family today.

Feh. 24 hours.

-Adam

Because there are only 24 bottles in a case of beer. Invent a 28-bottle beer case, and you'll make millions!
stienman said:
Also, to the stupid doctors and nurses at the hospital:
A DNR does NOT mean ignore basic or essential care! Stupid idiots let grandma cough for 4 hours with food stuck in her throat - the best they could offer was the nurse saying, "Poor dear!" and patting her hand. Only after a sufficient stink was raised did they force a gag reflex where she finally dislodged it all and had relief.

:grrr:

They've moved her from ICU to a stroke ward, but the doctors there are all nuerosurgeons, and aren't taking care of her diabetes, allowing her to take other medications (benadryl for allergies - she's scratching herself to distraction), etc, etc, etc.

I now realize that as far as they're concerned, and DNR means, "Don't do anything except hospice care, period." For some reason I was under the mistaken impression that it was more finely defined than that - do everything to extend life except in the case of heart or lung failure. (ie, no CPR)

My mother in law has now had to go through two parent's dying with DNRs and she's convinced that they are worse than the alternative. I'm quickly coming to that conclusion myself...

-Adam
Egh. I'm lucky they don't look at it like that here. My grandmother has a DNR agreement as well (and a euthanasia-in-case-of-whatever one), and they still treat her for anything they can - they simply don't come up with the very hard and painful grueling operations that might or might not increase her life by 2 weeks for 3 months of pain anymore. Pretty happy about it.
 
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Iaculus

Minor rant - this damned story is rapidly eating into my life. I swear, it's like a literary dominatrix. I've already written over 22,000 words in less than two weeks, and it's still begging for more, more, more. Oy.
 
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Batdan

Iaculus said:
Minor rant - this damned story is rapidly eating into my life. I swear, it's like a literary dominatrix. I've already written over 22,000 words in less than two weeks, and it's still begging for more, more, more. Oy.
 

I just got off the phone with my mortgage company. I'm trying to get my mortgage caught up after the staggering financial disaster that was the first part of 2009. This is the quote from them:

"If you have a way to pay extra to get current we encourage you to do so, whether it would be from taxes or cashing out a 401k..."

WTF?!? Well's Fargo takes a shitload of cash from the US and then tells people to cash out their retirement to catch up on bills?!?!?

-- Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:24 am --

Holy fucking God. My bank account is -$510 right now. $480 of that is overdraft fees. That means that I'm overdrawn $30 myself. I'm on the phone with them now with the big WTF questions...
 

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Batdan said:
Iaculus said:
Minor rant - this damned story is rapidly eating into my life. I swear, it's like a literary dominatrix. I've already written over 22,000 words in less than two weeks, and it's still begging for more, more, more. Oy.
That was one of those rare cases where the film exceeds the book. The book gets all weird when Bastian gets to Fantastica.
 
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Silvanesti

Don't be the one to come up with the idea only the cancel out at the last minute. Fucking leaves me with nothing really to do that night. Thanks bitch.

Edit: and yes, i know im making a big deal about it, but you know what? i wanted to have one bithday that didn't totally suck.
 

Silvanesti said:
Edit: and yes, i know im making a big deal about it, but you know what? i wanted to have one bithday that didn't totally suck.
*hug*

(and another one to stienman)
 
You know what I just realized?

My circuit city gift card still had about 2 bucks left on it :angry:
I could have gotten me a candy bar...
 
A friend of mine forgot to tell me about the Magic pre-release this coming Sunday, so I subsequently didn't ask for it off. I've put in two weeks solid of 10-12 hour days (give or take; m/w/f=five hours of school each day plus four-six hours of studying, tues/thurs=eight hours of school plus two to three hours studying), and my boss messed up and scheduled me both Saturday and Sunday last week (the only days I get off during the week). I volunteered a few months ago for the Science Festival tomorrow, so I'm going to be dealing with between 250-300 kids from 11-4, and then come home and prepare for my fourth and fifth midterms next week, then work on Sunday because now nobody else can take my shift.

Which wouldn't be so bad, except I tried to do the right thing (rather than what my idiot coworker/secondary boss always does) and asked my boss, saying that--since Sundays haven't been that busy lately--if two people on-hand would be okay (since there's only two registers, and one of us inevitably ends up dicking around with our thumb up our ass because there's nothing to do). He said I'd have to find somebody to cover my shift; I told him nobody was available, he said I'd have to work. So, due to his fuckup last week, I've gone pretty much nonstop for two weeks, and now am going to have to wait another week to get my weekly one day off that I hammered home I needed at the fucking start of the school year. Meanwhile, idiot bitch is forgiven for doing little things, like...oh, forgetting she opens one day and not showing up for four hours after we're supposed to open.

Welp, fuck it. We're not going to be getting any numbers Sunday.

/rant.
 
I cannot for the life of me shake this funk and it irritates me to no end. I really have no reason to be so down and yet it persists. :angry:
 
Far said:
I cannot for the life of me shake this funk and it irritates me to no end. I really have no reason to be so down and yet it persists. :angry:
Well, hopefully a delivery of sexy, sexy underwear will cheer you up.

:Leyla:

-Adam
 
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Mr_Chaz

To reach my target for the day I've got to write 939 words in the next 40 minutes.
 

ElJuski

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ARRRRGHHHHHH THE FUCKING FUCKKKKKK


(1) random drunk girl decides to throw up in my apartment and I'm the one considered an asshole

(2) friend decides to cockblock the fucking shit out of my ass and then wonders why I won't hook her up with my friend

:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
 
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Scarlet Varlet

Scratched by briars and my right index finger has lost feeling. I need to be more careful. :ninja:
 
:angry: An hour in to my shift and we've already had 5 calls for confirmed fraudulent transactions. This company really needs to work on its fraud prevention software.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

Kid sick all weekend with croup + late night ER visit + 1400 word essay due TODAY + finals coming up in two weeks + pediatrician appointment in about an hour = :aaahhh: :waah: :Leyla:
 

WildSoul said:
Kid sick all weekend with croup + late night ER visit + 1400 word essay due TODAY + finals coming up in two weeks + pediatrician appointment in about an hour = :aaahhh: :waah: :Leyla:
You're a superwoman. That's all I can say.
 
ZenMonkey said:
WildSoul said:
Kid sick all weekend with croup + late night ER visit + 1400 word essay due TODAY + finals coming up in two weeks + pediatrician appointment in about an hour = :aaahhh: :waah: :Leyla:
You're a superwoman. That's all I can say.

This, plus some extra-size hugs!
 

Cajungal

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It's not "ample enough time", it's just ample time! And stop saying "aks" instead of ask! You want to be a teacher, damnit!
 
I can't concentrate on anything, last night I cried harder than I have since I was a child, and I'm pretty sure I know what's coming next...

...fuck my life, this sucks :tear:
 
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Philosopher B.

ARGHARGHARGHARGH.

If people have a problem with me, they should whip it the fuck out and slap it on the table. People who dance around shit make me want to spit. I'm not even kidding. I'll gob that shit up and hurl it into the stratosphere. Shit will be mobile.

Goddamn.
 
Philosopher B. said:
they should whip it the smurf out and slap it on the table. I'm not even kidding. I'll gob that up.
teehee

Also I agree with the unedited statement. I hate when people can't just say "hey, I don't like you/have a problem."
 
LOOK. It's all very SIMPLE, see?

I rent a virtual private server from you.

I DON'T CARE that it's virtual, emulated, or anything else.

It should work EXACTLY like any other bog standard windows 2003 machine connected to the stupid internet.

DON'T TELL ME THAT CERTAIN THINGS WON'T WORK ON IT. If it doesn't work, then it's not a perfect emulation, and therefore isn't a private server (virtual or no), see?

MAKE IT WORK, PEON.

I'm obviously very spoiled by my old standby hosting service. If something didn't get fixed 5-20 minutes after emailing him, it was unusual. Unfortunately he doesn't offer windows VPS hosting. Bleah. Even my backup hosting company doesn't provide windows VPSs.

-Adam
 
ElJuski said:
ARRRRGHHHHHH THE smurfing FUCKKKKKK


(1) random drunk girl decides to throw up in my apartment and I'm the one considered an *

(2) friend decides to cockblock the smurfing poop out of my a** and then wonders why I won't hook her up with my friend

:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
I am strangely intrigued by this. What happened, both for the girl puking and why were you cockblocked?
 
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Wasabi Poptart

Now that I've gotten a thesis statement, made an outline, and did a bunch of research, I realized I misread the instructions for my final paper and have to start over. Oh and it's due next week along with a sustainability plan that I haven't even started working on yet. :thumbsup:
 
Combined Rant and Win (but not Epic Win).

Rant: It's so slow today that it's been 2 hours since our last call and we have no emails to answer. I do not foresee volumes picking up anytime soon. This means that I will likely not get to take a vacation this year because we will not get to hire someone to cover sick days/vacations/etc. This will be the third year in a row when I would have loved to have taken a vacation and can't because no one can cover my shift.

We've actually run out of rationale for why it's so slow and have decided that everyone is so worried about H1N1 flu that no one is buying software online because everyone knows that all online purchases go through the N. Korean missile program computer system and seriously, when was the last time you saw Kim Jong Il wash his hands?

Win: It's so slow today that it's been 2 hours since our last call and I just got paid to watch Maverick. I do not foresee volumes picking up anytime soon. This means I will likely get paid to watch Good Morning Vietnam tomorrow.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

Note to self: Do not ever left your dad and husband fix the refrigerator door again. Especially since it has now fallen off 3 times since they "fixed" it and the repairman can't get here until Tuesday. :grrr:
 
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