RANT III - Anything and Everything

[Cajungal]

I'm just frustrated for my fellow right now. He just got done with a 14-hour shift with no break, and he always ends up working with the laziest of lazy high school students. Cinco de Mayo---Mexican restaurant.... I wish I could go hang with him and let him vent to me in person.

 

[sixpackshaker]

My Uncle just passed away. It is kind of a shock. He was pretty healthy. Especially for a man of 86 years.

 

[Cajungal]

I'm sorry for your loss. 'Hope you and your family are doing ok.

 

[sixpackshaker]

The strange part was last night I had a vivid dream that my oldest bro called and told me Dad was dead. So I've been on auto-pilot all day, waiting for that call. I left for lunch still thinking about that dream, when the phone rang. I answered it, and it was the same conversation; but it was mom calling about Uncle Jimmy.

 

[Rob King]

I just finished my last can of soup, which was eaten in the pitch black of my rented room. The light blew this morning, and I can't afford to replace the bulb.

I know what I want to do in life. I want to create things: write stories, paint pictures. I want to GO places. I want to meet people, learn from them, have experiences. (Yes, like Cain from Kung Fu) To put it in a juvenile way, I want to have adventures, and live the life the people around me don't dare to dream of.

I know where I want to be. I just have no clue how to get there.

 

[Batdan]

I just finished my last can of soup, which was eaten in the pitch black of my rented room. The light blew this morning, and I can't afford to replace the bulb.

I know what I want to do in life. I want to create things: write stories, paint pictures. I want to go places, and do things. (Yes, like Cain from Kung Fu) I want to experience things in this world that the people around me are afraid of dreaming about.

I know where I want to be. I just have no clue how to get there.

I hear Zen is looking for commissioned piece of art. Might be worth a try for a start.

 

[Rob King]

I hear Zen is looking for commissioned piece of art. Might be worth a try for a start.

Yeah, I saw that. But thanks for the heads up.

There are a few obstacles to overcome before doing that sort of thing, though.

 

Well, if you have a site and are interested, do point me at it.

My rant -- can't stop crying when I wonder how poor sweet dumb Pi is going to deal with the loss of his best friend. He got depressed as it was when Cisco would jump up into the closet to get some privacy.

And having to rewrite that last sentence in the past tense set me off again. Dammit.

 

[Batdan]

*hugs*

 

[Bubble181]

I was happily surfing Halforum last week, when suddenly my pc just stopped working. Hooh-hah. A week later, and it's finally running again...Minus part of the pixels in the screen, the DVDplayer, and the loss of ALL data on both hard discs. Multpiple reformats and I still can only see about half of one drive. The other one's back in working condition...For now. BUT GOD DAMN IT. I didn't even do anything wrong >_< Some sort of freak power surge or something, apparently. Running TinyXP now since neither of my (legal!) XP boot discs will work in my CD drive for some reason. Argh.

Also, due to work and hobby interfering badly, I've been going on less than 3 hours a night the past three nights. It's starting to go badly. The fact that a certain person (and since I don't feel like manbawwing, oddly enough, I'll refrain from naming her :-P) has called me on my phone twice while I was alseep (and she KNEW I'd only get 1 and 1/2 hours sleep anyway) and once more the night after, doesn't help.

Lastly, I'm no longer the top poster on the board. On the Epic Win side, I'm finally not the top poster on the board anymore :-P

 

[Batdan]

*hugs*

 

[CynicismKills]

Well, if you have a site and are interested, do point me at it.

My rant -- can't stop crying when I wonder how poor sweet dumb Pi is going to deal with the loss of his best friend. He got depressed as it was when Cisco would jump up into the closet to get some privacy.

And having to rewrite that last sentence in the past tense set me off again. Dammit.

Ugh, I can relate ZM. Our doxin, from what my brother has told me, is still very needy, always looking for the doberman (Tails is the doxin, Sonic is the doberman). Poor Tails grew up with Sonic just like we did, so it's like having his brother just...gone. I feel bad for the poor little guy.

But yeah, it's hard knowing that they're going through the same pain you are. Hugs to you and the cat.

 

[Gusto]

RANT: I'm upset that I missed the discussion thread for the Heroes season finale. WTF was that shit.

 

[Cajungal]

:explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode:

GRAGH.

 

[CynicismKills]

Not a huge deal but a little frustrating, just lost about 2 hours of play time on a SNES rom I was playing because I bumped my keyboard and reset it. For some reason the internal save didn't work right either. Bleh.

 

[Alucard]

That I'm still single
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I can't believe no one here plays Kingdom of Loathing currently. When I started up I figured there'd be a bunch of Halforum people addicted to it. :waah:

 

[Cajungal]

I can't believe no one here plays Kingdom of Loathing currently. When I started up I figured there'd be a bunch of Halforum people addicted to it. :waah:

I just looked it up and the first web page that popped up is having maintenance right now.

 

Still stressed and worried about these essays I have to do for school. Two of them, I'm less worried about because now I have a general idea and semi-outline of them.

The third, however, on Travel Writing, I feel completely witless about. Part of the problem is that I picked my own topic. I looked at the source material that I was going to work with and...I don't think there's enough there to make an essay/argument out of it. I don't know what to do with it and at this point, given that it's due on Wednesday (after getting a week extension, already), I don't know what I CAN do. I've e-mailed the prof tonight about these concerns, but I just...I don't know what to do. I was thinking of changing topics, but at this point, it feels too late...and I don't even know what else to do it on.

 

I can't believe no one here plays Kingdom of Loathing currently. When I started up I figured there'd be a bunch of Halforum people addicted to it. :waah:

I just looked it up and the first web page that popped up is having maintenance right now.

Yeah, they have an hour or less of maintenance nightly at 8:30 Pacific time, two hours on Saturday. Sorry about the bad timing but check them out a little later. You can play an accordion thief.

 

[Cajungal]

I can't believe no one here plays Kingdom of Loathing currently. When I started up I figured there'd be a bunch of Halforum people addicted to it. :waah:

I just looked it up and the first web page that popped up is having maintenance right now.

Yeah, they have an hour or less of maintenance nightly at 8:30 Pacific time, two hours on Saturday. Sorry about the bad timing but check them out a little later. You can play an accordion thief.

Yes, I'll see you there, my friend. *waits and waits*

 

Yes, I'll see you there, my friend. *waits and waits*

If and when you start up and figure out the mail system, drop me a line (ZenMonkey or #1906925) and I'll send you some stuff to get started.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

I have been playing shortly after you mentioned it. I just haven't mentioned it because I figured I should at least try to make my adjective accurate.

 

I have been playing shortly after you mentioned it. I just haven't mentioned it because I figured I should at least try to make my adjective accurate.

:tear:

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

I'm Awiqipedia. I'm a sauceror.

 

[Gared]

:explode: Work is seriously falling down around my ears right now. Our client (a major credit card clearing house based out of Germany) runs online stores for about 50 software companies. Most of them are pretty decent companies, but they all have problems and my staff (meaning my one employee and me) always get stuck in the middle of all of them.

You know, I was going to itemize all of the problems that are going on right now, but it's too much effort and too damn infuriating because we've been harping at our client for 3 years now to fix what they can and take a firmer stance with their customers, but they never do. Suffice it to say, our client is being screwed royally by the vast majority of their customers, who provide less than stellar products and/or support, and all of the shit falls on my team.

All of that would be bad enough, but the company that I work for is a small family business and everyone who works for the company is family except me, and I get to try to manage the place. I have no benefits, no prospect of getting a vacation any time soon because they can't get enough business flowing through to hire a third employee, and am constantly getting bitched at by my boss (who's never around to actually learn what's going on). I have absolutely nothing to work with and am supposed to be running a "cutting edge customer service organization, dedicated to delivering Outrageously Delightful Customer Service."

Well fuck them and their outrageously delightful customer service. I need something to work with here, and some damn time off.

Edit:
:explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode:

Just started working on the latest project my boss handed me before he took a 5 day weekend, finding ways to improve my quality scores and make sure that I lead the way for the customer service team. Checked my scores (which are hideously low) against my employee's scores - i.e. his son's - (which are in the high 70% to high 80% range). Not only am I getting 0s in areas he's getting 3s in when we send almost exactly the same emails; he's not actually doing the work and is just closing them after sending a couple emails to the customers.

 

[Gusto]

I wish I could go to SDCC, mostly for the sake of meeting people.

 

[Batdan]

I wish I could go to SDCC, mostly for the sake of meeting people.

There's always AKON in Dallas!

 

[Bubble181]

Not really a rant, but sicne this is pretty much the baww thread too: I'm seriously a completely stupid idiotic craptastic nutjob who should learn to THINK. ARGH. Seriously. to myself. Can't really go into too much details because, well, I've decided against speaking too openly about my ex's current goings-on, but....arck. Six months after the last time, we ended up in bed together again.
Short summry of some of the reasons why it's such a frustrating thing:
a) knowing IN ADVANCE she'd be fantasizing about someone else while we had sex
b) knowing I'm the third different person in a week she sleeps with
c) her breaking down in tears somewhere half-way through, because with me, she can, while with others she has to pretend and stay strong.
There's more stuff, but that's more personal and not something you're hearing in public.

*sigh*


STUPID STUPID STUPID BUBBLE.

 

[Cajungal]

:waah: My ukulele's been in New Orleans since yesterday morning at 2 am! Why o why o why won't the departure scan show up? It didn't take this long anywhere else! Stop being in New Orleans and be at my apartment!

 

[fade]

I got basically the equivalent of a C+ ranking at my university after building a funded research program supporting multiple grad students, and after getting invited as a freakin' headlining speaker at an international geophysical conference in Brazil. I was one of freakin' 5 people out of 6 billion who got invited to speak. And I get a C+. The administration's blatantly offensive excuse: we're a master's granting department, not a Ph.D. granting one, so they have to keep the Ph.D. departments happy. Bull. Shit.

Oh, for the record, ranks = raise for next year here. And also go into tenure and promotion considerations. Supposedly there are only so many high ranks that can be sprinkled over the university.

 

[Enresshou]

Fuck my history professor. For the second time this quarter, she's completely shifted requirements for the class; being department head, there's no real governing body above her that'd give a shit. We went from having our midterm, a project, and a final as the only graded items, to having three 'regular' quizzes, a quiz ON the project, restructuring of the last half of the quarter, and having to read 120 pages a week (starting during fucking midterms). She ended the email letting us know of these changes with, "Sorry to have delayed this for so long, but it's so busy at this institution for department chairs!"

And we're NOT busy? If something in class doesn't work, make a note of it and fix it for next quarter; don't impose mandatory quizzes because quite a few people, myself included, realized we could get an A+ on your tests without having to come to an 8 AM class for general ed that few of us want to be in in the first place.

On the plus side, we fill out mandatory comment sheets at the end of the quarter that are used in the ranking of the professor and factor into raises and such. A general ed class of 75-100 people, all very pissed off at the changing requirements and increased workload, is going to leave one hell of a stain on the record, bitch.

 

Wow. Ran into a very ugly pocket of prejudice on Twitter today. Basically imagine someone ranting about niggers and then apply that to the deaf community. That old third-culture raaaaage is starting to heat up again. :explode:

On the upside, his replying to me (and jumping further to conclusions about my motives than I've ever seen anyone on this board do...which is saying something) got me some excellent new Twitter friends, plus I reconnected with someone from a deaf-related board I don't visit much anymore, so I'm just going to try and focus on that positive stuff.

 

[fade]

smurf my history professor. For the second time this quarter, she's completely shifted requirements for the class; being department head, there's no real governing body above her that'd give a poop. We went from having our midterm, a project, and a final as the only graded items, to having three 'regular' quizzes, a quiz ON the project, restructuring of the last half of the quarter, and having to read 120 pages a week (starting during smurfing midterms). She ended the email letting us know of these changes with, "Sorry to have delayed this for so long, but it's so busy at this institution for department chairs!"

And we're NOT busy? If something in class doesn't work, make a note of it and fix it for next quarter; don't impose mandatory quizzes because quite a few people, myself included, realized we could get an A+ on your tests without having to come to an 8 AM class for general ed that few of us want to be in in the first place.

On the plus side, we fill out mandatory comment sheets at the end of the quarter that are used in the ranking of the professor and factor into raises and such. A general ed class of 75-100 people, all very * off at the changing requirements and increased workload, is going to leave one * of a stain on the record, *.

Just be fair with those comment sheets. Don't give her zeroes if she doesn't deserve it. The student comment sheets actually carry a lot of weight at most universities--especially if she's still on tenure track. I'm not saying don't rank her low, just exercise that same fairness you want her to exercise. Also, she may be in a bind, again especially if she's new. It's really really hard to tell where to aim a test when you're creating a new class. Too hard, and everyone fails, and too easy and everyone makes an A+. I don't know if this is a new class, but keep it in mind. In fact, it's really hard to make good tests, period.

Sorry, nothing on you. I'm just doing final grades right now, and I'm feeling really empathic for your professor.

 

[Gusto]

Wow. Ran into a very ugly pocket of prejudice on Twitter today. Basically imagine someone ranting about niggers and then apply that to the deaf community. That old third-culture raaaaage is starting to heat up again. :explode:

On the upside, his replying to me (and jumping further to conclusions about my motives than I've ever seen anyone on this board do...which is saying something) got me some excellent new Twitter friends, plus I reconnected with someone from a deaf-related board I don't visit much anymore, so I'm just going to try and focus on that positive stuff.

Jeeeeeeez. Ragging on the deaf!? Really!?