RANT IV - A New Angst

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bigcountry23

bigcountry23

Didn't get the house I had put in an offer on. Their agent kept telling our agents "the bid is good, I just need them to approve it, but I can't get ahold of them". Then suddenly he says "nevermind, we just got an offer that's less than yours, but is Cash and can close in 3 days" (as opposed to our loan and 30 days). The thing that pisses me off more than anything is while my wife and I would have used the house to raise a family and do the whole "american dream" forever house thing, these people will probably just rent it out or hold onto it until the market "recovers" and sell it for 300k+.

On top of that, now my standards have been skewed and I doubt I will find a property that "livable" at move in for the price we can afford.
 

Dude that sucks! Now I have to go back and remove all my spy devices and get rid of my drug-selling contacts from the high school a few blocks away.
 

Aw, sorry, BC -- I know how excited you were about that house. That sucks in a major way.
 
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wana10

if you reserve a hotel room for someone else on your credit card and they don't show up, you will be charged, not them. calling me and bitching me out won't change that.
 

Cajungal said:
I miss Silvanesti. Seriously, does anyone know where he's been?
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Last visited: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:34 pm

He went away for a weekend and never came back. :(
 

Yeah, been wondering about a few posters. Gruebeard, The Troll...

In other rants, it is astonishing to me how some people can be so stupid, and so (metaphorically) blind, and still manage to dress and feed themselves. Just had to cut someone out of my life for extreme -- and I do mean EXTREME -- cluelessness. (It's a long story and I promise you'd agree if you heard it.)
 

Cajungal said:
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Yay for simplifying your life.
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Ha ha...I wasn't going to put you on the spot but I wanted to say "at least two people here might confirm this."
 
strawman

strawman

Drove to Toledo with a clunker to turn in for the CARS program (cash for clunkers) and found that not only does the dealership (and thus the gov't) require three forms of proof that you've had the car for a full year (title, registration(s) over the full year, insurance over the full year) but the insurance company's local office has no way (ie, the clerks are stupid monkey button mashers that only know how to do three things) to print proof of insurance for the full year if you've misplaced last year's proof of insurance.

GAH.

Should be ironed out by Monday or Tuesday, but there's only enough money for an average of 5k rebates per state, which means each dealer will be lucky to turn in 20 rebates.

In other words, all the CARS budget is likely to be gone by Monday.

We should be able to get ours in, but it's irritating.

It's the gov't's fault though. The "program" started July 1st.

They didn't finalize and distribute the rules until this morning in a 135 page document.

:facepalm:

Oh, and I'm still losing my job, it's just next Friday instead of last Friday. Fortunately we're getting a 0% APR make-your-own-payment-terms loan from my father-in-law, whose clunker I've been driving to and from work since I wrecked my own car last year. So... The loan thing is mostly epic win. Plus it's a reasonably nice Mazda 5 that can fit all my kids and one adult, so whoever has the kids doesn't feel stranded at home if the other person has the minivan.

Still, it was a long drive to find out that the combination of the gov't requirements and the insurance company's ineptitude means I'm not driving the car off the lot tonight, and leaves a distinct possibility we will miss out on a $4,500 discount.

-Adam
 
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Philosopher B.

Speaking of people no longer hanging around, I miss l33tn00b/Computergate. He was always good for a laugh. It was also always fun to bug him by continually calling him l33t long after the name change. :D
 
Rob King

Rob King

HCGLNS said:
Rant: I dislike people who ship me 20,000 lbs of plate steel by accident.
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That just sounds awesome, even if it is a pain in the ass right now.

"Hey, remember that time someone shipped us twenty thousand pounds of steel by accident?"

-- Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:57 pm --

I'm at work right now doing a child protection case. Every so often I hear a creaking in the hall. It has to be the father, who has an understandably pointed distaste for the child welfare workers who come into his home.

The child protection workers normally sleep on the couch overnight. I keep imagining that this guy is coming out just far enough to see if I'm asleep or not. I hesitate to speculate on my fate if I was the kind of worker who went to sleep on their shift.

This has to be the most uncomfortable job I've ever had.

Although my other current job is pretty close.

I think we're going to have to have a talk with a homeless lady who keeps coming to the food bank. It needs to be explained to her that the reason that she is homeless is because she keeps complaining about the homes that we find for her, and refuses to move in, and then yells about discrimination from the lady who just spent several hours trying to track down a roof for her to sleep under. If you have the choice between a home and the streets, and you keep choosing streets, I lose sympathy for you.

This is also the same lady who explained that she was allergic to orange juice. After I explained to her that we didn't have any of her preferred fruit punch on hand, she suddenly wasn't so allergic to oranges anymore.

Beggars can't be choosers, but it seems beggars loose the ability to self-identify as beggars at about the same time they show up at my food bank.
 
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EpicEpileptic

So I'm hanging out at my friends and we're calling people to see who wants to go see a movie tonight and as I open the door to my car I feel something mushy on my index and middle finger and I look to see some one had smeared, what I can only guess was dog shit, all over my car handle. BLARG!! What the fuck is the matter with some people!?
 

EpicEpileptic said:
So I'm hanging out at my friends and we're calling people to see who wants to go see a movie tonight and as I open the door to my car I feel something mushy on my index and middle finger and I look to see some one had smeared, what I can only guess was dog shit, all over my car handle. BLARG!! What the fuck is the matter with some people!?
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Oh fucking ewwwww. That is nasty and gross as hell. People are fucktards. At my old apartment building I came home one night to find shit smeared across the doorway and left on the stoop. But at least I didn't have to touch it!
 
Troll

Troll

ZenMonkey said:
Yeah, been wondering about a few posters. Gruebeard, The Troll...
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I can't speak for Gruebeard, but my own search for his posts found a recent comment he made about having a dozen alts. Maybe he's using one?

As for me, I never left. :ninja:
 

Hey, look, it's The Troll! :D

I've been wondering about that $350 million in gold bullion that used to post around here a lot.......
 
Tress

Tress

I'm beginning to seriously worry about my emotional state. For the past week I've had two emotions: uncaring or enraged. I don't know what's happening. One minute I'm talking to someone, usually a friend or family member, and the next minute I'm shouting about something and balling my fists. There's no sadness, no happiness, nothing else. I'm either disconnected or incredibly pissed off.

I would love to get some help, maybe go see a therapist. This isn't the first time it's happened. However, I haven't had insurance in 4 years and I definitely don't have the money to cover any extra expenses. I feel stuck.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

Tress - I don't remember if you're in the US or elsewhere. If you are in the US and uninsured, there may be services available to you in your community - either local, county, or state depending on where you live. If you go to church, your pastor may be able to help you with counseling. You might also consider making an appointment with your family doctor for a check up to see if something physical is causing your problem and discussing your emotional state with him/her. If you are in college, they may have services on campus that you can look into.
 
Tress

Tress

I am in the US. Thanks. I'm in grad school right now, so I'll see what options are available through campus services.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Definitely do that. That's what they are there for, and many of em are 24-hour. Until then, we can be your untrained support system. :tongue:
 

[strike:2itym176]godddamn motherfucking BULLSHIT another day ruined.[/strike:2itym176]\

Well it turned around somewhat.
 
strawman

strawman

I go to all the trouble of making a website about how State Farm Insurance is being a big bad meanie:

http://statefarmclunker.com

And it sounds like they may have actually produced the document that's needed. Righteous rage is nothing if the enemy caves in so quickly.

:humph:

-Adam
 
David

David

Another incomming rant about my class.

My artwork was thrown out of the project. All of it, everything I've worked on the last five weeks was for nothing. The man in charge decided he didn't want 2D artwork in the credits (he couldn't have decided this weeks ago when my partner and I started work on them?) and instead wants us to recreate them in 3D scenes.

That would be fine and dandy, except the modelers did a totally shitty job. I couldn't find a simple da vinci pose copy of the model that already had the bones on it, so I had to extract it out of an animated scene it was being used in. It's in like 20 different meshes (it was supposed to be 1) that I'm finding impossible to link together to move into a new pose. I'm going to have to rebuild the entire object at home. Also they completely ignored my character design and ran off with their own thing. What was the point of me being assigned as character designer than??
Somehow they took my character design, this


And made it this


HOW THE HELL IS THAT EVEN CLOSE??
 
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