The Not Happy Thread

One of my favorite fraggings. Don't want to go all spoiler-y, but that whole section was handled beautifully.

 

I'm just pissed at the whole international publishing system. There are a couple of books that I'd like to re-read, but my collection (so to speak) is either in a box in my mother's barn (which is safe, dry, well maintained and rodent-free) or my dad's garage (which is none of the above).

The books in question seem to no longer be in print, and I'm not paying >$40USD for a mass market paperback, not that important to me. However, they are available on Amazon Kindle, which, due to space constraints, is my preferred medium these days.

Available, that is, if you're in the UK. Not available on US Kindle, which is where my account is, or Japanese Kindle, which is where I live.

Note to authors (self included)(should be a note to publishing companies, but they won't listen): If your book is available legally for sale in electronic format, but geographically limited by the publisher (not, for example, banned in the country in question), I will stop looking for ways to pay for it, but continue looking for ways to read it.

 

Haven't read that one. Worth it?

The Damage Done by Warren Fellows has got some interesting episodes with prisoners in Bangkok taking care of guards who went out of their way to be PITAs.

 

@Iain Aschendale it might be due to the author or representative party not allowing it.
You can select where you will allow your ebook to be seen, and where you don't on amazon.
Sucks when they do crap like that.

 

Yeah, Charles Stross has commented quite a bit on the vagaries of these things, and it seems it's usually not the author. The publishing system is still stuck in the brick and mortar and paper years, legally, when it made more sense to sign a UK contract and a UK contract, for example, and have the books printed at separate facilities by separate companies than it did to ship crates of printed books from one country to another. The licensing in still in place despite the fact that electronic "shipping" is almost literally zero-cost.

 

Right, I'll try and take a look. For Vietnam non-fiction, Hell in a Very Small Place by Bernard Fall (or pretty much anything else he wrote) is amazing. It's been a long time since I've read it, but it's a rare author that can, in one paragraph, explain the tactical significance of possession of a burned-out cargo plane on the flightline, and then move to the UN Security Council deliberations on the next page.

 

There was this special Hairspray musical on T.V. last night that the channel had spent the past three weeks or so hyping up. I finally figured out why when roughly an hour and a half of the three hour special was commercials.

Looks like its back to Nextflix and HBO for me, where at least the advertising is subliminal and wont waste my time.

 

@Iain Aschendale well that sucks guy. Sorry that things on that side of it are so bogged down.

 

Just looked up the release date for "Arrival".

Scan waaay down.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf

 

Today I got on the city's regional rails because where I worked the stop I need to get off at was across the street from where I worked. Like I always did when I got on the train I showed my weekly transit pass. The ticket guy said that it wouldn’t do because I had the wrong pass. He told me weekly passes can only be used for going to the airport (which I wasn't going to today) or on weekends. He said we “had this conversation” on Monday and I was like "Um, no we didn’t. I never saw you before and even if I did I didn’t use the regional rails on Monday." I thought he was joking at first, but he was serious.

He told me to look on the back of the pass and I didn’t see anything about not being able to use them on regional rails. I told him that none of the other ticket people in the past told me that I was using the wrong pass while using the regional rails, but he said he was doing his job for “28 years” and that this “was the last time I’m going to say this to you” before leaving. He let me get off at my stop anyway.

Before heading to my job I stopped at a customer service station to verify what he said. He was right that I had a weekly pass and not a trail pass which could be used to ride the regional rail. More research and I found out that weekly/monthly passes and trail passes look exactly alike, but that was the ticket people’s fault for not asking me if the pass I had was actually a trail pass or not. More importantly, why would you make the two passes look alike in the first place if the mess I went through today could happen? Looks like I won’t be using the regional rails for a while.

 

Aw man, the first mention of the cat in the book is when they have to kill it. Yeah, it was a hundred years ago, but still.

 

I think... I have a food allergy. A few weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to throw up. Happened two nights in a row. Then last night, I woke up at 2am to throw up.. And didn't stop throwing up until 7. I ate nothing yesterday that was bad or questionable or new. Except cereal. And I had eaten that same cereal the first time I threw up. I've eaten it since then with no reaction, but maybe that was just luck.

My body is so broken.

 

OK, that officially sucks.

 

Bad milk?

 

Nope. It smells and tastes fine and doesn't expire for another week.

 

Shit, just got an email that my supervisor at one of my part time jobs just passed away. Due to the nature of the job, I only saw her a couple times a year, so we weren't close, but she was a nice lady and easy to work for.

Bummer.

 

I'm just having a dilemma about the "glass half full - glass half empty" thing. Yesterday as I was going to work completely penniless I found 20 eu on the street. I felt like then and then .

Today I lost the 10 eu change as it seems they have fallen out of my pocket at some point without my notice. I noticed them missing while I was on the elevator and felt like then and then . I had a Kylo Ren moment in that confined space.
It kind of feels like my old signature: First it giveth then I fucketh away.

 

So, i have a burn out and i'm sick at home because of it.
it sucks

 

Too much coffee in my system.
Anxiety on overdrive.
Exhausted from the week.
I just want to crawl into bed and not wake up until next Thursday.

 

Was it your husband? Because I need a place to hang out with a hot tub.

 

If you would have had bacon you would would have had at least 5 guys following you. Just saying.