The Not Happy Thread

I love my bf to bits but I really get agro on his habit of hoarding boxes and storing things he doesn't even use anymore. He wants to legally own his vast music collection, which I don't mind, the same with classic films, but the cardboard packaging that racks up in our basement flat can get ridiculous.

I spent this morning culling cardboard, giant bubble wrap and brown paper. My feet are filthy and I'm clammy as heck from the process. At the very least, I have a lot of crap to clear up before I can call the flat clean.

 

How do you know what wallpaper paste tastes like?

My note happy - I've had the worst day at work today, officially the worst day I've ever had there in over 6 years. It was beyond terrible, and I actually came home and had some mid-week beer whilst watching my fave TV shows hoping that it would take my mind off things...

 

Old school wallpaper paste is 1 part flour boiled in 2 parts water with maybe a couple of tablespoons of salt in it to ward off mold. You can't even pretend that sounds good, but now you have the recipe if you really want to try it.

I've got a few things coming by mail, all with tracking numbers. So for the past three days I've been watching my parcels advance from station to station covering a distance that I could have driven in about 4 hours. Right now they're only around 300 clicks away from me, but I'm not scheduled to receive them until Friday.

 

A virtual machine is an imaginary computer that runs on your computer so that software running on the imaginary computer has a known environment and will work even if you run it (and the virtual machine) on a different, real computer. So, explain this to me...

Wtf are time zone IDs different from MacOS to Windows on the .NET VM?

Rawr!
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

 

A friend and I sent a package to PR via Amazon. Ordered on Oct 3rd, it's just arrived-

-in Kentucky. And they're saying it'll be delayed. However, Amazon worked with him on this issue and re-ordered, to be shipped via 2nd day air, on the 14th. It's been in Puerto Rico since the 17th-

-still locked in the shipping container on the dock. Wrey went to the distribution center to try and get it, but they can't give it to him until they get around to that container, which'll be god knows when. I'd order him some bolt cutters, but....

 

I woke up with a cold.

 

Oh no they are turning into a NK department store.

 

He's talking at three times the volume he needs to, and I can smell his breath from across the room....

 

So, my employer said to keep supporting my student and give them the notes when I see them, which is good.

Unfortunately I've no way of finding out about changes in the location of lectures unless my student informs me of them. I'm supposed to be in the middle of a 2 hour lecture right now, but I'm not, because it wasn't where it was supposed to be - I turned up and there was literally nobody there. Okay, I went where the student told me the lecture was so they hadn't been told about the change (or cancellation or whatever the hell happened this time) either, but still.

Twice. This has happened TWICE, just in a single day.

I like the job, but the university's organisational skills suck arse.

 

Had a nice long discussion with my lawyer yesterday. Most of which contained good news, but unfortunately the courts refused to relax my bail conditions. So, technically, it's still illegal for me to seek gainful employment or drink alcohol. I'm still allowed to smoke, though, so if that's a habit I decide to pick up, then yay. It's unlikely, though, considering the whole employment issue.

 

So the acting boss took the 'quit before I get sacked' route, and is leaving the company. He sent me a message saying 'thanks for going against me in the end', that his support was genuine and he gave our conversations to our area manager.

I'm not replying to him directly because I'm not letting him have the last laugh, assistant has a screencap of the message though.

But let's break this down:

There is no way any form of support can be genuine when the reasons you earned it are turning out to be false one after another. When dialogue opened out in his absence, that was what became apparent, if anything, it made me and the assistant stronger for it, because nothing brings two people together than realising you're screwing them over. With this in mind, of course I'm going to act to state that everything I did under these beliefs to be null and void. This is why I wrote a letter and an email to the area manager saying that I deemed my actions to be void and why and a promise to learn from this lesson.

In the end, I have to do what I think is right for those I'm responsible for as a new supervisor and for the shop as a whole, unfortunately, that meant going against him. Do I regret it? No, it is the first step towards redeeming itself in my view. I regret not thinking to ask other people to see where I really stood and used that to my advantage sooner.

I'm going to quote the sign-off to the email here.

"[site name] is certainly a place with room for improvement, but it does not need someone who is willing to turn the staff against each other to further their own agenda."

 

I suspect this is falling on deaf ears as only one other member so far has indicated an interest in the show, but if I thought Red Dwarf couldn't get any worse than series X, I was very very wrong!

This latest series (3rd episode in) has so far shown no redeeming qualities. The delivery from the actors is awful, the gags don't work, and the dialogue is some of the worst I've ever heard. It pains me to watch, so much so I just had to turn off the latest episode ten minutes prematurely.

You know with a new show you're trying out, you'll probably give it the full 30 minutes just to give it fair chance, even if you're not enjoying it, but the classic series of this show has such a firm place in my heart I can't stand to watch what it's become.

 

Shit. Not a notable death, but I just got news that one of my old jarhead buddies has died.

 

A soldier's death should always be notable.

 

Marine, but thanks for the sentiment.

Cancer.

It occurred to me this evening that this is the first time one of my peers has died from "natural" causes, i.e. not transportation accidents, drug issues, or self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Guess I'm getting old, I'll write it out later.

 

Why can't I do this?

 

??

 

My guess is Sudoko.

 

Why is it adults tend to act like children? I'm not referring to anyone here, but to "role models" out in the world. It's upsetting to me to think my niece will grow up and inevitably look up to adults who may very well show her it's acceptable to act like a child, and not in a good way. We teach kids to work out their differences, then we go around bad-mouthing and hitting other adults over lesser issues than kids sometimes deal with. It's depressing.

 

My condolences, Iain.

 

What the hell is wrong with today?

I started with missing the buss to work. On my second day. With no way to get there until an hour and a half later. Called my boss on her day off and had to make everyone work harder since she saw no reason for me to get in that late. Only good thing is that it's my old job, so they know I'm trustworthy. Just don't feel like it today.

Anyway - got the Saturday off, great right? Pretty much until I slipped down the stairs from my parents bedroom/loft. The stairs end in a wall! So now I'm in shit lot of pain and will probably be bruised from my butt up to my shoulder. Hopefully the blow to the head wasn't as bad as it felt.

All I want to do is go home, but I don't have a home to go to.