The Not Happy Thread

Crunchy!

 

Don't think that's a carpet beetle. Looks like a stink bug to me.

Looks like your kitteh has everything under control

 

Hit CTRL-Z. It works wonders bringing deleted text back.

 

THANK YOU.

I was actually fairly familiar with a lot of common SoCal beetles from growing up on the ranch. The stink bugs I have always been familiar with are slightly bigger and black and have this adorable way of sticking their but so high in the air that sometimes when they're stressed they topple upside down.



But I didn't recognise the little critters in my apartment so I ended up googling it and trying to match it to photos. That photo was of the third one I've found in the apartment (one at the windowsill, another one a bit later with my old leatherbound books, and this one in the drawer storage under my bed with old costumes & clothes I rarely pull out) and it looked sorta like this one type of carpet beetle (it's why I said "may have" in the past post, cause I wasn't sure).



So now that I've figured out it's an non-native stinkbug (my problem was probably that I had put Californian insects as a qualifier in my search) I just need to find out how they're getting into my apartment and if this requires any kind of measures besides my cats playing with them nonstop.

Also, anyone else know potatoe bugs? Those critters always unreasonable freaked me out when I'd walk bare foot into the garage, flick on the light, and the giant insect would just stare up at me.

I literally am better equipped to deal with the yellow scorpions and rattlesnakes than those harmless buggers.

Thankfully I don't think I'll ever find one in my apartment.

 

If in doubt, squish it a little. If it smells like rotting maple syrup, you've got a stink bug. Though I'd really have to be in the mood to sacrifice for Science to try it. Feh!

As to how they get in, somebody could make a mint figuring that out and preventing it. You've think that hard shield wouldn't be so compressible, but it is.

 

Started preheating the oven to 425° (218.3C°), forgot all about the empty pizza boxes in there from last night...

 

Extra Crispy Pizza Flavored Cardboard...mm..mm..good.

That does suck, and I hope you got them out before they caught fire.
Perhaps you need to have the pizza box check when you have pizza
as a safety precaution.

 

No actual fire, but there was some battery pulling from the smoke detector. Maybe I should have put those up higher, so yanking the battery wouldn’t be so easy.

 

Wearing a long sleeve thermal top and a thick dressing gown, I have a source of heat either side of me, and yet I am bloody cold!

 

I’m bored. There is nothing to do here at work and I feel like I’m dying of boredom.

 

So you might say you are 'bored stiff'.

(I'll see myself out now.)

 

I've just read a really creepy article on nightmares and now I can't go to sleep.

 

And you didn't want to share this lovely article with the rest of us for Halloween?

 

It's vanished from my news feed now and I'm not about to go searching for it. I mean, it was all very scientific, but if I wake up and I'm paralysed with fear and there's this mysterious man staring down at me, the knowledge that he's just a hallucination is not going to help one bit.

I might watch an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. My favourite show, watch an episode every night, and seriously, how can this give you nightmares?

 

Better not or you might wake up screaming from M. Night Shyamalan.

 

There is none of that trash anywhere near my halls!

Edit: "We have to show the Fire Nation that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs."

 

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-was-weird-vce-exam-sitters-asked-to-analyse-rant-about-hipster-cafe-20181031-p50d4h.html

This is one of those days when I'd rather get kicked in the balls than realize how dumb my generation can be. Thanks to these assholes someone's business might be ruined and this is probably going to get enough attention that the media is going to be slagging off teenagers because of what is probably a minority. So thanks to these assholes we all might end up going through the exams while getting vilified by the media and a business might get hit hard.

 

Facebook drama:

In short, I was invited to a prayer message group without my knowing about it and when I politely asked that next time they tell me before inviting, they told me to leave because they don't do drama.

Of course, I did want to be snippy and go, "Fine. I was agnostic anyway, didn't want to be part of some silly prayer group" but I knew it would be mean of me. So I left.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Ladies and gentleman, if you want me to join a group, please come to me first and ask me if I want to join — don’t put me in it without my knowing about it, all right?

I trust this is understood.

Also, if I ever act like an insensitive asshole to anyone promise you'll kick my ass. Do not let me get away with it.

 

For me this is the very not happy thread today. It’s raining. We’re supposed to have some pretty raucous thunder storms between 3pm and 1am; Halloween is a washout.

When I was a kid we started trick ‘r treating on the way home from school, and went until our parents said they wouldn’t drive us around any longer. Where I live, the city put an acceptable window of 6-8pm for kids to make their rounds. 6 to 8pm! To my sensibilities- Not Fair. Which is why I chose to give full size candy bars, my little part to make up for the ripoff.

It doesn’t hurt so much money wise when you just skip one or two things you don’t really need on a shopping trip to Walmart, and instead get a Hershey box, or a M&M/Mars box, and do that each week since July. The 20 count boxes add up after a while.

But, it’s for naught now. I live in, at best, a questionable, arm-yourself kind of neighborhood and don’t expect any kids to brave the storms tonight to come here, and the city didn’t offer a rain date. Halloween is a washout.

 

I heard that the Fire Nation believes in two things:

• Attacking.
• Changing everything.

 

On the plus side, if nobody comes out to you for Halloween, you'll be set for Christmas instead.

 

I grew up in Pleasantville, lots of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs (one just goes to gravel, the other has a loop to turn around in at the end) and we'd stay out as long as the junior high school neighbor kids mom left in charge wanted to, none of this "3-5 pm only" nonsense. My sympathies to the children in your neighborhood, and remind them next year to offer a blood sacrifice to the weather gods by at least the end of September to ensure a successful Halloween...

 

I have thirty-six hours to finish an essay that I haven't started yet because I was ill. And because I don't have any evidence that I was ill, I couldn't request an extension.

 

What are you studying? History, wasn't it? Hit me up if you need help/proofreading/whatever. I love history.