Friends and family rarely buy the book. More often than not, they expect free, signed copies. It's also pretty rare for family to read their family member's regular column, feature, or blog. The show Everybody Loves Raymond had ongoing jokes about this. Actors and musicians go through it too. It used to bother me that my family didn't read my articles. Then it occurred to me that I wasn't all that into what they did for a living or as hobbies, either, so fair is fair. Expecting them to read my stuff would be kind of like Aunt whatsername expecting me to demand to see whatever clothing article she sewed every time I came over. I'd rather spend the energy cultivating real readers.
Helped my sister through a few days of stomach flu when her s.o. took over. Made me think about who I would be able to call for help if I got sick. That made me feel sad, alone, and afraid for the future. It'd be nice to have someone to walk down the road of life with.
P.S.A, while the Fox Village in Japan has been getting some attention on the internet recently, and is a cute idea, the conditions are less than ideal and there are too many animals in the space. It is a tourist trap, and not set-up with the foxes' best interests in mind. It should not be encouraged, not only for it's own consequences, but because it fits into a larger culture of animal exploitation that can get much worse, and this culture seems fairly rampant in Asia. We should be encouraging better sanctuaries, not sub-standard ones. https://www.thedodo.com/impact/fox-village-japan
I finally realized my issues with my mother! It's how she always adds little hints of dislike in everything I do - as if she wants to tell me off for doing something wrong but at the same time she knows I'm an adult so she don't feel like she has the right to actually say something. Today she got really weird, though. I got a new summer skirt since it's between 20-30 °C outside (wait, do I really need to justify getting pretty and summer friendly clothes?). Her reaction was "so... you bought... a skirt?" and the tone in her voice was in a weird sort of disbelief. I can only assume she didn't like the skirt, but her words and tone was more like the concept of skirts had just become foreign to her (and to clarify, she does wear skirts herself). After comming to term with her daughter's poor taste (?) She said that it looks a bit 50s inspired and went on about how I should get lots of other 50s clothing (I've never had a specific interest in that, ans this outfit doesn't scream 50s either). Just it seems like she dislikes or disapproved of everything I do... and then turn weirdly obsessive about them. I'm trying to ignore her best I can, but it still sort of gets to me when it's every thing. It's how I dress (I need to be more femenine, but if it's too "girly" that's an issue as well), how I keep my hair, how my apartment looks, she even started to criticise the way Lost looks. Like, woman, why you think I'm trying to escape the country? Yes, childish rant... but I needed to vent a bit.
We have the summer daylight, but we had about 2 days of sun. Since then it's been raining and overcast everyday for over a week. I guess summer this year will just be a longer version of autumn.
Discovering that flights to PHX from Heathrow costs 609 euro and takes over 30 hours! WTF is going on?! So, if I move back to England, I am going to be screwed financially every which way! Guess I'm gonna have to retrain or start playing the lottery.
I bought my current laptop abroad and the keyboard is effectively Spanish. No problem, I speak Spanish. However I changed the layout back to the UK one in Windows and now not all they keys represent what they truly are. The Em Dash being one of them. I swear ive tried every key, shift-key, alt-key and I still can't find it.
That is much less feasible than him moving to the UK, as things stand at the moment. Plus the fact that I don't drive. I'd kinda have to if I live out there, as CT can't drive me all the time.
Yeah, from experience, moving to the States is not easy and definitely not cheap and even after spending the time, money, and energy, it isn't exactly assured. And my experience was a decade ago, so I don't imagine it's gotten any easier of late.
You sound like mental health, mate. Think you need a dash of rules and stay in fakking Canada. [sniff]
My wife was expecting one of her oldest and dearest friends for a visit this weekend. They have been planning this visit for months, and since it's something important to my wife, over the past few days I have been busting ass to finish getting the house clean and presentable. And now she’s not coming. Something got screwed up at her job and she can’t have the weekend off. It’s not a total loss- the house is clean- but my wife has been looking forward to this for a while, and I hate to see her disappointed.
My car crapped out on the way to work today. We have roadside assistance through our cell phone plan, but it's still much easier to arrange automotive repair when the shop is open.
Morning week. I thought I'd hate evening weeks more but I never get enough sleep during morning weeks and it's a day longer which just makes it worse. Only good thing about it is that it's likely to be a bit less warm than the after noon shifts.
I guess this is mostly an update from the last post but... today's been hell, everything's fine wrong and I've got a massive headache. Next step of the day is making food, trying not to fall asleep before nine and do something useful... or maybe just nap in the sofa until Lost gets off work.
Go to the beach and relax for a few days or potato couch surf your way into oblivion/health. I say milk it for everything it's worth!
I just spoke to the shop working on my car. It's going to run about $900 to fix. The whole intake manifold has to be replaced.
Mopar. Take your pick... My Old Pig Ain't Running, More Old Parts And Rust, Move Over People Are Racing. I'm sure there're a few more too.
For anyone who noticed a bunch of posts disappear here recently, there was a minor spill that didn't hurt anything, so I had to mop up a bit. No issues, nothing to see, carry on. Spoiler It's not a mod hat I'm wearing now, but it is still part of the uniform.
Wasn't it a Cyberdyne Systems model 101, series 800? The six hundred series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy.