The Not Happy Thread

If you would have caught the kick with your face, you wouldn't have any problems typing. You should think about that next time.

 

Bummer! I can relate. I had to use my left hand for the mouse and one finger type last Oct. And the cast on my hand kept bumping the number keys so I was constantly correcting. Now the first joint (PIP) of my ring finger looks permanently ballooned, and the finger doesn't completely straighten or fully bend. But I am back to full function practically speaking.

 

Ever tried typing with your eyes swollen shut? If not, get a good kick across the face and you'll "see." A concussion brings its own joys as well, but as long as the other guy looks worse...


I've broken my thumb in a similar way as Kat busted her fingers. And that was when wearing 16oz gloves, but then again, things like that are just a part of the learning curve; something that won't happen without stepping away from the keyboard and familiarizing yourself with both sides of hurt.

 

Oh yeah, I think I remember you posting about your injuries at some point. That's how my middle-finger is like now, a balloon, but I seem to be able to type ok with less fingers at my disposal. It's just a bit annoying.

I'll make sure to do that the next time, thanks for the tip.

 

Round? Kickboxing? I figured it was horseplay, not a martial arts match. Hope there's no lasting damage.

 

My comment was in jest, so please don't take it personally. In my life I've been hit in the face with tennis balls, footballs, you name it, and luckily, I don't know how, I've never broken my nose. I do have a deviated septum though.

 

I don't think so. The fingers feel better now, though I still can't use the middle and ring fingers to type.

No worries. Sometimes you get lucky. I've been punched, and I've even been hit in the head with a baseball bat, and I mean hit, not knocked or brushed. Yet there was no bump or concussion or anything.

 

I tried out for Little League when I was in sixth grade, and was hit in the head with a thrown bat. Head was fine after initial pain. Bat split.

 

Suddenly I'm having doubts on its effectiveness as a home defense weapon...

 

Yay more effing drama in my effing life. Geez, I wish some people weren't such d*****s all the time.

 

Go exercise and turn that stress into something good!

 

I have archery group lessons today, so I'll be doing that! (And ill message you my story idea either later today or tomorrow. Sorry it's taking so long!)

 

You're fired.

 

No I'm not! (Lol)

The only thing I can do with aforementioned issue, I guess, is just to keep doing what I've always been doing. Just keep on going, because there's nothing else I can do. It's like that song "but if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?"

 

In all honesty, IDK what's even going on...it's like "what did I do?" Just leave me out of it.....I'm doing all I can.

 

Drama makes good fiction. If life gives you lemons, squeeze the bejeezus out of them.

 

My computer just blinked off twice. I just had a new hard drive installed a couple weeks ago. If I disappear and don't manage the short story contest updates tomorrow, hopefully someone will remember this post.

 

Whatever happened to the art of writing good idiot guides for new technological devices? Damn. I guess I was spoiled rotten, back in the era of the friendly Mac computers that came with a paper manual, that led you from A to Z without dropping you at any point. I've really struggled with my new Mac, because the online idiot guide requires that you're NOT an idiot when you go to use it—and that you're online in the first place!

In fact, so much is hidden, I shudder to think what convolutions NEW computer owners must go through. At least I'm Mac familiar, and can usually work my way into it, because I know what OUGHT to be there. But it's a dog's breakfast, that's for sure.

And in case you Windows folks are smiling, I've just been on the phone to a friend who just bought a new computer with Windows installed, and she hasn't got a clue how to get it fully operational. And she's been a Windows user for years.

Just bought a Kindle Paperwhite, and downloaded the manual ...which doesn't give a clue about how (or at what stage) you need to charge the battery. Instead it goes straight into how to navigate the device's menu. Erm...you can't navigate a menu till it's charged up/and/or in the process of charging. And if you try to charge it up via your computer, you can't use it while it's charging...

And when you look to 'network connectivity' - it begins "If you're reading this guide you've probably completed the Kindle setup process, which includes selecting your device language, connecting to a wireless network, registering your Kindle, and optionally linking your Kindle to your social networks account." Erm ...no. In fact I downloaded and started reading the guide before my Kindle even arrived. And how can I be connected to a wireless network before I have connected to a wireless network?—which turned out to be more of a palaver than it sounds, including having to ferret out a network password, etc.

Why why why why why? I'm computer and techno savvy (having been a computer owner since 1994 and online since 1996.) If I struggle with this cart-before-horse gobbledegook, what must it be like for somebody who's new to the game? And yes, there are still technophobes out there. Now they have a good reason to be phobic, in my opinion.

We need good idiot guide writers who can think like a newbie!

 

@jannert I know what you mean, which has led me to often do the dude thing and not use the manual at all and just trial and error and muscle my way through the settings and everything. Good thing I also know English, because the manual translations in Finnish don't always make a shred of sense.

 

My life will never be the same after this morning.

I think this guy on this other forum I'm on did something drastic (if you know what I mean). He hasn't made a single post in a month and hasn't even visited in over 2 weeks. The thing that scares memost of all is that he deleted his Tumblr. That Tumblr was his absolute pride and joy...why would he delete it? I talked to him, he was always so kind and funny. I miss him. Obviously, I'll never know for sure what happened, but he was struggling with depression and had a lot of family problems and was bullied and crap, so I think it's plausible. And he was only 15....

I think that some of you (@Lewdog and @GingerCoffee) know that I was planning to write a story based off of him. Now, this isn't just a story to me, I have to do this for him. I don't have his tumblr to go by anymore, but I have his forum posts, so that should be enough to remember him by.

Twi (his nickname of his screen name), all of us from the forum love you and miss you, both very, very, much. I'll always keep you in my heart. Every time I play Legend of Zelda or Harvest Moon, I promise Ill think of you, not in sadness but in happiness that I got to know you for over a year. And whether you're here or in heaven, You are one of the best people to have touched my heart.

RIP Twi. March 26, 1998- January 2014.

 

Try not to be thinking the worst, Duchess. I know it's especially hard when someone with depression goes AWOL, but sometimes things just get too much and the only thing that helps is to withdraw for a while. Hopefully, your friend will surface again soon, stronger for having taken some time out.

 

Thanks, but I really doubt it. It's the deleting of the Tumblr, because he never would have done that. And it wasn't just the mental illness, he had a lot of other external problems.

 

It's possible his parents did this. He could be getting some sort of treatment, or the parents could be attempting to step in, maybe getting rid of all his social media/electronic outlets (rightly or wrongly.)
Especially when you only know him online, it's very hard to know for certain what has actually happened. (Although I understand your concern, and it certainly is justified.)

 

His parents don't care. His dad left years ago, and his mom is a drunk.
And he was suicidal. He once wrote "I'm such a failure, I can't even go one day without a suicidal thought."

Thank you, though.

 

Sorry Duchess, hopefully everything will turn out alright. Sometimes it takes a change in habit and lifestyle to change the problems in life, and maybe part of his absence has to do with him seeking treatment.

Yesterday I had a new back x-ray and my chiropractor said that I have serious arthritis in my lower back, with lots of wear on my vertebrae from degenerative discs, and lastly that the balls on the end of my femur bones are shaped oddly and it makes it almost impossible for him to see the nerves and blood vessels that go through the hip joint.