The Not Happy Thread

Way back before T-mobile was T-mobile, they were VoiceStream; and the sucked out loud through a straw. Coverage was fine in chicago, but when I moved to Indiana they were useless. When I tried to cancel they even tried to get me to push my account off on someone else in my household.
Those retention people seem to work on an 'annoy the hell out of them till they cave, just to get off the phone' basis.

 

My response when the retention department won't take no for an answer is to tell them that if they try one more time to convince me to stay, then I'll just hang up and cancel the direct debit. It works every time.

 

616 milligrams of caffeine. 15 cigarettes a day.

I've got a habit that's costing me $18 a day. $558 per month.

This shit needs to stop. I'm angry at myself, that I ever let it get this out of control. Fuck.

 

Just out of curiosity, how are you getting those 616 mg of caffeine? I generally have a Red Bull in the morning, but I've got no clue how much caffeine is in that. Enough to start me up, it seems.

 

I looked on the can for my energy drinks. At least in the U.S., they're required to tell you how much is in each can. I don't know if Red Bull markets anything different to Japan, but 1 12-ounce serving has 111 milligrams, according to Google.

 

Reminds me of when I left O2

Rep: You've been with us for two years, is there anything I can do to persuade you to stay?
Me: Only if you can beat £10 for a SIM with 1GB data, unlimited texts and 500 minutes a month.
Rep: ...

 

I keep getting reps promising that they can beat my current deal.

Pay As You Go: I buy more time at about £60 p.a.

Yes, that beats my £20 p.m. package...

 

So first Tom Petty is dead, then the Vegas shooting...

Coupled with all the news lately...

M'kay, I'm done with the news. Call me back when a nuclear war breaks out -- as I'm sure it will with two certain maniacs currently in control of the red buttons.

 

Forgot my mouse today. Have to design in Illustrator with a track pad. Gods help me.

 

They do sell a penlike mouse device, just something to consider.
Also I feel you on the track pad thing, they suck.

 

Just would like to join you in your great words. Indeed terrorism won't reap except misery and saddness against the people who use it against INNOCENTS. Surely, what terrorists do is against any heavenly religion whether they accepted it or not.
May the souls of tge people who were killed in that big massacre rest in peace.
Our hearts are with them. Amen

 

So I went and saw the smallest room for rent within my price range, slightly high end of the budget. It's in a safe neighbourhood & it's 7-20 minutes from work.

Problem is I don't need to move till December, and I'm terrified the final 3 studios of that complex will be snatched up before I need it.

I'm considering renting one month in advance (if it lasts this month) just to be sure I have a place for work. I can use the extra month to move my stuff & get everything settled long before I start work. Not that anything much other than my bed will fit in the flat. . .

But the real problem is that I can afford the rent on my new wage/salary, not my current income. I had it all adjusted so I could afford all the deposits and first months rent and that jazz in December, but now I need it by November AND it's a whole extra month's rent.

Also I need to keep working down here (Southern Orange County) right up till right before I start work (Los Angeles). So I wouldn't even be living there the whole month I paid rent.

Mostly I'm just super anxious, especially since the handful of flats I thought would be perfect for me got snatched up near instantly. And I just can't commute from OC to LA everyday.

I'm sure it's all gonna work out, but I'm stressing all the same.

 

They DO. And you mean like an Intuous pad? I have one of those at home. It's just that I lug my laptop to my internship (I call it work), and forgot my mouse this morning. It's classic me to forget something integral.

 

Can't help with any advice on the money part, but I can say that both times I moved apartments, it was nice to have an overlap period. The first time, I managed to move everything but the microwave by myself (no car, 15 minute walk carrying a backpack every other day or so), the second time I didn't have an overlap of rental periods, but I had a long break so I could spend a whole bunch of time packing up the old apartment, one frantic day with the movers, and a whole bunch of time unpacking and sorting in the new place.

Just so you know there are upsides.

 

Like a mouse that is used like a pen:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GH1C7JI/?tag=writingfor07a-20

An intuous pad looks neat, but a tad small and a bit expensive.
No I am talking about the track pad on a laptop. Mine stopped
working, so I use a track ball.

 

I learned to compute using the track ball on an Icon Computer. When I see people using them now, I'm always just, like, "why"?

 

Fixed it for you:

 

Whoa, that's neat. I have never seen such a thing! Crazy space age tech right there. Cheap too. Might just have to try it out.

 

I've had "Learning to Fly" stuck in my head all day. It's a bittersweet feeling, getting annoyed at having a song stuck in your head but then sad because actually that's better than remembering Tom Petty is no longer with us...

 

Yeah, that was definitely the upside I was considering for moving in early.

The place is so tiny though I'm probably just gonna manage to fit my bed (luckily my bed features great storage). I'm contemplating if I can fit my one half-bookcase on the wall under the free-floating TV.

My biggest sorrow is I'm definitely not able to bring my 6 book cases. Which also means I'm not going to be able to bring my 6 bookcases' worth of books. . . (some shelves of which are double stacked). I'm gonna have to choose which babies are coming with me. Definitely all my leatherbounds & nth edition classics. But my thick collections of no & kabuki & bunraku scripts? My several anthologies of poetry? My various collections of Arthurian romances? My manga?

I don't want to have to choose. I know I should probably keep everything in translation, and know I could probably survive giving up paperbacks of works in the public domain. I also have so many duplicates of works it's not even funny, several of which aren't even works in translation. I'm even okay donating majority of my magazines to this one library.

But the studio is so tiny I don't know how I can bring all the books I want to bring. I might have to figure out how to put up elaborate shelving all across the walls, if the complex allows me to drill & nail things~

Also, my stupid bed is an IKEA and I'm gonna have to disassemble it & reassemble. I think this is the real aspect of moving in I dread the most. . .

 

Work failed an audit this morning. It's not abysmal but lots of little things were off the mark. Boss doesn't blame anyone in particular (the previous manager was not investing serious time into the store and it shows in the morale of the staff) but we have two months to turn things around because I want this new boss to stay and right now he's wearing out cleaning off the mess left behind.

 

It is just an improvement that has been around since the late 90's. I bet if I
actually looked we have a simple two button type stylus that hooks up to an
old Pentium 2 comp. It kinda looks like a dental drill with 2 buttons and mouse
ball on the short angled bottom part.

We had touch screen around about the late 80's/early 90's. Just watch Die Hard
2. Though the stylus was a fat pen looking thing on a wire, that had a red light on
coming out of the point.

We have only made these techs better with time.

 

It's like a special kind of pareidolia for you, isn't it?

 

You taught me a new word, that just so happens is not in my 1965-72 Dictionary.

I don't think so. After all you have to understand to whom you are speaking of/to.