Nasty cold rain in SC - 2 inches in under 4 hours of hard rain.

Alas, no snow this year... for the third year in a row. Texas, I love you but I wish you'd let me see snow once in a while.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:15, Mon 30 Dec 2013.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:14, Mon 30 Dec 2013.

Second ice related accident. Wish i was back in Texas.

So...I might be pet-less again soon, and not by choice.  My bird's come down with something that doesn't match any of the diseases common to his variety, and not being able to identify the illness makes it difficult to treat it properly.  I left him with a friend of mine, because she's much better at animal care than I am...but he's just not recovering.

The most frustrating thing is not knowing what it is.  The diseases with symptoms that match what he's doing should have killed him shortly after Christmas (like, a day or two), if not on or before Christmas.

I hope he pulls through.  I've been home for a week without him, almost, and the place feels weird...every time I walk past his cage, I expect him to start fussing at me.  Every time I walk in the door, I expect to hear him fluttering his wings against the side of the cage (which drives me a little crazy, because of all the dander it kicks into the air, but I miss it, all the same).  I miss my roommate, noisy and dirty as he is...

I hate it when old feels dredge up like this. Why can't I look at school supplies without missing her carefree demeanor and undying compassion? She's just not who she used to be. I wish I could just accept that and move on.

Migraines suck.  Sinus headaches that turn into migraines suck even more.  Time to eat something while I still have any appetite at all, take another big dose of ibuprofen, and pass out with an ice pack on my head.

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Hiccups and wracking coughs at once!

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was insulting, at 22:40, Fri 17 Jan 2014.

Friend of mine killed himself yesterday. Guy who GMed a pathfinder game here for over a year, invited me into his longstanding group of friends, made sure nobody treated me like an outsider, had reasonable and open discussions about what we thought was good/bad in a game, received feedback gracefully even when it wasn't good, and was all around the most accommodating guy I knew. Mixed with occasionally being the most arrogant jerk that I knew, which was kinda funny that he managed to be both of these at once. Just...left his roommate/best bro to clean up after this and left messages for all of us that amount to "thanks for putting up with me for so long". To the end he never believed any of us actually liked him, just tolerated him. Wish I'd known he was feeling more than "frustrated at his job" was all the venting he did around me, maybe I could have done something. But there were folks closer to him then me he didn't let in enough to help, so what could I have done.

Venting about that in this thread instead of the other one to not have a page of condolences for folks to sift through, suffice to say I understand and thanks. For those who know me, or those who don't and are the types to worry about random internet dudes anyway, I'll be fine. I'm not the dead guy or his roommate that he left to clean up the mess, after all.

EDIT: By here I mean local, not on RPoL.
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So...the bird that I rescued (found in my driveway, with a broken wing) eight years ago...who's been the single most regular thing in my life since then...is all-but-dead and not expected to make it through the night.  No idea what happened to him...just, back around Christmas, he started getting really listless, lost all semblance of coordination, lost a scary amount of weight...I have a friend who used to be a vet tech, for several years, she figured out a dosage of antibiotics to give him to treat the most common culprits in pigeon deaths, and for a few weeks, he seemed to be rallying, started getting more active, putting on some weight, and a little over a week ago, I almost brought him back home (she lives an hour and a half away, and I didn't really have a three-hour timeslot open for a drive to get him, plus I was concerned that the shock of relocating him again might give him a setback.)

Well, she called about an hour ago.  He's not dead yet...but he hasn't moved all day, hasn't eaten anything...he's getting cold...just sitting there in the bottom of his cage, doing nothing but breathing.  She honestly hadn't expected him to make it through the day, when she left to go to work...but she's pretty certain that, barring the most miraculous turnaround in condition she's ever seen, he's not bouncing back from this.

Eight years is a long time to have something be a daily part of your life.  After that much time, I finally felt like I was starting to understand his behaviors a bit...like the fact that his tendency to nip at my hand when I fed him was not territoriality.  The only way he can grab something and try to pull it further into the cage is with his beak, and when I started letting him pull my hand around, so many other aspects of his behavior changed...

Gonna miss you, Ed.  You've been a good roommate.  A little messy, yes, and sometimes demanding and noisy and even a little cantankerous, but also highly entertaining (I never knew a chain of safety pins could provide so much entertainment for a bird...and I still grin to myself when I think about the number of times you narrowly missed my head and crashed into my computer screen...)  I console myself with the thought that, in the life to come, you'll once again be able to fly high and far, unburdened with the limitations of that once-broken wing.

Had a panic attack at work in the face of pain from my work-related injury, suddenly getting a pile of work dumped on me that clearly violated my light duty restrictions, and the kicker - being told that I was of value as a human being employed there with all evidence to the contrary.  Oh, did I mention the bullying attempt by our resident bully ?  And the fact that we have no heat or water in the building ?  In Winter ?  We're relying on portable heaters and water jugs and watching to see what pipes burst next.  Always a delight, and snow is forecast again for tonight, so my boss will have a paid snow day off whilst I am struggling to get to work in a car with a bad engine problem....

My first big vacation in a long time is coming up, and I was really excited despite having a nasty tumble off of my bike last week (thanks bus that wasn't looking) where I smashed my nose and face into the pavement, sprained both of my wrists, and tore up my arm. It didn't matter that it was a ski/snowboard trip, because I figured there were other things I could do in the snow. I'm from San Diego, and the trip is to Hokkaido, so me + snow = childlike wonder. Plus, there are hot springs, snow festival statues, and other cool stuff.

Of course, today I wake up feeling like a horde of greater snot demons has taken up residence in my brain, throat, and lungs. It's Wednesday where I am, and I fly out Friday. I'm hoping I feel better soon, but the last time I was sick here it lingered for two weeks. Based on how I feel, I don't know if I even want to go anymore. x_x

To the [Expletive] that came up with the idea to sell shrinkwrapped, tissue thin loose leaf paper as college textbooks... I sincerely hope that as punishment you are forced to endure your own idiotic idea for the rest of your natural life.

Oh... you have to get your own [Expletive] binder as well. And may all of the holes punched in YOUR books also be so far into the page that they bind in the center of the books.

Hanging you would be far too good for you.

Seriously?  This project was DONE.  Done, ready for review.

Bill of material: Done!
Detail prints: All Done!
Review and approval: All Fraggin' Done

Today: I want you to make this change, and that change and do this and that to it.

Ok I understand changing the sensor because we are going with the new standard and that's easy.  but everything else: WHY THE HECK DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU WANTED IT THIS WAY 2 DAYS AGO WHEN I COULD HAVE DONE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO DO IT AND MAKE SURE THE BOM AND DETIAL PRINTS ARE UPDATED AND CORRECT.

seriously?

Don't forget - we sent a memo about the new cover sheet for the TPS reports.

please for the love of all that is good:

I do NOT want to hear about your child's POOP

can potty training not be work appropriate conversation?

please?

Is being unemployed better than a job that costs you an arm, your hair, your health and your sanity ?  When the job keeps you from becoming homeless...well, I'd like my job back.

And can we stop having elder relatives with health problems requiring us to travel....I can't fix their problems and the costs of travel are crippling.

Got my transcription test results today. I want to kick myself. I wrote the same word twice on one of the paragraphs. Why did I do that? :(

More ice and snow nnnoooo. People here always get so ridiculous and drive so badly at the slightest bit of snow, like they've never seen it before. Frozen water makin' people act a fool. :I

dropping temperatures and sleet all over my deck - makes me want to cry, the deck exit is the only straight path to the parking areas and its to slippery to walk on.
It's March, it's not supposed to get this cold in the south.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 08:00, Tue 04 Mar 2014.

You wouldn't think having a real-life Hyacinth Bucket as a friend would be that bad of a thing, but somehow it is...

I can't say anything to my friends because I don't want to hurt her feelings.

However...

SHUT THE FALAFEL UP!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098837/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1