New Arg for the day. We just had a city wide power failure. When the power came back on I learned it fried my monitor. Fortunately my TV has the connections for PC but the screen is Much smaller than the original one and it's harder to see what I am typing now.
Monitors need a reset / fuse button or something. some way to trouble shoot them before having to take them to a shop to get fixed (not that I have the money to do that).

The other bad thing on the power outage is I was working on somethings online and lost 4 hours of work - poof gone. (yes I have a battery back-up, but with the power outage killing my monitor I could not see to save my work).

YEA! Fixed my Monitor, after searching all over the internet for a clue I found a site about fixing LED Monitors and learned the power button can get stuck In-between the on and off setting, making it impossible to turn on. It's a design flaw. (at least it's what was wrong in my case)
Cause the other problem has to do with having to open the case and doing all kinds of tinkering with the boards that I am not skilled or confident to do on my own.)

This isn't pertaining to anyone on this site but I just need to get this out. When you ask someone how they feel and they tell you how they feel. If you have NEVER in your life experienced just how this person feels, you really should NEVER say "I know how you feel." Because really....you DON'T know how that person feels if you have never experienced the level of pain they are going through.

I just had this happen to me when someone on FB asked me how I was feeling. mind you I just had shots in my back three days ago to try and alleviate the bulging disc in my back which also has three discintigrating discs. Notice I said try, because so far it's made my hips worse pain wise, I still have back pain big time and now on top of it, I'm cramping which is only adding to my pain. So I tell this person this and what does she do.... says "I know how you feel."

My response was really? So you've had your butt burning like crazy, your hips feeling like someone is constantly stabbing you, your back constantly aching and your stomach twisting in pain from cramps all at once? She of course said no and then I said...well then you really don't know what I am going through and you really shouldn't say that.....she stopped talking, guess she didn't like my answer much huh? GRRRRRRR

Okay rant done.

I kind of know how you feel. Not about the body pain but the emotional stuff, that I get. 6 months in a hospital after a bad car accident that shattered one shoulder, broke the other and broke a knee and one ankle and then having to deal with idiots. Had to learn how to walk again, with both arms in special cast that rest the hands even with my shoulders. The therapy people, who have supposedly read my charts, got me a walker to help me learn to walk again. I pointed out I could not use it, so they senter up canes. It kind of went down hill from there.
Cold and wet here is reminding me of all this as my joints are all killing me.

I'm a young guy (19), and I'm really straight forward. I don't lie, I tell people what I think of them.

I find other guys that I meet really annoying and sex and/or competition based. It's always a...eh, child friendly, urm.... Peaches? Peaches match. Who can do the most people, who can beat the most people. Yada yada. You can't just sit down and talk to them nicely about life, and gaming and politics and stuff. I'm a student of computer science, so I'm usually surrounded by guys and most of the new people I met are guys.

All my friends from school are female. I find most of them mess me around or use me. In the former case, we'll make plans, and they'll cancel last minuites sometimes, or just randomly want to meet up and stuff. I can't drive, so this means a random out the blue half an hour walk when if they'd told me a day or two before I could have made plans.

In the latter case I'll spend loads and loads of time helping someone (this has happened alot) listening to their problems, helping when asked, being a good listener, etc. Then when the issue is fixed I get ditched. They never get in contact and make minimal effort when I talk to them.

Now I know good people exist and are out there. But I'm just so surrounded by date heads. But bar my girlfriend, I seriously have no one I trust. The reason me and my girlfriend gel so well is she's autistic and has no idea how to lie, and always vents her emotions. It's a godsend.

I get accused by family of spending to much time on the internet (or did, before I moved out) but seriously, I just find that having easy access to people with more on their mind then sex, beating people and themselves so...refreshing.

Like seriously, how do I do this adult thing without becoming a cynical apple-hole?

Oh my goodness Shadoprism, I can't even imagine what you have to go through. Sorry you have to deal with that but I hope it gets better for you.

In reply to Livember (msg # 559):

Sorry to say this....but you don't. You just learn how to adjust to life and it's twists and turns or you become the cynical apple-hole and just tell everyone to Cherry off.....

In reply to fireflights (msg # 560):

Accident was 6 years ago. Still hurts but I learned ways to cope with out drugs. Posting and gaming mostly.
^_^

The optimistic child in me is running away to live in the internet then. He'll happily mass murder for ever more while I sludge though :P

Yeah, that's mostly how I get by, the shot's just elevated my pain then of course the being a woman monthly addition making it so much worse by magnifying the hip pain, just hasn't been a good day then someone had to say that to me and it just set me off :P But then this person has a habit of doing that to me. Probably why I'm deciding to get them out of my life for good now....I don't handle stress well to be honest :P

Believe me...I know. But honestly sad to say it's either trudge forward or just hide from them forever lol. I wish I had better answers for you.

Didn't someone just say not to say that?

If you're referring to me, I didn't say I knew how they felt, I said believe me... I know and I was talking about knowing that just wanting to hide in virtual world is like. I might not have said it in so many words, but that was my point I was making. I don't pretend to know what someone's level of pain is because honestly, we all have different levels of pain.

Gah! Feel like I am starring in a Prison Camp movie only starring Cats.
One cat distracts me as the other cuts the wires of the fence to escape.

Little puntz clawed open a hole in the screen around my porch and allowed the newest member to escape. One which my land lord had Just (like with in minutes prior) dropped off.
We caught the one who made the hole before he could get away, but the new one is just gone.
This is a pretty good sized apartment complex near a major highway (on the far side from here, through a line of tree's.) We have all been out looking for him. But there are to many places for him to hide and so far we have had no luck in finding him.

Wet catfood, the stinkier the better, and a humane live-catch cage.  Heck, you might be able to get away with a simple pet carrier with the door open, if you're quick enough to close it before little Houdini escapes.

You probably know all this already, tho, seeing as these aren't your first cats.  Good luck catching the little brat.

No carrier and this human has bad arthritis so we put the food in the same room and are just hoping He comes in and not one of the other roaming neighborhood cats. Of which there are 3 in this area alone.

Hahaha I was not sure whether to put this in good things or vents. It could be either.
A while back my computer went down and I lost all my campaign notes. Boo right? Well, I finally feel like trying to retype them and maybe even start a 3.0/3.5 dungeons and dragons game. I do not know yet.

The problem is where to start. The campaign world has multiple time periods, multiple realities and everything. Oh boy.

Pro Tip for the first barbecue of the season:

If your gas grill was stored outside for the winter, check inside it before you light up the first time. Many, many small creatures are able to fit through the vents and nest in there, totally ruining the flavor of $30 worth of steaks. Just cleaning the grill plates won't reveal the critter corpses below.

That is why i also let it burn for a while on it's own before the first cook. And why I prefer my charcoal grill.

Pro Tip: when building or buying a barbecue grill, make sure the fire is not at crotch level.

I did... But the nesting left a nasty oily coating on the steaks.

So glad I ate before reading these threads (URP) *turning a shade of unhealthy green*

It is also not recommended to not vomit in the grill.

And now I just want to go home and check my grill to see what critters I might have.

Got kitties 'fixed', somehow they seem more broken than usual and reversed in personalities. The calm one nearly took my hand off when I went to put his 'cone' on while the 'wild one' let me do it then went off to nap. I swear I have gained more scars in the past 3 months from the cats than I gained in my entire previous life. Blood loss only beaten by the car accident I was in. (Actually had to get blood put back in on that one).