What you did today

[ManifestedISO]

That is so weird, today is my best friend's wife's birthday, too. I sent her a message right after exiting a room with lights where a man with tools and an assistant succeeded in removing an entire tooth from the jaw inside my mouth. Happy birthday Camila! Goodbye, frickin' tooth!

[Enoch]

So it seems that the new phone I ordered earlier this week was delivered to my front door yesterday, and was not there when I got home.  We've had plenty of expensive stuff delivered here without a signature requirement over the last 5 years, and nothing has ever gone missing before. 

 

Now, Fedex's tracking can sometimes be dodgy, in that they often rely on local USPS to do the "last mile" of shipping, and this isn't reflected in their online tracking. But USPS has now made another round since then, and Fedex's website did specify that the item was left at the "front door" at about 1:30 Friday afternoon.  So, although there's a chance that Fedex's delivery site is an auto-filled default and that the Saturday mailperson was lazy and left the packages to be taken care of on Monday, it is quite likely that the box did make it to our house. 

 

And I'm having some mild social anxiety about dealing with it.  Do I call the shipper, the manufacturer, the network carrier, my homeowner's insurer, and/or the police?  Who has the time/patience to figure that out and do it?  A large part of me would rather just pay the money to order a new one and forget about all this. 

 

(Oddly enough, there was a different package waiting on the porch when I got home.  But it was a UPS delivery, and they typically come rather late in the afternoon around here.)

Edited January 25, 2014 by Enoch

[Calax]

Spent the majority of two days asleep, and now I'm off to drive for work in a blizzard warning (yaaaay )

[LadyCrimson]

Went through a box of old VHS tapes and came across ... Gymkata. Which meant I had to watch it. I remember I kept telling a friend how hysterical(ly bad) that one pommel horse scene was when I first saw it and how I was rofl the whole time. Course, at the time it was likely 1am, I'd tuned to it randomly on cableTV and I probably wasn't terribly sober.

 

Anyway...the morning/afternoon flew by and now I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do in the evening. Something fun and preferably a bit wicked.

[Gfted1]

Staring out the window I see a driveway full of snow that Ill go shovel in a little while. We pay a service to do it but they've been pretty crap this season (admittedly we've had a tough winter so far and they have been busy). Its one of those activities that I love to hate. I of course hate shoveling a long double wide driveway, but on the other side, it appeals to some primitive part of my caveman brain that likes to "lawnmower" the snow and see the clean driveway below.

[Labadal]

It's either shovel the snow or get stuck inside the house if you let it pile up too much.

[Woldan]

I did shovel snow from my driveway today (Its a big driveway, approx 20x6 meters), and it was fun, a good opportunity to get some fresh air. And the trick is to push the snow like a snow plow, not to lift it with the shovel. 

[BruceVC]

I'm starting a new software implementation at a big military and aero manufacture in South Africa. So I'll be busier than normal the next 2-3 weeks as I have to be onsite every day  

[Walsingham]

I'm starting a new software implementation at a big military and aero manufacture in South Africa. So I'll be busier than normal the next 2-3 weeks as I have to be onsite every day  

 

everyone got his IP? First one to grab something secret gets a muffin.

[JFSOCC]

today I caught up with two weeks lagging behind on the Project Eternity forums. That's a lot of posts to catch up with.

 

I admit, there is one thread I skimmed. Usually I read everything, but some arguments are boring and stale.

[Malcador]

Usually I read everything, but some arguments are boring and stale.

 

"Some" ?

[Woldan]

 I'm starting a new software implementation at a big military and aero manufacture in South Africa. So I'll be busier than normal the next 2-3 weeks as I have to be onsite every day   

 

Denel or Lyttleton?

Edited January 27, 2014 by Woldan

[Amentep]

 

Oh man, I just googled that, why do you do this to me? Cannot unsee....    Its just reddish skin like a sunburn, not goddamn leper blisters for gods sake...

Great, now I went and Googled it...

 

Its more than just the blisters too - you can give other people chicken pox if they've never had it, and you can't keep food down during the active period. The blisters, even after they subside may still cause pain. Moral of the story - get the shingles vaccine.

 

Went through a box of old VHS tapes and came across ... Gymkata. Which meant I had to watch it. I remember I kept telling a friend how hysterical(ly bad) that one pommel horse scene was when I first saw it and how I was rofl the whole time. Course, at the time it was likely 1am, I'd tuned to it randomly on cableTV and I probably wasn't terribly sober.

 

Anyway...the morning/afternoon flew by and now I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do in the evening. Something fun and preferably a bit wicked.

My brother saw that in the theater. As I recall that's the one where a fight broke out in the theater several rows ahead of him (but no pommel horses became involved).

 

The film won a contest by WB and Amazon and was released on DVD in 2007 so it has a cult following - reportedly due to how entertainingly bad it is.

[Woldan]

Its more than just the blisters too - you can give other people chicken pox if they've never had it, and you can't keep food down during the active period. The blisters, even after they subside may still cause pain. Moral of the story - get the shingles vaccine.

The more you know! Good thing I had chicken pox when I was a little kid, I heard its much worse when you get it as an adult.

 

My face is normal again, all the red ruined skin peeled off. Turns out I'm now allergic to the skin lotion I was using for ages. I probably just had a tiny spot of bad skin and the lotion caused a huge allergic reaction. At that time I didn't know I was allergic so when it got worse I used more of it... a vicious circle of skin destruction.

[Calax]

Today I wondered if I could suicide with viagra... research points to yes.

[LadyCrimson]

Woke up with a horrible headache. Lots of advil later...I still feel terrible.

[213374U]

Today I wondered if I could suicide with viagra... research points to yes.

Yep.

 

But I'd hold it off a bit. You can always suicide later and you never know what's around the corner...

[LadyCrimson]

Technically, drinking too much water in a short period of time isn't healthy either.

But I wouldn't advise it. And I hope, Calax, that you aren't seriously considering anything of the sort. Hard to keep putting one foot in front of the other at times, but there's always tomorrow.

[Gorth]

First day back at work since before Christmas. Catching up on few hundred unread emails...

[Malcador]

Select all, mark as read.  Works for me.  Anyone who had something important will nag you once it's known you're back anyway.

[Woldan]

 

Today I wondered if I could suicide with viagra... research points to yes.

Yep.

 

But I'd hold it off a bit. You can always suicide later and you never know what's around the corner...

 

 

"And the last evil that came out of Pandora's box was hope, for it prolongs the torment of man".

[LadyCrimson]

Head still hurts.

 

Also, I know level of entertainment enjoyment tends to go in phases, but as the periods of my burnout phases comes faster and faster (and last longer and longer) I find media-entertainment less and less desirable to even bother with. I still enjoy them, but I don't *enjoy* them, if that makes any sense. It no longer seem to be enough.

 

Perhaps it's time to return to my own inner imagination, rather than someone else's, and get lost in writing some stories again. Just for me, mind. I have no "author" aspirations. That's too much work. I realized a long while back that writing stuff ultimately was about a mental escape, just like watching a movie/playing a game can be. Used to love being shut away in my room as a kid, banging away at the keys of a typewriter, totally lost in what I was creating.

 

I think it's finally time to return there, now and then. ...at least, if this headache would ever go away.

I'm half-tempted to buy a real typewriter, too. Word-processing is not the same. Tons easier....but not the same.

[Walsingham]

Head still hurts.

 

Also, I know level of entertainment enjoyment tends to go in phases, but as the periods of my burnout phases comes faster and faster (and last longer and longer) I find media-entertainment less and less desirable to even bother with. I still enjoy them, but I don't *enjoy* them, if that makes any sense. It no longer seem to be enough.

 

Perhaps it's time to return to my own inner imagination, rather than someone else's, and get lost in writing some stories again.

 

 

I think you're being unfair to creators there. The problem is creations oriented on a mass market. They inevitably fail to achieve depth. For the simple reason that resonating with a fool's worldview and resonating with a wise person's worldview are totally different jobs.

[LadyCrimson]

 

Head still hurts.

 

Also, I know level of entertainment enjoyment tends to go in phases, but as the periods of my burnout phases comes faster and faster (and last longer and longer) I find media-entertainment less and less desirable to even bother with. I still enjoy them, but I don't *enjoy* them, if that makes any sense. It no longer seem to be enough.

 

Perhaps it's time to return to my own inner imagination, rather than someone else's, and get lost in writing some stories again.

 

 

I think you're being unfair to creators there. The problem is creations oriented on a mass market. They inevitably fail to achieve depth. For the simple reason that resonating with a fool's worldview and resonating with a wise person's worldview are totally different jobs.

 

Eh, what? I was in no way trying to make some grand statement about how creators should be catering to my personal whims or something. Actually, it wasn't a statement against anything at all, really. Only a recognition of my own inner self.

[IndiraLightfoot]

Head still hurts.

 

Also, I know level of entertainment enjoyment tends to go in phases, but as the periods of my burnout phases comes faster and faster (and last longer and longer) I find media-entertainment less and less desirable to even bother with. I still enjoy them, but I don't *enjoy* them, if that makes any sense. It no longer seem to be enough.

 

Perhaps it's time to return to my own inner imagination, rather than someone else's, and get lost in writing some stories again. Just for me, mind. I have no "author" aspirations. That's too much work. I realized a long while back that writing stuff ultimately was about a mental escape, just like watching a movie/playing a game can be. Used to love being shut away in my room as a kid, banging away at the keys of a typewriter, totally lost in what I was creating.

 

I think it's finally time to return there, now and then. ...at least, if this headache would ever go away.

I'm half-tempted to buy a real typewriter, too. Word-processing is not the same. Tons easier....but not the same.

I understand, I hope to return to my own inner flow zone soon too, but in my case, I may try my hand at modding once again, coz there you get to create in so many ways, so if one thing feels a bit off one day, you just switch to some other creative activity. At its best, it's neverending bliss, really.