Maybe not this shit – by next week, Trump will probably have steered us all to some other cesspool within himself.
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Fuck me. Day dreaming about how I am going to pay some upcoming bills, and a motorcycle cop nails me. Totally my fault, I take this road every day and even though I think the limit is stupid low, thats it. At least he was quick about it so I was only a little late for work. Slam bam thank you, sir. Didn’t even look at my expired insurance card.
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Always when you least expect it.
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So the spouse texts me at work that she can’t get on the wireless. That the usual SSID wasn’t there.
After some back and forth and double checking she’d rebooted everything like normal, I get her on the XfinityWiFi and let her know her new Wireless printer won’t work until I get home.
So I get home…and the Asus wireless router is up and running. I log on to my PC and look for wireless networks and… there’s a default Asus. So my router decided to reset itself to factory defaults. Fine. Okay.
But do you realize just how many goddamned devices I have on 3 different vlans that I now have to reset up.
Sure it’s a minor Fuck Today, but… really?
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I don’t have that router but a reset around here is scary stuff. When mine resets to defaults it’s wide f-ing open. I put a cover over the reset button on the back so it doesn’t get pressed by mistake.
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Mine failed “safe” as I could only get to the setup page…but then it made me set the user id and password and then it was open
DOH!
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I’m actually shaken by this.
I was officially too old (by a few months) for them to help by the time I found out about Mermaids, but they directed me in the right direction for support anyway.
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So, an article posted today by National Geographic on the hurricane in Texas is titled: “Harvey May Become the Rainiest Storm in US History - Here’s Why” and there is absolutely no mention of climate change or global warming ANYWHERE in the article.
The Murdoch’s are effectively killing Nat Geo. Post Fox purchase layoffs continue negatively affecting book, magazine, and educational divisions. FUCK FOX! FUCK THE MURCOCKS!
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I have a “fuck today” that has a happy ending…
Finally ordered a replacement keyboard for my old ass lap top to keep me limping along another year or so.
Some how my brain though it would be ok to try to use a screw driver to try to open the clip that holds the ribbon from the keyboard to the mother board. Of course it snaps of.
Fuck. Me.
So, I thought, ok, lets just put the clip back on, tape the ribbon down, and add more tape on top which hopefully pushes down on the ribbon when put back together. Nope. Add more tape. Nope. Can you buy just the clip part? Doesn’t appear so. How have other people fixed this issue? Replace the mother board. Nope, fuck that.
Some more googing and some guy posts about slipping a thin peice of plastic with a bend in it, between the top of the ribbon and the top row of pins (the ribbon only touches the bottom pin. The bend adds tension to the keep it pushed against the pins. OK, let’s try that. Add some tape to hold it in place.
20 some screws later for the 4th time, and BAM, fucker works. Human drama of sheer defeat to victory in about an hour. I wanted to go out side naked and scream, “I fixed it!”
Then I notice I have an extra screw. God damn it… guess I better go find out where that goes out tonight.
God news is, I can now type X on it! Woot!
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The cat that used to live with the previous owners of where I’m living has just turned up outside the back door, and I can’t find contact details.
They seem to have wandered off, I hope they weren’t freaked by everything looking and smelling different.
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So last night I show up to /r/writing because ‘why not?’ I end up fairly bluntly stating my opinion on a thing and then going ‘if i’m wrong, tell me how i’m wrong’ unknowingly putting a target on my head because apparently everyone took that as some sarcastic ‘well i think you’re full of shit neener neener neener’ and they’ve been having a field day metaphorically kicking the shit out of me over it, up to and including ‘oh well what books have YOU read?’
I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t respond to the whole mess in the best way. Fine, OK, sure. Awesome, I’ve got a temper. However last night showed that I am neither going to be treated in any way well nor do the people here actually want to discuss. I post something, groovy. Instead of ‘hey was that sarcasm?’ I get downvoted into a black hole and brigaded.
Were my responses good ones? Nope. I’m angry, irritated, and I’m just plain tired of everyone in this sub acting like smug ‘better than you’ dips. ‘oh that reading list is full of easy to read pulps. get on my level son.’
Taffing Wonderful. That’s the wholesome inclusive wonderful attitude I’ve come to expect from reddit where simple issues get turned into 'oh hey you’ve had a bad day? let’s kick you while you’re down by making you feel wholy and completely unwelcome for every single mistake you’ve made.
I mean sure it’s my fault innit? So yea. Mostly just blowing off steam partially aggravated as hell and why bothe trying if ‘oh hey you said something wrongly. we will never ever EVER let you live it down.’
If any of you go to that sub and know what the hell? I’m angry. I’m tired. I’m aggrivated. No i didn’t act in the best of ways to the situation but i’ve got oh about twentyish? I’d have to go check but a fairly long thread of people just snarking at me. What really pisses me off is guy asking for me to list the books i read. Fine whatever her’es the ones I remember. Long list. ‘Oh those are easy pulp reads. You of course wouldn’t see any diffrences between fantasy and scifi.’ GOD I hate that kind of fucking snobbbery.
Its that kind of bullshit that has my family hating intellectuals. That stereotype right there. That snoot up in the air ‘well you’re not at MY level therefore you are unlettered swine not worth my time’ bullshit stereotype that apparently actually fucking exists.
So I am very not well feeling. I go to places online to try getting away from how shitty my life is, maybe learn a thing or three, and not feel like I’m in a dead end life that is ending a moment at a time and oh hey my entire fucking night got shot because a misunderstanding turned into a circlejerk of bullshit with nobody going ‘hey maybe we should all stop because this is a downward spiral of shit going down a drain.’
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These are trollies. True intellectuals don’t feel the need to turn everything into a pissing contest. What you’re experiencing is the mediocrity of the masses.
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multiplied by the effects of going to the gas station for calamine lotion!
I don’t go to reddit for rationality or long form thought. That’s a rare commodity, and not much respected by those who don’t enjoy it.
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May the amateur sysadmin who thought having 147 domian controllers in a domain that has not even 1000 users and just under 200 servers never cross my path.
The more I look at this mess I have to support the more I want to nuke it from orbit and make something that works.
ETA Windows so easy it can be administered by idiots and often is and I so wish that wasn’t true.
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Someone needs to go visit an academic conference sometime! Of course, one can be an “intellectual” and a trolley.
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Indeed. I’d mostly kept myself to /r/warframe, writingprompts, and a few other spots. I’ve been needing help with writing so ‘oh hey visit /r/writing.’
I end up getting essentially run out with the mods going ‘i see nothing wrong here other than you acting like an ass.’ I won’t deny my part in this but seeing the round robin and nobody thinking ‘hey maybe we should stop since this is a feedback loop’ just pretty much made me abandon the account. Given Twine abandoned its own forum in favor of reddit along with a few other places this is annoying. Because I basically stay stressed and ‘oh hey we don’t care we’re going to mock you relentlessly.’
It does not leave me in good sorts.
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No, it doesn’t sound like it. I’m sorry.
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Fuck Today. Yesterday was bad enough, fuck today.
So I really don’t know where to start with this, but here goes- yesterday morning Luke was acting really strange, not his usual self. By evening he was having a real hard time standing on his hind legs, so we took him to emergency, and were given a scary, but hopeful prognosis. He was diagnosed with IVDD, a spinal/vertebral disorder, and the doc believed that with meds and a month of bed rest that he should be pretty much back to normal.
Fast forward to this morning, we wake and he has absolutely no strength in his back legs at all, and was clearly in a lot of pain, so we took him back to the hospital. Now they are saying that he has a ruptured disc, and without emergency surgery will be permanently paralyzed in his hind legs.
We don’t know what to do. The surgery estimate we were given is $8-10k. If he doesn’t have surgery the doc is not optimistic about his quality of life going forward. If you could meet Luke, you’d know what a crazy bundle of love, joy, and pure energy he is, and we can’t fathom him in a life of pain. We are stuck at the hospital while he is sedated, trying anything we can to get him the help he needs.
It feels really strange and naked to be posting like this, but we’re stressed out and I don’t know what else to do.
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I’m so sorry. These decisions are never easy. I hope it all works out for you guys.
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It was absolutely gut wrenching. Ag the last moment we cobbles together enough to make the down payment à thanks t wonderful friends and family, so we’ve gotten him into surgery. We were moments away from having to put him down when the news came in. Adrenaline is still coursing thru my body so I haven’t processed it all, but what I know is that I was nearly in a position to lose my best friend.
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