It’s so incredibly stupid given more immediate problems but just the thought one day I will die, this ends hopefully not for many years but inevitable, is scaring the shit out of me. Why now? I’ve known this since I was small. So why now? Why is it bothering me so much now? I need to focus on more immediate things.
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Please stay off the Dead Celebrity thread, I don’t want you there.
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This happens to me, usually at night, just around when I would go to bed. Then my adrenaline gets going and I can’t fall asleep. It’s the worst.
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I must have lifted something mildly heavy today. Now my shoulder hurts soo bad. I put a tennis ball between me and my chair but I think I made it worse 
Christ, I should do a god damn push up once in awhile or something.
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Thankfully…
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Craigslist just started requiring Google’s JavaScript to be allowed in order to see contact information. Is there anything that world-spanning vampire blood-octopus can’t get its suckers into?
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Good news. Glad he was found. Let’s hope he continues to get treatment for his mental health issues. I think that public figures like this speaking out about their own struggles goes a long way to normalizing them and helping people to better understand and empathize when others struggle.
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Are you familiar with the concept of a psychomotor gumption trap? From Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? I think fear of death is a psychic loop that can rob you of the mental attributes you need to live a full happy life.
Keep in mind I don’t know what will work for you; I’m a migraineur, I have non-standard brain chemistry. But total uncritical acceptance of the immediacy and inevitability of death works for me - as far as I’m concerned, death a good thing, and since time is just a subjective illusory phenomena the only thing that concerns me is how much beauty I can create and experience between the fixed terminii of my consciousness.
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Well, today I learned why I get so much symapthy from other people at my firm for being managed by my boss.
I was assigned way too much, and when I asked for help as instructed, I learned that was a trick instruction and actually I was supposed to have six hands and three keyboards last Friday so everyone could dump emergencies on me at once. The guy who totally screwed up (and brags about never working more than 40 hours a week, no matter the cost to co-worjkers who have to pick up slack for him) seems to be outside of the firing line.
Which I handled, and probably landed a six figure project for the company (a second one in my three months here, which is unheard of).
basically my boss is the dog that saves the day by always barking at the mailman. he is, like that doggo, convinced that his shit attitude “be a bigger asshole” and escalation of minor issues (RED CAPS IN EMAILS) is what keeps his group afloat - when really it’s the cause of the shockingly high turnover rate for people under him.
Fuck Today. I like this job, but damned if I’ll stick around long if this treatment carries on.
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I really used to be worried about this, until one year when four people dropped dead in front of me.
Much more interested in not wasting my limited time on being scared. When something scares me now, I just address it. Name it and solve it and move on. or don’t solve it, and move on anyhow.
I wish you much luck, perhaps Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus can help? Strongly recommended reading if your looking for advice.
If it’s sympathy you’re after, You have mine fully.
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Woke up to play my some of my require daily crack on my phone (Final Fantasy Brave Exvius) and the god damn thing reset and then started to do an infinite boot loop. Googling shows this is a thing, but all the combinations of button pressing hasn’t fixed it. I think I turned it off so at least it doesn’t chime the boot up chime every 15 secs. FML.
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We got a puppy two month ago, and sweet merciful jesus why does she want to eat cat shit!?!?!?
I had to pull it out of her mouth twice this weekend. the second time some of the clay litter fell out of her mouth onto her bed as I was pulling out a nugget, and I had to physically pull her bed away to stop her from hoovering up the clay bits.
We have nitrile gloves in the house, but I wasn’t going to take the time to find them and put them on while she’s trying to chew and swallow, so I spent the rest of the day feeling seriously unclean
I mean, she’s wonderful and I love her to death but oh my god that’s gross
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From my understanding this isn’t unusual behavior especially with puppies. Maybe invest in an electronic litter box or scoop it more frequently?
Paging @Bobo, as they may have some advice here.
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Then it becomes a circular pattern. Any cat knows that a freshly scooped litter box must be defecated into immediately.
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All cats everywhere about pooping in freshly cleaned liter boxes…
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Turd Jerky!
Really though, as obligate carnivores their faeces are high in protein and smell like it to your doggo. Not all doggo are indiscrete eaters. Oh, hang on… that was a rhetorical question, wasn’t it?
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only semi-rhetorical. on her list of things she likes to eat, from least to most interesting:
puppy food
the floor (either the carpet of the wood on the back deck)
cardboard
leaves & twigs
cat feces
We tried several brands of puppy food to find something she’d eat willingly. But I’ve had times when I’m watching her and she notices I’m distracted, she has literally run to the cat litter closet. We close the door to closet sometimes when we can’t be on full high alert, but I don’t want the cats to not have access to their litter boxes
(on the upside, this is the only problem we’ve had with having the dog & cats together. At first she thought the cats might be puppies to play with, but now they’ve learned to be cool together. One of our cats actually touched noses with her last night)
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I’m not sure anyone knows for sure, but it can actually cause some problems in domesticated dogs. Dogs with protein sensitivities (skin allergies, GI issues) can have flares because of the proteins in cat poop. And, there’s always the fun possibility of parasites. And then there’s the glorious “I just ate poop, lemme lick your face” thing that a lot of dogs do.
So, yeah, I’m not much help here. There have been some experimental correlations with severe GI and endocrine disease states, but there are also a lot of healthy dogs that just seem to enjoy it. (maybe their super sense of smell can isolate and appreciate the multitude of complex organic chemicals in poop like a fine wine…).
Here’s a fun article (not behind a paywall!):
http://www.associationofanimalbehaviorprofessionals.com/boze412010.pdf
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electronic litter box
Any suggestions for especially good ones, or warnings about especially bad ones?
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I’d like to know too. I love the kittles, but the whole litterbox situation is enough to make them something friends have. I don’t need any litterbox Fuck Today posts from my life. Been there.
When I had a friends cat here for a couple weeks I learned that they really like using conifer-based wood pellets as litter, and those things are absorbent AND deodorant up to a point. And cheap and not mined from the earth. So on thinking about it a disposable biodegradable litterbox liner and pine pellets (for pellet stoves, 3 bucks for 40 lbs)…
I seem to be talking myself into something here, I guess I’ll let you know what I name them. Fuck and Today would be funny.
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