edlib Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Spent yesterday training our crew... which is now almost 50 student employees. Getting a bit unwieldy. After the training, we had a cookout at work. Then a couple of us just kinda hung around, shooting the **** for hours, until we all got hungry again, then went to the pub down the street owned by one of the guys from the Dropkick Murphys. (Damn good food...) Today: Take the air conditioners out of the windows; Put a door back on the foot of the stairs leading to my room so the cat can't get up here anymore; and get some much overdue exercise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Spent the morning doing chores around the house. Got a lot done... even more than I would have anticipated. After lunch, set out for a walk. Kept going until sundown. At least 12 miles... possibly closer to 15. Feet are sore and tired, but it's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 My back is flaring up in pain again. I've been insufferable all day. Absolutly miserable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 went out with my friends today, watched as they replaced my one friend's brakes and rotors. that was funny as hell. at least they did it right. then we headed to a restaurant, i had some clam chowder...kinda ruined my stomach. i didn't eat it all. going to new jersey with them early tomorrow...my one friend has an interview down there, so we're gonna drop him off and head to the beach for a bit, then pick him up and go to new york city. i never been there, so that should be interesting, hopefully fun. that one girl i was interested in a while back somehow got a hold of my aol instant messenger screenname...i haven't seen her in a month, she said she moved and quit walmart, and then she proceeded to ask me annoying questions, like if i had a girlfriend, if i was looking for one, etc...stupid ****. -_- i deleted her number out of my phone last week...glad i did. thinking of blocking the screenname too just to be a dick...but probably won't. got my 2nd piece of heroic jewelry in swg tonight. i need to complete the IG-88 heroic encounter once more and i'll be able to get my 3 piece special. was at walmart today, got my memory cards onto cds and wiped em so i can take over 600 pictures now. got my vehicle registration renewed and decided to do my address change while i was at it. next step is getting a damn inspection sticker on it. need freakin tires...and i'm too lazy to fix the freaking rust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 so that girl seems to like you now, so yo are going to block her? cubs clinched saturday, apparantly need one win to clinch home field this week our bench squad beat the cards yesterday and the bears suck again(still?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 And the Patriots lost. To the Dolphins no less in a massive rout at home. Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 but apparently our home team is #1 in the afc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Well, it looks like with the Recent working I have been doing I might be able to buy a real relatively up to date computer. Looking to get and play Fallout 3 and Diablo 3 when they come out. So i need a comp that can handle the graphics with ease. For once I would like to have a computer that enjoys doing eye popping graphics instead of dreading it, or going comatose. I don't have the skills to build it on my own, and I would like to have some support in case the magic smoke gets loose. So can one of the XWA geeks here help me figure out what I need, can afford, and were to shop (like dell?) I am looking to spend about $1500 for a complete system Better yet, e-mail me at warlordkinnison [AT] hotmail [DOT] com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Slowish day at work. A couple of projects off the list... but not much accomplished overall. Walked a bit afterwards... but it now gets so dark so early. Damn you the tilt of Earth's axis and the orbital rotation of the planet around the sun! You have ruined my exercise regimen for yet another year! Oh well... I needed to get home and do a load or 2 of laundry in order to get through this week. That is what I am doing at the moment... in addition to drinking green tea, and watching Alice Cooper and Beck concert footage videos On Demand... in high definition, no less. Does life get any better, I ask thee? Oh... and by the way to all you oh-so-smug gloaters in this thread: One single victory or loss does not an NFL season make (unless we are speaking, of course, of the Superbowl, that is...) There's still a lot of games left to play before playoffs... Y'know... Jus' saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 so that girl seems to like you now, so yo are going to block her? no, i'm not going to block her...it's just annoying. she's 18, i'm 24. she's a little immature. (moreso than i) went to NYC today, it was ****in awesome!!!!!!1111111 i never seen so many chinese/korean/japanese (asian?) people in my mother ****in life tho!!! damn! i got a buncha cool pictures, even took a pic of a stinky bum who was sleeping on the subway. (that's gonna be me in like 50 years! lol) definitely had alot of fun, can't wait to go again. it's definitely one of the coolest places i've been to. ok i uploaded majority of the pics on myspace. http://www.myspace.com/front_toward_enemy under new york city trip if anyone's interested in looking at pics of new york city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 I would hope shes more immature than you, an 18 year old girl is probably the least mature being on the planet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 hrm... everyone must have me on ignore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 i dont. i just lurk and dont post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 I don't. I just choose not to type much. Less incriminating evidence at a trial. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Wait... I'm not the only one to post here? Who are you people and what are you doing in my thread?!?? Sorry, K.K.... but I have lost track of the modern computer world. The only computer I touch on a daily basis younger than 5 years old is the one they gave me at work... and it's a Mac. My main computer at home is rapidly approaching the 9 year mark, but it's still going strong. It's a Dell... so I guess I can recommend those, if longevity is any concern, anyways. Wow. Hard to believe Windows 98 is a decade old. I got this with 98 installed, before either ME or XP were released. Yikes. I guess I should get on getting a new one too,.. huh? As soon as I'm done paying off this new floor. Work was a snoozer. Literally. (I actually dozed off for half an hour at one point. But don't tell my boss... you might wake him.) Walked until dark. Got home, and now I'm thinking about hitting the sack early. Still tired. I'm supposed to work outside all day Saturday... but looks like the weather is going to be uber-sucky. I hope they cancel early if they are going to. I don't actually want them to cancel however: $500 bucks above-and-beyond my salary. For that I'll stand in the rain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 i'm not feeling so good. some idiot at work was ****ing with me, i feel like getting my respect back, but by doing so i'd get fired. -_- got out of work early anyway...the damn film processor got screwed up so looks like a long day tomorrow, maybe it will all be fixed by the time i get there...i guess i can hope. still no luck getting a girlfriend. by the looks of it my assistant manager is not gonna be single for long. lost opportunities ftw.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 i can getcha one thats only a few years old and decent muscle under the hood for cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 You mean a computer... or a girlfriend? I really hope you mean a computer... 8:30 am... and so far it's been a ****ty, ****ty day. It seems like everything that could have possibly went wrong for me so far today already has... and I only have another 16 hours or so to look at before I can crawl back into bed. I have forsaken all hope that I will ever be truly happy in my lifetime. I am now in damage-control mode. Things are going to suck for me... but maybe I can make them suck on the side of "just barely intolerable." The day started for me at 2:30 am when the cat visited my room for another restroom break. I had to get up and find where she went and clean it before it set. I eventually DID find it... ruining my last pair of slippers in the process. After dealing with that, I never got back to sleep. A bummer... since I am working until at least midnight tonight. So I laid in bed for a couple of more hours, staring at the ceiling, and becoming ever more and more depressed about my current state in life. The other day when I went looking for the door to the foot of the staircase here, I couldn't find the one that was the right match. There was one door that had been stored down in the cellar, that warped and split due to all the water, and I had to throw it out a while back. Wanna take a wild guess which one that probably was? Fed up this morning, I grabbed a different door that should have fit in that spot, just to see if I could jury-rig it well enough to block access. No dice (The hinges and the door latch were just off by enough that it would never really shut. Of course, in the process of getting this door out of storage, I scratched the walls and new floor pretty good, and busted one of the glass panes on the overhead lamp in the kitchen (which put a really nice gouge in the new floor in there.) More expenses I have to pay for now before I can get that new comp, wide-screen TV, iPod, etc... Now I have to also find a shelter for this cat. Honestly: I really didn't want it to come to this... but I just simply can't live this way all winter. The vet tested her to see if it was an urinary tract infection, and that came up negative. So it's just strictly a behavioral issue... and I'm exhausted from trying to solve the problem,.. and all the cleaning up. I gave it my all best for about a year. I think that was more than fair. Hopefully she'll quickly get re-adopted by someone more patient than I... And of course, just laying in bed, and being unable to get back to sleep always does wonders for ones mental state and point of view. I've been really trying to stay positive in my life... but sometimes I have to wonder if any of it is worth it... Unfortunately: No matter how hard I try, my perception is always that the bad things just seem to just keep on coming at me... and the good things seem to stay far, far away. And times like last night tend to send me spiraling into yet another devastating cycle of depression that may take me days or weeks to fully pull myself back out from. Hopefully that doesn't happen this time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Does that stuff really depress you? Those are...minor annoyances at worst. Like, if you had cancer, or all your best friends died in an accident, or you wasted your life away posting about your life on a dead forum about an ancient Star Wars game...those would be reasons to get depressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Well... those are just the things that set me off, and get me dwelling on far deeper subjects. When I get frustrated about how difficult life seems to be sometimes, I'll then progress on to how lonely I find myself most of the time; how all my attempts to be more social and outgoing, and to keep up with friends past and present just always seem to backfire on me; and how, no matter what I try, I cannot seem get a member of the opposite gender to even merely acknowledge my existence. (With the very sole possible exception being the woman who refused my offer of dinner and a movie several months back... although she has stated that if I 'abandon' my cat in a shelter, it would probably mean the end of even our friendship.) So yeah... it's not the little stupid things that actually make me down... they are just the catalyst of frustration that lead me eventually to go down that road, and to once again start to dwell on all the things I have been trying to ignore and/or undue for the last couple of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Well then, allow me to help! I'll then progress on to how lonely I find myself most of the time; You always have me. Just keep your hands to yourself how all my attempts to be more social and outgoing, and to keep up with friends past and present just always seem to backfire on me; Screw those guys. and how, no matter what I try, I cannot seem get a member of the opposite gender to even merely acknowledge my existence. Pff, women. Sure they're hot, but they always want to talk about feelings and shop for candles carved into little animal shapes or something. You're better off without them. But if you insist on torturing yourself, go to eHarmony or something. You'll get some leads. Ask friends, family, and co-workers if they know anyone. Go to conventions or book groups or something. You'll probably never meet anyone just going to work and going home. (With the very sole possible exception being the woman who refused my offer of dinner and a movie several months back... although she has stated that if I 'abandon' my cat in a shelter, it would probably mean the end of even our friendship.) She sounds incredibly naive and lacks any sense of priority. You're better off. WAY better off. So yeah... it's not the little stupid things that actually make me down... they are just the catalyst of frustration that lead me eventually to go down that road, and to once again start to dwell on all the things I have been trying to ignore and/or undue for the last couple of years. You like playing the guitar/music, right? Why not start/join a band? Clearly you've got the know-how and contacts. It will give you something to focus on. And if it's chicks you want, you'll be convered in 'em! Maybe that's too much like work for you, but whatever. You got to do something with your life. Can't just sit around getting old. Or older, in your case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 hrm... everyone must have me on ignore I cant recomend anyone no one can guarnetee you the chipset they will use for the mobo ETC or the ram brand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Finally addressed my most pressing computer need yesterday: a replacement mouse. The one I had would often lose the USB connection and freeze the mouse pointer with even a slight movement, so I was about due for a replacement. I got another USB optical mouse for about $10, so the cheap fix was appreciated...it now means I can think about getting a plastic bowling ball to shoot at my spares with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 @ Keyan: Yeah... I know all that. I really do... But once the door to negative emotion has been pried open, even just a little bit,.. my rational thought seems to lose most if not all of it's influence. As much as I tell myself that all things considered, my life really isn't all that bad, and it's CERTAINLY not as horrible as it seems at that very moment at least... all it takes is a couple of days of minor annoyances to burst open all the floodgates holding back every perceived frustration and slight of the last 12 months (and in many cases, the prior 37 years...) and all my logical arguments to myself are swept aside in a tidal wave of the blues. I am making strides to fight this tendency in myself... and to improve the life situation around me in order to reduce the amount and duration. But it's slower progress than perhaps I would like, but probably as fast as I can actually handle right now... However: Even with all that, sometimes, no matter what is happening around me, I'm just going to occasionally feel depressed. It's something I've fought with all my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 maybe when i clock back to 'home' "from the navy" i'll swing over for a few days. I always wanted to see boston i mean, if i drive about 650mi from norfolk va to rochester ny, whats another, dear god, how meny hundreds of miles, eh? [edit]Cracken, you're coming too!![/edit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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