RL Peeves
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@somasatori I honestly wish that we’d adopt the masking culture that they have in Japan. In the the last three years, I got sick exactly once after my COVID nightmare right at the start, and it was because my husband worked retail and brought something home even with the mask. When he moved to working a medical-adjacent field that required all customers to wear masks, too? Nothing. Not a single cold.
Compare that to the three colds or so I’d get every year from SCA friends who would come to events despite knowing they were still getting over something (I am looking right at you, friend who hugged me and then told me you were ill because seriously, what the fuck?!) or coworkers who had children in daycare that would be like “Ohh, yeah, my two year old has boogers coming out of everything and is miserable right now, but they don’t have a fever so I sent them to scho-- <hackwheeze>.”
If someone wants to wear a mask when they’re out in public, let them. You don’t know what health conditions they might have that could become dangerous with ‘just the sniffles’ added in. If you or someone in your house is sick, wear a mask before going out in public. You don’t know who you could make seriously ill.
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It’s hilarious that the above was my last post in this thread.
I went to see The Sisters of Mercy over the weekend. I forgot my mask in the car and didn’t walk back to go get it, even though I specifically brought one to wear in the crowd.
…Guess who has been home sick for the last two days?
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Unshockingly, still looking for a house despite ramping things up in earnest about three months ago now. Everything I’d consider bidding on (or placed a bid on) is getting snapped up within like three days of being listed for so, so much higher than listing.
I’m so tired, and if one more person who bought their first house when Reagan was president tries to tell me I’m doing it wrong, I will fucking claw their eyes out. For those counting, I’m up to five of those instances. That number is way the fuck too high for the most important purchase of my adult life.
And that is my peeve. Hopefully not the same peeve in September.
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This has been a week.
While I didn’t really ever use it, and had been dangling over the Permanently Delete button. Over night the Facebook account was hacked, password changed. Renamed. Email removed and a new one added. Probably started scamming people and deactivated.
So far haven’t found a way to recover it, so I don’t know if anything personal was stolen.
Also having a kitchen redo and the kitchen supply company sent the wrong doors, likely delaying the work which was already overrunning.
Oh well, it is what it is.
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Participated in my first powerlifting competition this year. Or well, not an USA Powerlifting sanctioned meet, more like a small thing done at the gym I go to. So not official official competing.
Good things: I PR’d on the bench press, pushing 240lbs and steady at 350 lbs for deadlift I’m proud of. Don’t ask me about my squat, my right hip still hates squatting.
Consequence of that: I partially tore muscles in both my biceps in the process of it because I’m stubborn to my own detriment. Now I can’t bend my arms and they’re both stuck bent at a 90 degree angle because doing anything else is just…a lot of pain.
Also bonus peeve: my router decided it wanted to light itself on fire, so I have to write this on my phone until I can replace said router.
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Y’know, when we bought our new house and the inspector inspected the place … You think he might have mentioned that our attic is not insulated.
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Vacation is over
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fucking layoffs, man. maybe with all the time i now have on my hands, i will get back into RP.
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Having roommates. I can’t wait until my husband and I can just live on our own x.x
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@Meg Let’s just kidnap people to play murder games. Productive and cathartic, imo
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Up vote the play, down vote layoffs
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Old grumpy guy is one of the few paid employees of the shelter. He is convinced only he knows what is best for the cats.
I had to pull a new volunteer aside and go, “That is just who he is. Take what he says to heart, then say okay, and walk away. You will never get the last word or change his mind.”
It would be insufferable except for the fact that his love for these animals runs DEEP and it is typically him who realizes when an animal needs to pass over the rainbow bridge. So he can be a cranky ass.
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Lol, I just talked to the other two volunteers who have been here longer than grumpy old guy, and their advice was I should just flip him off next time.
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Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?
Cobalt@Under the Stars
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Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?
I’ve been struggling with this, too! Well, sort of. I can plan and brainstorm all day, but starting the putting words on the page part has been like pulling teeth for some reason. So I imagine finishing will also be an issue.
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Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?
Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?
I’ve been struggling with this, too! Well, sort of. I can plan and brainstorm all day, but starting the putting words on the page part has been like pulling teeth for some reason. So I imagine finishing will also be an issue.
I can outline a five-book series, but actually writing one of them?
Lol.
Lolololololololololol.
In Occam I trust.
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That is the biggest hurdle. Decided Point A and B and maybe even some major parts in between? Doable. Writing all the stuff on how you get from Point A to Point B? Not happening on my own xD
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@Raeras I’ll get going into a book-- get into almost 50k words and then my brain just goes “blurb”. And I stop. I just stop writing.
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On a different topic. I sat down to work on my game, maybe learn some ruby so I can work on some systems for said game, and my family all immediately converged on my location.
My spouse magically came home from work. The teenagers all came out of their rooms. Little brother came out of his room. Mother in law. Uncle. Everyone.
“Cobalt, why are you sounding so snappy?”
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I was TRYING to learn to code.
Cobalt@Under the Stars
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@Cobalt I asked Neil Gaiman once (at a book signing, we weren’t just hanging out) his top piece of advice for aspiring writers, and it was “finish things.” He said I’d learn the most by forcing myself to get to the end.
He also once gave me a hug and told me everything would be okay, so I take Neil’s words as absolute truth.
