Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 250705 times)

valley_parade · « **Reply #2050 on:** 22 Mar 2012, 08:23 »

Goddamn, Zingo. I'll play bass..if you let me borrow your Dirnt.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #2051 on:** 22 Mar 2012, 15:36 »

That bass is beautiful. That is my bass, dammit.

Also I mean shit if I end up in oakland it won't be the worst thing in the world but I'm actually in a place for once where I like the people around me and I have friends and people I'm dating and opportunities to be happy and I really don't want to leave it now that I'm only just getting involved, y'know? Oakland won't be terrible (and I would probably end up enjoying it down thurr) but I really want to finish what I've started here, not keep moving and moving and moving like I've always done.

Welu · « **Reply #2052 on:** 22 Mar 2012, 16:19 »

Got an email from my head tutor. I'm officially behind with work. Fuck.

Patrick · « **Reply #2053 on:** 23 Mar 2012, 02:40 »

So my show tonight went well. We fucked up a couple things but it turned out okay. Apparently we just rock that hard. Whoopee.

Now it's real talk time.

My ex (who is now in the Navy) came like she said she would. And it was great spending time with her. But it sucks knowing that even though she hurt me more than I think I've ever been hurt by anything in my life, before or since, I still have feelings for her. Very strong ones. And she still has them for me, too. But it's in our nature to destroy each other, it seems. Snoop Dogg's right when he says you can't make a ho a housewife, but if she wasn't a ho, I'd have put a ring on her finger a long time ago.

In the meanwhile, she's still the one who broke my heart and put me in a mental hospital. Which, granted, is just as much my fault (and I would never blame her for that; it isn't correct, and it isn't right either). And she's been assigned to Virginia, and she leaves here Monday morning.

No point crying over spilled milk, but I'm still gonna cry, 'cause fuck it. Can't hurt. Might as well cry, 'cause it quantifies our perfect (in)compatibility (because it is both at the same time).

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT

Patrick · « **Reply #2054 on:** 23 Mar 2012, 04:48 »

So after that post I finally wrote my first complete song ever and it is about her and if you want to hear the demo well here it is

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2055 on:** 23 Mar 2012, 12:29 »

I got lost in the woods.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #2056 on:** 24 Mar 2012, 16:44 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 21 Mar 2012, 09:53

Zingo,

Remember, rejections tend to come faster than approvals - this is one of the rare cases where no news is (more than likely) good news.

The manager is going through a family crisis so they haven't had time to start, quote, "bringing [me] in." So it's still on!

I've also checked and I think I could easily make it to the three places I want to go this summer (i.e. home in rural NY, Boston (hi May!), and Halifax) for around $1,200. I am excite!

Carl-E · « **Reply #2057 on:** 24 Mar 2012, 20:31 »

Major birthday yesterday. Feeling roughly half my age emotionally, doc sez I'm as healthy as (and still look like) someone much younger.

Party's tomorrow night. For the first time, do not want.

My older daughter gave me a hug and wished me a happy birthday, and I cried. By now, I figured I'd have a job that wasn't fucking temporary, let alone needing two, and could afford a hobby or two. She said, "Well, but you have a beautiful home and family".

The house is slowly falling apart at the seams, as is the family (health-wise). That observation made us both laugh, and I needed that. So it wasn't too bad a birthday after all, I guess.

Can I have my midlife crisis now? pleeeeeease?

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2058 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 03:31 »

What sort of midlife crisis would you like?

Carl-E · « **Reply #2059 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 05:28 »

It would have to be something cheap, I'm afraid. Can't afford the red sports car... or a trophy second wife.

Definitely not an affair with someone too young for me. I don't think I could handle someone who didn't live through most of my cultural references, and would remind me of my daughters all the time!

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2060 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 06:16 »

You could do what my dad did and spend every waking moment talking about the collapse of civilization and learning how to make flour out of cat tails in the swamp. My mother told me once that he would talk in his sleep sometimes and said stuff like "Don't believe what they tell you."

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2061 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 06:18 »

You could take up baking bread, or start running marathons - two of my favourite midlife crises so far.

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2062 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 06:25 »

Maybe you'll waste your crisis trying to find a midlife crisis.

snalin · « **Reply #2063 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 07:42 »

I think the easiest one to go for is to get about 4000 cats.

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2064 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 08:01 »

Unless the cats come with free food, that's not cheap.

schimmy · « **Reply #2065 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 09:29 »

Just start dressing like a pirate, and refuse to talk to anyone who doesn't address you as Blackbeard.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2066 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 09:50 »

I didn't have time for a mid-life crisis. OK, I had a divorce, but everything else kept on full pelt.

Patrick · « **Reply #2067 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 10:39 »

I'm probably not going to have a midlife crisis since I'm more than making up for it by having tens of quarterlife crises.

celticgeek · « **Reply #2068 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 10:44 »

Midlife Crisis Car

celticgeek · « **Reply #2069 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 12:25 »

Nope. Honda S-2000

Jace · « **Reply #2070 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 12:45 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 25 Mar 2012, 05:28

Can't afford the red sports car... or a trophy second wife.

Get a plastic trophy of your wife and put it in your current car.

Welu · « **Reply #2071 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 16:13 »

Got to film six out of nine pages of my film last night. Going through the raw footage to check for any needed retakes. You get a real sense of my directing process in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKBw_SWruNE&feature=youtu.be

Jimor · « **Reply #2072 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 17:58 »

Heh, very awesome! And an award for strategic use of a potted plant. (Said as something only a person who's run camera on 3 short films would notice.) Best of luck with the rest of the shoot!

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #2073 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 06:45 »

Quote from: Jace on 25 Mar 2012, 12:45

Quote from: Carl-E on 25 Mar 2012, 05:28
Can't afford the red sports car... or a trophy second wife.

Get a plastic trophy of your wife and put it in your current car.

This made me lol, I vote plastic trophy!

Carl- you could always do what a few of my coworkers are doing- they are slowly turning into doomsday preppers. They're convinced that the economy is going to collapse and people are going to start looting and killing each other. They think that if they kill/grow their own food (and stockpile canned goods) that they'll survive the imminent apocalypse. I think they're nuts.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2074 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:00 »

I'm fairly sure that's what my dad and brother are doing - I just cleared out the freezer and found things that went out of date in 2005. No vegetables in the house, though. Off to go and be inventive about what on earth I can cook for tonight. Might need to go down to the shop and buy some veg.

Carl-E · « **Reply #2075 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 10:16 »

Quote from: lepetitfromage on 26 Mar 2012, 06:45

Quote from: Jace on 25 Mar 2012, 12:45
Quote from: Carl-E on 25 Mar 2012, 05:28
Can't afford the red sports car... or a trophy second wife.

Get a plastic trophy of your wife and put it in your current car.

This made me lol, I vote plastic trophy!

I have got to make this so...

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Carl- you could always do what a few of my coworkers are doing- they are slowly turning into doomsday preppers. They're convinced that the economy is going to collapse and people are going to start looting and killing each other. They think that if they kill/grow their own food (and stockpile canned goods) that they'll survive the imminent apocalypse. I think they're nuts.

I think you're right - that's not a mid-life crisis, they're just nuts... $:-\$

A mid life crisis is all about realizing your own mortality and doing something you think matters (no matter how shallow, hence the red sports car/ trophy wife (no offense, celticgeek)) and which explains all those bizarre career changes and such.

Prepping for the end of civilisation doesn't count...

celticgeek · « **Reply #2076 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 10:27 »

No offense taken. I sometimes refer to it as my "male menopause" car. I know it should be a Ferrari, but all I could afford was a Honda.

Also, we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last November. I have a wonderful trophy for a wife.

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #2077 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 10:29 »

Well, to be honest a lot of the talk about it is "think of how we'll be in such a different place than everyone else! We'll be powerful!!" so I made the connection in my head (and of course, left it out of my post)....

Although, just plain nuts works too.

Patrick · « **Reply #2078 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 07:28 »

Definitely homeless tomorrow. As in, I have no idea where I will be sleeping.

Probably not gonna be online much for a bit.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #2079 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 12:28 »

Fuck Pat. I wish I could offer you a place to stay.

Um, in other news, I tried to watch Marble Hornets last night.

At the end of the Impurity video, the browser suddenly whited out, and I couldn't move to any other application - and an error message popped up, saying: "An app has become unresponsive: Unknown" - and every time I closed it, it just popped up again.

I tried to control-alt-delete, but instead of the usual screen, the monitor just blacked out with a low glitching sound, the hourglass frozen in the middle of the screen. Another error message popped up that just said "Failure", and I couldn't click on it, so I pressed the escape key. The message box went away, replaced with this picture:

(if yr wondering how I got a screenshot, it's the picture for the administrative account of the laptop), and everything was still frozen. I ended up having to force the computer to shut down, and when I tried to restart, the screen would light up black, and then shut itself down again after about three seconds.

It seems to be working fine now.

Not sure that I'm going to watch more Marble Hornets any more though.

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2080 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 12:50 »

I tried watching marble hornets. I really, really tried. Boredom set in and I decided I'd rather watch Blair Witch. On a related note: A friend of my brother is actually afraid of the Slender Man. He says he saw him on the side of the road a couple of times and now he's afraid of him forever.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #2081 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 12:58 »

I'm going through the marble hornets wiki and actually reading what other people have deciphered in the vidoes (as well as the totheark reply videos) - it adds a lot to it, in my mind.

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2082 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 19:15 »

I think my family is putting medication in my food. I've been feeling extra tired and all hollow inside and my mind feels clouded and slow- all of which were side effects when I was taking Haldol and Seroquel. I'm not going to eat anything I didn't buy and prepare myself from now on.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2083 on:** 27 Mar 2012, 23:40 »

If this is so, is it that they feel that it would benefit you, even if you disagree, or is it that they feel that it makes you easier for them to be with?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2084 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 06:00 »

If you genuinely believe that is happening, parcel some of the food they've prepared for you up and send it off for testing, because that is illegal.

Welu · « **Reply #2085 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 06:26 »

The film I linked that I'm making is basically a Slenderman film. It was accidental, genuinely, but when I realized I decided to play up the theme rather than change it.

Also in awesome news:

I'M GOING TO START MOVING IN WITH MY BOYFRIEND NEXT WEEK!! YAY!!

So excited. The house is gorgeous and is pretty big, for two people any way. The neighbour is meant to be a hole but we'll deal with that when we need to and I'm going to try to transfer to another branch of my shop in town but I'm being a grown up and there will be bills and it's scary but YAY!

valley_parade · « **Reply #2086 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 08:39 »

A dude in my fantasy baseball league failed to start a Seattle pitcher today, who would have gained him nearly 80 points.

I feel bad because I am not against him this week.

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #2087 on:** 28 Mar 2012, 09:39 »

Yay!! Congrats Welu, that's awesome! Best of luck

Starting out on your own can be scary at times, but for the most part it's truly exhilarating. I moved out pretty young and I still have moments every once in a while when I'll look around my apartment and just smile because I'm actually paying all of my bills and aren't at risk of being kicked out haha

You can do it! And we'll help when we can to make it not so scary

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2088 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 04:32 »

I wish I could have a real house! If I were graduating this summer, I could go rent a house and become a foster parent and then get a mortgage and buy a house and be ALL THE GROWN UP THINGS AT ONCE but instead I must continue to be a student

pwhodges · « **Reply #2089 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 05:27 »

You'll find there comes a time when circumstances mean that you just do it regardless; it generally works out.

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #2090 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 05:44 »

I'm aching for a house myself....paying rent for what seems like an endless amount of time gets old after a while....

If ever there was a comic that explained my thoughts on becoming an adult, it's this one.

I still get the feeling sometimes that everyone around me is a mature, responsible adult and I'm just pretending. Most days I can get by pretty well, but there are definitely others when my inner rebellious teenager gets the best of me.

Mister D Nomms · « **Reply #2091 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 08:04 »

You might not have rent, but taxes and mortgages still need to be paid.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #2092 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 08:21 »

Yeah but you get EQUITY which you can borrow against later and TAX CREDITS so you get more back in your rebate and - oh god here I am doing that thing again were I act like I know what's going on and what I'm doing. My plan for after college was to get married, buy a house, get a proper job, get a dog, and have some kids. It's been three years now and the only thing not checked off that list is babies and oh jeez I don't know if I'm ready for all that. Some days yes some days no.

celticgeek · « **Reply #2093 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 08:28 »

Were you planning to have a "reasonable number" of kids?

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #2094 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 08:30 »

Absolutely reasonable. Two or three, we hadn't quite agreed. I said three because I have two sisters, he said two because he has one sister. Then we never finished our pre-wedding counseling with the pastor because we couldn't find a time and he just said "I'm sure you'll be fine."

Lines · « **Reply #2095 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 09:01 »

My bf and I are going to be looking at houses (in person, not just on the internet like we have been) and I'm getting kind of excited. Technically it'll be his house (for now) because he has a Job and I am still a Student, but we're looking at places where we'll be able to stay for a while and start a life and it just makes me happy thinking about it!

pwhodges · « **Reply #2096 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 09:25 »

Another view of adulthood:

Carl-E · « **Reply #2097 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 10:03 »

It's what they call a learning process...

Oh, and bainidhe_dub, someone wise told me that if you waited until you were ready to have kids, you'd never have kids...

OK, blog time;

Went to Temple University Hospital Tuesday (left Monday after work, it's a 5 hour drive) for my daughter. they have a relatively new procedure there where they implant a slowed-down pacemaker and hook it to the stomach to get it to act more normally. She has partial paralysis of the digestive tract (along with a lort of other things).

We met with the doc, head of gastroenterology, and he was one of the best we've dealt with in the last two years. All we did was sit and talk for two hours, as he got the history, symptoms, medications, procedures, and timeline down right. He'd read her file (about 700 pages), but wanted to sort it all out in person.

So now we go back in May for a 4-day bout of testing to see whether the procedure's right for her.

I got stressed from the driving, though and snapped in one of my classes Wednesday. After trying to start class and having the back of the room not shut up, I told them if they didn't want to be there, they could leave. One wiseass said that I could leave, too.

I capped my marker and went back to my office. Screw 'em.

One of the better students followed me, and asked me to come back, so I did. Class went on pretty normally from there, but dammit, I did not need that.

LTK · « **Reply #2098 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 11:04 »

Hope it turns out all right, Carl-E. Having a competent and caring doctor is a rare thing nowadays. Class wiseasses suck though.

One time, in the middle of class, I told the lecturer that she was interrupting. She got a little confused until I said I meant the microphone was malfunctioning.

Redball · « **Reply #2099 on:** 29 Mar 2012, 11:19 »

Quote from: LTK on 29 Mar 2012, 11:04

Hope it turns out all right, Carl-E. Having a competent and caring doctor is a rare thing nowadays. Class wiseasses suck though.

One time, in the middle of class, I told the lecturer that she was interrupting. She got a little confused until I said I meant the microphone was malfunctioning.

My first thought was to tell her she's "cutting out." But that might have been confusing as well in the U.S.

Carl-E, it looks like the class problem turned out all right. Hope the best for your daughter.

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