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RCA what the entire damn hell do you mean that in the year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen you are still making MP3 players that run on AAA BATTERIES

(didn't notice til I got back to work with it and tore the package open because hey, EVERYTHING has a built in rechargeable battery now amirite? But I already have some rechargeable AAAs and it's just going to sit in my car plugged into the aux cord so screw it, it can stay)

 

The work computers here are all horrible due to being used for years by digitally illiterate people who littered them with crap programs and viruses. On top of that, someone just called to schedule an "emergency" dentist appointment, I told them we don't have "emergency" dentists just regular scheduled dentists, they said that's what they wanted, but then were mad that there's none available today (only from next wednesday onwards) because it's an emergency after all.

 

A whole host of things! Tried to get a new keyboard, bvt Best Bvy was only selling one for ^^acs, and it was fvcking solar powered and fifty godda^^n dollars, so I figvred, no, no way any co^^pany is so fvcking obnoxiovs that it'd ^^ake it so I can't ]vst hook vp any kinda keyboard. A keyboard is a keyboard, no reason for it to be specific to each ^^achine, yeh? WRONG. FVCK. The ones on the Apple store online cost ONE HVNDRED A^^ERICAN DOLLARS, HOLY FVCK. SO ANNOYING.
And I rvined ^^y favorite pair of ]eans with fovdation sealant, which I was not told beforehand wovld vtterly wreck the^^. Figvred it'd be like paint, and I covld keep wearing the^^ to work, at least. NOPE.
AND ^^y ass is covered in bvg bites. ]vst all vp in there. gross. awfvl. ahhhhhhhhhh, not fvn at all.
So, yeah. I'^^ still typing like an asshole for the foreseeable fvtvre.

 

This fucking video that popped up in my suggestions. Spoiler alert: it's some guy judging KIDS THESE DAYS who can't focus on only one thing at a time anymore NOT LIKE BEFORE THE INTERNET WHEN EVERYTHING WAS GOOD

Because that's the sign of a life well lived, right? Sitting around doing nothing and experiencing as few things as possible. Remember when adults judged kids for the opposite? For sitting around watching TV for hours at a time, not doing anything else? Get out and do something, learn something, experience something -- now the internet allows you to do so much at once and everyone says that's the sign of laziness and apathy. Whatever.

There's something to be said for sitting down and focusing on one thing when you need to, but you know what I don't need to spend all my focus on? Some windbag on the internet who thinks I'm living my life wrong.

_{And then there's my philosophy that a low tolerance for boredom is what's made humanity great, but that's an entire other thing.}

 

@oph I am incredibly interested in this theory, and I think it will mesh nicely with my theory of "laziness => development of agriculture => development of 'civilization'"

 

I think my dad's been smoking actual cigarettes again because I swear I can smell it and it's driving me nuts, but it's not like I can ask, because I know the answer, regardless of the truth, is going to be no.

 

This is also my belief! Humanity is kind of complicated and there are a lot of things that can lead to world-changing inventions. Necessity and laziness, certainly. I also think we have a lot to thank boredom for. I'm sure plenty of things have been invented because someone was bored and just trying to entertain themselves.

But I think a low tolerance for boredom is what truly separates us from other animals. Other animals just deal with having nothing to do -- they space out for a while, until a need presents itself. Humans get up and do something (or sit and do something, in more recent years). Other animals have needs, other animals can be lazy, but they don't seem to have as much trouble with boredom as we do.

 

And factor THAT into animals we *know* have higher intellectual capacities (tool using, language using, etc) and look at what happens to them when they get bored. Prime example: captive orcas going batshit fucknuts.

"I need something to DO" is a mark of higher thinking.

Take my dogs, for example. We had to put them on the porch so the floor installers could come in. It's pouring rain, so they're stuck on the porch. They whined for a bit and then flopped down and went to sleep. An hour ago.

I'd have started fucking around with the plants or something.

Also we can move this to Stream of Consciousness.

 

Hey. Hey remember that new hardwood floor I was so excited about? The installer just got here!

• Subfloor is fucked throughout the house and needs to be refinished
• We got hosed on the quality of the material itself. The installer could scratch the surface with a pen. "No way it'll stand up to your dog."

Yaaaaay.

 

Who the hell thinks it's a good idea to make an 8.5x11" printable guide with a SOLID BLACK BACKGROUND

 

This cold that is managing not only to flood my sinuses with phlegm but also make me nauseous.

 

TUMBLR IS A WELL DESIGNED WEBSITE

 

@Arxon there isn't even a link there!
"St.Paul" is not a link
omfg tumblr

 

@unknownanonymous apparently any time there's not a space between the period (is it still called a period when it's that usage?) and there word it's flagged as a link. Every time. _-_

 

@Arxon yeah. oh tumblr...
i guess the period there'll have to go

 

So I'm living in a dorm rn and the window in our bathroom is open just a little bit, just like, an inch. And we can't close it.
Which is normally fine except that today there's a fucking wind advisory so we're getting up to 45mph gusts and so it's absolutely fucking freezing

 

Where I live it's the middle of the night and I am not feeling well at all, and I just have to say this:

Spoiler: Gross, gross, gross tmi

I feel like my butt just vomited out my dinner. All of it.

 

GOD. FUCKING. DAMN. IT.

turnips were selling at 497 bells this afternoon in my ACNL town. i sold my turnips and made a cool million. i left the town open in case anyone else wanted to sell and went to rehearsal.

... my ds fucking died while i was away, and i didn't notice until 10.59 pm. i tried going back to a time i hadn't played today, but nope, spoiled turnips.

so instead of being up 800 000 bells, i'm down 200 000. hooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. all because i thought it would last a few hours, closed in sleep mode, after i charged it yesterday.

and of course this is stupid and i shouldn't be bothered about it. but dammit last week i had to sell at a loss and this week was the big spike pattern and i'm trying to get my fucking turnip and bell badges and just UGH. this was a thing that made me HAPPY today, in the midst of losing both my fucking evenings on Monday and Tuesday, and losing my afternoon today, and i haven't done any fucking homework in days because I HAVE NO SPOONS BECAUSE EMERGENCIES KEEP HAPPENING but at least i could sell my fucking bells at a gain in a stupid video game where i have some ounce of control over what i do in my life

fuck. everything. i'm going to bed and crying.

 

Don't like when people arbitrarily pvt "straight" in front of their "wow don't people svck" posts. I'^^ not even straight, bvt fvck is it svper obnoxiovs and kinda scary.