The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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I am playing with Poser. in the preview sceen I thought that there was a chair that was going through the floor but when I try to render the image the chair isn't visible.
...same here going to get down into the 20s and even upper teens for lows the next couple days. Stocked up the larder yesterday in preparation. No need to go anywhere as not only will it be cold but rather windy.
-28C overnight, windchills to -40C.. gets better by Friday...
75 F here yesterday. 80 F today.
Here it's 31F this morning, predicted to be 51F by afternoon. Bye, bye, snow.
Complaint: It's time for laundry again. I have to walk up to the grocery store dragging my laundry cart to catch the one & only bus into the city at 8:00 AM, then do my laundry at the laundromat, and because there is no bus home until 3:00 PM, get an UBER back home before the lunch crowd ties up all the UBERs willing to drive out of the city.
Non-complaint: Decided not to do laundry today. Wheee...
. Although it is a good day for it (no rain, streets & sidewalks are clear, laundry is ripe), I've decided to not go because my legs still haven't recovered from the last walk to the grocery store, and although ripe, the laundry still hasn't turned green. So, there's still time.
And besides, I have a couple of new bedsheet sets from Amazon arriving in the mail today. Yay, the 15 year old rags can be retired(and burned).
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URGENT UPDATE!
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom WE ARE DOOMED...
THIS IS OUR LAST HOPE...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN™ IS BEGGING YOU...
WE ARE BROKE!...
WE'RE DONE...
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom FDR IMPLORES YOU...
GAME OVER DUDE...
WE BEGGED YOU 19 TIMES YESTERDAY...
WE BEGGED YOU 20 TIMES TODAY...
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom YOU LET US DOWN...
THE OTHER GUYS BEAT US!...
IT'S OVER!
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom ...WE GIVE UP!!
WE NEED MORE MONEY TO SPEND...
EXCLAMATION MARKS AND CAPITAL LETTERS ARE EXPENSIVE...
THE OTHER GUYS HAVE MORE MONEY THAN US!...
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom WHY DID YOU LET US DOWN...
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom YOU KILLED DEMOCRACY...
HITLER™AND SATAN™ ARE GAINING IN THE POLLS BECAUSE OF YOU...
A PERSONAL REQUEST FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN...
EVERY TIME YOU IGNORE US A PUPPY DIES...
STOP IGNORING US OR WE KILL ANOTHER KITTEN...
ORDER 66 ALERT!!!...
DARTH VADER IS GAINING IN THE POLLS...
THE FORMER GUY™ WILL BE RE-ELECTED IN TEN MINUTES IF YOU DON'T ACT NOW!!
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom WHY ARE YOU IGNORING US?!?
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom SATAN™ MAKES A STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT!...
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom YOUR MEMBERSHIP IS IN JEOPARDY!...
whateveryournameis@geemaildotcom WE DONT WANT TO BOTHER YOU, BUT WE WILL...
THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN SURVIVE!...
That's like the titles of 82% of my emails, despite the fact that I keep unsubscribing from every group and marking many as spam.
But I gotta say, it's marketing genius to start blaming potential donors for the fall of civilization and spamming them like a needy, blaming ex... nothing says sincerity like that... or pretending the email is from someone famous... "A PERSONAL REQUEST FROM MAHATMA GANDHI™..."
like I'm totally sure all these famous celebrities and political figures know my name personally and are appealing directly to me...
Actually, I'm not 100% sure that's not the case... I went to some event a few months back and one well known official was there greeting people, shaking hands and as I passed him I said "Thanks for all the hard work, but please stop emailing me..." He smiled, then looked puzzled for a nanosecond, then lightly chuckled... so I'm not sure if he got the joke, didn't actually hear me and was being polite or just got the punchline of a joke he'd heard earlier in the day... My daughter thinks he did get the joke, because he seemed to have heard me, but who knows... maybe he does know me and I'm the only person he keeps emailing, over and over and over... maybe all those celebrities and officials really are relying on me, craving my approval and longing for me to acknowledge their requests...
Either way, it's insane the turn these emails have taken recently, it's pretty gross actually and a huge turn off... but obviously it's working on some people or else they wouldn't be doing it so much.
Blegh...
Complaint over.
I am thinking of going to bed soon. Oh wait! I'm in bed already! Guess time to sleep?
...noon
...midnight.
...step programme.
...Tribes of Israel
...Days of Christmas.
...Labours of Hercules
...Angry Men
...Monkeys
,,.the price I pay daily for being a "concerned Citizen".
The ones I dislike the most are those that try and shame the recipient into signing a petition, letter, or making a donation.. I've actually written directly to some of these groups informing them that such a strategy is self destructive as it usually turns people off to whatever their cause is.
Ugh... it seems I caused a fluctuation in the thread flow with my previous post... or I could have been hallucinating that anything existed but for a post about impending slumber... quite possibly while traveling the ether in a dream state due to lack of hydration or too many pork dumplings I may have glimpsed a parallel universe where there existed more between a lament and a confirmation of one's realization of which piece of furniture their mortal essence is currently occupying.
Since it is getting late and I'm about to go out on a longish drive, I thought I should leave everyone with this thought in their heads before they go off to bed...
This is definitely the future I signed up for... Planet of the Swine.
Don't be too concerned... it's by the same people who publish a Popular Mechanically oriented magazine and used to have articles about how everybody was going to commute in hover-cars and jet packs in a couple of years...
Its not like they can fly or anything... well... only when they get scared or angry... or hungry... or they are awake...
But yeah... Super Pigs... exciting times indeed.
Oh... and thanks Canada... first Robin Thicke and now Super Pigs... couldn't you just send us some nice stinkbug eating giant Joro spiders like Japan (or possibly Korea or China) did... Sheeez... Fickin' invincible pigs...
...I read a story about that in The Guardian the other day. Very wiley and dangerous critters.
Next you know they'll be commanding starships:
Non-complaint: Laugh of the day. Y'know that Win10 browser app called "Edge"? Well, there's a weather app that it puts on the right of the taskbar. Today I clicked on it to see when the snow would quit. In the short list of links it presents when you first hover over the weather icon there was a nice link to traffic density reports for my area, and it even showed a tight map of my village.
All one square mile of it. And 7/8ths of which is farmland.
I'm sure traffic reports are very helpful for people in Los Angeles, NYC, Atlanta, Orlando, and Chicago (and others), but a traffic report for this area is like netting fish in the Dead Sea.(*rolling eyes*) When I first moved back here after living in a few large cities for the last 40 years, I discovered that the quiet is only sometimes interrupted by a car going by. And the passing of a truck, or especially a snow plow, is an event.
But now, after 15 years here, I've learned to tune out all those once-every-3-minutes road noises.
Traffic report for this town. ROFL
The only time we have a traffic slowdown in this town is when a rare train longer than 5 cars passes the road crossing.
I was startled by the door slaming shut. No one closed it! it was due to the windows being opened.
Can I take a nap?
It's almost bedtime, but can't go yet.
okay I will drink coffee!
Okey, doesn't look like they are going to put up additional sales today, time to pull the trigger on the cart and hit the sack.
I guess I need to stop drinking coffee tonight.
...at least you probably don't get the "Cars That Go Boom" (cars with powerful subwoofers) like I do where I live. Sometimes more than several a night
I was at the pub with my mates on Monday where they hold a weekly trivia challenge and one of those cars with a bone rattling subwoofer (and amp turned up to 11) was at the stoplight on the main avenue a half block away. We could actually feel the vibrations which also set the windows in the building rattling. Crikey, I thought the Cascadia Subduction fault out in the Pacific had finally snapped and we were about to get the "Big One"..
I just ate a seaweed snack "with sea salt", although I think it would be weirder if it DIDN'T have sea salt.
I did notice some flyers near their feeding bowl from the gang of capybaras that were paying good money for cat toys that can be recycled into unlicensed sports apparel.
I've been watching Electric Dreams, an anthology series based on short stories by Phillip K. Dick (whose stories were made into the movies Total Recall, Blade Runner and Minority Report, and probably others). The last episode did a really good job of establishing a series of events where you got a pretty clear idea of what was really going on, and then after the point where the episode SHOULD have ended, it just kept going and spelled everything out through flashbacks. My wife and I were just shouting "WE KNOW!" at the TV.
Non-complaint: It snowed much of the day yesterday, but it was very cold and the snow was extremely fine, small flakes that didn't stick and just blew around, then it got warm and most of it melted, then it was cold and snowy again last night. The result this morning being, the world looks like a sugar donut out there. Very light coating of powdery snow, with tufts of grass sticking through. Yep, a sugar donut.
Hmmm..., perhaps that's not a good comparison, if I received a sugar donut with greenish tufts, I'd be a bit wary.
Regardless, "sugar donut" was my first thought upon looking out of the kitchen window this morning.
Awaken! Rise and greet the glorious day!
Little late to start... It's 5PM already
I thought it was 11 am?
I think I have actually started my day at 5 pm. Oh wait that was yesterday. I slept most of the day. I did wake up for breakfast and lunch but went back to sleep after each one.
What am I doing?
Old dog, new trick: I've bought my first game console, switch, controller, thing-a-ma-bob, what-cha-call-it.
I've never had one before. For the last 25 years I've only played Myst type games using keyboard & mouse. I know nothing about specialized game controllers except that people expect you to have one and be conversant about them.
The one I settled on is the Logitech F710. It's apparently an older model, but the price was right and I couldn't see spending oodles more for something I don't completely understand yet. I did have a problem getting it to run on Windows10, but a little research on the Internet netted an easy solution (needs the XBOX receiver driver). There may be other ways to get it to work or work more completely, but for my miniscule uses, it's quite adequate.
So, what have I learned? In short, I hate it!
Well, at least for playing Obduction, too clumsy to mouse around efficently without using a separate mouse, and so far I also still have to resort to the keyboard for some basic functions. Perhaps if I play around with programming customizations?
However, it is a little more appropriate for another game that I have a tiny bit of interest in (the one where a block-shape figure is perpetually flying/falling in the sky trying to avoid flying into block shaped mountains). I find it easier to move the little joystick than the mouse for this game.
But now, at least, I know more about this type of game controller.
Wheee..., am I'm "hip" now? 
Complaint: Oh, my aching back. I've been back-pain free for several months, but two days ago I felt a vertebrae slip slightly before I corrected my posture and kept it in its place. I was hoping that my body didn't notice the slip. But just like clockwork, two days later, everything's screaming "Oh yeah, we noticed!"
I was going to toddle on up to the grocery store today for salad stuff, milk, bread, etc, but when my back gets like this, it's not enjoyable.