stupid first world problems you're dealing with

i ate too much cuban food for the 2nd night in a row. 

Hearing test today. As expected, Noise Induced Hearing Loss. chunky notch around the 4k mark. I was surprised that it's my right is ear that seems most impacted. 

Still early stages, in the "mild" bracket. I really need to upgrade my ear plugs and general ear care when out. Hey ho.


 

My wife’s friend is going to be performing “In C” with Terry Riley in Kyoto, in Kiyomizu-dera, this month but I can’t go because of previous obligations goddamn it. 
 

I can remember a time before the internet, but I can't remember a time before "you're almost out of storage and may not receive emails." Yet I can't ever seem to stop getting emails.  How are all of these things true at once?

got call from brother to let me know he has covid. talked to mom she sounds horrible, is super fatigued so she's got it too but hasn't tested yet.  i tested negative. we traveled on different days so i think they got it on the way back to florida. i wore a mask in the airport terminals because fucking busy af in atlanta and ft lauderdale. 

just ate 8 servings (whole bag) of the simply organic doritos. they were good but wtf. 

payroll company is not doing timely things w/the witholding taxes so i'm getting letters from the oregon deept of revenue and have to deal w/that shit. no one answers the phone there. 

also, have to start low iodide diet next week to prep for radioactive isotope (iodine) treatment in early august. just gonna eat unsalted bananas for 3 weeks i think.

  On 7/11/2024 at 12:09 AM, ignatius said:

got call from brother to let me know he has covid. talked to mom she sounds horrible, is super fatigued so she's got it too but hasn't tested yet.  i tested negative. we traveled on different days so i think they got it on the way back to florida. i wore a mask in the airport terminals because fucking busy af in atlanta and ft lauderdale. 

just ate 8 servings (whole bag) of the simply organic doritos. they were good but wtf. 

payroll company is not doing timely things w/the witholding taxes so i'm getting letters from the oregon deept of revenue and have to deal w/that shit. no one answers the phone there. 

also, have to start low iodide diet next week to prep for radioactive isotope (iodine) treatment in early august. just gonna eat unsalted bananas for 3 weeks i think.

 

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I thought covid let up in the hot seasons. Maybe just something I tell myself. It’s unpleasant wearing a mask on the bus with this scorching heat my areas been getting. 

hold up, did someone in this thread just say they were putting shit up their dick?

  On 7/11/2024 at 1:27 AM, YEK said:

I thought covid let up in the hot seasons. Maybe just something I tell myself. It’s unpleasant wearing a mask on the bus with this scorching heat my areas been getting. 

Seems to be particularly bad right now. Quite a few people at my workplace are home sick and saying symptoms are worse than before.

  On 7/11/2024 at 1:27 AM, YEK said:

I thought covid let up in the hot seasons. Maybe just something I tell myself. It’s unpleasant wearing a mask on the bus with this scorching heat my areas been getting. 

i think the waves have always been seasonal right? sort of coincide with elevated travel numbers. my mom sounded worse this time than last time she had it. she's had all the shots.

new variants seem to come and go as often as they always have. i think i'll be back to wearing a mask in crowded indoor spaces.

  On 7/11/2024 at 3:58 AM, ignatius said:

i think the waves have always been seasonal right? sort of coincide with elevated travel numbers. my mom sounded worse this time than last time she had it. she's had all the shots.

new variants seem to come and go as often as they always have. i think i'll be back to wearing a mask in crowded indoor spaces.

Interesting. Well, I’ll continue to get my vaccines despite some of my family’s anti-vaxxer views.
I have yet to get sick. My brother in law is constantly bringing it home from the college he works at. 

  On 7/11/2024 at 5:10 AM, YEK said:

Interesting. Well, I’ll continue to get my vaccines despite some of my family’s anti-vaxxer views.
I have yet to get sick. My brother in law is constantly bringing it home from the college he works at. 

knock wood i've not had it either. at least not that i'm aware of.  had a light flu right at the start of covid and that could've been it but it was before everything closed down and before it was a thing. i had a shit job for several months a while back and talked to some people there who had it 3 or 4 times.  my brother has had at least twice.  mom is on her 2nd go round as well. 

  On 7/11/2024 at 1:41 AM, hello spiral said:

hold up, did someone in this thread just say they were putting shit up their dick?

No, ignatius said he ate too much Cuban food

someone is sounding themselves whilst on the phone to Joyrex about bullying on the forum.

pretty sure having a disc issue. hard to say. started end of june and now can't stand for more than 5-10 minutes w/o pretty shitty leg pain radiating all the way down to my foot.. also the middle third of my leg including knee goes numb after a while. started taking leftover meloxicam yesterday which is making a dent but wtf. this, right in the middle of prepping for other health shit.  it's what i get for going to florida. 

  On 7/9/2024 at 5:39 AM, chenGOD said:

My wife’s friend is going to be performing “In C” with Terry Riley in Kyoto, in Kiyomizu-dera, this month but I can’t go because of previous obligations goddamn it. 
 

first-world solution: previous obligation canceled, I'm off to Kyoto this weekend! Woot!

I spent the whole work day hunting for a bug that turned out to be a one character typo made by me. I think I'm ready for the weekend now..

  On 7/11/2024 at 1:41 AM, hello spiral said:

hold up, did someone in this thread just say they were putting shit up their dick?

Surely that’s the first world successes thread?

  On 7/22/2024 at 2:53 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 7/11/2024 at 1:41 AM, hello spiral said:

hold up, did someone in this thread just say they were putting shit up their dick?

Surely that’s the first world successes thread?

depends whose shit it is. 

Rhymezone.com claims "world" is 1 syllable, and has a list of "1 syllable" rhymes that are actually two syllables.  It is physically impossible to say the word "world" in under 2 syllables, and I am offended by such an outrageous claim.  My lyric writing has been completely derailed by this.

  On 7/24/2024 at 12:48 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Rhymezone.com claims "world" is 1 syllable, and has a list of "1 syllable" rhymes that are actually two syllables.  It is physically impossible to say the word "world" in under 2 syllables, and I am offended by such an outrageous claim.  My lyric writing has been completely derailed by this.

Fuck that. If "strengthed" is a monosyllabic word then so is word.

My FWP:
Last October I broke a rip and it still hurts when I lean right.
About a month and a half ago my foot started hurting like crazy. Felt like some sort of inflammation but then pain moved to my ankle. Went to the doctor today because I was worried that I had inherited my dad's osteoarthritis. She said it was nothing.
My wrist hurts from carrying my daughter around.
A couple of days ago my shoulder locked up and I could barely lift my arm to pick up my cup of coffee let alone use a mouse.

But let's flip it up and look on the bright side of things: I fucking love getting older! The older I get the less I care. It's wonderful.

I am hungry but I don't have dinner made yet.

I'm buying a new laptop and I'm already dreading re-installing everything on it. Particularly anything with license keys. Makes me want to start using only free software.

Which kind of gave me an idea that I could create a virtual machine that has all the music producing software that I need and then just copy it from place to place. Or hear me on this.. dockerize everything and then just build and run the container wherever I need and mount the music projects from a network drive (with a version control and automatic backups?). I can foresee dozens of hours wasted on this project.

  On 9/13/2024 at 5:46 PM, zkom said:

I'm buying a new laptop and I'm already dreading re-installing everything on it. Particularly anything with license keys. Makes me want to start using only free software.

Which kind of gave me an idea that I could create a virtual machine that has all the music producing software that I need and then just copy it from place to place. Or hear me on this.. dockerize everything and then just build and run the container wherever I need and mount the music projects from a network drive (with a version control and automatic backups?). I can foresee dozens of hours wasted on this project.

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You could - or create a Google Doc with ALL your info. That's what I've done.

My FWP: Getting feedback from a French cunt is completely ruined my day.

  On 9/13/2024 at 6:14 PM, Squee said:

You could - or create a Google Doc with ALL your info. That's what I've done.

It's not just the finding keys and passwords but reinstalling everything and validating the keys etc.

If I could put everything in a Docker container I could just build the image and then run it with two commands on any computer that can run the same architecture containers (f.e. it could be remote desktop connection to a cloud based virtual machine). Granted this would mean that I would probably have to start working 100% in some Unix based system and it would mostly just work with free software that don't require registering with some GUI app or web page. Although it works with software that just need a license key file because the Docker can handle that. And at least some Windows software can be ran with Wine.

Is this worth the trouble to go through? Probably not, but it would be an interesting exercise to create a fully containerized music production environment.

  On 9/6/2024 at 4:31 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

I am hungry but I don't have dinner made yet.

What did you make?