stupid first world problems you're dealing with

my bosses are idiots and whiners and i'm tired of it. Also, I took another college class since I'm like 2-3 classes away from degree and our first project is making a color wheel with paints. WTF. I chose graphic design and I'm in my final semester and I'm PAINTING a fucking COLOR WHEEL. Am I 5 again? On the flip side I randomly decided to watch Toy Story 3 for the first time and it was kind of a nice mix, felt like 1st grade all over again.

typed out two complaints. read through them and deleted them because it seems silly to complain about anything right now. relatively speaking, even being 1 day home from hospital after surgery and one night stay there (all went well) it seems silly to complain about the construction noise at the project in the lot behind my neighbor's house or the over priced charcuterie board sent by a close relative that i probably can't eat because it's got a bunch of gluten in it. 

surgery and hospital stays are weird and frustrating even when it all goes well.  there's so many things to think about and the general vibe of recovering for a day and half under supervision and being tended to by nurses and CNAs and stuff. it's surreal but at this point, after so many of these in the last 6-8 years it's kind of normal and i know how to be a good patient. the nurses and CNAs are generally amazing people and don't get paid enough.

i get to do it all over again next month then hopefully this year of health woes will be behind me and i can have some kind of run of good luck and getting over these surgeries and not  having so many fucking appointments and things that require diet changes, fasting, scans, sedation etc... this year has been full of things that have gobbled up a lot energy and time and robbed me of focus. but it's better than being without care and without a plan of action/treatment.. that's for certain. 

so, i'm nearing the end of the tunnel and hope to the light is nice once i reach it. i'm going to metaphorically sun my balls in it once i get there.  if i wrote greeting cards they'd all end with something like that statement... 

FWP or FWsuccess? i don't know. at least there's lot's of good shit to veg out to while i recover. i'll try not to fill to many pages here at WATMM w/random dribbles from the basement. 

Some asshole took my apartment parking spot, so I've been forced to park a block away at a motel.  Hopefully I don't get towed.

  On 9/21/2024 at 8:33 PM, ignatius said:

typed out two complaints. read through them and deleted them because it seems silly to complain about anything right now. relatively speaking, even being 1 day home from hospital after surgery and one night stay there (all went well) it seems silly to complain about the construction noise at the project in the lot behind my neighbor's house or the over priced charcuterie board sent by a close relative that i probably can't eat because it's got a bunch of gluten in it. 

surgery and hospital stays are weird and frustrating even when it all goes well.  there's so many things to think about and the general vibe of recovering for a day and half under supervision and being tended to by nurses and CNAs and stuff. it's surreal but at this point, after so many of these in the last 6-8 years it's kind of normal and i know how to be a good patient. the nurses and CNAs are generally amazing people and don't get paid enough.

i get to do it all over again next month then hopefully this year of health woes will be behind me and i can have some kind of run of good luck and getting over these surgeries and not  having so many fucking appointments and things that require diet changes, fasting, scans, sedation etc... this year has been full of things that have gobbled up a lot energy and time and robbed me of focus. but it's better than being without care and without a plan of action/treatment.. that's for certain. 

so, i'm nearing the end of the tunnel and hope to the light is nice once i reach it. i'm going to metaphorically sun my balls in it once i get there.  if i wrote greeting cards they'd all end with something like that statement... 

FWP or FWsuccess? i don't know. at least there's lot's of good shit to veg out to while i recover. i'll try not to fill to many pages here at WATMM w/random dribbles from the basement. 

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watmm is you dribble safe space king, we need you

got invited to a wedding... on the other side of the country. 

I didn't like the new os version on my iphone so I attempted to use a backup that I made the night before to restore the old os. Restore didn't work and somehow bricked my phone, with the screen permanently showing the restore screen. I never backed up my photos because I trusted the process. FUCK.  Now I think I'll subscribe to the cloud service. So many lost kitty pics and family and shit.

Edit:

well that was a wild day. I almost accepted the fact my phone was broken and not fixable. Looking up prices of new iPhones. My parents told me to go to a little phone tech store around my place and the guy was able to restore my phone and pictures. Was only charged 60 dollars. 
all is well in the world

Through circumstances and bad planning the final stop of today’s shopping run leaves a somewhat unfortunate combination of items ; condoms and butter.

Might throw in a zucchini to make it less conspicuous. 

My last clean towel smells intensely of garlic. The distribution of scent seems fairly uniform, perhaps a slight hotspot here and there. As if it has been washed in garlic water. Other items that came from the same laundry cycle are unaffected. I do not understand. 

timing belt change on my car, along with a new gasket will cost me 1200 eur. there's also a regular service interval which will cost me additional 300 eur.

on my way to the shop a deer decided to cross the road right in front of my car. poor thing. now i also have my front bumper smashed with halogen and fog lights busted. original parts combined will cost me about 1100eur (530 for a god damn headlight?!?!?!?11one). additional 300 for a paint job and 300 for labor. poor me.

2700 motherfuckers, and of course i don't have deer collision insurance because i thought it would be silly to pay 100eur a month for this eventuality.

i also have to completely repair the roof of my house. install new windows, buy a new electric water heater, a new log furnace or a heat pump. renovate all of the upper floors. a new kitchen. electricity will go up by 20% because the fucking free market. they force people to buy electric cars because 'climate change' and 'carbon footprint', get them hooked on it, then raise the electricity prices. food is going up. wtf is this shit? we need to take the fucking system back gents, these bloodsuckers are gonna suck us dry

mornings and time zones and hurricanes are fckn dumb. 

Seeing your child sob due to a fever, sore throat, and snot everywhere fucking kills me on the inside. She’s not being hysterical. Just sobbing quietly.
 

I stay cool though, but fuck… 

  On 10/12/2024 at 7:19 PM, Squee said:

Seeing your child sob due to a fever, sore throat, and snot everywhere fucking kills me on the inside. She’s not being hysterical. Just sobbing quietly.
 

I stay cool though, but fuck… 

I don't (and will never) have kids but damn I sympathize with you.

these fucking construction workers are still going 6 days a week. starting at 730am. fucking hammers and nail guns and saws and drills. it's fucking bullshit. fuck. at least there's a lot of them and maybe they'll be done sooner because of it but they're really fucking up my nerves. i haven't gotten the OK to go back to normal activities from the surgeon yet.. next week should have that OK from the doc. so i'm kinda stuck at home mostly enduring this fucking racket all day. my sleep is fuckt so there's that.  can't wait to ride my bike and get outside in the changing colors. 

  On 9/23/2024 at 10:43 PM, ignatius said:

got invited to a wedding... on the other side of the country. 

the wedding is black tie. so if i go i'll have to rent a fucking tuxedo. way to make it more annoying. brides! am i right? 

  On 10/17/2024 at 3:06 AM, ignatius said:

the wedding is black tie. so if i go i'll have to rent a fucking tuxedo. way to make it more annoying. brides! am i right? 

Weddings fucking suck on so many levels. That's why we invited absolutely no one to come and witness us say yes. Town hall weddings for the win.

Halloween chocolate bars are so much smaller than they used to be 

  On 10/25/2024 at 12:07 AM, YEK said:

Halloween chocolate bars are so much smaller than they used to be 

I never understood why the small bars were labeled "fun size.". When I was a kid, I'd have had much more fun with a candy bar the size of my leg.

Fun week working from home, earlier this week electricity got cut off just before the daily meeting and today my chair broke and I fell to the floor just before the daily.

  On 10/25/2024 at 9:58 AM, zkom said:

Fun week working from home, earlier this week electricity got cut off just before the daily meeting and today my chair broke and I fell to the floor just before the daily.

missing the daily meeting sounds like a silver lining to the cloud, ay? 

i hope your ass is ok from when you fell. 

  On 10/25/2024 at 5:28 PM, ignatius said:

missing the daily meeting sounds like a silver lining to the cloud, ay? 

i hope your ass is ok from when you fell. 

I'm fine, but a little concerned maybe that how long would it take for them to start suspecting that I'm just making up excuses

- Sorry I missed the daily, the electricity went out in the building
- Ok

Two days later:
- Sorry I missed the daily, my chair broke when I sat on it
- Hmm.. ok

Next week:
- Sorry I missed the daily, my keyboard caught on fire
- You're just making these up, aren't you?

  On 10/25/2024 at 6:27 PM, zkom said:

I'm fine, but a little concerned maybe that how long would it take for them to start suspecting that I'm just making up excuses

- Sorry I missed the daily, the electricity went out in the building
- Ok

Two days later:
- Sorry I missed the daily, my chair broke when I sat on it
- Hmm.. ok

Next week:
- Sorry I missed the daily, my keyboard caught on fire
- You're just making these up, aren't you?

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take pics and paste them all together and the use them as your background on the Zoom call. if you have a big bruise on your ass make sure to include that. 

both eardrums perforated...

confronting the forever massive healthcare bureaucracy again. trying to get some shit done before end of year. if it gets pushed to january it comes out of my pocket because deductible and max out of pocket get reset at new year. fckning shit system. 

doctor wrote order for procedure and fucked up the order so has to send it again before i can schedule. fckn delays i tell ya.. why can't i just 'make it so' like Picard?

I'd just like to report in that after a few months of brew coffee from a moccamaster at my workplace the big ass all in one coffee machine/grinder/espresso/cappucino/milk/tea/cocoa wonder with the cheapest beans the world has ever seen is back and the coffee is tasting worse than ever, also Trump won the election, everything is fuck. Life on this planet is hard in the 2020's, but at least it's going to get worse.

  On 11/6/2024 at 8:22 AM, Silent Member said:

everything is fuck

very yes.