stupid first world problems you're dealing with

bought a 3.5' usb disc drive to read old Amiga 500 discs, found out they can't be read on pc's without installing additional hardware such as a special floppy disk controller or a second floppy drive.. fml.

Tomatoes

my neck's kinda sore from working at my job as a professional video game player

Reading some of the conspiracy theories on the internet makes me sad.

I'm always covered in cat fur.

The reply box is adding what is most likely an illusion of there being a tab space before each of these sentences.

*edit: the tab space is real, and inexplicable, and I'm afraid of what I don't understand.

love/hate relationship with everything/everyone

People are asking for mac version of this windows VST plugin my company just made. ran out of corn chips for my salsa. double whammy :(

  On 11/2/2013 at 1:39 AM, Glunk said:

love/hate relationship with everything/everyone

that about sums it up, yeah

except for maybe baby goats. i don't have any hatred at all for baby goats.

I've become more and more introverted over the last year and it's starting to cause small conflicts with my very outgoing, social girlfriend and I.

I only wanna eat candy.

When TV chefs make food their kitchens always stay so clean. After I have done cooking the kitchen looks like a bomb went off there.

my new roommate wanted to bring 10+ people to our place tonight. he just moved in so i'm getting to know him but i wasn't down with those plans because, well many reasons, he doesn't know the majority of them, i don't want a party, he says it's a "get together". i mean, our place is so small it's hard not to bump into each other.i'll admit, i'm a loner, so his plans were hard for me to be cool with... but i think i'm being reasonable. he was saying how he was going to talk it over with me me cause we're roommates and he respects me etc but as soon as i laid down the law he dropped the niceties and was straight up irrational. luckily i'm a good arguer... like he says his friends are older so they are more mature, but the real truth is they just wanted a place to drink and if i said it 's cool then i could expect them every weekend, coming over here, drinking, acting like punks.

the day i met him i tagged him as overly extroverted guy, and i knew we might bump heads , but really, why party HERE?

maybe i need an introverted roommate like myself lol . actually i've gotten along with most roommates, i'm quite a nice guy

in got bopped by a mini cab in the cycle lane last night and got all my cycle lights broken

I don't like my avatar anymore but I haven't had it too long and I hate to be one of those people who changes it too often.

  On 11/3/2013 at 9:14 PM, spratters said:

I don't like my avatar anymore but I haven't had it too long and I hate to be one of those people who changes it too often.

I've disliked my username for years but I can never think of a better one, plus I've noticed we can't change our display names anymore anyway.

I got into work today and was informed that i was 3 hours late. Turns out, they changed my schedule two days ago and didn't bother to tell me. Fuckers.

  On 11/2/2013 at 1:39 AM, Glunk said:

love/hate relationship with everything/everyone

YUP, story of my life

just spent my afternoon prepping for a tutoring session (im the tutor) a student asked to set up at a new time, so i was cleaning the apt, taking notes and organizing things on my blackboard, re-reading her textbook to make sure i got it all, preparing what i was gonna say...

and she cancelled the meeting by calling five minutes before i was expecting her.

as an added fwp, the hours this woman is asking me to meet for are kinda getting out of hand, and she has it in her head that i'm available to do on-call homework problems (i typically deny or ignore those - for instance the frantic homework Q's that i received in my inbox at 8:30pm on halloween)... it's quickly becoming clear that i'm gonna be paid $4/hr if i don't renegotiate the quarterly payments we worked out.

edit: and i coulda been reading the AAA thread all afternoon ffs!

  On 11/4/2013 at 1:59 AM, luke viia said:

just spent my afternoon prepping for a tutoring session (im the tutor) a student asked to set up at a new time, so i was cleaning the apt, taking notes and organizing things on my blackboard, re-reading her textbook to make sure i got it all, preparing what i was gonna say...

 

and she cancelled the meeting by calling five minutes before i was expecting her.

 

as an added fwp, the hours this woman is asking me to meet for are kinda getting out of hand, and she has it in her head that i'm available to do on-call homework problems (i typically deny or ignore those - for instance the frantic homework Q's that i received in my inbox at 8:30pm on halloween)... it's quickly becoming clear that i'm gonna be paid $4/hr if i don't renegotiate the quarterly payments we worked out.

 

edit: and i coulda been reading the AAA thread all afternoon ffs!

i hear ya, i used to be a math tutor awhile back but the hours were fucked, the people sucked and the pay was penuts. stopped doing it cause it didnt justify the time i was loosing from doing my own homework.

my fwp: Just found out that Gabriel Iglesias is finally playing a show near me and ive always wanted to see him live. was gonna go with my dad since the two of us love him but tickets start at $83

maybe next time.

just ran 5 and a half miles and still feel fat as all hell.

  On 11/4/2013 at 1:59 AM, luke viia said:

just spent my afternoon prepping for a tutoring session (im the tutor) a student asked to set up at a new time, so i was cleaning the apt, taking notes and organizing things on my blackboard, re-reading her textbook to make sure i got it all, preparing what i was gonna say...

 

and she cancelled the meeting by calling five minutes before i was expecting her.

 

as an added fwp, the hours this woman is asking me to meet for are kinda getting out of hand, and she has it in her head that i'm available to do on-call homework problems (i typically deny or ignore those - for instance the frantic homework Q's that i received in my inbox at 8:30pm on halloween)... it's quickly becoming clear that i'm gonna be paid $4/hr if i don't renegotiate the quarterly payments we worked out.

 

edit: and i coulda been reading the AAA thread all afternoon ffs!

hey luke, first off, congrats on tutoring...it can have its rewards.

Might I suggest some advice? and feel free to reject it. But if I were in your position, I'd lay down some ground rules from here on out and make it very clear they are non-negotiable. I understand they are paying you, but they aren't paying you enough money to respond 24/7 and be "on call".

The phones in the office all went down. I submitted a support ticket, haven't heard from the guy it got assigned to, and my phone keeps cycling between 75 seconds of attempting to connect and two minutes of notifying me that the connection failed because it can't connect with the gateway. This has been going on nearly four hours.

  On 11/4/2013 at 4:14 AM, SR4 said:

hey luke, first off, congrats on tutoring...it can have its rewards.

 

Might I suggest some advice? and feel free to reject it. But if I were in your position, I'd lay down some ground rules from here on out and make it very clear they are non-negotiable. I understand they are paying you, but they aren't paying you enough money to respond 24/7 and be "on call".

thanks for the advice, and yeah, this was what i was planning to do. what did i actually do? nothing. lol. the battle i'm fighting in my mind is that i want her to do well in this class, and to appreciate and enjoy the material (it's a pretty cool course tbh, and the math is simple) -- but i also don't want to be taken advantage of. i like tutoring and have done it for a "math learning center" but whenever i do one-on-one stuff with students they almost immediately make it clear that they would prefer i just do all their homework for them. i always firmly stamp my foot in the ground at this request and make it equally clear that 1) i'm not willing to do that and 2) the student, my client, will very likely fail the course with that attitude. what i'm less good at refining are ground rules. i really want the students to succeed and i'll put in extra time if they will too, but i get frustrated when i'm asked to solve problems on-call and the student comes back the next week and tells me they haven't done all the homework. that almost hurts my feelings, because why am i spending this time explaining concepts to someone who isn't even trying? ah well. i feel similarly to frankie and probably won't continue doing this for too long.

new fwp: i found a pack of camel lights in my backpack (???) with 17 smokes left. i quit smoking about 5 years ago, but this immediately made me want one really bad, and in fact, i walked outside and smoked two and drank a beer. now i feel like shit and like i failed somehow.

Dude, it happens to the best of us. As long as you don't pick up the habit again, there's problem with one slip-up.

Fwp: I'm tired but it still feels early.

  On 11/5/2013 at 2:45 AM, luke viia said:

new fwp: i found a pack of camel lights in my backpack (???) with 17 smokes left. i quit smoking about 5 years ago, but this immediately made me want one really bad, and in fact, i walked outside and smoked two and drank a beer. now i feel like shit and like i failed somehow.

yeah, this:

  On 11/5/2013 at 5:15 AM, Sprigg said:

As long as you don't pick up the habit again, there's problem with one slip-up.

also "the beauty of quitting is that, now that I've quit, y'know, I can have one. because I've quit." lel (do not take this as advice)