stupid first world problems you're dealing with

I watched a 22 minute video of an engineer EQing guitars on a Meshuggah song, just notching out annoyance frequencies.  I guess I must have been pretty mesmerized.  22 minutes!  It didn't give me anything, other than confirmation that other engineers obsess over such details too.

  On 4/7/2017 at 9:46 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I watched a 22 minute video of an engineer EQing guitars on a Meshuggah song, just notching out annoyance frequencies.  I guess I must have been pretty mesmerized.  22 minutes!  It didn't give me anything, other than confirmation that other engineers obsess over such details too.

Watching videos of other people working in various DAWs - especially DAWs you know in and out - can be so frustrating. Whenever I watch a Against the Clock and someone is using Logic I get so frustrated... "What are you doi... I... what?! No!!"

  On 4/7/2017 at 5:41 AM, yek said:

 

  On 4/7/2017 at 5:31 AM, usagi said:

"do 'er in the butt"

- yek

family , not friends 

 

"You can't fake the funk on a nasty dunk."

Also, "Congratulations!" is a favorite of mine to use for birthdays. I mean, we're celebrating them not being dead yet, right?

  On 4/7/2017 at 8:17 PM, Braintree said:

 

  On 4/7/2017 at 5:41 AM, yek said:

 

  On 4/7/2017 at 5:31 AM, usagi said:

"do 'er in the butt"

- yek

family , not friends 

 

 

 

"You can't fake the funk on a nasty dunk."

Also, "Congratulations!" is a favorite of mine to use for birthdays. I mean, we're celebrating them not being dead yet, right?

 

ooh , congratulations is a good one. excellent

Made a move-in inspection report for the place I'm renting. It's 16 pages long and I haven't even added all the thumbnail photos. My goal here is to get out of the lease ASAP. One of the issues: outlets are three prong, but all ungrounded and unlabeled, and the landlord suggests using 1500 watt electric space heaters as a primary heat source. The heaters have metal housings. This motherfucker is trying to kill me.

  On 4/6/2017 at 10:45 PM, Gocab said:

I hate my job but it's a safe source of income. Told myself it would only be temporary thing to keep me afloat until I figure out what to do with my life, but it turns out this is where I ended up. Almost ten years of intellectual and creative misery. So comfortable. So terrible.

Tainted by a comfortable sinecure to quote Robbie Bolano. 

UPDATE: I negotiated my way out of the lease, and I get my deposit back, and the whole house is going to be rewired before I leave (including a new breaker box with more amperage), the deadly gas furnace under the house will be replaced by an electric central heat system with new floor grates, the water heater is going to be replaced, + more. Got that shit written down, signed and dated by the landlord. YEAH BOY :sup:

The furnace in this apartment busted over 2 weeks ago and still isn't fixed. I know it's technically springtime, but I'm in Canada, It's cold! The day after it broke we had a -30°C morning. It's not THAT cold now, but dammit, fix the furnace!

  On 4/8/2017 at 5:47 AM, luke viia said:

UPDATE: I negotiated my way out of the lease, and I get my deposit back, and the whole house is going to be rewired before I leave (including a new breaker box with more amperage), the deadly gas furnace under the house will be replaced by an electric central heat system with new floor grates, the water heater is going to be replaced, + more. Got that shit written down, signed and dated by the landlord. YEAH BOY :sup:

Good job man, you maybe prevented someone (even yourself) from getting killed in that deathtrap!

Jeez I thought that last bit said you're now dating the landlord.

Landlord is a squirrely space cadet, no chance on the love front. I'm sure he's well off financially, considering the taxes on this house I'm renting are less than two of my monthly payments. Some ugly woman will surely give him the succ if he looks around.

Current FWPs: found black mold in the house. Gonna contact the squirrel landlord and see if he'll promptly send a professional out (already doing a cheap mold test, but that won't tell me if it's toxic).

Other FWP: potential MIL is showering at my place and I'm out back drinking Hamm's. If I go back in I may see some mother in law titties. I've known this woman since I was six, and she's p hot for being 50 something, so it'd be kinda gratifying, but still. The GF would never let me live it down. So I wait, in the garage, chain smoking.

Also, I replaced the bathroom sink & faucet and the damn u trap doesn't match the diameter on the drain assembly, so I have to wander over to Home Derpot and deal with their clueless employees for the hundredth time this week. Last time I was there I asked where the window latches were at and the dude said "no idea. If you find them will you tell me where they were?"

I hate being drunk with nothing to do.  Like, anything that I'd want to do drunk involves other people.  There's nothing I can do by myself that I would rather do while drunk.  But I'm not tired enough to sleep.  This always happens after family gatherings.  Damn all holidays.

Actually, I do get more out of posting things online while drunk, but that's definitely not a good thing.

My girlfriend's parents are fucking nuts and they're breaking down my girlfriend mentally. I have no idea what to do.

  On 4/17/2017 at 1:53 PM, Squee said:

My girlfriend's parents are fucking nuts and they're breaking down my girlfriend mentally. I have no idea what to do.

Oh man, sounds really sad.

Just yesterday my friend told me about shitty experiences with girlfriend's parents. In his case they hated him for no reason.

I'm really sorry for you and I won't be disrespectful and give you any advice but I wish the best for you both.

Edit:

But "breaking down mentally" sounds worse for me not being native speaker.

Dunno any details and where you live , but in my experience with relationship shit it can be helpful to talk with someone professional.Here in Germany there are sometimes really competent people in social services.

I have no idea what new musics to listen to for 2017.

  On 4/17/2017 at 6:32 PM, ambermonk said:

I have no idea what new musics to listen to for 2017.

http://williamsbraintree.bandcamp.com

My 11th graders tell me I should give Lil Uzi Vert another chance, so maybe that's the wave to be on.

  On 4/19/2017 at 4:43 AM, doublename said:

My 11th graders tell me I should give Lil Uzi Vert another chance, so maybe that's the wave to be on.

I listen to his first album a bit, it's got a few decent beats on it.

Unsure whether P or S but I don't normally drink and I've been drunk since about 4:30 PM (at work)

Had an encounter with a potential FB scammer. He's claiming to be a "System Admin" for the company behind my current top mobile game, and made a "limited time offer" of an in-game purchase via PM. I told him I'd think about it, and then I immediately contacted the company directly with an authentication request regarding this guy.

This isn't the first scam attempt on FB I've faced. We'll see what the official company reply is.

I got about 40 minutes into some dumb indie movie on netflix before realizing the depths of its dumbness and shutting it off.  I have the worst luck finding anything worthwhile to watch these days.  

  On 4/20/2017 at 9:28 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I got about 40 minutes into some dumb indie movie on netflix before realizing the depths of its dumbness and shutting it off. I have the worst luck finding anything worthwhile to watch these days.

It doesn't help that about 95% of Netflix is a wasteland of despair

"photography" or eating shit? 

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