Random thing you loathe right now.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

If you're ever thinking of starting a business in Canada

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Oh I'm just kidding. Sorry to hear that all of your business annoyances are still cropping up PA, hope it gets rectified soon.

I hate trying to sleep on my side, with an ear piercing that is still healing. I mostly sleep on my sides, so once I actually do fall asleep, I'll completely forget and end up with a very sore ear.
I chose to get it done, so I can't complain too much.

Some of my best sleep happens lying facedown.

My wife's maternal grandfather is dying. His cancer has returned, and he's opted to not seek any kind of treatment. My wife and I completely support his decision, but it's not one the rest of the family is okay with. It's going to be hard to lose him.

At the same time, my wife's paternal grandmother has taken a turn for the worse. She's been in poor health for years but has recently lost a lot of weight and has been confused more and more. I've been wrong about this before, but I don't expect her to be alive much longer.

It's going to be a rough year.

St.Hillary wrote:

I hate trying to sleep on my side, with an ear piercing that is still healing. I mostly sleep on my sides, so once I actually do fall asleep, I'll completely forget and end up with a very sore ear.
I chose to get it done, so I can't complain too much.

If you'd stop putting metal in your ear like a slattern.....

Sorry, I forgot you're in Nebraska and can hear talk like that from every woman over 30.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

My wife's maternal grandfather is dying. His cancer has returned, and he's opted to not seek any kind of treatment. My wife and I completely support his decision, but it's not one the rest of the family is okay with. It's going to be hard to lose him.

At the same time, my wife's paternal grandmother has taken a turn for the worse. She's been in poor health for years but has recently lost a lot of weight and has been confused more and more. I've been wrong about this before, but I don't expect her to be alive much longer.

It's going to be a rough year.

Sorry to hear that.

Are the respective complementary grandparents on each side still alive? (maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather)

Yonder wrote:

Some of my best sleep happens lying facedown.

That may be fine for you, but what about everyone else who has to use the sidewalk?

Minarchist wrote:

Are the respective complementary grandparents on each side still alive? (maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather)

Her maternal grandmother is still alive, but her paternal grandfather passed about ten years ago.

GFWL. I bought Dead Rising 2 on the Steam Sale and have found I can't sign into my live account anymore (I've tried other GFWL games as well). I tried changing router settings (opened up the required ports), and nothing seems to work. Bleh. F GFWL.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

GFWL. I bought Dead Rising 2 on the Steam Sale and have found I can't sign into my live account anymore (I've tried other GFWL games as well). I tried changing router settings (opened up the required ports), and nothing seems to work. Bleh. F GFWL.

Can you log in through live.xbox.com?

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

GFWL. I bought Dead Rising 2 on the Steam Sale and have found I can't sign into my live account anymore (I've tried other GFWL games as well). I tried changing router settings (opened up the required ports), and nothing seems to work. Bleh. F GFWL.

Can you log in through live.xbox.com?

Oh yeah. Most definitely. I have no idea what the problem is. I'm guessing it's a router issue, but that's just ridiculous. Never had a problem with the router with anything else. I've tried a few times over the past couple weeks and can't get it to work. I guess I can try changing my password again. I usually change it every couple months, so I suppose I am up for a change.

The moronic Apple zealot trying to explain to me how genius and groundbreaking it is that you can download Angry Birds direct on OSX for 59p and how they're going to completely dominate the games market and make loads of money doing this.

Jesus.

Yonder wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

If you're ever thinking of starting a business in Canada

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

You're going to die, swan!

So I just spent 20 minutes typing up a post on the Arizona shooting and I didn't put it up because I don't want to get involved in an argument (especially an internet one).

The problems America is having right now stem, I think, from a vocal majority of the population following blindly one movement or another. Everyone is so concerned about their group and their ideas or how much they dislike this group or that group that they lose focus on the real issue: we're all in this together.

These are reasonable, intelligent people selectively choosing which part of a case to believe, what facts they see. Sometimes to the point of inventing facts out of thin air. That's called lying. But the worst part? I don't think they know they're lying. Deep down, they believe the things they're saying despite those statements being devoid of fact.

You know what I used to do? I loved debating politics. Loved it. Not for the opportunity to prove myself correct (ok, that's a lie, I loved that part) but because I found it fascinating to see where other people were coming from. To determine what their motivations were. Those are some damn interesting conversations to be had there. But over the last 10 years, I've found it increasingly harder to have a reasonable political conversation. It simply can't happen because everyone is so wrapped up in their own camp's doctrine. No one debates facts anymore, they spout catch-phrases and shout dirt on the other side from a verbal gaffe gleaned by bloggers from some obscure speech given somewhere.

It's chaos and it's tearing us apart.

Look, our economy is in the tank. Our international image is in the tank. It feels like things are spiraling out of control. But we can get a handle on it and I can tell you how:

Think.

The next time Glenn Beck tries to whip you into a fervor, think. He has an agenda. Find out the other side of that story and turn that radio dial.

The next time you're on the Huffington Post and you read about the latest Republican dirt sandwiched between stories on Raven-Symone's weight loss and a story about GW Bush's crocs, think. They have an agenda. Read something else. Somewhere else.

We need to stop picking sides and start being reasonable or we'll never get out of this without blood. The crazies are just looking for reasons. We saw that today in Arizona! We, as the rational people, are enabling them by going along with the nonsense both sides of the extreme media are feeding us. Stop feeding the rhetoric. Stop being dismissive of the "other side." Just listen for a while. Their opinion isn't hurting you any more than your opinion hurts them. It's ok to let them be wrong.

We need to come to some kind of understanding here and that can only be reached if people stopped being members of ridiculous groups or political parties and started being Americans.

Anyway, thanks. I needed to get rid of that.

*applause*

Really Guys, take a deep breath, find some middle ground, and go on about the business of running a country, not controlling it.

Edit: On a completely unrelated topic, the combination of being both drunk and alone is terrible. Horrible. Like, really really frustrating. Not good...at all.

Bad.

DanyBoy wrote:

On a completely unrelated topic, the combination of being both drunk and alone is terrible. Horrible. Like, really really frustrating. Not good...at all.

Bad.

Try being alone and not even HAVING anything to drink.

My W & D keys died tonight while playing L4D2.

evilseed wrote:

My W & D keys died tonight while playing L4D2.

Good to know that you always turn right.

hmm, glancing over that I read that your wife died while playing L4D2. I guess the W & D keys are the lesser of two evils.

I share your sentiments, oilypenguin.

Polliwog wrote:

I share your sentiments, oilypenguin.

Skepticism. It's not just for the supernatural! On a less snarky note, I agree completely with Oilypenguin too.

Allergies.

My son's peanut allergy.

People giving my son peanut-y things.

...me giving my son peanut-y things.

(Thankfully it's not an anaphylactic reaction - if it was, we wouldn't have any peanuts in the house.)

I was eating some long-forgotten peanut butter chips (like chocolate chips) that my youngest has pulled randomly out of the freezer. My oldest asked for some, and I gave him 2 without thinking about it. His face fell about 15 seconds later, we raced for the Benedryl, and waited for the inevitable throwing up.

Oh, one other thing: not quite making it to the sink when your son throws up.

evilseed wrote:

My W & D keys died tonight while playing L4D2.

He's not an ambi-turner.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
evilseed wrote:

My W & D keys died tonight while playing L4D2.

Good to know that you always turn right.

Not any more.

Wouldn't losing your D key always make you strafe left (as A is all that's left to you)?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Wouldn't losing your D key always make you strafe left (as A is all that's left to you)?

Right, Pants was saying that this break implies that in normal gameplay Evilseed strafes right much more than left. Muttonchop was making your observation that he will now have to strafe left instead, due to the broken board.

Yonder wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Wouldn't losing your D key always make you strafe left (as A is all that's left to you)?

Right, Pants was saying that this break implies that in normal gameplay Evilseed strafes right much more than left. Muttonchop was making your observation that he will now have to strafe left instead, due to the broken board.

Yes, I was commenting on his non-broken keyboard behavior. Although, while he will now only be able to strafe left, he will appear to be going right because he can only move backwards.

Yonder wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Wouldn't losing your D key always make you strafe left (as A is all that's left to you)?

Right, Pants was saying that this break implies that in normal gameplay Evilseed strafes right much more than left. Muttonchop was making your observation that he will now have to strafe left instead, due to the broken board.

I assumed that his D key broke because he was Googling "dangling donkey diddles" so often. That's five Ds for every A.

Like a Bizarro NASCAR driver, evilseed will now have to make 3 lefts to strafe right. I'll bet he whips around 180 degrees and strafes left from now on.

Today has been annoying. All I'm trying to do is reserve a f*cking seat for my flight home in 2 weeks. Yet people had to give me a complete runaround, and I had to stand at the airport for ages and call all these different people, and race back and forth between the airport and my grandparents house. And the best part, after I finally got everything done with and was making my way out of the airport, I had to dodge a wave of people coming in to catch their flights, and I smacked my hip really hard on a low counter. I swear that thing came out of nowhere. Not only did it hurt like a sonofaFemale Doggo, but my phone happened to be in that pocket, so now the screen is completely cracked.