Random thing you loathe right now.

My condolences to you and your family.

Rallick wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Being in the dog house for absolutely no good reason.

Seconded, brother.

Wait a minute, you mean they can let us out of here?

Condolences Ranger Rick, I don't know how much longer mine has. Great man, full of great stories, but he's moved away (not of his own choice) and we miss him a lot. The phone isn't the same, and his great grand kids are missing out too.

Sorry, RR. If we can do anything, name it.

Thanks, everyone. Nothing that can really be done, just need to make my way up to Wisconsin for the funeral, but I appreciate the comments.

Oh, and also:

A few weeks ago, I noticed one of our cats (the feral one, who is skittish and doesn't come out much) had pretty awful breath. We had her one-year appointment coming up anyways, so we took her in today for her shots. Looks likely that she has Feline Stomatitis, an immune system reaction that causes the gums to go crazy inflamed (essentially, a massive immune reaction to tartar). It's apparently pretty painful, and while antibiotics and steroids might help bring it down and make it go away, it's likely that the only real solution is removing all of her teeth.

This entire weekend. 2 relatives died, and another had a "heart break" heart attack. Just got a citation for not completely stopping at a stop sign that only lets turn right onto a one-way street. The hearings is after I fly back to montana for college, which basically means there's no chance I'll get a dismissal because I can't appear in person, and now apparently i'm breaking up with a girl that I just asked to go out with exclusively and who said yes.

theditor wrote:

This entire weekend.

Sheesh, I'm really sorry theditor.

Monday morning, 10am, my right ear stopped working.

I assumed it was just a 'normal' wax blockage that some softner and a syringe flush at the GP would fix. He did too, as he had all the gear out when I got there at 8am this morning (after NO SLEEP from the ringing in my ear all night).

Looked in my ear to make sure... NOTHING.

Clean as a whistle, but I still have this feeling like there's a balloon in my ear canal, and no sound travelling into my ear.

3 hours later I'm under a CT machine, having iodine solution added to my bloodstream for imaging. I have another test tommorrow, then an appointment at the Doctor's straight after. I'm also on antibiotics incase it is a 'hidden' infection. I'm allegic to penicillin, so the subs that they put me on don't work 'as well', but still make me feel like absolute crap.

The worst part is the way the left ear is failing to compensate. Reverb, echoeing, no adjustment to volume. Even the giggling of my kids has been contorted into a piercing shriek I can't escape from. It's no fun when Daddy has to ask them to stop laughing so loud. No one should be asked that.

Thanks 2011, I thought we had a deal not to suck as much as 2010...

m0nk3yboy wrote:

Monday morning, 10am, my right ear stopped working.

I assumed it was just a 'normal' wax blockage that some softner and a syringe flush at the GP would fix. He did too, as he had all the gear out when I got there at 8am this morning (after NO SLEEP from the ringing in my ear all night).

Looked in my ear to make sure... NOTHING.

Clean as a whistle, but I still have this feeling like there's a balloon in my ear canal, and no sound travelling into my ear.

3 hours later I'm under a CT machine, having iodine solution added to my bloodstream for imaging. I have another test tommorrow, then an appointment at the Doctor's straight after. I'm also on antibiotics incase it is a 'hidden' infection. I'm allegic to penicillin, so the subs that they put me on don't work 'as well', but still make me feel like absolute crap.

The worst part is the way the left ear is failing to compensate. Reverb, echoeing, no adjustment to volume. Even the giggling of my kids has been contorted into a piercing shriek I can't escape from. It's no fun when Daddy has to ask them to stop laughing so loud. No one should be asked that.

Thanks 2011, I thought we had a deal not to suck as much as 2010...

I had something very similar happen to my right ear several times throughout 2009. Never lost hearing completely, and it started with tinnitus that got really loud really fast, lasted a day or two, and then gradually faded away but left me with an ear that could hardly hear and was extremely sensitive to sound and everything was distorted. Gradually it got better, but that ear has always been a problem for me. I already had tinnitus in it, and it was already somewhat sensitive to sound and has some hearing damage. It's like the nerve just went haywire and ramped everything up for awhile. Had an MRI done but showed nothing. I took a drug that increases blood flow, which seemed to help a little.

The only thing I've found that really helps is now, when I can feel it coming on, I put in an ear plug and wear it for several hours. Haven't had a serious reoccurrence since doing that.

My fiance's mother lost her job.

My poor choice in impulse renting. I'm at my parents house for 3 loads of laundry and I've only got a couple of episodes of Supernatural left, so I hit FamVid on the way there and grab the last Shrek. I also happen to see Pirrana is there. I haven't seen a horror flick in a while. Something stupid and fun. So I grab it. Gratuitous doesn't even begin to describe it. There's a reason Jerry O'Connell isn't in anything anymore. And then there's Richard Dreyfus in the beginning, singing "Show me the way to go home." Why couldn't I have just watched Halloween like I normally do?

m0nk3yboy wrote:

Monday morning, 10am, my right ear stopped working.

I assumed it was just a 'normal' wax blockage that some softner and a syringe flush at the GP would fix. He did too, as he had all the gear out when I got there at 8am this morning (after NO SLEEP from the ringing in my ear all night).

Looked in my ear to make sure... NOTHING.

Clean as a whistle, but I still have this feeling like there's a balloon in my ear canal, and no sound travelling into my ear.

3 hours later I'm under a CT machine, having iodine solution added to my bloodstream for imaging. I have another test tommorrow, then an appointment at the Doctor's straight after. I'm also on antibiotics incase it is a 'hidden' infection. I'm allegic to penicillin, so the subs that they put me on don't work 'as well', but still make me feel like absolute crap.

The worst part is the way the left ear is failing to compensate. Reverb, echoeing, no adjustment to volume. Even the giggling of my kids has been contorted into a piercing shriek I can't escape from. It's no fun when Daddy has to ask them to stop laughing so loud. No one should be asked that.

Thanks 2011, I thought we had a deal not to suck as much as 2010...

This is God's punishment for playing Hannah Montana.

Hope it gets better soon. I've got something similar in my left ear from time to time. I don't lose hearing entirely, but normal noises get sort of soft and fuzzy, and I hear a tone in that ear. I've probably got the Shinning.

People who abbreviate "tomorrow" as "tmr". I don't know why, but it completely infuriates me.

The sun will come out tmr
bet ur btm $ that tmr
there'll be sun.
Tmr, tmr, I luv u tmr
Ur only a day away.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

This is God's punishment for playing Hannah Montana.

Hope it gets better soon. I've got something similar in my left ear from time to time. I don't lose hearing entirely, but normal noises get sort of soft and fuzzy, and I hear a tone in that ear. I've probably got the Shinning.

Funny you should say that, it's the first thing I thought of too!

Got all the results back, and they still don't know. All outer and middle ear bits are OK, so it looks like nerve damage of some kind deeper in. We're hoping it's an infection, causing swelling, that is pinching the nerves in there. They've upped the dose of penicillin substitute, and added an anti-inflamitory to what I'm taking. Looking at progress in 48 hours, then regrouping.

Joy.

Oh my god... ten year high school reunion in July... I feel old, and yet I've done hardly anything with my life. Just shoot me now.

Yonder wrote:

The sun will come out tmr
bet ur btm $ that tmr
there'll be sun.
Tmr, tmr, I luv u tmr
Ur only a day away.

There's a special place in hell for people like you.

Asterith wrote:
Yonder wrote:

The sun will come out tmr
bet ur btm $ that tmr
there'll be sun.
Tmr, tmr, I luv u tmr
Ur only a day away.

There's a special place in hell for people like you.

Sorry you're right, I think that was supposed to be "U'r only a day away."

Yonder wrote:
Asterith wrote:
Yonder wrote:

The sun will come out tmr
bet ur btm $ that tmr
there'll be sun.
Tmr, tmr, I luv u tmr
Ur only a day away.

There's a special place in hell for people like you.

Sorry you're right, I think that was supposed to be "U'r only a day away."

You're definitely going to special hell, and I don't mean the one for nailing Saffron.

dhelor wrote:

Oh my god... ten year high school reunion in July... I feel old, and yet I've done hardly anything with my life. Just shoot me now.

I skipped my high school reunion - we didn't keep in touch after I left high school and I have no real desire to see them now. However, if you're going anyway, you could always just tell them you're a hit man - worked for John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank.

Then just stand around looking cool and be ready to make out with the Minnie Driver of your graduating class!

Our neighbor's dog. They got it back in October. It barks at every living thing it sees move outdoors, and continues barking until said moving thing recedes from view. This morning it barked at me (this is at 5am) for the twenty steps it took me to walk from my front door to my car, stopped while I was in the car, and then resumed barking when I got back out and walked to the door again. Mind you, this is probably 80 yards from where the dog's sitting.

Given that it's so cold out right now, it's not a huge issue. We're never outside for more than a few minutes. We're still getting days where the high is like 12 degrees, so it's not exactly time to be outdoorsy.

That said, the couple that lives on the other side loves to sit outside in hammocks in their back yard and read in the summer time. They moevd to our area precisely because it's almost always incredibly quiet in the early and late evening. I can't wait for the inevitable blood feud that will start once the weather warms up and that dog barks at them the entire time they sit on their own property and try to read.

"Discovering" regularly-priced merchandise shortly after the price has been slashed during holiday sales.

With all the 3DS and PSP2 buzz floating around I decided to dust off my launch PSP.

I tried the demo for Valkyria Chronicles 2 and immediately fell in love. Going to PSP's digital marketplace, I saw that it was $39.99. That's a lot for a handheld game. Further investigation revealed that only a month ago it was on sale on marketplace for $15.99!

Okay, I bit the bullet and paid full price. Felt a bit guilty, but hey I'll call it a special treat. I'm freaking loving the game!

What else have I missed recently on PSP? Digging around, I came up with Persona 3 Portable. A few online video reviews later and I'm sold. Damn, I never even heard of the franchise, but it looks golden. Back to marketplace.

$39.99?! Crap.

Oh yeah, there was a holiday sale for that one too. $19.99.

Le sigh.

January.

When will this unholy crap pile of a month be over?!

Mimble wrote:
dhelor wrote:

Oh my god... ten year high school reunion in July... I feel old, and yet I've done hardly anything with my life. Just shoot me now.

I skipped my high school reunion - we didn't keep in touch after I left high school and I have no real desire to see them now. However, if you're going anyway, you could always just tell them you're a hit man - worked for John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank.

Ha! You get dental with that?

Enix wrote:

January.

When will this unholy crap pile of a month be over?!

Sometime in early February.

Yonder wrote:

The sun will come out tmr
bet ur btm $ that tmr
there'll be sun.
Tmr, tmr, I luv u tmr
Ur only a day away.

It's not a tumor.

wordsmythe wrote:
Yonder wrote:

The sun will come out tmr
bet ur btm $ that tmr
there'll be sun.
Tmr, tmr, I luv u tmr
Ur only a day away.

It's not a tumor.

I read it that way, too.

Assholes who hum in a quiet room with four other people.

It's far too hot and far too humid here, and as a result I've been unable to sleep for roughly 3 hours post-retiring each night.