Post something that made you UNHAPPY today.

Post Reply New Topic

I hope you can see an orthopedist to get that taken care of. it can be little things like ill-fitting shoes that cause knee pain, or bad posture or poor gait.

My best friend is going to try to overcome his SA and make some friends in real life, and I'm scared and sad that he will be closer to them than to me, and that our friendship will change. I want to be his best friend forever, and for us to keep getting closer, but it seems like the opposite is going to happen and that I might not mean much anymore. I know this sounds selfish, but he means everything to me (he knows and understands, and is worried about slipping away or moving on).

I have limited energy for people who are disloyal.

i have been dizzy for 5 days and my BP is going haywire

I hope you get the BP under control soon, mine almost blinded me.

I only saw this now. Thank you for the info, but I'm not in the US (my parcel was sent from the US though).

Yesterday I received a notification from the post office that it had arrived, so I'll go get it later today. I am very happy that it has made its way here safely as I have had some bad experiences with the postal service over the last years. The Norwegian postal service used to have a good reputation but sadly that is changing. It's nowhere near as good as it was. And postal employees used to get educated on what to do, but now the teaching how it works is very much lacking. I have a relative in the postal service who is appalled at how it has changed in their time there, so it's not just me as a customer thinking this.

Last year I had a parcel that I thought might be lost. It had gone way longer than the seller's anticipated ETA, but I knew from experience that it often takes longer. I called the postal customer service and was told it had to have been lost in the mail, so I should just contact the seller and tell them that. I pointed out how long it could take, and she didn't seem to believe me when I told her the truth that from the US, it takes anything from 1 to 6 weeks (parcels from US amazon always take 5-6 weeks), and from UK 1-4 weeks.
Thankfully I didn't do as she said, I say thankfully because the parcel arrived some days later.

Huh, I grew up with the terms 1st, 2nd and 3rd world, but I've never heard of the 4th world before. Interesting.

learn something knew

Still on the subject of postal services:

£6.50 just to send a letter earlier today by Royal Mail's 'Guaranteed Delivery' service. They should guarantee delivery anyway.

Rip Off Britain.

Last edited by DeepHour on 28 Jun 2018, 1:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have heard from Amy that it has been very hot in the Northeast of the U.S. Now I just read that it is even going to be hotter over there. Better take preparations and keep things cool for a while guys.

I was reminded yet again what a failure I am for being overweight. And for eating sugar. And red meat. And dairy products. And for using Lysol, although I don't use it nearly as much as you're supposed to, to keep your home so sterile it makes you sick.

That's terrible, lostonearth. Who the heck said that to you? Eat what you wish in moderation.

My unhappy today is that I have anxiety for no specific reason. It seems to plague me sometimes.

Oh, ugh. I know it's hard to hold on to this idea when people are picking at you, but the people who think they have a right to tell you what to eat, when, how much, where, with whom, and what disinfectant to sanitize with before and after, have their heads very, very firmly in a dark and smelly place (a place that belongs entirely to them!).



If you listen closely enough you might be able to hear the distinct "pop" as they extract their heads from that dark, smelly place preparatory to picking on you.

To put it another way, as a very civil and decent man I worked with long ago used to say, they are giving you valuable free information, but it's all about themselves, and they don't understand that.

Rock on with your perfectly fine self.

The massacre at the Capital Gazette office in Annapolis has damn near knocked me down. I grew up in the area and the two pre-merger papers, Maryland Gazette and Annapolis Evening Capital, were on my family's table daily (Capital) and weekly (Gazette). When I moved back to the States I was again near enough to read the new, merged version fairly often. It was an excellent paper, the editors were not merely solid editors but terrific writers themselves, and I was frustrated that it wasn't more widely available where I lived.

I now live much further away, but my new local paper picked up Rob Hiaasen's columns at intervals, and they were invariably rich in thought, edifying, and humane. Sometimes also funny enough to make me worry about spitting coffee on my keyboard.

What we have lost... in him and in all of his colleagues... I don't have words, and my heart just breaks for their families. If Rob Hiaasen's name sounds familiar, that's because he's Carl Hiaasen's brother.



In Memoriam

that murderer is a real SICKO.

Want to hear the worst of it?

(1) When he was convicted on the stalking charge, the judge did some kind of fancy footwork at sentencing so the poor baby wouldn't have a conviction on his record. In Maryland, where he was convicted of stalking, and where he then committed this horror, that conviction, if it had gone on record, would have made it impossible for him to purchase firearms (and in theory, any firearms already in his possession would have been confiscated under recently enacted law.) So the judge could be considered an unwitting accomplice in these murders, in essence.

(2) He went on a social media ranting blitz against the newspaper and specific journalists several years ago. They declined to press charges, fearing that would only further enrage him and escalate things.

(3) NONE OF THE PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEWS STORY THAT ENRAGED HIM WERE WORKING THERE ANYMORE. Let me be 10,000% clear: even if they had been, this was totally totally totally insane and wrong beyond the power of words to express. But the fact that none of his victims had anything, anything whatsoever at all, to do with the events that enraged him... there isn't a hot enough place in Hell.