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Real-life Rants; Vent here.
Topic Started: Jan 9 2008, 03:44 PM (22,195 Views)
~Alkarii~
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So, a couple months ago, we go to my grandparents' 50th anniversary, and while we're there, my grandpa and some guy he knows come over and tell my cousin that he has a job opening at his lumber mill for about $11-12 an hour walking in the door, but my cousin wasn't interested. (Sidenote: Ergonomic keyboards suck so much...)

I haven't had a job in some time now, so I said I was interested, and when I talked to my parents, guess what happened?

"Where's it at?"
"He said Leola."
"That's a bit far, you'll have to get up early."
"I don't mind."
"Yeah, but we don't want to get up that early."
"I have a liscense, I can drive."
"Yeah, but you're not on the insurance, and that's a long way to drive by yourself."

Now, let me mention that, according to my mom, my sister doesn't pay them anything for insurance, and hardly ever returns their car with more than a quarter tank. Hell, they usually have to go and get the car from her. In the first couple weeks that we've had our second vehicle, she put nearly 2000 miles on it, and my mom made a point to complain to me (as if I could actually do something about it) that she put less than 60 on it herself.

My sister's also done some other fucked-up things this year, but I'm not going that far into it right now. What I'm gonna point out is that no matter what my sister does, my parents will always let her borrow the car or help her out.

I have to fight to get a ride to the library that's less than ten miles away, and I can really only get up there once every couple of weeks.

Though, whenever one of the working vehicles is left at the house during the day, I just drive up to the library by myself. Next week, I should have one of the vehicles. Mom wants me to take the dog to the vet sometime soon.

And, also, if I can find the phone number for AT&T, I'll go about getting the internet hooked up at home, so IF that happens, you guys might actually see me around a bit more (it's only been about four years since I last had access at home).
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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~The Silver Fox~
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*finally gets back around to RE after lots of distractions*

I learned two very important things on New Years.

1. Ice is very slick.
2. Concrete is very hard.

Superficial damage to a very small corner of my laptop, my 360 probably still works but needs a new front plate, and I'm reasonably sure I didn't break my arm but that still hurt like a bitch (the pain's mostly gone, and I had full mobility with my arm even right after I fell, but I still can't put any real weight on my elbow at certain angles on a hard surface).
Once, there was a maiden...
...whose tears of grief nearly drowned the world.
So she tore out her heart, and made war against it.
In victory, she sealed it in a locket,
and trapped in a casting of bronze.
"Such is the price of unguarded emotion," she said.
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~Alkarii~
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I don't have time for details (they involve a testicular cancer scare), but I'm just gonna say this:

I really do not like it when someone promises me they'll do something for me and never follows through. Also, please don't JUMP MY ASS for opening mail with MY FUCKING NAME ON IT when I already know it's a bill for just $30 that I have been told REPEATEDLY would be taken care of for me since I didn't have the money.

But I have the money by now, so it's getting paid. Hopefully I won't have to pay more since a collection agency sent me a letter. It doesn't seem to mention additional charges, but a second look won't hurt.
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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~Alkarii~
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Yeah yeah, double post, shaddup.

So, a PC game I ordered a couple weeks ago came in Monday, the day after the disc drive in the computer stops working.

But I suppose the silver lining is that I MIGHT be able to buy one of the computers that various government agencies sell for dirt cheap when they replace them with newer shit. Mom says that a cd rom drive could be about $15, though I need a dvd rom drive.

Although, my Magic 8-ball says I'll get a job next month, and it doesn't let me down very often.
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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~Deadly Aim~
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So, someone slashed one of my tires up six times.

The feeling's mutual, I want to return the favor... with my fist, in their face. Let's see how amusing he finds breaking others' stuff when he's got a broken nose.

*FUMES*
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~beflexor~
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I just _____ in the _____.

Soooo....

Picture a structure made of sturdy posts and sheet metal. A carport. This sucker is actually pretty big. It can hold 4 vehicles comfortably. One end is the height of a single story house and the other one is about a two story. Plans were to enclose the whole thing, having a loft for storage above while vehicles could still park below. Both sides had been done as well as the shorter backside.

We've been having some freaking horrible winds here for a month and, coming home from a trip to town about a week ago, we noticed the skyline of our property was suddenly different.

60-65 MPH winds grabbed the entire structure like a kite, ripping the posts right out of the ground, rolled the roof up like the lid of a pull-tab can, and deposited it right behind where it should have been. The only thing left standing is a single wall.

...Who wants pictures!?
Someone made the mistake of letting me publish a book, check Dusted Here!
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MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
"I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death."
— Monty Oum
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~The Boss~
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Dear NBA,

Look, you know that I love you. This is not in question. My love for you goes all the way back to my fuzzy late 80s memories of Bird, Magic, 'Nique, and my favorite player at the time, 5'6" Spud Webb, and continues to this day. I've stuck with you through two lockouts, racial anxieties, the Malice at the Palace, the Decision, the Charlotte Bobcats (surely there's someone in the Association with the testicular fortitude to tell His Airness that he sucks donkey balls as an owner), and my beloved Spurs being consistently ignored and dismissed by the rest of the basketball world, never mind the four championships, three future Hall of Famers (four if you count David Robinson, who's long retired and already in the Hall of Fame, but he did win a title with the other three), the best coach in the league, and having been nothing less than excellent literally every single season since Tim Duncan was drafted. In short, I am a die hard NBA fan, and nothing is going to change that anytime soon.

With that said...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND DR. NAISMITH, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP TORTURING MY EARDRUMS EVERY POSTSEASON!!!



Every game. Every commercial break. Every promo. Every network. Over and over and over again.



Look NBA, I can handle the Biebs singing his Autotuned version of the Little Drummer Boy on the Christmas Day games every season, cause Christmas only comes once a year (even though it takes up a full quarter of the year, but I'm pretty sure I did that rant years ago). But the NBA playoff last, well, about as long as the Christmas season does. They tipped off on April 20, and we're only midway through the second round. The Finals will be in June. And that means you're going to be assaulting my ears for another month.



Why must you do this to me, NBA? Why? What did I ever do to you? And you do this every year, too. Usually with the Black Eyed Peas. Look, I understand you got marketing and contracts and stuff like that, but is this really necessary? Is it really? And if you absolutely must have that one song to play on an endless loop from late April to mid June, why Christina Aguilera? Why not pick an artist who's actually identified with your sport, like oh, I don't know, JAY-FRICKIN-Z?!?!



See, that works. Makes much more sense for the NBA than Xtina. And it doesn't have that insufferable Who Let The Dogs Out-earworm thing going on. Or even better, you can take all that cash you squeezed out of your players during the lockout (and from the taxpayers when you build these unnecessary new arenas cause your billionaire owners don't want to foot the bill themselves) and use that money to pry the rights to Roundball Rock away from NBC, and just make that the official sountrack of the NBA, now and forever, and quit subjecting us to obnoxious pop music.



Much better.

And GO SPURS GO
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~Alkarii~
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Well, the power supply in our computer finally kicked it on Monday. I was hoping to at least get a rough draft of the first couple chapters of my book done by fall. But the good news is that I had most of it backed up on my flash drive.

Supposedly the animal shelter is hiring, so if I can get a job there, I'll be able to get a new computer. I'll probably get an LG, not some crummy HP.
Since my liver is larger than my heart, does that mean I'm designed to drink more and care less?
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Deadeye '17, eager to move on from the slow-motion train wreck that was last year.
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Some dope turned my alarm off this morning... and it wasn't me.

And now I've missed my lecture.

I. Am. Pissed.
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