The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

Mark: I know the feeling. It was like that leaving my families first settled in house since my dad had joined the military.

Kyle - Wait so you're a Weslyan student?

Dayum.

I am. This is my last semester, but I'll be damned if I go out without leaving some kind of legacy behind to fight this. My biggest regret is not jumping in sooner.

And this is what makes me mad. When students do the raging stupids, faculty is quick to do the dirty tricks and start chamber justice. When the college looks bad suddenly the perp is an Unperson and things get swept under the rug.

I was privy to the aftermath of a similar incident just mere days before the college's open house. My BFF told me about this boy who was caught in the girls showers, in the girl's dorm. And the school didn't break out the star chamber justice. Nope, they put a blackout. This was before Twitter and before Facebook, so it was a wet fart in a hurricane of "get ready for the new kids".

Something that bothered me, so kudos for fighting the good fight, Kyle Jacobs.

edited 11th Oct '16 10:13:45 PM by TairaMai

So today is Yom Kippur. I'd like to invite even those of you who aren't Jewish to join me in a day of self-reflection and atonement. If there's anyone in your life you've hurt, now is as good a time as any to start making things right.

I'd also invite you to join me in fasting but that's mostly because misery loves company.

So, tomorrow is my buddy's wedding. For the reception he said to bring my, his quote, "drinkin' liver". I dunno if they realize what they've gotten into, lol. But should be good times. Even if they'll be amateurs taking on a professional.

Need to put myself in a 6th Street mindset. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

edited 14th Oct '16 8:44:30 PM by MarkVonLewis

I'm on the tail end of food poisoning. Wow, that sucked. Also, my throat is still fucked up from all the vomit, so talking hurts—I had to cancel on both rehearsal and work today. I'd worked extra hours this week so I'll still break even. But it's a looooooong slow climb to financial stability and even one day makes me antsy.

On the other side, I'm going to see a Filipino version of The Tempest this evening with my sister.

Also, I'm starting to watch Bleach, fifteen years late to the party hahahahaha. I want Rukia's outfits.

Mark: Hopefully you didn't go too far overboard.

Little Miss Phoebe the pocket coyote is starting to talk to me like Mr Taggert does. Taggerts voice is a gravely sort of rumble. Phoebe's is a higher pitched sharp rattle by comparison. If Taggert has voice like a lawn mower engine Phoebe has one like a gas powered weed eater.

Phoebe does this somewhat amusing thing where if she gets particularly excited by other dogs barking outside she start in the bedroom and run into the living room with a constant rumble and then do the same thing all the way back into the bed room.

Neighbor's smoke alarm was going off for over half an hour. I figured I would have known there was actual danger by the time I realized it had been going off for so long, so I spent a while trying to figure out who to call about a non-emergency. My first inclination was to call the complex's private security company, but I don't know who they are and I have no way to contact them.

So I looked at the city's non-emergency number. That didn't look right, but the noise was still going and there was no response to a knock at the door (though if somebody wasn't noticing a smoke alarm, they sure wouldn't notice a knock), so I decided to call, figuring they could at least tell me who I should be talking to.

The operator told me it was considered an emergency and she was going to transfer me to 911. And in the five seconds I was on hold, the alarm was silenced. So I had to tell the 911 operator what the problem had been but now no longer was. I know from previous experience that if you hang up on 911, they have to call back.

edited 15th Oct '16 8:20:15 PM by TParadox

Good job following up on that always better to take concern then wait for it to turn bad.

Well I got quite the shock. My long term friend from college it turns out had very little social training. He has been in therapy for some long term issues It turns out he didn't get much in the way of social skills education from his support structures that is home, school, and most other sources until college. Apparently in college at the point where I met him I unknowingly taught him a number of valuable social skills and helped more thoroughly define his morals.

I am frankly stunned and a little worried about what possible negative things I may have taught him.

When I was helping educate younger scouts towards the end of my time as a boy scout I was at least conscious of the fact i would be teaching the young men and they might too easily take away the wrong thing if I wasn't careful. This is something out of left field.

edited 15th Oct '16 10:07:09 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Don't be so hard on College!You. From the sound of it, the rest of his life up until that point was a sea of negatives and he had a pitiful flotation device to work with, forget boat. Any mistakes you might have made were outweighed by the stuff you got right for him.

You may feel like you handed him a thirdhand, inflatable and rather patched dingy with a temperamental motor... But, he got dry feet and an outboard motor to head in his direction of choice when he was becalmed.

edited 17th Oct '16 7:20:22 AM by Euodiachloris

I agree with Euda. You are the best of eggs Tuef. You got that poor guy onto some solid ground and helped him build his own boat, to continue the analogy. Good for you!

Still scares me a bit that is a fair bit of responsibility to shoulde knowingly or otherwise.

His life has had some serious issues because they haven't be addressed until recently. Thankfully he is getting help and his a much calmer person these days.

Teuf: It's more common than you think. I've inadvertently taught several people stuff like that. Not that they didn't function socially, it was just some "unknown unknown" thanks to something messed up (or missing) in their upbringing. That's the great thing about friends: we educate each other.

I shouldn't worry about messing someone up further. Nobody's a perfect teacher, and nobody's a perfect student.

T-hound, you were a positive influence on someone's life. Be thankful that your friend listened, instead of you reading about his bad end in the paper. I've seen one too many friend/acquaintance from back on the block come to a bad end. I'm happy that one Army buddy recently made E-5 (thanks in part to some advice I gave him about mapping a career path). You get to know that someone who would have met with a terrible fate didn't and you are part of that.

"Aww shucks" -shuffles dirt around- lol.

It is Monday and it is ok because I managed to get enough rest finally. It is that time of year where my workload spikes sharply.

So my exciting news is that I now own a dishwasher.

My kitchen is tiny & old, so I got one of those portable ones that's on wheels and hooks up to the sink. Seems to work pretty well.

Of course, now I think I need a new faucet. The current one leaks in about three places. (Honestly, I need a new kitchen. But that could take a few years, and I could keep the faucet.)

My parents have a rolling dishwasher they keep five feet away from the sink they have to connect it to, against a different wall.

It's completely torn up the linoleum in front of the sink, but that's because the sheetrock under it was totally compromised by a leak years ago.

Yeah, I will probably keep my dishwasher about 5 feet away, because that's the other end of the kitchen. I'd love to install a built-in one but can't spare the cupboard space.

The roller dishwashers are not a bad way to go. Used one for years in base housing. I swear they seem to be built a bit more robustly then in counter units these days.

I feel like rolling dishwashers make it more difficult to get around to washing dishes, because when it's full, you have to lug it to the other side of the room and hook it up, and in a house full of procrastinators, that might take a few meals longer than "it's full".

Sent home sick for the first time in a while. Although doing manual labor does make it a lot harder to work while sick

Maybe it's just me, maybe it's the special order rum I picked up today (thanks to those ladies running that store, I'm going to frequent there now) but I swear in the new Logan trailer, a couple scenes they made Wolverine look kinda like Johnny Cash.

I agree, he's got a very distinct type of old-fashioned style that's very Cash-esque.

15, Fifteen years ago, this happened:

~* takes old lady pills *~