Troper Updates II, Part II

Just discovered by coincidence that I share a building with someone who looks almost exactly like me. That was an awkward elevator ride.

And Dunkin Donuts Poland has shuttered for the second time in the last 30 years.

Got a new pair of glasses after accidentally breaking my old one two weeks ago.

I have some good news. It took me a while, but I corrected each and every mistake I accidentally made while writing my seventh novel. Now I'm ready to release it to the world at large. :)

Looks like my family will be getting a new washing machine soon.

Update: Never mind. Washing machine is working and not stinking to high heaven.

Edited by TolkienOtaku on Aug 21st 2018 at 7:35:04 AM

Wisconsin is currently being fucked over multiple times by flooding and severe thunderstorms. I already dealt with a nearly 5-hour power outage yesterday, and now my county just got a flash flood warning. How wonderful.

Update: Oh, and a state of emergency has been issued for my county as well (for some of the more flooded areas). Hope I don't need to evacuate...

Update 2: My town didn't get flooded and no evacuations needed. Hallelujah. Still doesn't make up for our shit late-summer weather the fast few days.

Edited by CustardAndPie on Aug 29th 2018 at 3:49:06 AM

I had my last dinner with my younger brother before he rejoins the Marines this weekend. It was a bit tense at first, but it turned out to be a very good dinner. :)

Edited by Demetrios on Aug 30th 2018 at 7:36:05 AM

Going to college!

Congrats!

May it be very great for you. :)

Update: As of today, my younger brother has left to rejoin the Marines.

Another Update: Well, this is it. I left my WoW guild, Arcane Destiny (again).

Edited by Demetrios on Sep 2nd 2018 at 6:16:26 AM

Dang, I went through a combined 31 hours of blackout in these last two days.

What happened?

Yikes.

Nothing new, really. Blackouts, especially long ones, have been a thing in Venezuela since 2016. The government's workers, like everybody from the government itself, simply don't know how to actually mantain the electrical network of the country, so they have to make blackouts to "try" to fix the two missteps they make for every attempted step forward.

For two nights in a row, I have had to sleep in the house's roof because of the darkness, the heat and the plague of flies. It's not pretty.

Yeah Venezuela is pretty much falling apart due to a variety of things, but have you tried finding ways to get visas or green cards?

Due to the current US government, they're sadly out of the picture. Our plan instead was to have my brother have a communitary residence in Europe via his marriage, and from there he could request our admission, but they split shortly before the transition period was over, so in the end it was all in vain. Recently, after over four million Venezuelans have migrated to the various neightboring countries of South America, there is an ongoing international project to put an halt to the influx of Venezuelans moving to those countries in search of better life chances.

Indeed, instead of looking for a potential solution for the suffering people from this country, many organizations are now trying to avoid our problem from becoming their problem as well. You said something about us leaving the country? Tell the sorry fuckers that say are my "family" that they should have planned that three years ago, because it's getting too late for that.^note For added context, they were the kind of delusional Venezuelans who hoped there would be an "intervention" to put an end of Maduro's reign. Prior to that, they believed the increasingly lethargic and despairing citizens would prepare some large-scale uprising against the government. Unlike them, I knew all along that ALL of this crisis was bound to worsen instead of improving, but they were far too embraced to this homeland to even consider the idea of leaving it as a top option.

Edited by MyFinalEdits on Sep 4th 2018 at 2:53:00 PM

Yikes. Well I do have a couple ideas for generating electricity, heating and cooling, some events to cheer people up, so on if it helps.

Edited by Coleman on Sep 4th 2018 at 2:15:06 PM

There’s a girl in my class who I really like. I’m going to see if I can get to know her better.

I'm in need of a hug^note and a vacation. This day has turned out to be very bureaucratic. >.<

So several months ago I posted that I was dying.

I still have ALK-related lung cancer, and had to go to the hospital for twenty days due to a nasty bout of pneumonia shortly after I made that post. The doctors weren't sure I would make it, but my oncologist prescribed Alectinib and pulled a couple of strings to get me some earlier than normal and it's no exaggeration to say that it turned my health around in less than a week. It's been almost seven months now since they said I had 3-6 months left to live and my tumors have shrunk over seventy-five percent with few if any side effects.

Alectinib only works for an average of 2-5 years in test subjects, though, meaning that this is a temporary respite rather a cure. Nevertheless advances like this make me hopeful for the future.

I'm on that and and like twelve other drugs right now for pain relief, mood stabilization, and misc. other things, and I hate sitting on my duff and collecting disability but I'm alive and I plan to stay that way as long as I can.

Edited by Civanfan on Sep 8th 2018 at 8:29:05 AM

Well, my dad's gonna be absolutely insufferable this week. After both Mom and I told him that he was "delusional" for thinking that Kentucky(both parents alma mater) was going to beat Florida in football when they hadn't done so in thirty-one years, Kentucky not only won, but won in spectacular fashion. And just two days after his sixtieth birthday. I think he might be a bit justified, though.

Well, Hurricane Florence is headed for my area so that's gonna be fun. We're expecting a power/internet outage at least.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. :)

I just got back from meeting up with my old meatspace friends. It actually went better than I expected. :)

Okay, Florence is done and we've actually been just fine (can't say the same for other parts of NC). My 21st birthday's come and gone this month but a lot's happened and taken priority over that so we didn't get this totally big family gathering that we usually do (and no I'm not drinking).