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[RedKing]

I...I will survive. Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.
(And no, that's not indication that I'm thinking of becoming a gigolo for financial reasons.)^{_{i mean i might for other reasons}}


Actually, the vendor-customer thing is already sorted out and I probably came out of it looking better, because I was the voice of reason. RedKing uses Diplomacy: ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE

And looks like my bro will be able to pay up (for now). He took a pretty fucking major pay cut though, $17/hr down to $10/hr. He's already looking elsewhere and had some interviews. Proud of him that he didn't just tell them to go fuck themselves and walk out, cause I dn't know that I wouldn't have, in the same situation.

[Bauglir]

Good luck buddy. That is one shit of a day.

[TheBiggerFish]

Good luck buddy. That is one shit of a day.

Yeah...

[Orange Wizard]

How the hell is someone supposed to live off $10/hr?

[miauw62]

Churches are very good.
Allegedly religious people are not.

@miauw:Practice makes perfect.  If you do it more, it will become easier.

that's sort of the problem, i dont get to practice in the first place.

well everything went as badly as i expected and since my question got hijacked i'll keep it to that, and just say that i can probably maybe talk to people one on one (even though it always goes badly and incredibly awkwardly because i am not an interesting person or social at all) but that it's basically fucking impossible to talk to a group of people who know eachother. i just cant participate in the fucking conversation and it frustrates me SO FUCKIGN MUCH

It really is, which sucks.

yup

I think I have some sort of concrete problem now, even if it seems unsolvable, which is something at least. Now I just need to figure out a way to talk in a group I'm not familiar with, but I have no idea how. Knowing... Anybody would be helpful I guess. I need some sort of reason to be there but I have none. Despite the fact that this is stressing me the fuck out, it's also much harder to bring up motivation to do "risky" things since my crush isn't really involved... Meh.

[TheBiggerFish]

Well, find something that group talks about that you're interested in.
Then learn about it.
Then talk about it.

[Graknorke]

Get in good with one member of a group and then integrate with the rest. That is usually how social circles expand.

[Helgoland]

That sounds like single-cell organisms feeding off of each other.

[Truean]

You are appreciated here and will be missed if it comes to that. I hope it does not.

Not well, and not fairly. We have a society that doesn't support actual people anymore. It did, once. No longer....

There is a misguided police officer harassing me. I shall appreciate the zen providing me with an opportunity to invite him to become a friend. I'm not joking. I shall show him the newspaper articles clearing up the situation he is innocently mistaken about.

I have a chance at a real job paying what I am damn well worth, but the HR is ... providing many opportunities for difficulty....

To both, and by extension others.

[Not an offer]
You know, if I get this position; I will pay off everything. Then I will seriously consider opening a situation (nonprofit, or low profit) focusing on discount service provision. It's incredible really. Even though I can do things like get tires below wholesale, people are still shocked at the price being high (it is high, but not compared to what anyone else would pay). They simply can't afford anything and it's a very sad and unfair state of affairs. I got new 4 tires for a 2007 Ford Taurus for $235 mounted and balanced, and people looked at me like I was trying to pull something on them. They can't comprehend that those damn things retail for $100 a shot, so $400, not mounted or balanced..... Don't believe me, search for Goodyear....I know guys who want $25 per tire for mount/balance and that's considered cheap. [Not an offer]

In practical terms, that man would have to work 21 hours (before taxes) to pay me for the cost of those tires with $0 profit. That said, he'd have to work over 40 hours (before taxes) otherwise....

Same deal with lots of other things, especially housing, and things. Then again, I've always been more about stability than sky high profits. Tragically, there are lots of real life problems preventing me from doing this at present. I'd rather have the stability from lower rates than the rise of unstable profits. I am an anomaly.

[Not an offer]

[BlackHeartKabal]

How the hell is someone supposed to live off $10/hr?

I'd just go full robin hood and start stealing from the rich at that point, donating any excess cash that would make me look guilty to charities and stuff.

[Xantalos]

Fuck shit fuckery fucking fucker fuck

things just got complicated in an ... not beneficial way. In the least.

And I'm not thinking quite straight right now, the revelation cracked my composure more than anything else has in a while.

[RedKing]

How the hell is someone supposed to live off $10/hr?

I'd just go full robin hood and start stealing from the rich at that point, donating any excess cash that would make me look guilty to charities and stuff.

To expand further -- he's a mechanic. Been working on buses mostly (coach buses, school buses, etc.) During November/December, he was frequently working 80-100 hours a week. Which piled up some nice dosh, and allowed him to get caught up some (not entirely) on his child support. The fact that I let him slide on $4800 of rent helped too (and definitely didn't help me, but I had enough to get by...mostly....by getting forbearance on some student loans  ).

He's also a combat veteran with PTSD and possible TBI. 12 years in uniform, multiple Purple Hearts, three deployments to Iraq. VA hasn't really done shit for him since he got back. He's in the NG for the extra cash, and has thought about re-enlisting in the Reserves, even though he'd rather not see a combat theater ever again.

So yeah....all things being equal, I ain't got it too bad. Certainly better than where I was 3 years ago.

[Truean]

Jesus, Mechs here get at dead min 20 an hour....

[Loud Whispers]

Hmph. Have not seen any of my good friends in a week, they're all out of town or country. My family are likewise all splitting off to three corners of the world. I am quite idle for the next two weeks, with only the company of people I do not like much, am ambivalent towards, or actively annoyed by. Such annoyance is not healthy for the mind, and my treasured cactus is afflicted with disease. My brother as well is trying to help a bipolar depressive who has twice pulled a knife on him and once spiked his coffee with something, he has heeded my advice to stay away which is perhaps the only silver lining to this standard yet isolated week. I wait for grey February to uplift my spirit with plentiful rain, I am most pleased to have figured out that my lake is actually a freshwater lake after I spotted some pigeons drinking from it, but I cannot figure out why it does not freeze if it is freshwater. Perhaps it is slightly brackish, or the large volume of water means it takes longer for it to freeze over.

Ah, perhaps this is how DF psyches work. Urist has been annoyed by acquaintances recently. Urist has been horrified by the sight of a rotting cactus. Urist has been pleased whilst admiring a freshwater lake.

[Gentlefish]

...Buh. I got registered for one of two classes I had petition out for, but now that I've past reg deadline I have to petition the office of the Dean of Students to be able to register for the second one. Thankfully, the prof in that class knows me (and I think he likes me) so that's not going to be a problem I hope.

In other news, the weather has been absolute trash. It's January, it's not supposed to be raining and 40F, it's supposed to be snowing and 15F. And I've heard tale of crocuses blooming already. I'd be happy if, again, it weren't January. This is going to be one fucked up year, I think.