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[Lord Shonus]

Netflix solves none of my problems. It doesn't get rid of my choice paralysis (indeed, it would make it far worse by giving me even more options to choose from), having it on for background would just drain my bandwidth cap, and it doesn't carry what I'm trying to watch on the local channels.

[Spehss _]

Bad day at work. Don't want to go into more detail, but holy shit it was shitty.

I swear to God my whole life consists of me trying to tolerate bullshit. Every day, "get through one more day of work" or "get through one more day of school" or "get through one more day" or "just get this over with" or etc and it just goes on and on and on.

[TheBiggerFish]

*hugs Spehss_*

Wish I could help.  Alas, I appear to be incapable.

[Baffler]

I'm seriously considering going back to paid TV, due to a combination of choice paralysis, the incredibly poor digital TV reception in this house (the house was built with gas lighting and coal heating about 120 years ago, and a lot of crap has gotten left in the walls during upgrades - it is NOT friendly to radio signals), and the desire to just have something on when I'm lounging around.

The problem is that none of the major providers here are all that great a fit. The company that provides my landline and internet service doesn't have the greatest TV packages (and doesn't provide certain premium channels I would certainly consider as add-ons as my finances settle down), while the one company that provides a few channels I consider essential at a decent price requires a two-year commitment (I am not sure I won't get fed up with the bill six months from now).

As much as they blame cord-cutters, I'm not entirely sure that the death of the pay-TV industry isn't caused by self-inflicted wounds.

You should get antenna TV. You can buy one of those box things or make a receiver yourself and stick it outside or next to a window. It's free after you've got that, and it's got a decent variety available (though what exactly depends on where you are) without being paralyzing IMO. The picture quality isn't really any worse, either.

[Lord Shonus]

I'm seriously considering going back to paid TV, due to a combination of choice paralysis, the incredibly poor digital TV reception in this house (the house was built with gas lighting and coal heating about 120 years ago, and a lot of crap has gotten left in the walls during upgrades - it is NOT friendly to radio signals), and the desire to just have something on when I'm lounging around.

The problem is that none of the major providers here are all that great a fit. The company that provides my landline and internet service doesn't have the greatest TV packages (and doesn't provide certain premium channels I would certainly consider as add-ons as my finances settle down), while the one company that provides a few channels I consider essential at a decent price requires a two-year commitment (I am not sure I won't get fed up with the bill six months from now).

As much as they blame cord-cutters, I'm not entirely sure that the death of the pay-TV industry isn't caused by self-inflicted wounds.

You should get antenna TV. You can buy one of those box things or make a receiver yourself and stick it outside or next to a window. It's free after you've got that, and it's got a decent variety available (though what exactly depends on where you are) without being paralyzing IMO. The picture quality isn't really any worse, either.

I have digital TV. My house does an extremely good job of blocking the signal, and wiring my three TVs to an outdoor antenna (which might not even work) would be a great deal of hassle. That might be the option I'll go with, but my entire reason of going back to pay-TV is dissatisfaction with the over-the-air service. Before the digital switch, it was less of a problem (despite fewer channels) because you could still watch with weak signal, it would just get fuzzy. Now, anything much less than perfect turns the show into a jerky slideshow.

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[Trapezohedron]

speaking of tv and netflix, i find it really harrowing to deal with digital tv customers as an outsourced tech support of a cable company that offers phone and internet service as well.

There's really no two ways to properly explain that their speeds are slow due to the nature of wifi.

[Zorgn]

So my dog had to be put down on the third. He'd been going down for a long while, but 18 or so years of life isn't at all bad for a rescue dog. Regardless, the last week he'd had a horrible time. I haven't heard him bark in years, and he'd gotten to the point where he couldn't find the dog door unassisted. We've been more than willing to work around his health issues over the years, but when he stands and stares at a wall for hours on end, you start to realize the puppy you raised isn't there any more.

Realizing they're on the way out and you've failed them is one of the worst things I've had to deal with. Don't be me. Love them while you can.

[Rolan7]

You didn't fail him, you shouldn't think that ):  It's painful, but our pets just naturally have terribly short lives.
The last part is the hardest...  But don't forget all the good times.

[Hanslanda]

Dogs have such short lives because they have to pack in all the love and excitement a human feels in a hundred years into just 20. It's why they're such good companions.

[martinuzz]

If that dog managed to live to 18 years old, you have nothing to blame yourself for. To reach that age, a dog must have had good care.
I thought my dog was old, when he died at age 17 two years ago. Your dog beat that by a year, that's amazing. Well done taking good care of it.

[Arx]

One of our collies is something like 16 and we consider her practically an antique. Letting them go on to their final rest isn't a failure.

[TD1]

My collie is 12 (Or thereabouts. We kinda hurriedly took him off the hands of the previous owner who was going to shoot him), but he's been hit by a moving tractor, had a car run over his head (we think he must have been in an indent in the lane which meant he survived), been chasing a tractor and forgot about the trailer behind it, so run over again, and has himself run into the side of cars more times than I can count. Also, he's run away a few times for the purposes of....socialising..., resulting in one or two stays on death row. The second time, when we found him with a day to spare, we got his....socialising...taken care of.

So, you obviously took good care of him, given the difficulty in keeping dogs out of bother.

[Jopax]

So you know how certain smells can trigger certain memories? I've been reminded of that fact in the past several days. In a rather unpleasant way. My mom seems to have changed the fabric softener she uses to wash the bedsheets and pillow cases. And it just so happens to be the same one that my ex used for her clothes.

It took me almost two years to get myself back in order after a rather short but exciting sling with her, getting her out of my head was the hardest part, and lo and behold now she's back in force every time I go to bed. I'd be pissed at myself for being so weak but this is kinda out of my hands now, I'm over it, I don't want to think about it, but that god damn smell gives me flashbacks every god damn time.

[itisnotlogical]

Everybody I know has licenses and almost all of them have their own cars to match. I don't, and nobody can (realistically) teach me given that my only willing tutor lives in the middle of fucking nowhere and is constantly busy being a stable, successful adult man with a family. I'm unemployed because I was hounded and pestered into making an awful decision when I was emotionally vulnerable. Still a doormat, the sky is blue and war, war never changes. Anybody that's in a relationship is in a stable, commited relationship with their high school sweetheart that they met at Sadie Hawkins or whatever the fuck. A few are married. My average relationship length is like, 3 months, and I still don't understand (except that I'm a manic-depressive fuck nobody can stand to be intimate with, highly likely).

How did I become a failure at life so quickly.