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[Lightningfalcon]

So.  Laptop charger stopped working all of a sudden, without warning, at some point during a two hour period.  So now I have to use my Dad's computer to do school projects, as my teacher won't accept the excuse of "My laptop can't even turn on" as an excuse.  And since I doubt he want's me on it, I'm going to need to wipe my history and everything.

[kisame12794]

Well, I got a letter from college saying I don't meet the requirements for graduating. I had failed a course, and then paid extra to take it again so I could graduate this year. I passed with a 70. Now it says that NOPE, you didn't pass that course. Now I have to sort through all the bullshit, and hope I can sort it out before the deadline for application for graduation ends. Fuck. Do well in school kids.

That was relatively painless, got there on time, despite us getting the work truck stuck and needing to get the guy in the loader to haul us out. Fuck you rain.

[Facekillz058]

I just barely learned that there are 11 (Soon to be 12) books in the Ranger's Apprentice series.
I thought there were only 4.
*Sigh*
Now I need to get into contact with a librarian or something.
BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST BOOK SERIES.

[Furtuka]

Oh I remember that series. I felt it became a lot less interesting after the 4th one to be honest, which is why I dropped it after the 5th book came out.

[Aklyon]

Theres 10 books specifically about those in Ranger's Apprentice, and the one after that is not a sequel to the last one but still related.

[SalmonGod]

No free time in the last 3 days.  Don't understand why, but I haven't been sleeping well.  My appetite has been out of control lately, and I think it's just general frustration.  I can't convince myself to care about numbers at work tonight.  I'm finding myself just wasting time until it's over, like right now.  Grumbling my petty personal issues to the internet aether.

Wife is graduated.  Kid has one day of school left.  The time of major decisions and life-changes is here.  Rather it should be.  I'm unprepared.  Haven't had time to do anything with my portfolio so I can start applying for some jobs.  Haven't had time to finish up the assets Rapture needs to launch their Kickstarter.  Now that my family should be done burdening me with their responsibilities, it's time for me to hit the ground running on my own tasks, no matter how exhausted I may already be.  Want to finally have a career rather than just a job that gets us by.  Want to escape Indiana.  Everybody else wants these things, too.  All attentions are on me now not just to make it happen, but to make it happen before Hiro has to go back to school or my wife has to start working to pay back her student loans.  At this point, I don't know that I can.  And I don't feel like that's my fault.  Nobody knows how to give me space to do the things I need to do.  They don't understand what it's like to have 9 hours of every day rigidly, inescapably taken from you, and then to be expected to plant the seeds for major positive life changes with the remainder... while still having a little left over for paying attention to everyone and not falling ill from overwork.

Not actually feeling terribly troubled at the moment.  Just dwelling.  And felt the need to think out loud a bit for no real reason.

[Akura]

Get woken up at 2-3AM, everyone is running about. Turns out, the creepy guy upstairs had brought a girl home... and she was robbing him. While he was awake, watching her like a moron. And it doesn't seem like it was the first time she stole from him. I'm guessing my stepdad caught her doing it, and she ran off. Actually I think it was my sister that heard something, and woke everyone else up, though she woke me by accident. If she had the sense to explain to me what was happening, we probably would have caught her. I do keep weapons at arm's reach at all times for a reason, you know.

So now the creep is being thrown out, but my stepdad is making sure he goes to work so he can earn back some of the money that was taken. Apparently the money that was stolen was the money my stepdad gave him.

[Gamerlord]

Got fired for standing up for myself and not letting people put words in my mouth.

RAGGGGGGGGGGGGE

[Frumple]

Today I have gained a newfound disappreciation (apparently not word, don't give shit) for leaf blowers.

As the immortal words say, "It's not about the shovel, you cross-eyed possum humping lackwit. It's about how you frakking use it." 
Aldo Leopold, paraphrased.

One thing leaf blowers (or at least the one I've just been involved in the usage of) are not appropriately used for: Clearing an entire front yard of leaves. What tool is appropriately used, completing the same task in half the time and with a quarter of the noise pollution? A rake.

I don't appreciate having to halfheartedly threaten geriatrics with a rake in order to get a task done before midafternoon without overtly annoying the neighbors.

[The Darkling Wolf]

If your rake is making a quarter of the noise a leafblower is making, y'all should probably get a new one.

[Jopax]

It's a semi-auto motor powered rake most probably, hence the speed, and the noise.

But leaf blowers are quite fun, especially when you make TP guns out of them

[Frumple]

If your rake is making a quarter of the noise a leafblower is making, y'all should probably get a new one.

Metal bitsies,* bits of concrete, fairly dry leaves. It was still pretty noisy with just the rake, just... not nearly as noisy, or as consistently noisy.

*Plastic head rakes... break. Honestly, as the years go by I'm finding everything not made out of solid metal is disturbingly flimsy when you're actually doing stuff with it. Sometimes even the stuff made from solid metal

Some of it's a bit of misuse, but damnit, if the shaft of a yard tool can't handle being used as a lever while a full grown adult is jumping up and down on it, why the hell have I spent money on the bloody thing? Well, the answer is I haven't because I'm usually doing the yardwork for someone else and they provide the tools, but... still. Quality, bugger it all.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Fair enough, I had not factored in non-dirt segments of garden.

[Aptus]

Son of an hdmi cable... Think the HDMI from my PC to my TV is broken for some reason. Just about to go to bed, watching a few episodes of my favourite Let's Players shenanigans when all of a sudden my computer can't detect my TV. With my sherlockian deduction I have concluded that it has to be the HDMI cable, tested everything else, the only thing I can't try is another HDMI cable since the only other one I have is only like a meter long. Damn it.

[Lagslayer]

I tried using a leaf blower before. It's not worth the trouble. More leaves either were tangled up in the grass or went the wrong way than actually went where I wanted them to go. As far as rakes go, I use plastic ones. I had a metal one years ago, but it got all rusted and junk. Then again, the metal rake was thin and crappy, and the plastic rakes are quite thick.