The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

     

    might be able to do a yule log gif in carrara, hmmmmm

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,252

    So tired, just so tired.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I had to manually set the date and time on my electronic tablet.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,085
    edited November 2018

    Non-complaint:  I went to another local auction on Sunday.  Professional auction house, not a home.  They were getting rid of some interesting collections.  An antique medical device collection.  A collection of antique Halloween paraphenalia.  A collection of Oriental/Persian rugs.  Gazillions of empty tin containers that used to contain various creams, ointments, powders, smokeables, etc.  Very interesting to just walk around and examine all that stuff. cool I love oriental rugs and like to add small ones to my collection despite not having any more floor space on which to put them (I put them on table tops, stair landings, file cabinet tops, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, long narrow ones on shelves, on the stair railing, and on top of each other) . yes  And I was particularly interested in an "Analytical Balance" (super accurate medical/chemical/mineral balance for weighing precise quantities of stuff. heart

    Complaint:  When I got there and went to pick up my bidding number I realized I had forgotten my wallet. frown

    Non-complaint:  I saved a lot of money by walking away. indecision

    'Nother non-complaint:  One of the Persian rugs I was looking at was wonderful, clean, a Tabriz design, excellent workmanship, then as I examined more of it I discovered that it had two huge holes worn into it in the middle. surprise  Glad I didn't hastily bid on that (If I'd had any money with me) yes

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    always rains when i have a dr appt.  
    sky weeps again >.<
    i booked bus to go cvs after, in the rain then
    ​sky weeps again >.<

    i sux at poetry doh 

    have 3 hours to kill bwteen cvs and trip home,
    thought a nice walk about the main street would do me good
    ​sky keeps on weepings weepings. in to the futuren >.<

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    So tired, just so tired.

     

    sleeping pill?  or mebbe feeling down?
     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,252
    Mystarra said:

    So tired, just so tired.

     

    sleeping pill?  or mebbe feeling down?
     

    Frustrated and depressed 

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    Chohole said:
    DanaTA said:
    Chohole said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:

    I found the most boring show on Netflix.  There is nothing bad about it.  No nudity but that is because there are no characters.  Unless you count a pile of logs on fire some characters.  There are no foul language because a pile of logs on fire do not use any language.  Basically it is a pile of logs on fire for an hour.  Very boring, too boring as it has no music.

    Hmmm now to find something better to watch other than a pile of logs in constant burning state but not really burning, but it looks like it is burning.

    Sounds like you've found the "Yule Log".  It's a Christmastime video they made many years ago.  For those who don't have a fireplace, but want to enjoy Christmas music while sipping spiced apple cider and relaxing with loved ones late at night...or whatever.  What channel was it on?

    Dana

    Just a bit more entertaining than the "Paint Drying" video.

    I think it's nice for people who'd like to stare at a fireplace but don't have one.  And if you smoke a little of that funny stuff, you might actually believe it's in your home!  cheeky   Of course, if you start feeling the warmth from it...either you had too much, or your computer/TV is on fire.  surprise

    Dana

    Back in the late 50s my Father was sent to a convalescent home for a month or so after an extremely serious illness. This was in January. The house was heated by radiators, but in the sitting room  (lounge) there was a fire place which had an electric fire display of moving flames, although the actual fire element itself was not working.   Everyone of the convalescents were sitting around the fire, as they swore it was the warmest place in the room.

    laugh  That's both funny and sad.  But, hey, if it made them happy...

    Dana

    Well you have to remember that in the 1950s in the UK we were not used to central heating in houses, although there was some in schools and work places.  Many homes were still heated with coal fires. Even electric fires were fairly basic, so an electric fire that looked like an actual fire was quite a novelty. A 3d model of a bed of coals, with semi transparent red and yellow areas and underneath a red light bulb . 
    this is quite a posh one 

    My parents didn't get rid of the original coal fireplaces until the late 60s/early 70s. We went over to gas, and had one of these in the front room.

    The "logs" were moulded fibreglass, lit by two orange bulbs. Small fan blades, turned by the warmth of the bulbs gave a flickering flame effect.

    In the back room, we had a plain version without the logs. They were still there when my parents moved out in 94.

     

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited November 2018

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited November 2018
    Chohole said:
    DanaTA said:
    Chohole said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:

    I found the most boring show on Netflix.  There is nothing bad about it.  No nudity but that is because there are no characters.  Unless you count a pile of logs on fire some characters.  There are no foul language because a pile of logs on fire do not use any language.  Basically it is a pile of logs on fire for an hour.  Very boring, too boring as it has no music.

    Hmmm now to find something better to watch other than a pile of logs in constant burning state but not really burning, but it looks like it is burning.

    Sounds like you've found the "Yule Log".  It's a Christmastime video they made many years ago.  For those who don't have a fireplace, but want to enjoy Christmas music while sipping spiced apple cider and relaxing with loved ones late at night...or whatever.  What channel was it on?

    Dana

    Just a bit more entertaining than the "Paint Drying" video.

    I think it's nice for people who'd like to stare at a fireplace but don't have one.  And if you smoke a little of that funny stuff, you might actually believe it's in your home!  cheeky   Of course, if you start feeling the warmth from it...either you had too much, or your computer/TV is on fire.  surprise

    Dana

    Back in the late 50s my Father was sent to a convalescent home for a month or so after an extremely serious illness. This was in January. The house was heated by radiators, but in the sitting room  (lounge) there was a fire place which had an electric fire display of moving flames, although the actual fire element itself was not working.   Everyone of the convalescents were sitting around the fire, as they swore it was the warmest place in the room.

    laugh  That's both funny and sad.  But, hey, if it made them happy...

    Dana

    Well you have to remember that in the 1950s in the UK we were not used to central heating in houses, although there was some in schools and work places.  Many homes were still heated with coal fires. Even electric fires were fairly basic, so an electric fire that looked like an actual fire was quite a novelty. A 3d model of a bed of coals, with semi transparent red and yellow areas and underneath a red light bulb . 
    this is quite a posh one 

    My parents didn't get rid of the original coal fireplaces until the late 60s/early 70s. We went over to gas, and had one of these in the front room.

    The "logs" were moulded fibreglass, lit by two orange bulbs. Small fan blades, turned by the warmth of the bulbs gave a flickering flame effect.

    In the back room, we had a plain version without the logs. They were still there when my parents moved out in 94.

     

    That is probably more like the one used in the convalescent home. My memory is not clear, I was only a child at the time.

    We lived in a 1930s semi. When my parents sold the house, when Dad retired in 1978 the house was still exactly as it had been when My Uncle first lived in it back in 1939.  Still had the original fire places, back boiler behind the one in the living room, stone floor in the kitchen, walk in larder, electric hot water geyser in the kitchen, old stone sink and wooden draining board. No gas, as it was new build when Uncle moved in, the guy had intended to build several more, had cleared some land, would have applied to have gas piped in once a few more were up. Then War broke out,  My Uncle wasn't allowed to join the Army, he did top secret research and the house was handy for where he had been stationed.  Like he could see the factory out of the front windows.   The other houses never did get built.  Dad took the house over when he came back from the war. Him and Mum were married 6 days after was was declared, on a special license.  Ron and I had both been born in our grandparents house, but my younger brother was actually born in hospital in the town where we all grew up.  So Ron and I were born in what then would have been still Middlesex  and Dave was born in Kent.  Now of course both come under London.
    When we were growing up the other people in our road thought we were posh, as us and next door were the only 2 houses that had a bathroom and an inside toilet.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,085
    edited November 2018

    I remember homes with outside privies.  We always had indoor facilities not everybody in the town did.  indecision

    Another thing I remember was dogs.  Lots and lots of free roaming dogs.  Each had a house to go to and someone to feed them but you learned to recognize dogs of your territory and other territories.   Mostly they stayed in their own territories or would sometimes go into other neighborhoods for lust, or hunting in the surrounding woods for sport. Twice our dog came back with a face full of porcupine quills.  You'd think she'd have learned the first time. frown  My grandfather kept a pack of hunting dogs.  Beagles I believe they were.  Damn, what a din they could raise when a stranger came into the yard.  angry

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Mystarra said:

    So tired, just so tired.

     

    sleeping pill?  or mebbe feeling down?
     

    Frustrated and depressed 

    thats a recipe for tired

    feel better soonest!

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,252
    Mystarra said:
    Mystarra said:

    So tired, just so tired.

     

    sleeping pill?  or mebbe feeling down?
     

    Frustrated and depressed 

    thats a recipe for tired

    feel better soonest!

    Thanks!  I was off today but work tomorrow.  Hopefully I can vote.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.


    which choice would give you more happiness?


    i was in cvs today, had a r2d2 christmas ornament in hand,
    and a jumbo sized ferrero chocolate,
    ohhh the decision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint - optimum boost aint so boosted, normally 5 min d/l, thing guestimaing 4 hours, wooooes

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,252

    I must be tired as I was looking for an aquairum bar, but could only see Arabella's stuff.  I forgot I was searching for stuff for Arabella and forgot to clear the search.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,252

    Should I watch Star Trek or Doctor Who?  Should I watch it on my iPad or on my firetv stick?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    Mystarra said:

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.


    which choice would give you more happiness?


    i was in cvs today, had a r2d2 christmas ornament in hand,
    and a jumbo sized ferrero chocolate,
    ohhh the decision

    ...yeah only the first week of November and I'm seeing more yule stuff being stocked on the shelves.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    Mystarra said:

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.


    which choice would give you more happiness?


    i was in cvs today, had a r2d2 christmas ornament in hand,
    and a jumbo sized ferrero chocolate,
    ohhh the decision

    ...yeah only the first week of November and I'm seeing more yule stuff being stocked on the shelves.

     

    yup, the yule stuff nd pennsylvania dutch egg nogg.  yule day is like 7 weeks away.

    i walked alll the way to the supermarket with my rolator walker, guess what they had in stock heartheartdevil the jacky D pulled pork. pulled pork in a plastic pouch, and found mashed sweet potato in a traycheeky
    just have to scoop a bit in a cake pan and heat for 20 minutes at 350 egrees.

    i'm thinkin instead of setting up plastic tree, i'll get a potted table top sized real tree

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Should I watch Star Trek or Doctor Who?  Should I watch it on my iPad or on my firetv stick?

    Matt Smithheart

    November in my Dr Who calendar is a pic of matt with his sonic screw driver 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    HUUUBBA, think i felt a hormone stir, might be a leftover hormone from the 90s lol

    https://www.daz3d.com/walker-hd-for-vladimir-8

     

    i dont have vlad, but his skin should be the base uv?

    g8 characters all use the same uv?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,085
    edited November 2018

    Should I watch Star Trek or Doctor Who?  Should I watch it on my iPad or on my firetv stick?

    Hmmm... why am I reminded of Dr. Seuss?  I tried to remember a similar cadence and tone, but these are all I could remember:

    “And this mess is so big

    And so deep and so tall,

    We cannot pick it up.

    There is no way at all!”   -- "Cat in the Hat"

    -- -- -- -- -- --

    My hat is old.
    My teeth are gold.
    And now
    my story
    is all told.  --  "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,334
    Mystarra said:

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.


    which choice would give you more happiness?


    i was in cvs today, had a r2d2 christmas ornament in hand,
    and a jumbo sized ferrero chocolate,
    ohhh the decision

    Ornament will last longer...unless it's glass and you drop it.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited November 2018
    Mystarra said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Mystarra said:

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.


    which choice would give you more happiness?


    i was in cvs today, had a r2d2 christmas ornament in hand,
    and a jumbo sized ferrero chocolate,
    ohhh the decision

    ...yeah only the first week of November and I'm seeing more yule stuff being stocked on the shelves.

     

    yup, the yule stuff nd pennsylvania dutch egg nogg.  yule day is like 7 weeks away.

    i walked alll the way to the supermarket with my rolator walker, guess what they had in stock heartheartdevil the jacky D pulled pork. pulled pork in a plastic pouch, and found mashed sweet potato in a traycheeky
    just have to scoop a bit in a cake pan and heat for 20 minutes at 350 egrees.

    i'm thinkin instead of setting up plastic tree, i'll get a potted table top sized real tree

    ...nice score on the JackD pulled pork. 

    Just made up a pot of my jambalaya with spicy Andouille sausage. and slow simmered buttered beets. That'll last a couple dinners.

    I still want one of those totally kitschy aluminum trees with the rotating light. Sadly they are now all vintage and very expensive.

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,252

    Something seems wrong with my WiFi settings on my laptop.  I need it to connect to the internet.

    I put my computer to sleep this morning.  I woke it up as soon as I got to work place and got a BSoD.  After the computer restarted, the wireless was not working, so I restarted it again.  The wireless still was not working.  So I went to device manager and found it disabled so I enabled it.  That was irritating.

     

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,015
    edited November 2018

    Should I watch Star Trek or Doctor Who?  Should I watch it on my iPad or on my firetv stick?

    No one can tell you that, I'm afraid. smiley We all have different tastes, and those are two very different shows. Are you familiar with either of them, or is this your first time watching? If you do watch Doctor Who (which I personally prefer out of the two) as a rookie, I recommend you start with the revival. The classic series is good for what it is, but it's very obviously from another era and can seem a bit slow at times. There are also many episodes and entire stories missing from the early seasons, because BBC deleted them thanks to limited storage space. Christopher Eccleston is amazing as the 9th Doctor, and his series has some firecracker episodes. If you're new to Star Trek, I would recommend that you don't start with Voyager, because that series has a very different feel than the rest of the franchise.

    The log show actually made me think of this thing that is a thing in Norway, where really boring stuff is filmed for use as "background TV" that you're not supposed to pay much attention to. It's called Slow TV, and they're much longer than an hour. The first "feature film" was made in early summer 2011, in an attempt at making the worlds longest uninterupted TV broadcast ever. It succeeded, and concists of several days' worth of non-stop footage from onboard a ferry. There are "interviews" with passengers and crew, but the majority of the footage is just the bow of the ship plowing through the water. I think there really IS a sequel about watching burning logs, too.

    Wait, no. The ferry film wasn't the first one. There was one about a train, made in 2009. (Only 7 hours long, compared to 134.)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television

    Looks like Norway is the reigning champion of this stuff, which for some reason doesn't surprise me. We're very good at not paying attention.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    project at the day job.  they want a tv setup to display pdfs, word docs.

    tv has a usb port and an hdmi port.

    looking receivers.  there's a thing called miracast or mirror screening.  would have to buy the gizmo and a tablet to host the files. but what happens when the tablet goes to sleep, imagining the image goes dark on the tv monitor too.  dunno know what to recommend.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    Mystarra said:

    I forgot why I logged into this website.  Do I want to buy Tori HD for Genesis 8 Female? I'm trying to save some money to buy a new wireless USB adapter for my computer. edited to fix formatting.


    which choice would give you more happiness?

    I rarely use Genesis 8 female.  I think I'll buy a dual band wireless adapter instead.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited November 2018

    ...I have a wired router I just ordered on the way. Should be here by Thursday

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I misread wired as weird.  I'm too tired.

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