I hate Tom Servo’s new voice
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I hate Tom Servo’s new stats bar.
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I don’t care!
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Wednesday night is movie night. Made a bowl of popcorn, got all comfy on the couch, popped in my Blu-Ray of Stargate … and nothing happened. Player claimed it couldn’t read the disc.
Tried taking it out, putting it in again.
Nothing.
Tried turning the whole system off and on again.
Nothing.
Tried the disc is a different player.
Nothing.
Thankfully I have the disc ripped to my PLEX (I like watching the actual disc for films though) so it isn’t lost, lost, but that is one of my favorite movies and the disk is apparently dead. Now someone really needs to release a 4K version.
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Having lived with it for a day now, neither do I. I find it very distracting when I’m trying to read the last post in a thread.
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I don’t like it. That Dr. Phantom guy is always following me around!
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Goddammit, this “water in the knee” thing…whatever it is…an effusion or something…
I suspect it’s caused by me having sat full lotus for hours as a young and stupid kid.
It really freaking hurts…I don’t know what you’d call it…movement in the medio-lateral direction about the main joint.
The funny thing is I’ve studied all the stuff about tendons in the hands, and to some extent, in the foot, because of having played keyboards and also walked a bunch as an adult. Also some stuff about the maxillary cavity and so forth, because I had to learn that for reasons. You know, you can’t teach languages of any sort without at least knowing that trapezoidal abstraction of the buccal cavity, and points of lengual articulation, and so forth.
But that knee stuff…the big joints…judas priest, just lemme cut the whole damn thing off, roast it, and make a meal of it. Here’s the airplane of 800mg ibuprofen…where is the hangar…mmmm…mmmm…
Pretty sure that’s a good idea. No, the ibuprofen’s fine. And indeed I am taking that bolus as prescribed right…now…but…freal, I hate that knee.
/* ETA, fairly sure it’s some kind of crime to amputate one’s own appendage and consume it. Well, maybe not a crime crime, but one probably shouldn’t share that with the ambulance driver or whoever…I think you end up playing cards with Cheswick and the Chief for that one. */
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I once had a disc that was unreadable in the player. Tried it over and over again and finally gave up and re-ordered another copy.
That copy had already arrived when I realized I’d been putting the disc in upside down.
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Dealing with legal issues today, including something that must be notarized. Plus all the joy of bill paying.
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I’m a notary for SC but I don’t think that’ll help 
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No, i’m heading west today.
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A few days ago I replaced yet another tank-2-terlet gasket (tis the summer), my daughter’s this time. I left and said “plz watch closely for leaks.”
Today days later, a leak is found. Rassum frassum closely leaks ok.
My repair wasn’t the problem, it was a compression fitting on the intake valve that I failed to double check. Fortunately no bad water damage. Work day not entirely unpleasantly interrupted.
Compression fitting: mash two things together really hard. No plumbing’s not sketch.
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Aaaaand apparently my city is still having problems with lead in the water. Only heard about it when someone at work brought it up and looked it up. Because of course they don’t actually notify people of it. Sitting at work drinking water that possibly has lead in it, because if my family’s house is affected, it won’t do anything to me it hasn’t already done in the last 12 years living here. 
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Pff. You’re young. We all grew up breathing the stuff.
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And eating lead paint chips 
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I wasn’t doing that, but my mom did have orange Fiestaware.
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I remember the PSA’s they used to have when I was a kid. “Children may be tempted to eat lead paint chips because they are colorful and taste like candy.”
THEY DO? “Mom, do we have any lead paint chips?”
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Lead has a slight sweet taste, but not enough to make paint taste good, I would think.
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