The $%*! frustration thread

[kingpingu30]

I am really hating on swine flu right now. Over the past 3 days at my school, there have been over 500 students sent home with flu-like symptoms. Although I am aware that it isnt nearly as dangerous as it has been made to look, I still have my worries, not for myself, but about my brother. he is asthmatic, and if he gets it, he could die... And my sister has it too... Only a matter of time before I am inflicted with the illness too...

[alfadorredux]

Feeling old. There's been a rash of people here in this past day or so talking about their school/college/university and/or how they were at school during 9/11 (I was at work during the latter, with a grad degree under my belt already). I know that video games (and anime, for that matter) are more of a young person's hobby, but I get tired of having my nose rubbed in it sometimes.

[ZeaLitY]

I lost control on a low spot heading uphill on an overpass during pouring rain; the truck did a 180 and slammed into the guardrail at about 60 mph. I was under the limit, but apparently not under enough.

No injury. Don't thank "God"; thank my state for being "socialist" enough to fund high-quality guardrails with taxpayer money. If some beneficent "God" was involved, he wouldn't have let the crash occur in the first place.

This is part of the reason a person should live life to the fullest, pursue their dreams, and strive to have no regrets. Death can come at any time for any person. So complete your desires; find new desires; do everything you can while you can. That's real living.

熱血 | 根性 | 青春

Dream it.

[Lord J Esq]

Wow.

"Uh, Mom, Dad. You know how your truck used to have a bed?"

(I'll let the others wash over you with wishes of sympathy and commiseration. I'm good for mine on IM, if you want.)

[ZeaLitY]

Yeah, it happened too fast to fear death. My only fear and thought was, "my parents might be pissed about this." They've been reasonable, thankfully.

 

[mav]

Whoa...I'm glad to see you made it out okay, Zeality. Driving was a chore this morning for me too--I think I saw a van that had nearly careened off the hill on the service road. Stupid highway with its terrible on-ramps and off-ramps, lane shortages, bustling traffic, and inane Denton drivers.

Anyway...

[Truthordeal]

Thank God for Texas, the great socialist state!

Ok, enough being a douche. Seriously man, that must've hurt. Glad to hear that it was just the truck and not our glorious leader that got damaged.

[ZaichikArky]

Glad you're ok!  That was a close call. I've had 2 friends die from cars. I don't want to see it ever happen again : (.

[ZombieBucky]

holy shit man. you sure youre alright? not just physically but mentally. it would suck if your body was totally okay but you couldnt do anything with it because of mental issues.
when you think about it, would you rather have your parents pissed about the truck than be dead? i hear its not terribly enjoyable.

the truck looks like its been torn apart like youd tear cheese.
dammit i hate cold.

[ZeaLitY]

My outlook on life hasn't changed at all. Can't slow down, either; homework...

[Uboa]

Holy shit indeed.  60 mph?  I'm just glad to hear you walked away from that.  Hope everything gets straightened out soon.

[Uboa]

 
...I don't know what to do right now.

I just found 3 live rat kittens, pinkies, in a long unused drawer in my house.  I'm assuming that mom is around somewhere.  I really don't want to cull them, being a veteran rat caretaker.

What's more, they're really fat little kids, and I think I know where mom's getting all of the food.  The drawer is above the cabinet where I keep a lot of rice and stuff.  I haven't checked the integrity of the grains, but I'm guessing I'm going to find several chewed bags when I do.

For those who aren't familiar with rat kittens:


That's about what these guys look like.

Edit:  I just met mom.  She looks like a kangaroo rat, probably technically a mouse, though.  Her babies are so huge compared to her.  I'd like to be able to transfer the family somewhere instead of taking her kids from her, but I have no idea how to do that.  She'd likely freak out and eat her kids if I transfered all of them.

Any wildlife experts here?

Edit 2:  For lack of better options, I'm probably going to have to trap and release the mother and cull the babies.  Really not what I was hoping to do. 

[MsBlack]

I lost control on a low spot heading uphill on an overpass during pouring rain; the truck did a 180 and slammed into the guardrail at about 60 mph. I was under the limit, but apparently not under enough.

...

It's hard to say, 'I'm sorry to hear that,' with a straight face when I keep tittering at the rest of your post. 'It's so Z': using your car crash as an opportunity to blast religion and go SoY on our collective asses. Badass.

[ZombieBucky]

uboa i dunno what cull means but what i suggest you do is keep the babies where they are and contact a veterinarian for assistance. or you could wait until mr eric comes back. from what ive read of his past posts hes a veterinarian. but hes been busy.

this discussion of mr eric brings me to my current frustration.
i have an obsession issue.
you see every time im on a site like this if the link isnt underlined i have to open it in a new tab. needless to say ive gone through a bunch of peoples profiles, topics, encyclopedia articles... you name it, ive clicked it.
but that causes two problems.

1. firefox seems to have a memory leak. so after a while of going through all these links it starts eating up so much memory that i have to end the process or it just dies on me. thus erasing all my hard work.
2. i need to clear the cache and all the history after a while. but then the links arent underlined. thats cool.
until i click the forum link.
then one of all the other links are underlined, so guess what i have to do?

[Uboa]

Thanks, Zombie.   I'll look for him.  I'm going to have to figure this out today one way or another.

Also, sounds like an odd Firefox bug.  I'm not understanding the underlined/not underlined distinction... does that mean visited links?  And, just how many tabs are you opening?