So did anyone else have a really crappy week?

[Mauzy]

I just gotta vent a little here...


The week started relatively ok. The usual school ---smurf-poo---, but other than that nothing out of the ordinary.

Wednesday rolls around, and the air temp here is about 6 degrees. Pretty cold, but gonna get colder. I'm driving my Jeep to Parkland College for my engineering courses. I dont get 5 miles down the road and something doesnt feel right. Its snowing and blowing and just generally crappy winter weather outside. I pull over, and find that my front driver side tire blew out a side wall. Freakin great. I pull over at a roofing company and call for help. Dad shows up a half hour later, we get the tire changed with the ---smurfy--- little donut that comes with the Cherokee. I limp it home and miss class. Dad takes the tire to Tire Barn for a replacement. The guy at the counter checks the code on the tire and finds that MY TIRES ARE 13 YEARS OLD!! Thats a good 4 years older than my vehicle, theres no way they have 150K miles on them. Anyway, theres $400 bucks spent for three new tires (already had to buy a new one last year...) Seriously, who the hell sells a vehicle with 13 year old tires on it??

That day the snow gets worse, so we get out of school an hour early. Great, until I get tackled into two different snow banks, 5 minutes apart. Quite uncomfortable. All this happened in one day, so I figured I'd go home and fire up the Neo Geo for some Bust a Move therapy. Turn on my machine, nothing. Great. After three hours of trouble shooting and a couple good shocks, I fix the machine. Too late to play, gotta do some homework.

The next day, school gets canceled. Sweet, right? Not really. Now I have to get up at 6 for an hour of class at Parkland, then come home and sit around all day. So I get up, go into class, everything is fine. That day the air temp was about 13 BELOW with a windchill of -35. COLD! I go to start my parents' Yukon (can't be driving on ---smurfy--- 13 year old tires, right?) and Ill be damned if it doesnt start. Luckily after a bit of prodding it comes to life, but it sounds like its singing its death song. I let it warm up in the parking lot for about 20 minutes before trying to move. By this point Im feeling frost bit to I limp it home. The horrible sound stopping 500 feet from the house. Terribly nerve-racking ride. I get home and relax. The next day brings the same with the terrible sound with the Yukon, but I shrug it off. Itll be fine.

So today I was playing Fallout 3 on my 360 for a couple hours (spectacular game, really!) I shut it off for 20 minutes to eat dinner. I go to turn it back on and lo and behold, red ring of death. This is the second time I've had to have it repaired. I guess Im lucky considering it was manufactured the week before the 2005 launch, but still. Now I have to send it in and go without gaming for a month. Just an inconvienience.

Oy. I've been running all week with school, very little sleep. Thanks for letting me vent.

Please, someone smack me around and tell me that you've had a worse week...     

[Mauzy]

Earlier this week, it was so sunny, warm, and clear I was feeling almost guilty as I jogged along to gentle reggae music in my shorts and t-shirt.

Plenty of work available down here, but if you're so stupid you'll live in an iced over hell hole we probably don't need you.

 

Hey now... we aren't COMPLETELY iced over...

[ark_ader]

Rained and icy cold in the northern part of England all week.

Later today we get a nice storm with 80 mph winds and snow on Tuesday.

But I'm inside most of the day, nice and warm so I cannot complain I guess. 

[daywane]

there was a NEWS show not to long ago about tires
Wal Mart and other stores have in stock brand new 15 year old tires 

[RayB]

Honestly, that rant just made me want to say "STFU!".
 

[Mauzy]

Honestly, that rant just made me want to say "STFU!".
 

Heh. I was kinda looking for that.
 

[CheffoJeffo]

Let's break it down:

• It was cold. Nothing but sunshine and umbrella drinks for the rest of us!
• You got a flat tire.
• Your father came and helped you change the tire. My father would have laughed at me and told me to stop being such a Nancy!
• You got out of school early. I hate it when that happens!
• You played in the snow. At least it wasn't manure
• Arcade cabinet doesn't work. This happens to me all the time.
• You fixed arcade cabinet. This doesn't happen to me enough.
• You got a day off school. I'm grateful that I wasn't burdened like this -- it must have been so stressful!
• You had to get up at 6. I'm glad I only have to do this on workdays!
• You had to drive your parents SUV. Oh, the horror! I can't bear to watch!
• Your XBox360 Red Ringed.
• You got no sleep, despite getting out of school early and having a whole day off

So, by my count, two mildly bad things happened to you, surrounded by a bunch of normal things and some really cushy things like time off school and your dad changing your flat ... I'm amazed that you have enough strength left to face the coming week!

It's time to park the Waaahbulance back in the garage and harden the ---fudgesicle--- up before RealLife(tm) kicks your ass!

And get the hell offa my lawn!

 

[Mauzy]

lmao. See? Sometimes you need some old coot to kick you around. Thanks, Cheffo.

Seriously that was hilarious.

And I didnt have the whole day off until today, still had to be up early. Otherwise, yes. All that is correct.

[Blanka]

Here it is real hell. The third Monday of January is worldwide recognised (Shut up Australians) to be the most depressed day of the year, so I locked my self up to get any further on We Love Katamari. The king of all Kosmos killed all the stars in the galaxy, and I, the Prince, am the only being that can save all the stars, including the sun, and thus life on earth.

Then I ran into 3 unbearable levels:
The 1000 origami level
Fireplace level
12m ball in 12 minutes level
I cannot finish one of them, how hard I try. One success is needed to unlock another way to restore the galaxy. Guess we all gonna die now.

[ark_ader]

I learned many years ago not to whine about arcade stuff to non-collector friends - usually the conversation would go like this.

"Dammit, my MAME cabinet crashed and my pinball machine is on the fritz again"

"What does it matter, you have 5 other ones and I can't even afford one"

"Oh, sure you could, they're actually really cheap if you know how to do some work"

"Give me the next cheap one"

And then you have awkward conversations about, well, you gotta spend weeks/months learning how to repair them, and it probably takes you 20 hours of work to get them going, and well, you're not just gonna hand over a game like that for the $200 you paid initially.

   Too funny!

[Loafmeister]

Tires have an expiration date, you got lucky, could have been worse.

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