Sidious, Snoke and Salacious B Crumb’s Sarcastic and Sassy Situation Saloon (Fanfic Social Thread)

Hello my fellow Canadian!

Ohhhh! Fun! I don't normally drink during the week but these past two days have just made spiking my dinner drink necessary. Today hasn't been too bad so far... probably because I'm the only one doing office work today. But my hours for the week are actually up half way through tomorrow (and we aren't supposed to work overtime) so I might take a walk down to the liquor store about 300 metres away from my condo and see if I can spot anything new to treat myself with. I need it after this week!

 

I agree group projects are the worst and don't have anything to do with real life work environment. All they do is serve to make some people do more work than they would if they were doing it by themselves and others get a decent grade for doing very little. I recently was looking at a Master's program I was interested in and they had old syllabi on the website. So many of the classes seemed to have group projects, I was shocked that was still happening in a Master's program. Basically I noped right out of there.


Hugs to everyone having a bad week!

 

I got my drinks and they are chilling in the fridge right now. I'm very happy about that.

Yep, sometimes you just need that little something extra to get through the day/week/year. I hope you found something good if you made it there today!

 

I spent three hours fighting with a single task in a programming project tonight, going around in circles with three error messages repeating over and over and over again. By the time I solved it, it was 10:30 PM, I hadn't had dinner, or any food in 10 hours, and I had about 40 browser tabs open. Closing all those tabs was satisfying to my brain, but not to my stomach.

It's now 10:55 after I got everything committed and pushed to the group repository and opened the code review, and it's too late to hit a restaurant anywhere around here and I have quite literally nothing to fix at home because it's been literally a month and a half since I've made a proper grocery run because I've been so swamped with school and work. I'm going to have to stop by the grocery store (the 24-hour store closes at midnight because COVID) and find something fast and easy to fix. I also need a gallon of milk while I'm there.

 

Hey all hope your all doing good

 

Did you try yelling at that programming task? Sometimes when my computer is acting up, I yell at it and it gets scared and then starts working. You need to show technology who's boss!

 

Yelling won't write correct low-level asynchronous Python code.

 

Yelling doesn't seem to fix any technology problems at all. Trust me, I tried.

It's Easter next week here so we started stocking up on wine and tsipouro. We also already started drinking it, because Covid.

Give us another year of lockdown and Mr Chyn and I will be committed alcoholics.

 

Hit it with a wrench? Works in the Sims!

Tomorrow is my first COVID shot. I'm trying to drink lots of water; heard that helps? Otherwise, I'm back from my parents. Dad is recovering well from his surgery; Mom's minor surgery she found unexpectedly painful, so she wasn't doing much. I hated to leave her like that, but there's a lot of RL stuff I needed to deal with, and for that I need to be home. The cat will need to be renamed Velcro; he is following me around and when I am seated, he has to have at least one paw touching me to make sure I don't move again.

 

I didn't. I ended up on an FREAKING IT chat for work that lasted into the GHDBCVFGDFG EVENING! That is the type of week it has been. I still spiked some orange juice with vodka though. I'm debating trying to make it down there after work today VS doing a different legal substance (in Canada) I have in my cookie jar

Give me another week like this and I might be a committed alcoholic.

Good luck! Most people (myself included) dont have much issues with the first shot. Glad your dad is doing well and I hope your mom follows. Also, your cat sounds adorable!


I swear I am considering completely turning off my phone once my hours are up, just so that work cant contact me. My hours for the week finish at 3pm (2 more HOURS!!) today so you know it's been an absolute mess of a week. The weather isn't supposed to be great, but I'm considering turning off all forms of communication with other humans for the next 3 days (including this place). I need a break! Thinking of downloading some of my favourite fanfic, I recently got bit with a completely new idea in a new fandom so I might work on that, maybe have a movie marathon and work on some LEGO. Lets see if my communication addicted brain can do this!

 

Once I tried to yell at my printer for not printing and it absolutely didn't work. You can't bargain with printers---they have a mind of their own. That's why cats like to sit on them.

I don't drink, but because of COVID I've been having too much caffeine which I probably should stop doing or go to bed early

 

Many years ago when I was in high school, I had a Lexmark printer on the floor in my bedroom. It had two buttons: "power" and "paper feed", and two lights: "power on" and "out of paper". The cat we had at the time loved to play with it, and he was smart enough to figure out what each button did. I would frequently come home to a dozen sheets of blank paper lying on the output tray because he was playing with the paper feed button while I was at school. He also knew how to tell from the lights whether the printer was on or not, and if not, knew how to turn it on and wait for the startup sequence before he hit the paper feed button.

I later replaced it with an all-in-one unit with 23 buttons and a digital display. The cat was very confused, but I never found blank paper in my output tray again.

 

@Briannakin What did you end up treating yourself to now that your terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week is over?

@Mistress_Renata It's good to hear that both your parents are recovering. Crossing fingers that all goes well from here and that your mother's pain goes away soon!

I did that hair dye job yesterday. My friend introduced me to the Korres hair dye she uses. Korres is a very popular local brand of cosmetics that I highly, highly recommend. It's available in every pharmacy here but I'd never tried their hair dyes. The one my friend gave me is black and indigo, which is similar to the one I used before, but the result is very different. My old dye would make all my hair black with a shade of very dark blue, whereas this one turned my black hair (or, well, what black hair I have left) even blacker and my grey-white hair very dark blue. I's whacky and funky and I'm loving it

 

So, some stuff happened today. We got a call this morning that my grandmother died. My grandmother whose house we used to go to almost every weekend when we still lived in Michigan. She was old, had dementia, and her health was failing, so it wasn't completely unexpected, but it still hurts a lot. I miss her.

I also got the second shot of the COVID vaccine today, so that's good I guess.

 

my condolences

 

My condolences too, @Cowgirl Jedi 1701

 

So sorry to hear this. It’s hard to lose that touchstone.

 

I ended up ordering a poke bowl and treating myself to a drug that is legal in Canada but not other parts of the world . I still might wander down to the liquor store today. I got nothing better to do and I don't think I feel like doing what I did the past two nights again.

I'm also going to try to FINALLY pull out some sewing. I haven't worked on any of my projects since before Christmas.



My condolences Cowgirl. She mattered so the hurt matters, even if it was expected.

 

Canadian maple syrup XXXX?

 

Moose Blood. Injected right into my veins.

 

Moose blood? Lol.

But nah, methinks that the substance in question is actually a plant, which is sometimes baked into brownies. The fibers can also be used to make rope, I think.

How am I doing?

 

Yeah.... (though this was baked into chocolate covered oreo!). I don't know how explicit I should be with my occasional stoner ways given this is an American site.

But I did manage to get to the liquor store today (I needed to get out for a bit) and they had new peach flavoured gin coolers. I'm a sucker for anything peach and they are quite nice!

But when I got back home I tried to work on some sewing... and then my blood sugar dropped very low and I ended up exhaused from the whole ordeal... so I had a nap. Just finishing up a fairly meh dinner, trying to decide if I want to try a crack at a new fanfic or just build lego mindlessly while I watch something I've seen before. My brain is feeling foggy so I'm leaning towards option 2.

 

My condolences @Cowgirl Jedi 1701 AS everyone said, it's always sad to lose your older person, even when losing them is entirely foreseeable. Would you like to share a nice story about her?

This day went wrong right off the bat. I'm pickling some beets right now and I had them in a zip lock bag sitting on a plate on the kitchen counter. This morning I woke up to find out that there was a small hole somewhere in the bag, so I started my day with mopping up a puddle of beetroot brine that had dripped off the counter and covered the floor. On a positive note, my ziplock bag is now as tightly sealed as if I'd used a vacuum packing thingy. Oh, and I managed not to stain my clothes. That's got to count for something.

 

Massive hugs @Cowgirl Jedi 1701, losing someone is hard, even when it is expected.

Today is ANZAC day in Australia (and NZ). All the shops are shut because it's a public holiday (pubs only open after 1 and some cafes may be open but they'll close early). This seems to take some people on our local Facebook page by surprise (it's been a public holiday for 100+ years now) It's akin to being surprised when Christmas day rolls around.

We got up and did dawn service at the end of our driveway which was nice. We were awake because of the kids, but I never set foot outside at that time, so the chill morning air was quite bracing and we got to listen to the currawongs, butcherbirds and rainbow lorikeets while we did the minute of silence.

That five minutes of being made to stop did not continue for the rest of the day. I've marked drafts (Year 12, so I actually have to think about feedback), baked banana bread, made plum butter and tried to tidy up the 2 year old's jigsaw puzzles while he tried to untidy them. Now finally sitting down to write and it's bed time.

Tomorrow?

 

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother @Cowgirl Jedi 1701. Even when it's expected it's still hard to go through.