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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I found further evidence that my mom will just die one day, and there will zero indications of it coming. No one in the family knew she was having some surgery on her eye to remove excess skin from her eyelid until the night before and she asked for a ride to and from the eye doctor (and even then she only mentioned it because she had to have a ride home), she had melanoma, told no one, and I only found out one day when it accidentally slipped from her, and today I learned she's been in therapy, not from her own mouth of course but from myself going into the realms of "grey" that I so frequently traverse.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
As I look through my folders and files and stacks of papers, I realize that I still don't know what even half of all that **** is for, or what it is. I recognized I'm missing some things I need, which I suppose is good, but I'm left feeling as though there is some intentional design of just making things too damn complicated. And possibly deliberately mean spirited. Who makes an assessment for childhood anxiety and gives it an acronym of "SCARED?" **** if I can remember what it stands for, but such an assessment bearing such a name is something I would expect to see in the Simpsons or Family Guy, not in real life were it administered to children who are filled with excessive fear and worry.
But, I have to admit, the schadenfreude in me most heartily approves. :D
 
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Shadow Wolf said:
As I look through my folders and files and stacks of papers, I realize that I still don't know what even half of all that **** is for, or what it is. I recognized I'm missing some things I need, which I suppose is good, but I'm left feeling as though there is some intentional design of just making things too damn complicated. And possibly deliberately mean spirited. Who makes an assessment for childhood anxiety and gives it an acronym of "SCARED?" **** if I can remember what it stands for, but such an assessment bearing such a name is something I would expect to see in the Simpsons or Family Guy, not in real life were it administered to children who are filled with excessive fear and worry.
But, I have to admit, the schadenfreude in me most heartily approves. :D
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Welcome to the world of catch-22.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

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Brickjectivity said:
I've never read that book. I'm a catch-22 virgin.
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You are missing out of nothing. It's folders and files and binders of stuff. Tons and tons and heaps of forms. And something called a "training manual." Page for page, it's enough to make the entire Song of Ice and Fire series seem like a lightweight. And when you think you've been over it all and think you're starting to get a grasp of what's what, you'll find another folder of stuff and wonder "what is this ****?" It's so much crap that most of the ladies I work with carry around their purse, which is stuffed full of crap, their laptop back, which is stuffed full of crap, and another bag or two, which are stuffed full of crap. I carry my backpack because it has a ton of compartments and can fit all of my crap into it without bloating it. And triumphantly I laugh at the school's (university I went to) idea of "backpack to briefcase" series of professional prep courses because I beat out "the man" by getting out of carrying a briefcase because I have too much crap for one so I'm still at the backpack level. In some way. Because I'm not a professional, that's someone else - I'm just a geek who throws out the occasional Klingon phrase and loves playing dress up and just happens to get paid to help my peeps out.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I wonder, when there are things like MK Ultra and experimenting on unsuspecting troops with LSD and the Tuskegee experiment, why do people feel the urge to cling to made up fantasy conspiracies when the real things the government did, such as real false flag operations and a plan to invade Canada during WWII, are so much more devious and scary than all the malarkey about Kennedy's assassination and 9/11.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

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I've decided the sit 'n spin was my gateway drug. It got me while I was young, and got me hooked on altered states of mind, perception adjustments, and being ****ed up. And now here I am forever chasing that "first time high" of making myself so dizzy that I went "splat" on the ground and watched the world spin by.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

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I had a nice dream last night. During the week--this week specifically though it was much warmer in my dream and there is no more larping until March--my mantra was "gotta get my hours in" so I could leave early Friday for a weekend of larping and have plenty of time for the drive, unpacking and set up, and costume and makeup. And there was larping in my dream, so it was an awesome dream.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

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When I get home from work, I have the foot control switch pedal thingy for my over complicated guitar amp. And with the foot switch it gives me the ability to record and loop what I play, a pretty useful and handy feature. It also has a pedal that can act as volume control, pitch shift, or wah. But now I can switch among the 12 sound banks with ease and without the interruption of having to use my hands to change it. So hopefully I'll conjure up some demons and hellfire with my guitar to keep me warm.
 
Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Shadow Wolf said:
When I get home from work, I have the foot control switch pedal thingy for my over complicated guitar amp. And with the foot switch it gives me the ability to record and loop what I play, a pretty useful and handy feature. It also has a pedal that can act as volume control, pitch shift, or wah. But now I can switch among the 12 sound banks with ease and without the interruption of having to use my hands to change it. So hopefully I'll conjure up some demons and hellfire with my guitar to keep me warm.
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Making me feel old..... Started with a silk and steel string acoustic in high-school and then moved on to electric.....had a Guild electric, had a custom made electric and still have a Vantage electric (this was my first electric). Use to plug in my amp and play all sorts of stuff from Rush to Judas Priest to Motorhead, and on occasion my own stuff.... the big Amp is in the basement with its little brothers (practice amp) the Guild was traded for a 6 string acoustic (which pretty much collects dust these days, and the music store robbed me with the price they gave me on the trade, but I discovered that a few years later), the custom was sold to a friend and the Vantage is in a case in a closet. These days if I come home and play any guitar at all, and it is rare, it is on my Takamine Classical guitar that is from the late 50s or early 60s (Takamine lost the records for the guitars they made in Japan and that is as close as they can get me to when it was made)....... and I am playing classical pieces...badly.

Oh and I almost forgot, I have a Gibson bass in the gig bag collecting dust too.... once thought I might like being a bassist more than a guitarist.... nope..... so it too now collects dust

Heck, I guess it is time... I am much closer to 60 that 50 these days and those electric guitar days were over 20 years ago.
 
Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Revoltingest said:
That is not how catch-22 works.

You can get out of the military if you're crazy.
To get out of the military, you must apply to get out.
Applying to get out proves you're not crazy.
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beenherebeforeagain said:
Good grief! You're right! Then who is it I thought I watched in it all those years ago???

Well, he would have been good. Just goes to show that I have a faulty working memory.
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Director: Mike Nichols
Main Character Captian John Yossarian was played by Alan Arkin

Catch-22 (1970) - IMDb
 
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Revoltingest said:
That is not how catch-22 works.

You can get out of the military if you're crazy.
To get out of the military, you must apply to get out.
Applying to get out proves you're not crazy.
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That's classic catch 22. Many people have worked to generalize catch-22 and have succeeded admirably.
 
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