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― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
I did buy it dinner, though, so I think we're cool.
We're looking into alarm systems, because while police don't think the culprit was in the house very long, it's possible they cased the house for future burglaries. The other shitty thing is, my laptop was logged in to Google at the time for Gmail, which also means someone could access my Google Docs account, which contained a document which recorded logins and passwords for all of our credit card sites, utilities, banking, etc. It was protected, but christ knows what people can hack these days. So I had to go through and change all of our logins and passwords, and report all of our credit card information as potentially stolen.
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
i had my laptop burgled while i slept once too :( no fun. i "solved" the situation by actually having a good lock on my door. shitty locks are the cause of 100% of burglaries i've been victim of. get a good lock and don't worry about it any more.
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Phil, would you consider getting a dog? It doesn't have to be like an attack beast, but a dog that will bark furiously when something's awry makes me feel a lot safer after some creepy things went down in my apt building.
― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Dogs also snuggle better than baseball bats.
― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Then again, baseball bats won't shit in the corner, so ymmv.
They came in through a window. We have great locks and deadbolts on both the front and side doors, and every window in the house was closed/locked EXCEPT for two crank-out casement style windows in our back sunroom. (See photo of room here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/muggingovercoffee/488116636/) They were opened about 5" because that room is like a hothouse so we like to air it out. Someone pulled the window open farther, then pushed on the screen until it popped out.
Keep in mind, from the outside, that window is a good 5+ feet off the ground, and it's only about 14" wide. Whoever did this was very small, but able to hoist himself up quite easily (police took a shoe print off the siding and from the living room), and seemed to know exactly what they wanted and where to find it. But I can't think of anyone who has ever been in our house who would be a likely suspect.
xxp After just recently losing two cats I don't think we could think about getting a dog right now. Certainly not for burglar-alarm type purposes. Although nothing would make me happier than siccing like, a bull mastiff on someone.
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I have a back-up fleet of chihuahuas in case a burglar tries to come in one of the windows that isn't alarmed.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
that would be pretty great if you did
― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/09/scooterdogs9.jpg
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Well, a chihuahua, a maltese, and two hybrids. They're almost completely useless most of the time, but they'd get the job done if someone tried to get in our house.
That picture's great, Phil.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I love it! What a bunch of happy little friends.
― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
i like to sleep with the windows open, but whenever i go out i have to make sure every window in the house is locked, as well as the front and back doors. we're facing a busy street with minimal parking, so *knock on wood* someone out there would notice if a burglar was trying to get in.
― dance cook (get bent), Saturday, 13 August 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
how's it going dance
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
ask me again next week.
― the ramen corner (get bent), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
ok good luck
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 07:08 (twelve years ago) link
sup
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
it takes 4 weeks to reach full effect. i'm on the second week and i just started adding the lunchtime pill to the breakfast and dinner pills. i don't feel anything yet, except more tired than usual. it's been a difficult week though, for various reasons, so "not feeling better" is par for the course.
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
how often do you feel like ditching everything medicinal and letting the chips fall, etc
i do, constantly. but the consequences are never suitably epic; i just stay in bed for a few days while considering unpleasantries. and then, i dunno, the same shit just continues forever.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
i can't ditch everything; it'd be too tempting to lie there in the dark all day and make bad decisions about my personal upkeep.
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
the same shit just continues forever
life, in my experience.
(not even meant to be sarcastic. in the belly of the beast myself at the moment.)
― Lamp...in my vagina?? (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
i've spent a ridic amount of time on ilx today because i've been down; when i feel okay i just check in on a few threads and go about my business. abnormal ilx use is a cry for help. :-(
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
so there are things that i *know* help
like especially exerciseand not drinkingand readingand trying to keep regular hours
some are more difficult than others
but i struggle to do any of them
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
reading does help. anything escapist that won't destroy your liver does help. i say that while i finish a strong manhattan.
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
good vibes, homies
― markers, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
for me, i'm indulging in reading, tv, movies, music. the reading's going a little slower because i have trouble concentrating on books at home -- it's only while commuting or killing time somewhere.
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
re-read this today and it was a to-the-bone gutting:
The almost 35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left of the delusion that he differed from the great herd of common men, not even in his despair at not making a difference, or in the great hunger to have an impact that in his late twenties he'd clung to as evidence that even though he was emerging as a sort of a failure the grand ambitions which he'd judged himself a failure were somehow exceptional and superior to the common run's--not anymore.
― Lamp...in my vagina?? (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
that seems like inappropriate reading material tbh
and yet you have started threads and been tall and beloved (perhaps misleadingly) by randy music critic fans for quite some time now
how have you done it
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
pigheadedness tbh.
also life has a weird way of bouncing back at the most unexpected moments so far. and so.
― Lamp...in my vagina?? (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
^^^optimism! bless
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
people who follow me on facebook have had to deal with my recent spate of posts about the hallmark channel reruns of the waltons and little house on the prairie. so. fucking. epic. i think being a pre-1940 hardy rural farmgirl would be a nice restorative for me and kick my ass a bit.
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
in my dream i get to be a pioneer chick in 1880s minnesota AND a tummler in the catskills AND glenn branca's girlfriend
all at the same time
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
read that as glenn beck's girlfriend and got pretty nervous tbh
― Lamp...in my vagina?? (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
also "tummler" <3
my people
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
i keep catching my user name in this thread and its v disconcerting
― Lamp, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
get out of my vagina then
― Lamp...in my vagina?? (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
and the boys usually have such a hard time getting into jessica's vagina!!!
― Lamp, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
okay, okay. i relent.
― Lamp...in my vagina?? (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
there we go.
― get out of my vagina and into my car (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
get out of my memes (etc)
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh no its ok its just that im feeling ~kinda down~ today and kept thinking that id posted itt (which i try not to do) and blah blah blah
― Lamp, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was trying to not be bummer dude today and instead be internet asshole strongo hulkington
― get out of my vagina and into my car (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.scottsdalecards.com/catalog/images/617WELKOTTER.jpg
your dreams were your ticket out
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
no dreams, no ticket
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
sorry for being the internet asshole who posted the ginormous image; swear it wasn't that big when i clicked on it.
― matthew lesko.... in my ? (get bent), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
i think being a pre-1940 hardy rural farmgirl would be a nice restorative for me and kick my ass a bit.
Almost a tie-in to that "guarantee your children will need therapy" article, or maybe I just read it like that. Now I'm sorry, but you'll have to be depressed after the cows are milked and the bread's rising.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
moderate to heavy tuesday lol
― dell (del), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
buy some succulents and take very good care of them. move on to green plants and small animals. frogs are nice. go outside more, walk, hike in nature. even 20 minutes outside helps. collect shells an driftwood, flowers, pinecones, etc. go camping.
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link