Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

lol

Have been wondering since no longer having a separate food waste bin what the local area service does with what goes into their food bins. Have been expecting them to do something somewhat sustainable with it since they seemed ratheradamant about keeping non food objects out of it. I've been changed over to a service that just mixes food waste up with the rest of the landfill waste. Subsequently it will add to landfill which I'm really not into. BUt having thought that when the bins arrived yesterday have been wondering if I'm deluding myself taht something better was happening with the system I've just been involuntarily shifted from by a landlord I have no contact with.
I guess at least this new crowd does recycle to some degree but it looks like every other bin service around town has a separate food waste bin, which I've always thought of as a compost bin. But shades of believing that your doggy has gone to live on this lovely farm in the country I fear.

at work back in the day we had a 'recyclables only' slot and a 'trash' slot in our nearby break stations.

we found out at the end of the day, the group that collected it just mixed both together and put them in the landfill.

assholes.

In the work kitchen, we've got a bin divided into three sections - plastic, aluminum and garbage.

Every day after putting my food in the microwave, I'll stand there with my Healthy Choice™ cardboard box and go Wait a minute.

I hate when you're waiting on confirmation on a rehearsal schedule before you plan your weekend, and the dude waits until 4 pm on Friday to reply, only to say that "he will send it later".

Sooooooooo....guess I'm free tonight then? ugh.

when you put your tshirt on backwards

Lots of places incinerate mixed waste for energy, rather than adding to landfill. Xps

websites with stupid drop-down menus that don't stay dropped down unless your cursor is in the exact right place

with emphasis on the irrational - people who don't know how to use twitter. it's obviously completely subjective because i obviously have some distinct ideas about 'how to use twitter' and indeed i'm not very good at it myself, but OH MY GOD YOU'RE AN INTELLIGENT PERSON WHY ARE YOU HASHTAGGING THAT RANDOM WORD.

websites with stupid drop-down menus that don't stay dropped down unless your cursor is in the exact right place

Yes!!

yup (kaiser permanente, i'm looking at you)

YES

I hate that Best Buy has this stupid flaw in its website where, if you go to your Order Status, and you click the order number to check order status, the first time it always goes to a screen that says "invalid order ID', then when you click back and try again, it pulls up the correct order.

and I know this isn't merely a 'my computer' thing as I've done it on several different machines and browsers!

I was at BB the other day. Gotta say non-functioning game demos are now a source of IA, especially when there are twice as many employees as customers in the store, and they are all just standing around talking to each other. I wanted to try out some Wii U games and they had this big display with a controller that wasn't connected to the system, so all you could do is watch the intro. Around the corner there was a 3DS. I had never seen one and the 3D aspect always intrigued me, and I was also super interested in the idea of something that is more or less the second coming of the Super Nintendo. I try out the system and there is a menu of games. I thought they were demos. I thought wrong. Turns out they were slideshows of _2d still images_ of said games. Wtf that completely defeats the purpose of even having a real 3DS on display! I could have had the same experience looking at a website on my phone.

Just die, high-low hems. DIE.

I'm IA at myself for being angry at such a clichéd thing but srsly just how are you supposed to open that hard plastic clamshell packaging you get on a lot of electrical goods???

scissors

rly? i always have to perforate it somehow first, which always feels like a bit of a risky move.

Stronger scissors. Like kitchen ones that are meant for snapping chicken bones. Or carpet shears.

IA: Whenever people use "quite the _______." Anything. ANYTHING.

motherfucking elm beetles

bad enough they shit all over our car and swarm our front porch, but when you enter my house it's WAR and I am your beetle hitler

in that I will lose and quietly go off somewhere and kill myself

IA that no matter how carefully you check pockets there is always a washed tissue all over your laundry when the cycle is done.

Stronger scissors. Like kitchen ones that are meant for snapping chicken bones. Or carpet shears.

But it's still an IA-worthy struggle of "what gives first, the box, the scissors, or me?" and then you worry that you're permanently blunting your useful strong scissors, all for a cheap crappy pair of headphones or a USB stick or w/e. And it always shears into a jagged edge which scratches you when you try to extract the product. I hate that stuff too.

Can't win.

I try to use X-acto knives for that packaging. Still always feel like I'm seconds away from severing a major artery.

Maybe burn it open.

trauma shears. the blades are flat & finely serated, so they cut *things* but not so finely sharpened that they will cut you.

my paramedic brother in law gave us a pair years ago, they RULE for plastic packaging

this is an "innocuous thing I screwed up that made me angry at myself", but...

I have seen Deicide twice, and they're always fun, but their Tampa shows seem to be next level sick since it's their hometown and all...so when a notice went up that they're coming back again, I immediately snapped up a ticket.

Idiotically forgetting to check my calendar and realizing I have a performance on that night. The kicker is, it's a collection of 10-minute pieces, and we're allowed to leave after we do ours, as we take bows at the end of our piece, not as a group.

So now I'm trying to figure out if I can still make the show after I get out that night (it's 70 minutes away). the cost is negligible, but it's bugging me not knowing if I can make this or not.

the reason I don't know yet is cuz they haven't given us the order of who's going when yet

can you email whoever decides that and ask to go earlier because you have plans to see Deicide later on with your dying grandmother?

"I know it's a lot to ask, but you've never seen my grandma in the pit".

to jstor, 'keep me logged in' means 'keep me logged in for no more than five minutes if i don't click on anything, just in case someone else yoinks my computer and tries to use it to steal copyrighted scholarly research'

twice in the past hour i've read "weary" where i'm sure the person meant to use "wary."

h8 when a tropical storm brews in the Atlantic and it looks like it has a mere POSSIBILITY of hitting SOME PART of FL in 5+ days and everybody freaks out as if they've never been through a hurricane season before.

(esp given how inaccurate forecasts are that far out)

Nelnet has the most antiquated 'direct debit' system for student loan repayment. I came out of a temporary forbearance in June and paid my bill, forgetting that I had KwikPay (their debit system) set up, so a few days later, that came out. I didn't actually notice this until this month. So no biggie, just means I don't owe for this month. So I cancelled my KwikPay.

But it still came out today. There was no notification or information displayed to tell me when the KwikPay cancellation would be effective. Also, almost every OTHER direct debit system I have does a rate fetch of some type to determine the amount to debit, so that if you owe MORE or LESS than the norm, it debits you that (or if you owe $0, it doesn't debit). Not Kwikpay. Kwikpay takes the same amount every time, regardless.

Well lucky me, now I'm paid up through August!

Pirate bay has been blocked thanks to the IRMA according to a message that's up on the site or where the site was until today

"The Pirate Bay has been blocked

The website you are trying to reach is not available due to an Order of the High Court made at the request of IRMA on June 12, 2013 to block access to The Pirate Bay."

IRMA are obvioulsy Irish so not sure if that has been attempted anywhere else or indeed if it is just the service provider. Not really sure how something like that works. So bye bye stumbling on obscure psych, jazz and prog stuff.

http://www.originaloldradio.com/my_friend_irma.jpg

irma la DOUCHE more like

- ppl who stand in the streets of nyc whilst waiting to cross. jaywalk or don't, motherfucker -- but don't stand *in* the street making cars have to turn around you/bikers have to dodge you (only vaguely irrational because i don't drive in nyc anymore and most drivers suck anyway)

- ppl on public transit who hang on to the pole/rail with both hands. too fucking dramatic or something

- the dream i had last night that basically explained all history/physics/life/love that i tried so hard to make permanent in my brain when i got up to pee but then could not remember in the morning

i dreamed it was st patricks day today and when I woke up I spent 5 minutes looking for my pogues tshirt to wear to work before I realized it was just a dream. bad enough getting days confused but being four months off was disorienting as fuck

don't do that to me again, brain

Downstairs neighbour giving out about splashes of water happening and inevitably dripping on her head so she's writing to the landlord to get me kicked out since I won't move my plants indoors.

when I told her she was talking nonsense she said she was going off to write a letter of complaint to the landlord and I was going to get kicked out.
FAr as I can remember she said she was getting dripped on so I aplologised and then she started telling me that I had to move my plants inside. How would I feel if somebody living upstairs from me was doing such a thing, look at the space around her door..... etc etc. & I couldn't really see what she was talking about since it was twilight and I'd just gone back out to put the pomegranate I'd repotted into somethig bigger outside. ( should point out that all potting so far has been done seated in my sofa indoors so there may be compost on my living room floor but pretty much everything outside is safely in pots)

On closer inspection it appears that she has a plant growing out of her wall, not uncommon in this estate, it being right next to a park and a woods there are a lot of wild plants growing through concrete in places. There also seems to be quite a bit of litter blowing around a not very clean pavement that has large splashes of bird poo quite conspicuous on it. But apparently the mess which is very very temporary, normally evaporates before very long especially in this weather, or soaks into the pavement. Or may consist of a leaf or 2 which seem absolutely nothing compared to what else is around. & I do mean a leaf or 2,.
Actually I begin to wonder if this is just a bored housewife giving out to pass the time of day. Hope I hear no more about it. Humidity is cheating me of sleep so I think I'm feeling short tempered.

Next time I see a band play the "Be My Baby" beat and they aren't playing "Be My Baby", I'm going to throw my beer at them. So sick of it.

hahah nice

Me confronting downstairs neighbour when I get home stupidly not thinking atht I have a can of beer open in my hand and trying to point out to her that the plant growing out of her drain has nothing to do with me. & me still thinking that landlord may listen to her. I just found something that interests me and I'm afraid that thanks to somebody who is not actually seeing things with any sense of reality it is going to be taken away from me.
On the other hand maybe the landlord will just laugh it off. This is crazy and I probably shouldn't be letting it get to me.

just posting this here cos I really would like to find out what other people think.
& now the above message has some relevance to it. I heard somebnody who had been sitting in a car next to hers describe me as areal weirdo. But I really don't know how you react to this kind of thing.

God genuinely can't wrap my head around the situation with downstairs neighbour. She is going to go ahead and complain that I have plants on my balcony. & presumably that water is continually dripping to the ground on her bins. The letting agency that acts as a landlord is in Limerick about 100 miles away from here so is unlikely to have any actual; awareness of any situation. I don't think I can reason with this woman, she seems to have a fixed idea of what is happening that is actually oblivious to facts. The onlky time water drips is during the act of watering because of overshooting plant pots when watering with a 2 liter milk bottle. As far as i can understand things, not having an absolute grasp of physics this would be the same if I used a watering can. It is just a given eventuality.
To me it seems that this person is overstepping the mark massively as regards what control she has about events around her. The likelihood of her being dripped on is pretty small, would only happen should she suddenly come out of her front door without my hearing her. & normally I only have music coming from the far side of the room, walkman having been hung up in my jacket as I come in the house before I fill water bottles to water plants. If she complains that I'm doing that when her children are outside playing it is normally 20 or 30 feet from where they are. Water is likely to go down pretty much vertically, and needs to be stressed, is tap-water. If it is landing on the ground it is landing on a dirty pavement that isn't being meticulously looked after by this woman. She even has plants growing out of her drains which has absolutely nothing to do with me. There are white spots of bird poo conspicuous all over the pavement down there. And yet she is giving out to me and going to write a letter of complaint to the landlord. It is a ludicrous complaint but still may be one that is registered as a complaint, just by the fact that it has been put to paper and received by the landlord.
I tried to point out to her that this complaint was ridiculous but obviously it fell on deaf ears. She has told me and her own next door neighbour that she is compalining to management.
Does she have any grounds whatsoever to do so without an inherent distortion of fact?
One factor that may need explaining is that I have a balcony that is made out of mesh. Which means that things will automatically fall through it.
But this just strikes me as one of the most trivial complaints possible. But yet in the fact that it is a complaint it might come back on me negatively. Should I worry or just laugh?

You're probably in the right - who knows? - but you should worry about being so long-winded before the judge.

I would wait to see what the complaint *is* before you do anything. You can't anticipate how it's formulated.

And maybe there's an easy solution - adding drip tray/s or moving the plants to a different spot on the balcony, or watering at night or whatever. Don't panic til there's something to panic abt :)

Thanks does exactly replicate whatI'm thinking, what exactly would be the wording of the complaint etc. She now may have several witnesses who might comlain that my behaviour was thretening or something which is why this is weighig on me. Her kids were around her and made a collective sound that mde me seem like I was being incrediblyu heavy or something. I just wanted her to know she was being unreasonable. & probably went around it absolutely the wrong way.
Therer may be several factors against me . Irritability thanks to lack of sleep thanks to humidity, beer thanks to me already feeling shit.
So now worried that my attempt to confront her which now includes witnesses is going to go asgainst me.
bang my head agauinst the wall one more time, especially in the Marquee '84 version feels very good right now.

remember that oftentimes our brain is not the wisest council in times of stress. it may turn out much smaller & more manageable than you envision