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@HorrorHound said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I hate my ADD days.

Today is one.

Yesterday just sort of flew by at work. I felt like crap. I had nothing to do. But I was able to focus and go and get it done.

Today? I'm jittery and frustrated and even though I'm striving to just.do.things.....nothing is scratching the unfocused itch and I look at the clock after what feels like an eternity and it's.......fifteen minutes.

It feels like a literal ache, like noise at the base of my skull.

The Buzzing Bees, yeah. Use music. Rhythm. Find what makes you get all achey and wanna dance, get up, jump around, get your heart beating hard and then headbutt your job again.

Unfortunately, at my job I can't really. We finally got music approved but it's got to be kept quiet, no lyrics, and stay pretty chill. I do security work in an ops center. I need to listen out for phones and radios.

Overall all the monitors and cameras and such were great for me but I'm still so all over the place that when it's quiet I just sort of still jitter like okay okay okay okay okay okay.....what now??

@HorrorHound said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@HorrorHound said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I hate my ADD days.

Today is one.

Yesterday just sort of flew by at work. I felt like crap. I had nothing to do. But I was able to focus and go and get it done.

Today? I'm jittery and frustrated and even though I'm striving to just.do.things.....nothing is scratching the unfocused itch and I look at the clock after what feels like an eternity and it's.......fifteen minutes.

It feels like a literal ache, like noise at the base of my skull.

The Buzzing Bees, yeah. Use music. Rhythm. Find what makes you get all achey and wanna dance, get up, jump around, get your heart beating hard and then headbutt your job again.

Unfortunately, at my job I can't really. We finally got music approved but it's got to be kept quiet, no lyrics, and stay pretty chill. I do security work in an ops center. I need to listen out for phones and radios.

Overall all the monitors and cameras and such were great for me but I'm still so all over the place that when it's quiet I just sort of still jitter like okay okay okay okay okay okay.....what now??

I used to do ViPSEC. I feel you. I left, I couldn't take the buzz anymore, as well as guarding shitty rich kids.

Bring a pad and start writing, mang.

I actually do just this. I've got about five sheets in front of me right now, lol.

My boss also has about twenty certifications from the training program the company has that I've completed just since the weekend waiting on her desk.

@Too-Old-For-This

Oh, I'm convinced that's because they just don't read those notes. I'm in an apartment so I give those notes to my specific building and I get those same calls.

@Too-Old-For-This said in RL things I love:

@Auspice I'm positive they don't. Because every time, I mention 'oh the directions are on the notes' they immediately go 'oh' and hang up. AND LO AND BEHOLD, my food arrives like 90 seconds later.

It's been a sort of experiment for quite a while. See, Google Maps will point you at the 'sister' complex to mine. So if you opt to ignore the big STREET NUMBERS at the road and just bobble along following the GPS it'll send you to the wrong one. And then if you meander around for a while, you may so happen to find an apartment with the same number.

...I direct people, in the directions, by the color of the sign. And then give the exact turns. If I talk to them by phone, I even tell them 'It's the apartment facing...' (the wrong one in the other complex faces an entirely different direction)

I had one Uber Eats guy come to my door and say: 'You gave the most useful directions anyone ever has.'

So those that DO read them find my place no problem. I've had other drivers / delivery people end up at the wrong place and then try to insist I walk over there (there's no quick/easy route to walk over; I have to walk further back in my complex, then around).

But what makes it worse, what really makes it worse (though maybe hilarious) is I've had RL friends (and unsurprisingly my father) visit me and I've told them: 'Hey, just so you know, it's a bit difficult to find. Don't trust the GPS. I'll text you the exact thing you need to do.'

They've all, to a man (woman in one case) bragged about how good they are at figuring these things out. And only two have not yet fucked it up.

So let this be a lesson to you all: if someone tells you 'don't trust your GPS and use my directions instead' it'd be a good idea to listen to them!

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

When corporate types call layoffs by a different term: synergies

Aaaaaaaaaaaand go fuck yourself with that.

(Didn't get laid off, but someone was asked about potential layoffs and the exec referred to them as synergies)

Calling a layoff a synergy is like saying that OJ Simpson ended his relationship with his wife.

look it was on his 'Word-a-Day for Cookie Cutter Executives' calendar. He was required by the agency to utilize it or they would have sent the Suits (#1876 & #9067 who just completed a seminar on 'Team Building: Actualizing in the Workplace') to return him to the cube farm upstate.

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Auspice

How corporate execs use synergy...

An actual, decent use of the word synergy...

(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)

Fact: There is an Always Sunny in Philadelphia gif for every occasion.

@Pandora said in RL things I love:

I have a new pillow. It is a grey snek. The tail goes through the mouth and it basically donuts around the neck - while vibrating a soothing neck massage. It's perfect for people like me that sleep sitting up & sometimes find their head drooping to one side, as it keeps the head upright and shoulders relaxed.

Where do I get this snek?

She's giving the pattern away to her Patreon supporters.

<whispers> It has 48 charts. </whispers>

<whispers in despair> I'm not sure I could ever manage. </whispers in despair>

ETA:
From the instructions:
Casting on ~
Using your preferred method of casting on, cast on 300 stitch pairs for a total of
600 stitches. Begin working chart. Work rows 1-600.

it would take me so many tries just to not fuck up casting on that many stitches somewhere.

@Wretched said in Good TV:

@SG @Auspice Half way through and i am in love. Good Omens has been a favorite book of mine since high school and... and this is magnificent, more than I could have asked so far.

Honestly, even the casting shows a love for Pratchett throughout (Death's actor was in a Color of Magic miniseries for example as the Narrator) and that's part of what spoke to me in my viewing of it. It's a good homage to the book and a sort of love letter to Pratchett and his friendship with Gaiman.

The serial killer caught in SC a few years back was a realtor a number of my friends there knew. I, thankfully, had never met the guy but I have a handful of friends there who are realtors and most of them had either met him in passing or worked with him for a number of years.

I can't really imagine that sense of 'Oh this guy I worked with had bodies buried in his yard.'

Nope.

No.

I want to discuss this now: https://twitter.com/pottermore/status/1081242428105998336?s=21

Wizards pooping themselves.

@Lotherio

Not with that mustache.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5ZOcU6Bnw

How have we not been discussing this?

@Ghost I blame you.

@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Auspice gonna see the hell outta that

If I didn't work freakin' SECOND SHIFT (ugh), I have passes for an advanced screening on Monday.

Anyone in Austin want them? Passes for 2 at 7:30p on Monday (the 10th).

(Seriously, until I'm off 2nd, I can be your movie hookup. I get opportunities for advanced screenings a couple times a month. Some of 'em are duds but some - LIKE THIS - are awesome.)

@Admiral

Well this guy needs to not be on any shift.

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

No
Fucking
Shit

@LittleLizard said in Fandom and entitlement:

inserts fandom entitlement IT'S NOT FUCKING GOOSE... It's Chewie. Best wingman. best co-pilot.

Look. We must acknowledge that there is a movie verse and a comic verse.

Or else I have to rage a lot about Wanda.

look fire is cleansing okay.

Stress / depression (financial issues suck yo) has had me pretty much constantly feeling sick. Upside I guess is that it helped stretch what little food I had (go go my tendency to keep my kitchen fully stocked, too: it took a month to get to my current state of 'only ramen and rice').

My parents get into town Saturday. Blah blah dad had business in Dallas blah blah turned it into birthday/father's day trip for him. I can't afford to take time off and I work second shift, so I'm hoping they don't mind a few days of 'no I can't spend time with you I gotta rest before work today'. We'll see. Trying to avoid getting worked up beforehand but that's not how the anxiety monster works.

@Rinel

Between stress and inheriting, it'd seem, my mother's thinning hair.... I feel you. I dread showering some days because of the handfuls of hair.