Wow…
That is a lot of shit to all pile up at once. [[[[Calatin]]]]
Thanks. I used to always cite Eliot’s “April is the cruelest month,” but ti looks like we have a new contender.
But, my apartment does a weekly happy hour (in our building) for the residents. I’m sure we’ll learn more then, and I will be trying to make note of who does and does not attend.
The kid was due yesterday. The kid is showing no sign of going anywhere. Oh, will I bitch an epic bitching during the pregnancy group today.
You have my sympathies- mine showed up at 39 weeks on the dot. Came downstairs, poured a cup of coffee and went into active labour at the first sip.
Then I delivered the baby. Then I had to get a spinal block to get the placenta removed, defeating the point of having the baby without an epidural. Sigh.
One of my friends used to own a web design/hosting company and had a graphic on the back of his car advertising it. He took it down because after 5 years he only got one call – from someone asking him to design a website for the “exposure”/nebulous partnership.
I shall have a cup of coffee in the honor of your timely and punctual labor.
Shame about that spinal block, but…no long term side effects, right?
Debatable at the moment. I’ll not go into detail, but I’ve got a consult to try to determine if what happened will recover naturally or if I’ll need surgery. It was a problem ignored through the pregnancy as something that would clear up when the baby came. It’s worse and the gp is clueless- she was using google in front of me.
I read that part as though it had two commas instead of a full stop and a comma. Thought, “That’s one talented baby!”
I see I wasn’t the only one 
Sorry about the mess, Calatin
And yes, Spidey, I did grow up in a castle. Well, I spent most of my teen years in a 10th floor apartment: same same, innit?
That’s always comforting.
I haven’t slept worth shit in like three weeks, I’m kind of in over my head emotionally due to some intensive therapy I’m doing right now, so I just requested a week off work effective immediately.
I think I’m going to spend the day watching some ridiculous guilty pleasure thing I would never admit to watching.
Morbid update:
At our Happy Hour yesterday, we learned a few more details - his age, that he wasn’t a resident (but we did learn the street off of which he lived), and that there was a cooler found next to him.
Talked to one of my friends who knew the “other” person who committed suicide that night, and learned that he wasn’t found dead in a car, but instead in a park. Also, that he had a side-job for DoorDash (a food delivery service). He also was the same age as the person in my courtyard.
While not confirmed, I’m thinking more-and-more that the two incidents are one and the same. I could see why a fully-enclosed courtyard could possibly be misconstrued as a park, and it would make sense for a delivery person to have some sort of container to keep the food warm / cold.
Now his friends and I am just trying to figure out why he did it there (something we’ll probably never truly know). I understand doing it in a public place, so that your body is quickly found, but it still is just somewhat puzzling.
Trivial, but annoying: Between the mini-murder of crows (a manslaughter of crows?) that hang out in my yard and the two blue jays, I am really tired of being yelled at for a large part of the afternoon. The blue jays have also scared off the sparrows and cardinals. Dammit.
I thought the point of delivering without an epidural was that it eliminated the possibility for the drug to get into the baby via the umbilical. Is it really to make sure none of it gets into the baby’s first few meals?
About 3 weeks ago the WiFi stopped working in the backyard-- after 8 years of it working just fine. Today I received an email from Fios that my current contract was up and would I like to re-new it? Also, here’s a new piece of equipment I could buy for $100 or rent for $6. It’s a WiFi extender.
Bunch of fuckers.
Gotcha!
RRrrragh. Fuck cable companies. One of the most shamelessly exploitative markets out there these days.
Because, in large part anyway, they have virtual monopolies on the cable markets in which they operate. I used to live in Flint and Grand Blanc and in both places the *only * cable company to “choose” from was Comcast. Now I live in Davison and the only cable company offered is Charter. I know there are competitors of the cable markets in their entirety but as far as intra-market competition, you’re shit out of luck.
ETA: it’s especially maddening when you are watching cable tv from the only cable provider you can choose from and they allow their “competitors” to advertise on their networks. I hate Charter and I see a Comcast commercial on Charter tv, I get angry. Because I know that option isn’t available to me. So why the fuck allow it on your cable network? And why want to advertise on these networks?
Oh, I know. I get flyers from competitors in my mail all the time, only to be told they don’t service this area. We’re currently stuck with Comcast. And we don’t even have cable TV, just internet. And we pay out the nose for just internet.
I hated being saddled with Comcast. That is, until I was saddled with Charter…er, I mean Spectrum, sorry. They just changed their name so that no one would recognize who they are!
We got stuck with Cox in Florida.
resists obvious joke
I thought Comcast was as bad as it got, but… no.