Today's Bad Stories !

[aly_angelflight]

Got a notice today from the apartment management, they're replacing the chilling units on the roof on Saturday. So, all AC will be turned off for the entirety of the day, when it's supposed to be 90 degrees outside.

Also, the crane they're going to set up for this is being set up right outside my window, starting at 3am.

fml

That's still an improvement from here. The AC doesn't work period on my floor.

[miakakiri]

It is too flipping HOT.
The past couple days have topped 90F (32C). Our apartment doesn't have full AC, we just have one window unit in the bedroom. The temperature in the main part of the flat has been creeping upward to absurd levels. Last I checked, it was 91.5F (33C) out there. With all the fans going full-tilt and windows open for a cross-breeze. ~_~*
So I am in the closet, hiding from the heat.

Can't win with this flat. It's absurdly expensive to heat in the winter, and a pain to cool in the summer. I want to move to a place with better climate control. ~_~* Unfortunately that's going to have to wait until I get a job...

[Ariel]

My brother woke me up at 1 am, and I couldn't get back to sleep until 3 or 4.

[Conan-chandesune]

I lost a game in Halo. Yes. Me. I am wondering if committing suicide is an adequate response..............

[mangaluva]

Why are Swiss Francs apparently the only currency that Thomas Cook DOESN'T offer a cashcard for? And why does their Euro cashcard not work in Switzerland? I'm gonna have to carry cash... >_>

[Walnutdinosaur]

Yesterday was my semi formal. My friend started sobbing in the bathroom. Over a girl she went out for a day(Friends Bi). About a song that came up. That's was going to be there song. My friend thinks she ugly, fat, dumb, and etc. It was hard trying to help her. Now I'm very concerned. Plus I'm still need practice on my songs for my piano recital tomorrow.

[miakakiri]

This has not been my week. ~_~*
Class went well enough yesterday, in spite of my being rather tired because class was at 9a and Miaka going to bed before 3-4a doesn't happen lately. Still, I managed to get up in time, and make it to the school in time to drop by the coffee shop two doors down and grab a cuppa. Computers weren't pleased to work with me, though. First computer I sat down at decided it didn't want to function correctly at all, so I switched to a different one, which mostly worked. Except when it didn't. I'm used to the odd mouse-skipping thing a lot of the school computers do (highly annoying, as the computer will randomly decide that the pointer is in a vastly different location all of a sudden). Having the computer reset itself without warning, however, is a new one. And then there was another time the computer turned off, but that was actually my fault--I accidentally kicked the power button. ~_~* Aside from that, class was actually fun/interesting. (It was about how to look for a job.) Still need to figure out what job I want first, though. I need some help with that.
Due to the timing of the class (9a-4p) I knew I wasn't going to see Archi. Class let out, and I headed home on foot, with a migraine aura starting to set in. It sprinkled. Fortunately I made it to Rite Aid (drugstore/pharmacy) before it actually started raining--I hadn't brought my umbrella, since the weather was lovely in the morning. I needed to stop and pick up a prescription anyway, so I wandered around Rite Aid a bit. Picked up a poncho in addition to my meds. This turned out to be a very good thing, as it was pouring by the time I left the shop. Still decided to detour to the little market because I wanted fresh strawberries. Acquired strawberries and a few other fruits/veggies, then walked home. It was quite wet. The strawberries were worth getting all wet for, though. Mmm.
My back was highly displeased with me by the time Archi got home, and I'd been having issues with computers all day. Even Spot (my home computer) was being a grouch. Randomly deciding to operate only quite slowly, or not acknowledging a request. Some of it was Chrome issues.
Archi went to make dinner, and disaster struck. The coconut milk set to boil (cooking rice in it for a particular recipe) exploded. It was on a back burner, so it exploded all over the kitchen, and all over my desk just on the other side of the big 'window' in the wall behind the stove. Huge mess. Much fuss getting it cleaned up. There were tears involved on my part, because I was upset and this just made a not-so-great day very bad. A lot of things had to be tossed, as my desk was messy. Also there were other things around, partly because I haven't been using my desk. Things had to get washed--including a few things that would have to be hand-washed. So I took several hair-ribbons, a hair-tie, and two smallish skeins of yarn into the shower to wash them. These are currently on the drying rack.
Fortunately, I'd printed a Staples coupon recently, fully intending to make a stop there when we did our errands on Tuesday, so desk-supplies could be readily replaced (at 20% off).
Today (Tuesday) didn't go much better. I overslept, which meant we were on crunch time for our errands. While we were browsing Staples, I went to check the time only to realize that my phone was dead. ~_~* Well, we ran our errands in that plaza and popped over to the mall, and proceeded to run an errand or two there (craft store...) and I got a wheelchair (because my back was not happy with me at all). Had Archi push the wheelchair to cut down on travel time with the rest of our mall errands. (I don't like being pushed, but I figured I needed to sacrifice comfort/control for speed.)
First stop, Lensecrafters. I'd gotten a message that there was a problem with the glasses I ordered last week, but they had forgotten to leave a call-back number. Unfortunately, it turned out the 'problem' was that I'd selected frames they couldn't put my prescription into, so I had to choose new frames. I was repeatedly assured that once I picked out new frames the glasses could be ready in an hour. An hour I didn't have to spend putzing around the mall, because I had class at 6 and groceries to get, and it was already 4. (Grocery store is on the other end of town, by the way.) I got a bit upset, because I really wanted the kind of frames I'd picked out. They were rimless frames, just lenses held together by the nose-bridge and held to the face by the earpieces. They looked more professional than my casual-cute purple frames, and I wouldn't have lines across the edges of my vision. (Using contacts means I don't have those lines, but contacts are expensive and Archi can't stand to see me put them in or take them out.) So now I had to go looking for a tolerable substitute (with much assurance that they wouldn't charge me since the error was their fault) and I was short on time. The time it took to find frames frustrated me, as did the fact that I couldn't just look in the various mirrors attached to walls and fixtures. Took a bit to get a hand-mirror, which would allow me to actually see what a frame looked like. (I'm nearsighted and was sitting in a wheelchair so I couldn't get close enough to walls.) I don't know how long it actually took, but it certainly felt like far too long before I found something acceptable--a black frame with no bottom edge. Then they had to re-take the measurements with the camera, which took more time. I ended up snapping at Archi because he accidentally got in my way, and because there were chairs in the way of me getting to where I needed to be for the thing to work (the clerk didn't think to move them). Finally finished, I ruled that we didn't actually have time for anything else. No stopping in to say hi at GameStop or looking at anything else. I almost ruled against getting a cup of tea. I did end up snapping at Archi a few more times as he pushed me through the mall, mostly because he wasn't sure where to go, and had a tendency to stop moving while he tried to figure out the plan--I do not like being rushed, and stopping to think tends not to happen when I am rushed. I ended up deciding tea would be OK, if he went to order it while I turned the wheelchair in. The tea I like takes 5 minutes to brew anyhow, so I had turned in the chair and rejoined him with a few minutes left before it was actually ready.
We hurried out of the mall and took a slightly-faster-than-usual route to the grocery. I ended up snapping at Archi again in the parking lot, because someone was taking too long to get out of a space and he was waiting to get by. I made him take a space that was right at the far end of the lot instead. Yeah it meant for a longer walk (with my back mad at me) but it also meant we could get moving. Grabbed a scooter-thing, though it took three tries to find one that started fast enough for me, and I snapped again because the one I picked was partly blocked in and Archi wasn't fast enough at moving the blocking cart. Proceeded to zoom through the grocery list as much as possible, partly by splitting it up and sending him to pick up a few things while I picked up others.
We actually managed to get through the groceries fairly quick, though I was convinced I'd be late for class. I had him drop me at the school before he headed home to put away groceries, and noticed that I was actually early. Oh good, something that actually went right this afternoon.
Except that it didn't. I needn't have worried about being late for class, as the teacher never showed up. I waited around until about 6:15 or so (class was supposed to start at 6) but no one came and the doors were all locked. Since I didn't have a phone (I'd sent my dead phone with Archi to get charged at home) I couldn't contact anyone about it either. Thus, I ended up walking home, in spite of my irritated back.
Archi was somewhat surprised when I showed up, less than an hour after my class should have started, bringing the mail. I was decidedly less than pleased about the whole mess, especially upon the discovery that I hadn't missed a memo. There was nothing in my e-mail inbox from the school, and no missed calls or new voice messages on my phone at all (once I got it turned back on). I will be giving the school a call in the morning to find out what in flip happened and why I didn't get told that there wouldn't be class. I have only two major classes left--Power Point level 1 was supposed to start today and I have level 2 next week.

Here's hoping the week gets better...

[Suutashi]

The house I'm currently living in is up for auction tomorrow. It was my grandma's house before she died and my mom and I have been living here for the past five years. The last place we lived in was the home I grew up in which was foreclosed due to my father being a massively huge, sociopathic asshole and lied to us when he told Mom and I that he had paid the mortgage that was owed. I don't know what to do. I'm not asking for any hand-outs. I'm only asking for advice as to what I can do. We got really lucky and managed to pay the money owed before the house was sold.

[miakakiri]

This is more of a "Poor Archi" than a personal 'bad story'...
Yesterday we went to hang out with friends, and we both brought computers along. Archi was going to show everyone the work he'd been doing on a home-brew game system we'll be alpha-testing starting next week. I was going to work on some writing, since I wasn't involved in the campaign finishing up. When Archi went to turn his computer on, though, the screen wouldn't start. A bit of messing around trying to turn it on culminated in the determination that it just wasn't working, but if that was the only problem another monitor could be substituted. Or, in this particular case, the TV, connected by HDMI cable. Oddly enough, the monitor started working again about the same time they got the HDMI hookup working. Problem solved, apparently.
Except that when we got home, it turned out to be very not solved. I pulled out another monitor we had, figuring that it was the same problem again. It wasn't. This time the computer just wouldn't turn on at all. Not even fan-whirring. So I lent him the netbook (after getting the file I'd been working on off it) to at least be able to access the internet. He poked around trying to make his computer work again, but hadn't had any luck by the time I went to bed. He did take a bit of time off to mess with a couple other things, but first the cable-box wouldn't cooperate with him, and then the game he was playing crashed. ~_~* Poor Archi.
He tried burning a boot-disc last night, but apparently it didn't help. His computer is still not working, so he's still on the netbook. He's now narrowed it down to "I think the problem is the motherboard". I really hope we can get it fixed...

[KainTheVampire]

A friend to the family got some kind of eye sickness and had to get a surgery, I don't know how it went since I left the day (yesterday) he was going to get it.. I hope it succeeded, I really like him I would call grandma about it but I'm pretty sure that she and grandpa have turned the phone off like usual :x
I'm really worried But when I talked to him about it he said he wasn't worried for the surgery at all, but more worried about the fact that he can't do anything exhausting for 3 weeks afterwards since he doesn't like to sit still and do nothing :x Then he gave me a hug and said everything was going to be okay..
The fact that he's over 80 doesn't really make me worry less either

Went home from grandma and grandpa yesterday, couldn't sleep at all on the train but for once I had company, by mom.
Anyway: I woke up at 7 yesterday and I was able to sleep 3 hours when I got home but I'm still so damn tired that it makes me feel ill And it's too early to go to sleep D:

[mangaluva]

They've been mowing all of the grass at the Palace and it's made my hayfever flare up. I can't stop sneezing and it's making my throat hurt and my eyes stream.

[miakakiri]

Our fridge is busted. ~_~*
We went grocery-shopping on Tuesday. Problems with the fridge started on Wednesday. Messaged the landlord on Thursday, and he sent the maintenance guy to have a look. Maintenance guy said he'd tell the landlord to call a repairman 'cause he can't fix the fridge on his own. No repairman has shown up yet. I've thrown out quite a bit of food that isn't good. Ice cream in the freezer is half-melted. (Still safe, but half-melted.) The just-purchased half-gallon of local-dairy milk went bad. Not sure if any of the cream or sour cream or meats and such are still safe. We think the meat that was in the freezer is OK, as we're fairly sure it didn't get above 40F (~4C).
Both fridge and freezer have been set to the coldest possible settings, but the fridge is barely cold, and the freezer is barely iced. Archi and I are both rather upset with the whole mess, especially as now we're getting another heat wave...
There's also about half a cheesecake in the fridge that I'm not sure is still safe... let alone the ingredients I'd bought for another cheesecake (because I like baking and cheesecake is tasty and fun).

[nomemory]

Our fridge is busted. ~_~*
We went grocery-shopping on Tuesday. Problems with the fridge started on Wednesday. Messaged the landlord on Thursday, and he sent the maintenance guy to have a look. Maintenance guy said he'd tell the landlord to call a repairman 'cause he can't fix the fridge on his own. No repairman has shown up yet. I've thrown out quite a bit of food that isn't good. Ice cream in the freezer is half-melted. (Still safe, but half-melted.) The just-purchased half-gallon of local-dairy milk went bad. Not sure if any of the cream or sour cream or meats and such are still safe. We think the meat that was in the freezer is OK, as we're fairly sure it didn't get above 40F (~4C).
Both fridge and freezer have been set to the coldest possible settings, but the fridge is barely cold, and the freezer is barely iced. Archi and I are both rather upset with the whole mess, especially as now we're getting another heat wave...
There's also about half a cheesecake in the fridge that I'm not sure is still safe... let alone the ingredients I'd bought for another cheesecake (because I like baking and cheesecake is tasty and fun).

Problems with freezers and fridges are awful. When I moved to my first apartment the fridge had mold in it. Really gross. So I tried cleaning it but it just came back and when I called they told me they'd fix it in the next two weeks. Though when my mother called they promised to have it fixed it on Monday (she called Friday evening) and on Monday I got a new fridge.

But in any case, be careful and use your nose before eating stuff.

[Walnutdinosaur]

I just walked into a wall. I dunno I've been having these suden bursts of blurriness even though I have galsses. i havea adoctors appoinment coming up soon. So i'll talk to my doctor about this.

[Conan-chandesune]

Pissed. A "friend" lied to me.... and then i left him out to dry. Then he comes back today and says "Why didnt u help/warn me?" I say, "You lie to me and expect i will help you?? Really??" And sent him on his way. The worst thing is...... i feel guilty.