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clatterbane:

OK, I really need to get down for a while and prop that leg up. But I’ve been avoiding it even more because I had maybe 4 hours of not great sleep earlier before pain (in that damned leg) got me up for good.

Really do not want to zonk out at 5 p.m., when that’s been enough of an issue on more sleep. But, I had better try for a while anyway, before I work on supper 😵

Not quite ready to say “fuck it, we can get delivery” and just have a nap if that wants to happen. But, it’s getting close.

I did get down, at least.

But, I’m also kind of irritated right now because I really do not feel up to dragging myself out to the store after something pressing.

(More ibuprofen, actually. Because I can maybe gimp to a store that sells that, and not an actual pharmacy when I am out of stronger behind the counter nonprescription stuff. With the leg waking me up, on top of the usual background garbage.)

And, if anything, his staying incommunicado has intensified.

I’ve mostly just not been attempting to message him, but sometimes I get desperate enough to try. Like “out of pain relief, getting woken up by pain”, yeah.

It’s hard not to feel like a selfish jerk, after finding out why he’s apparently not been keeping his phone charged. I also have (installed) actual scrupulosity issues around not wanting to inconvenience people by even asking for anything.

But, honestly? I’m having a hard enough time getting out after some basic items that this is causing me problems. These things do go multiple ways. I’m not necessarily a bad person for getting upset when I am having significant trouble getting some needs met.

He assured me before that it had nothing to do with my getting overly demanding, and that he didn’t mind stopping for things. He’s not prone to just lying or telling you what he thinks you want to hear, either. So, I’m guessing that is really not the main thing here. As much as the jerkbrain keeps insisting it must be. I don’t think it is some weird passive-aggressive number on his part. He really doesn’t seem to mind when I do manage to make “bread and cat food on the way home please!” type requests.

But, I cannot reasonably anticipate everything and also remember to ask him before he leaves in the morning. I’ve tried, and it just has not been working out well. Even if my executive function were better, you just can’t anticipate everything. It was already pretty hard to get some basic needs met, and this recent change has not helped my overall wellbeing.

Again, not looking for any type of advice. Just needing to vent some, and remind myself that needing to ask for more help doesn’t make you a terrible person who is lucky for whatever you do get. Including being tolerated at all.

I feel bad about the difficulties he seems to be having lately, but that also doesn’t mean that I’m a bad person for getting concerned about that making things harder on me. No matter how many times I got the message before that other people are dealing with Real Problems and I am making things much harder by even mentioning anything going wrong in my life.

(Also, things can be hard without anybody in particular being to blame 😧)

Yeah, some pretty PTSD-heavy stuff. No wonder I’ve been having some extra trouble coping, or even processing some things.

OK, I really need to get down for a while and prop that leg up. But I’ve been avoiding it even more because I had maybe 4 hours of not great sleep earlier before pain (in that damned leg) got me up for good.

Really do not want to zonk out at 5 p.m., when that’s been enough of an issue on more sleep. But, I had better try for a while anyway, before I work on supper 😵

Not quite ready to say “fuck it, we can get delivery” and just have a nap if that wants to happen. But, it’s getting close.

afloweroutofstone:

The number of fundraisers attended by recent presidents during their first term in office. 

The growing amount of time Presidents spend asking donors for money is especially worth noting because Trump is likely to blow past Obama’s numbers. Presidents in the past haven’t focused much on fundraising during their first two years; the fundraisers are generally concentrated in the last two years of the first term, closer to actual reelection. But Trump has been fundraising at an unprecedented rate in his first two years, raising 26.5 times what Obama had at this point and 33 times what W. Bush had.

Well, I say that Mr. C also pretty much grew up on The Far Side, and that may help explain some things with both of us.

But, there’s also this!

In case Translate isn’t working for anyone on Wikipedia:

There are a bunch of those around here somewhere. I’m pretty sure this particular issue is one of them.

But yeah, seems like the series may have been pretty popular there, if a Far Side themed translated compilation series ran for that long.

(There also seem to be more than a few mixed translated newspaper comics series going. He also has more than a few Far Side books in English, which everybody there has to learn standard. But, I would imagine that the translated complilations are particularly handy for kids and other people who aren’t as fluent. He got started on those, and kept buying several series.)

Anyway, I had to get amused at the whole LARSON! title choice. Certainly a recognizable name, and maybe they added the enthusiastic punctuation to try and avoid confusion with some other Larson 😅

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the-macra:

a verbal description of a far side comic is indistinguishable from a fine shitpost

far side comics are just visual shitposts

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It’s rare that I come across a post about the Far Side.

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God I love the Far Side. I used to have a calendar of the comics and my dad had a bunch of books. They’re great.

I LOVE The Far Side. I have the complete hardbound collection, and it’s a treasure

I have so many of the collections including the hardbound full collection. They are all gold

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schizoauthoress:

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit