I have a spider bite. On the back. Of my earlobe.

How on earth did you manage that?

It went sort of like this... ]




...and now I have a big gross bite on the back of my ear lobe.

It wasn't a brown recluse was it? Where do you live? If it was, go to the doctor. Tissue necrosis on the earlobe would be horrible!

edit: Nevermind, you're in Maryland. I don't think they live that far north.

I have seen them here, actually! But no, it wasn't one of those suckers. If it was I would have gone to the doctor instead of crying about it on the forum. I am not that silly.

Well, I didn't think you were, but I always say 'go to the doctor' anyway cause sometimes people surprise you with their level of silliness.

My brother, for example, got bit by one on the neck and refused to go to the doctor for the longest time. Cause he's too much of a manly man to go to the doctor or some such jackassery. He thought he could cure it with Neospoirin or something dumb like that. By the time he went to the doctor he had this big gross hole in his neck and the doc said if he'd waited a little longer the necrosis would have eaten into his carotid artery.

Eeeeew. It's a good thing he finally did go to the doctor, at least.

Yeah, flesh necrosis is not something you play around with! I don't care how manly you are, even if you have one of my very manly scarves, no amount of testosterone will protect against mummified flesh! I hate brown recluses. I dislike spiders in general, but, they are the worst.

So my last year I was in college I rented out a fully furnished basement from an older couple. They've become like a second family to me- I spent a lot of time with them. The man is beginning to get health issues. A while back when he was in for a procedure he had a cardiac arrest and almost died, and today he started vomiting up a lot of blood.

I don't mean to sound cold, but this isn't my family. I hope he's okay, but this is starting to become too much. I want to tell them I'm going to look for another place to live, but I'm afraid that it will add even more stress to them, so I am stuck.

I am now going to be in a grump for several days.

Maybe if they die while you're in the place, they will leave it to you?

My Boss: Taylor, I have good news and bad news, which do you want first?

Me: Is the bad news soul-crushing?

My Boss: Oh yes.

Me: Then lets hear that one, and don't sugar coat it.

My Boss: I modified your stock order, on Tuesday you have $8,000 worth of stock coming.

Me: *falls down to knees in the office* And the good news about this is?

My Boss: Oh, I scheduled you to come in at 2 in the morning to put it up.

Me: How is this good news?

Remember the KFC Ninjas are waiting for you. It's all a trick of their devising!

My ex-wife had a form of permanent experimental birth control done after her last son was born. At least, we thought it was permanent, but now she found out it's become reversible recently, so she can have kids.

This may not sound like a rant, but I wanted some kids.

At least this way you didn't have to worry custody of the children.

Yeah, given the fact that she's an ex now, it might've been for the best. Find yourself someone new and have kids!

Hrm. How YOU doin'?

1. Internet kept crapping on me, due to the storm on Thursday(or was it Wednesday?) during an aetherhunt, so I lost out on some experience (though I did gain a level)
2. Mozilla isn't working anymore, so I've switched over to Chrome, though it's nice, it's weird for me and I don't have the add-ons I have for Firefox.
3. I no longer have a job, and will have to wait a month and some days until I can sign my own papers.
4. I hate the heat, but with any rain internet craps out.
5. Lost internet and television for about an hour or so.
6. Internet is still crappy, not sure when it'll be fixed.

:censor:. Just, :censor:.

Appearently the mom of my friend had been assaulted by her son. FOR THE FIFTH TIME. And she was attacked two days ago, but only called now to get us to give her a ride to the hospital.

O_O

Can she call the police on them? D: I don't know how that all works where you are. I hope she'll be okay soon. I can't imagine even thinking of doing something like that to my parents. :<

iTunes,

You are the BANE of my existence. I don't know why you firmly believe that there is a floppy disk in my drive with your music on it. This has never been the case. Stop looking for it, please.

And why must you download songs at 1/10th my connection's normal download speed? Are you so jacked up on "oooooo prettyyyyyyy" roids that you have no more room for true functionality? This is why I left you for Amazon's MP3 downloads. And the one time I have a lapse in judgement and return to your ridiculously slow store, this is how you treat me?

Let's face it, iTunes. You are just inferior. If my iPod was not a slave to you I would have you uninstalled in seconds. Forcibly. With a stick wrapped in barbed wire in a tank full of hungry sharks. You no longer give me what I need, and now you stalk me relentlessly with No Disk errors and constantly chase away my CPU and bandwidth in a desperate attempt to keep me around. You are pathetic.

Goodbye, iTunes. You never meant anything to me.








That being said, I am in need of iPod management freeware that won't break my iPod. So if anyone has any good ideas, shoot them my way.

I hear iTunes works pretty well for iPod management.