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Just not into it today.

No, not the journal thing, i mean the day thing. The get up, stand up, stand up for your daily dose of why are we doing this?

I miss coffee.

Coffee is a replacement for morale at a 2:1 ratio- it takes a cup of coffee to get rid of half a STFU or Go Away It's 8 Freaking AM And I Hate You.

I can't have coffee. My yays are suffering. There are many STFUs and Go Aways.

Why are we doing this? why are we climbing out of bed? My bed misses me.

It's raining. AND snowing. And cold and dark and i want my MTV, back when MTV had music on it and not this pablum crap they're selling now.

Why do we get up and do this just to get up and do this again tomorrow?

  I know, i know, hang in there, it gets worth it. And i'm not really unhappy, just so bloody tired.

i miss the sense that things make sense. Shut up. Give me your coffee. Put down the cup and back away slowly, and nobody gets hurt. ...If you're lucky.

I might cave in and have a cup of decaf coffee.

Then again, i might not, because i'm not so sure i care about the world enough today to want to be cheerful with it.

It irks me.

What do you do when you're tired of everything? What renews you and makes it better? Smoochybear, we know, you take eight caffeine tablets and watch the world spin. You can sit down now, it's oke. No one will hurt you, just sit still until you stop shaking, and try not to hurt yourself.

C'mon, folks, what gets you out of the blue when you find yourself there?

*quietly sets fire to a corner of your display* there. That helps.

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  • setting something ablaze... to me, is so much better than coffee/caffeine could ever be.

    Lets examine the benefits shall we?

    Setting something or someone on fire, as I see it, has the following benefits:

    1. tells the world you mean business. nothing says "please, leave me alone" better than sticking a lit zippo to a loose piece of clothing on someone

    2. the warmth the fire, once set, provides. its cold up there in boston... you need all the heat you can get

    3. the entertainment value. who needs a tv when yo
  • Specifically, those by They Might Be Giants. I was in a terrible "I hate the world and by the way, shut up and go away" mood when I heard "Extra Savoire-Faire." Then, I was suddenly not wanting to trip everybody who dared wander by.
  • You could try to brew some coffee and not actually drink it, just smell it. Might kick start your head a little. Consider is coffee potpouriiiiiii

    we wells, be happy
    • Um, that's like saying to a quitting smoker, "Maybe if you just hang out in a small crowded bar to get some second-hand smoke, you won't have the urges any more."

      Or, more disturbingly, recommending a pedophile become a scout leader ;)

      -Ab
  • 4:32 I wake up... bowels rubling... see my JE for the horrific details.

    5:09 Exit bathroom sit on bed

    5:10 Alarm clock goes off

    5:16 Exit shower

    5:45 leave for work

    6:00 Notice Parking lot at train station is empty... Jewish Holiday?

    6:08 Notice there is no 6:08

    6:10 Head back home, no trains running due to a large car accident on a track.. Besides I left my iPod on the desk.

    6:20 Log onto PB notice that a server art work is awfully down. Send an email to the people most likely to have access to the server
    • If the Field Service Engineer wasn't already on the scene in Stage Zero, most FSEs must go through a period of disbelief about the severity or existence of the problem that you are reporting before serious work on the problem begins. This hesitant behavior is usually characterized by the FSE walking into the machine room, observing the flames coming out of the system cabinets and saying: "AH, HA! This looks like a software problem."

      Heh. [lonestar.org]
    • T-shirt [thinkgeek.com]

      Just brace for the inevitable "Huh? I don't get it."

  • Well, I guess it depends on location.

    If at home it will usually involve guitar abuse. No fires or knives, just hard, distorted chord progressions, sometimes resulting in broken strings.

    If at work it will usually be reflected in my choice of the music pulsing through my office. Such as Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Rage Against the Machine, or delving into the other side of things with The Clash, MxPx, Pixies, or The Ramones.

    I think for me just something to force the blood to move until my attitude changes.
    • hehe... guitar therapy. yes yes yes, this works wonders. nothing says "good morning" than a nicely warmed set of tubes, and sg and a nice low crunch of an E (or D... depending on how the guitar was tuned the day before).

      RATM? hmmm... see Inside Out for better results with Zack on vocals.

      Pixies for waking up? hmmm... interesting. not my first choice... but interesting.

      but what gets my blood flowing in the morning is a spirited drive up I-83 from the baltimore beltway up to Hunt Valley.
      • Maybe you should drop me a message some time on some other bands and good music. Like I think I mentioned in a recent journal entry of mine, I have some fairly wide range of musical tastes that I listen to and always looking for some good music to listen to. Any good places online to sample some new and up and coming music?

        I am a bit dissapointed that some of the better small music venues down here in Hampton Roads have kind of gone away. Granted, I am not always up to ketting a boot to the head at a conc
  • When i'm feeling blue, i take out my trusty battleaxe and go out creating mayhem. Sometimes chopping down (and hacking up) a tree or two can be enough to calm me down, but usually, it takes a bit more than that. Chopping off a few heads used to be enough, but nowadays, it's gotten even worse. For instance, last Sunday i almost obliterated a small city when the trees i had felled blocked a large river, flooding the city. Of course i cleaned up the mess as quickly as possible, but i fear that i still managed
  • I'm not drinking coffee either. Not because I can't, but because I have no milk, and since the wind chill outside is currently -40 degrees fahrenheit (and celsius), I've decided that shopping is not a priority. I'm content to drink tea this morning... I will also be opening cans of things for lunch (-: I can hear the little whirly-in-place thingamajig on the roof just going crazy up there, brrrr...

    Another thing that directly affects my morale, is whether I wear my contact lenses, or my glasses. As soon
  • Not for the general population, but it certainly is for me. Seriously, could you imagine me after a cup of coffee? (It's not pretty, I wind up with more pep than a championship cheerleading team)

    I always revel in my bad moods. They never stay for long, so I find that it's an opportune time to sulk. The more I sulk, the more I find sulking to be incredibly boring. I get bored, I go running or skating or something, and the bad mood is gone.

    I know, I'm a weird one.

    • Seriously, could you imagine me after a cup of coffee

      um... in a word: no

      so do you get like really cool super powers if you *do* have coffee?

      I wind up with more pep than a championship cheerleading team

      wait a second... but i thought this was your natural state of being!

      /hides under desk

      • so do you get like really cool super powers if you *do* have coffee?

        Yes, I turn into SuperAnnoyingWomanWhoCan'tStopTalkingAndSpeaksInRu nOnSentences. Because I'm nothing like that now, not at all.

        wait a second... but i thought this was your natural state of being!

        No, my natural state of being has the pep of a cheerleading team. Coffee boosts it to the the *championship* cheerleading team. See the difference?

        • turn into SuperAnnoyingWomanWhoCan'tStopTalkingAndSpeaksInR u nOnSentences

          oh yay! that is teh awesome super p0w3rz! especially the ability to have slashdot add the space in there!

          hahaha! a day without knocking slashcode is like a day without sunshine.

          Coffee boosts it to the the *championship* cheerleading team. See the difference?

          ah ha! its now perfectly clear! and now i am truly afraid. so... a little like the Hulk... don't give daoine coffee... you will be pepped (is this a word?) into oblivion!!
    • so what you are saying is, if we glued magnets to your clothes and fed you a double espresso capaccino and put you in a small room wrapped in copper wire, we could light up Boston for a bit? :-)
      • Nonsense.

        Daoine, Boston lights up every time you smile. We don't need caffeine or copper wire for that!

        (Sorry, TL. Somebody had to say it, and Good's still on duty till 4.)

        • Well, I've never had the pleasure of meeting dear daoine, so I can't say. Maybe I can talk her into it if I get up that way soon. :-)
        • Besides, if we used copper wire I'm sure we could at LEAST power down to Westchester County.

          Boston..ppffht. What does he think I am, an amateur? :)

    • Seriously, could you imagine me after a cup of coffee?

      Easy. I'll just picture a more feminine version of me after drinking a cup of coffee*. Whee, i'm jumping up and down and talking tons of shit i'd never say if i hadn't just had that cup of coffee-eeeeeee....Oh, look, that guy looks exactly like Frankenstein's monster! Heh, i bet he's only wearing that cap to hide the stitches. Hey, look, i have such great balance, i can walk on this plank BACKWARDS! Ouch! Damn, i knew i shouldn't have had that cup of c

    • I wind up with more pep than a championship cheerleading team

      Hmmm cheerleaders yum yum
  • Preferably fiction. When in a deep sulk, preferably fiction of the "boy with special qualities the world doesn't recognise triumphs over all adversity" type.

    For a real deep sulk, Sol's fiction. (There's not enough out there...Good thing I don't get in real deep sulks very often.)

  • what gets you out of the blue when you find yourself there?

    Two things: Playing with rocks, or playing with cats. I gots far too many rocks, and it'll take many years to cut them all. First step, if the weather's amenable, is to slab up some of the large hunks of rock. I always slab up lots when I can, bedaus I know I'll need the slabs later.

    Next step is to decide what shapes to cut from the slabs. This can tak a varying amount of time - I have slabs sitting for years, and others that get cut immed
  • Just go and trounce somebody completely at a game. Doesn't matter what game, doesn't matter who you're playing. Just play as close to optimally, win a few times in a row, declare yourself the victor and champion. Sort of a displacement of feeling down. How can you be sad when you're the winner, when the gap between winner and loser is so wide there's no questioning it?

    Note you can't do this too often, as it will start to feel hollow.

    • or back stab in a team game haha! it's easier...
      • I'm not much one for that because it pisses me off to no end. Even when I defend against the traitorous bastard it ruins the game for everybody involved and not because of a lack of skill on anybody's part.

        At least with utterly destroying somebody it's because of a lack of skill on their part and an abundance of skill on your own. Anybody can throw a spanner in the works and take their own team down, not everybody can so utterly crush another player that it's humiliating.

        Along these lines though, I think it

        • Battle.net is full of treachery and holding back...
          er, but then it's the AOL of online gaming... cheap, popular, but not known for their ability to stop hackers... (D2 had a bot written for it that you could play TETRIS while the bot played for you for crying out loud ;) I mean it's getting a bit ludicrous when the whole point of the game is to download a bot play tetris til ur bot reaches lvl such and such with godly equipment... and then go around killing other players who actually had to invest that time
          • I've seen starcraft games where there's a traitor who takes down not only his team first but then opponent team. While that takes some amount of skill, it tends to be done with a modified rush on a 15 minutes no rush sort of agreement.

            As for botting, I've done it with muds myself. The whole point is the meta-game of bot creation though, not to have an uber-character. The character is just the score for the meta-game of bot creation. It isn't fun if it isn't your own bot and you're not trying to see how good

            • the difference is that in SC you can unally and ally people in ladder games ;) wc3 if there is a traitor there is no hope heh... and rarely do the traitors win...
  • Reminding myself of that always improves my day. Unless it's a day where I'm facing a dental appointment. Then it's "At least I'm not at the dentist yet"

    Somewhere between bad teeth and bad dentists, I have developed this massive phobia of dentists offices. My wife dragged my in for a cleaning last Saturday. I should be over it in another day or 2.

  • The get up, stand up, stand up for your daily dose of why are we doing this?

    Get up, stand up
    Stand up for your rights
    Get up, stand up
    Don't give up the fight

    (Note: This reply should not be taken as a suggestion that the solution to your situation is the ganja mon.)
  • What do you do when you're tired of everything? What renews you and makes it better?

    My 2-year-old [elmegil.net]. Of course he also makes me crazy other times, or makes his mother crazy which doesn't help renew me either :-)

    • What do you do when you're tired of everything?

    Usually, the solution for me is making bread. I can vent a lot of frustration into a ball of bread dough as I work it into loaves.

  • cup of Special Tea

    pull out my adult level coloring books full of geometric designs and full in the blanks with colored pencils

    pet the doggies, play with the doggies, brush the doggies.

    oddly enough, caffeinated coffee is at the bottom of my list... but I drink it on a daily basis.

  • that's about all that keeps me dragging my butt in here everyday. That and the promise of a paycheck.
  • You mean our little exchange of comic books and candy for the Imperial Crown of Global Domination [slashdot.org] didn't electrify you beyond all possible belief? Surely you jest! Imperial domination for the price of a few baubles, and you go all looshy-mooshy-bobble-boo on me...

    Well, fine then! I'll go read my collection of Amazing Adventures of Aardvark Aaron and eat my double-frosted truffle-and-gum M&Ms without you!

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

  • I usually have a cup first thing in the morning along with my muesli, one mid-morning, one mid-afternoon, and another in the evening while I'm at my PC upstairs.

    -MT.
  • hmmmm coffee.
  • and i know it does and i know half of it is my fault, i go to a particularly special place for me. it's called 'The Garden of Silence', and it has a reminder at the gate that the way to respect the place is by not speaking when in it. In the middle of a moderately sized city, it can be really nice to go somewhere really quiet. it's all of four blocks from the downtown core, and situated in such a way that it really is quiet. evergreens create such a good sound barrier!
    congratulations on the coffee. we

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