What's messing with your Groove?

[Lor]

Bad headache. Head feels like it's about to explode. Sat underneath air con unit and not impressed with constant draft hitting said head. Monitor also pissing me off.

[termite]

Bad headache. Head feels like it's about to explode. Sat underneath air con unit and not impressed with constant draft hitting said head. Monitor also pissing me off.

I used to suffer from headaches, bad ones, then got some very good advice from an old woman - drink more water.

Obviously it won't cure all headaches but it sure as shit sorted my problem, turns out I was just dehydrating and was too busy to notice. By the time my head was pounding it was too late although drinking water still helped alleviate the headache, drinking water more regularly completely solved it.

[Lor]

I drink a lot of water most days, i'm beginning to think it's the air con unit above my head blasting itself right in my direction. The keypad for the controls are locked as well so i can't turn the fucking thing off! I felt a lot better earlier but now it's coming back again.

[littlelolligagged]

I have too much stuff.

[Angel_Mapper]

Unemployment office hung up on me. I need voice training perhaps? And spackle for the hole in the wall.

[Catgrrl]

Poor K is only 6 weeks old, and has had her first injury. She scratched the cornea in her right eye, probably by accidentally clawing it with her finger.

I feel so bad because it happened while I was out of the room for less than a minute.

[Wraith]

Don't feel bad. Kids collect injuries, and you can't watch them unblinking forever. They're tougher than they look - she'll be fine.

[littlelolligagged]

Wraithy is right. Accidents happen. They can even happen when you are in the same room.

[Timbuk2]

Little socks for little hands cover sharp little finger nails.

Lesson learnt from both my li'l nephews who used to cut themselves to shreds when wee bubbies.

[Timbuk2]

Fucking car alarm.

Where do you think you live ffs!? The 1990s ?

[GGT]

The ex. His suckage has escalated since he found his next wife. My son called to complain that, after being transported to his dad's for the visitation week, his dad and fiance left him alone to attend a birthday party. And their air conditioning isn't working. But the boy can't really come back home, since his dad "has plans" for Sunday and the upcoming week. Plus, some Greek chicken was left on the counter for his dinner, and he's supposed to do the dishes before they come back.

[oldmunchkin]

GGT, your boys will soon realize their Dad is a jerk, and their Mom is a wonderful Mother and person! All, I can say is, you have done the right thing all these years that I have known you! You didn't bad-mouth their Dad to them, you let them go with Dad when it was his "turn" to have them, and as far as I know, you haven't bad-mouthed the soon-to-be step-mother to them either! Trust me, someday your boys will appreciate it!

[GGT]

Aw, thanks. This is more about what young boys need, from their fathers as role models. Not much I can do about it now, but I'd have preferred they have a positive role model to emulate, instead of a negative one to avoid.

Maybe I can vent here a while. Their soon-to-be-step-mother thought it was perfectly fine to buy a $6,000 Aga range, and he agreed. But he didn't think he should split a $6,000 college tuition (with me) for his son.

They're planning to install special garden windows over their kitchen sink, so she can have song birds and he can grow herbs. They installed a very beautiful fish-shaped and hand decorated porcelain second kitchen sink, with a purified water tap.

But he "lost" the cat at his old house, a left-over from a previous girlfriend. The kids had adopted and loved that cat. He just stopped going home (because he had a new girlfriend) and the cat eventually left. The kids tried to visit and feed the cat, and I'd drive them over there to do that, because they cared. We even tried bringing the cat here, but he didn't get along with our cats and started fur fights.

The whole thing is getting very strange.

Also, she has three little dogs, in some type of divorce-custody arrangement with her ex. They trade visitation weekends with their dogs. One of them bit my son, so he hates it when they're around on HIS weekend visits. I can hardly believe that my ex is more concerned about his future wife's fucking yappy dogs, than his own son.

[oldmunchkin]

GGT, some men just don't give a flying fuck about the kids, all they care about is making the new wife happy so she will keep fucking him, since he knows he ain't worth a shit as a man, husband, or father! Your boys DO know exactly what their sperm-donor is, they just don't want to admit they don't have a "father"!

[GGT]

[GGT]

I don't want our sons to think of their father as a sperm donor, any more than I'd want them to think of me as an egg donor or surrogate womb.

It's not like any of this was accidental, we PLANNED our marriage and we PLANNED our children.

Recently his father came to town for a visit, and I hadn't seen him since his wife's burial. That was a very emotional event, but this one was really heart wrentching. He was over at the soon-to-be-daughter-in-laws home (that she shared with his eldest son). The moment he led me over the doorway, we just kind of fell into each other's arms and started crying. Here's this 82 year old man sobbing like a baby, then remembering he's at his son's new home, embracing his ex-daughter-in-law.

He said to me, "We never divorced you, you'll always be our daughter, before she died we talked about that, you are family".

Well, we just cried and hugged. Knowing that our common threads (my ex, his son, our sons--his grandsons) don't have a common future was really very, very hard.

[oldmunchkin]

I'm sorry for that comment, but dammit, that's what he acts like. He wants all the fun of having the boys but none of the responsibility, either emotionally or financially, of being a Father to them.
Your ex-Father-in-law sounds like a wonderful man. Your sons, and you, are very lucky to have him in your lives.

[GGT]

He is a great paw paw. He's all my kids have left, everyone else has died. Too bad he's 700 miles away.

Next time they'll see him will be at second wedding for their father, with other strangers. Like who are their step-mom's kids and grandkids, and why don't they know anything about them?

My oldest son is pretty sarcastic and caustically witty about this prospect. "Why would I give a fuck about people I don't know, don't care to know, and won't see again after Dad's second wedding? If I want to get drunk and lucky at a wedding reception, it won't be with anyone there."

[Khendraja'aro]

Sounds like you've got a Gregory House in the making

[Supermarioman]

I have a logical idea on how to reduce the national debt of the U.S, but the process of contacting anybody in government about it is so obfuscating that I gave up.

Typical.

[Loki]

Pray tell.

[Supermarioman]

Pray tell.

I'll go make a thread in D&D in a sec.

[Khendraja'aro]

I'll go make a thread in D&D in a sec.

I'll hazard a guess:

1. Spend less money
2. Raise taxes
3. Combination of the above

[Timbuk2]

Saw a jazz gig at my favourite pub venue last night.

It turned out that a regular drummer there, Chris Dagley, who was due to play, had been killed in a motorbike accident after another gig at Ronnie Scott's in London on wednesday night.

The singer last night, Natalie Williams, made an announcement halfway through her gig. Was very touching.

A lot of other drummers showed up to pay tribute, and some took turns to play in Chris's stead.

Seems he was highly regarded, had been a session drummer with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Clapton and Jamiroquai as well as being a Ronnie Scott's regular.

A lot of sad faces last night.

[termite]

Got some sort of gastro-bug, been sick for 2 days and I've had enough!

[Illusions]

Just recently registered for PayPal and was going through their "Notification and Information Sharing choices".

On by default: "Share my information with eBay Inc. companies and partners so I can receive customized offers"

Off by default: The option to receive an email regarding all policy change notices.

[Flixy]

For some reason, the wireless internet won't work on my laptop It keeps saying it has local connectivity only. But the router definitely works, since I am now on a different pc on the same network, and very much online.

[Khendraja'aro]

Just recently registered for PayPal and was going through their "Notification and Information Sharing choices".

On by default: "Share my information with eBay Inc. companies and partners so I can receive customized offers"

Off by default: The option to receive an email regarding all policy change notices.

Ach, PayPal. Worst company ever.

I wanted to pay for a 700€ tablet PC on eBay which only offered PayPal as a payment method. Well, PayPal neither accepted my creditcard nor my debit card for this particular transaction. Upon asking why that is so, I only got the answer: "Because!" When I stated that "Because" is not exactly a sufficient answer, I only got "Because!" as a reply.

Well, I contacted the seller and we arranged a different payment method using my debit card.

[littlelolligagged]

$108 for school supplies!

Haven't even bought backpacks and a couple of other things off the list yet.

[Aimless]

For some reason, the wireless internet won't work on my laptop It keeps saying it has local connectivity only. But the router definitely works, since I am now on a different pc on the same network, and very much online.

Does your laptop have a special button for the wireless connection? Is your wireless connection activated in your network connections list? Is the connection properly set up? Is the wireless service running? (start --> run --> services.msc) Have you tried restarting laptop and router?