Boobed Tube
► Today really sucked. My nerves had been so bad I barely slept last night and had a horrible tension headache all morning. Things seemed to brighten up once I got out of the apartment and to my therapy appointment, and continued to improve after that when I met up with Dad again after he had picked up my new flat screen TV. We picked up some stuff and headed back here to my apartment where we cleared out my old TV and TV stand and I started to set up my new television.
Dad had left to go home while I was doing that. About halfway through installing everything I closed the instruction manual for the TV and that's when I finally noticed it. It was not the TV that Dad and I bought last week. Instead of the high end 32" LED 1080p HD television, it was a more middle of the road model, 31.5" (32 "class") LCD 720p television. I was pissed. I called Dad up and asked him to check the receipt from last week, and sure enough he confirmed that the receipt was for an LED television. All week long I've been dreading something would happen such as getting the wrong model, and sure enough it actually happened.
Dad and I are going to bring the TV back to Sears tomorrow and get this straightened out, although I'm guessing this means I'm going to have to wait yet another week fore the proper model. Since my old TV set up is all dismantled that means not DVDs or television until then. That's fine, I can manage that.
Aside from the TV mix up, the day also sucks for a couple other reasons. First, while putting the new television parts back in the box, a stack of stuff fell off of my chair and hit me in the head. An 8.5" x 11" clip frame that I never got a chance to unwrap hit me in the head and shattered. I didn't notice until after I have tossed it on my bed. Luckily, and surprisingly, the plastic wrap never tore, otherwise I would have had ground glass in my blankets.
The second frustration is about my having to go out again with Dad tomorrow, to Sears. Because of my agoraphobia induced neurosis, this means I have to fast today, after having fasted yesterday. I'm so very hungry. I did make myself eat a snack cup of peaches earlier, and that'll just have to tide me over until I can finally eat something more solid tomorrow.
Not surprisingly, my headache returned.
► My Apache Chief action figure didn't show up in the mail today when it should have been in earlier this week. Guess I'm hoping for Monday now...
► 9gag: I hate ringing my friends doorbell... - I don't blame him.
► 9gag: Dr. Seuss Birthday Cake - Well, I like that.
► Quirky: Cube Tube - Building a better ice cube tray for you to forget to refill.
► Outdoor on GrindTV: Would you eat this Albino Burmese Python? It's sweet and tasty; seriously! - I would if it was lemon. Is it lemon? It looks lemon.
► Los Angeles Times: J.J. Abrams: Movie budgets are 'preposterous' - I'll never understand how movies that rely almost exclusively on CGI special effects cost more and more than movies with practical special effects. Isn't being able to do the special effects in a computer supposed to cost less?
► CBR Spinoff Online: First Plot Clues Emerge For Guardians of the Galaxy - I'm still confused on which version of the Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be in the movie. The lead character and the synopsis are from the version in the far future, yet most of the characters listed are from the 21st century team.
► The Wallstreet Journal: When Putin's Thugs Came for Me - From chat:Dran: Man, I hadn't been following this
Dran: My mom always said Putin was nothing more than a thug. I guess she called that one.
Derek: Putin runs Russia like a mafia don
Derek: one who's a former KGB spy and torturer
Dran: :-(
The thug label seems to fit given how many photo opts Putin has where he's shown bare-chested and either killing things or beating the crap out of students or people in wrestling or martial arts displays. Everything seems constantly manipulated and cultivated to show Putin as some sort of infallible superhumanly virile macho yet cultured Renaissance action man. The man's ego seemingly knows no bounds, and each year Putin seems to have more and more of a strangle hold on Russia, with his cult of personality and rewriting of laws to increase his power. The country really seems to have become a dictatorship again, without anyone really calling it that.
Hmm, given how LiveJournal is now Russian owed I wonder if these opinions will bite me in the ass.
► ABC News: Teacher Accused of Having Group Sex With Students on Video - A possible sentence of twenty years does seem a bit drastic given the students were all over 18, but man she must be a moron. I mean, wow. The husband claims she puts the needs of their children over her own. Sure.
And yes, I realize 20 years wouldn't be enough time if the genders of the teacher and students were reverse.
All that aside, this part of the article caught my attention:One student told WFAA that one of the teenage boys was bragging about the alleged incident and another student put the claim in her diary. A teacher at the school found the diary in a classroom and that's when the school notified police.
I can't imagine the teacher who found the diary just happened to open it on the page in question. The diary must've been a captivating read.
► DeviantART: On a Stakeout by Harseik - I really like this pic a lot. The artist has a lot of great Superman drawings.
On a Stakeout by *Harseik on deviantART
Quote of the Moment
Inigo Montoya: Who are you?
Man in Black: No one of consequence.
Inigo Montoya: I must know...
Man in Black: Get used to disappointment.
Inigo Montoya: 'kay.
- The Princess Bride (1987)
Drinking: water
Eating: nothing
Dad had left to go home while I was doing that. About halfway through installing everything I closed the instruction manual for the TV and that's when I finally noticed it. It was not the TV that Dad and I bought last week. Instead of the high end 32" LED 1080p HD television, it was a more middle of the road model, 31.5" (32 "class") LCD 720p television. I was pissed. I called Dad up and asked him to check the receipt from last week, and sure enough he confirmed that the receipt was for an LED television. All week long I've been dreading something would happen such as getting the wrong model, and sure enough it actually happened.
Dad and I are going to bring the TV back to Sears tomorrow and get this straightened out, although I'm guessing this means I'm going to have to wait yet another week fore the proper model. Since my old TV set up is all dismantled that means not DVDs or television until then. That's fine, I can manage that.
Aside from the TV mix up, the day also sucks for a couple other reasons. First, while putting the new television parts back in the box, a stack of stuff fell off of my chair and hit me in the head. An 8.5" x 11" clip frame that I never got a chance to unwrap hit me in the head and shattered. I didn't notice until after I have tossed it on my bed. Luckily, and surprisingly, the plastic wrap never tore, otherwise I would have had ground glass in my blankets.
The second frustration is about my having to go out again with Dad tomorrow, to Sears. Because of my agoraphobia induced neurosis, this means I have to fast today, after having fasted yesterday. I'm so very hungry. I did make myself eat a snack cup of peaches earlier, and that'll just have to tide me over until I can finally eat something more solid tomorrow.
Not surprisingly, my headache returned.
► My Apache Chief action figure didn't show up in the mail today when it should have been in earlier this week. Guess I'm hoping for Monday now...
► 9gag: I hate ringing my friends doorbell... - I don't blame him.
► 9gag: Dr. Seuss Birthday Cake - Well, I like that.
► Quirky: Cube Tube - Building a better ice cube tray for you to forget to refill.
► Outdoor on GrindTV: Would you eat this Albino Burmese Python? It's sweet and tasty; seriously! - I would if it was lemon. Is it lemon? It looks lemon.
► Los Angeles Times: J.J. Abrams: Movie budgets are 'preposterous' - I'll never understand how movies that rely almost exclusively on CGI special effects cost more and more than movies with practical special effects. Isn't being able to do the special effects in a computer supposed to cost less?
► CBR Spinoff Online: First Plot Clues Emerge For Guardians of the Galaxy - I'm still confused on which version of the Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be in the movie. The lead character and the synopsis are from the version in the far future, yet most of the characters listed are from the 21st century team.
► The Wallstreet Journal: When Putin's Thugs Came for Me - From chat:Dran: Man, I hadn't been following this
Dran: My mom always said Putin was nothing more than a thug. I guess she called that one.
Derek: Putin runs Russia like a mafia don
Derek: one who's a former KGB spy and torturer
Dran: :-(
The thug label seems to fit given how many photo opts Putin has where he's shown bare-chested and either killing things or beating the crap out of students or people in wrestling or martial arts displays. Everything seems constantly manipulated and cultivated to show Putin as some sort of infallible superhumanly virile macho yet cultured Renaissance action man. The man's ego seemingly knows no bounds, and each year Putin seems to have more and more of a strangle hold on Russia, with his cult of personality and rewriting of laws to increase his power. The country really seems to have become a dictatorship again, without anyone really calling it that.
Hmm, given how LiveJournal is now Russian owed I wonder if these opinions will bite me in the ass.
► ABC News: Teacher Accused of Having Group Sex With Students on Video - A possible sentence of twenty years does seem a bit drastic given the students were all over 18, but man she must be a moron. I mean, wow. The husband claims she puts the needs of their children over her own. Sure.
And yes, I realize 20 years wouldn't be enough time if the genders of the teacher and students were reverse.
All that aside, this part of the article caught my attention:One student told WFAA that one of the teenage boys was bragging about the alleged incident and another student put the claim in her diary. A teacher at the school found the diary in a classroom and that's when the school notified police.
I can't imagine the teacher who found the diary just happened to open it on the page in question. The diary must've been a captivating read.
► DeviantART: On a Stakeout by Harseik - I really like this pic a lot. The artist has a lot of great Superman drawings.
On a Stakeout by *Harseik on deviantART
Quote of the Moment
Inigo Montoya: Who are you?
Man in Black: No one of consequence.
Inigo Montoya: I must know...
Man in Black: Get used to disappointment.
Inigo Montoya: 'kay.
- The Princess Bride (1987)
Drinking: water
Eating: nothing