Name nicker

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I want another ID on reddit. Thought of a name and went to the user page. 1 link karma but nothing else. Name has been there for a few years. What a waste of a name. Tried to login as them but they had no email associated with the account. So I tried password as the password. Well actually I tried 12345 first and that failed. But password worked. So now I have an old account – an old unused account – with a new password (I’m not that daft) and I verified the email. I’ve nicked an ID. I can’t decide how I feel about that.

Not a good week

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The neighbour’s “home improvement” has continued. Drilling, hammering, banging at random intervals throughout each day and starting before 8:30am too.

My Wacom pen broke so I had to use a mouse. Pain arrived within minutes. Couldn’t use the big trackball, using the mouse was doable for a couple of minutes at a time if I then did not use the mouse at all for many minutes after. Got a mouse trackball (a Logitech M570) which works and is improving but it’s whole new set of muscle control and that is infuriating at times.

Winston had an eye op so he has one eye stitched closed to allow a corneal ulcer to heal.

Something upset the graphics drivers on the Windows laptop so that had to be restored from a backup image. Nothing of value was lost, just annoying.

Bought Starcraft 2 and downloaded the game. The European download defaults to the cuddly “sorry didn’t meant to hurt you” love’n'stuff German version because of their pathetic video game laws so that 7.08gb has had to be re-downloaded. Bought the Company of Heroes games from Steam. If you are going to play RTS you might as well play the best ones. I have Dawn of War / Dawn of War 2 / Starcraft (was playing SC up until the pen broke). Can’t play either as much as I’d like until I get the pen – the replacement was posted from Germany this morning apparently – as the pen = work, trackball = play and that helps the hand somewhat. Not as much as ibuprofen + paracetamol though.

It’s my birthday next month and I need to make a list of things I want.
I don’t own a dremel.
Yet.

It will be served cold

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One day my neighbour might ask for a favour or for me to do anything. I will remember this week and particularly today. The 4th day of constant hammering and the drilling that started before 8:30am. I will remember going round and when he opened his door I said I thought drilling on a shared wall before 8:30am was a little early. “Ya think?” was his ever-so-fucking-cheery-smug-bastard-grinning response. The drilling restarted minutes later.

If you say What Gives

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then you are acting like an idiot because you cannot be bothered to create a better statement.

What is ‘What gives” short for? What does it mean? In fact think of any situation at all where ‘What gives?” can be the correct response. Does one – apart from being picky about someone called What – exist?

It is the same as
Thoughts?
Using that is also stupid. If you know what you want, ask for it. If you don’t know, ask a question. Thoughts? is not a question. It’s lazy, imprecise, meaningless, it is junk.

Better questions get better replies.