i wish it wasnt really. But 4 hours 3 days a week hooked to a machine is real. Oh and I pee in a bag now also for real.
But the real Bitch for me is what this does to my wife and my kids.

explorer.exe crashing and restarting in an endless loop.

IE? Mine's working fine.

Feeling a little upset, and just wanting to vent.

Why oh why, can't the people that are supposed to matter, like family, ever be supportive over choices that you made for your life, that doesn't affect them?

Why are things suddenly rendered invalid, just because they don't fit in an ideal worldview of theirs? Can't they just be happy? Will it kill them to be so?

Hey there hon, when did you register to the GOG boards?

My wife said more or less that about her family roughly 2 hours ago you see :-P But yeah, it's annoying when people act like that. Not just family, also applies to ... Well pretty much anyone, really - I especially love people who start telling me what a mistake I made to get married so young. I'm happy! Leave me alone!

Nope, Windows Explorer. The problem persisted in Safe Mode and all, and after a while I decided to sod the whole business and just reinstall Windows. I've got backups from two days ago so it's not a big deal in the end, albeit massively time-consuming. EDIT: No it isn't! Turns out my games and personal files were safe on their own separate partitions of the HDD, which saves me an assload of time. Probably as good a time as any to reorganize what needs reorganizing, but that's not too bad.

In other news, my bicycle bottle cage got bent out of shape without me noticing, so I lost my bottle and had to pedal like five miles to get a new cage and bottle.

I'm guessing these people you are talking about, only give a shit about themselves like most people on this planet?
Sorry to hear that. I've never experienced the death of a friend but I hope this video makes you feel better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhioYAORun8

There's no way to sugarcoat stage 4. Best of luck with the treatments.

Coincidences sure abound in such a fashion!

Are you newly married? If so, congratulations. :D

I hope to get there some day too, with my partner, but we'll see. Thanks again for the much needed vote of confidence. :)

Sucky it is. But there are times you do wish otherwise. Thank you. :)

More an annoyance than anything else, but settle in to watch Hannibal and the damn Tropical Storm Warning ticker on the bottom of the freaking screen pisses me off. Couldn't they just show it once, and at the end show go to weather.com, crappy local TV website, CW, UPN for further updates, because we have something better to show and if you really want an update stick your head out your damned window and look for yourself you lazy bastard.
I can understand a quick flash for a Tornado spotted or something, but jeez it never freaking stops with this stupid weather ticker.

It's back to not getting dark here until eleven pm. Interesting in terms of science, terrible for people like me who require pitch blackness to fall asleep.

You bitch like Al Pacino in "Insomnia". :)

Here it seems like at the crack of dawn even at midnight, so currently it doesn't get really dark at all. And I live in southern Finland so it gets "worse" the more north you go. Take that, damn vampires!

I have good thick curtains and "venetian blinds" (are that what they ("sälekaihtimet") are called in English?) so I can get the bedroom dark enough at bright summer nights.

I'm more concerned that the nights are so warm now that it affects my sleep, even though I don't use a blanket and sleep pretty much nekkid. I just sleep better at a bit cooler room temperature, like closer to e.g. +22C/71F. Now it is around+30C/86F indoors, even though the window is open.

It is bearable, but I would sleep deeper in a bit cooler temperature. Too bad my air con unit is far too noisy to be used at nights.

Thank you. It's some nice lyrics.

I love that movie.

Ok, now to real problems.

I bought this big pack of cheap insoles for my shoes. The problem is that for some reason they always start slipping out as I walk! It is a bit comical, after I have walked a bit, half of the insoles are out of the shoes already, peeping from the heel. The fjuck? Either I try not to mind it, or stop every 15 minutes to take the shoes out and put the insoles back in place.

This happens on at least two different shoes, so the insoles seem to be the culprit. Didn't they test those things before they started manufacturing, or am I the only one with the problem?

I guess I need to buy some thicker insoles next, but I just hate having bought a big bag of throwaway insoles. I thought it was a good deal!