Talking about not talking

[TheVorticon]

How can I feel so sad over 'nothing'?

[CheerBear]

Hi @TheVorticon. LF didn't want to do their fun Saturday thing so we stayed home and I mowed (again). I was thinking how great it is to be able to have petrol for when it runs out (which it did) which made me think of our conversation last week so then I wanted to see how you were doing while I rewarded myself with a few forum minutes.

I see that you had success with the thing and think it's really cool that you were able to see that it could be a learning experience. I really hope it helps to have had the answer, even if it wasn't really the one you were hoping for.

Sorry to hear you were feeling sad last night. I hope that today is a good day for you.

Better get back to it for a bit ☺

[TheVorticon]

Hey @CheerBear. That's good that you got some mowing done, with the petrol that you'd figured out how to get 🙂

Yeah, I mean at least I was stuck on the problem because I really did need more information, not because I'd got it wrong. It's just a shame that it took me so long to eventually come to that conclusion. It will definitely help to have the answer. Now I just have to hope that the extra information that I've requested will come back and say something useful, rather than something unhelpful (which is sometimes the case with my work stuff).

This morning started out pretty bad for me but it's improved slightly. Hope your day's been going well.

[TheVorticon]

Figured I'd do some Microsoft Paint doodling, before we all get updated to the Windows 10 version that doesn't include it. And to distract me from feeling alone.

[CheerBear]

That update notification is driving me bananas @TheVorticon and I didn't know it will take away paint. Now I want to do it less 😞 It's the source of some funny memes though. My MS paint skills are/were definitely not as strong as yours above.

I'm not sure if you're a work M-F person, but if you are I hope the thing is going ok.

[TheVorticon]

Phew @CheerBear, I just looked into the Paint situtation a bit more: "Also, just because the program is being listed as “deprecated” doesn’t mean that it’s gone for good just yet — there’s still no date or time frame for when (or even if) Microsoft intends to remove the application completely." So you're still good to update whenever it otherwise makes sense to. 

Thanks. Yeah I work M-F. Still waiting on info for that other thing, so I've got 4 new things to work on in the meantime.

[CheerBear]

I spent way too long looking at those memes today haha @TheVorticon! Good to know it isn't gone yet though. Updates don't ever go smoothly for me (nothing really ever does), so I'll give it a go when I have more patience 🙂

4 new things to do while waiting to finish one doesn't sound fun :S

[TheVorticon]

Haha sounds like a plan @CheerBear. I'm just going to hold onto Win 7 as long as possible (probably until my computer becomes unusable).
Some new things are good, but yeah I'm feeling a bit busy with 4 😛 If I could get rid of one in particular I'd be happy 😛

[TheVorticon]

Got injured playing sport today and I'm really upset about it. Feeling like I let down the team (and will be letting down the team in the coming weeks if it doesn't heal), and am just generally unhappy. I've never had a proper sports injury before so haven't previously had to deal with the whole "getting old" "weak useless body" "wanting to play but can't" issue.

I didn't do team sports back in the day when I had the only major-out-of-action injury I've ever had. This shouldn't be a major-out-of-action injury, but still could be a probably-shouldn't-play-for-a-few-weeks-to-avoid-reinjuring-it thing. Which feels very unacceptable and upsetting.

[TheVorticon]

While I'm talking to myself, s'pose I'll put this here too.

Last weekend while in a bit of a semi-optimistic mood I decided to try the Mindspot clinic thing. I figure I already know what stuff I need to be doing to sort myself out but have trouble with consistency and execution. A little bit of accountability would help with that.

I filled out their online quiz, and chose between getting an email vs. phonecall to discuss results. Now, I reckon that a lot of written word stuff comes off glib, patronising, and ultimately infuriating. So I picked the phonecall, as much as I hate phonecalls and avoid them wherever possible. I thought I could handle it. I thought wrongly.

Today was the phonecall day, and I did not want to deal with it one bit. It cooincided almost exactly with a sort of inspection my unit was having which made it double yuck. Legit missed the phone call, but realistically probably wouldn't have answered even if I hadn't. Now I've got to deal with them trying to follow up. What a joke.