What's New With You?

Hey Folks, checking in to see how everyone is doing this week.

What's new? Anything amazing? Need support for something?

The horrors persist. Yet I remain silly.

 

i had flu or a bad cold-terible

 

Aw, are you on the mend now? I hope you get well soon.

 

Get well soon!

 

Done with my main job until July! Well, in an hour and 22 mins. But who is counting?

 

As of now, enjoy the holidays!

 

Speaking of, is anyone doing anything fun for their holiday?

 

Looking for a flat exchange.

You would think people would like to be where I am in Edinburgh in terms of where the housing is situated, because I live near the city's main hospital, and it is close to the middle of the town as well. But my apartment building has a dark history, as two men were murdered on the floor below me in 2022.

The guys who did it were father and son. The dad previously had a jail term for disfiguring his partner with a corkscrew.

After inviting the two men separately to the accommodation, they used hammers, knives, and blowtorches to unleash their inner sadism.

The building is also full of mice. I have seen or heard them all the time since I moved there in 2018, so their droppings are everywhere.

I viewed the flat in the fall of 2017, but I had to wait a few months to move in as the flat was empty and needed painted, carpets put down, etc.

I'm wanting to relocate to be nearer to my family, but I don't feel any attachment to the flat now as my mum passed away. She came up to help me get shopping, but her health went downhill a few years ago. But another issue is that the concierges there like to act like stool pigeons for the pigs.

The police wanted to arrest me at Easter about some stupid stuff to do with an AdultWork.com sex worker who was being obnoxious online, and they basically got them to look out for me returning to the building. I kind of suspected they offered me the flat because there is CCTV and staff there. Normal flats have neither.

Of course, I didn't think of that at the time, since I was just glad to have my own space again. Years ago, I was in supported housing. The workers they employed were idiots. I have had a long ordeal because of them. So everyone knows about it, and wants me watched.

 

Too bad it isn't America, corkscrew murder notoriety is a plus, especially if you can still see the stains... it's a whole thing. Nasty stuff.

 

There was a summer storm this morning.
Heavy rain. Some wind. Thunder and lightning. Lasted about 3 hours.
blew the heck out of nap time.

 

What's a holiday? I'm currently the entire department by myself.

 

What are you, the department parent?

 

"concierges there like to act like stool pigeons for the pigs."

Curious what that means. What is the concierge?

 

After thinking about it, you are saying the staff is ratting folks out to law enforcement. Pigs seems a bit rude, but we are from many different sections of the world.

 

^

LOL.

 

Haha, kind of

So, bit of background then. I work for a local government. As I said, I am the department. Historically this has always been the case. I've followed up a retiree, but only on the condition they add underlings within 12 months. I'm currently 6 months in and have just heard the reorganisation plan has been approved. Which means my position will change to senior strategic policy advisor (and a bit more money but not a lot because it's the government) and most importantly, they're adding 3 people to share the workload with. This is obviously excellent news.

Only caveat being that in 2026 the central government will be cutting local governments budgets so it remains to be seen how long these planned colleagues will actually be around.

Also, 3 people sounds like a lot, but currently my workload is that of 5 people so technically we're still understaffed.

 

have a sore right heal on foot

i blame wireless modem or im old

 

Friday I got a hair cut. I was long and shaggy. I think I left 3lbs. of hair on the floor.

 

I may watch some of the old DVDs I have.

 

I found a stack of old DVD's at my dad's place and realized that every single one of them had been remade recently. Hollywood is getting so lazy.

 

The old DVD's I have consist of Babylon 5. 5 seasons plus the collectors movie set.
Star Trek enterprise complete series
Star Trek Discovery Seasons 1---4
The Orville Seasons 1&2
The Alastair Sim version of a Christmas Carol I watch this every year.
The Nutcracker Suite This Also is viewed each Christmas.

I also have a couple of Jim Carrey DVDs

 

Yeah. The Grudge has been remade twice.

Any intermational horror movie in Asia or Europe that becomes a hit, Hollywood sees an opportunity to do their own version.

In one sense, it benefits people who don't enjoy reading subtitles for foreign language flicks.

 

Just to let you know, I am retiring from forums soon. The reason for this is that most of them have no activity in this day of age to speak of and I found my diminishing desire for thread engagement or a noticeable lack of quality posts was stacking up, coupled with fewer replies. What was once a good waste of an hour is now just the waste part. So as you will agree, none of these gaming talk sites really benefit people.

It's almost impossible to get noticed on YouTube too, but there's also the added issue of stalkers, big headed users, and having to do what Google sees fit, or you won't get anywhere. And X is just a joke.

 

I've met people here that I will love forever. As the format of forums moves somewhat into obscurity, I hope for it to have a renaissance by the people who remember that feeling of fun and comradery that it fostered before the internet became terrible, and that they'll come back looking for that spark they've been missing. Would I go looking for a new one, expecting the same experience... no. But here, I'll stay here.

 

Forums seem to be cyclical. Hopefully MajorGeeks will pick back up. I have met many good folks on other forums in person. I meet a group from one forum once or twice a year.

We shoot a bunch.

 

Well, I've been putting up with a weird stalker for a while now. Some sad guy online who likes to make multiple accounts just to spam on unmoderated sites, pretend to be a gumshoe, and behave in an immature way.



U-U-U-U-U-M. OK...

Usually when I think of these kinds, though, I see this in my head.



And their bedroom: Dual monitors. Big glasses. Collectibles. Lit up PC. Potato chips. Soft drink containers. Sausage roll bags. Carton of chips. Burgers. Ice cream pot. Jelly doughnut. Takeaway dishes. Energy drink cans. Crushed Tango cans.

Everything a Western Australian socialite is, really.

 

Me and the wife are buying a house! Going from a single wide to a 4 bedroom 2 bath house. A lot of anxiety, prayer, and doubt on this decision, but we decided to go for it. 2 bathrooms is great for a marriage.

 

Your loyalty is unquestionable......we all search for that spark again from days of old, sadly it illudes us mostly.
With todays tech platforms and options, forums are like Starbucks tables...... a place for old friends over many years who always sit in that particular corner of the store in order to chew the fat.
Like Frasier!

 

I liked that show. I haven't seen the reboot yet

 

I got a car upgrade as well. If things go like I expect, next year will be very good.

 

I'm looking forward to State of Play tomorrow.

 

One of my fave Sitcom's.
Always liked Kelsey since Cheers!
Watched a couple reboots, good but its never the same aye!

 

Woohoo! Great upgrade and well deserved. Drive it in good health and enjoy it. Safe travels!

 

Congrats on the new house, Fred! Nothing like owning your own space. Enjoy!

 

Damn, new house and new car, congrats!

 

I learned that the musician Ken Tobias passed away. I recalled his name as I used to play Canadian groups on YouTube in 2013, and he had one top ten hit.

 

I got a call from my bank this morning. The fraud people said my card was blocked. some SOB tried to use my card number
at an Apple Store. Did not work . I had to get a new card . Got a little over $200 on hold until this mess clears up
A start to a crappy day.

 

That happened to me once. It can happen if you use a VPN to pay for things, such as on an adult site. It just gets flagged down as suspicious, and then it means embarassing yourself at the bank or calling them to explain why you made the transaction(s).

 

So... I finally got my father's celebration of life situated, all ready to go, and the night before I got called to tell me that my Step-mother, his ex wife, also passed away to cancer. She had intended to come to the party, but, she didn't make it. Cancer can go and do something to itself...

Yesterday we laid her to rest as well. Running out of parents. That's the problem with bonus parents, you have more to love, but also more to lose.

Now just trying to put life and the house back together, get these kids into a routine, and get the new one's recovery sorted/started. But, despite the curse apparently placed on me, I feel like I've got all this. So, I'll get it sorted, find a job, get a license and a car (I managed never to do that, somehow) and continue to be a verified bad @$$.

Carry on.

 

I was supposed to go to court over some arseholes stitching me up. But I get agoraphobia and the court is in a town called Livingston. It's only 15 miles outside of Edinburgh. The bus you get is the X27. I had to get a bus back from there in March.

The weather is supposed to be bad on Wednesday. This Australian guy keeps posting my court dates on this anxiety site and spams on Legal Junkies, and stalks me online every week. He has replied as a guest with troll posts in like three threads on there since 2022. So 2 years of posting gibberish.

A lot of forums today have no moderators. How dumb.

 

Why are you so important to him, I wonder? Obviously mental illness, but why you?

 

I first came across him... IN 2004!

Just an attention whore, really. But a really unrelenting one.

This is his spam.

https://anxietyforum.net/forum/forum.php

https://forum.legaljunkies.com/foru...ils-as-a-guest-in-my-thread/page44#post672832

 

That's very true. My condolences and from this side of the pond, all the strength you need to get some order back into your life. You can do it

 

Condolences, Wenchie. As you said, carry on: when all is said and done, it's all we can do.

 

I was supposed to go to court in the morning, in Scotland. But this is the court out in Livingston. Cannot go. I tried to get a note from the GP to state I cannot go because of agoraphobia and travel anxiety. My sister even agreed that autism makes it hard to travel.

This is because of some Spanish daftie I haven't seen in like 10 whole years. Got stitched up years ago. So it dragged on for a long time.

The pigs are bent, though. They once came to my door in 2020. Some court order ended, so they came and made up a ploy. Never told me why I got arrested. A violation of my rights. Never gave me a call with a lawyer either.

My sister gets it bad too. Had 4 kids taking off her by social workers. Next to impossible to fight them, as you need to have enough funds to pursue a civil case. Possibly £6000 or more.

 

What's new with me. This past Thursday I went and had the mandatory pollution test on my van. Passed $12.25
Next morning I went renewed my registration. $61.36 for two years . At the same time renewed my
driver's license $10.00 for four years.

 

That sounds accurate, every year we have to pay all kinds of money to the state for the honor of continuing to use the car we paid for.