The Whining and Bitching Thread

I took my car into the shop last week because the exhaust system was being too noisy for comfort. That repair was relatively cheap, but they spotted a bunch of other problems with the suspension, control rods and holes in the frame (so It couldn't pass inspection) and the whole job totalled over 2K.

:waah:

At least it won't break down when I drive it back to Iowa in a couple months. The engine's in great shape so the thing should last me another two or three years. Cheaper to maintain than buying a new car. It's a 2004 Ford Escape, which they say are well-known for longevity.
 
Maintenance is cheaper in the long run if the engine is solid, especially given that a newer car has so many more things that can break on it; things that will be even more expensive to fix. Given the nature of the problems spotted, I take it you spend a lot of time driving on salted roads/in salty air.
 
having a camping stove that runs on propane

kinda upset that i ran out of propane and can no longer cook stuff at the moment
 
Maintenance is cheaper in the long run if the engine is solid, especially given that a newer car has so many more things that can break on it; things that will be even more expensive to fix. Given the nature of the problems spotted, I take it you spend a lot of time driving on salted roads/in salty air.

Maine coast in the summer, so salty air. Upper Midwest the rest of the year, so salty roads. Yeah I'm fucked.
 
I'm so fucking fat that it almost hurts to sit down these days. Like, my boobs and belly fat push too hard together. I guess I succeed in my goal in becoming Randy for Halloween.

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Got kicked out of my band. This is the second time I've been more or less spontaneously ejected for vague reasons. Normally I'd assume it's because I'm a shitty person, but we seemed to get along really well and actually seemed to be getting somewhere...I'm honestly pretty fucking disappointed because I was pretty excited for that band. At this point it's getting really hard to keep going musically, given that I've been playing in bands for 5-6 years and never gotten beyond the sloppy rehearsal demo stage despite really throwing myself into every project. The thing is, music is my life and if I give up on that it doesn't really leave much, so...this is a real blow. I'm honestly at the point where I'm considering taking up bass.
 
Fucking shit I had some sort of seizure today. I felt sick as shit and both my hands started to tingle and then they become stiff and I was unable to move them for like 5 minutes. I thought I would collapse because in the peak moment my heart started to give pain it was like a fucking heart attack. I was on the ground unable to move my numb hands. There's now a bruise on my right hand too. It had to appear after that.... thing.

EDIT: Never even knew this could happen.
 
Got kicked out of my band. This is the second time I've been more or less spontaneously ejected for vague reasons. Normally I'd assume it's because I'm a shitty person, but we seemed to get along really well and actually seemed to be getting somewhere...I'm honestly pretty fucking disappointed because I was pretty excited for that band. At this point it's getting really hard to keep going musically, given that I've been playing in bands for 5-6 years and never gotten beyond the sloppy rehearsal demo stage despite really throwing myself into every project. The thing is, music is my life and if I give up on that it doesn't really leave much, so...this is a real blow. I'm honestly at the point where I'm considering taking up bass.

my advice would be to just totally skip the whole "getting an albulm made/signing a record deal" thing

and just go with just getting yourself the kind of "local gigs" where the venue (read: bar/nightclub) is paying the band directly instead of paying the "band's management"

hope this helps
 
Fucking shit I had some sort of seizure today. I felt sick as shit and both my hands started to tingle and then they become stiff and I was unable to move them for like 5 minutes. I thought I would collapse because in the peak moment my heart started to give pain it was like a fucking heart attack. I was on the ground unable to move my numb hands. There's now a bruise on my right hand too. It had to appear after that.... thing.

EDIT: Never even knew this could happen.

Sounds like you got AIDS bro
 
Sounds like you got AIDS bro

It shouldn't be AIDS. My friend that studies medicine thought about it and it should be nothing serious. I remembered I was moving some heavy furniture two days back and my hands were already weaker after that. Plus it was hot as shit and I had a hangover.
 
AIDS is rare in Prague despite the slutty behaviour of some of the people there and the wandering foreigners.
 
MOnoxide Child

That wasnt you I saw on Cheaters last night was it? Some girl from the rich part of Dallas cheated on her husband with a homeless guy who was living by a dumpster by a Carls Jr. She left her husband for a homeless guy, and she had a BMW and nice condo and everything.
 
Got kicked out of my band. This is the second time I've been more or less spontaneously ejected for vague reasons. Normally I'd assume it's because I'm a shitty person, but we seemed to get along really well and actually seemed to be getting somewhere...I'm honestly pretty fucking disappointed because I was pretty excited for that band. At this point it's getting really hard to keep going musically, given that I've been playing in bands for 5-6 years and never gotten beyond the sloppy rehearsal demo stage despite really throwing myself into every project. The thing is, music is my life and if I give up on that it doesn't really leave much, so...this is a real blow. I'm honestly at the point where I'm considering taking up bass.

You make playing bass sound like such a step down. If you go at it with that attitude, you'll be one of those lousy, half-assed players that gives the instrument a bad name. Maybe you should take lessons or work on a solo project.
 
I was joking. I'm actually planning on getting a bass as soon as I can afford it, because bass is really fucking fun, but I still love making cracks about it.
 
Sister passed certification so she'll be a clinical lab scientist soon, so we're planning a vacation next summer to England. Aka, I just took on more shifts at my job to save up, and I'm still not asleep even though I have to be at work super early tomorrow. Why didn't I study science in college?

Am being kept awake by stupid internet and stupid netflix.