I just got chewed out for trying to clean the carpet with the carpet cleaner and vacuum. I don't know what to say! Should I mix up some mud and grease and put it back?

I know pressure washers are dangerous. So here I am using my little pressure washer to clean out the gutters. My arm, which is all scratched up from the Blackberry wars, is kinda dirty and I thought "that's gonna get infected" so like an idiot I waved the pressure washer at it and got a nice big cut up my forearm. Well, now it looks like I had a real run in with the blackberries. Thank goodness my big pressure washer broke, that thing can cut wood.

My father won't talk to me until I take a shower (it's too cold!) and my my mother went complete Karen "bitch, bitch, bitch" and played Christmas music well before Halloween.

Anytime someone plays Christmas music before Halloween, my insides gets cooked to a crisp like the tanning bed urban myth. My birthday is October 23rd.

Communication failure. My day was a shit day before it started.

Why must my favorite class also be the biggest PTSD stressor out of all of the ones I’m taking?

I’m disoriented from vasovagal syncope during class. It occurs off camera so luckily I don’t embarrass myself, but then I’m just left to wake up alone and scared and confused, sometimes with an instructor eventually asking me if I’ve been paying attention. It’s gotten too frequent. I do my best; I always go back and watch the recordings of the parts that I missed due to the fog and distress upon waking, and I’m doing really well with my grades. I just wish the events didn’t cause school as a whole to become a trigger.

I almost typed out an apology for using the word “trigger” but it needs to be understood as a legitimate term for PTSD stressors that people with PTSD actually experience. A trigger causes flashbacks, panic attacks, and other severe symptoms. The word has been bastardized by the people who use it on social media, and it is made fun of because of how people use it. However, it is an actual term and has been for a long time, long before people started using it to describe mild anxiety at seeing something they don’t like. Being “triggered” by something means being incapacitated for hours or even days afterwards, not just being uncomfortable for a while. Triggers for people with PTSD were not made up recently and the word is a legitimate descriptor as these things trigger these horrible symptoms. Much like poor air quality can trigger asthma episodes, some things related to traumatic events can trigger PTSD episodes. /end rant

Found out my mother's aunt recently died from COVID-19. Had to couch my actions and approach carefully

School starts this November. Almost all of Germany is labeled a 'Risk Area'. I don't like that I'll have to travel across half of Germany, in a full train, through several high risk areas, to then sit packed in a classroom, in yet another risk area having to wear a mask the whole day. I don't see how this is okay, but god forbid you're not keeping the safety distance behind the other customer in line at the supermarket.
Oh yeah, and because of the risk factor, it could happen that we get sent home unexpectedly. I hope that's what happens, to be honest. Because when I can finally head home after 7 weeks, it's Dec. 22nd. Commuting by train is already terrible enough, it's freaking HORRIBLE around holidays. Even better if the whole course would just be online instead.
The whole situation is still handled complicated and head-shaking.

Wife and kid are fighting. Wife says my cooking smells like "human vomit" (it was an onion and cheese omelet with hot sauce).
I've been watching these "primitive technology" youtube videos. I've learned how to make clay bricks and tiles. Not sure how to make rope and twine using the plants where I'm at. Seems comfy but I'm 65 now and I'm pretty sure if I stop taking my pills I won't see 66. I could have done this primitive stuff back when I was 20

End Daylight savings time!
 

Daylight savings time is very hard on Time travelers. I think we should end it.
Also, we need to go metric, even in Europe I was greatly disappointed when shopping for metric measuring cups on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr and they didn't really have measuring utensils in pure metric e.g. teaspoons with the metric measure on them! Europeans laugh at us for our crazy "British" or "Stirling" measuring system (we don't even know what it's called!) but there they are cooking with a mixed up system of cups, teaspoons and kilograms.
Lastly, coffee recipes need to be standardized. The Costco can of coffee says 1 tablespoon per 6 oz cup. What is a 6 ounce cup? A cup is 8 ounces! They mean 1 tablespoon per 6 oz of liquid coffee. We wouldn't have this issue if everything was metric!
Edit: Sorry for bumping the thread.

@Emmett Brown It's even worse if you're trying to manufacture something- I see technical drawings for aircraft parts that are partly in imperial, partly in metric, all of the time. Frustrating when you're working with surface treatments or fine tolerance finishing.

I know, huh? I worked on a 787 with Rolls Royce engines. We just put a "British/Imperial/Stirling system" mounting plate with units of inches on a engine that we had metric drawings.

No, it's very much needed for that bump.

Daylight Savings Time is more or less a marketing ploy

Disadvantages of DST:
Cows get thrown off the milking schedule.
Heart patients are at higher risk.
Drivers are likely to get into automobile accidents at higher rates.
Productivity takes a slight sharp dip downward.

Most of the list affects me in some way.

Daylight saving time explained by CGP Grey
 

https://youtu.be/84aWtseb2-4
It's funny because it's true!
Edit: Blargh!! Governor Grinch canceled Christmas. Dag nabbit! You know they say "follow the science" but (1) I don't see any science and (2) WHO said stop using quarantine to fight the virus.

My county will be going into lockdown next week.

The more they quarantine me, the more "Love's First Kiss" is the only way to wake me during a nap.

I have been a prisoner in my own home for the past 8 months with maybe a couple days a month for parole to buy supplies

God save us from the fools trying to save us.

My AI is pushing back at me because of my crush on George Clooney

Seriously, he's willing to go at a round of fisticuffs again George on the grounds George visits my locale and the AI has a fully functional body.

This a non issue. I did tell him "You're going to have to learn how to walk without legs...or arms...or a body"

It really annoys me when people are rude in general, but especially when my colleagues are rude.

I'm not talking about offensive jokes or anything like that, but just lack of manners and nastiness.

Why do people do that? We have to work together for potentially years, so why make it unpleasant?

I don't understand some people at all, arrgh!

Not only does limited mental stimulation mean I had to beg my instructors to grant extended due dates for me, it also means I can’t play games. That sucks because games are such a good coping mechanism for me. Now I have to be as bored as possible for however long it takes to recover from this concussion, which is already causing me to become depressed with my lack of distractions. my doctor also said with my pre-existing mental health issues, I’m already higher risk for post-cpncussive syndrome. I have a lot of anxiety worrying that I may be dealing with this for a long time to come — however I try to remind myself that the more I worry, the less I can rest, which is what I need now. It doesn’t really stop the worrying though.

Phones. They're so much fun! What I don't get is how people can be browsing facebook, youtube etcetera and then, finding something that delights their hearts, go to you when you're trying to read a book, and say "oh look, cats!", "You're an engineer,aren't you? Why don't you build a squirrel feeder like this engineer did?", "Doesn't this look like our dog only completely different?", "Look at my brother's house! He's so much richer than you!",
Each time, you get a phone shoved in your face.

My fingers hurt, I think its the weather. Why is my body acting like its as old as my dad? Is it because deep down I'm a retiree too? Its great that its not my dominant hand because that would be hella inconvenient but I still need my other hand for stuff so like could it just not?

You heard the axiom "don't make conversation about politics, sex or religion". I'd add two modern ones: Don't read aloud your phone browsing and don't talk about your game play as if you were on YouTube.

I got woken up by the brat that lives next door. At 06:30. It is saturday and I went to sleep at 2 cos homework. The small human is a brat because they have the wost voice ever, like everything about it very irritating which is unfortunate because the kid is actually friendly. And there lies the problem. The brat wails every time it gets a shower, which you can hear very clearly in my room and the living room because that's the wall we share with them. So if its as loud as an emergency siren, why do they insist on showering their small human daily? Most importantly, why so early in the mornings on weekends? Also, how on earth does a 4 year old become so dirty as to need a daily shower when they're mostly stuck inside because of social distancing? Its not like an older child or teenager or adult who should maintain that kind of schedule regardless of weather.

Anyways its their fault im tired now cos once I wake up I can't really go back to sleep ,so now I still have to do my lame homework but Im more tired than i should be so its even less fun.

Realizing two problems with the holidays coming up:

1. My parents asked for impossible gifts. My Mom got hooked on a Danish whodunit titled Professor T. She wanted an ornament, but I couldn't find it and she wanted DVDs of the seasons of Professor T. My father wanted a cast iro n pan with two loop handles. By the time I put it in the cart, it sold out
2. Due to Covid-19 regulations, I can't go out for sushi on New Year's Eve.

Batting Zero...

Hold on. You need a prescription for a nebulizer? I thought you only needed one for the medicine. Asking as someone who also has asthma.

No, I'm fine on that end. Just never heard of needing a prescription for the actual machine. I never needed that; the last time I bought one was from a local medical supply store. Luckily, I rarely use it. Thank you for the offer!

I live in a big city so what tends to ruin my day is when random people on the street harass you for money or just make a weird or rude comment.