Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 25, 2022, 07:00:11 PMyou like the paper

yeah

aerosmith chocobo says "wark this way"

god damn fucking microsoft I fucking said to pause updates for a fucking week. I hit restart to boot on the other partition and instead windows hijacks the machine to install updates and now it's been at "100%" for 15 minutes I HAVE FUCKING WORK TO DO.

no

Quote from: Slurpee on September 25, 2022, 02:59:31 PMand when I clicked through there was a timer that said there was only 12 hours left to buy and that seemed like a trick,

you know who fucking did this recently

the annual appointment reminder email from the optometrist

anywya you'll are nerds

vcrclock does not need "planner"
vcrclock does not "plan"
vcrclock's wall calendar this year (very cool) doesn't even have space for writing stuff on particular days so he sorta has to write events in the margin and draw an arrow. some months, like this one, pass by completely without having anything written on them
vcrclock does not save old wall calendars unless they are cool, who want's to know when i went to the doctor NOT ME

vcrclock's winning "self-important alcoholic white guy 𝒜uthor" diary strategy (this is the "where was i at 5 years ago" part) is to find a cool old notebook where secondhand school supplies are sold, and write until full

reaching the last page and getting to use a whole new old notebook is the best part. I had one narrow-rule 3-subject that lasted like 3 years, and it felt like for ever. I had a basic marble composition book with some pages missing that happened to land at a pretty turbulent point in my life, and that's it's own little thing. can't imagine wanting to be tied down to a single five-year planner, but then i kinda suck at ambition and personal growth anyway

I bought a fancy pen to go with this five-year book that I can't even use until Jan 1st because I was excited and it was pulling me out of a rut and I was getting work done before ADHDing off to bullshit instead, which doubled the amount of money I've spent on this, taking it to "probably unhealthy" so I have stopped











I got a two-year weekly planner for free from work today BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME THING

I feel like I've said this before, but buy more pens phantomcat. spend all your money on pens!!!!

Angel of the Morning: weird song?

I thought the idea was like "just call me angel, because I will be an angel for you. when your mornings are hard I'll be beautiful and I guess make you breakfast and stuff? I'm your angel of the morning. here's some coffee."
kinda weird, I didn't specifically need a morning angel, but ok

but the next line she says

QuoteJust touch my cheek before you leave

and that's more like a lovelorn plea. like "you don't have to say you love me / just be close at hand"

that made me realize, she's not just echoing the word "angel" in the first line, she's calling the person she's singing to angel

so is she actually begging to be called "angel of the morning", like whether she deserves it or not? "JUST CALL ME ANGEL AND TOUCH MY CHEEK "

must investigate further when I have time

well since you asked it's a older Pilot Vanishing Point from when they were still made in Japan. I fully accept I won't be able to tell the difference (I don't even care about the "flex" of golden nibs versus the unforgiving rigidity of steel ones i just got this one instead of a newer one because it came in yellow) because my two modes are "I need an indestructible everlasting pen that feels like a piece of shit Bic" and "I need a perfectly calibrated fountain cartridge pen with a very fine point"

i still refuse to google what thixatropic means because fuck fisher's marketing team jesus christ

oh it means silly putty








cool good job fisher this really is the most thixatropic ink of all time you did it it's the thixatropest you god damned dumplings you maroons you coked-up marketing bastards

tom fulp wouldn't want me to stay mad at fisher and i do like the ink, even if the pens are overpriced/overengineered bullshit

I'd tell you what I use to write in my 3-subject notebooks but I suspect you've heard this one before

my girlfriend's mother has power again so i took a shower today and that was simply lovely. current estimation of restoration at my house is next Thursday. my job is just down the street so likewise power will be restored there next Thursday.


Going to be a light paycheque.

my job was closed for two days because a sewer pipe exploded or something and they paid me eight hours for every day they were closed. I've finally made it to the big leagues

I'm taking notes on pen testing




while testing



A PEN

conclusions:


this is a good pen


computers were a mistake

I think my favorite thing about Maine so far is I am in the New England club

In California, everything was California news and California things

in Texas, the rest of the world does not exist yeehaw


but here, it's like
actual news when shit goes down and someone is a New Englander


one of the dudes who worked on that NASA thing that touched a asteroid is a native Mainer, so the word Maine got thrown around a lot, but for the most part it really is like

not Maine, New England




"blah blah movie blah blah one of the actors is from VERMONT WOOOOOOOOOOHOO A NEW ENGLAND ACTOR" and like, that actor will come on for an interview


it's like I went from living in one state to living in six


Every time something is on the news, and I start thinking "why the fuck is this news", it invariably ends in "..INVENTED BY A NEW ENGLANDER!" or "and one of the people on that team is a MAINE NATIVE!!!!!" and they're just so happy that New England did something that it becomes news






this is the excited puppy corner of the US and it loves hearing its name

Quote from: RobClock on September 28, 2022, 11:35:55 AM