I was thinking about some half-remembered quote today, something like "I will allow fear to pass through me and when it's gone I will remain" and I was trying to figure out where it was from, thinking that it was some US president or other. Then I Googled it and it's the second half of the Litany Against Fear, from the sci-fi novel 'Dune'. Well at least it didn't turn out to be something from Star Trek...
― And when you f--- up, you go backwards (snoball), Sunday, 2 February 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
right now i live at a friend's place because i'm waiting for furniture to arrive before i move. the other night i was out near my place so ithought i'd go back there to sleep. i arrived and then remembered that i still didn't have any furniture there. it was quite late so i ended up sleeping on cardboard boxes in my flat.
― Jibe, Sunday, 2 February 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
I just poured milk into my water instead of my coffee.
Yesterday I put my e-cigarette thing in the drawer with all my pens.
I put the remote in the fridge a couple days ago.
I forgot my yoga clothes 3x.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 3 February 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
3x last week that is
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 3 February 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
i forgot to pick something up from my brother's house yesterday that i needed. but i cant remember now what it even was.
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Monday, 3 February 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
I was down to see Showgirls last night, introduced by a guy who's written a book about it. I bought my ticket over a month ago. Went down a little early and sat in the lobby reading for half-an-hour.
I technically wasn't early--turns out the screening was Friday night. I'm not sure if this belongs more in a General Stupidity thread. It's a fine line sometimes.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 March 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
just caught myself trying to pour cold water from the fridge into my tea instead of milk :/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 March 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Hey, I used to work on the same paper as that Showgirls guy, that book looks fun. If it's any consolation, I turned up two months early for a friend's art show last year.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 17 March 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Today I couldn't remember if birds lay eggs or not.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
psst happy birthday vg
(thought about bumping this one, but, u know)
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
Ditto.
At 8:30 this morning, another teacher handed me her USB so we could show a student-made film at a school assembly in the afternoon. When I went to fish it out of my pocket at 9:00, it was gone. I'd seen how much stuff was on there--a lot--so I was a little panicky. That doubled when I let the teacher know and was told she had no back-up. It quadrupled when she went on the PA and asked for anyone who might find it to return it immediately, as there was 16 years' worth of stuff on there--i.e., every worksheet and slide show and whatever she'd created in her teaching career.
Sent three different students out to search the school. When I took my class down to the gym, everyone was instructed to look down and scan the floor the whole way (must have been quite a sight). I apologized to the teacher ten times (all things considered, she was pretty cool about the whole thing). I was mad that she had no backup, and mad that I'd forfeited the right to be mad since I was the one who lost it.
Got home, took my wallet out, and it was in my right-hand pocket the whole day. I'd searched that pocket at least 20 times. It's a very streamlined USB--I think it was lodged between the folds of my wallet.
― clemenza, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
Must have been euphoric to find it though!
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
It seems nuts that you can have 16 years of stuff on a usb--but then I remember I've gotten nearly 8 1/2 out of mine.
Two Old Stories About That USB Drive:
-I've come home from my then-job helping run a community college RTVB department computer lab. I empty my pockets and find that my pendrive is missing. I look everywhere, even going to the extent of calling a student in the class I handed the lab over to that evening, asking him to look around the room. He finds nothing. I freak. A little while later, I take my pants off for the night, and feel a suspicious shape in the leg pocket. In my rush to get away from work, I put the pendrive in the cargo pants pocket I otherwise never used for anything (except for, er, work keys I thought I lost/were stolen another time).
-I was having to do some work in the campus library, and in my rush to leave (notice a trend?) I later am just certain that I forgot to remove the pendrive from the computer. I head back to school, check in with the (very nice) student shift assistant, who finds under the check-in desk a lost and found box devoted just to discs and pendrives. There's at leas 15 of the things in the box, but alas not mine. She tells me she's sorry and how bad she feels for me to lose all my work. I go home and the next morning, having now made my peace that I've lost so much work, I'm emptying my little waste basket located right under the table from the tin baseball card can I keep pens, pencils, and the pendrive in, and...the day before, I had gotten out of the library with the pendrive. I made it home and as I emptied my (hip) pockets, I tossed the pendrive into the can and it BOUNCED OUT and landed in the trash. I subsequently move the trash can, and this never happens again.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Is that a pendrive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
I had cargo pants on too today. People kept telling me to check the lower two pockets, but I knew it wasn't there--I never use them, never even unbutton them. I keep a bulky George Costanza set of keys in my left pocket, so I was sure the USB came out with the keys at some point. That's happened to me before.
(More relieved than euphoric, but that too.)
― clemenza, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:44 (ten years ago) link
HB VG!
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 18 April 2014 10:36 (ten years ago) link
Yes!!! Happy birthday!
― carl agatha, Friday, 18 April 2014 10:51 (ten years ago) link
Happy birthday VG
Not a USB key, just a regular key, but at work there's a storage area that's secured with a metal door and a high security key. A couple of weeks ago I was walking home from work and realised that I still had the key in my pocket, so I had to go back (there were people working late who would have needed access to that area). No problem, but the building is at the top of a 1 in 4 hill, so I ended up staggering back into the office completely out of breathe.
It's a very streamlined USB--I think it was lodged between the folds of my wallet.
The key is one of those very flat types without the serrated edge, like a swimming pool locker key. I think it actually got stuck in the edge of my wallet.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 18 April 2014 10:56 (ten years ago) link
Happy Birthday!
Jeez, back in early February, I was heading out the door to work around 5 a.m. As I went to grab all my usual stuff (wallet, keys, phone, ipod) I realized the wallet was gone! Although I could theoretically drive to the bus stop without my license, I couldn't get on the commuter bus without my bus pass. I checked in all the usual places and when I couldn't find it, my heart started racing and my shirt instantly soaked with sweat. It didn't help that I had gotten pretty drunk the night before (not the usual for a weeknight) and was feeling a bit hung-over.
I woke my wife and told her. We both started tearing the house apart. Lifting up the couch and the bed to see if it had fallen underneath. Cleaning up shelves. There were so many variables! At one point the night before, my son had accidentally knocked over a vase on the shelf where I keep my stuff. Had that caused a chain reaction and sent the wallet flying across the room or something? The last place I could honestly remember having the wallet was at the liquor store, where I had stopped on the way home. Had I lost it in a liquor store parking lot? Good god...
I had to call out of work that day and spent the entire morning cleaning, shifting things around, and pacing back and forth around our small house. When it hadn't surfaced by noon, I decided to give up and cancel my cards. Fortunately, I had just received one replacement credit card in the mail that I hadn't activated yet, so I only had to cancel one credit card and my debit card.
I drove up to the MVA and spent a couple hours waiting in line and replacing my driver's license. I got back in the late afternoon and headed upstairs to the bedroom. Right in front of my face, in a spot where I knew I had looked before, was the wallet! I had somehow just FAILED to see it.
Fortunately, I had the one credit card. I recovered my bus pass, library card, voter registration, some other random wallet crap. The debit card however, took almost a month to arrive. I had the misfortune of cancelling it right in the aftermath of the great Target credit card hacking scandal, so the credit card manufacturing facilities were all backed up.
― how's life, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:20 (ten years ago) link
my shirt instantly soaked with sweat.
I hate it when that happens. That creeping realisation that I might have screwed up again, and then suddenly my shirt is sopping wet like a dish rag.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 18 April 2014 11:25 (ten years ago) link
happy birthday, vg :)
― estela, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:26 (ten years ago) link
aw thanks everybody <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 April 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
relevant to this thread: i forgot how old I was, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 April 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
I do that all the time.
― carl agatha, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
lost my debit card last week, that's a first
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 April 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Me, often
― Brakhage, Friday, 18 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Had a lovely breakfast at a neighborhood cafe, hung my purse on the chair while I was eating. Got all the way home and went to get my keys when I made the horrifying realization that my purse was still at the cafe, still hanging on the chair.
Thankfully the person bussing our table after we left spied it and put it behind the counter for me.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK my life
the problem is that when the universe gives me my purse back it's also secretly telling me that I don't have to check my shit before i leave, becuase it will always magically still be there when I finally remember to look for it
but I think i still will start a new habit of checking my shit before i leave
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
I never ever use those coatrack things in restaurants because I know I will leave without retrieving my coat/hat.
― brimstead, Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Spent my last week broke, finally got paid, and when I took money out I went to put it in my wallet and found £50. I never use my wallet, is the problem. Free money, I guess, but it was an unnecessarily horrible week.
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
This might all be related to side effects of chemo, incl the 4 hrs' sleep a night i get on steroids, or not. In the last 24 hours I have:
-accidentally thrown out my midday snack of mixed nuts-thrown the day's new underwear and socks into the toilet *shrug*-selected replacement underwear, put it on backwards (as i discovered when i went to piss)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Oh god lol but also jeeeeeez.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
overpriced Planters mixed nuts, i might add
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
welcome Morbz. free coffee in back, help yourself to a donut.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
I only buy the NY Times on Sun, Wed and Fri, because y'know $2.50. So I bought it today cuz it's obviously Friday.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
lol
I've been making evening cups of tea for me & mr veg for I don't know how long. I know the routine. boil the kettle, wait for the DING, set up the teabags & pour the water, set the timer for 5 minutes, done.
lately I boil the water...and mr veg will come ask me 20 minutes later if I was making tea because the kettle boiled.
Or I will boil the water, pour the water into the cups, and 20 minutes later we'll have cold tea and I'll have to start all over again.
Yesterday I almost handed Mr Veg a cup of boiled water with no teabag.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
most of the time Mr Veg will just intervene and complete the process because I suddenly am terrible at making a goddamn cup of tea ffs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
I threw my phone in the laundry hamper this morning.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I did that thing where I had mr veg call my phone because I had put it down somewhere and I couldn't find it
standing in the middle of the living room when he's calling it and then he gives me this look and points
it's literally RIGHT in front of me, on the coffee table face down.
so much failure in one person, how can it be possible
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
I've been meaning to post this but kept forgetting (naturally). Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I was preparing breakfast. I had an empty plate waiting for toast and an empty cup waiting for (instant (hush)) coffee. As I was waiting for my bread to toast, I scooped out my heaping teaspoon of instant coffee and dumped it onto the plate.
Also feeling this tweet: https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/488515392990498816
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 July 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
on saturday I set out my cereal bowl and a mug for my tea. went to pour the boiling water for tea & realized I'd put the teabag in the cereal bowl.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Sisterz
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 July 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
About 80% sure I poured half a glass of real milk into my iced coffee instead of the almond milk right next to it. This is not as comic as the teabag on plate antics of the rest of the thread, I apologize. Also it has given me 6 hours of pain.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 26 July 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
no way, that's the real talk of absentmindedness - sometimes its lols & sometimes it legit affects yr actual life in negative ways
that supersucks, io :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 July 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
As caek once said after biting into some non-vegetarian mystery food, "When it tastes too good, I know there's meat in it." That's how I am with dairy, and I thought that iced coffee was suspiciously delicious.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 26 July 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
sorry io :(
I went to trim my toenails last night and then saw they were already trimmed and I have no recollection of doing it. I mean it's not a very exciting event to remember but generally I find the whole procedure enough of a pain in the ass that it should trigger some kind of "oh yeah, I did that last night".
Few weeks ago I went to put my shoes on and found one in the usual place and one on top of a pile of paper several feet away*, so neatly upright and central that it didn't even look like I'd kicked it off, and I thought "surely I should remember either putting it there or watching this absurd miraculous landing" but no.
(* yes I have a foot-high pile of assorted paper on my bedroom floor, probably including utterly useless mailshots mixed in with important documents and all things in between, but if there's any thread where I can admit to that...)
Sort of felt like I'm beginning to lose it but I suppose the existence of stories throughout the ages of ghosts'n'gremlins moving yr stuffs and elves creeping in to do yr housework suggests I'm not the first.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 26 July 2014 11:03 (ten years ago) link
did that thing where I had mr veg call my phone because I had put it down somewhere and I couldn't find it
I'll add: ...and then I instantly forget what was even happening and answer the goddam phone. And spend about three confused seconds before I realise why nobody is replying to my "Hello? Hello?"
This has happened more than once. I am seriously scatterbrained.
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Sunday, 27 July 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
Left the house, went to the store, walked to the bus and boarded before realizing I'd only buttoned the bottomed two buttons on my shirt (neck to mid-low abdomen exposed). Fortunately I was wearing an undershirt but still.....
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
i arrived at work with my fly open. you are defeated.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
I think I bought a book earlier and then left it on the counter at the charity shop i bought it in. But I can't remember what the book is. I can just think about what was on the price tag and where i bought it.
& I did manage to walk out of a shop without what I bought last week after messing around trying to get the right change for the counter assistant. Thankfully he called me back as I left but god, felt really embarrassed and annoyed at myself.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link