DEAR GOD, SWEET MILKY FROSTED FLAKES
I've been using my mother's computer, and holy banana peels, it's been terrible. It kept shutting off windows if I had them open, shutting off programs if I was typing, and assassinating GIMP files if I was working with them. And I've been mentally shouting at my mother, thinking: "GET SOME MORE MEMORY FOR THIS COMPUTER, IT'S SLOWER THAN ASS." but in reality going, "Hey mom, good afternoon."
But for the (glorious) moment, I've switched computers to a more efficient one.
I could cry, I'm so happy I can use Google Chrome again (GC is very taxing to the other computer, for some reason). //weeps
Firefox used to be the Holy Grail for me, but after I learned of the magic of Google Chrome, I've gotten spoiled by how amazing it is. Especially since I've taken to messing around with CSS. So, as I was using Firefox, and not having so many cool features, or just having to do more steps to do the same great things I used to be able to enjoy with Google Chrome, I just ended up going:
I can now post more because of this; mainly because typing up anything was just hell before. So no more quiet lurking for me. Kind of. Also I'm kind of sad because someone I knew here deleted their account from the looks of it. Meh, a lot of super!cool people tend to do that. I almost wish that TheOtaku didn't offer the option of doing such, but at the same time, I understand/respect it.
It wasn't UTI, but several calcium stones in her bladder that caused all of the previous issues. However, it will cost $700+ to get her an operation- so we've saving up. So, the money + the dog being sick and crying again =
- Some doctors are greedy jackasses. Need an example?
Joku went to the office the first time, had her blood tested, and it was concluded that she most likely had UTI. However, since they weren't positive, naturally they did other tests to reach conclusive results, right?
Wrong.
Instead of giving her an X-RAY the first day that she visited, it was more profitable for them to charge us for $200 medication for UTI, that ended up being useless because she was misdiagnosed.
When we arrived the second time, that's when they had the courtesy of giving her an x-ray (which cost us too), and then we found out what was really wrong with her.
I don't think I'll ever fully understand human beings. I've always hated visiting doctor's offices; but I don't screw them over, do I? My sister for instance, she's completely disabled, so we take her to the doctor often- and there was this one doctor I met, I think I wanted to just... throw into a distant time-space continuum?
She reads a file on my sister for 2 minutes (about her extremely rare disease and seizures), and speaks to us, like we knew absolutely nothing.
She literally said, "Are you sure she's still having seizures? Because she might've outgrown them."
I wanted to say, "Well no, after smoking all of this marijuana, it feels like I'm in an alternate reali- of fucking course she is, you daft broad! I've only been living with her since my conception."
So what have we learned for today?
Fuck modern doctors, Dr. Seuss all the way.
One of the things that really get on my nerves (besides everything in general) is when I’m checking out a forum (where either art or literature is being displayed by the members of the site), and there’s might be a submission on the first page that isn’t receiving any (or very little) positive reviews. I think this mostly happens with submitted writing, because it’s easy to point on grammatical errors and areas that need vast improvement.
However, when a lot of people are either A. being the Grammar-Nazi asses that they are (and therefore not being helpful, but instead shower the author/creator with hateful comments), or B. offering a lot of helpful criticism, the creator typically rejects the harsh words (occasionally from both parties).
But that’s not what bothers me (well, not horribly). It’s their one foul mouthed friend that’s constantly showering their ‘masterpiece’ with compliments, while viciously badmouthing distasteful comments, and constructive criticism like a second grader. I can understand being against harsh comments and disagreeing with a fellow member’s outlandish behavior; but only to a certain extent.
There’s a fine difference between properly disagreeing with a statement, and going all ape-shit on another user by raping abusing the ‘CAPSLOCK’ key, while heavily cursing. It’s not cute, and it proves to the entire internet community that you have the maturity of a doped up celebrity getting arrested for indecent exposure---in church. (That may not have happened yet, but it will—trust me!)
If you post something online and want decent feedback, you need to either become friends with people who will be honest when offering their own critique, or at the very least, become friends with mature people. If you have a friend who can't be honest and (mature enough to) offer help to improve your future submissions, then you need to be honest and let this person know that they need to at least control themselves. In the end, your 'friend' is warding off people who could have potentially helped you to improve your submission(s).
I can’t even being to express how much this annoys me. I want to scream profanities and bash my computer screen when I witness such ignorance. It makes the whole idea of colonizing other planets seem inconsequential when you think of how many childish fools have internet access.
Overall Point: Leave the middle school antics behind when you open up an internet browser and actually think before you talk. It’s quick, painless, and saves you the inevitable mortification in later life.
~From SolenmSerpent, without love.
