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kleinbl00  ·  1883 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 30, 2019

This last odyssey to Los Angeles has been a bust. Worse, the first weekend I would have come home I couldn't because we were scheduled too tightly for me to be willing to pay $600 for a ticket. The next weekend I came home was blown to shit by two births. I'm home now; my kid is sick and so's my wife so mostly what I've accomplished is loading the dishwasher, taking my father-in-law to the airport and getting in a nap. It took me eight hours of travel to do this. Now I don't get to come home again for two weeks. Meanwhile they've been sending my paychecks home and my wife has been too busy to get the mail for two days so we have a nastygram from our postal carrier telling us she's confiscated it all and is holding it hostage. It appears that Amazon has decided to no longer pay delivery people what they're worth, so they're using the USPS, which is clogging up everyone's mailbox, which is causing USPS to take it out on everyone in the neighborhood

Meanwhile we've deduced that I effectively caught a fungal infection from my roommate that is going to require oral antifungals. I've had a Black Spot on my hand for a year and a half now; it's pretty clear that I got it from rolling up the hair in the shower drain so I could throw it away (he has dandruff and athlete's foot). It has not responded to 18 months of topical prescription antifungals and has appeared in my ear of all places but worse, has jumped to my wife's hand. And possibly my kid. So now I'm deciding if I want a bottle of Cavicide or a bottle of Clorox Antifungal in the shower.

NAMM was a shitshow, in case you were wondering. The crazy off-brand Chinese knock-offs vomited out of the annex and metastasized over the whole of the show, thereby making every third booth a Pakistani company with a Canadian name selling Highland bagpipes. Every company selling something you wanted to see had locked their shit off in a private suite while companies you never cared about like eBay and Wordpress were front and center.

One of my best friends in LA called me every name he knew and upbraided me for 20 minutes because spending 15 minutes going "dude, I'm pretty sure that camera up there is fake, there's no possible way it could be real" was not an earnest-enough attempt to say "dude, I'm pretty sure that camera up there is fake, there's no possible way it could be real." He's not speaking to me a week later. Everyone else? They think this shit is hilarious but it's abundantly clear that one of us has utterly and totally lost perspective. I downplayed the true nature of how badly he cut into me because he'd probably be fired and the reason he's lost perspective is he's starving.

And on the one hand, I'm honored he trusts me enough to fucking lambast me for 20 minutes. But on the other hand, I'm offended that the only reason we're here is he didn't trust me enough to listen.