just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[crimsonpaine]

When I was a kid, I hated disappointing my parents in every way. My brother was the same.

Now that I'm trying to date... I get most upset when people disappoint me.

That's about the most I can vent about now... Other than I went and hung out with someone last night.. and by hang out I mean, I watched Netflix with him on the couch while he was on Twitter..

That's not hanging out. That's wasting your time. Don't let it get you down though.

 

[dereperez]

When I was a kid, I hated disappointing my parents in every way. My brother was the same.

Now that I'm trying to date... I get most upset when people disappoint me.

That's about the most I can vent about now... Other than I went and hung out with someone last night.. and by hang out I mean, I watched Netflix with him on the couch while he was on Twitter..

I'm sorry to hear that you were disappointed in your date.

 

[justanothershyguy]

That's not hanging out. That's wasting your time. Don't let it get you down though.

I should have re-worded it -- I went to hang out. Life goes on

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I'm sorry to hear that you were disappointed in your date.

To be quite honest, it wasn't a date

 

[justanothershyguy]

I think the karma of me venting actually payed off for once. Big change in my mood the rest of this week

 

[Axxess]

Stay classy, Onion.

 

[jdcnow]

I have to give interior designers props for what they do for a living.

I've been redoing my bedroom (for a purpose I won't disclose out on the open forum ). But suffice it to say, but taking a 1-bedroom apartment from dingy-as-holy-hell (I haven't been there to clean it, mostly) to a showroom-quality master suite is no easy task. Now, I've got to put the flat-screen HDTV (I rescued from the dumpster at my friends' apartment complex) on a wall mount and put it up just right dead-center in between two doors in my bedroom (the only place where it works). Then, I've got a 6ft x 5ft sheet of fabric - not only do I have to sew the edges to a hem, so they look nice, but it has to be a perfect square hem, as it is for presentation purposes. It, too, goes in my bedroom, in the vacant spot I've created for it.

But I'm going to take a break for some rest and ...

 

[frankfrank]

I actually like the cleverness of that Subway ad, two posts above here. You mention The Onion...was that an ad that they came up with? Interesting. And even the price is sensible and logical for a one-day sale, and their logo is not at all altered, so it sure LOOKS real, lol.

 

[dereperez]

I twisted my right ankle today while playing tennis. Hurts like hell and is a bit swollen. Walking is a pain.

 

[dereperez]

^^ Are you offering?

Popping some pills and trying to ice it down...hoping it will go away in a couple days. Do not want to go to the docs or get crutches. Oh well, at least watching porn at the computer doesn't involve the ankle much.

 

[Kulindahr]

Rain and soil do strange things....

I had the framing for most of my mom's new deck done, level one way and with a slight slope to help the rain drain the other, all even and precise to plan right down to under 1/32 of an inch in ten feet. Then it rained.

The levels and slopes tilted askew. The worst was the joist for the edge above the steps: it dropped over 3/8 of an inch relative to the next joist back... or did that joist rise? Hard to say, since the slope of the end board the joists hang from was gone.

So we took out the footings for the posts for the top of the steps, and poured a much larger pad with rebar, that will hopefully behave better.

Except... who knows? Maybe a larger surface to play with will just make it goofier when there's rain.


Or maybe once the ground is saturated, it will all return to the original near-perfection....?

 

[jdcnow]

<-- Me, right now. Angry, frustrated, not happy.

My get-up-and-go spirit just hit a somewhat major roadblock. I've posted about the 30in. flatscreen TV I found in a dumpster. Well, I just tried to hook it up to a wall-mount. I've been redesigning my bedroom and I'm one of those people that is stubborn and doesn't easily give in. So when I want my flatscreen to go up at a certain place on a specific section of wall, then god dammit, it's going there. Period.

Yeah, I know that the instructions say that you have to hang it where a wall stud is. However, I'm running into that age-old interior design problem - where I want it, and where a wall stud actually is, are two different things. The laws of physics and gravity have overruled me. /pissed... I'm lucky I had a good hold on the TV or there it would have went.

I'm gonna have to go to The Home Depot and get a 2-by-4 to use as an external wall stud, and find out what specific color my walls are, so I can get some wood putty, cover up the hole damage and paint over it. Then paint the external wall stud, let it dry, install it, hope I'm doing it both right, and good enough to where it'll hold up, and to where it looks good for presentation purposes - it'll be in front of the camera.

I may have to wait until tomorrow and ask my apartment complex's leasing consultant or the assistant landlady about if I need their permission, and what color paint did they use, etc.

Hell, this may be delayed until payday, this Friday, because it takes money to do all of this.

 

[Scealle]

I twisted my right ankle today while playing tennis. Hurts like hell and is a bit swollen. Walking is a pain.

Ouch! get well soon Sport Injuries totally sucks and I understand it. Also one of the reason I stopped competitive skating, but then I won't really make it to the team even though I keep telling myself I would if I tried it hard enough lol, the reality is I am too old anyways lol. Get well soon

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Was JUB hacked? Every time I try to get to the main forums thread I get some hacked site.

 

[maxpowr9]

Second time my phone has crapped the bucket and had to do a fresh restart.

I am ALMOST considering switching to an iphone. I already have my right foot on the "dark side" but not ready to take the plunge into pure evil.

 

[frankfrank]

My fortune cookie tonight said: "You could make a name for yourself in the field of medicine."

Oh God, no, I hope not!! Consider that I'm not studying medicine at all. That leaves only one alternative open.

I could get some disease that's so bizarre, that the medical world names the disease after me.

Naaaah, I don't think I want that.

 

[Kulindahr]

<-- Me, right now. Angry, frustrated, not happy.

My get-up-and-go spirit just hit a somewhat major roadblock. I've posted about the 30in. flatscreen TV I found in a dumpster. Well, I just tried to hook it up to a wall-mount. I've been redesigning my bedroom and I'm one of those people that is stubborn and doesn't easily give in. So when I want my flatscreen to go up at a certain place on a specific section of wall, then god dammit, it's going there. Period.

Yeah, I know that the instructions say that you have to hang it where a wall stud is. However, I'm running into that age-old interior design problem - where I want it, and where a wall stud actually is, are two different things. The laws of physics and gravity have overruled me. /pissed... I'm lucky I had a good hold on the TV or there it would have went.

I'm gonna have to go to The Home Depot and get a 2-by-4 to use as an external wall stud, and find out what specific color my walls are, so I can get some wood putty, cover up the hole damage and paint over it. Then paint the external wall stud, let it dry, install it, hope I'm doing it both right, and good enough to where it'll hold up, and to where it looks good for presentation purposes - it'll be in front of the camera.

I may have to wait until tomorrow and ask my apartment complex's leasing consultant or the assistant landlady about if I need their permission, and what color paint did they use, etc.

Hell, this may be delayed until payday, this Friday, because it takes money to do all of this.

Here's the way to do it:

1. Find two wall studs near where you want it.
2. Go to Home Depot and get two full-inch thick pre-painted 4"-wide trim boards long enough to:

a. attach to those two wall studs, and
b. reach beyond your TV evenly on both sides​

3. center the two boards on the wall where you want the TV, where they can attach to the two wall studs, spaced vertically to hold the TV brackets
4. attach them to the studs with self-tapping screws at least 2.5" long -- use four screws per board per stud on the top board, three on the bottom (note: do NOT put the screw in a line; it's possible to split a stud that way, which will ruin more than your day)
5. attach the ends of the boards to the wall with decorative screws (I like a slightly rotated diamond pattern for strength and aesthetics)
6. now mount your TV on those boards.

If this isn't clear, or you think I missed anything, holler.

 

[dereperez]

Ouch! get well soon Sport Injuries totally sucks and I understand it. Also one of the reason I stopped competitive skating, but then I won't really make it to the team even though I keep telling myself I would if I tried it hard enough lol, the reality is I am too old anyways lol. Get well soon

Thanks, my ankle is only a little swollen now and I can almost walk normally. I still have a bit of a gimp though.

 

[Kulindahr]

I am sick and tired of the moronic, less-than-useless "UPDATE" function we got cursed with in the last so-called "update" of JUB! It insists on lumping together posts that aren't related, duplicating posts, and generally doing nothing at all useful.

 

[dereperez]

I am sick and tired of the moronic, less-than-useless "UPDATE" function we got cursed with in the last so-called "update" of JUB! It insists on lumping together posts that aren't related, duplicating posts, and generally doing nothing at all useful.

I'm not too big a fan of that "feature" as well (which is why I tend to wait a few minutes or go visit other threads before coming back and replying just so that they will be in two separate posts). I imagine that they made that change in order to save bandwidth (fewer posts overall)?

 

[jdcnow]

Here's the way to do it:

1. Find two wall studs near where you want it.
2. Go to Home Depot and get two full-inch thick pre-painted 4"-wide trim boards long enough to:

a. attach to those two wall studs, and
b. reach beyond your TV evenly on both sides​

3. center the two boards on the wall where you want the TV, where they can attach to the two wall studs, spaced vertically to hold the TV brackets
4. attach them to the studs with self-tapping screws at least 2.5" long -- use four screws per board per stud on the top board, three on the bottom (note: do NOT put the screw in a line; it's possible to split a stud that way, which will ruin more than your day)
5. attach the ends of the boards to the wall with decorative screws (I like a slightly rotated diamond pattern for strength and aesthetics)
6. now mount your TV on those boards.

If this isn't clear, or you think I missed anything, holler.

Thanks! I've talked to several people on the subject, including my apartment complex's assistant landlord. The general consensus for the best solution is a T-brace, basically an external wall stud nailed/bolted properly to the wall. And it's a vertical-shaped full-tilting wall mount.

I will definitely keep your plan in mind, and thanks ever so much for the advice. I see that I've indeed mentioned it in another thread, so I will go ahead and mention it here - I wouldn't be so adamant about this one particular spot except that I'm going through with plans to convert part of my bedroom into a studio for shooting videos for YouTube, practicing and demoing my craft of what I'm in college for - weather forecasting.

There will be a chromakey green screen - I've got the fabric for it, just need to hem the ragged edges. The TV...there's this section of wall that's exactly 43 & 1/2 inches between my bedroom door and my closet door. That's exactly enough room for me to mount my 30in flatscreen exactly in between that space, with the mounting to the wall being in the dead center.

The desired effect I want to achieve is that that TV will be used for graphics, animation and video fed from my laptop via an HDMI cable. Directly underneath where the TV would be mounted onto the wall would be a two-person seating area seating area that I already have the stuff for, and the TV will serve as a backdrop. We're thinking a T-brace because that would hide behind the TV - it' a big enough TV to where no one would ever see it, as the TV would hide it. The wall mount is one of those expanding, full-tilt ones that you could literally extend the arm fully straight, and the arm has full 180* tilt ability If you pull the TV forward completely, I don't want it to fall out of the walls, and then I need to catch it quickly to save my investment. I've already had to do that once during the failure of the first attempt to mount the TV. And I'm doing this work all myself without any outside help other than people answering my questions and giving me advice for which I'm very much appreciative.