TTBM #4? 5? I don't even-

Dead language, baby, dead language. No one has to speak Latin.

TTBM: IM pretty sure my internet browser is infected with something. Only the browser, though. Everything else is running fine.

Time to reformat the hard drive and install Linux. []

"I have a headache."
"Chop it off and replace it."

That's how that conversation just went.

Pretty much. You do realise some people don't really want to install Linux, right, JT?

Pshaw...yet, you mean. []

Well, I am getting a Linux server for reasons involving video games.

Mysterious reasons.

TTBM: Due to a possible snowstorm, threats of gun violence, and the fact that the world is going to blow up tomorrow, a good chunk of students are staying home from school. This normally wouldn't bug me that much, except tomorrow is also when the school newspaper's newest issue comes out, with an article about me on the front page.
They be missin' out on the tales of my greatness n' shit.

> "threats of gun violence"

Dude, what?
Someone threatening your school specifically or some kind of fallout from the recent shooting?

I'm guessing it's someone who decided to jump on the anxiety following the shooting at Sandy Hook, and the rumor mill took it from there.

Oh.
Well, stay safe dude.

No one here is allowed to die until we have a giant Treehouse meet-up.

I'm a moderator and I will ban you if you die.

Seriously though, be safe.


TTBM: The projected Christmas fun:work ratio is approaching 1:4, possibly even 1:5.

I have to do so many things.

Some of which have a limited timeframe because everywhere is going to be closed.

Tomorrow is up early, eat breakfast, go to pharmacist to get meds, go home to wrap presents, eat some more so I don't end up having a seizure, go get on bus to go mind kids then come home and go get some food for the next few days.
(Maybe I can take some of the presents over to my aunt's house and wrap them there.)

Saturday, I'm going to have to go to a garda (police) station wearing clothes that smell like weed (housemates smoke) so I can get a bullshit ID sorted out because the Post Office and social welfare people decided to get pissed off about my out of date passport two weeks before Christmas.

This is ridiculous for several reasons:
1) The ID I'll be getting probably won't arrive before I have to go pick up my next social welfare payment.
2) The ID I'll be getting is for people who need to prove their age so they can buy alcohol, which I haven't needed to do since I was 15.
3) I might not even be able to get the ID because I don't have any currently valid and in-date ID. CIRCLES.
4) I don't know if I can even do this on a Saturday, much less one three days before Christmas.
5) I'm getting a new passport after christmas ANYWAY.
6) This ID is only good for buying alcohol and getting social welfare payments. I don't drink and I could use the passport I'll be getting after christmas.
7) You hand your passport back when you get a new one. An out of date passport is therefore still effective ID. Not to mention the fact that I have my bank card, my social welfare card, my medical card, my old student card and two bills in my name that I paid in that post office.
The social welfare could just put peoples pictures on their social welfare cards. You know who doesn't have money to spend on unneccessary bullshit ID? People who find themselves on social welfare. You know what would help stop social welfare scammers? Putting people's pictures on the fucking social welfare cards.
7) THEY DIDN'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT MY PASSPORT BEING OUT OF DATE BY OVER A YEAR FROM THE SUMMER UNTIL LAST WEEK. MOTHERFUCKERS. "HEY, YOU KNOW WHEN IT'S REALLY FUCKING INCONVENIENT FOR ANYONE TO DO ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT? TWO WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. LET'S WAIT UNTIL THEN TO GET ANNOYED ABOUT A GUY WITH AN OUT OF DATE PASSPORT SO WE CAN REALLY FUCK HIM OVER."

Assholes.

(Also I will be back off social welfare as soon as I can, so don't bug me about it. I'm not proud of it.)

Rumours do that.
We had a lockdown at school a year or so back. Reason:
"Oh man, I heard there's some guy coming to kill (some generic bloke, I forget the name). There's like, 8 helpers. Some them have guns. They were exchanging death threats before and they don't care who they go through to get him. They're walking here as we speak! OMG!"

Truth: The man who apparently wanted to kill Mr generic name was found several kilometres away in a McDonalds. He had his girlfriend with him. Not 8 death hungry maniacs. The closest thing they could find to a weapon was a small, blunt pocket knife in the glovebox of his car. The death threats had been him telling Mr Generic to stop hassling his girlfriend. Quite calmly and civilly, in fact. And yes, he was the most surprised and confused about the news that he was apparently going to kill a school to get to one guy.

I'm not even certain how it gets that distorted within a few hours.

Meanwhile in...Australia?

That was a response to Dew regarding rumours getting out of hand, if you're confused.

Has the world ended in Australia yet?

TTBM: Some of my new Steam games lagging/not working for stupid reasons/not working for any reason whatsoever.

TTBM: I have exams coming up in a few weeks, so I probably won't be around for about a month. Try not to burn the place down.

*Hides bulk sales receipt for lighter fluid* Totally.

I've always got fire extinguishers nearby. It's needed with AM around

Once when I got drunk I destroyed like, all the stars. Everywhere.

Just putting that out there.

@Someguy:

lol that is a funny comic where did you find that? []

Lol some old comic or whatever

TTBM: So to sum up today, I bought a present for my brother, we had a falling out and now aren't speaking to each other, he's been kicked out of the house, my mom had an emotional breakdown, and I now have two servers and eight or ten hard drives for free! The last part doesn't bug me.