dewline | Entries tagged with frustration

Dammit.

Does my preferred political party have to keep shooting themselves in the foot and expecting that foot to not go to pieces?

Current Mood: frustrated

My current job search diary, begun on 14 March of this year, is now at 201 pages, and 5003 entries typed in Helvetica Neue 10 point.

I don't know how much of this is because of the Pandemic, how much is psychological self-sabotage, how much is just bad timing or whatever else. But here I am.

Current Mood: frustrated

I've applied on two jobs today. This after some 20-30 job boards and other relevant web sites checked out over the space of 5-6 hours. Also, practice time on Affinity Publisher because why shouldn't I use a personal, family project as a means of developing desktop publishing/book design skills?

The frustration continues, and I intend to keep putting one foot in front of the other as best I can for as long as I can in spite of that.

(For some reason, I imagined myself writing something a lot more detailed and involved than this.)

Current Mood: discontent

Inconsistency in retail settings is going to make people die too early.

I saw inconsistency at the Metro grocery this morning, not half an hour ago, among both customers and staff. Because while most were masking up, some were not. As expected, yes, but that still doesn't make it right and proper.

Yes, Dwight, there are Convoy Crowd people lurking in Orléans too. There always were.

I was considering visiting Linen Chest at St. Laurent Mall this afternoon. Not going to do it now.

(It was a competition in my brain between using "AUGH!" and "Virus Don't Care" for this posting. Tight competition.)

Current Mood: angry

I just tried to print off a weather forecast from Environment Canada.

Nothing. There's ink in the cartridges, but none on the pages.

I can't deal with it right now. It'll have to wait until after work, therapy and dinner.

Current Mood: annoyed

I have the "spoons" for helping other people with their problems today. But I don't have the imaginative leaps or practical advice or concrete deeds to share as well yet.

I'm just going to have to wait for the second half to catch up with the first is all.

More on that and other topics later.

Current Mood: busy

I'm sure that I took more photos of the inside of Patty Boland's Pub than I have on file on my computer.

The reason why it bothers me that I can't find them: Patty's - a hangout of mine because it was the meeting site of ByMUG from its founding in 2006 until we moved over to Shares last year in 2018 - is shutting down. Their lease is up, and the new management hasn't had an easy time of it. There's more to the story than I know, surely, but I can't chase it down right now. Our founder and leader, Tom Leroux, asked me to dig up what pix I can find that I took of several of our earlier meetings at Patty's. Been trying for the last hour or so to carry out that task. It looks like I took fewer images than either Tom or I remember.

There's one dating back to 2006, and it looks...corrupted with unwanted linework. I took it back when I used a Canon A70. And I can't seem to find many more of them. Frustrating.

Current Mood: busy

...that's been bothering me more and more of late, albeit for reasons unrelated to the concerns that Dr. Brin rightly continues to expound upon in recent years. From June Morgan, a minor agent of what few villains that novel contains references to:

"You're all so smart, so modern. You've got your info-plaques and percomps and loyal little ferret programs to go fetch data for you. But what information? Only what's in the Net, my dears."

Current Mood: contemplative

Just got home from my second viewing of Hyena Road. The first time, I left the cinema feeling shocked. Tonight, I left in a state of anger.

And I'm not quite sure of where to aim that anger.

Does that make sense?

The BBC is under threat in the UK, even as our CBC is here in Canada. Details in the link over at The Guardian. To say that I have a problem with the idea of dismantling the BBC is an Understatement. You know how I feel about the Ceeb here at home, after all.

Finally picked up the first two issues of We Stand on Guard by Vaughan and Skroce from Image Comics. That one Obligatory Shower Scene aside, it takes the Oldest Canadian Nightmare - invasion by the USA - and makes a pretty interesting future/mecha/war story out of it so far. If I have the time and energy in days to come, I'll try to go into more detail on what I think makes it work.

Still looking for that radio/CD player combo device replacement. As it stands, the sources I know of can provide, but I'd need to put up with the addition of either an alarm clock or a cassette recorder and built-in speakers. None of which I need at the day job. I already have the headphones. And no wi-fi, please?

(Note: Rummaging through the Best Buy Canada website is a frustration exercise right now.)

I just got one of those "in order to help you improve your experience, what do you mostly use our services for?" interruption screens in the midst of my log-in to GMail.

Nosy overmuch, Google-People?

And don't remind me to believe that "privacy is dead". It's not. We're just in the process of reworking what works well enough for most of us most of the time. I'm still old/young enough to understand that.

That, if nothing else.

(The rest of you that I've been doing business with for internet services, please take note. Wherever on Earth you happen to be at the moment, okay?)

Current Mood: annoyed

I was hoping to see The Rocket, a mythology/docudrama movie about the hockey career of Maurice Richard, within the next couple of weeks. Possibly even this weekend.

Alas, 'tis not to be.

Apparently, all the theatres in Ottawa-Gatineau that were carrying it have pulled the usual "get the CanCon out of the way ASAP so we can get back to showing 'real' movies" routine. It's the biggest frustration anyone who wants to make or see Canadian movies for and in Canadian movie theatres has to face, and it is a continuing problem.

Suffice to say, I am displeased.

I have the sneaking suspicion that The Rocket is actually a Damn Good Movie, but in order to confirm it, I want to see it in a movie theatre. And that's not happening now, is it?

Does anyone reading this blog in Ottawa know if it's going to come back to the theatres for a return engagement? Soon, I hope?