Notices by Mobile Suit Larry (funkula@goblin.camp)

Delighted to see that, after hard coding a fix to keep the lie machine from lying to you about something as easily checked as the date, Google has backslid

@peter literally if people were not talking about it I might not have noticed

The grackles have convened in the shadow of my trailer to discuss how fucked it is that I'm doing this

So I'm up past my bedtime because, as I was drifting off to sleep, some motherfucker threw a fist size rock at my windshield and now I'm waiting for the sheriffs because I have to file a police report for my company, and as far as I can tell I'm an hour away from their nearest office

They at least had someone only half an hour away. Because I was literally in bed almost asleep, by the time I got up and got pants and shoes on they were long gone. And the first thing I did was ask the truck stop if they had cameras, but they only have them pointed at the pumps, not parking. So I don't think there's any likelihood anyone will get arrested

But I'm not financially liable for any of this, so honestly I'm only mad because I have to sit up til the ungodly hour of 11pm on the phone with my company. Guess I'm not starting at 5 am

Hahaha I am so out in the middle of nowhere that this is going to be a serious pain in the ass. I am 200 miles from the nearest people who could fix it and maintenance confirmed it is not drivable in the slightest. I am probably going to have to leave the trailer here for someone else to deliver and get towed and it's likely to take multiple days to resolve this

Good thing is that the overnight guy seemed a bit more overwhelmed by the problem than day shift is. They aren't going to make me leave the trailer (which would create more problems, I have this one semi-permanently instead of swapping regularly, so I would then have to go get another one), they're either going to tow the whole unit or get someone out here. Still probably not going anywhere all day today but the two to four days night shift thought I was looking at seems maybe overcautious

Rolling again. Not too far, just an hour or so because I want to keep my daylight driving schedule, but spending another night where I got vandalized seems inadvisable

Lol guess who just got fucked up in a truck stop without cameras again

This time the truck parked next to me pulled out and obliterated the front quarter of mine. Hood, bumper, side mirror, headlight, destroyed. They didn't stop, and since there weren't any cameras pointed out here, it remains to be seen if their gamble pays off. If they left past the fuel island they might still be captured, plenty of cameras over there to make sure no one steals diesel. But who gives a shit about the parking area, let the drivers figure it out and administer their own justice, I guess.

Going back to bed.

I have recently been advised that "two nickels" is annoyingly played out, but really, it IS weird that it happened twice, within a week, after three years of driving and zero such instances before

The company, over the objections of the on-site tech, is telling me to drive this fifty miles

@forestine remember when Metallica released a second album out of the Load sessions? And it was a noticeable step down from an album that was itself already a noticeable step down?

Still my favorite after all these years. The 30 minute window is the best part of it

@Taweret I didn't think about this before, but I don't know if being touched by charles's hands would be better or worse than just living with the scrofula

On the one hand, I really appreciate the amount of live bear footage

On the other, it makes the "20 feet tall weighs a fucking ton" talk really obviously stupid #monsterdon

@wohali does wicker man 1973 count or is it too much of a feel good story of a cop getting what he deserves

@Suiseiseki @crimson_clouds23 @ciatmusings thank you, person on "free software extremist," for clarifying. We all would have assumed you like windows otherwise.

@Suiseiseki @crimson_clouds23 @ciatmusings when I say a version of windows is good, that is just a shorthand way of saying "not actively hateful to use," because that is the highest standard a Microsoft product has ever achieved. We are grading on a curve.

@crimson_clouds23 probably because onedrive isn't actually good