How was your day?

[Queen]

I've been eating fast food all week...out of necessity, and maybe a little bit of gluttony. Today, I picked up some Burger King, and then for dinner I ordered Domino's. I stuffed four slices down my throat and when I went to grab another slice I felt absolutely sick. I think I may be killing myself.

 

But it tastes so good.

 

What kind of god makes all the bad food taste good and all the good food taste bad or mediocre at best?

Edited August 26, 2016 by Queen

[Mister Kay]

Last two weeks were pretty intense. Hopefully, it ends today..or maybe it has just begun.

 

A month ago, the government made it mandatory for builders to purchase dwelling insurance before being able to sell their apartments. No insurance = No permission to sell. In the aftermath of this regulatory change, I had the opportunity to work for a local builder for insuring their property. During the project, I frequently consulted with an unnamed govt. officer who works in the city's urban development dept. and is also my client.

 

Now, two weeks ago, this government guy referred me to a major real estate company, a national player with a listing on the stock exchange...aaand I found myself sitting in their huge dome roofed office. Next thing, I was summoned to a cabin and the person in the chair seemed like he was some head honcho, had a bald head and wore thick framed glasses. He briefly informed me in the little meeting that they had 17 buildings, some of them 21 storeyed towers, stuck awaiting govt. approval. The property was worth close to 50 million dollars and the buyers were ready to pay their final 70% payment and take possession. The company needed the insurance policies for each apartment by the end of the month!

 

Sitting besides a small heap of self doubt and opposite the big man, I ogled at the scale of the work. I knew I could deliver, I knew I had to jump in and so I did.

 

I carried a boner back home..that wasn't going to last too long. At first, they asked me for quotations from all of the insurance companies - public sector and private sector...and that was a pain in the ass. Contacting these companies and reaching to the right person, officially getting their permissible discount and premium rates on letter headed documents with stamps, obtaining their ugly looking calculators that described each variable differently and finally preparing highly detailed and nuanced quotations cum comparison report - a motherf*cking ordeal..only to get crunched by what? the cogs of the corporate machinery! Every single evening...but, I improvised. Excel sheets speak louder than words. I heard the formulas whistling in the background too.

 

Balancing greed vs fear, the competing agents were fumbling with quotations, negotiating discounts and bringing down the premium rates with each move. The client company was dancing along, reciprocating similarly albeit in a hasty manner. The insurance companies were being trampled on. There was no order. Just a downward spiral of chaos which stopped at the final move of a public sector insurance company - 87% discount on base premium. "No more!", one of them screamed on the phone. No agent could go below that rate without losing a part of their commission but the client was still asking for more. Some of the agents got down to whoring themselves through illegal unbelievable rebates. The deal was a dead and the crows were swooping down.

 

On the other hand, I was surfing through the funny picture topic when I got a call from the private insurance company that I work for. I was secretly being handed the power to make the final move - 100% discount on base premium, just pay for the add-ons. I jumped back to my email window to make the final quote. While at it, I found another surprise- some hidden columns in one of the sheets that the client company had sent me for calculating apartment wise premium. It contained owner details of each and every apartment! I worked around it for a while and finally emailed a pdf with pre-filled proposal forms, 1337 in number, along with my final quotation. THAT HAD TO seal the deal..and it did..but it was just the fifth day.

 

The paperwork that followed and my obsession with perfection drained my soul, infected my sleep and hijacked my dreams...yet breathing as I am, today, I managed to convert all proposals into policies.

 

Turned out that I got incentivized for my work by the insurance company - a family trip to China. They're saying I've made a national record of the biggest one-shot sale in the industry. God bless vlookup, macros and mail merge.

 

The remaining 60% buildings of the township are still under final stages of construction, awaiting to be insured by their brand new insurance advisor.

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

i wasted most of my day watching an old tv series while i still should study for my drivers lisence and i even payed again 3 euros for questions to learn...

 

but hey...i made progress...my record of best points.....5 faults on 50 questions

 

and afterwards i again made 13 faults while i can make 9 faults max to pass on the real deal....

 

also if i fail, i will have to pay extra for extra lessons i need to follow if i want to try again

 

ugh....i really hate this kind of sh*t with a passion...but hey, if i get this all right i will get more chance to survive capitalism and more sh*tty jobs become easier/possible to get to, i could start buying a big aquarium for my turtle without anyone his/her help, let alone i need to warn my mom for such things and i could date guys in a more effective manner

 

2 days....if in 2 days the theoretical part should be done, over and forgotten about or i am screwed

[Rhoda]

I won't talk about today because it's a little after noon here and honestly, I haven't done much.

 

Yesterday however, I went swimming with my missus, which is something I haven't done in a couple of years. Not long after finishing my night shift, we took to the local swimming pool which looks like one of those independent churches on the outside. After walking through the door and paying, the receptionist gave us student discounts because it was a bank holiday and he was a little salty at having to work for no extra pay. I told him I understood because I work in health care and we get little benefit from working overtime too. He said his colleague worked at a residential home once, and nodded towards him - he was typing on the oldest computer I had ever seen with one finger, occasionally glancing up from a beige keyboard to squint at the screen. He had the look of a man whose spirit had since perished in the dying embers of reasonable work ethics. Irrelevant as it was, I let a solemn nod as me and my missus parted ways to get changed.

 

There's something strange about swimming pool changing rooms to me. The place was completely empty and changing took no time at all. Despite that, I had completely lost my bearings upon leaving my cubicle. I suddenly felt very vulnerable, as if some sassy interior decorators crept in and swapped all the lockers around whilst I was pulling on my shorts. After a few minutes of creeping around and discovering a storage cupboard by accident, I finally found the pool but that was probably due to the smell of chlorine and the urine of a child leading me along.

 

Swimming itself was fine and it was nice to be back in the water after a couple of years being a land dweller. Around half an hour into an already laboured lap I gestured to my wife and pointed above us to an observation balcony which had begun to fill with a dozen or so people holding books and pens. The pool wasn't very busy at all, but nobody seemed to notice our new audience. I watched with baited breath and hoped to Neptune I wasn't being sketched for an alternative art project. Just in case though, I floated playfully on the surface like a cross between Fabio Lanzoni and an otter. My eyes met that of an old woman wearing glasses so thick her wool cardigan would have caught fire should she have glanced even remotely towards the sun. I still have no idea why they were there, and I had forgotten to ask on the way out of the pool.

[rixyboyy18]

sh*t. That is all.

[Finn 7 five 11]

 

 

 

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I once had a nightmare my best mate died it was awful, woke up crying glad it was just a dream.

This is how my morning started. I woke up a nice Sunday, not much to do I am in Finland on a semi-holiday. It's now 5:17pm where I am so I have had a few hours to deal with it. You can see where this is going. This morning, my best mate, the guy I am first to message funny sh*t too, or tag in Facebook posts, or to go drinking with or anything really, tell him the deepest of thoughts and him mine when we're both drinking, said "I Love You" too many times to count, played video games together and apart, had many hilarious times on GTA we talked about the other day that time we got drunk and were playing San Andreas on two player, and we were saying we don't want to get busted again, nek minnut we have a wanted level, he says don't worry I will shoot this cop and we will be okay, so he shoots the cop, now we have two stars, he goes who wants to drive? We both press triangle, our characters run in circles around the police car, and the at the same time we both sit in the back seat, and a cop runs over, points the gun at the car. Busted. HAHAHA How does that even happen? We laughed for so long.

Another great moment was when we were both very drunk and he said "Miku You know I love you" and he came over to pretend to kiss me just to annoy me and I was like "Dan f*ck off haha, this is disgusting" he was on top of me with his lips puckered coming closer and closer and I was trying to push him off, he pushed down on the bed on either side of me with his hands and it caused the mattress to spring me up, our lips met. Both simultaneously "YUCK, DID WE JUST HOOK UP?" Wiping my face Him: "DUDE YOU BOUNCED!" Me "I bounced? You kissed me c*nt yuck what the f*ck" and he says "I cannot believe that just happened" Me "I felt your saliva" We both go outside and he goes "Let's agree to never ever discuss this ever again". One day months later we did and he was like "Dude you bounced".

 

I have known him for a long time, he sadly passed away this morning. I called Jimbo (James) shortly after reading that, I screenshotted the photo because I was bombarded with messages shortly after checking If I had been told, and I kinda wanted to save the moment, keeps life in perspective, I dunno I am not thinking clearly.

 

He was depressed I knew, we all knew, it was especially bad this year and lately after breaking up with a psychotic girlfriend which he rebounded into from his previous relationship when his girlfriend Rach left him last year started drinking heavily, he did try take his own life a few months ago but wasn't successful, everyone was supporting him, checking on him ect. Anyway, Dan went out with the boys last night, a girl messaged me today saying she saw Dan last night and he looked great, he'd lost heaps of weight and was sexy again, then she asked if someone had died in our town she was seeing a lot of Facebook posts.

Last night I got a message from his ex Rach, we are still friends, the one who broke up with him, she asked for Jon's number his older brother, and best friend of his and mine, it was important. It was about 10pm where I am in Finland, and 5AM in Australia. I joked saying she was crazy but thought it must have been important, I didn't think anything much of it, probably the usual too drunk antics. Well Jon who lives up the street said f*ck off, I am not going down there to check on him again after a bunch of boy cried wolf kinda episodes, I guess he was sick of his drunk Bullsh*t and wanted to get some sleep.

 

Well he went out with the guys, saw everyone, had beers, I called him yesterday and we talked as we always do on Facebook, he went home at 3-4 in the morning and that was it. My other best mate J went over in the morning, to his house, as everyone always does in the morning, to chat about funny stuff from the night before and got for a maccas run, he's busted into my room many a hungover morning staying at his house, this morning he walked in and found him hanging in the kitchen.

 

I am planning to leave Finland and fly back home as soon as possible, I don't know what to think, this is quite possibly the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I just came here to talk about it, I've learnt in the past it helps. Made me remember some great stories for the funeral too. This is the biggest bombshell by far. He was my best mate. We have joked about our deaths a million times over, thought I would grow old with the bloke, you know, thought we'd travel the world as buddies just getting up to ridiculousness or if one of us made enough money to make sure the other was well off we would. He was a very good looking guy, always dating someone, unbelievably hilarious, normal 5 day a week go out the club or pub with the guys on a Saturday night, he made music, hilarious parody videos, said inappropriate things all the time and made everyone laugh while his mum smiled and shook her head. He was in a dark place and sadly he chose to go, but he lived a pretty damn good life and I am so glad to have known him, I wanted him to live longer, but he's given me sooo many memories I am happy with the time he was here. You're my best mate and it wasn't your time to go, but f*ck I love you c*nt.

 

 

Rest In Peace Daniel Clark.

My sincerest condolences. For what it's worth, I'll keep you and your best mate's family in my prayers. I hope he's found peace.

Thanks mate, I really appreciate it.

Funeral was two days ago, over 400 people came, all of my best friends went up and two of us spoke, one couldn't do it. I made everyone laugh with that kissing story because he made me agree to never tell anyone, and a few other things, I hit a lot of hugs and thanks that day saying it made them feel better especially since I traveled 30+ hours with stopovers, didn't sleep for 60 hours by the time I made it back to town to see everyone at the pub, had a great rest and made it for Monday.

 

That said, waking up at my best mates Tuesday morning, his brother, we sat and laughed all day and everyone came by as usual. But it still didn't feel the same. There's such a hole, all the kind words, hugs, handshakes, drinks on the house, laughs everything it's just not right anymore. Like myself and his brother said that night teary eyed at a poker machine, he was the funniest guy we knew, just want him back.

 

God I miss him, I feel like there will always be that gap. Time heals ect, but I'll never forget that fellow. Never ever. He'll always be my favorite. And again I'm just venting, I don't really wanna bring my mates down, or be the annoying guy that never cheers up.

 

There's no words to say or feelings to feel.indescribable.

[Mister Kay]

Pretty long two days.

 

Yesterday, a bad news presented itself on the email window. Owing to the height of those buildings, an additional clause was applicable in getting the building use permission. It stated that, in addition to the dwellings, the residents must be insured against the perils as well. The policies I gave only covered loss of property. Discussions had reached a point where all previously issued policies were to be withdrawn.

 

Facing that kind of reversal had initially been difficult but I assured the tense executives that I could get those policies withdrawn if need be and reissue required policies in least possible time. I also managed to retrieve the government circular document so that I could study it myself. In the evening, I found that one of the section was worded in such a way that several interpretations were possible. It was not clear whether a single policy that covers both dwelling and the residents was necessary. I formulated my strategy around this ambiguity. At the end of the day, I requested the executives to let me accompany them on their visit to the secretariat at the state capital.

 

Today morning, I met the underwriter and regional head of the insurance company at my office and discussed available products that could fit the clause. We concluded that it was either double or nothing. Suited up and reached the secretariat after a few hours.

 

You never get trained in dealing with government bureaucracy in B-schools. After three hours and a heated debate with one of the top official at the secretariat, it was agreed that, in absence of policies that simultaneously insure the residence and the residents, the builder can present personal accident insurance policies on top of the already presented dwelling insurance policies.

 

Played for double, got double.

[Hodgey.]

Did a little bit of this and a little bit of that around the house today. Nothing major just the usual stuff you have to do so your house doesn't end up looking a tip. And apart from that I went online earlier today for a hour or so and that's about it as of right about now.

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

Superb. Got a new camera on the way. This sh*t gon be good

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

yesterday cleaned my room, today i actually cleaned the aquarium of my turtle and succeeded doing my theory part of my driving exam, or whatever the translation to english is

 

in any case, first step towards this guy driving on the road

 

lets hope people dont start jumping in front of me when im driving my car since i am then suposed to pay for that sh*t

[Tacymist]

The sun is setting and the colors in the sky are blue, orange, and pink. The beautiful colors make me feel good so this was a wonderful day for that reason. =)

[TaylorTheCreator]

Today i forgot my book bag in class and this cute boy returned it to me so my day went great because of him

[JON22]

My day was meh.

[trip]

After many months of battling and a small investment of about $40 I managed to fix and breath new life into my washing machine that is probably older than most GTAF members.

 

Does this look older than you?

 

It's a 3 day weekend here and I'm done my chore list super early. I even managed to get out on the bike for some stuff this morning.

 

... so it's been a good day.

Edited September 3, 2016 by trip

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

O.MY.GOOOD !!!!!

 

my old boyfriend i had kinda ignored/blocked out of my life send me a message....he is still alive

 

to be honest i really considered that he could have been 2 years dead by now;...he was quite the depressed character last time i saw him...seems he is not

 

it is good to be reminded of the past and think about the progress i made without him....it strokes my ego...i always like when that happens

[thehambone]

@trip

Looks like the washing machine my parents had when I was a kid. Crazy throwback!

Edited September 3, 2016 by thehambone

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

Not so good. Feels like life is just passing me by and I feel like everyone pretends to care about it, they really don't.

[Tyler]

Think about what is passing you by, and think about how you can change that. You know something is wrong, and that's the first step. Don't let your realization end there.

[Original Light]

Not so good. Feels like life is just passing me by and I feel like everyone pretends to care about it, they really don't.

 

I've felt that way before. But you gotta ask yourself a few things:

 

1. Do you enjoy your life?

 

2. If not, what do you want to change about it?

 

3. How are you going to go about changing it?

 

4. Take action.

[Zader]

I turned 21 yesterday and spent the entire day drawing deathclaws and doing jack sh*t else.

Should've gone out, gotten drunk, and gotten f*cked in the ass, but c'est la vie.

[AlienTwo]

There's always time for some good ol' sodemy, bud. Don't give up hope.

[RedDagger]

I'm a worthless sod who spent their last birthday just eating pancakes with an unhealthy amount of sugar and lemon juice and playing TF2. I was trying to ignore the lack of life I was maintaining for the 19th year in a row and it worked so hey

 

just do whatever, you can go crazy any day ya want y'know

[Rocket man FI]

Today was like a heaven.Because today my exam result were given to me and i stood second in my examination,i didnt obtained too much in english but my GPA number is highest.

[Big_Smiley]

Had a massive thunderstorm yesterday. Then woke up this morning and witness my backyard looked like a lake... Thanks mother nature

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

first time sitting in a car from releasing the handbrake to going to first...and back...awsome

[018361]

My day is the same as any other day, terrible!

[E•MO•TION]

Ugh.

 

I had the privilege of taking my overweight cat to the vet this afternoon for his monthly "weigh-in". He doesn't like going to the vet. All went well until the drive home when I noticed that he had stopped crying. Immediately afterwards I noticed the awful smell of cat urine. I panicked. I raced home and prayed that it had been contained to his cage. Nope. To my dismay, much of it had seeped out from his cage onto my car seat.

 

rip

[The Rockstar Gamer 108]

I'm Okay now after so many days. I faced another accident. 23rd one

[mr quick]

dope, thanks to the heatwave I got to do some paddlin'

[The Dedito Gae]

I'm Okay now after so many days. I faced another accident. 23rd one

Not surprised you are prone to accidents.