"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/06/2014 at 12:09 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/06/2014 at 12:09 • Filed to: None | 7
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Last week, I !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on Thursday that all day long I had thought it was Friday. "Fuck," I said. I got a lot of great replies, but !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! stood out and I wanted to share it:
Consider this: You may have gotten cheated of an expectation, but now you have received one more day of life that you didn't know you had.
As long as you enjoyed the other parts of the day, minus the Friday expectations, you're a whole day ahead of everyone else.
Of course, my dad did this to himself in a much bigger way. I was there for the 'I'm 52, no you're 51' argument between my mom and him prior to his birthday. After he figured out that he was only going to *turn* 52, he became inordinately happy, sent me out for a growler of Terminator Stout at McMeniman's Pubs in Portland and we celebrated another year of life playing Euchre into the night and getting pissed up.
What a fantastic outlook, and a great story. Thanks, orcim. I hope everybody enjoys their Thursday. Friday is right around the corner.
ACESandEIGHTS
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2014 at 12:15 |
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Yeah, it's funny when you're convinced of something (dammit, I don't get my week's vacation until next month) and then get good news (oh, wow, turns out I don't have to come into work next week!) how everything changes.
I guess in your case it was a little backwards.
Extreme manipulation of this concept: knew a guy who would set his alarm for like 3 AM every night, and then another at like 5 AM.
So you'd be trying to sleep and then wake up to an annoying racket in the middle of the night. And he'd do it
every night
. Why?
Because he liked waking up, looking at the clock, saying "Oh, sweet, I still have 4 hours to sleep," and then going back to sleep, happy that he hadn't missed an alarm or slept too long, etc.
It never lost its magic for him.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2014 at 12:15 |
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If you and he ever get together for a few hands of euchre and a beer (or three), I want in.
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ACESandEIGHTS
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2014 at 12:16 |
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Isn't it badass that it's Friday today??!?
Alfalfa
> ACESandEIGHTS
11/06/2014 at 12:23 |
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I have done a much less extreme version of this since high school. I always set an extra alarm about 30 minutes before I actually need to get up.
BoulderZ
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2014 at 12:24 |
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As they say: He who wishes time away is a fool who knows not the value of what he has.
Thanks for the perspective. I needed a little dose of that today.
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ttyymmnn
> ACESandEIGHTS
11/06/2014 at 12:48 |
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Wait, wut?
Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
> ACESandEIGHTS
11/06/2014 at 13:02 |
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Pretty sure it's a Tuesday dude.
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ACESandEIGHTS
> Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
11/06/2014 at 13:03 |
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I instinctively looked over at the toolbar of my PC. Because racecar.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2014 at 13:09 |
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that's some deep shit right there
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ttyymmnn
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2014 at 13:45 |
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Agreed.
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ttyymmnn
> ACESandEIGHTS
11/06/2014 at 14:24 |
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When I wake up in the middle of the night, I make it a point NOT to look at the clock. I go back to sleep as if I have the whole night ahead of me. Invariably, though, the alarm goes off about 15 minutes later.