The world seems to be going mad around me.
Seriously, WTF is going on? Melodrama is springing up everywhere!

-my daughter has had a row of epic proportions with her mother. Granted, she's a sixteen year old girl, but this is still very much out of character for her. It's at the point where not only is she refusing to speak to her or see her, but if her mother buys something for her she refuses it. As this is a normally very stable and rational person, this kinda blows my mind.

-said daughter rather abruptly started feeling ill yesterday afternoon, then redecorated the hallway at school. She's currently at home.

-a guy who used to work for my company suddenly showed up yesterday. He had quit in a rather strange fashion months ago- basically he went on vacation, then called to say he wasn't returning- so to have him appear was odd. He confronted our Human Resources guy, had words with him, then hit him. Another guy happened to be coming down the stairs at the time and jumped in to separate them, and the former employee hit him too. This pissed off the engineer to the point where he kicked seven kinds of shit out of the guy, who then fled the scene, had a hit-and-run accident, then crashed into a second car and is now in the hospital. As I said, this is someone I went to school with. He's one of those ultra-laid-back types, a quiet guy with a perpetual smile who never gets upset, so hearing of this is like hearing of someone getting bitten by a Golden Retriever.

-a month after my heating system in my house crapped out and had to be repaired, I noticed it getting progressively colder in my house last night- and found that the blower fan for the furnace wasn't operating. Fortunately it wasn't anything huge- it was the run capacitor that had gone bad- but still, I missed half a day of work due to this.

In addition to all of this, my crazy artist friend seems to have gone a bit more mental than usual. He's convinced that he's developed a new compression algorithm that will compress data to a hundredth of its original size, and has been pulling a "Beautiful Mind" scenario and has been ranting incoherently about it being the start of AI and of Skynet. And he's still broke and wants me to buy him cigarettes and frozen pizza.

I mean, really, what the fuck is going on? Is there some astrological catastrophe that I haven't heard about yet? Has 2012 arrived early? Am I seeing the End Of Days here?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 25 Mar 2009, 16:50, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Astrologically speaking,
I hear that the moon is crossing Uranus so you may feel more exposed than usual.
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 16:56, Reply)

Yes you are, old bean
Three weeks ago I found myself stood in the kitchen of my flat: my washing machine had packed up, my (almost new boiler) had packed up, my oven had packed up and, to cap it all, my upstairs neighbour chose this moment to flood his and therefore consequently my bathroom - my ceiling paint bubbled up and began to rain down in flakes upon my head.

It's the end of the world, I tells ya!

*takes to the streets with sandwich board*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 16:57, Reply)

Ask your daughter if she's pregnant before it's too late to do something about it.
Everyone else is smoking too much pot.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 17:00, Reply)

In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey, the monkey will spank us!
Okay, that's it- I'm going to stock up on scotch and go hide in the mountains.

Call me when it's 2013.

(Oh, and I know she's not pregnant- she asked me to get her some more tampons about a week ago.)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 25 Mar 2009, 17:10, Reply)

It's a pity you're not British.
You could have a cup of tea and everything would be Ok again.
( girlinthehole, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 17:32, Reply)

As it is
I have to settle for coffee and Little Debbie snacks.

On the other hand, life can't be all bad when you've got Nutty Bars at hand.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 25 Mar 2009, 17:46, Reply)

It's the apocalypse
I've got a similar run of weird happenings:

- a friend who's been a friend for years suddenly stops talking to me for no reason;
- work is suddenly very very bad when I've been here since 2001 with nothing happening. It's not quite your level, but co-workers certainly are doing weird things;
- father in law in hospital with potential life-threatening situation when just last week he was bouncing around like Tigger on crack.

It never rains, but it pours (or something like that).
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 18:16, Reply)

get as much tinned food together as you can safely trasnport
and head for the hills
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 19:34, Reply)

You got that right!
I've just spoken to a few people who were here when my co-worker freaked out. Fucking scary. I knew the guy, and went through uni with him- he was married, a nice guy, quiet and laid back. It sounds like maybe his wife left him and he's been unemployed for a while.

Fuck this- I'm stocking up on Star Crunch and Oatmeal Pies and hiding!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 25 Mar 2009, 20:09, Reply)

You need
to gaz the Goat. He'll know what to do...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 25 Mar 2009, 22:48, Reply)