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[family shit] /facepull
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Losing my goddamn mind a bit because I need to go somewhere quiet for schoolwork that is also around where the router is for internet access
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last two nights in a row mom was drunk and loud and watching tv
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and I'm like jesus fuck enough
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so I talked to her just now and predictably it didn't go too hot
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Where I was like "I'm taking off tomorrow to finish work I should have done over the weekend and couldn't. You get really loud at 6-11 and that's my prime time to get homework done."
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And I feel like shit for saying it and she feels like shit and we're both trying to figure out how to live in the same shared space
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Sergio was like covering his ears and hiding in the attic and that's not cool
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And I'm going like "Mom you have to stop. Just for ten days. Just so I can fucking finish my homework and final exam and then I don't care but you are very loud."
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And she was sleepy enough where she only sulks and doesn't yell instead. I don't know how to broach the topic of "shut the fuck up so I can do work" in a less combative way
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So it's been great to not be able to go pack my shit up and go to a library or something
skipthedemon
That's....a long time to be loud.
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It's mostly the TV. And she was like "don't you have headphones" and I'm like "yeah, I did. They broke. That's why I'm freaking out now at you" and I ordered replacement ones last week
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The difficult thing is the placement of the router. So the router needs to be close to Mom's office because (god fucking knows why) she has an ethernet connection that runs into the phone line.
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Mom's office is doubling as her living room so that the router can also be close to the TV that's the loudest electronic in the house
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Sergio and I both need to be close to that same router during work hours and then school hours
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So I'm in the echo-y landing of the hallway above it and he's in the room directly above Mom's office/living room because he has the three desktop set-up situation
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And it's a big house but we don't know how to make the old router stretch
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I tried other rooms. The kitchen was okay for a bit. It had really spotty connections but it was mostly the foot traffic because it's a) the kitchen, and 
the only way to get into the basement for laundry
the only way to get into the basement for laundry
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could you have more than one router?
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And the guest bedroom was a no-go because it gets zero connections
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We could, but the old house doesn't have the hook-ups where it needs to be
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We already had to drill some holes in the floor to make room for the existing router
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So we're both hyper defensive and I'm prepared for a dosage of Mom Guilt today and for the foreseeable future
spooky queer
oh boy. my mom also blasts the tv so loud you can head it through the whole house. i think she has a hearing problem bc she uses captioning regardless, but. why blast the volume also
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I borrowed a set of regular headphones but you can still hear the tv through them. The really nice noise blocking ones I broke three days ago
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so done with school. .-.
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This is end of week 5 of 6 and I'm fretting because I haven't figured out a good replacement for the laptop that broke and I need a webcam + a room + no plugs except for a charger for three hours.
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For the final exam
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and that's gonna be fun to figure out
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I'm on my work laptop but it loves to short out the display at inconvenient times and the only way to fix that is to have an external monitor plugged into it. Which. is not allowed
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I'm going to borrow Mom's laptop for a little bit and pray it works
spooky queer
i have a pair of noise cancelling ones i'm not using actually, they just need to be plugged into your laptop
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if you want them
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i got wireless ones
LiberBEARian
Man I might. I'm so tired. .-. I think I get like this towards the end of any class but esp now
spooky queer
/hugs
spooky queer
it would normally be a stressful time so now you just have to deal with a bunch of little stressors that normally wouldn't be there on top of it
LiberBEARian
yeah. woof. I don't know how to have a conversation that doesn't immediately put everyone on the defense but at the same time I'm almost in tears about this
ryannN?!
man, you need an extender
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like, one of those things that just takes the wifi and rebroadcasts it
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also, you might want to try having a thing where people write down their sort of "minimum requirements" -- I have to be x distance from router for x hours of quiet time, I have to have x amount of de-stressing time
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and see if there's a schedule you can work up around that
spooky queer
^ i was legit just gonna type that
ryannN?!
also, please feel free to lawyer your way around that final exam requirement. like -- duct tape over plugs = now no plugs!
ryannN?!
we all know you not gonna cheat
spooky queer
like a chore wheel almost but a habits wheel
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Amazon.com: TP-Link N300 WiFi Extender | Covers Up t... also amazon has these
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for cheap
ryannN?!
they really do work!
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I once lived in a house that ate wifi signal for breakfast and putting one of these partway through the house was a huge relief for everyoe
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oh wow that's awesome
plurkishdelight
we use a repeater even for our apartment and they really work
swoleregard
if it's a smart TV you could also look into getting her headphones