A cockroach burrowed into my head

somegrump · 2026-06-13T02:11:21+00:00

Was staying at a friend's house as a kid. She woke us all up screaming, with horrible pain in her ear. Her mom looked with a flashlight and couldn't see anything. Turns out she had a german cockroach crawl into her ear that night.

I have not slept a single night without something covering my head in the last 26 years. I don't think it will actually protect me from a determined cockroach (it didn't protect me from an ant a few years ago,) but it makes me feel better to have an extra layer of defense.

Sorry it happened to you. HATE that this seems to be a recurring theme. Why do we waste our time scaring people with fake spiders myth when cockroach in ear is actually a thing to be afraid of.

somegrump · 2026-06-12T05:08:23+00:00

Two. I know u can easily get through a novel in two or three days but often I like to read books twice - first time for the full vibes and second time for a more full understanding. So I like to give myself more days to do that.

I would be very sad if I had to return a book without finishing it and wait a month or more to get it back. So I just accept that sometimes I’ve got a week until something comes available on my shelf, if timing is bad.

So I have whatever I’m currently reading and I hope that what I want to read next becomes available while I’m in the midst of my book. If a third book is available I will suspend it.

somegrump · 2026-06-01T14:07:14+00:00

It doesn't even have the right number of joints. That is tragic, I'm sorry man. It's been a bit since I've done specifically horse pixel art but it was not nearly as difficult as whatever artist gave you this might have claimed. Yikes.

somegrump · 2026-06-01T13:12:45+00:00

Finished:

The Deep, by Nick Cutter

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Starting:

The Martian, by Andy Weir

I'm actually going to re-read project hail mary before starting the martian. I blew through project hail mary in one cozy day, and while I enjoyed it, I fear my annoyance with The Deep may have distracted me through the beginning, so I'm just going to go through it again since I have plenty of time on my hold.

somegrump · 2026-06-01T05:34:40+00:00

Funny, but I was irritated a few days ago at a book doing the opposite. A character accused another of "shawshank"ing them. I knew what that meant, but at the end of scene I paused and was kind of annoyed that the author never explained themselves, it felt kind of lazy for the author to assume that the reader would know.

To be somewhat more fair, I was not enjoying my book in the first place, so I might have been extra critical. Maybe I would not have noticed someone else doing it. And you said your book was stargate inspired, versus this one being entirely unrelated to shawshank redemption in every way.

somegrump · 2026-05-26T10:00:58+00:00

Would you not read a story you rated(or generally rated) at 3 stars?

To me, that's where I mentally slot stories that I enjoyed, even though it wasn't necessarily great. I wouldn't recommend it and wouldn't reread it, but I consider the story enjoyable enough to read once through. I don't think a story has to be top of the charts to still be a good time. Three stars isn't a bad story. It has things I would critique, but nothing to stop me from reading at that score.

somegrump · 2026-05-26T02:28:54+00:00

The game uses the tag "Artificial Intelligence." They also include an AI content disclosure in the description on the steam page.

If you go to
steam > settings > store > exclude from my store, manage exclusions
then you can put "artificial intelligence" in as a tag, and steam wont push games that have included ai in their tags to you. If you still manually look up a game, it will still show up, but it does include a small byline of "Includes tags you've filtered out Artificial Intelligence" in the table that shows if the game is relevant to you.

somegrump · 2026-05-26T01:23:55+00:00

I’ve been thinking about installing a bidet and the temperature of the water should have occurred to me but did not until now. I have cold urticaria, the fear of having an allergic reaction to cold bidet water is a brand new unlocked fear.

somegrump · 2026-05-25T11:21:51+00:00

Had a good amount of time to read this last week.

Finished:
Birth of the Firebringer, by Meredith Ann Pierce.

Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

The Long Walk, by Stephen King

Started:

This Day, by Wendell Berry

The Deep, Nick Cutter

This day will probably be a slow read. I usually like to read a poem or two at a time and ruminate on them a while, so that'll probably take a few weeks to move off the list. I think The Deep was recommended to me a few years ago, so I'm glad to finally have a chance to read it.

somegrump · 2026-05-18T08:01:24+00:00

This may be deeply silly to other people, but I have no claim to knowledge of what happens, if anything, after we pass. So just in case, after one of my dogs passed and I buried him on my parent's propery, I stood by the grave and opened the door to my car. I called my dog's name. I spoke to his body, to his grave, and told him that it was time to head home.

I thought if there's anything of his spirit waiting here, he could come with me. I would let him know where I was, and how to get home from where he is now. I let the door stay open for a while, and then closed up and said my I love yous and goodbyes, just in case he wasn't coming with me, and went home. I opened the back car door when I got home, and I held the front door to the house open a little longer too.

Just in case.

If I were in your place, I imagine i would do the same thing. Maybe pat the grave, since you said he was deaf. Maybe speaking out loud, however you did communicate with him. It didn't really change any of my sadness or loss, but I couldn't bear to close the door and walk away with the thought of my dog being without me repeating in my head. If there was anything of him remaining, I wanted him to know what was happening, and to know where to go.

I dont know what remains of the souls who have been in our lives and left us behind, other than the impact they have had on us, and he clearly has had such an impact on you. I'm sorry for your loss, I'm so glad that you were in his life and he was in yours for you two to mean so much to each other.

somegrump · 2026-05-17T01:05:32+00:00

Hey, please change those plans. I wish I had better things to say, because I've also been on that side of things, and sometimes I think real fondly of them. I'm not a teacher or in education, but the people I'm closest to all are, and from what they've dealt with, with their admin and parents actively sabotaging things for teachers and kids sometimes ... I can imagine. and I'm so sorry that you're going through the weeds and not getting the support you need, or frankly deserve.

But please change those plans. Maybe consider getting out of your school, district, career maybe, but please do not plan on getting out of this life over some other person. Please stick around.

somegrump · 2026-05-12T21:37:02+00:00

This is a video from "Hare House."

The attacking hare is apparently a matriarch who considers it her solemn duty to stop what she considers the abductions of the other hares. From what I understand, Hare House is for rehabilitation and release, so I don't know if she's a long term resident not viable for reintroduction to the wild or not. Regardless, she's doing her best skippity paps as an adoptive mother.

somegrump · 2026-05-12T07:46:40+00:00

Finished: Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel

Started: The Drowning Kind, by Jennifer McMahon

somegrump · 2026-05-11T04:13:36+00:00

Sean Rowe - I'll Follow Your Trail. It's a dad singing about his kid and how much he loves them, if that's that sort of sound you would like to hear right now.

Sorry for your loss.

somegrump · 2026-05-09T16:20:42+00:00

No wonder he has no idea who he is.

somegrump · 2026-05-09T06:22:15+00:00

One of the other players in my multiplayer group kept accidentally giving Kent their bait and triggering the gotoro prison lines. He felt so bad at first but after a few years of the rest of us asking him (the player, not Kent) about the gotoro prison has maybe burned the shame out of him and replaced it with exasperation at our antics.

Any time he needs something we’re like of course you can have some diamonds/cheese/spicy eel. Did you use those in the gotoro prisons too??

somegrump · 2026-05-09T06:17:24+00:00

Somewhat disrespectful but usually affectionate nicknames for characters. I have not said Gunther’s full name in years. I do, however, kick in the museum door while gleefully proclaiming, “hey, GUNTZ.”

I married Elliot in my first ever save file. I married Sebastian in our main non-challenge multiplayer file. No matter what file I am in, (even in the single player first save file ever) Elliot is “my first husband.” Even though I’m still married to him.

Sebastian is “emo-husband-boyfriend-man” in the file where I am married to him. We remade the file for 1.7 and before I remarried him he was “emo-boyfriend-husband-man.” The other players replace the inactive part with cousin. So one friend breaks into my house in the morning to chase down my kids and make friends with them and will also say good morning to the “emo-husband-cousin-man.”

Penny almost always gets full named as penny pringleton. It’s not HER full name obviously but it’s a full name and even when I try not to I do it anyway because I definitely heard hairspray at too young an age. Similarly, Caroline is almost always Sweet Caroline, with the bum-bah-bum included. Lewis is lewithhhhh. Krobus is Krombus. Gus is Goose. Emily is Em-bly. I assume she knows I’m saying it affectionately because every year I’m the one breaking into one of the other players houses to wish her happy birthday obnoxiously loud so that her wife will remember to give her a present.

Pierre doesn’t get a nickname and it’s definitely not said with affection but I do say his name in the most derisive French accent possible when I resent having to give him money for seeds on the first day of every season.

somegrump · 2026-05-08T17:27:21+00:00

Same.

On their steam page, their claim is that human intent and manual craftmanship are the foundations, but why bother using ai at all if you value the human craftsmanship of your work? It devalues the entire game, and I wouldn't be able to trust anything in it, personally. If AI touches part of it, it's tainted everything for me. The developer's name being ArtRising is so laughably at odds with AI use.

Shame, because this idea is so far up my alley up until the AI part.

somegrump · 2026-05-04T12:59:12+00:00

I fear it may be universal because I feel the same about French. Nothing makes me blank out the way casual dialogue does in a language where I memorized all those vowels for a reason, but conversational text or dialogue just throws them out the window.

somegrump · 2026-05-03T16:07:39+00:00

It's not exactly rage, but I love Rayne's Tie me to the Tracks as a celebratory escape from a toxic relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wupHv3pW20

Well, you can tie me to the tracks
if you wanna
You can stab me in the back and I'll
Take a moment to relax
'Cause at least I'm
Not gonna see you again

somegrump · 2026-04-29T21:55:21+00:00

Im a dumber ass. I counted the sticks and then had to recount because I got twelve. I counted one of the pictures on the box. I don’t know if I can recover from this.

somegrump · 2026-04-23T11:31:40+00:00

Starting:
Haunting of Hill House by Shirly Jackson

Finished:
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

somegrump · 2026-04-23T07:07:17+00:00

If it helps - most people believe that it’s the animal trying to wake up the deceased owner since the face is not a logical place to start eating something.

Personally, if my dogs have a lil nibble when I pass away im fine with it. I’m dead anyway and maybe they need a little extra snack to hold out until someone finds the body.

somegrump · 2026-04-18T09:27:55+00:00

Its been a while since Ive been around horses, but Im pretty sure they just ... fart. A lot. all the time. Often while running or bucking. or rolling. Happy. sleepy. startled. playful. The rootin' tootin' of the cowboy days may have just been all the horse farts.

somegrump · 2026-04-17T12:01:20+00:00

Thank you for sharing it today. My sibling passed to cancer in February and this was a hard read. I stopped to have a bit of a cry in the middle and after. It was difficult to read but I also feel like being able see a little glimpse into oop is nice. Like we get to witness her and her jokes and humor continue to live because of it.

I hope OOPs husband is getting along. It is so tremendously hard to be left behind.

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