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My parents have a boycott list. Home Depot is actually on theirs too, but I imagine for the opposite reason it's on yours...They got excellent service and a manager didn't threaten them?
They boycotted them over HD supporting transgender bathrooms when that was a big deal a few years ago.
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OK, I lied. One more random thought.
You have to love one-star reviews of places that say, "They charged me $115 just to come out and do a 5-minute fix!"
And it's like, "Er, yeah. Did you actually listen when you made the appointment and the lady told you, 'We have a $115 minimum?' Did you think that somehow you were going to negotiate your way out of that? And exactly whose fault is it that you reserved a licensed, registered plumber's time to drive out to your house, determine the issue, repair the issue, file all the paperwork, and drive on to his next appointment, costing him at least an hour out of his day, to perform a 5-minute repair job you quite obviously could have done yourself?"
I called. The lady said, "We charge $122 an hour." I figured it was a 2-hour job. It took him 75 minutes. I'm going to be billed for 2 hours. I'm not going to complain, because I understand that that is how service companies have worked for the last 100+ years!!!!"
I swear. "I made him come to my house and he's charging me a full hour for 5 minutes of work," is another big pet peeve of mine. If you didn't want to pay for an hour's work, you probably should have tried to fix it yourself first!
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They boycotted them over HD supporting transgender bathrooms when that was a big deal a few years ago.My parents have a boycott list. Home Depot is actually on theirs too, but I imagine for the opposite reason it's on yours...They got excellent service and a manager didn't threaten them?
Right. We had a discussion about that a while ago. I seem to recall pointing out that I didn't understand why we had gendered bathrooms in the first place, and Mort was shocked, and Freehold ran around naked spraying people with hallucinogenic whipped cream or some such.
At least that's how I remember it, so I'll stick with that.
That was weird. My posts on this page vanished, then it asked me to log in again, then rerouted me to the home page, then the beginning of the thread.
<sidelong glance at Postmonster and/or any local glitches>
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I hate Home Depot, but it's largely because of how they treat you when you're female. I used to like OSH because they were friendlier, but the average staff member's knowledge was never great when I asked questions. ACE wins hands-down for low condescension factor *and* knowledge.
I have actually had good experience with U-Haul, down to being given extra days for no extra money during our move, and they were cheaper than every other company.
My personal boycott list has more to do with the morality of their owners/officers and where they put their money, business practices... Nestle, Papa John's, Chick-Fil-A, Jimmy John's, etc.
I feel similarly about Wal-Mart (worker pay/treatment, goods produced in third-world sweatshops), but I can't help it right now, I'm broke as f**k. It's easy to boycott restaurants since I don't spend money to go out to eat anyhow, but it's hard to boycott a store that sells basic necessities cheaper than everywhere else even when I find them morally repugnant. I know that my choice *should* be to simply go without whatever the item is, and it feels like hypocrisy, but there you go.
This is getting political. I'd better shut up.
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I hate Home Depot, but it's largely because of how they treat you when you're female. I used to like OSH because they were friendlier, but the average staff member's knowledge was never great when I asked questions. ACE wins hands-down for low condescension factor *and* knowledge.
I have actually had good experience with U-Haul, down to being given extra days for no extra money during our move, and they were cheaper than every other company.
My personal boycott list has more to do with the morality of their owners/officers and where they put their money, business practices... Nestle, Papa John's, Chick-Fil-A, Jimmy John's, etc.
I feel similarly about Wal-Mart (worker pay/treatment, goods produced in third-world sweatshops), but I can't help it right now, I'm broke as f**k. It's easy to boycott restaurants since I don't spend money to go out to eat anyhow, but it's hard to boycott a store that sells basic necessities cheaper than everywhere else even when I find them morally repugnant. I know that my choice *should* be to simply go without whatever the item is, and it feels like hypocrisy, but there you go.
This is getting political. I'd better shut up.
Our local ACE has an octogenarian retired engineer whose doctor told him he needed to get out more and be more sociable.
OMG. There is absolutely NOTHING like going up to a fricking lifelong engineer and saying, "Here's the problem I need to solve..."
Following him around the store as he putters and works out the entire solution is simply awe-inspiring.
EDIT: And yes, at 86 or so he is the single-most-sought-after employee in the place. People will wait 15-20 minutes just to get him. He's certainly staying active and sociable!
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I've basically long since decided I can't afford to boycott based on disagreeing with owner's behaviors or supported causes, as there's just waaaaay too much stuff I'd have to completely cut out of civilized life to pull it off.
My boycotts are based solely on frequent and repeated dissatisfaction with the product or service.
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I know how to get you pregnant. Surviving it is another matter.Thanks for saving me from the top of the thread, Mort.
I don't like to clean naked.There are soooooooo many male fantasies about women cleaning naked it's kind of scary. A worldwide cross-cultural thing.
Of course, I'm the man who spent the Portuguese Hurricane's bachelorette party barefoot and in the kitchen, cooking up a storm and bartending, so I'm one to talk.
(It was a running gag -- "A man's place is barefoot and in the kitchen."
Because they couldn't figure out how to get me pregnant.)
Woran, are you a Slaad?
Tell the truth, mind.
I'm a biologist.
A fertilized human egg is just as at home in the abdominal cavity in its early stages as in a womb. The great arterial network that surrounds the intestines provide it with the same nutrients that the womb would. Its only when proceeding to the stage where the egg would promote placenta growth, that it becomes dangerous. And painfull.you can read up on abdominal pregnancy
That link looks like nightmare fuel.
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OK, I lied. One more random thought.
You have to love one-star reviews of places that say, "They charged me $115 just to come out and do a 5-minute fix!"
And it's like, "Er, yeah. Did you actually listen when you made the appointment and the lady told you, 'We have a $115 minimum?' Did you think that somehow you were going to negotiate your way out of that? And exactly whose fault is it that you reserved a licensed, registered plumber's time to drive out to your house, determine the issue, repair the issue, file all the paperwork, and drive on to his next appointment, costing him at least an hour out of his day, to perform a 5-minute repair job you quite obviously could have done yourself?"
I called. The lady said, "We charge $122 an hour." I figured it was a 2-hour job. It took him 75 minutes. I'm going to be billed for 2 hours. I'm not going to complain, because I understand that that is how service companies have worked for the last 100+ years!!!!"
I swear. "I made him come to my house and he's charging me a full hour for 5 minutes of work," is another big pet peeve of mine. If you didn't want to pay for an hour's work, you probably should have tried to fix it yourself first!
I'm not a fan of this business set up.
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I'm not a fan of this business set up.OK, I lied. One more random thought.
You have to love one-star reviews of places that say, "They charged me $115 just to come out and do a 5-minute fix!"
And it's like, "Er, yeah. Did you actually listen when you made the appointment and the lady told you, 'We have a $115 minimum?' Did you think that somehow you were going to negotiate your way out of that? And exactly whose fault is it that you reserved a licensed, registered plumber's time to drive out to your house, determine the issue, repair the issue, file all the paperwork, and drive on to his next appointment, costing him at least an hour out of his day, to perform a 5-minute repair job you quite obviously could have done yourself?"
I called. The lady said, "We charge $122 an hour." I figured it was a 2-hour job. It took him 75 minutes. I'm going to be billed for 2 hours. I'm not going to complain, because I understand that that is how service companies have worked for the last 100+ years!!!!"
I swear. "I made him come to my house and he's charging me a full hour for 5 minutes of work," is another big pet peeve of mine. If you didn't want to pay for an hour's work, you probably should have tried to fix it yourself first!
Having been at the other end of things, I absolutely understand it.
Parent:Our daughter needs help studying for tomorrow's test! Can you come over right away, please?NobodysHome:
Girl: Oh, I'm feeling pretty comfortable, actually. I just can't do this one problem.
NH:
Parent: Well, that only took about 5 minutes! You charge $20/hour, so here's your $1.67!
NH:
I can accept, "It's not fair that he worked 75 minutes and is charging you for 120," but at the same time they're NOT billing me for the time it took him to get to my house, or the time he spent after he was done filling out the paperwork, reporting in, getting his next assignment, etc.
It would be *nice* if they broke it down to 30-minute chunks, or 15-minute chunks, or what-have-you, but I certainly appreciate the reason there exists a 1-hour minimum, and I don't argue with it.
EDIT: And yes, that's a true story. I had a couple pay me $1.67 for racing out to their house for an "emergency tutoring session" that lasted 5 minutes. And that's when I started telling parents that I would be running my clock from the moment I left my house to the moment I returned. Remarkably, every parent I worked for after that came around to agreeing that that was indeed reasonable.
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I'm not a fan of this business set up.OK, I lied. One more random thought.
You have to love one-star reviews of places that say, "They charged me $115 just to come out and do a 5-minute fix!"
And it's like, "Er, yeah. Did you actually listen when you made the appointment and the lady told you, 'We have a $115 minimum?' Did you think that somehow you were going to negotiate your way out of that? And exactly whose fault is it that you reserved a licensed, registered plumber's time to drive out to your house, determine the issue, repair the issue, file all the paperwork, and drive on to his next appointment, costing him at least an hour out of his day, to perform a 5-minute repair job you quite obviously could have done yourself?"
I called. The lady said, "We charge $122 an hour." I figured it was a 2-hour job. It took him 75 minutes. I'm going to be billed for 2 hours. I'm not going to complain, because I understand that that is how service companies have worked for the last 100+ years!!!!"
I swear. "I made him come to my house and he's charging me a full hour for 5 minutes of work," is another big pet peeve of mine. If you didn't want to pay for an hour's work, you probably should have tried to fix it yourself first!
Having been at the other end of things, I absolutely understand it.
Parent:Our daughter needs help studying for tomorrow's test! Can you come over right away, please?
NobodysHome:
Girl: Oh, I'm feeling pretty comfortable, actually. I just can't do this one problem.
NH:
Parent: Well, that only took about 5 minutes! You charge $20/hour, so here's your $1.67!
NH: ...
that's just straight up robbery. But it doesn't make charging 120 for a 5 minute fix okay.
*Hangs head in shame*
sorry for the poor editing in the previous post*
They boycotted them over HD supporting transgender bathrooms when that was a big deal a few years ago.My parents have a boycott list. Home Depot is actually on theirs too, but I imagine for the opposite reason it's on yours...They got excellent service and a manager didn't threaten them?Right. We had a discussion about that a while ago. I seem to recall pointing out that I didn't understand why we had gendered bathrooms in the first place, and Mort was shocked, and Freehold ran around naked spraying people with hallucinogenic whipped cream or some such.
At least that's how I remember it, so I'll stick with that.
*Scratches his turtle head*
Sounds very plausible...
Especially the 'why the heck aren't most (public) toilets uni-sex and disability friendly' part.
I hate Home Depot, but it's largely because of how they treat you when you're female. I used to like OSH because they were friendlier, but the average staff member's knowledge was never great when I asked questions. ACE wins hands-down for low condescension factor *and* knowledge.
I have actually had good experience with U-Haul, down to being given extra days for no extra money during our move, and they were cheaper than every other company.
My personal boycott list has more to do with the morality of their owners/officers and where they put their money, business practices... Nestle, Papa John's, Chick-Fil-A, Jimmy John's, etc.
I feel similarly about Wal-Mart (worker pay/treatment, goods produced in third-world sweatshops), but I can't help it right now, I'm broke as f**k. It's easy to boycott restaurants since I don't spend money to go out to eat anyhow, but it's hard to boycott a store that sells basic necessities cheaper than everywhere else even when I find them morally repugnant. I know that my choice *should* be to simply go without whatever the item is, and it feels like hypocrisy, but there you go.
This is getting political. I'd better shut up.
And.
I've basically long since decided I can't afford to boycott based on disagreeing with owner's behaviors or supported causes, as there's just waaaaay too much stuff I'd have to completely cut out of civilized life to pull it off.
My boycotts are based solely on frequent and repeated dissatisfaction with the product or service.
Could say a lot of things about boycotting companies.
Though what I will comment on two things.I do believe in boycotting a company for poor services, poor products and general douchyness. However I do tend not to really make a 'boycott' out of it...it's more a question about finding alternative access to similar products through other companies. In other words it's less 'boycott' and more 'voting with your vallet'.
While I can see a 'boycott' as a moral stance, in order to distance oneself from a particular loathsome corporate practice or stance...I too do find that is part of the problem with 'boycotts'. It's ultimately not really about punishing the company as much as it's often about preserving some sort of personal (moral) integrity by distancing oneself from said company. There's nothing wrong with doing so, and in fact if someone themselves feel empowered by doing so, then who am I to question their feelings...what I always end up questioning is what actual impact on the company in question (outside of boycotts that actually pick up some steam, which lets be honest are far between these days)?
You as the consumer can at least feel better about your self by taking a stand on said practice or stance, but I guess I don't just really see how the company is really supposed to learn anything truly moral from most of such cases...mostly they just seem to learn about when and how to shut up about their dubious practices.
…
Meh, maybe I just getting jaded about the efficacy of the modern day 'boycott' and trying to be a 'moral consumer'.
*Shrugs*
I'm a biologist.
A fertilized human egg is just as at home in the abdominal cavity in its early stages as in a womb. The great arterial network that surrounds the intestines provide it with the same nutrients that the womb would. Its only when proceeding to the stage where the egg would promote placenta growth, that it becomes dangerous. And painfull.
you can read up on abdominal pregnancy
*Swallows loudly and winces at the pics in the link*
This young woman here gets it.
You don't really need to get creative to imagine a pregnant man...nature has almost (but not quite) got everything covered for you to make such as strange concept or fantasy come true...
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Are you a Tumblr admin?
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NOPE!
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Now as someone who buys pantry supplies for the office I'll say it's rather hard to get coffee that makes everyone happy. Coffee's taste is in the tongues of the taster. Like for me I cannot stand coffee with the slightest bit of acidity, whereas for Cover Turtle, he likes it. So cut the company providing "bad" coffee some slack, maybe someone down there actually likes that type of coffee? You can complain that person/people in question has horrible taste, though.
Though I'll say if majority claim that the coffee is bad, they should look into another brand unless there are budget restrictions.
My girlfriend (for ease given two "she" pronouns upcoming, let's say Tala, which is a screen-name she uses a lot)'s mom is back in the hospital again. It doesn't look like she'll make it this time.
Tala's mom went in a few months ago for pneumonia. She almost died then, as she was a smoker, and ended up going into a coma, and after a miraculous recovery, Tala's mom got out, quit smoking, and got on oxygen. She wasn't afforded a full-time home healthcare worker from her insurance, however. After the incident, Tala's mom is barely ambulatory, confined to a bed most of the time, and a wheelchair to get around. She was just getting to the point where she could move to her chair from her bed without help. As a result, Tala's mom got sepsis after a while, 'cause...well, hygiene isn't easy when you're covered with tubes and on oxygen and can barely move and don't have help.
So she went back to the hospital with an infection again. Her lungs never recovered from the pneumonia. After her fever finally went down a little, it seems her lungs are getting worse.
So now Tala's mom is in a medical coma. Tala is losing her s!$~. I don't know what to do for her, besides you know, be there, and give hugs and stuff...and she says it helps, but I wish I could do more. It sucks seeing someone you love in pain and not being able to relate. Any person in a relationship knows what I'm talking about. You don't want to see the other person hurting, and it hurts you to know there's not much you can do...
Tala is a lot closer to her mom than I was my dad when he died. Plus, that was almost 20 years ago, so it's hard to really remember the impact.
We didn't even get to celebrate our anniversary today 'cause I was sick as a dog, and we put it off to tomorrow, so...really s#@!ty day for her. She spends the morning taking care of me, and gets this bomb dropped on her this afternoon.
Worse of all, we can't even afford to fly her down to Florida or anything like that. I start my new job Monday, but we need two incomes to catch up, you know? Which I mean...we were just starting to get excited about that.
*sigh*
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Ach - best wishes to Tara, Tara's mum & yourself, TVE.
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My deepest sympathies, I know how awful it can be to be far away from someone who is ailing and cannot visit due to funding issues.
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=(
My condolences.
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NOPE!
Censors are a natural part of a healthy psyche, hunting down rogue thoughts and mental intruders to defend the intellectual pathways of the mind. They are a key and integral piece in the natural function of the mental mainframe.
Admittedly, if they get out of control, there can be... side effects... but that's... let's not talk about that right now. Or ever. It doesn't happen naturally anyway, or at least, almost never.
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NH you really don't want to hear the planning regulations in Britain, they make Albany seem sensible and Liberal in comparison.
Especially the 'why the heck aren't most (public) toilets uni-sex and disability friendly' part.
To keep this as non-political as possible... in the case of the former, because (some) people really don't want to have restrooms shared between people with different sets of genitalia. That's basically what it comes down to. They want the biological sexes segregated in any and all situations that might possibly involve any level of nudity or biological processes in motion aside from married couples.
As for the latter, most places are; those that aren't are either heavily out of date or incredibly cheap about not getting that stuff put in place.
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If you eliminate urinals and have to-the-floor closable stalls, gender shouldn't matter for restrooms. It's only that open trough ballpark b@#!&&&! cheap companies throw together where segregation by gender is even an argument.
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My girlfriend (for ease given two "she" pronouns upcoming, let's say Tala, which is a screen-name she uses a lot)'s mom is back in the hospital again. It doesn't look like she'll make it this time.
Tala's mom went in a few months ago for pneumonia. She almost died then, as she was a smoker, and ended up going into a coma, and after a miraculous recovery, Tala's mom got out, quit smoking, and got on oxygen. She wasn't afforded a full-time home healthcare worker from her insurance, however. After the incident, Tala's mom is barely ambulatory, confined to a bed most of the time, and a wheelchair to get around. She was just getting to the point where she could move to her chair from her bed without help. As a result, Tala's mom got sepsis after a while, 'cause...well, hygiene isn't easy when you're covered with tubes and on oxygen and can barely move and don't have help.
So she went back to the hospital with an infection again. Her lungs never recovered from the pneumonia. After her fever finally went down a little, it seems her lungs are getting worse.
So now Tala's mom is in a medical coma. Tala is losing her s##~. I don't know what to do for her, besides you know, be there, and give hugs and stuff...and she says it helps, but I wish I could do more. It sucks seeing someone you love in pain and not being able to relate. Any person in a relationship knows what I'm talking about. You don't want to see the other person hurting, and it hurts you to know there's not much you can do...
Tala is a lot closer to her mom than I was my dad when he died. Plus, that was almost 20 years ago, so it's hard to really remember the impact.
We didn't even get to celebrate our anniversary today 'cause I was sick as a dog, and we put it off to tomorrow, so...really s#~+ty day for her. She spends the morning taking care of me, and gets this bomb dropped on her this afternoon.
Worse of all, we can't even afford to fly her down to Florida or anything like that. I start my new job Monday, but we need two incomes to...
Feel for you man.
I'm not very good at these things either…Though I suspect that my and your troubles aren't exactly the same, as I'm, well, somewhat strange when it comes to the subject of death. I've never been good at 'feeling' for the dying or dead…its just leaves me, personally, feeling slightly numb or confused…I'm not that good at crying for the dead eitherThat said I've had far less problems understanding other peoples feelings on the matter...don't really know why. Might be it's some sort of intellectualization, or it might be more about reading body language and signal, I don't really know…
(Sorry for the rambling! ^^')
Really you're doing what you can for 'Tala', and yes it suck seeing someone you love fret, stress and be in pain. Everything seems to me though as the both of you are trying to keep things together, while still making room for each others feelings…
My question is going to be if there's anything we can do to relive the two of you of any stress and worry?
Me being on the other side of the pond makes it difficult of course...but I believe most of us here would want to help if we can.
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I'm so sorry, VE. Hugs to Tala.
Even when you know it's coming, when you can't be there, it feels like a dirty trick.
If only Cincinnati weren't on the other side of the state, I'd try to swing by and say hi. Oh, and also if I weren't doing my anniversary with my girlfriend, then I'd be like "Hey, wanna meet up in Columbus and chill?" But these ifs...these darn ifs.Well I just found out that I'm getting up at about 3am to drive to Cincinnati tomorrow. And then drive back home tomorrow night. At least I'll be paid from the time I leave my house to the time I get back to my house.
I just wish my company could find a way to do this without the super-short notice.
Wouldn't work on my end just due to the timing. This was a 19 hour and 10 minute work day for me. There weren't going to be any side trips to meet anyone.
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Condolences, VE.
In more work news...guess who's driving back to Cincy on Sunday?
Right.
Won't be coming back until next Friday.
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My question is going to be if there's anything we can do to relive the two of you of any stress and worry?
I'm fine, and I don't really know anything that can help her. Mostly I've been doing the tried and true "use any means necessary to keep her mind off of the subject". I know it's a pretty guy-thing to do, but according to one of my psych professors, it's one of the reasons (on average) men tend to cope with grief better.
It's not that we don't deal with issues at all, but it's about handling your trauma when you're ready to deal with it, which for me at least, is after I've gotten situated and can handle the scenario in a less emotional manner.
It seems to be working for Tala. A little kratom seemed to calm her down, too. She's definitely missing access to other herbal remedies, and she's really not a drinker, similar to me.
My mom also offered to talk to her if she needed anyone. My mom lost her mom in her 20s, so not too far from Tala, and my mom likes Tala even more than my ex-wife...and with two sons, my mom never had a daughter, so she's got this surrogate mom thing going sometimes. So I think that'll help too.
It's even more sad 'cause my mom and her mom were just starting to become friends. My mom visited Tala's mom at her house (bedridden, as I said), and was planning on visiting her after the hospital before things took a turn for the worse.
Oh, some good news - they didn't need the medical coma. Tala's lungs aren't getting better, but she has a tracheotomy right now that seems to be doing it's job. She can't talk or anything, but eventually Tala can video-chat her, even though her mom won't be able to respond.
Bad news - she's on the strongest antibiotics they have, and nothing seems to be working. :-(
Prayers from those who do so would be appreciated. She says to tell all of you she appreciates the words of condolences.
About to clock out. *Tags Vid in* Good night, everyone.
And I am tagged in.
I think its better if you didn’t read the marvel comics and you watch the movies. I remember going through that phase over the Harry Potter movies and I heard LOTR fans who were outraged over how it went into the movies(though I think the LOTR movies were well done).
(catching up)
Or if you read a ton and realize that the stories and characters vary by writer so their is not just one hulk one iron man there is a different one per writer with similar themes.Also I thought the LOTR movies were pretty spot on my only real complaint is they made the dwarf to much of a joke. He was suppose to be a bad@$$ too. maybe not legolas BA but still pretty BA.
Is Lowes clear then?
I'm amazed Lowes stays in business (and from what I hear they are closing stores right now anyways.) They have such archaic business practices (There ordering system still runs on dos) and they randomly retool and rework there management structure like every 5 months turning the place into chaos and demoting people whose jobs don't even exist anymore. I also heard they were moving away from taking care of individuals and were going to focus entirely on contractors.
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well on some good news my Gf got hired for a new job and its paying about 4 more an hour then her previous with a lot better benefits.
Also I'm starting Skyward tonight.
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My girlfriend (for ease given two "she" pronouns upcoming, let's say Tala, which is a screen-name she uses a lot)'s mom is back in the hospital again. It doesn't look like she'll make it this time.
Tala's mom went in a few months ago for pneumonia. She almost died then, as she was a smoker, and ended up going into a coma, and after a miraculous recovery, Tala's mom got out, quit smoking, and got on oxygen. She wasn't afforded a full-time home healthcare worker from her insurance, however. After the incident, Tala's mom is barely ambulatory, confined to a bed most of the time, and a wheelchair to get around. She was just getting to the point where she could move to her chair from her bed without help. As a result, Tala's mom got sepsis after a while, 'cause...well, hygiene isn't easy when you're covered with tubes and on oxygen and can barely move and don't have help.
So she went back to the hospital with an infection again. Her lungs never recovered from the pneumonia. After her fever finally went down a little, it seems her lungs are getting worse.
So now Tala's mom is in a medical coma. Tala is losing her s%~*. I don't know what to do for her, besides you know, be there, and give hugs and stuff...and she says it helps, but I wish I could do more. It sucks seeing someone you love in pain and not being able to relate. Any person in a relationship knows what I'm talking about. You don't want to see the other person hurting, and it hurts you to know there's not much you can do...
Tala is a lot closer to her mom than I was my dad when he died. Plus, that was almost 20 years ago, so it's hard to really remember the impact.
We didn't even get to celebrate our anniversary today 'cause I was sick as a dog, and we put it off to tomorrow, so...really s%~%ty day for her. She spends the morning taking care of me, and gets this bomb dropped on her this afternoon.
Worse of all, we can't even afford to fly her down to Florida or anything like that. I start my new job Monday, but we need two incomes to...
That sucks. I swear money (the lack there of) always finds a way to make a bad situation worse too.
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That's awful, VE. My regards to Tala and her mom, I know what pneumonia is like. And my regards to you, all you can do is be there for Tala.
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I resolve to never, ever, buy another Lego set, no matter what....?I buy the kids f!~%ing lego sets and they build the figures and let the rest wallow, or I put them together and kids destroy them in two days and never rebuild them.
So, f#~@ it, I'm done! They want Legos they can pay for them, I refuse.
As a lifelong Lego enthusiast, I share your outrage. In fact you should take their legos away and send them to me. Er, I mean my kids. Yeah. If they just want dolls to play with, there are better toys for that.
Like Hero Factory heroes, which I'm taking the Homunculi to get tomorrow. They're apparently made by Lego, and they're pretty sweet.
...
Speaking of dolls, there are videos of chimpanzees carrying stones around in their arms and on their backs for apparently no reason. Well, the reason is that they're being used as dolls -- the chimps carry them, sleep with them, and generally treat them as baby chimps.
Proof that we are not alone in having imaginations, I love nature!
About lego - the only thing I'd build with the set is what the set told me to build(like, you know, a house). As in instructions for fixing lego up. My BF, on the other hand, would happily jumble multiple sets together to create...what...flying house on rocket boosters, that dual wields light sabers?
Now where the heck did that come from?
Aye she has been wanting a new job for awhile. now I feel more motivated to do the same.
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I hate Home Depot, but it's largely because of how they treat you when you're female. I used to like OSH because they were friendlier, but the average staff member's knowledge was never great when I asked questions. ACE wins hands-down for low condescension factor *and* knowledge.
I have actually had good experience with U-Haul, down to being given extra days for no extra money during our move, and they were cheaper than every other company.
My personal boycott list has more to do with the morality of their owners/officers and where they put their money, business practices... Nestle, Papa John's, Chick-Fil-A, Jimmy John's, etc.
I feel similarly about Wal-Mart (worker pay/treatment, goods produced in third-world sweatshops), but I can't help it right now, I'm broke as f**k. It's easy to boycott restaurants since I don't spend money to go out to eat anyhow, but it's hard to boycott a store that sells basic necessities cheaper than everywhere else even when I find them morally repugnant. I know that my choice *should* be to simply go without whatever the item is, and it feels like hypocrisy, but there you go.
This is getting political. I'd better shut up.
Watch out for flaming bikes! *ducks* I haven't shopped at walmart in years. My overall stress from shopping so down because of it. It is challenging however especially on a third shift life to avoid it. I have to plan out shopping trips really well.
Also seriously $%^& papa johns CEO.
Wow boss hasn't done her part of the paper work since like Monday. Well easy for me but I feel like bad sign for her.