I don't know whether to be touched or insulted. Cranky Calico's "gift" for us was the hind half of the mouse.
"Love you! Here's a mouse butt! Now let me in!"
She cares!
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Sometimes, you just gotta sigh and say, "Darwin."
Our 16-year-old cat with arthritis and kidney problems, while on a harness and lead, just caught a mouse in the back yard.
I am not mourning that mouse.
(Of course now she's all pissy with us because we won't let her bring it inside, but she can just sit in the back yard with it 'til she's good and done. No dead mice in the house, thanks!)
How is that a Darwin moment?
I have seen a 19 year old toothless, clawless, and mostly blind cat hunt down a mouse mostly by scent.
She was very proud as she gummed her mouse.
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How is that a Darwin moment?Sometimes, you just gotta sigh and say, "Darwin."
Our 16-year-old cat with arthritis and kidney problems, while on a harness and lead, just caught a mouse in the back yard.
I am not mourning that mouse.
(Of course now she's all pissy with us because we won't let her bring it inside, but she can just sit in the back yard with it 'til she's good and done. No dead mice in the house, thanks!)
I am pretty sure that it was meant to be a Darwin's moment for the mouse.
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Why I work where I do.
Yesterday Jose and the other Captain banded together (they hate each other) and asked for a meeting with the boss because I have "become drunk with power" (according to Former Coworker who was walking by) and the boss's response was "So what?! Do your f%!~ing job!".
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I love jarred and canned foods. If you watch any of the multitude of specials that detail the scam that is "Sell By" dates, you can typically pick and choose expired foods that are likely perfectly safe and tasty. The general statement for jarred and canned foods is, "If the jarring or canning was done properly, the food can last indefinitely as long as the airtight seal isn't breached. However, some degradation of flavor may occur over time so jars and cans include 'Sell By' dates to indicate when they will be at peak flavor."
So I'm about to open a jar of curry simmer sauce that expired in 2015. I look forward to seeing how it comes out...
I agree with this in principle.
However, when things were really bad for us, I did a lot of grocery shopping at this little market on the edge of town that specializes in past-their-date dry goods and weird packaged frozen meat from SE Asia, and roughly a third of what I bought tasted very, very odd.
And I'm talking about products by recognizable, reputable brands I had happily used many times before, like the log of Odense Marzipan I bought there to sculpt the figures for the top of Hermione's birthday cake, which ended up being dry, crumbly, and orange-ish in color.
I love jarred and canned foods. If you watch any of the multitude of specials that detail the scam that is "Sell By" dates, you can typically pick and choose expired foods that are likely perfectly safe and tasty. The general statement for jarred and canned foods is, "If the jarring or canning was done properly, the food can last indefinitely as long as the airtight seal isn't breached. However, some degradation of flavor may occur over time so jars and cans include 'Sell By' dates to indicate when they will be at peak flavor."
So I'm about to open a jar of curry simmer sauce that expired in 2015. I look forward to seeing how it comes out...
I agree with this in principle.
However, when things were really bad for us, I did a lot of grocery shopping at this little market on the edge of town that specializes in past-their-date dry goods and weird packaged frozen meat from SE Asia, and roughly a third of what I bought tasted very, very odd.
And I'm talking about products by recognizable, reputable brands I had happily used many times before, like the log of Odense Marzipan I bought there to sculpt the figures for the top of Hermione's birthday cake, which ended up being dry, crumbly, and orange-ish in color.
Yeah, the FDA's own web site says that while frozen goods are theoretically good, their flavor goes bad after only a few months, and dried goods such as pasta actually DO go bad.
The jarred curry was fine, by the way.
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COVID update: After returning from the trip with us, our friend had 3 solid days of in-person meetings at work. There is now a massive COVID outbreak among his co-workers; apparently at least one co-worker came to the meetings sick.
It makes me feel much better that we didn't infect our friend, nor cause them to be infected because of the trip.
But seriously? "It's been over 2 years now. Let's have a giant multi-day in-person conference, take little to no precautions, and see how that goes."
Such is corporate life.
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COVID update: After returning from the trip with us, our friend had 3 solid days of in-person meetings at work. There is now a massive COVID outbreak among his co-workers; apparently at least one co-worker came to the meetings sick.
It makes me feel much better that we didn't infect our friend, nor cause them to be infected because of the trip.
But seriously? "It's been over 2 years now. Let's have a giant multi-day in-person conference, take little to no precautions, and see how that goes."
Such is corporate life.
It only takes one. I am doing what I can to maintain mask usage while at work, especially if I am running groups. I just ran my first virtual group, and it was...well, easier than doing it in person!
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I will openly admit, however, that I have a strong pro-precaution bias: Pre-2020, I averaged 14 sick days a year thanks to a combination of horrific hay fever, going out to dinner once or twice a week, and the kids going to public schools with no precautions.
In the last 2.25 years, I've had two sick days, both of which were incredibly mild; basically, "I have tons of sick days piled up and I'm not feeling 100%, so why not take a day off?"
And our precautions aren't exactly "paranoid delusional":
- When eating at a restaurant, either sit outside or ask for a table away from other tables. If neither is possible, wear a mask except when actively eating.
- When in any other public area, wear a mask and stay as far away from other people as possible.
- During pollen-heavy days, wear a mask whenever you go outside.
So I've been to concerts and restaurants, shopping centers and movie theaters, and I've still enjoyed less illness than I have since my teen years.
Yep. I'm a convert to masking and shunning to avoid illness. It's not for COVID. It's for general quality of life.
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Mom got COVID and between her experiences and listening to a charlatan doctor, is living out her dream of being a hermit. She masks up when around me, and refuses to go outside without a mask. Normally this would be okay, but it is taking her to bad places. She only watches the religous channel, no longer watches the old game show channel or local cable that shows Everybody Loves Raymond reruns(I freaking hate that show, but still, it's better than religious indoctrination 24/7). She just watches the religious channel, buys what they tell her to buy, and believes what they tell her to believe. She is completely onboard with vaccinations being made from aborted babies(i.e. one aborted baby = one injection), and that they have microchips in them that allow you to be tracked. I lost my temper at those last two and yelled at her while she tried to say the pope told her this. This is why I am taking her out this upcoming Saturday to a park. After(insert number) of years telling me as a kid that TV was cooking my brain, she's the one who has become a couch potato.
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OMG. Our division has now taken to timing meetings 5 minutes in advance (so a 7:25 am meeting today) just to take into account that people will be late. And THEN they waited 8 minutes for people to join.
If you schedule a meeting, start on time to respect the people who make it. Let the people who are late be the ones who have to catch up.
Grr.....
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IT'S ALL CONNECTED!!!!
What's connected you may ask? All of it. All of it is connected. Except for what you assume it is.
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She just watches the religious channel ...and believes what they tell her to believe. She is completely onboard with vaccinations being made from aborted babies(i.e. one aborted baby = one injection), and that they have microchips in them that allow you to be tracked...
Maybe it's being raised by scientists, but I'm always utterly baffled by the things people believe that are easily, demonstrably proven false or impractical:
- Over 11 billion vaccine doses have been administered -- greater than the entire population of the world. It's simply not physically possible for each dose to correspond to an aborted baby. No moral nor technical argument; the numbers just don't add up.
- If we have the technology to inject people with microchips to track them or control their minds, why aren't we putting it in existing vaccines instead of making up a new one? Almost everyone over 50 gets a flu vaccine every year. Use that. Almost every kid get gets an MMR vaccine. Use that. If the conspirators are brilliant enough to create an injectible microchip, why are they stupid enough to introduce a new vaccine to make people suspicious?
- etc.
I'll accept arguments that masks aren't effective, or that the side effects from the vaccine offset the benefits, or other things based on quasi-logic.
But the whole, "We believe things that are patently, demonstrably false if you stop to question them for even 30 seconds," depresses me. I don't understand not questioning everything that you hear.
But again, I know that I was raised to question everything. A lot of households have the opposite attitude: Question nothing.
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New Skid Loader Operator: Yesterday, do you have a level?
Firefighter Curt (laughing): Does Yesterday have a level?! That's like asking Santa Claus if he has a toy!
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Yep. This is me in a nutshell:
I'm not sick. I don't feel particularly bad at all. I'm just unfocused. Try as I might, I couldn't get into building a new lesson at work, and it's hard work right now. So I was sitting there, wasting time, hoping for inspiration. And no one's checking on me and I have no deadlines.
But I took a sick day anyway because I knew I wasn't contributing, and I didn't want to sit there and get paid for doing nothing.
I am indeed a strange one.
EDIT: But yes, I *do* have the luxury of having plenty of paid sick time to use, so I can ride my moral high horse and not be affected in the slightest. I suspect if I had an hourly job with no sick leave I'd be far more circumspect about when I took sick days.
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She just watches the religious channel ...and believes what they tell her to believe. She is completely onboard with vaccinations being made from aborted babies(i.e. one aborted baby = one injection), and that they have microchips in them that allow you to be tracked...Maybe it's being raised by scientists, but I'm always utterly baffled by the things people believe that are easily, demonstrably proven false or impractical:
- Over 11 billion vaccine doses have been administered -- greater than the entire population of the world. It's simply not physically possible for each dose to correspond to an aborted baby. No moral nor technical argument; the numbers just don't add up.
- If we have the technology to inject people with microchips to track them or control their minds, why aren't we putting it in existing vaccines instead of making up a new one? Almost everyone over 50 gets a flu vaccine every year. Use that. Almost every kid get gets an MMR vaccine. Use that. If the conspirators are brilliant enough to create an injectible microchip, why are they stupid enough to introduce a new vaccine to make people suspicious?
- etc.I'll accept arguments that masks aren't effective, or that the side effects from the vaccine offset the benefits, or other things based on quasi-logic.
But the whole, "We believe things that are patently, demonstrably false if you stop to question them for even 30 seconds," depresses me. I don't understand not questioning everything that you hear.
But again, I know that I was raised to question everything. A lot of households have the opposite attitude: Question nothing.
But those folks do question!
They question science and don't trust those arrogant eggheads who think they know better!
*sigh*
Yep. This is me in a nutshell:
I'm not sick. I don't feel particularly bad at all. I'm just unfocused. Try as I might, I couldn't get into building a new lesson at work, and it's hard work right now. So I was sitting there, wasting time, hoping for inspiration. And no one's checking on me and I have no deadlines.
But I took a sick day anyway because I knew I wasn't contributing, and I didn't want to sit there and get paid for doing nothing.
I am indeed a strange one.
EDIT: But yes, I *do* have the luxury of having plenty of paid sick time to use, so I can ride my moral high horse and not be affected in the slightest. I suspect if I had an hourly job with no sick leave I'd be far more circumspect about when I took sick days.
It would be really nice if I could bill the time waiting for a client to respond to an email. Barring getting some responses, I ran out of things to do an hour ago.
I take sick days if I'm sick, but since I haven't been sick I haven't used them. I did take two days off last summer for our anniversary and I have taken a half day off this year.
Edit: As far as rain days go, since I lived in Seattle for 4 years if I didn't come in because it was raining I'd NEVER hear the end of it, so I just have to stick it out longer than everyone else. Fortunately, people in Wisconsin do not like working in the rain so I don't have to hold out very long. I don't know what I'll do if they hire anyone else from Seattle.
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She just watches the religious channel ...and believes what they tell her to believe. She is completely onboard with vaccinations being made from aborted babies(i.e. one aborted baby = one injection), and that they have microchips in them that allow you to be tracked...Maybe it's being raised by scientists, but I'm always utterly baffled by the things people believe that are easily, demonstrably proven false or impractical:
- Over 11 billion vaccine doses have been administered -- greater than the entire population of the world. It's simply not physically possible for each dose to correspond to an aborted baby. No moral nor technical argument; the numbers just don't add up.
- If we have the technology to inject people with microchips to track them or control their minds, why aren't we putting it in existing vaccines instead of making up a new one? Almost everyone over 50 gets a flu vaccine every year. Use that. Almost every kid get gets an MMR vaccine. Use that. If the conspirators are brilliant enough to create an injectible microchip, why are they stupid enough to introduce a new vaccine to make people suspicious?
- etc.I'll accept arguments that masks aren't effective, or that the side effects from the vaccine offset the benefits, or other things based on quasi-logic.
But the whole, "We believe things that are patently, demonstrably false if you stop to question them for even 30 seconds," depresses me. I don't understand not questioning everything that you hear.
But again, I know that I was raised to question everything. A lot of households have the opposite attitude: Question nothing.
But those folks do question!
They question science and don't trust those arrogant eggheads who think they know better!
*sigh*
But questioning science is a part of science!
Just not in the way they usually do it. How can you possibly *know* that 11>7? Hmm? Huh? Every day we find something else that Your Great Science got wrong! It's just another conspiracy.
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Truly the Great Gods have smiled upon me, for this evening I found seven plectrums and a cassette tape titled 'Metal Krushers Vol. 1'
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Drink a cup of coffee before a late night walk
walk walk walk lean on staff. walk walk walk lean on staff. walk walk walk lean on sta.
bbbRR RRRRrppp
Window opens.
"scuse me...."
"No problem just thought it was a bear. " pause. Pause. "I'm still not sure it's not...."
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I'm still brushing my teeth and scrubbing myself after my previous post.
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I take sick days if I'm sick, but since I haven't been sick I haven't used them. I did take two days off last summer for our anniversary and I have taken a half day off this year.
Edit: As far as rain days go, since I lived in Seattle for 4 years if I didn't come in because it was raining I'd NEVER hear the end of it, so I just have to stick it out longer than everyone else. Fortunately, people in Wisconsin do not like working in the rain so I don't have to hold out very long. I don't know what I'll do if they hire anyone else from Seattle.
I'm definitely taking more days off with this job than I did the last one. Much better environment here where taking a day off isn't seen as a betrayal.
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Had my annual review today. It turns out that I've been at the top individual level at my company for 7 years now. As I told my manager, "If it's impossible for me to be promoted, then what, exactly, is the point of getting an annual review?"
He doesn't know, either, and I'm among 15-20 people in our division who are in the same boat. So he actually proposed created a new level just so we'd have something to work for, and the new execs are listening because attrition of senior talent is a serious thing here (we've lost 3 senior managers just this year).
It'll be interesting to see where it goes.
FWIW, his impression of my performance for the year coincided almost perfectly with mine, so it was less of a review and more of, "Here's my list. Does it match yours? It does. Cool. We're done."
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Now that it's been a month since Crookshanks graduated we have started to get letters from student loan mills saying "We've noticed you haven't started gathering crippling debt yet, you should start that!".
Unfortunately for them Crookshanks has absolutely no desire right now to continue her academic pursuits.
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Now that it's been a month since Crookshanks graduated we have started to get letters from student loan mills saying "We've noticed you haven't started gathering crippling debt yet, you should start that!".
Unfortunately for them Crookshanks has absolutely no desire right now to continue her academic pursuits.
I am extremely fortunate in this regard:
(1) I was an instructor at community colleges, private colleges, and UC colleges, and my father was a teacher at a Cal State school, so I have a significant knowledge of the relative quality of undergraduate education at the schools around us.(2) I've been on hiring committees on and off for 26 years now, so I know that the name of your college is utterly meaningless unless you're trying to be a CEO, a lawyer, a medical specialist, or a politician.
So I told both kids they were better off going to DVC for two years, then transferring to a Cal State school, and I'd pay for the whole thing and they wouldn't have to tap into the college funds their grandparents left them. Costs me under $1000/year for each of them, and my impression was that they'd get a better education. And they graduate with enough money to buy themselves a modest new car.
Sure enough, the kids' friends are going to U.C. Santa Cruz to the tune of $28,000 a year, or our housekeeper's daughter is at U.C. Berkeley at $35,000 a year. And the daughter's statement? "I hate being in classes with the community college kids because they always know so much more than we do. It's like they just learned a lot more at the community colleges than we did at Berkeley!"
But I think I posted it before:
Pre-1930s: All debt is bad.
1930s-1950s: Home loans are OK. All other debt is bad.
1950s-1990s: Home and car loans are OK. All other loans are bad.
1990s+: It's a good idea to be in debt for your entire life.
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This one goes to some dark places, folks. Skip it, if you're faint-hearted.
1) We finally got some staffing this week. That's great. But, somehow, some way, I'm apparently so all-fired awesome that I'm supposed to be able to take 8 brand-spanking new people (7 of whom have never done what we do) and train them into an elite team in two-and-a-half hours. And do it by. my. damn. self.
2) Everything that our team has done and maintained in the last year has just been characterized as theft and deception by our new manager and, per her words, that characterization is the baseline ASSUMPTION from the uppermost tiers of the executive/admin branches of our organization. To be clear, our specific operation was not singled out in this fashion (at least, not in my hearing), but the blanket statement was made in regard to EVERY. SINGLE. OPERATION. in my workplace.
3) Before the pandemic was even a sniffle in the home of a Wuhan lab worker, the lackadaisical approach to maintaining discipline, focus, and accountability in this work environment was absolutely laughable. And I've never served in the military nor law enforcement. And now, with split-second timing, it's being bandied about that termination for the tiniest of infractions is perfectly acceptable as standard practice. I'm all for burning the chaff (because it's long overdue), but I know quite well what I do. I come in to work anywhere between 1 to 4 hours later than many of my peers, and leave anywhere from 1 to 2 hours earlier than many, as well. I break a hard sweat 12 months of the year, work till there's nothing left to do, and then I go the f~%& home because that's where I'd rather be. I might not be able to make up for all the money they lose to the hordes of personnel riding the clock at the end of every night, but I they get more effort per dollar out of me than the vast majority of people they employ. And now, suddenly, "walking on eggshells" is tacked onto my job description, it seems.
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I'm 42 years old. Divorced. Childless. Single. And I have next to nothing in permanent savings in terms of the hope of living a long, quality life. And this job pays more than any job I've ever worked. I could actually manage to make up for lost time in a significant way if I can just force myself to stay there. I'm so fed up I don't want to bother.
I made some poor choices when I was young, and I'm still recovering from those bad calls. This job was meant to be a major portion of that. Hell, I had the bird-brained notion that I'd try to retire from this outfit in about 20-something years. I have attempted to reconcile my disillusionment with society into something workable.
The thing that upsets me most is to ever feel like I'm a burden. For my entire life, I have rejected the notion that a person's worth is no greater than the dollars and cents of their total utility in the strict fundamentally materialistic worldview that seems to dominate the social narrative these days (Whatever Hoyle, or Sagan, or Feynman, or Russell, or whichever "Lord High Muckity-Muck Physicist/Thinker" said about people being 'stardust gradually going back to its source' was proclaiming a message that, while pretty and poetic, is TITANICALLY WRONG for its incompleteness.). And yet, here I am, faced with an existential question that not only encompasses my "now" but also the "tomorrows" of my family and friends. Just tallying the projected dollars and cents needed for a stable retirement clearly indicates that this current job is my last, best shot to be able to truly avoid becoming what I would hate most if and when I finally become unable to fend for myself.
I'm not trying to suggest that we open the floor for debate of all the various ideas and questions that logically follow from these conflicting observations. But right now, in this moment, 3:48 PM local, I'm completely miserable, no matter which way you slice it. I'd like to have more of the topside of "Enough", thank you, instead of the feces fricassee Life's Cafeteria is now serving.
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I have, though, taken a first step toward trying to preserve what I've already gained and still maintain my current level of stability: I put in a bid to another position just this morning. Despite the fact that "there's a whole lotta quit left in me", I'm going to attempt to hold on long enough to move to another area, and see what 90 days there tells me. If all the b~@$!$~& I just heard this morning is truly that pervasive in terms of admin's perception of what's been done over the last couple of years, then I'll go drive a f@+$in' fry vat at the gas station down the road.
I don't want to be sold a rainbow bridge to some "pie in the sky" fairy tale about life, but, dammit, if I'm not good enough for your corporation, then nobody else is, either.
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This one goes to some dark places, folks. Skip it, if you're faint-hearted.
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He's now 70, retired, and living off that pension.
Working for the government can't be worse than what you're dealing with now, and at least a pension relieves the stress of, "How can I possibly save up enough to retire at this point?"
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Multitudes of studies have shown that happy, relaxed employees are far more productive than stressed, terrified employees. We have a new "touchy feely" Senior Vice President who prefers the term "coaches" to "managers", forces us to take off-the-books days off "to recharge", and has skip-level one-on-one meetings all the way down to peons like me to find out "what's really going on on the front lines".
And guess what? Our division is suddenly massively outperforming every other division in the megacorporation, we're winning awards and international recognition, and the guy is considered a savant in our field.
All because his primary focus is on enabling employees and making them feel good about their jobs so they do them well. NOT counting every hour and threatening us with termination if we don't make the cut.
Your management is a bunch of a$$hats. You're smart. Leave as soon as you can.
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Thanks for that, NH. Hearing that from you means more than I can well express.
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Yep. I'm a convert to masking and shunning to avoid illness. It's not for COVID. It's for general quality of life.
This, this, this, this, this. And probably for the rest of my life, until the point that businesses start banning masks in stores - so the CCTV can see your face - in greater volumes than I can say "I'll just go to a different store then" to.
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I will almost never say this out loud to anyone, even my mother (who agrees), but Eve is a scary drunk.
She is a loud, bullying, scary drunk.
The equivalent of a lunatic holding forty people hostage in a bank with a semi-automatic kind of drunk.
The kind of drunk where you're terrified to say anything at all, even to ask them to turn the music down from 150 decibels to maybe 145 because you'll be the next target.
The kind of drunk where you find yourself doing everything you can to please and appease them just to get through the Spocking night.
The kind of drunk where you wind up shellshocked and exhausted and in tears at the end of the night, but not until they themselves have finally gone to bed and you can breathe freely.
Tomorrow she won't remember 98% of this.
She won't remember her threats, and her rage, and her tears, and her self-recrimination, and the way the children amped up and went freaking berserk because they didn't know how to understand or process it.
She won't know we're still tiptoeing on eggshells.
And we will smile, and pretend nothing is wrong, and dread the next time, because we're terrified of facing her, because she's already been through AA, and Narc-Anon, and rehab, and nothing stuck for very long. Because she's beaten the crap out of me (two black eyes and the neighbors calling the cops) in the past when I tried to keep her in when she was so drunk that she was a danger to herself, and all she said in lieu of an apology was, "That's what happens when you try to put a tiger in a cage." Because she's doing so much better, until all of a sudden she isn't.
I want to go home.
And we're only a third of the way through our visit.
And if I say anything, anything at all, she will find a way to make everything my fault.
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About to go home. Good night, everyone. And have a good weekend.
Good night, John. Have a good weekend.
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*also hugs LM*. And the kids.
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Syrus - you sound about where I was spring of last year. I was in a job I utterly hated working for a company I couldn't stand. I was making more money than I ever had in my life to that point. I was 46 at the time. I was working so many hours I couldn't find the time to search for another job, and I was so miserable my wife was crying herself to sleep because she felt like a failure for being unable to make me happy.
I quit with no backup plan on April 1st last year, and it was the best decision I had made about that job. The pain in my chest instantly just went away. Listening to my boss trying to believe I was pulling an April Fool's joke to groveling to keep me to stay...and telling him "No. I'm done," was the feeling of pure and righteous victory.
Don't get me wrong, it's not a good idea from a logical and financial standpoint. It's a terrible idea on those grounds, but there comes a time when it's the only action you can take to save your own sanity. Nobody knows how much time they have left, and nobody should spend the remainder of it hating their very existence because of work. There are other companies. None of them are perfect, but many of them are better than the place the current one has mentally put you.
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That resolution is weird... The colors are off... And what the hell is with the perspective?!
Oh, and why the textures are so hard?
Ouchie. My feet.
It was only 8 miles at most. Probably a few hundred yards less.
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Not to be That Guy, but I'm glad I don't have an office job.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of AA at all. Step 1 of their 12-step plan is to admit that you're powerless. (From their own site: "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.")
The moment you give up on any notion that you have the power to change yourself, then any slip-up turns into, "Oh, well, not my fault. I don't have the self-control to handle this. Might as well give up."
There's a HUGE difference between, "I'm out of control right now and I need someone else's help at the moment to get things in order," and, "I never will be in control so if I slip up at all I'm doomed."
I could tirade more, but I'm sure it's politics.
EDIT: The meetings, the support groups, getting together with people in the same boat every day and saying, "I made it through today without a drink?" That's all awesome. But admitting that you're helpless? That's not.
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*Devours all the hearts of everyone on this thread.*
Silly swarm. We're all heartless here.