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I would like to point out when I worked at fancy restaurants when we'd get the rare takeout order the server would give us, the chefs, the tip.
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Awesome!
Also: eeeeeeeeheheheheheheh! My evil plan worked!
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I mean, I didn't come up with it until literally the last post, but still, it worked!
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The microwave at work has apsplodered.
It wasn't me.
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It's picture day for Tiny T-Rex!
Also, you can now add hair stylist to my list of 20+ professions, cause I've been styling Tiny T-Rex's hair every day of school now, and it looks good!
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W00000000000000t!
First payday in two months! I can stock the fridge and the pantry and buy fruit for the kids!
(Seriously... fruit is damned expensive!)
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W000000000000t~!
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Fruit is damned expensive.
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Ah, well, I screwed up. At least everyone there knows me, so they're not going to think, "What an a$$hat!", but rather, "Oh, great! They're clueless about takeout!"
But one of my unfortunate personality quirks is that I obsess about such things. I doubt they'll even remember the "incident" by the time we go back. (NobodysWife's procedure this week and Shiro's surgery in a week or two means we're likely not going back 'til November.)
And yeah, fruit is kind of scary.
At the local farmer's market, organic, locally-grown apples run $2.50-$3.75 a pound. There's an entire fruit stand where you can pick out any fruit you want... at $5.50/pound!
When your skinless, boneless, organic free range chicken breast is less than your pears, you know something's up...
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I wouldn't stress about it, they probably forgot almost immediately.
If they even noticed, I imagine servers at a popular French restaurant in Albany do pretty good in the tip department.
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^^^What the robot said.^^^
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And in about an hour I get to have a skin biopsy done! I'm so happy! Crap. No. That's not the right word for it. These emotion-thingies are hard. Annoyed. That's the right one.
I'm positive it's nothing (slow-healing predatory plant injury, possibly a bug bite, but my money is on a poison ivy scar that got reinfected), but my doc wants "empirical evidence" or some nonsense.
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People who can't figure out how to order at a coffee shop in the middle of commute hours should be shot.
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People who can't figure out how to order at a coffee shop in the middle of commute hours should be shot.
I'll vote in favor of it as long as we can add, "And anyone who double-parks on any street anywhere for more than 15 seconds during rush hour."
I swear, I understand when there are no driveways and you just want to let off a passenger, but when said passenger has to gather their bags, fix their hair, and discuss the ins and outs of Nietzsche while blocking an entire lane of traffic during commute hours... grrr...
EDIT: Particularly grumpy at commuters right now because last night I saw a woman tailgating another car at THREE FEET (one meter) while they were going around 20 mph, and all the while in her left hand was her iPhone and she was chatting away.
Some day, miss, you're going to seriously injure someone. And it will be 100% your fault.
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^^^What the robot said.^^^
Tomorrow? Try, "More than half an hour from now. Unless his mood changes again and he switches back..."
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When we lived in Seattle we lived on a side street adjacent to Sam's Club on Aurora, and I can't tell you how many people would just park in the middle of the street and walk over to Sam's Place.
And there were parking spaces like right there.
The West Coast is weird man.
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I found the rope I needed, I hope 100 feet is enough.
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"Do you have any red glowing lights I can jam in a horse's eye sockets to make it look like it has glowing eyes"
"This is the Christmas department, sir!" - Hardware store guy, looking horrified.
In fairness to myself, it's a plastic rocking horse, buy I'm not telling them that.
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What does one do with 100ft of rope?
Other than like.. extreme skipping.
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When we lived in Seattle we lived on a side street adjacent to Sam's Club on Aurora, and I can't tell you how many people would just park in the middle of the street and walk over to Sam's Place.
And there were parking spaces like right there.
The West Coast is weird man.
Is that not a national thing? I thought double-parking when there was plenty of space by the curb was a national phenomenon, or at least an east/west coast thing.
(And I swear, the mentality that goes into, "Well, I could block this ONE person's driveway or this one red zone for 2 minutes, and the probability of being in the way while I'm there is virtually nil, or I could block the 50 cars behind me for 2 minutes, guaranteed messing up their morning", and then choosing to block the 50 cars totally escapes me.)
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It's regional, like how drivers from Dubuque will park on whatever side of the road they want, no matter which direction they're facing.
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What does one do with 100ft of rope?
Other than like.. extreme skipping.
Make a harness for sled pulling Tiny T-Rex to school through the snow, and suspending a retired rocking horse between two birch trees so the kids can turn it into a nightmare for Halloween. :-)
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What does one do with 100ft of rope?
Other than like.. extreme skipping.
Spelunking?
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I found the rope I needed, I hope 100 feet is enough.
Silk or hemp?
It's worth spending the extra 9 gp per 50ft, if you ask me.
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It is softer on the hands.
Make sure you get pitons too.
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I found the rope I needed, I hope 100 feet is enough.Silk or hemp?
It's worth spending the extra 9 gp per 50ft, if you ask me.
I did spend the extra three dollars for the good rope, I'm the one that's going to be harnessed after all.
I already have pitons.
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Make a harness for sled pulling Tiny T-Rex to school through the snow, and suspending a retired rocking horse between two birch trees so the kids can turn it into a nightmare for Halloween. :-)What does one do with 100ft of rope?
Other than like.. extreme skipping.
You sound like a sweet dad xD
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Why does NobodysHome hate jocks?
Reason #487: The "tough it out" mentality
Impus Minor's English/History teacher is a former "professional" basketball player. He qualifies about as much as I do as a "professional": He was invited to play on a professional team in Mexico, but that got him a scholarship to a U.S. college where he got his teaching degree and became a teacher, so he never actually played any games as a pro, as far as I can tell. So yeah, I was invited to be on U.C. Berkeley's national Tae Kwon Do team. I graduated before our first competition, so I was "on the national team", but I never actually fought at the national or world levels. Does that make me a "national collegiate competitor"? I was good enough, but I never actually competed. Hmm...
Anyway, Impus Minor's been seriously sick all week. He missed Monday and Tuesday. One of his personal bits of psychological baggage (we all have them) is that he believes his teachers get angry at him when he misses class, and that many of his teachers hate him. So he was terrified to go back to school on Wednesday, but he went, and when he felt terrible he tried to come home but I was at the hospital with NobodysWife so he had to stick it out through the day.
Today he was utterly miserable when he woke up, but didn't want to miss any more school so he went in, all hopped up on ibuprofen, pseudoephedrine, and Chloraseptic.
It wasn't enough, and by 9:30 am he felt he needed to come home.
And apparently his teacher got visibly angry with him, and told him about the need to "tough it out" sometimes. Which played right into Impus Minor's psychology of believing his teachers hate him.
Nice job, Mr. Jock. We should all just "tough out" our illnesses because that won't cause any issues like widespread school illness, or slow recovery times, or anything.
It's a week of grrrs for me, isn't it?
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Tough it out mentality has always bothered me.
Fortunately it was never inflicted on me much as I am a very short, thin, pale person who looks far younger than he is, as a result I have been treated with kid gloves by most teachers and other authority figures my whole life, I think because I basically look malnourished and they're concerned I might brake or something.
But I remember various friends of mine being told to "man up" and other such expression and it always got on my nerves.
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I admit it, I can sometimes be tricked into doing something by being challenged.
But, not all the time, it's important to be unpredictable.
And I try not to foist that baggage on other people.
For instance as a foreman I don't make my underlings do anything I won't do.
Unfortunately for them, that isn't much.
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Impus Major I wouldn't worry about.
Impus Minor on the other hand... I want to punch that teacher.
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Impus Major I wouldn't worry about.
Impus Minor on the other hand... I want to punch that teacher.
LOL. I hesitate to shudder at the horrors of a teacher like that encountering Impus Major.
At least after he got suspended for insubordination he'd get to come home and rest.
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So, at a certain point schadenfreude turns to horror.
As most of you know, my greedy family fired me as property manager of our family home and kicked out our long-term tenants because they felt I was charging too little rent.
So management of the property was turned over to professional property managers, and they started fixing up the property. Then my mother and one of our neighbors started getting involved and suggesting landscaping and other major changes to the property.
So now it's been 4 months since I was fired. The property still sits empty. The managers have poured over $12,000 of OUR money into "repairs and improvements". And I sit here, wondering, "Are these guys really trying to rent the place out, or are they trying to take my mother for every penny she has?"
At some point I'm may have to step back in and reassert control. But I figure until my family comes back to me with an apology and an "oops", it's not like the mounting losses are costing me anything. (I'm only a 10% owner, so even a rented place at market value is only worth around $250/month for me, so I can live without it.)
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Yea, the teacher's an unprofessional jerk, but so are most authority figures. When I get seriously ill, I can't just call out of work. That's the thing about the service sector. Even in situations like food service where you legally need to, you don't have paid sick time (if you're tipped, sick pay still loses you money, anyway), and kitchen managers don't tolerate anything not resembling toughing it out, anyway. You show up if you want to pay your bills and keep your job. Retail is similar, minus the legal requirements to call out. If you want to keep your job, you come in barely functional and tough it out. Just how it is. It's shitty, reduces productivity because sick people can't work well and infect others, and it's not fair, but it's how the modern low wage economy works. Later in life, he's gonna be expected to just tough it out even when that isn't fair or reasonable, and better to learn now before he learns it the hard way in adulthood.
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That guy's a jerk. I will forego the chocolate cake part of chocolate caking him and will simply pour the drugs down his throat.
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Impus Major I wouldn't worry about.
Impus Minor on the other hand... I want to punch that teacher.
Don't forget to give the kid a can of mustache wax, and red suspenders, and tell him to aim for his cherries, see!.
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I think "tough it out" has an important place in culture, but it's been unfortunately "enhanced" to unreasonable degrees.
As a former teacher and a "senior" TKD student, it's my job to make kids do stuff, even if they don't feel like it. And kids will "not feel like it" for an unfortunately and goofily large number of reasons.
A common dialogue:
"My leg hurts!"
"Yes, well, you shouldn't have been hopping around on one foot when we told you not to. Now: stand still."
"But it huuuurrrrtssss!"
"That's why you obey when you're told what to do."
The thing is, it's pretty obvious if something is really serious or not, and it has nothing to do with the amount of tears that a kid sheds or if they're on the floor or if they yell. And if you aren't hard, they won't learn to obey - and thus will get hurt, for really real, and far more seriously, because they're doing something the wrong way.
(Also, "my foot's asleep" is not a reason to suddenly yell in the middle of class. Yeah, you have pins and needles. Yes, it's uncomfortable. Do not disrupt class: you are fine.)
But it's a struggle. If you're too callous, you lose trust or could emphasize unhealthy habits. If you're not callous enough, the number of "accidents" and "hurts" proliferate until you literally can't do anything because everyone is having "pain" (please feel free to ask me how I know).
The thing is, though it's clear when something isn't serious, it's not clear when someone is entirely faking or not; plus, if they are just out-and-out faking, calling them out on it in public is a sure-fire way to get them to double-down (from shame and rage). Either way, this results in copy-cats. So you can't just call people liars.
Instead, one motivation allows the fakers a way to save face while also ensuring that both they and those really experiencing genuine pain (but not seriously enough to actually be hurt in any way that matters): "tough it out."
The motivations vary and the acceptable amount of "ouch" and callousness vary as well, but the idea of not allowing such things to stop you from doing what needs to be done is an important lesson - one that, if not given, will produce people that don't try.
On the other hand, entirely ignoring your limits means that you could seriously and permanently hurt yourself worse, or make things worse for everyone around you.
It's a balance. I'm no jock, but the idea of pushing yourself so far that you can't do anymore isnt really flawed: in fact, it can be directly traced to many positive life changes and great health. But if taken to incorrect extremes, it can do the opposite and ruin any chance of doing great things, making health worse, or causing problems to others.
Unfortunately, it's been linked to masculinity (ridiculous) and then expected beyond all reason. Partially, it's because many who are hardy enough to handle such have difficulty relating to those of us with genuinely poor constitutions (like me) who seriously can't go further, even if we want to - and vice verse.
Either way, it's a good and fundamentally important concept that has been harmed by association and misuse.
EDIT: many, typos; whoops!
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I was home schooled, so everything I learned about American schools, I learned from television, and Suicidal Tendencies (the band).
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TGIF
... is a tasty resteraunt that we can't afford to go to (and isn't so high on our list of "good eats" that we save money to make it happen).
But, yeah, I'm super glad it's Friday, too!
Dagummit, I'm sick. And tired. And hurt. And dealing with stuff.
Speaking of "tough it out."
I had to determine, today, that it's best for: my left lower shin/heel, my right knee, my gastrointestinal tract in general, and my otolaryngological regions that I shouldn't do TKD. Dang it.
I've slept most all day, and am ready to go back to sleep (even while my body is seriously fussing at me for going back to sleep). Grrrr.
Fortunately, sneezing aside, I think my sinus stuff (and related otolaryngological regions) are mooooooostly repairing themselves. Given a lack of issues since Inlast woke, my guts may be fixing whatever went wrong, though I'm less sure about that (and considering I'm not sure of the other, yet, or if it's just the, "congratulations, you woke up!" quasi-reprieve that happens sometimes...). But my lower body still isn't quite right. I don't want to hurt my stuff for real by pushing them too hard. Blarg.
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Yeah NO SCHOOL YAY at least for 2 days
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Yea, the teacher's an unprofessional jerk, but so are most authority figures. When I get seriously ill, I can't just call out of work. That's the thing about the service sector. Even in situations like food service where you legally need to, you don't have paid sick time (if you're tipped, sick pay still loses you money, anyway), and kitchen managers don't tolerate anything not resembling toughing it out, anyway. You show up if you want to pay your bills and keep your job. Retail is similar, minus the legal requirements to call out. If you want to keep your job, you come in barely functional and tough it out. Just how it is. It's s$+@ty, reduces productivity because sick people can't work well and infect others, and it's not fair, but it's how the modern low wage economy works. Later in life, he's gonna be expected to just tough it out even when that isn't fair or reasonable, and better to learn now before he learns it the hard way in adulthood.
So, this is uber-political and probably offensive to most, so
Life is too short to deal with jerk managers. If I have taught my kids anything in their short lives, it's been, "If someone is treating you unfairly, walk away. You'll find something better."
It happened to me. I walked out of an abusive job and ended up with the best job I ever had in my life, and it ended up setting me on a course to be financially comfortable for the rest of my life as well.
So my parents were two college professors back in the time college professors made a living wage. And their approach to child-rearing was simple: "We will pay for everything you do through college. Once you graduate, you're on your own. You won't be receiving any inheritance from us. But choose something you love, and do it, and as long as we approve of it, if it doesn't work out we'll be here for you."
I was able to quit a terrible job with no future prospects because I knew that if it had been a terrible decision, I would have had a safety net. Few people have this luxury.
But the Impii do. I won't go into financials beyond the fact that if neither of them ever works a day in their lives, they'll still be fine, if having to live fairly scrupulously.
So because they don't have to take that kind of abuse, I will be teaching them that they shouldn't. I'd love to see every boss like that fired and brought up on criminal charges for violation of labor laws. Ain't gonna happen. I don't have that kind of power.
But I do have the power to prevent my kids from having to deal with that ****. And it isn't fair and it isn't right that my kids get a free pass, and other people's kids don't, but it is what it is.
I expect them to earn their keep in life. But I also expect them to walk away from abusive bosses. Both my wife and I have done it, and both of us still have successful careers. Leaving because your boss is a jerk is a lesson I want my kids to learn and own.
EDIT 2: And I think that's another luxury we have: Albany has tons of mom-and-pop shops. I worked at a mom-and-pop video store. Impus Major plans on working at a mom-and-pop toy store next summer. The difference between working for a mom-and-pop store and working for a global megacorporation is night and day. Again, my kids happen to have the right opportunities, through no actions nor karma of their own.
EDIT: Dang it, TL! You could at least wait for me to finish getting my thoughts in order before favoriting things! I swear, I should just edit the post to, "TL likes to prance about on rooftops dressed like an elf during the Halloween season".
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I hope you feel better Tact. You too, Impus Minor.
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Agreed with the spoiler: abuse is not okay. No matter what form it comes in.
I hope you feel better Tact. You too, Impus Minor.
Agreed! And everyone else that might be feeling under the weather!
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My brother has freshers flu xD I think he is much better at clubbing than me :P
I don't know what that is. But I hope he feels better!
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Freshers is what people in England call first year students at university, they arrive a week before everyone else to go on some trips around the city with professors during the day and get abusively drunk during the evening. Usually at a club.
I was good at the drinking bit but never enjoyed clubs seems like he is doing better.
Naturally when about 4000 people descend on a town from all corners of the country go out drinking everyday of the week and stay out in town until about 3-5am, they all get ill. This phenomenon is called Freshers flu.
Unfortunately I would have a con of 7 and get sick very easily, so I got freshers flu every year.