Oh no. There goes Tokyo.

Are you calling me fat????

WTF? Don't you people read the Cellar?

psh, likely excuse

(shouldn't that be: Godzirra?)

Can't...sleep...

GRRRRR

Masturbate until you can. ;)

grumble grumble...both front liner folks called in sick. I'm stuck up front mostly all day.

The day will go quickly, but this is the part of the job I knew when I took it that I don't like this part, and it is the part that I decided was worth it when weighed against all the other parts.

Oh, and I volunteered to stay behind while everyone else went to staff meeting. If I have a question, since I still don't know all the processes, I'm SOL.

Just wanted to bitch. I usually end up not minding it at all. It's just the "person after person after person after person" that wears me out. Maybe everyone will be nice today. :rolleyes:

My employer's insurance plan has been making an effort to make people more proactive about their health. They have an online health assessment program. There is a financial incentive for those who complete it. There is also a financial incentive for the employer if a certain percentage of employees complete it.

We missed badly last year (the first time they did it). This year we're trying to encourage people to get their butts in gear and do it.

The mildly annoying part? I have to go to a mandatory staff meeting telling us why we should do it, when I've already done it.

:) Reminds me of me at my last job. I started on Jun 15 I think. Shortly thereafter I was there alone (well there were other people there, but not tech support) while some other folks used their end-of-fiscal-year vacation. It was fun in a warped sort of way.
Office Manager: "The person you usually talk to is on vacation. Let me transfer you to Steve. <pause> That's right, the new guy. <transfer>"
Me: "Hi, this is Steve . . .uh huh . . . Excel? . . .Yeah, you should be able to do that. Let me find the manual and call you back."

Heh...I know fed and state regs like a crazy person. Processes here, not so much! :)

Every school is different, but I'm learning.

I'm coming to accept the fact that one of my big contract employers who shut down late last year is not going to send me a 1099-MISC. This means I'm going to have to sift through dozens of individual invoices and add it up by hand. Jerk.

Heck - if they aren't giving you one, they probably aren't giving the IRS one either.

...But then I'd be no better than a cabinet nominee, right?



Besides that, if I ever got audited, how would I explain the regular deposits into the bank account from company checks?

Well unless you are worth on average $200 million....

or.... Unless you are running for office don't sweat it.

One of my bosses irritates me. Is he really that dumb or what? I think he may be.....

Him:"he didn't schedule a barista for tomorrow can you do it?"
"I mean, are you good at it?"


Me:"that's why he scheduled me as the barista for tomorrow."

This guy has no clue that I run his shop after 4 pm all the time. Then I close it down. Is he really that fu***** oblivious?!?

I have insomnia. I haven't slept well in ages. It's really wearing me down and irritating the HELL outta me and making me bitchy. I think I must be going through perimenopause or something, cause those hot flashes are a fucking bitch. I guess I need some hormones.

Sigh...I might be right behind you on the hormones, sugarpop. :)

forgot to check an ebay auction -was enjoying dinner too much. went for less than I woulda paid but I didn't bid earlier because I hadn't decided exactly how much i was willing to pay... remembered it two minutes after it closed... :(

it was defective anyway.

is it just me or are people getting douche-y-er?

its not you, Bri.

I'm feeling nauseous and my eyes are tired. However, I don't want to sleep just yet; I want to read some. I don't want to take my contact lenses out because reading with my glasses will make me more nauseous. And no, I won't fall asleep if I'd just lie there. I haven't been able to fall asleep on my own too often lately. I prefer to drug myself out so I won't have to lie there with stupid thoughts for a while before drifting off.

This is just me griping and whining aloud. :p

What you need is some vigorous exercise to distract your thoughts and make you physically tired. ;)

Vigorous exercise will make the blood flow, which will make it harder to fall asleep. Well, that's what I've read. :p Damnit, I don't want to exercise. I may lose my muffin top. :rolleyes: :D hahaha.....Just kid....I do need to exercise. I will do ....tomorrow? :D

3 years ago the U started this same thing. Once a year we can take the "health assesment quiz". The first time you take it, you are paid $50 (added to our paychecks, pretax) and then $65 (again, pretax :rolleyes:) the following years. Oh yeah, whenever you take it you are supposed to be entered into that month's drawing for something too, but I forget what that is. I've always wondered who was footing the bill for this...

It's pretty stupid, but 10 min of my time while I drink my morning tea with lots of sugar and eat my creme filled donuts ;) is worth $50.

I think a lot of people are more anxious and on edge and not sleeping well these days. I don't know about other countries, but in the US people are taking a lot more antidepressants and antianxiety and sleep meds, because of the financial meltdown. It's been all over the news. I know it is affecting me. I rarely sleep, and when i do, it isn't restful sleep. and I take sleep meds. I apologize if any of it is rubbing off here.

[deadpan] perhaps the solution is to stop watching the news [/deadpan]

Or move to a place that's not feeling it so bad... Like Montana.

ps. I love my job.

Beautiful day here too!

We're organizing stuff for 2008's taxes. Always seem to pay out a lot for medical and other deductibles, but never seem to have enough to count. Only good thing about this year's taxes is that they are almost certainly going to be better than next year's.

My upper back and shoulders hurt like hell.

ETA: My mind also hurts. Damned Cellar threads . . . .

I hurt too........ow!

Tell me about it! 7.5% is a freaking high threshhold.

I had a filling done last week. (Actually, three, the almost-end of the cleanup of 10+ years of shitty dental hygiene coming home to roost.)

Anyway. My insurance doesn't want to pay for this particular filling . . . because they're convinced that the tooth involved was previously extracted.

Men in cheap suits with no tie and loafers without socks who talk too much and too loud with heavy East coast accents of some sort (couldn't tell if it was Boston or Jersey.) Nuff said.

The killer headache I got going on right now. Got a concussion last night... the effects linger. >.< And can't take the painkillers I was prescribed til Mr. Decca is home so someone here is coherent enough to take care of Lil D.

All day outside my door, chronically unemployed 22-year-old is either playing Rockband, yelling at Rockband, playing with his visiting toddler, or yelling at his visiting toddler. All four things happen at maximum volume.

as chronically unemployed 45-year-old i find i cannot really complain

Choke him to his threshold.
Rinse.
Repeat IF NEEDED.

Look on the bright side: maybe all these loud activities are keeping him from engaging in the activity that led him to have a visiting toddler to yell at. :eek:

He goes out and does that at night. I keep hoping that living here on the couch will be enough of a cramp in his ability to do that, that it will drive him to seek enough work to live in an apartment, or a young lass with a job and an apartment will find him interesting enough to keep him there.

You better start, or he'll just continue to fuck up your life. :eyebrow:

Nothing to do today!!!

Here they come. They're rolling out of bed and wanting MONEY. ;)

This day will never ever end. It's going to stay today for eternity. I just know it. :thepain:

Think it'll be an early spring?

I got you babe.....

Mildly irritating:
Sonny smacked that tree quite some time ago and Cher still hasn't called me. Bitch. Always knew I couldn't count on her.

Bank of America. Friggin' loser bankers.
P'tui! I spit on your soul!

Mildly concerning me:

I have a moderate allergy to bee stings. I carry an adrenaline inhaler to treat bronchospasm. It is out of date (I hadn't worried too much, because a doc had told me the stuff is pretty stable) so I went to a chemist to ask about getting a new one. They don't make them anymore.

I did some research as to why.

The manufacturers had cut the shelf life from 3 years to 18 months, but found they couldn't even guarantee that, so pulled the product.

In 1997.

Mine says "exp Aug 97".

Ah. Seems I have been carrying a placebo around for about a decade. Hmm.

The good thing is I also carry ventolin for mild asthma, which also treats bronchospasm, so I have a back up. But I might have to look at getting an Epi-pen.

Do it. Now that you know the danger, you're that much more in danger.

Wait, did that make any sense??

Err, no.


First step will be getting some ventolin which is not expired too.

Cellar trivia - Did a google search of "spit on your soul". Cellar was number four with a different post. Pie's post was on the second page.

Epi-pen, yes. Never leave home without mine. And the older I get the stronger my reactions to the nasty little buggers get, so get it now. (trip to the hospital in anyphalactic shock=no fun.)

I quoted it in the spirit of that previous post. Some things are hallowed by the passage of time. :p

i smoke

i've smoked with great dedication for YEARS

there are times when smoking a tobacco cigarette has been the only god damned thing to keep me going

i like smoking

this -- to some -- is a deplorable position to take

conventional wisdom, with all the dire warnings of health risks and whatnot, would have the average schmo steer far clear of cigarettes

to each his own

in my case: i like to smoke


now: about two weeks ago i quit cold turkey

i did so because the price of a pack is going through the roof

here, today, in the asshole of the nation (louisiana) the average price for my brand (marlboro red in the short box) is 'bout $4.15...this is up about 40 cents from what it was a couple or three weeks ago

my 'quit' was prompted by the price increase which -- according to my research -- has its roots in the cigarette companies looking to off-set the dollar increase slated to go in effect, nation-wide, april 1, 09


so: i quit -- in a manner of speaking -- in a huff


it was easy: the first 72 hours, as the nicotine left my system, i had few craving and those i did suffer were relatively mild

this is surprising since i've smoked a pack to two packs daily for over 20 years

and even now: the urges are mild

but -- in the cool analysis of the moment (nicotine-free) -- i'm going back to smoking


why?


because i miss it...i miss the cluster of behaviors that go along with smoking...i miss the scent of it...i miss holding fire between my fingers...i miss sitting on my stoop at 2 in the morning, surrounded by darkness, with only a burning cigarette as company


i like to smoke


i'm going back to smoking because of the way it -- smoking -- is intimately intertwined with my living...for example: i write, i research, i broadcast

as writer: the act is part and parcel of the smoke...i do the two things together

as researcher: the act is part and parcel of the smoke...i do the two things together

as broadcaster: my program is called 'coffee and cigarettes with henry quirk'…'nuff said


now: some of you (rabid, anti-pleasure, ratbastards, all) will point your bony fingers at me and crow, 'addict! you're fucking addict!'


no doubt of that


i, in my defense, say my addiction to this particular vice is on par with your 'addiction' to food

that is, we can generate two lists: 'needs' and 'wants…while cigarettes may fall into the sphere of 'want' for a great many, for me the cigarette is a 'need', as fundamental to my day-to-day living as air, water, and food


my ire, my irritation, is this...

with myself: for allowing economics to intrude into a sacred, regular, event

with an industry: for allowing the anti-folk to bulldog them, the manufacturers, into a corner

with a government (comprised of power hungry sons and daughters of bitches): for over-stepping and presuming/assuming a right to dictate my manner of living or dying

with a culture: for stagnating and stultifying into 'the only good life is a safe life'


not more than 30 minutes ago: i smoked my first cigarette since march 12, 09, and, my god, my god, IT WAS GOOD!


if i quit again, when i quit again: it'll be because of a reason idiosyncratic to 'me'...certainly not because of reasons vomited up on me by the well-intentioned or agenda-ridden

certainly: the almighty dollar will not play a role in my choice


there...i'm done... --henry

Tobacco is a dirty weed
I like it
It satisfies no normal need
I like it
It makes you thin it makes you lean
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen
I like it.

(My Gramps' cigarette wall holder thingy.)

Smoking will almost certainly shorten your life by years.

If that's what you knowingly chose, then who am I to intervene? Enjoy your life.

I hate cigarettes, but that was a great rant Henry. Well done.

HA!

just found this...

"I do not really care whether anyone smokes or not."

"I do so myself in phases, and then give up - not for health reasons, but simply to remind myself that I can."

...i think this will be my new rationale

----

Tobacco is a dirty weed
I like it

(((yummy)))

It satisfies no normal need
I like it

(((it is burning happiness)))

It makes you thin it makes you lean

(((five, eight...145 pounds)))

It takes the hair right off your bean

(((i am a slick-bald gargoyle)))

It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen
I like it

(((huzzah!)))

glatt and the merc: two great and tolerant souls!