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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good first night back at work. I'm going to miss hearing how much people missed me while I was gone. Guess I'm going to have to get another job real quick so I don't go too long without hearing it.

All I have to say is that I feel really sorry for everybody who NEEDS the job and has to stay with all the changes being made. At least half of them don't even need to stay there and would probably make more money jumping ship and finding employment somewhere else, but like one guy I talked to tonight said "it's the devil you know".

I've seen this twice before at much better jobs. It's really sad that in 2019 shitty wage retail jobs are being six sigma'd to the point that they're going to treat everybody like robots too.



Oh well. Not going to worry about it. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Man, I am beat. This week- four doctor appointments. Two for dear daughter and one for me and one for hubby - we are sick with the same thing and both got azithromycin. This is the second round of antibiotics for me, the first was too short to kill all the little buggers. Previous week, no doctors appointments, but week before that three more. (Two for dear daughter and one for me.)

I keep trying to push ahead but between being sick and running people back and forth to the doctor's plus all of the "chores" that keep piling up ... Painting has been stalled out at "just" the window and doorframes and some wall touch-up to go for about a week. Today - no doctor's appointments - I hope to finish the painting. Also help hubby drag more crap down from the garage rafters. But right now I'm just taking it easy and working my way thru FFF.net.

SIX, BRENDA and KIKI ... keep on keeping on!



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Pity would be no more,
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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Signy

OK about the root barrier. I'll continue to keep it till I need it!

"I don't know about you guys, but I kind of informally divide my work between daily/weekly chores and "projects"."

My divisions are similar: things that I call 'tasks' that are repeating daily / weekly actions one can easily complete in a day, and 'projects' that are rare or one-time multi-day (-week, or -month!) actions. It helps me with organizing my time. I usually bundle my 'tasks' into one or two days if I can (given the state of my energy level), which gives me larger chunks of time to plan projects around. But with you daily helping DD with medical care, and also cooking, and walking the dog I can see your time organization around chores is very different from mine!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, just some random questions: Do you feel best when you have a goal to work towards or a project to work on?

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Absolutely.

When I look back on those lost years drinking, not only didn't I get anything but the absolute bare necessities done, but I didn't achieve a single goal, and I didn't accomplish anything. It was literally 3 years of Groundhog Day.

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If so, what is the length/scope that you feel best with? One month? Six months? (In another words, when does it go from being exciting to being tedious?)

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I never really thought about that much. I think it depends on the type of work it is. The "project" I've talked about here vaguely from time to time is something that I worked on for many years in the mid 2000's. It's also the crutch I used to pull myself out of my drinking to fill up the time and at least feel like I was accomplishing something. If I could ever find a way to monetize it, or if I didn't have any financial responsibility at all, I could probably work on that every day for the rest of my life knowing that I'd probably die before I ever finished it.

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Do you feel best working by yourself, or with others? Or does it not matter as long as you see progress?

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That depends on the work too. At my job job, I prefer to work alone. Working with people face to face is more of a distraction than anything else. I'm usually in my own head space at work... it's kind of a flow of consciousness from mapping out my work for the night, adjusting for new things that pop up along the way, to hearing lyrics of songs I like or what I'm going to do when I get home. It's not that I don't like talking to people... I have plenty to say on break. But I get annoyed when people try talking to me when I'm working unless they're one of the few that I'm fond of.

But working on the project I often got a lot of help from other people, some of them halfway across the world. Rather than learning how to do complex coding or graphic art skills, it was always much easier to enlist the help of others who had the know how already. The fact that it was online interactions that were usually forum based like here probably made that much easier for me to do. We could always reply to each other when we had the time and were in the right frame of mind to do it. Instant messaging was extremely annoying when I tried it for a brief stint.

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The reason why I'm wondering is because you have labelled yourself OCD more than once, and you also seem to be worried about getting stuck in a rut. Maybe the answer to both is to be enaged in projects which you can complete in a month (or two) and then move on o a different project. That way you can accomplish things without getting stuck.

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Yeah. I say I'm OCD all the time. I don't know if I really should say that though. I definitely have something eccentric going on in this head of mine, but my half-brother is like full fledged OCD and had had times where he did weird shit like taking 10 showers a day and freaking out that he got lead poisoning anytime he touched something that was metal. I've got compulsive behaviors for sure, but I've never had to circle my block 10 times to make sure I didn't run somebody over or something extremely weird. Nobody would ever know I have problems from the outside. At least up until this point my coping mechanisms cover well for me, except of course for the compulsive drinking I was doing...

I had to let people I interact with on my project know that I'm taking a hiatus for an indefinite amount of time and I hope they're still around whenever I get back to it. No time for that in my life right now.

For now, I have to look at this house as my entire project, and to find a way to make some acceptable level of cash to pay the bills in the mean time. I will have to break things up into more digestible goals on my to-do list so it's not so overwhelming. I want the house on the market by spring. I think that is an obtainable goal without being overwhelming. I just need to maintain my focus, and hopefully get a little help now and then.

I'm sure not going to be lacking for things to do in the forseeable future.

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I'm just being nosy, so feel free to tell me to buzz off.

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No worries. Thanks for asking.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Brenda:
LOL! I hear ya Jack about wanting to punch someone in the face.

I felt like that yesterday at work after my boss said something stupid. The comment was that 2 recipes should have gone together as one. Well that wasn't what she had written down then she got a little upset. My fist started to curl but I didn't say anything because she wouldn't have listened.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, I don't know what's with management droids. It's not enuf that the job gets done quickly and well? They have to micromanage every single thing?

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It seems like the problem has gotten a lot worse lately. Hubby has had many run-ins with the IT people (after the university contracted it out with a bunch of know-nothings) and HR. He was called in for a disciplinary hearing (in front of the department chair) because he had a serious disagreement with how the emailer was being run. So this stuffed-shirt pompous ass tried to put him in his place by saying "I'll have you know that all of the emails on our server belong to us". Without missing a beat hubby told him "Thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to pull all of my emails off your server".

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I hope you get unemployment! (That's me ... always looking for that cup of coffee to be snatched away!) But if not, I hope you get that other job.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
My canker sores would come after eating too much of something that seemed to irritate my mouth, like tomatoes. Not always, there seemed to be another factor, but eating an irritant seemed necessary as well.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh indeed, canker sores really do hurt! I'm surprised you made it this far into your life without having one already. When I got them it was usually because I was under stress ... not the worst stress (like family illness) but often something job-related, a medium-sized stress that I couldn't escape and couldn't resolve.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey BRENDA, if the lock is that small that you need a safety pin to pick it, you might not even need bolt cutters to cut it, just wire cutters.

Anyway, just a suggestion ... unless you want to refresh your lock-picking skills!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My grandma's got an old railroad safe in her basement that was her fathers, or possibly even her grandfathers. I've never seen it opened, and all the years when I lived down there in my early 20's it killed me not knowing what was inside of it.

We didn't have good old youtube back in those days though. I think I might see if there is something online about cracking that safe. Probably just need a stethoscope.

The last time I ever heard that it was opened, my uncle snagged a German Luger that my grandpa had gotten in WWII. Dummy got himself pulled over with it in his glove box. The cop, nice guy that he was, didn't even give my uncle a ticket... but of course he confiscated the gun. I'm sure he didn't want any paperwork. Probably knew what he was holding in his hands there and knew he had my uncle's balls to the wall.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sure, potato chips, cookies, and hot dogs are chock-full of salt, sugar, fat, and calories. They can cause us to gain weight and put us at a higher risk of diseases such as diabetes and obesity. But why? What if there’s something unique about ultraprocessed foods that primes us to overeat and leads to bad health?

A new, intriguing hypothesis offers a potential answer. Increasingly, scientists think processed foods, with all their additives and sugar and lack of fiber, may be formulated in ways that disturb the gut microbiome, the trillions of diverse bacteria lining our intestines and colon. Those disturbances, in turn, may heighten the risk of chronic disease and encourage overeating.

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According to a widely used scientific definition, they’re:
industrial formulations made entirely or mostly from substances extracted from foods (oils, fats, sugar, starch, and proteins), derived from food constituents (hydrogenated fats and modified starch), or synthesized in laboratories from food substrates or other organic sources (flavor enhancers, colors, and several food additives used to make the product hyper-palatable).

In other words, ultraprocessed foods are created in factories. They’re pumped full of chemicals and other additives for color, flavor, texture, and shelf life. This processing generally increases the flavor and caloric density of the foods, while stripping away the fiber, vitamins, and nutrients. So these foods are distinct from whole foods (like apples and cucumbers) and processed foods (like vegetables pickled in brine, or canned fish in oil) that rely on only salt, sugar, and oil — rather than a range of complicated additives — to preserve them or make them tastier.

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For a study that was published in 2015, Gewirtz and his colleagues hypothesized that widely used emulsifiers — specifically carboxymethylcellulose and polysorbate-80 — might disturb the microbiome and increase inflammation.

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