Are you pissed off? I'm pissed off. Vent Thread.

[Aaron]

ugh. I need new boots. I found a hole in one, I shoe goo'd (it's super thick glue that smells horrible. BUT it works really well.) Then I found another hole in the same boot and the other boot has a bigger hole at the same spot... GRRR. However they have lasted me two years. SO I really can't complain... I will also try to do a lot better up keep on them. (boot dressing every other week or so. More if it rains a lot.)  So in other words I think I will go for broke and buy new boots.

[Goose]

I'm in the same boat boot-wise, but thankfully I probably won't need new ones until next winter hits.  The ones I've got were surplus I got from my dad brought home from work once, steel-toed, super insulation, and they've lasted me over a decade.  I have no idea where I'm going to find some shitkickers as awesome as those.  I was pretty depressed when they started to fall apart on me a couple months ago, especially since winter decided to last a couple months longer than usual.

[Aaron]

Look at Danner they aren't cheap. But they are really good. They last me about two years. But I walk a lot in them (a mile and a half for just getting to/from the bus stop, and I walk a lot at work. and the times I walked home from work or the show, about about 7.5 miles.) Breaking them in isn't good times. But it only takes a week. (5 days) And I wear them year round. So if your just wearing them in the winter, and probably doing less walking in them you might want to look into them. Mine are more comfortable then most all my shoes... 


GRRR. amazon just raised the price of the boot by 50 bucks. (to where danner.com sells them for.) ebay has them for a lot less though... New and in box... I might be getting them from them...

[individualzero]

Have you guys considered Redwing Shoes? I own a pair of custom Redwings that ran me just shy of $200 for a pair of steel-toed 9" combat boots, but I've owned them for over three years and they haven't even shown any signs of wearing down after all the jogging, walking, trekking, hiking and working I've done regardless of season. I actually wear them year-round because they're comfier than any shoes I've ever owned.

[Aaron]

I have looked at Redwings, and they just aren't my cup of tea. And I have had good luck with my Danner's.

[sin]

Was informed last week that a client of mine, a client with lots of behavioral problems, is going to be moved to a different site in July.  While it would certainly make my job easier, it means my site is going to drop its awake-overnights.  Awake overnights pay $0.50 above your regular wage from 10p to 6a, whereas asleep-overnights pay minimum wage

I'm not going to be able to move to days, since there was a lot of extra staffing to deal with this clients behavioral problems, and his exodus is going to prompt a reduction of 91 man-hours per week, so the staff already on days are going to be fighting tooth and nail over the remaining hours.  Transferring to a different site isn't really an option, as ultimately my job is menial, high-stress, and low-paying, but I've stuck with it for so long because it's familiar and comfortable.  Transferring to a new location will erase all that.  I have 2 months to come up with a plan, and at the moment, I'm thinking of working a few asleep overnights a week and then picking up a second job during the day.  Still not an ideal situation, and necessitates successfully getting a second part-time job (although IC has an unemployment rate around 2.8% the last time I checked, so it could certainly be worse elsewhere).

[Aaron]

I already have used up my break pads on my bike's front wheel... This sucks. Also finding out I used them up going down a really big steep hill, not so fun. I didn't eat shit. BUT it took forever for me to stop.

So basically I have no real breaks. Or at lest stop really fast breaks. Gona make getting to and from work fun... 

[r00]

I found out today that a fellow employee (he isn't on my team, but I have worked with him on several projects) is in the ICU with advanced stage liver cancer.  He is only 37.  He didn't know he even had anything until a few days ago.  It sounds like he doesn't have long.

WTF?  I don't know how someone could handle news of that magnitude and awfulness at such a young age, much less his friends and family (who I hope are en route from India).  Shit things happening to good people and all that.  I don't know what else to say. 8(

[luna]

Wow that sucks

[Aaron]

Jesus. That fucking sucks. It's the good people that shouldn't get it that do...

[Aaron]

My roommate got a carpet shampooer and cleaned the hall. (It looks way better, smells a little better) Walk out of my room to go tot he kitchen this morning, cat is pissing on the floor, in the hall... Ugh... I fucking hate that cat... I really do. Ironicly once he put the second litter box in the cat stopped pissing in the hall. Now that he has cleaned the hall. BAM pissing in the hall again...


It's raining. Which makes riding my bike in to work both fun, and kinda sucky. I need to buy a water proof bag pack soonish to...

[r00]

That coworker I mentioned above passed away less than 2 weeks after diagnosis.  It scares the piss out of me thinking something that can kill you that fast wouldn't even make you uncomfortable enough to see a doctor until the very end.  I also understand how ignorance is bliss.  If I had something terminal, would I really want to know about it if nothing could be done for it anyway?  I dunno.  8(

[Aaron]

Ya, I understand that. One of my coworkers at my old store found a large tumor (grapefruit or orange behind the stomach.)  And they started treatment then. But they keep finding it, the cancer, in other parts of her body. They prolonged her life by a few months. Like 6 I think. Basically she had enough time to get her kids ready, and understand. And do a few more family things she wanted to do. (Like pictures and stuff.) But she didn't last long.

I really don't know if I would want to know. Or have like two weeks time or somthing to get all my goodbyes in. Doug Stanhope has a bit about the very thing. And he comments if he had cancer he wouldn't know till it's visible to the naked eye. Like sticking out the corner of his mouth.

Hell my grandpa that had throat cancer waited for every to go to the doctor. Like 6 months, and it was noticable enough to fuck with his voice (he sounded like he had lost his voice and was getting it back.) He finally went to the doctor...

I think I would want a month of knowing. Though I'm sure I would be crying like a baby for a week or so... Telling my folks would be the hardest thing I think... I would also through one hell of a cancer party.

[Aaron]

I have a horrible cough. In fact I coughed so hard in my sleep (I would wake up for most of it) that my chest now hurts and is sore. Like my lowest rib on the right side hurts like hell... Uuuughhhh...  And it hasn't gotten better in the last week or so... I get light headed some times from coughing... But I feel fine, I'm not sore, I don't fell ill, just have a horrible cough...

[luna]

codeine cough syrup is the best thing ever