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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6720 on: December 27, 2018, 08:48:17 PM »
Jeez. Yeah. I don’t want to be that stressed out. I see people at work that operate like that consistently and they’re always one conference call away from exploding. I really found the project interesting and it was good experience so if I can learn to manage this (which I’m sure I can) then I’ll be good to go.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6721 on: December 28, 2018, 08:17:36 AM »
So I realized on Christmas day that my work schedule was actually taking a toll on me.  I've been working 16 hour days for the last 6-8 weeks because of a project that needed to be complete by end of year.  Christmas day my wife opens up her presents and I tell her that she still has another at my mom's because I had it shipped there.  We get to my mom's and I ask my mom about it and she looks at my really confused "Uhhhh, we took it over there.... didn't we?" and I really have no clue.  I'm confused as fuck.  So I think okay, well then it would be in the spot where I put all her gifts.  So then later my parents give my wife and I a gift.  And my wife says "oh this will go great with the chair Mupepe got me" (the chair is the gift I had shipped to my mom's).  Now I'm really fucking confused and it started to come back.  Not only had my parents brought the chair, I gave it to my wife already.  I couldn't believe I had fucking forgotten. I've never felt like that in my life.  Even the foggiest memory had more recollection than this.  It felt like I was going crazy. 

It wasn't just the hours at work.  I can handle the hours.  It was the actual stress and coordination of a million moving parts and the herding of the incompetent people that I relied on to make sure it all got done.  I was having nightmares about this project.  One night I had a nightmare that I was presenting shit to upper management when I noticed a mistake in my data.  Sure enough, I wake up and double check my work (that had already been distributed) and found the same exact error from the dream.  The constant cover your ass nature of the project, politicking and last minute fixes were something I'd not yet experienced as this was the first time I'd helmed a project of this size.  Beyond that the senior level people I know, many of which have been with the company for 30-40+ years all said it was by far the worst project they've ever been on.

I've seen people at work have breakdowns before.  I guess I just didn't realize how close I was to having one.

I pretty much run off of OneNote these days.  My memory is completely and utterly shot for the reasons you and ronito mentioned.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6722 on: December 28, 2018, 10:20:10 AM »
Yeah for work I have a pretty good system.  That's what really surprised me - I was juggling some crazy schedules and various due dates for work and nailed them, but at home I was apparently brain dead.  I noticed a few other little things like I forgot to pay my water bill.  So it seems like I need to develop a similar system for home.  Getting older and having more responsibility sucks I guess?

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6723 on: December 28, 2018, 03:39:16 PM »
I use OneNote even for my personal life.  I’m sure there are other options out there but it works for me.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6724 on: December 28, 2018, 03:52:39 PM »
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6725 on: December 29, 2018, 08:35:52 PM »
I hate how life refuses to get better. My car insurance rate goes down for the new year :) but then my 12 months of "promotional" pricing ends and my internet cost goes up :(

Plus they have a monopoly so threatening to cancel did nothing. Even small breaks are hard to catch.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6726 on: December 29, 2018, 08:49:14 PM »
Never ever ever do promo packages from cable cos. EVER

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6727 on: December 31, 2018, 04:35:37 AM »
Just wait until your entire life is like that and you're constantly in a fog so bad it's like having extremely early on-set dementia :aah


Onset.

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Unless you're talking specifically to zomgee, I guess.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6728 on: December 31, 2018, 06:31:43 AM »
Just wait until your entire life is like that and you're constantly in a fog so bad it's like having extremely early on-set dementia :aah


Onset.

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Unless you're talking specifically to zomgee, I guess.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6729 on: January 01, 2019, 12:02:59 AM »
12:01 new years and I'm waiting for the Spiderman DLC to download - after doing an 18gb update thinking it was the DLC. 

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6730 on: January 03, 2019, 01:32:20 AM »
Can't say anything, but I will say that I don't mind contracting to villains, but I DO mind contracting to stupid ones.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6731 on: January 03, 2019, 01:59:21 PM »
Went to my fave coffee shop today. I'm there so often the baristas all know me rather well. So while I was waiting for my coffee one of the baristas starting talking to me about smash bros. We were exchanging stories and he asked how my kids were doing at it (I often take my kids to get drinks there too) and I started talking about how they were doing and about how the youngest is really enjoying it and having fun. At this point a group of people walk in as I say, "But my other kids are getting older, so it's getting a lot harder for me to beat them." The group looked at me disgust thinking I was some kind of child beater.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6732 on: January 03, 2019, 02:25:44 PM »
Went to my fave coffee shop today. I'm there so often the baristas all know me rather well. So while I was waiting for my coffee one of the baristas starting talking to me about smash bros. We were exchanging stories and he asked how my kids were doing at it (I often take my kids to get drinks there too) and I started talking about how they were doing and about how the youngest is really enjoying it and having fun. At this point a group of people walk in as I say, "But my other kids are getting older, so it's getting a lot harder for me to beat them." The group looked at me disgust thinking I was some kind of child beater.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6733 on: January 03, 2019, 03:43:46 PM »
Barber did my moustache like a Mexican bandit.  After the cut, he showed me a picture of Pancho Villa on his phone and laughed. 

Now I'm ready to play Red Dead in style. 

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6734 on: January 03, 2019, 04:11:13 PM »
And no pics, smh


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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6736 on: January 03, 2019, 06:02:16 PM »
nice sombrero.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6737 on: January 03, 2019, 06:44:47 PM »
I think I gained like 5-7 pounds over the holidays... time to burn it off before Valentine's Day  :punch
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6738 on: January 03, 2019, 09:00:45 PM »
And no pics, smh



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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6739 on: January 03, 2019, 10:23:24 PM »
need a more close up pic pls
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6740 on: January 03, 2019, 10:28:30 PM »
I have t-rex arms, they are hard to take selfies with. 

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6741 on: January 07, 2019, 01:21:53 AM »
I'm working off all this weight I gained during the holidays and it sucks. Can't snack, always hungry. FML. When I did this a couple of years ago I lost 35 pounds over 5ish months so I know what I'm doing but it never gets easy.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6742 on: January 08, 2019, 12:46:05 PM »
I have become such a curmudgeon that I've started scheduling meetings close to lunch so I don't have to go out to lunch with people. I hate eating alone but I don't like doing lunch with people I can just tolerate.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6743 on: January 08, 2019, 11:12:32 PM »
Watching a company implode. Part of me is sad for the lives they'll destroy/have destroyed. But my schadenfreude....
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6744 on: January 09, 2019, 08:43:42 AM »
Is it Sears?
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6745 on: January 09, 2019, 01:09:12 PM »
Reddit keeps trying to sneak the new layout in, despite me only using the site through old.reddit.com. :beli

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6746 on: January 09, 2019, 03:12:50 PM »
The new layout is like a billion times better... :confused

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6747 on: January 09, 2019, 03:13:33 PM »
Is it Sears?
Oh no. This one is a bit more, unpredicted?
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6748 on: January 09, 2019, 03:23:58 PM »
The new layout is like a billion times better... :confused
Inline ads. :hmph

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6749 on: January 09, 2019, 03:26:48 PM »
Reddit keeps trying to sneak the new layout in, despite me only using the site through old.reddit.com. :beli
use RES and you'll never see it again

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6750 on: January 09, 2019, 03:28:50 PM »
Wow, chichikov's getting hella angry about people calling Angela Davis a stalinist, which includes other communists on Era like House of Lightening.  :doge
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6751 on: January 09, 2019, 03:30:40 PM »
I will when they force the redesign on everyone.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6752 on: January 11, 2019, 06:54:02 AM »
Just before leaving for the USA, discovered I had an infection in a previous root canal. Dosed up on antibiotics during the trip, and determined to have it taken care of on my return.

Arrived back in Tokyo Monday, made an appointment for today (Friday).

The dentist thought they could just put new meds in my root canal and then re-fill it, but when they popped my crown, the tooth was cracked and unsalvageable.

I spent an hour having my first tooth extraction in four decades.

It was every bit as traumatizing as I remembered, having that bone-on-bone grating noise resonating through my skull while they pulled.

Also had to have 6 shots of anæsthesia before the pain stopped short of my eyeball.

After deciding I should probably go home, I tried to tell my project management partner what he'd need to cover during the afternoon, and I started bleeding out of my mouth. SUPER SEXY if you're a vampire, no so much for a PM.

Now I'm home, and my one roomie suggested whisky, and the other an ice pack. I'm doing better, but I look like a Private Investigator from a noir film who lost a fight.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6753 on: January 11, 2019, 11:12:13 AM »
1,000 person lay off today. Local market is going to be flooded. Thankfully I'm not part of it, but still. :holeup
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6754 on: January 11, 2019, 01:28:13 PM »
 :trumps
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6755 on: January 11, 2019, 02:36:13 PM »
Just had a “patriot” come in to our (closed to the public) facility to yell at us for our flag being a bit torn. If I don’t post later he came back to liberate us

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6756 on: January 11, 2019, 02:41:43 PM »
Just had a “patriot” come in to our (closed to the public) facility to yell at us for our flag being a bit torn. If I don’t post later he came back to liberate us

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6757 on: January 11, 2019, 02:45:05 PM »
The ironic thing is I’ve been telling my boss we need to get a new one, and yet I’m the one who had to deal with this crazy

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6758 on: January 11, 2019, 02:46:34 PM »
Lol corporate just called us because he called them

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6759 on: January 12, 2019, 06:45:12 AM »
My favourite let's play group announced their final let's play.  :(

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6760 on: January 12, 2019, 10:37:54 AM »
Lol corporate just called us because he called them

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Put a canadian flag up for the lulz

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6761 on: January 14, 2019, 11:14:35 AM »
The Bore being down made me realize how unproductive I am on a regular workday.


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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6762 on: January 14, 2019, 12:31:21 PM »
The Bore being down made me realize how much I need to rant per day.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6763 on: January 14, 2019, 12:33:57 PM »
The new layout is like a billion times better... :confused

lol, definitely not. browsing porn pages is a nightmare. old layout >
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6764 on: January 14, 2019, 04:33:25 PM »
At the client site on a lay off day/day of huge corporate drama.

A client worker that I worked with was laid off and she (a late middle age little chinese lady) saw me in the hall and grabbed my ass, and said, "Now that I won't get the chance."

I know I'm supposed to be offended, but I sorta think it's hilarious.

The inconvenience is that nothing is going to get done now. No one will move a muscel to do anything.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6765 on: January 14, 2019, 04:52:22 PM »
I think you're supposed to be turned on, not offended
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6766 on: January 14, 2019, 05:07:10 PM »
Perks of a volatile industry.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6767 on: January 15, 2019, 06:15:54 AM »
#puppiestoo

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6768 on: January 15, 2019, 09:53:28 AM »

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6769 on: January 15, 2019, 11:21:52 AM »
Let my daughter into one of those Burger King playrooms and now she’s refusing to come out, and I can’t fit in there as an adult to get her so I’m sitting here like an idiot getting rekt by a 3 year old.

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6770 on: January 15, 2019, 11:24:32 AM »
That has happened to me at McDonald's and Chuck E Cheese.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6771 on: January 15, 2019, 11:29:09 AM »
Let my daughter into one of those Burger King playrooms and now she’s refusing to come out, and I can’t fit in there as an adult to get her so I’m sitting here like an idiot getting rekt by a 3 year old.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6772 on: January 15, 2019, 11:55:04 AM »
had a headache yesterday that got so bad I thought I might die. My mom had chronic migraines in her 20-30's, I hope that isn't what this is.  :snoop
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6773 on: January 15, 2019, 12:10:25 PM »
had a headache yesterday that got so bad I thought I might die. My mom had chronic migraines in her 20-30's, I hope that isn't what this is.  :snoop
Dude, that's rough. My second guitar teacher had chronic migraines, she essentially mainlined caffiene all day. I used to have 45 minute lessons with her and in that amount of time she would down two sodas. I once was like "That's terrible for you." She told me it was the only way to keep off the migraines. I hope you don't get to that point.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6774 on: January 15, 2019, 01:43:02 PM »
Let my daughter into one of those Burger King playrooms and now she’s refusing to come out, and I can’t fit in there as an adult to get her so I’m sitting here like an idiot getting rekt by a 3 year old.

Should have put her on a leash  :ufup

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6775 on: January 15, 2019, 02:25:36 PM »
had a headache yesterday that got so bad I thought I might die. My mom had chronic migraines in her 20-30's, I hope that isn't what this is.  :snoop

You sure it's not anxiety? Lots of people confuse migranes with anxiety if they've never had anxiety before. They go for years trying different headache pills, diets, etc when they should be treating anxiety instead.

 

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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6776 on: January 15, 2019, 02:40:01 PM »
had a headache yesterday that got so bad I thought I might die. My mom had chronic migraines in her 20-30's, I hope that isn't what this is.  :snoop

You sure it's not anxiety? Lots of people confuse migranes with anxiety if they've never had anxiety before. They go for years trying different headache pills, diets, etc when they should be treating anxiety instead. 

Oh, I've definitely got that too, no worries, but I've never had a headache this bad before. It was probably (hopefully) just a really bad stress headache, it didn't have any of the traditional migraine symptoms, but the thought crossed my mind.
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6777 on: January 15, 2019, 04:23:32 PM »
I click on the triumph thread and saw *that* pic :goty
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Re: minor inconveniences that are not struggles
« Reply #6778 on: January 15, 2019, 04:48:54 PM »
Let my daughter into one of those Burger King playrooms and now she’s refusing to come out, and I can’t fit in there as an adult to get her so I’m sitting here like an idiot getting rekt by a 3 year old.

Pretend to leave, she'll run after you stat.

And if she doesn't, well think of all the money you'll save over the next few years :yeshrug

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« Reply #6779 on: January 15, 2019, 04:50:14 PM »
And thus a struggle was made into a triumph.
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