askye, I’m glad you finally have that settled. Are you able to look for other work at this point?
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Jun 20, 2023 9:34:39 am PDT #22815 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jesse - Jun 20, 2023 10:10:34 am PDT #22816 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I hope that feels like a relief and you can move on from here, askye.
Aches and pains today made me think "damn, I'm getting old!" but then I remembered that yesterday I hauled bags of rocks to fill in a sunken area around my carport gutter drain and the cesspool/water feature in my back yard, then repeatedly climbed up and down a ladder to install my hanging planter. And early this morning I tried unsuccessfully to dig up a nandina in the vacant lot down the street. So not exactly a case of just sleeping wrong.
Yeah, you know, I was feeling a twinge in my back and pain in my knees this morning but I spent yesterday moving furniture up and down stairs! So I bet that would do it. Still, I am getting old.
askye - Jun 20, 2023 10:19:32 am PDT #22817 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
sj-yes I'm working to update my resume on Indeed right now and I've been looking at jobs to apply for. I'm sticking with retail right now but trying to find something that isn't primarily a cashier job but that's kind of limiting. I don't want to deviate too much from what I'm doing just to make things easier for me. I'm also not looking at whatever job I get as necessarily a long term thing but accepting that it might be just something to figure out how I'll be doing wiht the concussion and stuff.
sj - Jun 20, 2023 10:59:52 am PDT #22818 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Best of luck askye.
JenP - Jun 20, 2023 11:28:41 am PDT #22819 of 30000
All good vibes your way, askye.
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2023 12:07:30 pm PDT #22820 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
askye - have you considered going back to legal?
(It’s a decision I’m making myself at the moment.)
askye - Jun 20, 2023 1:59:55 pm PDT #22821 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Trudy, I never really did anything with that, well I did a little but it was a long time ago. Right now with the issues I've had concentration since the accident I want to stay with something more low key. At least right now but it's something to think about for the future.
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2023 2:21:16 pm PDT #22822 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
That makes a lot of sense!
askye - Jun 20, 2023 3:24:39 pm PDT #22823 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I know I need to work on my resume, even what I have on Indeed but I did update and then just applied for a job I don't really want so now that hurdle of "oh crap I have to start applying" is kind of out of the way.
Consuela - Jun 20, 2023 7:55:40 pm PDT #22824 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Bully for you, askye! Sometimes you just gotta shake the dust off your feet and move on.
I had a nice weekend: did some cooking (made a batch of beans and a rhubarb quick bread), went for a walk with my niece and wandered SF with an old fandom friend, and yesterday went for a mountain bike ride with my sister. Don't love being back at work, but it was a reasonably quiet day, and my hiring process is progressing reasonably well: I hope to have 3 (three!) new staff members on board by Labor Day.
My sister is trying to get me to start playing pickleball with her, but I am not retired and I'm not that interested in taking up a new sport. I am still running, climbing, and biking, and that seems like enough at the moment.