In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Good luck SIX!
I know that finding the porch situation was definitely an unexpected knock, but look at it this way: You still have your job (even if you don't like the situation) and you still have your house, and better yet, you have your health.
Yeah... I won't have the job much longer because the schedule they're giving part timers just won't work at all for me. It's about 40 miles round trip, so gas is pretty prohibitively expensive when I'm only getting 4 to 5 hour shifts, and let's face it... my car is still a piece of crap. My shifts can be any day of the week that the computers randomly choose, and they could be anywhere from 3:00AM to 11:00PM. Then there's the fact I'd be getting only exactly 20 hours per week when right now I was averaging anywhere from 28 to 32 per week when they needed the extra work.
Not only is this schedule going to play hell on my ability to ever really plan out any work on the home, especially to plan out when somebody can come help on any 2-man jobs, but it will barely pay enough to live on and feed my car. It just doesn't make any sense to keep working there.
My health is debatable. I'm in great shape, but this teeth situation isn't going to fix itself. There is a ticking clock on all of that.
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You also have the prospect of another job closer to home, which ... btw ... I would make a strict dollars-and-cents decision on: Are you likely to earn more money at this new job than you would at your current employer (with daytime hours) or that you might get with unemployment? I would not think about whether or not it would be "fair" to them to take a job if you're going to move because they aren't "fair" in return; THEY would make a strict dollar-and-cents decision on you too. Generally speaking, employers aren't "loyal" to their employees so they don't deserve any loyalty in return. And if you decide you want the closer job and they hire you, with your work ethic and your previous experience you will be helping them make money from day 1, which is more than most employers can hope for!
I know they wouldn't be loyal. They never are, are they?
I'm assuming they're going to pay less than what I make now, but given all the reasons I listed above, and the fact this would be an overnight job, the positives would likely outweigh that negative. Who knows? If they pay little enough, I might even be able to get on food stamps in the interim to make it a wash. Not something I really want to deal with again because it's a huge hassle, but that's the single benefit of making next to nothing and I'd be a fool for not taking advantage of it if it was there for the taking.
Unemployment wouldn't be much. It should be more than enough to pay my bills while I'm on it though. It wouldn't be enough to put a dime into the house with though. If I go that route, I'd have to be able to get a home equity line of credit for that so I don't start putting stuff on the credit cards with the ridiculous rates they have these days.
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I hate to keep harping on the job situation but it's only as bad as you make it. You can be jobless and income-less if you make a stupid decision, and your situation - which seems bad now- can become a whole lot worse all of a sudden and you will look back on today with fond regret. So make you decisions cautiously; don't jump off the metaphorical cliff.
That was your Depression-era granny talking to you!
Yeah. I know. :)
Maybe after three weeks without me my manager can convince the new guy of how good I am? Maybe he hasn't even noticed the difference without me? If he's willing to give me 8-9 hour shifts every weekend, I'm probably not going to pass that up. Otherwise, I've pretty much already made my peace with losing this job and I'm already looking forward.
Don't have a plan yet,
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Oh I'm an inveterate list-maker because memory is so bad as things come up I have to write them down if I can't tackle it right away. Then I try to make an "achievable" list for the day from my random list of things to do, and, finally, I log them when they've been completed. I need more time management discipline. I like to check in here in the AM and scan the news while everyone else is asleep but I think I need to start cooking in the AM to free up more afternoon time. So you'll see less of me here but I'll always check in to this thread to see how everyone is doing!! I refer to you and BRENDA and other friendly folk in this thread as my "internet friends", I feel like we have a real connection -even if it's virtual- and I hope you feel the same.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh I'm an inveterate list-maker because memory is so bad as things come up I have to write them down if I can't tackle it right away. Then I try to make an "achievable" list for the day from my random list of things to do, and, finally, I log them when they've been completed. I need more time management discipline. I like to check in here in the AM and scan the news while everyone else is asleep but I think I need to start cooking in the AM to free up more afternoon time. So you'll see less of me here but I'll always check in to this thread to see how everyone is doing!! I refer to you and BRENDA and other friendly folk in this thread as my "internet friends", I feel like we have a real connection -even if it's virtual- and I hope you feel the same.
Yeah. Sure I do. :)
Nice that we have one thread where people can talk to each other like human beings in the RWED. This is really my only internet place, so I'm glad that it's still kicking all these years later. Thanks to big H for keeping the lights on for us.
Just got rid of a car load of stuff over at the Goodwill. I was going to put it off until tomorrow, but given the holiday and they close early I figured let's just do it now and get it out of the way. I told them I'd be back with more this week.
Also have three big bags of trash staged to go, but I have to wait an extra day until trash day because of the holiday this week, so they can't even get into the cans until I get those emptied.
My poor car has at least one more week out in the rain.
Now if I can only force myself to clean up the back corner of the living room where the piece with all of my networking/phone stuff is and clean up all the wires and polish that end of the floor I think I might call it a day and I'll be happy with the work that got done.
I can actually hear an echo in my living room now lol. That sure brings back memories.
Hopefully my bro comes over tomorrow to take some stuff and maybe he'll grab a few books before I give them away too. Assuming he comes, I'll be getting the king sized bed, a crappy dresser and a few high back chairs out to the garage to await garbage day. I think I'm going to be clearing that garage out for the next month before I can even consider what I'm ultimately doing with the bedroom sets...
Or actually clearing out what I don't need in the garage, for that matter.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Some CDs sorted out and put away and I even listened to a couple. But a few broken cases. Will have to see about replacing them.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Good luck SIX!
I know that finding the porch situation was definitely an unexpected knock, but look at it this way: You still have your job (even if you don't like the situation) and you still have your house, and better yet, you have your health.
Yeah... I won't have the job much longer because the schedule they're giving part timers just won't work at all for me. It's about 40 miles round trip, so gas is pretty prohibitively expensive when I'm only getting 4 to 5 hour shifts, and let's face it... my car is still a piece of crap. My shifts can be any day of the week that the computers randomly choose, and they could be anywhere from 3:00AM to 11:00PM. Then there's the fact I'd be getting only exactly 20 hours per week when right now I was averaging anywhere from 28 to 32 per week when they needed the extra work.
Not only is this schedule going to play hell on my ability to ever really plan out any work on the home, especially to plan out when somebody can come help on any 2-man jobs, but it will barely pay enough to live on and feed my car. It just doesn't make any sense to keep working there.
My health is debatable. I'm in great shape, but this teeth situation isn't going to fix itself. There is a ticking clock on all of that.Quote:
You also have the prospect of another job closer to home, which ... btw ... I would make a strict dollars-and-cents decision on: Are you likely to earn more money at this new job than you would at your current employer (with daytime hours) or that you might get with unemployment? I would not think about whether or not it would be "fair" to them to take a job if you're going to move because they aren't "fair" in return; THEY would make a strict dollar-and-cents decision on you too. Generally speaking, employers aren't "loyal" to their employees so they don't deserve any loyalty in return. And if you decide you want the closer job and they hire you, with your work ethic and your previous experience you will be helping them make money from day 1, which is more than most employers can hope for!
I know they wouldn't be loyal. They never are, are they?
I'm assuming they're going to pay less than what I make now, but given all the reasons I listed above, and the fact this would be an overnight job, the positives would likely outweigh that negative. Who knows? If they pay little enough, I might even be able to get on food stamps in the interim to make it a wash. Not something I really want to deal with again because it's a huge hassle, but that's the single benefit of making next to nothing and I'd be a fool for not taking advantage of it if it was there for the taking.
Unemployment wouldn't be much. It should be more than enough to pay my bills while I'm on it though. It wouldn't be enough to put a dime into the house with though. If I go that route, I'd have to be able to get a home equity line of credit for that so I don't start putting stuff on the credit cards with the ridiculous rates they have these days.Quote:
I hate to keep harping on the job situation but it's only as bad as you make it. You can be jobless and income-less if you make a stupid decision, and your situation - which seems bad now- can become a whole lot worse all of a sudden and you will look back on today with fond regret. So make you decisions cautiously; don't jump off the metaphorical cliff.
That was your Depression-era granny talking to you!
Yeah. I know. :)
Maybe after three weeks without me my manager can convince the new guy of how good I am? Maybe he hasn't even noticed the difference without me? If he's willing to give me 8-9 hour shifts every weekend, I'm probably not going to pass that up. Otherwise, I've pretty much already made my peace with losing this job and I'm already lNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I bet I still have my unfinished to-do list from years ago on my PC somewhere.
Kind of don't want to even find it cause it would be depressing how long ago it was last updated.
It's all about fresh starts now. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Jack, fresh starts are good. 
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Bill to pay and other things to do.
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The sun is back.
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No sun around here, I'm afraid.
Just saw about the hardest rainfall I've ever seen in my life for around 15 minutes straight with some hail. Tornado warnings were all over the place with a few touchdowns. My old man said that there was 20 minutes hard hail by him and that when it was over it looked like snowfall in the middle of November. 2 hours later it still hadn't all melted. He said the water came up so high in his driveway that it was about an inch away from flooding the cabin.
Thankfully everyone I know is alright and there wasn't any flooding in the houses. Streets were all fubared for a while, but the water didn't get in.
Crazy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Finally got that boom box up there. I think another few days of living with them finally gave me the balls to do it. I didn't even get all armored up. She was just on the other side of the wall when I did it too. I started by banging the hell out of that door and barking at her and shining a flashlight in there while she was growling back at me.
I managed to have it open wide enough to get the box in the porch attic, which was easily 3 times as wide as she'd need to come at me, but she made no such moves. Closed the door and plugged it in.
It's LOUD. I need to make a decision on whether I should leave it on all night or not. I don't think it's loud enough to be pissing off any neighbors since I don't live on top of anybody. But turning it down would be counter-intuitive as well, and now that it's in there I don't really feel much like opening that door again either. It's really just a choice between on and off by pulling the plug on the extension cord.
Hopefully this flushes her out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:How exciting!!! (Except for where there was actual touch down; then it's just scary and destructive.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No sun around here, I'm afraid.
Just saw about the hardest rainfall I've ever seen in my life for around 15 minutes straight with some hail. Tornado warnings were all over the place with a few touchdowns. My old man said that there was 20 minutes hard hail by him and that when it was over it looked like snowfall in the middle of November. 2 hours later it still hadn't all melted. He said the water came up so high in his driveway that it was about an inch away from flooding the cabin.
Thankfully everyone I know is alright and there wasn't any flooding in the houses. Streets were all fubared for a while, but the water didn't get in.
Crazy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
We had some close calls near Buffalo. I even saw a tornado form overhead, fortunately it never touched down. Even had a couple of events in LA. One of them the meteorologists spent a week trying to figure out if it was a downburst or an actual tornado (downburst) but it sure led to some crazy rainfall, hail, and exploded transformers!
It's all OK if you have a basement to hide in, then you go to the windward corner and wrap up in blankets or something to protect yourself from flying debris. Oh, and take a flashlight or fully-charged cellphone. But if you don't have a basement or storm cellar, it's not exciting, just really scary.
You might want to look around and see where you might be the safest. You have a basement, right?
I know your state isn' really known for tornadoes, but apparently this is becoming a new "thing" where you are, so best to take precautions where you are and wherever you move. Look for a place with a basement.
Indiana and Tornado Alley: What we know about increasing twisters
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/17/indiana-and-torna
do-alley-what-we-know-increasing-twisters/1659799002/
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Yeah. It was a bit thrilling, actually.
With all my house problems, my old man said just about a week ago something like "wouldn't it be great if a tornado just knocked it down and you could just collect on homeowners insurance?"
I thought about calling him up and saying I had good news and bad news. The good news is I was ground zero for the tornado and it knocked my house down. The bad news is there's nowhere good to hide in my house so I'm dead now.
Didn't they have tornados back in '59?
Every single room in this house has windows in it. The only place that doesn't is the crawl space, but it faces northwest.
If we were ground zero, that's where I would have gone for sure, but really not an ideal situation. I'll probably go to my neighbor's house next time since they have a full basement.
I forgot to mention that as bad as the hail was at my dad's (he's going to check to see if any windows were broken today), he said Bolingbrook, IL got the worst of it and had hail that was 3 1/2" in diameter!
That's bigger than a freakin baseball!!!
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I heard about the tornadoes JACK. That is scary for sure.
Think I have mentioned in a different part of the thread that we can get them in Canada, though only on the Prairies which means Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba because they are so flat.
Sun's gone away today it seems. Hope that doesn't mean rain.
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Yeah. This isn't the first time I've been so close to tornadoes in my life, although I've never actually seen one before. Areas where I live aren't exactly hotbeds for them, but we get them here and there on occasion.
This time just felt different since it seemed so imminent. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive about stuff like this with all of the other things going on with my house right now, but if you saw the literal waterfalls coming off the roof of my house you'd understand what I'm talking about. I've never actually seen it rain so hard in my life. I'm glad it only kept up for 20 minutes or so because there was flooding everywhere just from that short time. You couldn't even drive through the streets until a few hours later when most of it had gone away. When I woke up this morning about 1/4 of the street still had standing water though you could drive through it. It wasn't until a few hours ago that it had finally gone away.
I think the boombox is having the reverse effect on the racoon that I wanted to. It sounds like she's possibly burrowing her way even deeper into the attic instead of leaving.
If I don't figure out what I'm going to do with my porch so I can get the city involved with the racoon, I might actually have to consider getting into the walls and trapping her.
I just wish she'd leave already. I really don't need her shit with everything else going on right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. This isn't the first time I've been so close to tornadoes in my life, although I've never actually seen one before. Areas where I live aren't exactly hotbeds for them, but we get them here and there on occasion.
This time just felt different since it seemed so imminent. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive about stuff like this with all of the other things going on with my house right now, but if you saw the literal waterfalls coming off the roof of my house you'd understand what I'm talking about. I've never actually seen it rain so hard in my life. I'm glad it only kept up for 20 minutes or so because there was flooding everywhere just from that short time. You couldn't even drive through the streets until a few hours later when most of it had gone away. When I woke up this morning about 1/4 of the street still had standing water though you could drive through it. It wasn't until a few hours ago that it had finally gone away.
I think the boombox is having the reverse effect on the racoon that I wanted to. It sounds like she's possibly burrowing her way even deeper into the attic instead of leaving.
If I don't figure out what I'm going to do with my porch so I can get the city involved with the racoon, I might actually have to consider getting into the walls and trapping her.
I just wish she'd leave already. I really don't need her shit with everything else going on right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Whoa! I've only seen rain like that on the tv news. Not saying that we can't and haven't gotten heavy rains where I live. I'm just lucky that my city doesn't flood.
Sorry about the racoon not taking the hint and leaving.
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Another box down and this one had dishes in it. And for all the years they've been boxed up only 1 glass plate broke. I throw it out and the rest are going to be donated. I kept 8 dinner plates, some I bought and some I don't know where I got. They are in good shape. The other 4 or 5 I pulled out are too many for me a long with the glass ones. Found some coffee mugs that are going to be donated and 2 I am keeping. One was bought for me by a lady that is gone now. So that one is special and the other is just a funny one.
Also keeping a couple of sets of salt and pepper shakers that were my mom's. One cause it is in the shape of a rattlesnake and the other set are alligators.
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Nice. It's nice getting stuff done and getting rid of stuff you don't use, innit?
Made a lot of headway in the Kitchen today, even though I still haven't finished the living room yet. Both chairs and the table had crap all over and in front of them, and the countertops were full. Got about 80% of that stuff out now and the table and chairs are clear. :)
Decided to donate almost everything in the kitchen, including a nice salt and pepper shaker I never, ever used. I never put salt on anything, and if I feel the need for pepper they come in a shakable container.
I kept two plates, two big bowls, two smaller bowls, two very large coffee mugs, two drinking glasses and a nice set of silverware. Also getting rid of at least half of my mixed and match pots and pans.
Threw out all of the cheap ziplock stuff. Kept a nice tupperware container, but that's it.
Also going to keep all the BBQ utensils and plates, but that about does it for the kitchenware.
Goodwill won't take the Christmas tree out of season, unfortunately. It's a great tree, so hopefully somebody takes it when I put it out. I may bring it back to the garage and keep trying with it until somebody does.
Got the two higback chairs out to the garage instead of waiting for my bro. They were fairly light, so I figure why make a huge project for him when he comes. Tomorrow we get the king bed and the crappy dresser out to the garage. Got a full garage now, so hopefully I can dump some stuff on my neighbor's curb on Friday and clear it out quickly. Some of the stuff is pretty good, so I expect that the pickers will take some. Thursday is supposed to be dry and sunny, so I plan on keeping tabs on what I put out there and the second somebody takes something I will put another piece out.
By the end of the week I'm hoping not only to have all of this stuff out, at least to the garage, but I hope to have the living room, living room closet and the kitchen spotless and bleached down.
New beginnings. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Still the same.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not that anybody would have noticed, but since sometime Wednesday evening or afternoon, I have been unable to login.
I tried on my mobile phone, which I mostly use to post now, and I had thought I also tried on a desktop computer.
It was a weird symptom. My password has not changed for either 7 or 12 years. I put in the correct email and password, and then I was forwarded to the main page - which is normal - but my username was not displayed in place of the login/sign in links - which is unusual.
I tried with incorrect passwords, and the login screen does not forward, but returns to itself, keeping the correct email address but with the password field blank. All of that is normal. So it seems the software is recognizing the correct password and matching email address, but then was not allowing me to BE logged in, nor to post or reply.
So I sent an email to HAKEN. This morning he rebooted the database (or similar). My mobile phone device continues to exhibit the same behavior, but now I find that I can login with a desktop computer at the library.
I am posting this here so that it can be known and/or referenced by anybody who ends up with a similar problem, but OBVIOUSLY cannot post about it while they are unable to login. I don't recall if this has happened to me before at this site.
Haken says this site has no difference between mobile and desktop aplications. He suggested that some changes to cookie settings could be the cause. The described symptom indicates cookie problems, he said.
I have never messed with cookie settings, but started to, nothing has changed anything yet.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nice. It's nice getting stuff done and getting rid of stuff you don't use, innit?
Made a lot of headway in the Kitchen today, even though I still haven't finished the living room yet. Both chairs and the table had crap all over and in front of them, and the countertops were full. Got about 80% of that stuff out now and the table and chairs are clear. :)
Decided to donate almost everything in the kitchen, including a nice salt and pepper shaker I never, ever used. I never put salt on anything, and if I feel the need for pepper they come in a shakable container.
I kept two plates, two big bowls, two smaller bowls, two very large coffee mugs, two drinking glasses and a nice set of silverware. Also getting rid of at least half of my mixed and match pots and pans.
Threw out all of the cheap ziplock stuff. Kept a nice tupperware container, but that's it.
Also going to keep all the BBQ utensils and plates, but that about does it for the kitchenware.
Goodwill won't take the Christmas tree out of season, unfortunately. It's a great tree, so hopefully somebody takes it when I put it out. I may bring it back to the garage and keep trying with it until somebody does.
Got the two higback chairs out to the garage instead of waiting for my bro. They were fairly light, so I figure why make a huge project for him when he comes. Tomorrow we get the king bed and the crappy dresser out to the garage. Got a full garage now, so hopefully I can dump some stuff on my neighbor's curb on Friday and clear it out quickly. Some of the stuff is pretty good, so I expect that the pickers will take some. Thursday is supposed to be dry and sunny, so I plan on keeping tabs on what I put out there and the second somebody takes something I will put another piece out.
By the end of the week I'm hoping not only to have all of this stuff out, at least to the garage, but I hope to have the living room, living room closet and the kitchen spotless and bleached down.
New beginnings. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It is nice. I am starting to realize how much I kept just because it was my mom's. So, I think a good bit will be donated. Don't think anymore pots and pans will be donated but dishes I think will be. We shall see. I know I have a small coffee pot that I will be donating as I don't drink entire pot of coffee anymore. Also know that I have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder somewhere but I haven't found them yet.
Going to get one more bin done tonight as it just has books in it.
Yeah, I got some recycling to get out in the next couple of days. I will.
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Another small bag of donatables ready to go as soon as I get a move on.
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It is nice. I am starting to realize how much I kept just because it was my mom's. So, I think a good bit will be donated. Don't think anymore pots and pans will be donated but dishes I think will be. We shall see. I know I have a small coffee pot that I will be donating as I don't drink entire pot of coffee anymore. Also know that I have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder somewhere but I haven't found them yet.
Going to get one more bin done tonight as it just has books in it.
Yeah, I got some recycling to get out in the next couple of days. I will.
Yeah. That is the hard stuff to get rid of. :(
Fortunately, I still have both of my parents so that hasn't been an issue for me with them yet. When my grandparents died, I refused to be a vulture and pick through their things like all of my cousins were. When my grandma passed a few years back I did make a request for two items, one of which I knew my grandma still had of my grandpa's after he passed. They were hard to find, but I did manage to get them. They've already been packed up and are ready to follow me wherever I end up. :)
If you didn't get rid of that coffee pot yet, you might want to give that one some more thought. I had done that a while back when I quit drinking coffee and a few years later when I was drinking it again I got a small 5 cup coffee maker from my mom she didn't need anymore. NOT ENOUGH COFFEE!!!! :)
They're cheap enough though, so if it isn't a real fancy expensive one, no reason to hold onto it if you're not going to use it.
My brother only took about 10 books. I was hoping he'd be taking a lot more. My how-to books were largely collected from Goodwill. They might be going right back. These days it's not as if I haven't been able to figure out whatever I need to get done by going on youtube...
Although.... I still haven't been able to google how to fix my porch situation. Maybe I should spend some time through some of them and see if they have any "old-world" remedies for that. :)
About half of the books I still have are old sci-fi paperbacks my old man gave me years ago. A lot of them by authors I love but I never got around to reading them. I may see if he wants them back, at least temporarily. It would be a shame to get rid of them before I ever read them.
Got the king sized bed and dresser out yesterday Had a feeling the dresser might go even though it wasn't great, so instead of staging that in the garage we brought it out to the street even though it rained last night. Somebody took it. :)
Already got one neighbor on board for allowing me to put a piece of furniture on their curb tonight. Hoping I see some more of my neighbors out while doing things outside today. I'd rather not go knocking on houses to ask a favor.
Except for some incidental small end-table type furniture and a crappy lightweight coffee table, all of the furniture I'm not going to use is out of the house besides the two big bedroom sets that I have to figure out what I'm going to do with. Either of them would be snatched up from the street in a heartbeat if I do that. That ultimately might be what I do if nobody I know wants them. I only need one. I just have to decide if I want the more "masculine" looking one that probably doesn't have much resale value, or if I want to keep the antique set with definite value but isn't as appropriate for a bachelor. They're both very high quality sets and in great shape.
Hopefully today my friend comes over and gives me an idea of what to start doing with the porch.
After that, it's just another carload to goodwill, spending the next few weeks salting out the stuff staged in my garage to the trash and then figuring out all of the garage stuff I'm going to get rid of.
I still think of the unboxed stuff that's not furniture in my house I could get rid of another 50% of
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Got a lot of yardwork done that I wasn't expecting to be able to do until tomorrow because the weather decided to actually cooperate for once. All the helicopters are in a huge pile, but I can't throw them out until the garbage men come tomorrow. :)
Almost have my garage back, but that's because I might have gone a little overboard with what I put on the street for now. They'll only take one piece, but I've got three out there. They're all nice though, so I might luck out and wake up to see them all gone. If that's the case, I'm putting out the king sized bed and then I'll be able to park my car in the garage again for the first time in two weeks.
Living room is finally done! Took me forever to finally buckle down and untangle the mess of cords and wires around the network in the corner of the room. Had to really clean all the cables since the mice were back there before.
Tomorrow I get to really clear out a lot of stuff after the garbage men come. Then I can clear out and deep clean the closet floor that had who knows how many mice camping out. They must all be gone now because I've had those traps out for over a week and not a nibble. It's possible that Mama Racoon scared them all away. Maybe I should invest in a cat once I get more situated with my situation.
Going to have to decide what of the small incidental furniture I want to keep and pitch the rest next week. I go back to work so I'll be loading up on as many days as they'll let me until the job is gone, but I'll try to keep up the progress wherever I can in the mean time.
Super stoked about doing work on the house again now that everything is getting cleared out. I have to keep my strong urge to go out and start buying materials in check because I don't want to be dumping much if any money into the house if I'm just going to split.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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It is nice. I am starting to realize how much I kept just because it was my mom's. So, I think a good bit will be donated. Don't think anymore pots and pans will be donated but dishes I think will be. We shall see. I know I have a small coffee pot that I will be donating as I don't drink entire pot of coffee anymore. Also know that I have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder somewhere but I haven't found them yet.
Going to get one more bin done tonight as it just has books in it.
Yeah, I got some recycling to get out in the next couple of days. I will.
Yeah. That is the hard stuff to get rid of. :(
Fortunately, I still have both of my parents so that hasn't been an issue for me with them yet. When my grandparents died, I refused to be a vulture and pick through their things like all of my cousins were. When my grandma passed a few years back I did make a request for two items, one of which I knew my grandma still had of my grandpa's after he passed. They were hard to find, but I did manage to get them. They've already been packed up and are ready to follow me wherever I end up. :)
If you didn't get rid of that coffee pot yet, you might want to give that one some more thought. I had done that a while back when I quit drinking coffee and a few years later when I was drinking it again I got a small 5 cup coffee maker from my mom she didn't need anymore. NOT ENOUGH COFFEE!!!! :)
They're cheap enough though, so if it isn't a real fancy expensive one, no reason to hold onto it if you're not going to use it.
My brother only took about 10 books. I was hoping he'd be taking a lot more. My how-to books were largely collected from Goodwill. They might be going right back. These days it's not as if I haven't been able to figure out whatever I need to get done by going on youtube...
Although.... I still haven't been able to google how to fix my porch situation. Maybe I should spend some time through some of them and see if they have any "old-world" remedies for that. :)
About half of the books I still have are old sci-fi paperbacks my old man gave me years ago. A lot of them by authors I love but I never got around to reading them. I may see if he wants them back, at least temporarily. It would be a shame to get rid of them before I ever read them.
Got the king sized bed and dresser out yesterday Had a feeling the dresser might go even though it wasn't great, so instead of staging that in the garage we brought it out to the street even though it rained last night. Somebody took it. :)
Already got one neighbor on board for allowing me to put a piece of furniture on their curb tonight. Hoping I see some more of my neighbors out while doing things outside today. I'd rather not go knocking on houses to ask a favor.
Except for some incidental small end-table type furniture and a crappy lightweight coffee table, all of the furniture I'm not going to use is out of the house besides the two big bedroom sets that I have to figure out what I'm going to do with. Either of them would be snatched up from the street in a heartbeat if I do that. That ultimately might be what I do if nobody I know wants them. I only need one. I just have to decide if I want the more "masculine" looking one that probably doesn't have much resale value, or if I want to keep the antique set with definite value but isn't as appropriate for a bachelor. They're both very high quality sets and in great shape.
Hopefully today my friend comes over and gives me an idea of what to start doing with the porch.
After that, it's just another carload to goodwill, spending the next few weeks salting out the stuff staged in my garage to the trash and then figuring out all of the garage stuff I'm going to get rid of.
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Hooray for the "new start" crew! It sounds like you're both making terrific progress on sorting and starting fresh!
I'm happy to say that hubby and I are now on the same page in terms of cleaning up. I think I'll be the drag because I'm doing so many other things but at least we're moving forward. I hope to report progress by next week.
Happy spring cleanup!
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Yeah, I gave away and got rid of what I could of her stuff after she died then other things were boxed up. So now that I am officially unpacking I am finding things that I have to make decisions about.
This coffee pot is like a 4 cup thing as I remember but what happens to it will also depend on what condition it is in when I find it.
I am hoping by the end of this year to get a couch and a small kitchen table. Maybe a couple of stands to put small knick knacks on but that isn't anything important.
I have fingers crossed for you and your critter problem.
Too bad we don't live closer. I've got a 2-chair and small kitchen table set I'm on the fence about. If I knew somebody who needed it that was close, that would make that decision easy for me. One of the things I left out last night was a really nice stand for knick knacks, but it didn't get taken. Neither did the chairs. :(
I'm thinking it was because trash day was a day late. Somebody did pick up my dresser the night before, which is the night we usually would have put out trash. Maybe the pickers forgot that it was a holiday week and didn't come back for real trash day.
Had to do a bit of re-arranging. Brought the stand and one of the chairs back in the garage. Threw the other chair on my idiot's curb behind me on top of his 2 feet tall grass. Then I pulled out the king box spring and mattress to my own curb.
That takes care of the really large stuff in the garage. I can probably spend some time re-arranging what's left after they pick everything up and I can throw all the bags in the garage in the cans, so that I can still park my car in there. It will be a tight fit until next garbage day, but it should fit.
My friend still wasn't able to come over. Hopefully tonight after work, but he promises that it will be by Sunday since he knows I go back to work this week. He could always come on his lunch, but that only leave him about 5 to 10 minutes here and he wanted to be able to spend some time scoping everything out. We haven't actually seen each other face to face for about 4 years. It should be a trip, each of us seeing how old we've gotten since the last time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah, I gave away and got rid of what I could of her stuff after she died then other things were boxed up. So now that I am officially unpacking I am finding things that I have to make decisions about.
This coffee pot is like a 4 cup thing as I remember but what happens to it will also depend on what condition it is in when I find it.
I am hoping by the end of this year to get a couch and a small kitchen table. Maybe a couple of stands to put small knick knacks on but that isn't anything important.
I have fingers crossed for you and your critter problem.
Too bad we don't live closer. I've got a 2-chair and small kitchen table set I'm on the fence about. If I knew somebody who needed it that was close, that would make that decision easy for me. One of the things I left out last night was a really nice stand for knick knacks, but it didn't get taken. Neither did the chairs. :(
I'm thinking it was because trash day was a day late. Somebody did pick up my dresser the night before, which is the night we usually would have put out trash. Maybe the pickers forgot that it was a holiday week and didn't come back for real trash day.
Had to do a bit of re-arranging. Brought the stand and one of the chairs back in the garage. Threw the other chair on my idiot's curb behind me on top of his 2 feet tall grass. Then I pulled out the king box spring and mattress to my own curb.
That takes care of the really large stuff in the garage. I can probably spend some time re-arranging what's left after they pick everything up and I can throw all the bags in the garage in the cans, so that I can still park my car in there. It will be a tight fit until next garbage day, but it should fit.
My friend still wasn't able to come over. Hopefully tonight after work, but he promises that it will be by Sunday since he knows I go back to work this week. He could always come on his lunch, but that only leave him about 5 to 10 minutes here and he wanted to be able to spend some time scoping everything out. We haven't actually seen each other face to face for about 4 years. It should be a trip, each of us seeing how old we've gotten since the last time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That is too bad as that sounds like that kitchen table and chairs would do me a real treat.
Think you are a head of me on getting things done. Will tackle another box of dishes tomorrow. This one has glasses in it. Hopefully they survived.
A friend of mine her birthday is next week and I am trying to get a hold of her so I can give her birthday present to her.
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Things to do in the sun.
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Out on a beautiful sunny Saturday. Later peeps.
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Another 2 and a half boxes of donatables. Found my mom's Chinese checkers game, some books of mine that I am flip flopping on. Side plates and coffee cups to a set of black dishes I bought years ago. Also found my Russian coffee cups that have miraculously survived being boxed up for almost 10years. Also found some stuffed animals that I will be giving away.
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Yeah. Sorry I couldn't get the chairs and table to you. They're really nice, but the shipping would probably cost more than you would pay to just buy a nice set for yourself. I'm probably just keeping that set though since it's small and light and will be easy to move around when I start fixing things in the house again.
Yes. I will be doing that. :)
My friend finally came by. Was awesome catching up on things today and having him look at my porch situation like it wasn't a big deal. We've already got a semi-plan in place on what we're going to do, and he's got some pictures to show his old man for some more advice. Looks like we'll begin working on it some time in late July when he's got time.
In the mean time, I'm just going to make sure the lawn looks good, the ants stay away and I don't get any more racoons. All while finishing my "everything must go" project and getting the rest of the house cleaned and ready to begin the remodel.
He said we can get the porch situation under control and do a few other things I've been considering doing to give this house some real curb appeal and I could get 2 to 3 times as much as I would if I just ran away from the situation.
I'm pretty stoked about all of it right now.
I think I'm probably not going to wait very long before applying at that other place too. Who knows? Maybe if I lay out my current situation and plans to them, they would not have a problem with giving me weekend overnight work so I could have the week to devote to working on the house and still have a modest stream of income in the mean time.
Doesn't hurt to at least ask that at an early interview and if they say no to that right now I can always let them know that when I get some of the major work done I could conform to a less solid schedule down the road if that's the only option on the table.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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That's okay JACK. I'd probably have a hard time finding someone to pick them up from wherever I had too.
Great about your friend coming by. It's nice to catch up with old friends that you haven't seen in years.
Sounds like you have a working plan in progress. Good for you.
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Oh, forgot. Another stupid comment from the lady doctor that I work for last Thursday. I asked if the church they go to would like the three empty bins I got. She said she would ask then said, "How nice it was of me to think of the church."
This woman is loosing her mind. The fact it is a church has nothing to do with why I offered them. I just figured that someone else might be able to use them. Either the church itself or some of their members.
They just don't get me.
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:)
I won't lie. It hasn't been a very calm and easy going period in my life these last few months. And finally seeing my mom and step dad for a brief few hours they came to visit yesterday turned out to be more depressing than anything else when I realized that after they left all we really did was talk about me and my issues.
That was the first time I'd seen them face to face for a year and a half, and who knows... it might be that long before I see them again. At least we got the shit behind us though and we're good going forward. They always loved the lake and boating and it was a huge blow to them when the economy bellied up and they had to sell their yacht (this all happened in the years we weren't talking at all, so I've only ever seen pictures of it).
It sounds more impressive than it was. They didn't even know it was a "yacht" until one of their dock friends told them that it was the smallest boat considered in the yacht class of boats. The bank also owned it, not them, so it really was just another reason why I've been so concerned about their retirement.
But maybe I was wrong about the whole thing. They're actually going to be running a boating business in FL for a few years before my step-sis and her husband retire and take it over. No financial risk on their part since they didn't put any money into it. They had to move immediately though since he couldn't buy the business if he didn't have somebody to run it. They were able to sell the house in AZ for a profit too, since it's in an increasingly desirable location. It wasn't even on the market for a week.
I still could have used the help, but at least it seems I don't have to waste any of my time or energy worrying about them for at least a while now. :) And now they get to be back on the water that they always loved, only this time it's the ocean and not a lake.
Just got to keep trying to be positive and productive and things will fall into place.
I was having a bit of an off and lazy day today. Feeling depressed about how my long overdue meet with the folks went, I guess. But then my friend came over and it was a great meeting. Didn't do any work around the house after he left, but I was pumped up so much that I had the best workout session outside of working the job that I've had in years. It's so nice having my weights out in the open and easy to get to without crap piled all around them. Even when I'm not having a real workout session, I'm always taking a break now from whatever else I'm doing just to pick up some dumbells and do some random sets here and there.
The universe works in mysterious ways. Who am I to argue with it?
I was in a rut. Sure, I've been sober (for exactly 2 1/2 years today), and I've been eating so much better, but I was still deep in an unhealthy routine of OCD on a project that got me out of drinking but still kept me inside all of the time and I was still letting things decay around me without even realizing that they were.
A month ago I thought that my entire world was falling apart around me.
Now I know that somebody was just giving me a major ass kicking that I needed to snap me out of whatever funk I had mired myself in.
I still got some years left in me. I think it's time to start really living again instead of just existing.
I hope everyone here,
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That's okay JACK. I'd probably have a hard time finding someone to pick them up from wherever I had too.
Great about your friend coming by. It's nice to catch up with old friends that you haven't seen in years.
Sounds like you have a working plan in progress. Good for you.
Yeah. He's balding a bit on top. I'm loosing most of my teeth eventually.
Other than that, we still look great for our ages. I was glad to see that he's been keeping himself in shape. You never know what to expect when it's been so long. I'm glad none of my old friends saw me when I was deep in the drinking.
I made sure to let him know what a great friend he was, and that I was sorry that I've been such a shitty one.
Not part of my 12 step process, since I'm not doing any 12 step thing. But it's nice to be able to say that and mean it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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That's okay JACK. I'd probably have a hard time finding someone to pick them up from wherever I had too.
Great about your friend coming by. It's nice to catch up with old friends that you haven't seen in years.
Sounds like you have a working plan in progress. Good for you.
Yeah. He's balding a bit on top. I'm loosing most of my teeth eventually.
Other than that, we still look great for our ages. I was glad to see that he's been keeping himself in shape. You never know what to expect when it's been so long. I'm glad none of my old friends saw me when I was deep in the drinking.
I made sure to let him know what a great friend he was, and that I was sorry that I've been such a shitty one.
Not part of my 12 step process, since I'm not doing any 12 step thing. But it's nice to be able to say that and mean it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Jack, you and this guy are what? In your late 30s or so? Geez, wait until you hit my age. Then you will have something to moan about.
I'm half way to 60 and on my own.
That is a good thing you did telling him he is important to you. All friends and other people we know should know that.
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Almost 9pm and time to turn on a light. Maybe.
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That's okay JACK. I'd probably have a hard time finding someone to pick them up from wherever I had too.
Great about your friend coming by. It's nice to catch up with old friends that you haven't seen in years.
Sounds like you have a working plan in progress. Good for you.
Yeah. He's balding a bit on top. I'm loosing most of my teeth eventually.
Other than that, we still look great for our ages. I was glad to see that he's been keeping himself in shape. You never know what to expect when it's been so long. I'm glad none of my old friends saw me when I was deep in the drinking.
I made sure to let him know what a great friend he was, and that I was sorry that I've been such a shitty one.
Not part of my 12 step process, since I'm not doing any 12 step thing. But it's nice to be able to say that and mean it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Jack, you and this guy are what? In your late 30s or so? Geez, wait until you hit my age. Then you will have something to moan about.
I'm half way to 60 and on my own.
That is a good thing you did telling him he is important to you. All friends and other people we know should know that.
We're both 40 this year, yeah. I know. I hear that all the time from people who are older than I am. But most people my age aren't pulling out their own teeth with pliers cleaned with rubbing alcohol. :)
And he's also been in a very lengthy relationship. Even before I stopped contacting my old friends I had already seen a few of them let themselves really go physically once they were settled and both parties decided that since the need to attract mates wasn't on the table anymore they'd just give up taking care of themselves.
So it was nice to see that he isn't among them.
Yeah. He's a great guy. It meant a lot to me seeing him today. I'm glad I let him know that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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That's okay JACK. I'd probably have a hard time finding someone to pick them up from wherever I had too.
Great about your friend coming by. It's nice to catch up with old friends that you haven't seen in years.
Sounds like you have a working plan in progress. Good for you.
Yeah. He's balding a bit on top. I'm loosing most of my teeth eventually.
Other than that, we still look great for our ages. I was glad to see that he's been keeping himself in shape. You never know what to expect when it's been so long. I'm glad none of my old friends saw me when I was deep in the drinking.
I made sure to let him know what a great friend he was, and that I was sorry that I've been such a shitty one.
Not part of my 12 step process, since I'm not doing any 12 step thing. But it's nice to be able to say that and mean it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Jack, you and this guy are what? In your late 30s or so? Geez, wait until you hit my age. Then you will have something to moan about.
I'm half way to 60 and on my own.
That is a good thing you did telling him he is important to you. All friends and other people we know should know that.
We're both 40 this year, yeah. I know. I hear that all the time from people who are older than I am. But most people my age aren't pulling out their own teeth with pliers cleaned with rubbing alcohol. :)
And he's also been in a very lengthy relationship. Even before I stopped contacting my old friends I had already seen a few of them let themselves really go physically once they were settled and both parties decided that since the need to attract mates wasn't on the table anymore they'd just give up taking care of themselves.
So it was nice to see that he isn't among them.
Yeah. He's a great guy. It meant a lot to me seeing him today. I'm glad I let him know that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I heard the same thing when I was younger as well.
People do that.
I see what you mean about your friend.
That's good. My friend and I won't meet until after birthday. We are both busy next week.
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Hey all - got a new computer and I'm glad to be back!
It seems like we all got the clean-up bug for different reasons, including me. For me it was finally being retired. With my nonexistent energy levels, and the build-up of things that need to be done, this is going to take a while. But at least now I have the time. After cleaning out (most of) my home office, today was my day to set up the desk, haul the 'puter stuff in, and hook everything up. Tomorrow I'm going to start tackling the stuff I brought back from work. Mostly I had a lot of gifts and decorations that I kept there to take my brain off of work and remind me of my life, and I'm going to keep them, but I want to store them carefully while I clear out the rest of the place. I don't have much, but I have even less storage space, so working on this is like playing those puzzles where you have numbers to arrange in order, but only one empty spot to work with. It gets a bit irritating - demoralizing? - have to do, undo, and redo, but if that's what it takes ...
Jack, for what it's worth I have had my own issues with raccoons - destructive, dirty, nasty creatures. And imo second to them are rats, then squirrels. Fingers crossed your problems got solved! If you can call out a pest / rodent person to find out how she got in, you might want to have that blocked off. (If you mentioned it earlier, apologies! I didn't go all the way back to when I last has a working computer.) And I'm glad to hear you got advice on your porch problem. Without looking at it it was hard to opine, but many things are fixable and almost take longer to explain than to do.
Hey Brenda, I'm still stoked you've moved! I hope that made as big a difference in your life as I imagine!
Signy - just hey!
JSF - sorry abut your login issues, but it seems like they're fixed now ...
Cheers, all!
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It seems like we all got the clean-up bug for different reasons, including me. For me it was finally being retired. With my nonexistent energy levels, and the build-up of things that need to be done, this is going to take a while. But at least now I have the time. After cleaning out (most of) my home office, today was my day to set up the desk, haul the 'puter stuff in, and hook everything up. Tomorrow I'm going to start tackling the stuff I brought back from work. Mostly I had a lot of gifts and decorations that I kept there to take my brain off of work and remind me of my life, and I'm going to keep them, but I want to store them carefully while I clear out the rest of the place. I don't have much, but I have even less storage space, so working on this is like playing those puzzles where you have numbers to arrange in order, but only one empty spot to work with. It gets a bit irritating - demoralizing? - have to do, undo, and redo, but if that's what it takes ...
You might find that the clutter itself is sapping your energy levels.
It sounds like you're making good progress though. And at least for now, you're doing the right thing by keeping something that is special to you while moving on to the other stuff. As long as you're making progress in other areas, there's nothing wrong with making choices about things you know you want to keep and protectively boxing them up. Just don't let it become one of those things where you find yourself keeping everything. Otherwise you're using up all that mental and physical energy just moving things around in that limited space.
Once you get everything out that you know you don't want or need anymore, then you can go back and make a second run through the stuff you kept. I'll bet you'll find that not everything is as important to you as you first thought it was. In the case of all of that stuff you kept from work, for instance, you might choose to keep some of it for sentimental reasons but realize that you don't need to keep all of it.
You might have missed when I talked about my massive purge that I did around 4 years ago, and the fact that of every single thing I kept in my attic that I simply couldn't ever part with, I've only ever gone into two boxes of computer junk since then and to be honest I don't really even have a clue what else was so important that it's still sitting up there. Once I get around to purging everything from the main house and garage that I know I don't want or need anymore, I intend to go through the attic with a fine tooth comb and I hope to get rid of at least half of that stuff I initially saved too.
I've got this huge tri-level house with a fully finished attic and 2 1/2 car garage, and I filled everything. My end goal right now is to reduce the amount of "stuff" I have to what I would have had in a single bedroom apartment when I was younger. Not only will this make getting to whatever I need to remodel a breeze, but whenever I finally do move I want to be able to rent nothing larger than a 12' truck to take it all with me.
It's amazing my change of thought processes on everything now that stuff is getting cleared out. I'm actually excited about getting back to work on the house now that I can actually have room to do it. The clutter was holding me back.
I wish you luck with it. It's a great thing you're doing for yourself. :)
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Hey KIKI! Welcome back! I'm glad you got a new 'puter, and that it's set up, along with a desk!
Also, progress here is slow, slow, slow...
This is how yesterday went, for me ...
walk the backyard with our (fomerly homeless) gardner and scope out the work that we have for him. As I mentioned, he quit his sweet deal in Idaho because someone wanted him to fill out a timesheet and he got into a snit ... NOT a good decision! ... and we don't really have regular work for him but I do have some projects that need help
Finally got back in touch with our next-door neighbor (again) to get the OK on installing a (plastic) root barrier between our two front lawns. I'm sick of digging their grass out all of the time and at the same time I'm sure they won't want tree roots invading their lawn from the trees that I planted. We had staked and marked the property line from the surveyors mark to the middle of the back wall, but it was so at-odds with where the grass had been allowed to grow it looked like we were intruding on their property by a foot-and-some, so I halted that, then got a ladder and "sighted" down the block wall to the curb and confirmed our mark was indeed correct, but needed to get back in touch. At the same time I gave their gardner the OK to trim the avocado back to the property line ... the leaves are falling into their pool
Took the dog and daughter for a walk. One hour. During our walk I stopped by another neighbor's house (he is a few blocks away) ... I have seen him woodorking on his driveway while walking the dog and since hubby is getting back to woodworking I stopped to chat a few times about his work. Well, hubby is looking to get rid of his water- and oil-stones (for sharpening) because he's using diamond plates and a slow-speed CBN wheel now instead, so I thought I would offer a fellow woodworker a chance at some equipment. So I rang the doorbell, and as it turns out he was JUST looking at sharpening stones and would be VERY happy to have them! I ran the stones over to his front porch later in the evening ... does that count as cleanup? It DID get rid of a few things from the garage...
Prepared lunch for our gardner and spent the time just chatting with him about his situation and how a mutual friend is doing. One hour
Helped dear daugher with some wound dressings ...
Finally got a start on the room painting, we are still working on completing it. Dear daughter did the baseboards and I did the crown molding. Jeez, its fiddly work. Three hours because the crown molding needed two coats. But I have to say I'm ecstatic over the color that I chose, even if it DID take a month and three or four "sample" cans of paint to figure it out!
Finished preparing dinner, and family dinner, two (?) hours, and kitchen cleanup one hour.
Did some TV watching with the family but I felt so crappy I spent most of the evening kind of uselessly wandering around before rinsing my sinuses, taking ibuprofen, letting the dog out for a pee, and going to bed.
Did you notice any cleanup in that list?
Yeah, me neither!
Hubby and I are going to take down some "saved" drawers from the garage rafters today so he can break them apart for disposal (assuming he is well enough to work, he caught the same URI that I had a couple weeks ago) and put some better "saved" drawers up there instead, which frees up some space in the den, so there's that!
This upcoming week is going to be another "doctor" week... kind of like the two previous weeks, but this time all of the appointments are for dear daughter. I'm aiming at finally finishing the room (just needs the window and door trim painted and some wall touch-up), fixing the toilet (tank ad leaking from where it is mounted on the base) an cleaning the bathroom and then we can move back into our regular bedroom.
Like I said ... progress has been slow, slow, slow.
Well, on with the day!
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Hi KIKI,
Good to see you back on line.
I am doing good now but unpacking and checking and cleaning things is a slow process as they have been in boxes for so long.
Body is feeling a little better but the healing of various injuries will take more time as I was in that other place for 5 and almost half years.
But all in all I am much better.
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2,000th post :)
My god... that closet. Mice made a den in there at some point. Spent the last 1 1/2 hours just thoroughly cleaning a box and bag full of misc computer wires and plugs I had stored in there. Some gloves, scarves and hats on the floor are going straight into the trash. My best guitar was tucked away in the back of it all. Haven't gotten to it yet. The case looks fine, but its' going to need to be scrubbed down. Glad it was a hard shell case or I'd just be throwing it out too. Hopefully nothing happened to the guitar itself.
I know where one of my bait stations are going to be put when it's all cleared out. Never putting anything on the floor in there again.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Happy 2000th post!
My, but we're in a cleanup mode this early summer! Many changes for us: retirement, move, anticipated move...
Life never stands still!
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I had a mouse in the house once; cute little thing that liked to visit dear daughter's snack drawer and eat her junk food. If it had stayed there it might well have died of an early heart attack. I bought a teeny-tiny trap, caught it and released it across the street into a vacant lot.
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Signy - "(plastic) root barrier" Have you purchased it yet? I have ~1' aluminum flashing in ~20' lengths (as best as I recall) I was going to use as root barrier, but I'm not there yet! You could use it instead, I could get that to you.
Jack - I have never been a 'saver', a fact I bless frequently! But I'm an organized 'thrower-outer'. :) If I'm going to throw something out I want to be sure I know what it is! What got me was lack of energy = lack of time, while I was working. I was so wiped out and in pain that every little thing took forever, and I couldn't manage even day to day. Retirement has been good to me. Apparently the long works days really didn't get me enough sleep, and now that I can sleep as much as I need, my energy and pain have improved enough to allow me to plug along a few hours at a time. Which is far better than before, where the treadmill of life was running me backwards faster than I could manage to move forwards!
Brenda - I'm so happy you're literally in a good place. I can't say it enough - hooray for you!!! BIG BIG GRIN AND CHEERS TO YOU!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I had a mouse in the house once; cute little thing that liked to visit dear daughter's snack drawer and eat her junk food. If it had stayed there it might well have died of an early heart attack. I bought a teeny-tiny trap, caught it and released it across the street into a vacant lot.
Yeah... I'm not playing nice anymore. If you saw what lied beneath all of this crap, I don't think you would either. The poop is visible and gross enough, but wherever there is poop there is pee, and from what I've read that is where the real danger lies. Meningitis doesn't sound like a party.
I don't think I've ever washed my hands this much while doing anything in my life. So gross.
Guitar was fine. I didn't have to throw out much in the closet. Spent about 5 hours yesterday cleaning cables and wires with antibacterial spray though. Geez...
My entire living room floor that I had cleaned now is full of wires and cables that I brought down from the attic. I'm putting them all in one place, wrapping them up with electric tape, organizing them, and then deciding what I need and what I can curb. I know I don't need 15 CAT-5 cables or 8 HDMI cables. I'll keep plugs though. That's kind of "hoardery", I know, but there's a lot of cool things you can do with plugs of different amperages and wattages. I actually had thought of that the other night when I had put a strobing LED flashlight up in the attic (the last night I heard the racoons). I could actually wire up that flashlight with the right plug spliced up so I can just plug it into a wall outlet out there and have it going 24/7 instead of draining the batteries once per day.
I would have done it then, but I didn't know where any of the plugs were.
But this is all a really good learning experience for me. I'm NEVER going to accumulate this shit again. Just because I have empty floor space, doesn't mean something needs to go there. Depending on what area you live in, that's not just keeping an orderly house, that's eliminating spots where critters can thrive.
So far I have 15 mid-sized boxes packed up and ready to go and the box for the cables and wires I'm keeping will be box 16. I figure the small amount of kitchen stuff I kept will be box 17 whenever I do move. After I get rid of all of the old clothes I don't ever wear anymore, maybe another 4 boxes of clothes (21). The books I'm keeping will be 22, my DVDs and the games my brother gave me for the XBox360 would be 23, and my printer/copier/fax machine would be 24. 2 computers will be 26. Oh yeah... towels and sheets would probably get it up to 30. Not too bad considering I've given two car-loads to Goodwill and I've thrown out countless bags and gotten rid of two projection screen TVs, two tube TVs and all of that furniture so far. I'm also putting out a few small computer monitors next week, so I'll just have 1 flat screen TV and two computer monitors left.
I've got a lot of tools. A LOT. I'm not getting rid of any of them. That may double the amount of boxes. I'm still fairly sure that as long as a house I'm eventually moving in comes with appliances and I don't need to take any of mine with me that a 12' truck will be more than enough with the small amount of furniture I plan to keep.
I think I'm going to mow the lawn today. It doesn't really need it yet, but I've actually been the guy on the block this year that does it first all the time and that kind of feels nice. Going back to work again tomorrow, so if I don't do it today I'll definitely have to do it in between shifts and I'm usually exhausted (and ravenous) after a good night of work.
If I can get all of those cables packed up and off of my floor, I'm going to look at this is a vacation well spent. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Jack - I have never been a 'saver', a fact I bless frequently! But I'm an organized 'thrower-outer'. :) If I'm going to throw something out I want to be sure I know what it is! What got me was lack of energy = lack of time, while I was working. I was so wiped out and in pain that every little thing took forever, and I couldn't manage even day to day. Retirement has been good to me. Apparently the long works days really didn't get me enough sleep, and now that I can sleep as much as I need, my energy and pain have improved enough to allow me to plug along a few hours at a time. Which is far better than before, where the treadmill of life was running me backwards faster than I could manage to move forwards!
LOL... good for you for not being a "saver". It all starts out with good intentions, but one day you wake up and realize all of the broken and half-working crap you accumulated with the intention of fixing that you never got around to and you're literally swimming in it.
I'm an "organized thrower-outer" on top of that too, which makes this all much harder. I was looking at the mess of cables on my floor last night and thought "I could just get a big black bag, throw them all out right now without looking at any of them and be done with it in 2 minutes". But there are a lot of useful things in there and the two boxes that I have rummaged around in since the last huge house purge were the two computer boxes. There's nothing more annoying than having to be faced with the choice of driving to Best Buy to pay a 1000% markup on a cable you need, or waiting a week to have it delivered to your house with ground shipping... especially when you know you had 5 of them but you threw them out.
It's good you're getting enough sleep to get things done at home now. Congratulations on that.
Keep up with the purge though.
Nobody thinks they're a hoarder, especially if they haven't let their house get to the point where they have designated walkways through rooms in between the crap. But that "junk drawer" in the kitchen always seems to find a way to overflow into other areas.
Minimalist lifestyle for me all the way from here on out. If I'm going to continue to be a hoarder, it will be virtually on my hard drives and my computer projects where the mice can't hide. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sunny day. Out in a bit. Things to do.
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Hey KIKI, already bought a root barrier. 
Yesterday was a bust on any of the big/cleanup projects. Gardener couldn't show up for whatever reason and hubby really is sick, he had the exact same progression of symptoms ... ear congestion, ear pain, wickedly sore throat, cough, general stuffiness/ congestion leading to apnea and poor sleep ... no fever ...
Anyay. So for my part I just ran a lot of errands yesterday. Today is another day to get ajump start on all "the usual" so I can turn to all the "projects"
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I don't know about you guys, but I kind of informally divide my work between daily/weekly chores and "projects".
To me, a project is something that, once done, doesn't have to be done again for a long time, or perhaps not ever again. A giant paperwork purge that doesn't have to be done for at least another year, for example; or FINALLY getting that tangle of computer wires sorted, wrapped up, and up off the floor; or painting a room (at the rate that I re-paint, not to be done for another 15 years!)
I LOVE doing projects, I HATE doing chores which are such an effing treadmill.
I too am an "organized thrower-outer".
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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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Well, so much for trying to donate to the church that the lady that I work for goes to. Just got an email from her saying that the church is trying to clear out stuff, so it isn't taking anything in right now.
Oh well.
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On the flip side "Bohemian Rhapsody" is waiting for me at my local library tomorrow. I will pick it up.
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Yes. I hate chores, but I love projects as well.
The worst for me would be the bathroom and kitchen cleanup. There's not much that I can do to aid in keeping up with the bathroom besides inviting people over more often since I always clean it good before people come over. But for the kitchen, that's why I got rid of 90% of my dishes, cups, pots and pans. If I want to eat, then I better damn well clean the dirty stuff since I can't let both basins overflow before finally getting around to it.
Outdoor chores aren't as bad for me, as long as I keep up with them and the lawn and weed situation is under control and everything looks good. But when I let stuff get out of control it's a real morale killer. So far so good this year. If it weren't for the prior damage done by moles and ants, I'd say that the outside appearance of my house looks better right now than it ever has. It does from the street for sure, but up close you can see the damage (future projects).
I've got a major computer project that I'm going to try doing a little bit everyday between work shifts in the upcoming weeks. I have about 40 hard drives now, both from old computers and a huge bundle of used ones I bought when I thought I was going to be making a bunch of emulation machines years ago. I've got to do 5 things with them in the "virtual world" before I make real world decisions on things.
1. Organize files.
2. Make several backups of projects that I've been working on, and make sure my notes on where I left off are up to date.
3. Run each hard drive through a thorough test to see which ones are good and which ones aren't.
4. Dismantle all bad hard drives, keep all platters and magnets.
5. Leave a box each of boards and aluminum cases for the light haulers, then wrap up and box up all of the good hard drives.
The platters take up very little space, and I want to eventually make a really cool looking piece of mirror artwork with them when I have enough of them. Hard drive magnets are insanely powerful, and while they don't make for good refrigerator magnets, are great to have all over the place in a workshop. Dropped a bolt while working on the engine? Just stick a few magnets to a screwdriver and you can pull it right back up from a spot you'd never be able to fit your hand down. :)
Scanning those hard drives for consistancy is going to take a very long time, especially with my old and slow computer. It's unfortunate I only have one kit for hooking up drives externally, or I could pull out my even older laptop and have two of them going at once.
So yeah... this is technically a "project", but seeing as how I've had a large pile of drives sitting around here for about 6 years and never once got to any of them, it's really only a project because I never bothered making it a chore.
Super tired now, but doing my best to stay up for at least a few more hours. It's been a while since I had to get up for work. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Another box and bin down. Few miscellaneous things and some glasses that I kept and washed. Also found a clock. Babylon 5 with Mr. Garibaldi on it with a drawn ppg ready to defend the station. Now, I just need some batteries to make sure it still works.
That corner is almost ready for a small kitchen table and chairs. Yippee!!!
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I can tell I've had too much time off of work again.
I'm not sluggish or anything, and it's not like I'm dreading going back either. I'm actually looking forward to the workout. I just know I have so much back home that still needs doing. Gonna have to figure out a balance with that going forward. Can't afford another either/or situation. Maybe if I can get that job down the street it won't be so bad. Even though I got the car running pretty smoothly now, I think just making a 40 mile round trip in it is like a rash on the subconscious or something. I could just walk to this other job.
Oh... a little tip I figured out today that I thought I'd share with anyone regarding those credit card rewards programs...
When they say "90 days to spend $1,000 or $500" to get a bonus payout, they MEAN it. It's not 90 days from the time you finally get the card, or at least it isn't with my current card I'm talking about. I actually like the higher level of security this company has compared to all of my other cards, but because of this, I didn't have the card for 10 days after I was approved for it. I made a pretty large purchase that first day, but found out today that I was approved 9 days earlier than that.
I still have 12 days to hit the mark, but that's why I called now about it. I didn't want to go based off the incorrect assumption that I had more time than I did.
Maybe all companies don't do it this way, but at least one of them does. Be smart about this type of thing so you don't leave money on the table.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Picked up "Bohemian Rhapsody" from my library today. Will watch over the weekend.
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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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Load of stuff of to electronic recycling and donation done today. Clock is hung and working.
Feeling pretty good right now.
Edited about clock. Mr. Garibaldi is using his link.
Flip side. Crap week playing mah jong. 
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Just posting some daily things - I'm slowly, very slowly, chipping away dealing with the 'stuff'. But it seems like everything ends up taking at least an unanticipated extra step or two. For example, I live in an extremely dusty neighborhood and dust and junk ends up getting tracked all over the house. I'm helping mitigate the problem by putting entryway-mats in the doorway of every room (so all I have to clean off frequently is the mat, instead of he entire floor), starting with the office I'm working on cleaning out and setting up. But as I unrolled the mat I bought at Lowe's, the chemical fumes coming off of it were unbelievable. So I'm having to air it out at least overnight before I put it down. Or, in the office I wanted to reinstall an air cleaner to help keep dust out of the computer. But I had to get a power strip first because I need to plug multiple things into that outlet. And so on. Now, each one of these is no big deal. But it's an extra circle to run in which takes extra time, and when you have them at every step, it becomes kind of irritating.
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Man, I am beat. This week- four doctor appointments. Three for family and one for me. 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.
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 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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Quote:SIX, just some random questions: Do you feel best when you have a goal to work towards or a project to work on?
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. :)
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?)
Do you feel best working by yourself, or with others? Or does it not matter as long as you see progress?
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.
I'm just being nosy, so feel free to tell me to buzz off.
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SIG,
Hope you and your family feel better soon.
I got more stuff to do over this weekend along with chores too like laundry.
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Quote:You too Signy ... keep on keeping on! ... but don't forget to give yourself a break.
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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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:No, my login problems are not resolved.
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!
What are your energy levels issues? Breathing labored? Just feel pooped? Ailments?
Have you tried Boost? Do you practice Breathing Workouts (for endurance/stamina, lung capacity)?
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DANG about the login issues! That's too bad. :( I thought that since you could log in from a generic library computer you could log in from anywhere.
Just very, very low in physical energy. Not sleepy, not depressed. I have all sorts of interests and mental energy, I just don't have the steam for anything physical. Thanks for asking.
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SIX, just some random questions: Do you feel best when you have a goal to work towards or a project to work on?
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?)
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?
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.
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 ove
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Oh... and BTW, the job is officially over late this month. I've already accepted that in my head for a month or so now, so I actually had a little fun with the Six Sigma prick they've got running the store the last few days.
I avoided any eye contact with him and completely ignored his presence when he strolled in a half hour late yesterday. Instead of finally introducing himself to me and asking if I was on still on the clock to have a meeting, he had somebody else ask me while he was standing 20 feet away. I said "nope!" and grabbed a cart to do my shopping.
I had heard that all the other meetings he had, he would come in and do the entire walk through the store to point out everything my manager and our crew did wrong for the night and then he'd have his meetings. He told my manager he was coming in early for our meeting this morning. I wasn't going to hold my breath...
Lo and behold, I got a page from my manger to the office at 5 after 6:00. This was it.
I came into the office and he was standing there. He said "jack" and extended his hand. I shook it and said "and you are?" lol. I'm sure that had to piss him off.
He asked me if my manager had told me what the schedule was going to be going forward. I said "I've heard your terms, and I reject them".
He then started telling me about the severance process and I cut him off and said "I don't give a shit about that. I get it when I get it.".
Then I said "I've been through all of this Six Sigma bullshit at jobs making a lot more money than this before. It's unfortunate for you that you reject my terms because you're going to be losing the hardest working employee in your store".
He said "It's not my terms. It's corporate".
I said "It's all the same thing, isn't it? I'll tell you what... If corporate ever lets you off your leash and circumstances change, you've got my number and you can call me."
To which he replied "I appreciate that."
I then said, "In the mean time, I trust that corporate isn't going to fight me on unemployment?"
And he said "[The Company] never fights unemployment claims."
"Well alright then. I think we're done here", I said.
I then wished him and my manager luck and told them that I didn't envy the cluster fuck that was ahead of them.
I've never been so happy after losing a job before. I f'king love the freedom owning a house and not having outside obligations brings.
You have no idea how satisfying that meeting went.
There was that little bit of rage I had to push down into my gut through the whole thing though, although I maintained my cool and my grace through it. All the while that was going on I had to keep reminding myself this was just a human being being told by his own corporate masters what he had to do...
...because punching him in the face would have even been twice as satisfying.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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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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Off to do some stuff in a minute. Later peeps. Looks like we could be in for a rain. Might have to lug an umbrella with me.
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It rained today.
But on the flipside the area I want a table and chairs in is now ready for that. Yay! me.
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YAY Jack! for quitting peacefully!
And YAY Brenda! for moving forward on your better life!
And for hanging in there, YAY Signy!
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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.
lol. Yeah. It's stupid people that get into management more often than not. :)
This guy was seriously a robot though. I've only ever met two people like this in my life before. Both of them were 10 years ago back when I got laid off from the last high paying job I had.
To his credit, there wasn't any signs that I had visibly flustered him with any of the stuff I said. Most of the people I've ever worked for would have at least got heated if not lost their shit at some point in that meeting. If I got under his skin at all at any point during this meeting, he's got the poker face of a Texas Hold 'Em champion.
Well... to my own credit, at least there weren't cops waiting out in the parking lot in case I got out of hand this time. When I got laid off from that good job there was an unmarked squad at the parking lot entrance and two cop cars facing each other at the back end as I made my way in. When I told my old boss that later in the week when we had our weekly poker game he laughed and said he heard about that and that as far as we knew our shift was the only one who had cops waiting in the parking lot. :)
It's hard to tell if I've grown at all as a person in that regard, or if I just didn't really give a shit because it's such a lousy paying job in the first place.
Anyhow, it should be a fun night at work. I can't wait to have a laugh about it with my manager at work on break. She's only 25 and been a manager for about 6 months and can't stand this new guy. I'm sure she's never seen anything like that meeting before and likely never will again.
Sadly I don't have a video of it, but at least somebody else got to witness it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thanks kiki.
Though am paying for it. Back's a little sore.
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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?
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". 
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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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?
Oh, he does that for sure, but it's a lot more than that.
After the individual meetings he needed to have with all of the employees regarding all of the changes and the new scheduling going forward, he absolutely refuses to speak directly to any employee who is below a team lead. He only converses with the management. I've been told by three different people that he will talk about what an employee is doing wrong right in front of them to a manager and tell them that they need to tell their employees how to do the job right.
Full time employees will get exactly 40 hours per week. Part time employees will get exactly 20 hours per week. There is a point system in place for any underage or overage from these numbers within 5 minutes every day. 1/2 points given out for each occurrence. Immediate termination at 5 points. No wiggle room. All computer controlled. No human interaction.
There will also be a schedule for every area with a strict time frame for everything to get done, aisle by aisle. No wiggle room. The exact same time every day. This is absolutely absurd since on a daily basis there can be instances where a new product comes in and things need to be moved around or split up to make them fit. This stuff takes quite a lot of time that would otherwise be spent stocking. (The fucking corporate idiots that never got their hands dirty once in their life have no clue how the real world actually works).
He regularly threatens to "take the keys" of the managers, meaning that he's going to either end their career in management there or outright fire them.
I'm actually looking forward to go there to shop for my staples in the next few months and see it all fail spectacularly. I can only hope that the karma of this whole thing is that somebody is just as deep in this jagoff's asshole as he is up everybody else's. I'd love nothing more right now then to see him get his.
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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".
Well. I'm assuming that your husband already knew that. On the off chance he didn't, that might not have been a bad piece of advice, even though it's a really shitty way to hear about it. One of the managers that worked at that last good job I had got fired for sending a "suggestive" email to one of the girls who worked on his shift. She was mortified after it happened and was even crying about the fact he got fired. She didn't report anything to anybody. The company has 100% access to any emails sent from a company email address and can look at them at any time.
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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.
I'll get it. The only way you can be denied is if the company is successful in convincing the state that you don't have a claim, and the new store manager told me that the company doesn't fight unemployment claims (which is what number 2 had told me a month ago as well).
Even if they were going to fight me on this, I'd get it. The only reason I asked him was because I was really hoping not to have to deal with the hassle and the paperwork. The system is ac
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Off to get my laundry done.
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No more carrot cake unless I make sure that I dig out ALL of the raisins and don't eat any of them. *sigh*
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Also cannot get my hd box to play with my dvd player. Oh, well. Guess I don't get to watch "Bohemian Rhapsody" then.
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No rain here but had a nice walk. Got some grocery shopping done.
Also yesterday found some books that I didn't realize that I had. 2 Highlander and I forgot about my Serenity novel.
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Last night scheduled at work for the week, but I think I'm going to work two more.
I was considering working 18 straight days to stick it to them with the overtime, but that would get my manager in trouble and I like her. She's cool with me getting around 8 hours of overtime, but didn't want me racking up 40 or more in the last two weeks. :)
Just one more week to go after a little break after that.
I guess it's about time to start saying my goodbyes to another work family.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Canker sores suck.
At least that's what I hope I've got. Mouth was hurting during the second half of my shift the night before last and when I looked at it when I got home I said "what the f#*k is that? cancer?!!".
Google search results showed pictures that look about identical to what I had. Always heard of canker sores but never had them before. It said they often come along with a fever, but I felt fine yesterday. Work was rough tonight though. I don't know if I've got a fever, but my body aches like I might.
Going to try to get to sleep early today and hopefully I can still go in the next two nights. I'll do it if it doesn't get worse than I feel right now, but if I wake up feeling miserable then I'm going to have to bail.
It's weird. It feels like it should hurt like strep throat when I swallow, but it doesn't. It's like having strep on your inner-lip.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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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.
The family sore throat finally caught up with others. Meanwhile, mine has been hanging on for a month at a lower level with cough, but flares up when I'm exposed to dust or when I decongest my nose, despite the fact that I'm on antibiotics. Which means either its viral or the wrong antibiotic. Anyway, it's at the tolerable level, so I'll just keep on keeping on.
Decided to set my priorities aside to help clean up/organize the garage (workshop) for exercising (woodworking with hand tools) again, because that helps control blood sugar. Bunch of crap dragged out of the rafters, about half of it (conduit, random screens, what appear to be old electrostatic precipitators for the air system) will go for metal recycling and the rest (some old indoor-outdoor carpet and a bunch of other crap) will go into the trash; I have to call my waste hauler to request a large-item pickup. I feel 200 pounds lighter!
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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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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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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.
I've had both of these recently in my life. :)
The stress has been going on for quite a while, but it didn't pop up until around 48 hours ago. I'm actually a lot more mellow and feeling good about things than I was a few weeks to a month ago. That meeting was a bit stressful, simply because I get "hot" fairly easily and I did have to force myself to maintain my cool while wrestling down the inner demons that wanted to punch the guy in the face. Truth be told, that was very much like an interview scenario which for some reason is one of the hardest things in life for me to do because of how my "insides" feel throughout it. It only lasted 5 to 10 minutes at max, but it was an intense 5 to 10 minutes.
The other thing was eating a lot of Slim Jims the two days prior. In a rare event these days, we were offered some free food at lunch. I took a big handful of the Slim Jim mini's, something I'd never buy because of the price and because I don't have any willpower not to eat them if they're lying around my house.
I suppose either one of these could have caused the Canker sores. I'm sure the overall situation of my mouth isn't helping things at all either.
At least it seems like it's not cancer I have to worry about yet. It doesn't seem to be spreading anymore, which is good. I can't really afford to start getting ulcers on my gums that are already highly compromised.
I do feel better right now. Not feverish, anyhow. I'm going to go into work. I'm sure I won't be 100% but I'd like to at least work the first of the 3 extra days I plan to before the job is gone.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Finding I have to wear my hearing aides now when I watch tv. I am missing words.
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Need to find someone with a set of bolt cutters or a set of lock picks. Seems that I have lost the keys to my trunk. On the flip side though. Another bin down.
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They've got youtube videos for that. :)
My brother knows how to break into a large list of lock types that he learned over the years on youtube.
Really, locks are nothing more than a mild deterrent meant to ease our own minds. Except in the case of ridiculously pricey setups, they rely on our own ability to trust that most other people are essentially good than actually stopping anybody from trying to get into whatever we've locked up.
I saw a great video on that topic years ago, but I don't remember what it was titled or who made it. Otherwise I'd post it here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I was kind of freaking out this morning after work. It seemed as if the sores had been spreading, and they had become quite painful at that point. Looking online didn't come up with any other possibilities of what they could be given the symptoms. Canker sores don't spread either, at least from what I've read. So I don't think they were spreading, but the entire scope of them just hadn't manifested itself yet.
Then I get my second great night of sleep in two days and the pain is virtually gone. I can still feel them. They're still there and are going to take some time to heal up, but I bet by tomorrow I don't feel them anymore.
I can't really do much about my stress for the time being, but I'm not going to take any chances again and I'm going to have to take Slim Jims off of my diet for the rest of my life now too.
There's no way these were minor. They were either major or Herpetiform. Even though the Herpetiform variety is rare, I'm thinking that's probably what they were because none of them were very large. After a few days some seemed to be large, but I believe this was just additional ones popping up later that adjoined with the existing ones from the day before.
I don't imagine I'm going to see a dentist before they're all cleared up to get a ruling. Got an appointment next month for a cleaning again. I'll let them know when I see them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thanks for the info Jack. But I still need something smaller and thinner than what I have around here to pick the lock. Have to see if I have any small safety pins and give that a whirl. I used to be able to pick locks.
Friend of mine in high school was always loosing the keys to her locks and she finally broke down and asked me to try and pick. Bobby pin worked great for that lock.
This one the key hole is so small. Don't know why I bought a lock like that unless it was the only one I could find at the time.
ETA: The only reason why the trunk is locked is so that the lid wouldn't flap around when it was being moved. It's empty and now that I can, I want to put some family stuff back into it.
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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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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 .
Hey SIG. Naw, wire cutters won't cut it on this lock. The hole is small but part that goes through the latch on the truck is thicker than that.
I'll see if I can scare up a safety pin or just a straight pin around here in the next couple of days. I have my mom's sewing box and there could be something in there.
I don't want to do any damage to my trunk. It was my grandfather's.
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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.
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Already picked up two extra days this week and going to grab one more tonight. That's the most my manager says she can get away with giving me. She probably shouldn't allow it, but they've got her doing so much extra crap these last few weeks before nights goes away that she'd rather take the heat for a little OT. She told me she wishes she could just let me work 18 days straight since I say that I'm willing, but they'll skin her alive if she let me do that. smokin:
Probably going to pick up two more before my next shift would have begun next week to finish off my last week.
Feeling pretty damn good going into my 9th day in a row tomorrow. Going to be weird only having 3 days off in between work shifts, but I'll power through it.
This is going to be the largest check I've seen in 10 years. :)
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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. :)
Cool about the Luger and your Uncle was very lucky that cop didn't want to do the paperwork.
This trunk is over 100years old. My grandfather(my dad's dad) brought it over with him from Scotland. He gave it to my grandmother when they got married and then my grandmother left it to my father. She used it for her fine china and other things like good dish towels and table cloths. By the time my father got it all it had in it was some family photos and my grandmother's cookbooks as well as some her sheet music. She played the piano.
So, it was open every so often but someone recommended to me to empty it pretty well and lock it.
It still has my dad's long saw in it and an old hunting knife.
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Off to my chiropractor this morning.
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Hey all - just saying hey. Nice to see you around.
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So, this is speculative, but I thought I'd post it here:
Quote:There's also this, which I saw when it came out that I thought was interesting:
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.
The idea sheds new light on why ultraprocessed foods seem to be so bad for us. But to understand the hypothesis, we need to first look at what ultraprocessed foods are, and how they shape the community of bacteria in our gut that’s so intimately linked to our health. ...
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.
Quote:I'd have to go back and re-check the study, but as I recall, of all the emulsifiers tested, only these 2 led to a loosening of the tight junctions between cells in the gut. And that allowed large molecules to pass directly into the blood stream. And that might lead to activating the immune system and inflammation.
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.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/6/11/18652653/diet-weight-
loss-ultra-processed-foods-microbiome
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