Well, I haven't bitched about any family stuff for around 6 minutes so I guess it is time to start.
First with the holstein-in-law. My wife's oldest sister, who picks her men up as they are released from the looney bin, let her boy toy move into her new house right after he flattened his probation violation sentence. At which point he proved he was not only nuts, but fertile by knocking her up. Everything was roses for about 30 seconds then they started fighting like Columbian drug dealers. The cops wouldn't remove him from the house, because she had let him live there long enough to establish residence, she also couldn't get a restraining order against him due to having taken out about 6 thousand of them over the last 3 years and then ignoring them and letting him move back in. She went back to her old house which was vacant, although she had tenants in the little house on the same lot and he showed up there. She was afraid he would run off her tenants, so she went back. They fought and he chucked a piece of wood at her. The police came and she got her restraining order. The police relocated her, but would not remove him. He started calling DCS and reporting her for being a bad parent. DCS came out and took an order of protection to keep HIM away from the kids. Then they started making her take parenting classes and told her that if she let him move back in they were taking the kids. Apparently they have collected over 60 complaints on her. How many are from him and how many are from other people I don't know. Now while she isn't allowed to go to her own house without police escort, he proceeds to destroy and haul off a bunch of her junk. He breaks mirrors off her truck and car. She has her van. He trashes her computer, takes the card out of the satellite box WE loaned her so the kids could have some TV, and as she found last night, ripped up her clothes. He also calls and accuses her of sleeping around on him, which I wouldn't doubt. My wife is the family peacemaker, mother confessor, and the world's most naturally born social worker. So she gets it all.
Meanwhile, per a previous post, my wife's parents have moved in on my wife's younger brother. Now his life is hell. His little sister goes in his room while he is at work and takes his ipod and laptop. She and my father-in-law hog the computer and he can't use it. He is now having to lock his room and carry his computer and ipod to work with him. Now he hasn't been selfish, he has been letting them use the stuff, but they don't have any concept of politeness or restraint. While at my house at Christmas/Easter he would get on my wife's computer when he woke and not get off until dawn. If she managed to catch him on a bathroom break he would want to use mine. He wouldn't use mine without asking though because everyone is scared of me. I am quiet and they don't know how to deal with that. Also I learned long ago in my jujitsu studies how to excude a quiet, homicidal menace. If you don't know me well, you might well assume I am only one tiny word away from a mass killing spree of immence violence, and you might well be very right. However, my bro-in-law is about to the point of packing it in and coming back here. Given our dismal economic situation, if he can't land a government job he will be shit-out-of luck. The only factory jobs around here are temp, and the only other jobs lately are commissioned sales.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
My Day Yesterday
Okay, a recap of my day yesterday:
1) Got to work, my desk was gone, the contents were in a cardboard box sitting on my chair.
2) Went to Criminal Court. I had 2 clients up on violation warrants. Client 1 was first on the docket and dealt with promptly. Client 2 somehow came up with an attorney, so the public defender was relieved of the case and new lawyer entered into the court record. A May 6 court date was announced and then he was moved into holding where he beat the crap out of another inmate.
3) I got out of court before noon. Went home and ate and changed clothes. (Who wants to wear and tie and jacket on a gorgeous 70+ degree Spring-like day?) On the way back to work, one of those yell0w and black wasps that look like a honey bee on steroids flew in the window and stung me twice on the neck.
4) Couldn't find my paycheck from job number 2. Looked all over the place for it and can't find it. Called boss. He will reissue it tomorrow and stop payment but said if it happened again they would take the stop payment charge out of my check. Considering they pay just .40 over minimum wage and I work only 15 hours per week there, if it were simple I would have already quit, I hope to quit by next fall anyway.
5) Got back to work and found my computer chair gone. Had to drag extra crappy furniture out of storage just to enter my notes from court.
6) Had to go straight to second job due to late reporting offenders.
7) Got home from second job, had now spent 12.5 hours at work. Watched most of Medium with sick wife who laid out of school for sore throat. Fed wife.
8) Fed dogs.
9) Received phone call from insane sister-in-law. She had a court date on maintaining custody on her children. She had nothing to wear. Will explain in next post.
10) Received call from brother-in-law in Florida. He is not happy either. His parents and youngest sister have moved in with him, and if he doesn't lock his room, they go in and use his stuff (ipod and laptop mostly).
11) Went to bed.
1) Got to work, my desk was gone, the contents were in a cardboard box sitting on my chair.
2) Went to Criminal Court. I had 2 clients up on violation warrants. Client 1 was first on the docket and dealt with promptly. Client 2 somehow came up with an attorney, so the public defender was relieved of the case and new lawyer entered into the court record. A May 6 court date was announced and then he was moved into holding where he beat the crap out of another inmate.
3) I got out of court before noon. Went home and ate and changed clothes. (Who wants to wear and tie and jacket on a gorgeous 70+ degree Spring-like day?) On the way back to work, one of those yell0w and black wasps that look like a honey bee on steroids flew in the window and stung me twice on the neck.
4) Couldn't find my paycheck from job number 2. Looked all over the place for it and can't find it. Called boss. He will reissue it tomorrow and stop payment but said if it happened again they would take the stop payment charge out of my check. Considering they pay just .40 over minimum wage and I work only 15 hours per week there, if it were simple I would have already quit, I hope to quit by next fall anyway.
5) Got back to work and found my computer chair gone. Had to drag extra crappy furniture out of storage just to enter my notes from court.
6) Had to go straight to second job due to late reporting offenders.
7) Got home from second job, had now spent 12.5 hours at work. Watched most of Medium with sick wife who laid out of school for sore throat. Fed wife.
8) Fed dogs.
9) Received phone call from insane sister-in-law. She had a court date on maintaining custody on her children. She had nothing to wear. Will explain in next post.
10) Received call from brother-in-law in Florida. He is not happy either. His parents and youngest sister have moved in with him, and if he doesn't lock his room, they go in and use his stuff (ipod and laptop mostly).
11) Went to bed.
Monday, April 07, 2008
Work is Hell
Well, the old stress meter at work is pegging out. Not that my work could ever be considerred relaxing, but with the renovations, everyone is pretty much dancing on the razor's edge. Now it is worse. The workers basically made a big mess, then left. We haven't seen them in over a month. They wander in on the odd weekend and pile drywall scraps in the new water coolers. They unhooked and removed out old water fountain. Then about 2 weeks later, they came and mounted the new ones on the wall of the new bathroom and left. There is no plumbing running to them, so basically they are acting as containers for the drywall scraps. Of course, they don't look so nice or so new now. Since one of the main projects was to make a larger ladies rest room, they moved the old one to a temporary location. About the time the water fountains were hung, they did something to the toilet. It wasn't level anymore. The women now refer to it as the "rollercoaster". Apparently a trip to the restroom is now a trip to a really weird theme park.
Anyway, we are all to get new office furniture, carpet, paint, the works. So the old stuff has to go. We were notified Wednesday about the 4 phase renovation plan. Basically we are were told to have all our personal stuff out of our offices by Monday (today) close of business. Then by Wednesday we were to have all our files and work stuff boxed up. A moving company was to come in and move all the old stuff out to a secure storage location and move all our old furniture to central stores. We were to receive temporary tables and chairs to work with and were to double up on offices. That way the empty offices would be renovated, we would relocate to renovated offices and the other offices would be done. This was to be done in 3 stages. I don't really know how we could double up, you would need two phone and two computer outlets that we don't have, and it is hard to have two thugs, I mean clients, in the same office. My office isn't very large anyway. More than two people is stretching things as is.
Well, we were told, it has all been figured out, they will run extra plugs for phone and computer. Well I took Friday off for personal reasons. I took some personal stuff out Thursday. I came in Saturday for some bulkier items and my desk was gone. I was told that someone from a Nashville location came and took 5 desks for a new unit they were setting up. I came in Monday and went to court. I finished by lunch and went back to the office. My chair was gone. Someone from either McMinnville or Chattanooga got it. One group took 2 desks and 2 chairs. Another 20 chairs. We can't have our staff meeting Wednesday, because we now don't have enough chairs for everyone to sit down. We may also miss training, so maybe it all isn't bad. I scavaged a rickety old computer desk and a chair that makes me lean forward at a 30 degree angle to work from. Now we are supposed to have our cabinets and desks cleaned out by Wednesday. The moving companies haven't even put in bids yet. Our boxes won't be here until Friday, our temporary furniture won't be here until a week from Friday. But the vultures are circling picking us clean. We have three officers sitting on the floor with no chairs or desks. My visitor chairs are so crappy noone wants them yet. Man is this stupid.
Anyway, we are all to get new office furniture, carpet, paint, the works. So the old stuff has to go. We were notified Wednesday about the 4 phase renovation plan. Basically we are were told to have all our personal stuff out of our offices by Monday (today) close of business. Then by Wednesday we were to have all our files and work stuff boxed up. A moving company was to come in and move all the old stuff out to a secure storage location and move all our old furniture to central stores. We were to receive temporary tables and chairs to work with and were to double up on offices. That way the empty offices would be renovated, we would relocate to renovated offices and the other offices would be done. This was to be done in 3 stages. I don't really know how we could double up, you would need two phone and two computer outlets that we don't have, and it is hard to have two thugs, I mean clients, in the same office. My office isn't very large anyway. More than two people is stretching things as is.
Well, we were told, it has all been figured out, they will run extra plugs for phone and computer. Well I took Friday off for personal reasons. I took some personal stuff out Thursday. I came in Saturday for some bulkier items and my desk was gone. I was told that someone from a Nashville location came and took 5 desks for a new unit they were setting up. I came in Monday and went to court. I finished by lunch and went back to the office. My chair was gone. Someone from either McMinnville or Chattanooga got it. One group took 2 desks and 2 chairs. Another 20 chairs. We can't have our staff meeting Wednesday, because we now don't have enough chairs for everyone to sit down. We may also miss training, so maybe it all isn't bad. I scavaged a rickety old computer desk and a chair that makes me lean forward at a 30 degree angle to work from. Now we are supposed to have our cabinets and desks cleaned out by Wednesday. The moving companies haven't even put in bids yet. Our boxes won't be here until Friday, our temporary furniture won't be here until a week from Friday. But the vultures are circling picking us clean. We have three officers sitting on the floor with no chairs or desks. My visitor chairs are so crappy noone wants them yet. Man is this stupid.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Stupid Crap
I've had an issue for quite a while. In a recent checkup blood was found in my stool. I was diagnosed long ago with a bleeding hemroid. Lovely huh. Anyway, I can usually control it by watching my diet and it hadn't bothered me for quite some time until recently. Anyway my doc sent me to a specialist who sent me to the hospital, who knocked me out and gave me an anal and throat probe. I am hoping they either used to seperate probes or did the throat first. Although that might explain the strange tast in my mouth. Just kidding.
Anyway it turns out my colon is the nicest cleanest thing east of the Grand Canyon, but I have bad acid reflux; no kidding, knew that. Anyway aparantly I have damaged my throat enough that it is bleeding into my digestive tract. Great. Fortunately the answer is apparently called Prilosec in 40 mg doses. I started it two months ago and haven't had a single lava eruption. I also only occasionally see any blood on the old tp. Now for the stupid part. I have medical insurance and it pays for meds. It is great insurance. It even paid most of my wife's anti-smoking stuff. I take 2 other medications. One is a fairly new one with no generic equivalent and it costs me $40 for a 90 day supply, the other is older and costs me $5 for 90 days. The Prilosec costs me $40 for a 30 day supply. Now Prilosec recently with over the counter. They sell a 14 pill pack for around $10, a 28 pill pack for $15 and a 42 pill pack for $25, but these are 20 mg tablets. The pharmacist says they are identical but I would have to take 2 pills. If I bought the 42 and the 14 this would last 28 days and cost $35 roughly. Actually closer to $36. This would be versus $40. I would save $4 but get 2 doses less. Also, Walmart now produces a generic equivalent that is roughly $5 cheaper in the 28 and 42 pill packs. I don't remember seeing a 14 pill pack in generic. Usually generics work well for me, but I have run into one or two situations where they did not. I can usually tell when I forget to take my Prilosec with a couple of days. I picked up the 42 pill generic pack yesterday and took the first 2 pills today. I'll let you know in a couple of days whether they are the same effectiveness or not.
Anyway it turns out my colon is the nicest cleanest thing east of the Grand Canyon, but I have bad acid reflux; no kidding, knew that. Anyway aparantly I have damaged my throat enough that it is bleeding into my digestive tract. Great. Fortunately the answer is apparently called Prilosec in 40 mg doses. I started it two months ago and haven't had a single lava eruption. I also only occasionally see any blood on the old tp. Now for the stupid part. I have medical insurance and it pays for meds. It is great insurance. It even paid most of my wife's anti-smoking stuff. I take 2 other medications. One is a fairly new one with no generic equivalent and it costs me $40 for a 90 day supply, the other is older and costs me $5 for 90 days. The Prilosec costs me $40 for a 30 day supply. Now Prilosec recently with over the counter. They sell a 14 pill pack for around $10, a 28 pill pack for $15 and a 42 pill pack for $25, but these are 20 mg tablets. The pharmacist says they are identical but I would have to take 2 pills. If I bought the 42 and the 14 this would last 28 days and cost $35 roughly. Actually closer to $36. This would be versus $40. I would save $4 but get 2 doses less. Also, Walmart now produces a generic equivalent that is roughly $5 cheaper in the 28 and 42 pill packs. I don't remember seeing a 14 pill pack in generic. Usually generics work well for me, but I have run into one or two situations where they did not. I can usually tell when I forget to take my Prilosec with a couple of days. I picked up the 42 pill generic pack yesterday and took the first 2 pills today. I'll let you know in a couple of days whether they are the same effectiveness or not.
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