Rant on a Hot Tin Roof

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warm and fuzzy...

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I went down to the dock. The ole girl is kinda messy all right...

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chinaman seller in Cali, sent me a damaged, used outdoor water heater via Amazon. Wants me to pay postage to return it. 60 bucks.

We'll see what Visa and Amazon has to say about that.

And, I'm going to bury the seller in the reviews.

There's been a rash of bad sellers on ebay and amazon lately.

Edited May 28, 2017 by TBoneTX
to remove prohibited word

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These china companies, non of them has any good reputation.

[cdneh 3,112]

Hot. Very hot. Heat index says 97, and the darn sun has come out. I went outside to see if I could get a bit of work done, but it's like breathing with a wet sweater over your head. I expect we are in for a bumpy night.

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It poured rain here today.  Which was odd but I can't complain much about the rain lately.  It barely snowed this winter, it was 80+ in Feb.  If we didn't have rain it would be so dry we'd be in the middle of gigantic fires by now with little hope of it getting better.  At this rate of moisture, we may even get some summer camping in!  (I won't camp if I can't have a fire.)

[cdneh 3,112]

Not a drop here, but we have had 6.5 inches over the last week, so it isn't dry at all. I was sitting outside this winter in a tee shirt too, very odd for me. I'm usually a hot house flower. It's still very hot, and I wish we had a bit of cloud to mitigate the day time heating.

I suppose after tea I'll lug the various bits and pieces into the hidey hole. I do not want to be stuck in there for hours again, given that the dog won't ever settle, and we practically have to heard the MIL in there with a stick.

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ranting:

 

Dude at work quit.  I should have left it up to the boss to figure out all the schedules, but being the over productive person that I am, I did it.  My best friend quite honestly told me that I make a lot for my position in this company, which I do, but IMHO, I'm worth it and the company pays like dog poo, so I do try to earn my pay.  I feel like I may have stepped on some toes however...  So for the life of me I can't figure out why I didn't get the upgrade job considering how well I do my own job!  

Today another kid tried to call in and I was like no, you need to figure this out because I worked over 12 hours yesterday (plus two 30 minute unpaid lunches), and I'm not working from 630am to 5pm today.  NO. I have to work tomorrow and if I worked that long of a shift, I'd have to cut other shifts down in the week.  Also found out his illness was self induced... I have ZERO sympathy, I've had to work hungover... Such is life.

I hope I get the other job which I interview for on Tuesday.  I felt like a jerk rescheduling but considering the amount of blood and pus I had drained out of the back of my throat, it was probably for the better. 

Now I get to save 4k for my tonsils to be taken out.  That's 3k deductible and then 5%.  Maybe next year I'll look into slightly better insurance to reduce the cost...  

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Just now, cdneh said:

Not a drop here, but we have had 6.5 inches over the last week, so it isn't dry at all. I was sitting outside this winter in a tee shirt too, very odd for me. I'm usually a hot house flower. It's still very hot, and I wish we had a bit of cloud to mitigate the day time heating.

I suppose after tea I'll lug the various bits and pieces into the hidey hole. I do not want to be stuck in there for hours again, given that the dog won't ever settle, and we practically have to heard the MIL in there with a stick.

It tends to be more humid on the south east though doesn't it?

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1 minute ago, NikLR said:

ranting:

 

Dude at work quit.  I should have left it up to the boss to figure out all the schedules, but being the over productive person that I am, I did it.  My best friend quite honestly told me that I make a lot for my position in this company, which I do, but IMHO, I'm worth it and the company pays like dog poo, so I do try to earn my pay.  I feel like I may have stepped on some toes however...  So for the life of me I can't figure out why I didn't get the upgrade job considering how well I do my own job!  

Today another kid tried to call in and I was like no, you need to figure this out because I worked over 12 hours yesterday (plus two 30 minute unpaid lunches), and I'm not working from 630am to 5pm today.  NO. I have to work tomorrow and if I worked that long of a shift, I'd have to cut other shifts down in the week.  Also found out his illness was self induced... I have ZERO sympathy, I've had to work hungover... Such is life.

I hope I get the other job which I interview for on Tuesday.  I felt like a jerk rescheduling but considering the amount of blood and pus I had drained out of the back of my throat, it was probably for the better. 

Now I get to save 4k for my tonsils to be taken out.  That's 3k deductible and then 5%.  Maybe next year I'll look into slightly better insurance to reduce the cost...  

I can't believe you are even at work as unwell as you are, never mind working like a dog    Good luck for Tuesday !

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1 minute ago, NikLR said:

It tends to be more humid on the south east though doesn't it?

It does. I hate that. One thing about NZ, you don't often get that, surrounded as you are by water. I finally understand what people meant when they said it's not the heat, it's the humidity.

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47 minutes ago, NikLR said:

 I worked over 12 hours yesterday   

 

Fook women work 16 hours. Then go home to cook in a shared kitchen with 3 other families...

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Fat boy's brother, no notice, drops off his son at my house right at dinner time.

He's lucky I like the kid...

Where's fat? Atlantic City.

Where's the kids father going? Gambling.

Wheres tiffs aunt? Gambling.

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Little turtle saw a 🍭 laying around on the kitchen countertop. Now she's running around going nuts...

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3 kids running around with sticky lollipops= mess...