The Hunger Rants

[SAT 9,609]

Worst travel day ever. 

Mental note, no traveling labor day weekend!

It was one of those flights that you read about in the news. 

[Dianalorena 1,153]

I hope everyone is safe after the hurricanes! It's flooded everywhere. Even Mexico City. South Asia.  

 

sorry for disappearing! Update: 

 

arrived in Tokyo the 28th. It's everything I wanted it to be, enjoyed 4 awesome days walking around. Went to Harajuku, Shinjuku and Shibuya. 

 

Took a plane to Bangkok and what a difference. We stayed in a hostal and the next day, still tired from all the traveling we went to see the temples and a floating market.

 

the next day we traveled 7 hrs on the worst train ride of my life to Surin where I'm currently at. It's close to Cambodia, medium sized city. 

I got sick of course, awful throat infection. The meds are kicking in thankfully, but I'm missing the first chunk  of the volunteering program. 

Ive  been so exhausted  that I don't mind the obligated 4 days of rest. Booked a decent hotel with AC and I've been mostly sleeping, eating pad Thai and getting my strength back  to join the others on Thursday. 

 

Then I'll go back to Bangkok and then back to Tokyo. 7 hrs bus + 6 hrs plane, enjoy four more days of Tokyo, then 14 hr plane back to Mexico City, staying the night, then 2 hr plane to Cancun, 1:30 bus ride, 40 min boat.

 

where I'll proceed to collapse on my bed for hopefully a week straight.

but guess who isn't really thinking of immigration! Until now. * tear* 

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,259]

4 hours ago, SAT said:

Worst travel day ever. 

Mental note, no traveling labor day weekend!

It was one of those flights that you read about in the news. 

Foto of worst travel day read about in the news now, see man.

2 hours ago, Dianalorena said:

Harajuku, Shinjuku and Shibuya

Gesundheit, D2 ma'am.

Did you see and appreciate our Spanish haiku of not long ago, huh D2 ma'am?

[TBoneTX 45,259]

At the POTS office, no one had sustained any untoward himmicane effects except for one chica, she man.

Enough happened to her that each of the rest of us could have suffered one severe element with some still left over, sigh man.

We tried to recruit resources for her and actually had considerable success, responsive contacts man.

 

However, she's had to return to her flooded apartment, sigh man.

Management replaced the sheetrock without letting everything dry out first,  man.

The place stinks of incipient mold and is infested with mice, murine stench man.

They won't let her out of her remaining lease, must buy it out through April she man.

Lawyers aren't optimistic about potential remedies, Texas landlord/tenant law man.

Must try to think of something, headscratch we man.

 

Poor thing isn't complaining, but we can tell that this is taking a horrible toll on her, must help she we man.

She saved several confused, terrified Mexican residents who fled upstairs to her apartment, she man.

Edited September 6, 2017 by TBoneTX

[Dianalorena 1,153]

3 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Foto of worst travel day read about in the news now, see man.

Gesundheit, D2 ma'am.

Did you see and appreciate our Spanish haiku of not long ago, huh D2 ma'am?

I didnt! Feel like I have to know. 

 

If if you could upload files easily here I'd be showing my tired face, but I'm too lazy to go to imgur now. 

 

3:00 pm here! 

[Dianalorena 1,153]

If I look like a crazy person writing at this hour, it is because it is 4 pm here. 

I just went out trying to find food and it was a nightmare. Language barrier, scolding heat. I ended up at the 7 eleven yet again. At least they have a good selection of pre packaged foods and even hard boiled eggs. 

Our 7 eleven has sandwiches and hot dogs, if you're lucky. 

 

Still resting. So tired. 

[trudi 1,317]

@Dianalorena hope you feel better, find food and have the most amazing time!

 

According to some of the spaghetti forecasts for Irma it's going to get unpleasant here early next week, we live in a forest, on the side of a mountain - I'm hoping Irma's had enough before it gets this far!

 

In other news work has been awful, the environment is not pleasant to be in unless you are part of the clique, yesterday I was called to be part of the store associate's feedback panel - I gave honest answers to the questions.

The store manager was horrified to hear half our department are actively looking for a way out and I have another meeting with him today - hopefully he can change things.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

4 hours ago, Dianalorena said:

If I look like a crazy person writing at this hour, it is because it is 4 pm here. 

I just went out trying to find food and it was a nightmare. Language barrier, scolding heat. I ended up at the 7 eleven yet again. At least they have a good selection of pre packaged foods and even hard boiled eggs. 

Our 7 eleven has sandwiches and hot dogs, if you're lucky. 

 

Still resting. So tired. 

 

I remember spending a summer in Mexico eating corn tortillas, granola bars, and Magnum ice cream bars because me and the local food were not friends.  I was a much pickier eater then and scared of getting Montezuma's revenge.

 

I ended up getting it anyway.  Not fun.   Actually, it was probably something else because it took 6 months or more to clear up.

 

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

At the POTS office, no one had sustained any untoward himmicane effects except for one chica, she man.

Enough happened to her that each of the rest of us could have suffered one severe element with some still left over, sigh man.

We tried to recruit resources for her and actually had considerable success, responsive contacts man.

 

However, she's had to return to her flooded apartment, sigh man.

Management replaced the sheetrock without letting everything dry out first,  man.

The place stinks of incipient mold and is infested with mice, murine stench man.

They won't let her out of her remaining lease, must buy it out through April she man.

Lawyers aren't optimistic about potential remedies, Texas landlord/tenant law man.

Must try to think of something, headscratch we man.

 

Poor thing isn't complaining, but we can tell that this is taking a horrible toll on her, must help she we man.

She saved several confused, terrified Mexican residents who fled upstairs to her apartment, she man.

 

Is there not some city agency that deals with the livability of housing, i.e. deeming it unfit?  

 

If she must live there, a way to stymie the mold growth might be some de-humidifiers and really good quality air filters.  My mother's basement had this issue... the air filter added on top of the de-humdifier really did solve it.

[cdneh 3,112]

My Sister, who lives on Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos, sent me a note this morning to say she has left, taken her Daughter and the Grandchildren, and returned to Canada to wait Irma out. Her Husband and her Daughters Husband are staying behind. I hope that wasn't a grave mistake. It looks very bad in that area. She says they are prepared as they can be, but I don't know how you do that in the face of such a large storm.

[cdneh 3,112]

3 hours ago, trudi said:

@Dianalorena hope you feel better, find food and have the most amazing time!

 

According to some of the spaghetti forecasts for Irma it's going to get unpleasant here early next week, we live in a forest, on the side of a mountain - I'm hoping Irma's had enough before it gets this far!

 

In other news work has been awful, the environment is not pleasant to be in unless you are part of the clique, yesterday I was called to be part of the store associate's feedback panel - I gave honest answers to the questions.

The store manager was horrified to hear half our department are actively looking for a way out and I have another meeting with him today - hopefully he can change things.

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Wow, I hate work cliques. They really have a way of ostracizing people not on the inside. Seems every place I've worked has been like that. As a manager, I confess I took great pleasure in breaking up those little knots of 'special' people. We had a 7/24 roster, and it was easy peasy to move people about.

Good on you for being straight up with the manager.

6 hours ago, Dianalorena said:

If I look like a crazy person writing at this hour, it is because it is 4 pm here. 

I just went out trying to find food and it was a nightmare. Language barrier, scolding heat. I ended up at the 7 eleven yet again. At least they have a good selection of pre packaged foods and even hard boiled eggs. 

Our 7 eleven has sandwiches and hot dogs, if you're lucky. 

 

Still resting. So tired. 

I hope you start to feel better, and soon!

[TBoneTX 45,259]

6 hours ago, Dianalorena said:

Our [2x2x2-1][2x2x2+2+1] has sandwiches and hot dogs, if you're lucky. 

Name of store précised, P-math D2 ma'am.

We routinely eat convenience-store sandwiches when on the road, ingest we man.

We buy them the night before and store them in the motel refrigerator for breakfast, efficient man.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

4 hours ago, trudi said:

I have another meeting with him today - hopefully he can change things.

Your insights might not only help the situation but might also cement your value in the manager's eyes, si T ma'am.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

2 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

1.  Is there not some city agency that deals with the livability of housing, i.e. deeming it unfit?  

 

2.  If she must live there, a way to stymie the mold growth might be some de-humidifiers and really good quality air filters.  My mother's basement had this issue... the air filter added on top of the de-humdifier really did solve it.

1.  Probably, but almost certainly inefficient and (literally/figuratively) swamped, sigh man.

2.  Good ideas, will pass them along man.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

45 minutes ago, cdneh said:

Irma

If there's a God in heaven, protection man...

[TBoneTX 45,259]

8 hours ago, Dianalorena said:

I didnt! Feel like I have to know. 

Seems that we didn't post it,  we man.

 

Here it is, now (ahem, harrumph):

 

EL ATUN, si man

No soy un salmon,

tampoco tilapia;

solo soy atun.

 

The Tuna, si man

I am not a salmon,

nor tilapia;

I am only a tuna.

 

As an educational reminder, a haiku is a literary form with strictly Many lines of strictly Many, Many, and Many syllables, respectively, si man.