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Old 03-11-2009 | 03:41 AM
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Its 2:30 EST. I'm still at work. Just punched out. Well, the waterjet punched me out. It uses A LOT of water, and when the water softener thing tries to cycle, it competes for water pressure... and wins. The waterjet does its own little E-stop thing mid cut.


As for getting my body fixed.... yeah, its about time to. It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last that I screw up my spine. About 3 years ago I had a nasty wreck on my quad. Got thrown, quad flipping along behind me. It eventually caught up, and I caught a footpeg about an inch off my spine, in the middle of my back. That wreck blew the button off my pants. I crawled out from under it with my pants around my knees. Terrible pain for a few weeks before I broke down and saw a chiropractor. My right shoulder was about an inch lower than the left due to my spine getting knocked crooked. Took a few visits to get that fixed.
 
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Old 03-12-2009 | 03:51 AM
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Last night, I didn't fall asleep until well, until it wasn't night anymore. I fell asleep at 7:30am.

I got squeezed in for an appointment with the chiropractor today. My neck, mid back, and pelvis are out of alignment. My spine is pushed forward between my shoulderblades, explaining the ribs being pushed out (its pushing my entire ribcage out). Can't remember what they said exactly for my neck, but I can tell you the deep muscle massage they started me with hurt like hell. I have a knot the size of a golfball (explaining the lump I felt in my neck).

Probably 4 more visits and I should be good again. $30 co-pay, could be worse.
 
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Old 03-12-2009 | 04:00 AM
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Ugh 254 and as usual I can't ****** sleep cause of my pylonidal cyst surgery on the 26th. Been in pain since then and thanks to …y brilliant doctor, I now have an infection. He decided to take out my dissolving sutures for god knows what reason, and coincidentally after it got infected. Of course he blames it on me, meanwhile he told me that day it was amazingly clean, I took all my meds, and I shower 3 times a day. I'm gonna ******* kill him. Thank god for percocet, even though it'll get me high for about 2 hours and wear off. Then I gotta wait til the 4th hour. And its the good **** too, 10-650.
 
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Old 03-12-2009 | 04:23 AM
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12:22 ATM.

As usual, just browsing stuff online and watching some shows on TV.
It's weird because I have stuff in my mind that I'm not even sure what. I just know I'm thinking about something. LOL.
I don't even know if that makes sense to some of you.
 
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Old 03-12-2009 | 04:38 AM
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total sense. That was a good part of why i couldn't sleep last night. Tried to crash at around 4am, but I knew I left my cellphone at the shop. Ended up getting up at 6 to drive to work and get it. Theres 5 of us here, it was safe, and I wasn't gonna be getting any calls in the morning that couldn't wait, but it was on my mind and I couldn't get past it.

So, little rant on the side. Everybody talks **** about myspace. It started for music, not for popularity contests. I have a bunch of awesome bands in my friend list, and nobody I know knows it because they won't check it out, even if i tell them exactly the kind of **** I know they'd like.
AND
From the other side, I try to help out and promote for bands and they drop the ball. Beed DYING to get Part One Tribe to come to Burlington, where I KNOW they'd draw a huge crowd, but they never come closer than the 40 person cap. pub in the 1,200 person town I came from. ******* wild that they keep going back there, these guys are signed to Long Beach Records, and are based out of FL.
End rant, but continued theme.
They played one night, and brought out OGS, the Original General Smiley. What a ******* awesome night, and what a crazyass bar. A tiny little shithole, and it somehow attracts some talent. There isn't even a cover! Part One played for tips!


Anyway, I'm totally in the mood for dub/reggae, and all I have at the apartment is some old Marley right now. I want some fresh stuff, but I should try to sleep, not sit in the office at work. Its almost 4am...
 
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Old 03-13-2009 | 01:57 AM
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11:54pm here. Not really that late, but I have to be up at 6:30 so it's still less time for sleep than I'd like to have. I've got some 50mg Trazodone, but I took one of those last night and woke up feeling like ****. I'll probably wait until tomorrow night when I can take one at 8 or 9pm and get a good night's sleep before I have to go into work.

Interesting night at work, though. I had the pleasure of listening to a trio of black women bitch about how the poe-lease won't do anything about their sex-offender neighbor, or something like that, because, like the poe-lease officers, he is white. McD's FTL.
 
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Old 03-13-2009 | 02:10 AM
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You work at McD's?


Sorry man. Sorry.
 
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Old 03-13-2009 | 06:49 PM
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Hopefully not for much longer. I can't just up and quit because of the car payment, but I'm on the hunt for something better.

Most of the people there think I'm a drug dealer because of where I work and what I drive.
 
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Old 03-13-2009 | 10:02 PM
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I didn't know you COULD work there and pay for the kind of car you drive.
 
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Old 03-14-2009 | 01:28 AM
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It was a $15k car, but I had a $6k trade-in and a $500 down payment. It's around $180 per month, which really isn't bad.

My mother told me earlier tonight that she wants me to quit because my grades are slipping and she can tell that the place has been stressing me out. I've got enough saved up that I can make the payments at least until this summer. I guess I'll see how they take my 2 weeks notice. I've seen people turn one in there before and they don't even put them on the schedule for the last two weeks, which is a shitty move on their part given how very little of the trash that they have working there even have the decency to put in a notice before they quit.
 



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