Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Parents should not be allowed to do anything on computers. God, this thing is a disaster.
the correct answer is he came to my office door and I waved at him to hold while I finished my conversation on the phone, this probably came off as dismissive, my fault completely. This week has been filled with my getting into shenanigans.
GasBandit
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Oi, tell me about it. Went to the Renaissance Festival. Challenged my best friend's teenaged stepson to a round on the pillow-fight log things. You know how they say, "easy as falling off a log?" They don't tell you about the getting back on the log part. Or the "wake up the next morning with leg muscles screaming from trying to cling to a log 5 feet in the air" part.
GasBandit
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Please. Those things are just big, smelly motorcycles with ideas of their own.
GasBandit
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I've got the entire run of Brisco County on my hard drive.
Back at work after four days off that I hoped to recharge, but nope, the stress is here still.
Cajungal
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I'll correct this... there are some people who could walk with me, but there are problems. Jake could walk with me but he doesn't really want to. My mom keeps a good pace, but she's so busy since she retired. My sister in law wants to walk with me, but she just wants to stroll and complains about how gross sweating is the whole time. No thank you. I need to meet more people. I usually walk myself with no problems, but it's nice to have a partner once in a while.Nobody wants to walk with me.
I love long walks, but Alberta to Louisiana might be pushing my limits. If I ever make it down there, though, we're totally going for a walk.
I'm finally coming down with the cold that my wife had the last two weeks. I'm still at the point where I'm just starting to get symptoms, but can feel myself getting sicker by the hour. This is not going to be a fun week of work, and I should be at home in bed today while the shop isn't running and no one would miss me, but I have no car to get myself home.
The box set was the only gift that *I* registered for on our wedding registry.
Someone was very nice to me.
--Patrick
Coming back to work was a mistake. Should've taken a whole week off. Aggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh
Tried to go to work yesterday. Intense head pressure, especially behind one eye. I couldn't look up without feeling pain and nausea.
Went to work today with severe cold symptoms. Manager pretty much told me to go home. I wondered if she was overreacting, but since I left my cough has taken on a wheeze and rattle.
I'm hoping I'll be well enough to go in for a whole day tomorrow, but then I wonder if I should even try, or just get as much rest as possible so I can come in fresh for Thursday and Friday.
Either way, this sucks and I can't wait for the temperature to stop flip-flopping between 38 and 80. Just get cold so my body can adjust. I hate this climate's will they won't they between-season bullshit.
Went to work today with severe cold symptoms. Manager pretty much told me to go home. I wondered if she was overreacting, but since I left my cough has taken on a wheeze and rattle.
I'm hoping I'll be well enough to go in for a whole day tomorrow, but then I wonder if I should even try, or just get as much rest as possible so I can come in fresh for Thursday and Friday.
Either way, this sucks and I can't wait for the temperature to stop flip-flopping between 38 and 80. Just get cold so my body can adjust. I hate this climate's will they won't they between-season bullshit.
Not keeping it together today
You know, we buy packs of band-aids and we never have an opportunity to use the really big ones.
Until tonight!
Until tonight!
I don't know. I can't see it. I bent down in the shower to inspect the shower liner, started to stand up, and rammed my lower back into the tub faucet. It was painful, but I didn't think it had done any real damage until afterward I found blood on the towel.
And I'm still sick! WAAAAHHHH. -_-
The worst parts of being sick--feeling like I'm letting down my work, seeing my wife do housework that is normally MY job, and not being able to touch or interact with my pets, even though one of them already has a cold and may have spread it to me in the first place.
And I'm still sick! WAAAAHHHH. -_-
The worst parts of being sick--feeling like I'm letting down my work, seeing my wife do housework that is normally MY job, and not being able to touch or interact with my pets, even though one of them already has a cold and may have spread it to me in the first place.
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GasBandit
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Uh... that doesn't... happen. Pretty much the only diseases you can "catch" from your pets (outside of rabies) are parasite-based, which does not involve colds or influenza.
Unless you're keeping humans as pets, in which case, I suppose, carry on avoiding them.
He has pet rats, which I -think- (but am not sure) are susceptible to some human virii. Most viruses are species specific, but I think rats are one of those cases where a few are transferable.
SHHH, no one can know ...
You're probably right about my not being able to catch his cold; my wife said I could and I didn't believe her, so I went on playing with him as if nothing was wrong. Then I got sick, so I jumped to conclusions.[DOUBLEPOST=1383157174,1383156889][/DOUBLEPOST]
Well, there we go. Guess I could've done social time and saved my wife the trouble yesterday. Oops.
In other whiny rat complaints, it's been about two months since the last big scuffle, so we're getting towards our bi-monthly uncomfortable evening. Our last rats fought several times daily until we neutered them. The two we have now adore each other and we haven't had to neuter either, but once every two months, the big one gets tired of being picked on by the little one and lashes out.
So, yay for that.
figmentPez
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I thought the flu could jump species. Isn't that where the bird flu came from?
Quick Google search reveals: There are recorded cases where there is probable cause to believe cats caught the flu from humans.
"The first recorded, probable case of fatal human-to-cat transmission of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus occurred in Oregon in 2009, Loehr said. Details were published in Veterinary Pathology, a professional journal. In that instance, a pet owner became severely ill with the flu and had to be hospitalized. While she was still in the hospital, her cat – an indoor cat with no exposure to other sick people, homes or wildlife – also died of pneumonia caused by an H1N1 infection.
"Since then, researchers have identified a total of 13 cats and one dog with pandemic H1N1 infection in 2011 and 2012 that appeared to have come from humans."
GasBandit
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Bird flu affecting humans is an extremely rare, almost unique happenstance. There's been influenza affecting birds for untold amounts of time, and the H5N1 mutation is new and tiny in comparison. It took a mutation for that to happen, which is very unlikely to happen in any single given home with pets. The same would go, I assume for H1N1 transmission to cats and dogs, even if the "apparent" cases pan out (it could just be coincidental).
Gueeeeess who got sent home from work sick again!
I feel pathetic. This is the weakest sickness that's put me down; I've weathered much worse, stuff that felt like it was trying to kill me. At least if I was home all this time and it was trying to kill me, I'd feel like it was merited. But all this is doing is draining me. Like it doesn't even care.
When I lie down, I feel fine, but when I get up to do something, I need to go back down. My manager thinks I'm just trying to hard to get past it and if I just stopped to rest long enough, it'd go away. But I did that all yesterday. This is such bullshit.
Thanks Obama.
I feel pathetic. This is the weakest sickness that's put me down; I've weathered much worse, stuff that felt like it was trying to kill me. At least if I was home all this time and it was trying to kill me, I'd feel like it was merited. But all this is doing is draining me. Like it doesn't even care.
When I lie down, I feel fine, but when I get up to do something, I need to go back down. My manager thinks I'm just trying to hard to get past it and if I just stopped to rest long enough, it'd go away. But I did that all yesterday. This is such bullshit.
Thanks Obama.
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