Tag: work
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Saturday
If I survive the next two weeks at work, I will probably have my job through March. Maybe April. It’s a long story, but it’s due to my leave. I took 13 days off (including the weekend). I haven’t had that much time off from a job in over a decade! I mainly want my…
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Locking some entries
I’m locking some entries. Most of them are very old, so it won’t be noticeable. However, I did lock one from December 31, 2021. I’m locking them because I’m using some of the entries as part of a writing contest, and if they run it through a plagiarize program, my site will come up. This…
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Living in a World
Toxic Positivity promises that gratitude is all you need. Losing my mobility taught me otherwise. Feeling general appreciation or gratitude does not fix everything when life unspools. Worse, when illness is involved, the insistence on gratitude can be alienating, and even cause harm. Patients feel castigated for not being “grateful enough”. – Jodi Ettenberg I’ve…
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Slow Burn
It’s almost noon on Sunday. I’ve been working all morning. What else is new? I usually like to blog on Sunday mornings, but I had a project I wanted to finish. The business has been kind of slow. But it’s only January! I wanted to make $10K this year. In 2021, I made about $8,300.…
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I’m Crumbling
An entry on a Thursday? Say what? Whatever. My life sucks right now. But what doesn’t suck is this new kickass computer. I love this thing. It took me three weeks to work on the Samsung Book Go. I worked on this HP Pavilion Laptop – 14t-dv000 yesterday. The first day I got it! I’m…
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Can’t You See I’m Struggling?
Should disabled people have to advocate for themselves? Shouldn’t others help out? What a concept! Anyway, a not pleasant experience happened on Monday evening. The guy across the street went off on my poor dog and me. Well, it was probably me. I heard what sounded like a gunshot. For a second, I thought, “Someone…
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