Post something good that happened today, Parts Two

[MissKitty]

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with. Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

[odeon]

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Congratulations (I think?)

I think it was important for me to do this. I don't know if it is enough but I think I'm in control now, rather than the 12-yo.

[odeon]

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with. Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

Yes, it might become easier now. Then again, there's no telling if he can change--or if I can, in that I can't really go on hating his guts if I am to work there.

[Lestat]

I just went out to the cashpoint to check my balance, and on the way, I found a full packet of rolling baccy that somebody had obviously dropped.


Right as I was  running low on baccy too.

Went to pick up my meds, managed to get everything a few days early, and the doc I saw thought that the one-off short term rx for some nitrazepam (a strong benzo, decently long acting, and to which  I don't have a nasty paradoxical rxn to, as I do to some other  benzos)  was a longterm new med, and gave me a refill without my asking.

I only asked my regular GP for a few days worth last time I saw him, as I was really getting hit hard with an overload, asked for a single dose at the time to help bring me out of it, and rather than that he gave me a few days worth. Saw a different doc this time, who didn't realize I was only asking my regular guy for enough to end the overload I was having and gave me some more.

Didn't even know she had refilled  the rx until I  got home from the pharmacy. Sure as hades not complaining though!

['andersom']

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Congratulations (I think?)

I think it was important for me to do this. I don't know if it is enough but I think I'm in control now, rather than the 12-yo.

Things like this make that my middle brother is still happy at the firm he has been working for for years. Whenever he had problems, he confronted the staff with a valid job option elsewhere. And, they never wanted to get rid of him.

So, this could pan out really well.

Being in control is

Have heard the vision of am employer on this once too. She was shocked seeing someone nearly gone, and, things changed for the better for both employee and employer. 

["couldbecousin"]

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday

Thanks.

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Nah, just a little disagreement with a teacher. Nothing serious.

disagreements with teachers are

This one was, certainly. Can you believe a teacher that, in the morning when the receiver is at his grumpiest, asks if the autistic kid in question hates him?

  "Do you hate me?"  sounds pathetic enough coming from emo drunks.   

["couldbecousin"]

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with.  Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

  ^ That's true, if he fails to keep his word, you can remind him what he promised. 

["couldbecousin"]

  My headache is going away, more should do the trick!

[Callaway]

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Wow, I didn't see that coming.  I'm glad that you are valuable enough to your company for them to make you a good counteroffer and for the 12 year old to eat humble pie.

[Parts]

Did well out at the tag sales and I just got an offer of $475 on a chair I paid $5 for

[bodie]

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Do you view the 12 year old in a better light now?

[Queen Victoria]

I just reset my modem, with help from ATT tech support because I couldn't remember ID or password.  Instead of running as slow as glass it's now zipping along.

["couldbecousin"]

I just reset my modem, with help from ATT tech support because I couldn't remember ID or password.  Instead of running as slow as glass it's now zipping along.

        Don't you love it when your computer is nice and fast?  Good for you!

[DirtDawg]

After an early appointment with a "new" Orthopedic surgeon to be briefed on the eight X-Rays I had two weeks ago, he does not want to commit more surgery upon my new hip joint, yet.
He wants to perform another series of Physical Therapy sessions, his way, for me.
 

I suppose that is good.

Physical therapy is better than surgery, if it works.

At least you will know that you did everything you could to avoid further surgery if it does come down to more surgery in the end.

Been down that road.

Remember, I spent (I really do mean spent) a full year in physical therapy, about the time you guys stopped seeing me around as often. I was helped a bit and I learned some things to help with the musculature atrophy, but overall the pain is worse.

The following surgery last summer has helped get the joint back to an acceptable range of motion , but the pain is still there.

This is why I have returned to (A NEW) orthopedic surgeon. I am trying to find how to eliminate the pain that wakes me up, destroying my sleep, four or five times each night.

 

Whatever! Do not cry too much for me. I am old and pain just barely feels like all that much these days, but losing sleep (FUCK), when I barely have ever gotten any sleep is a BIG deal.

I just want to go back to getting four or five hours of decent sleep per night.

FFS

[Lestat]

I know how that feels, you have my sympathies. I too get kept awake by pain, my hip and knee in my case, have you considered trying corticosteroid shots? I just had two recently, one in my knee and the other into my hip joint. They didn't stop either hurting, although they have indeed eased my pain some. BUT, there has been a substantial and rapid increase in my mobility, my overall stiffness has abated quite a bit.

Might be worth a try.

Sleep deprivation does not do me good either, I need at LEAST 10-12 hours a night, any significant sleep deprivation affects me  pretty badly. Speaking of which, as soon as I finish devouring my book, I need to go and hit the deck.