Bmwolf21

Thanks. Not sure what's going on there. Thought it was a problem with the knee affecting my gait when running, but the calf feels like I'm being Tasered every time I run more than a mile or so. Can't wait to find out what's going on in there.

Got an MRI on the knee and calf today, so now I am waiting for the doc to call with the results - or at least schedule an appt so we can go over them. Kinda sucks waiting to find out what the scans revealed. Plus side, though - I got a cool CD with all the images on there. Don't know what I am looking at but it's neat to look at.

Oh, and I have to go for an MRI on my knee/calf to figure out what the heck is wrong with my right leg.

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Tomorrow is our monthly "summon all the minions to the main office and give them their monthly reaming" meeting. Always fun to get lectured and screamed at for two hours. Bonus - the meeting was supposed to be at the main office, with the holiday party to follow. It was scheduled this way to minimize travel and mileage expenses. So what do they do? Move the meeting to an off-site branch (one that doesn't have the facilities to handle the @ of people in attendance) and then keep the party scheduled for the original time and location - the main office. So go to one meeting and get yelled at and threatened for two hours, then get in the car and drive to another location for the potluck holiday party. Awesome fun. <_<

The non-profit I work for is struggling financially as we come in to the end of the year (no surprise) so they are "reorganizing" and laying people off and making people take pay cuts and setting new goals for the remainder of 2010. So on the 15th of November I get my revised goals for both November and December (which are dramatically higher than what we were forecast for originally) and I'll need a miracle during this weekend's campaign to make my numbers. So I had to sign revised goals, which felt like signing my own death warrant, knowing that they have been firing and laying people off like it's going out of style. Plus in all that I am in the midst of working ten straight days leading into Thanksgiving, and given the importance of this weekend's campaign, the powers that be thought it would be a good idea to go ahead with our monthly four-hour all-department meeting that pulls everyone of importance out of each location for half a day - on the first day of the campaign.

Been a rough couple weeks health-wise. Pulled my hamstring on the treadmill last Monday, and it's still sore and bruised 10 days later. Good food poisoning at Subway on Monday and spent the next two days wearing out the hallway carpet leading to the bathroom.

This. Not if you watch your privacy settings. I have people on my "friend" list that I have no desire for them to see anything I post, so I have a blacklist and deny them access to stuff. It's really not hard (that's what she said).

I really hate the micro-managers at our central office who keep changing the parameters and expectations of our project - especially two days out from the first deadline.

Good place to watch the games but a bit of a hike from the UCF area. Second on the Miller Ale House locations. Pretty good wings (make sure you order them naked) and usually good beer specials. There's one in the there is one in the Waterford Lakes shopping center on Alafaya Trail by the 408. Not far from the UCF area at all - 5 minutes from the campus at most. The wife and I spent a lot of cash in the Ale House locations during football season. If they aren't showing the games there is another sports bar in that shopping center called Friendly Confines that may have Center Ice.

Didn't see any of the game tonight, mainly due to work. :( Should see Games 2 and 3, and maybe some of 4. Then who knows.

Sounds like we work for the same people. Our upper management overextended us with a partnership that has overwhelmed our ability to function normally, gave us little to no direction on how to make it work, and when we start to make it work, they tinker with the processes, tell us we're doing it wrong or not doing enough, and screw the whole thing up. Idiots. +1

We ran into a pair of annoying hecklers like that last month at a Lake Erie Monsters game (and I apologize if this a re-posted complaint). First one was a grown man-child who was developmentally disabled, who kept screaming "Detroit sucks" in his high falsetto voice - even though the opponent was not from Detroit or even the state of Michigan. After a few instances of this screaming the drunk douchebag a few rows back decided to start heckling the man-child. Classy. Then, for the next 2 1/2 hours we were subjected to the worst heckling I have heard, courtesy of the drunk douchebag. All he had in his bag of tricks was a limited repertoire of gay jokes (mostly aimed at the opposing goalie) and making fun of the opposing goalie's mask, which was purple with the HOLLYWOOD sign across the top. Kept saying things like "you're pretty" to the opposing goalie and "oh, that was close" when he'd make a save. So my complaint is this - if you're gonna heckle - do some damn homework and come with some fresh, funny material. Don't repeat the same unfunny crap all game long. If not, the rest of your section should be allowed to forcibly remove you.

Another night in the dentist's chair...temporary crown put on while the permanent one is made...and to top it all off the TV in the exam room was locked on Nickelodeon, forcing me to endure nearly 90 minutes of "The Nanny."

Had something similar (sorta) happen last Thursday. They call us all to the main office to go over reports and expectations for the next stage of this project we are working on. The reports are a little complicated, so they say "go back to your branch and run the reports now while it's fresh in your mind, and if you have any questions, call one of the three people who gave the presentation." No word of needing to report the numbers from this complex report by a certain time, nothing. So we get back, have trouble with the report, and make the appropriate calls, but no luck reaching anyone. We follow with emails. Nothing. End of the day comes (a little early for me, a little before 4) and I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth (dentist appointment after work) and a coworker comes in. Seems the VP downtown is on the phone and needs the numbers NOW. :censored: me. To top it off, he jokingly asks my coworker "does he always leave in the middle of the day like this?" :censored: me twice. I get him on the phone, explain the situation and that I am on my way to the dentist, and he seems to understand. Fortunately my counterpart on the project took care of him and the reports while I was in the chair getting my mouth worked over.

Had to spend nearly an hour in the dentist's chair tonight, and have two more appt's to go. :censored:

Had to take the truck in for service today, and we had to fight with the warranty company to cover some of the repairs. Plus going to the dealership to pick up my truck from the service department pisses me off - I have to wander around and look at all the sweet looking new rides and then climb into my POS to go home.

Might ignite a firestorm, but here goes...the use of the word "abortion" to describe anything other than the medical procedure. I know there are other definitions (including "monstrosity") but I feel that, with the the main definition being such an emotionally-charged topic, it's best to leave that term where it belongs and use another term. (Note: I am not singling anyone out - I have seen this term used here, on TSW and and a couple other boards and have even heard it used in conversation, and it always touches a nerve.)

I shouldn't complain, because it's the little guy's birthday and we had a fun time at Chuck E Cheese (all 3 1/2 hours of it) but I had to comment on these two things. We are slowly seeing a grand reorganization at my company, and upper management recently entered in a partnership with a local health care provider that has completely blown up in our faces. We have too many people coming in through this program and not enough capacity to deliver on the promises of this partnership, but now the geniuses who promised them the moon are going on the attack, saying that the individual branches are not on board and are fighting headquarters. So they decided that threatening us with our jobs if we don't make this work was the right way to go, and they even said "even the new people will be gone." I've only been on in this position for three months, and the new program that overwhelmed us was rolled out 6 weeks into my tenure. Not a huge fan of being threatened with my job after three months, especially when I am being asked to hit a moving target and not given the resources or support I need. Our local guys did the same thing. Warned for three or four days about how much snow was coming, this was as bad as last week, yada yada yada. The day of the storm comes, places had shut down in advance, and the system shifted a little, meaning we were going to get a fraction of what was forecast. Rather than eat crow, the one local weatherguy decided that mocking the viewers was the way to go - said something along the lines of "those of you who were hoping for a lot of snow tonight are going to be disappointed." Hey a#$^$#!e - YOU were the one who whipped everyone up into a frenzy. Then of course the next day we got about 4-5", nothing major, but a lot of blowing snow and higher winds, but after the weather people came back and basically said "nothing major coming" I think everyone let down their guard, and that included the snow removal. Roads were awful all day.

Complaint: it's not Friday. Just want to get to the weekend and decompress a little.

I am tired of being sick this winter. Worst cold/flu season in a few years. People are still coming into work sick or dragging sick kids, and no one is cleaning up after themselves.

I doubt Blizzaks would help my crappy winter truck one bit, but in any case, I'm not spending $500+ for snow tires on a vehicle I am trying to pay off and trade in - not when I have a ~1-mile commute to work. I'll load up with sandbags, go slow and do some fun donuts in the parking lots and work to pay it down as fast as possible. And I know what you mean about the hockey. I had hoped that I could pick up some extra cash covering HS hockey games for the paper, but they barely cover anything here outside of football and HS basketball. I go from decent extra cash in the fall (football) to almost none the other 8 months of the year. We've been in NEO for three years now and I am surprised at the apathy towards hockey. And I am hoping we don't get stuck here permanently. I am hoping my next career move makes me a "halfback" - and we can move halfway back down South. Maybe North Carolina. Yep. Although I am glad to see some of the snow go away, even if it is a temporary reprieve. It's a couple days I don't have to shovel, and I can get into the backyard and clean up some of the dog's land mines before the next round of snow...

I found out this week that a helluva a nice guy who worked with the nighttime cleaning company that cleans our facility has been moved into hospice and has been given 4-6 weeks to live. :(

My pickup truck, which was perfect for use in Florida, is absolutely horrible in Northeast Ohio winters.

People who stop before turning through a right-hand green arrow. Couples who have a joint Facebook account. Movies that are excessively long. My little germ magnet, who is kind enough to share every bug, cough and cold he picks up with his mommy & daddy.