RAVE: Took the last 2 days off work to catch up on some landscaping around the house. 3 trailer fulls of mulch, 1 of top dressing, 1 of compost. 8 fucking yards of shit that I wheelbarrowed around the house. Front beds mulched, front lawn top dressed, back yard mulched and raised beds prepped. First time serious work has been done in over 4 years. RAVE: I would not have been able to do this last year. CPAP and heart meds to the rescue. RANT: I shoveled and wheelbarrowed almost 10 fucking thousand pounds of shit in the last 2 days. I can barely move, and my first glass of Friday Wine is kicking my fucking ass.
Rant: Biopsy resulted in a big hematoma so I have one normal boob and one that looks like a porn star boob in a bra and a horrible purple nightmare out of a bra. My squeamish husband is horrified and my friend who likes gross stuff is asking me for photo updates regularly. Rave: Not cancer! Rant: Might need surgery anyways.
Rant: I did something I said again and again, that I would never do. I sold my 1988 chevy truck. But I need cash for major tree trimming, before one falls on the house or shop, and a new roof on the house. Rave: I sold it for nearly double what I paid for about ten years and 70k miles ago. Who knows, maybe the old chevy market will crash and I can pick up another one, drive it for a decade and make a profit. Rant: I still do not have a boat in the water. I'm busy and the weather has been stupid compared to years past. Memories keep popping up on my phone and I’m at least a month later on getting this done than every year since 2017.
RAVE: Put the boat in the water Thursday. RANT: New slip which is perpendicular to the flow of the current and I've never had to dock like that. Ended up all sideways and hit the fuck out of the boat in the next slip. Thankfully it was rub rail to rub rail so no damage
Rant: Motherfucker, I live in the southeast, I'm supposed be boating now! Like, I usually beat everyone to boating season, but It's 54° and blowing like 25 mph. It's either raining, cold or I have to work on something other than my own stuff. Remember the first rule of boating, never approach anything faster than you're willing to hit it!
I thought the first rule of boating was never to own a boat but instead be friends with someone who does?
That's one of the top rules for people wanting to reach financial independence as fast as possible while having zero fun along the way. Those people are absolute morons.
Rave: I am following a recipe for a knockoff poop-pourri product to sell with my soaps etc. I was internally bitching about their chosen units of measurement, mL's. Then, lightbulb! My manager at the lab gave me a bulb and pipettes to practice with (and I never did). I have the perfect tools at my disposal totally by accident.
Rant: I had an ear injury where my primary doctor was worried that I might have punctured my ear drum. So, I scheduled an appointment with an ENT to be sure and this required a trip to the audiologist first. Turns out I have fairly extensive hearing loss across high range sound. I knew it was bad, but damn. So, in the next month or so I will have hearing aids. And, for the first time in my life, I will also have glasses. Could be worse I suppose, I made it to almost 50 without them.
Rant: My mom’s boyfriend’s dog has cancer and it looks like they will be putting her down this week. Very sudden on set of symptoms. She was spry and active as ever when I visited a few weeks ago. It’s a blow as she is one of the sweetest most affectionate dogs I’ve ever known. I don’t take these situations well and am broken up about. LIFE, is a series of dogs!
RANT: We fly out for England on the 11th so I booked the hotel for the 11th totally spacing that it's essentially a red eye flight and we don't land until the 12th. Hotel is saying that it's not refundable so it's looking like we wasted ~$500 for the night.
Biggest rave ever: I am now part of Rabbit apparel's running team. The more I got into the sport, especially the distance stuff where miles on feet meant you needed the right material to last and be comfortable for hours at a go, the more I realized that it was much easier to buy once/cry once. Same shit @Nettdata does with toasters and garden beds or whatever. Literally every single one of my running shirts is from them, but also now my work polos and increasingly my swimsuits as they've expanded their line. The questionnaire had that some of that generic stuff like "what value would you bring to the brand" and "why should we sponsor you?" The running space, like seemingly everywhere else on the internet, is overflowing with influencer douchebags so I answered the questions as brutally honest as I could. I told them I only have facebook, and only have maybe two dozen friends because I just wanna share pictures and think influencers are social cancer. I also said it would be in their best interest not to sponsor me, because I'm gonna continue to buy from them regardless so sending me free shit would really hurt their profit margins. I'm literally the kid who grew up wearing Nike's, getting asked to wear them officially. And I was asked that after talking shit to them on the application... you know on second thought maybe they sent it by mistake..... fuck!
RAVE: Rediscovered the fun and results of charcoal grilling. Added a simple 22” Weber grill to the fleet, and it is amazing. Started following a Brazilian chef named Guga on YouTube, and he’s been really inspirational with what he does. I especially love his drive to experiment and test things.
Rant: Getting tired of my job. The work is interesting and my boss/immediate coworkers are cool, but outside of that bubble, the company is a mess. The interim CEO, who replaced the fired CEO, led the acquisition of an AI company, which from I can tell, was based purely on industry hype and nothing to do with strategy, etc. Now she's getting dismissed, but not before cratering the stock price and indicating the company is open to "strategic alternatives" which is code for, "I fucked the company's reputation up. Every time they host a town hall to reassure people, morale seems to go down rather than up. Plus, I consistently get excellent reviews and accolades, but no substantial promotion or raise because the company's shape. Which is weird, because they have a lot of cash on-hand but they have shitty direction with poor decision-making. Tough to consider moving on because I like who I work for and with, but I'm not seeing a lot of alternative options.
Rant: yesterday my wife’s grandmother passed away. Dementia and such, we knew it was coming, doesn’t make it suck any less. She might have been old school and stuck in her ways, but when we got engaged at age 20, she was one of our few but loudest fans. Today is our 14 year anniversary. I’d like to think she went a day early so she could spend today watching us with her husband somewhere. fair warning to those wanting to “be my own boss” and shit: instead of being with their/my family and mourning together, I spent the day going through resumes and setting up interviews on my phone while trying multitask and keep my own boys somewhat distracted. You DO NOT get time off just because you “need it.” Yeah I could have taken it technically, but the person it would have hurt is ultimately me