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Blog Thread 5: A New Beginning
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 23 Mar 2016, 22:00 ---after my day at work....
I'm very jealous & you deserve your retirement very much.
--- End quote ---
Ditto.
Metope:
Congrats on your well earned retirement, Paul!
Carl-E:
Hi. The call center job's going OK. Still teaching, and timing the classes better so income's a little less sporadic. Still sexton at the church, too.
And I never quit Macy's, either. I go in once a week or so to help with the truck. This week it was today.
And I nearly wound up in the hospital. Nearly as in, about 4 inches off. I was in the trailer picking up a box to put onto the roller conveyor, and out of the corner of my eye saw a box near the bottom of a stack beside me collapse under the weight of the boxes above. About 7 boxes weighing between 20 and 30 lbs (mostly clothing) came down as a single unit, grazing my arm and shaking the entire trailer. Two boxes actually bounced off the conveyor, and the top box impaled itself on one of the conveyor's wheels. It took two of us to remove it.
I've studied physics, I know the forces at work. I know when a stack's dangerous, when and how to disable the stored kinetic forces and get the hell out of the way. But this... well, the stack was fine.
The box that collapsed was 4 inches high, and had one fucking pair of jeans in them. Lots of boxes get crushed, and stacks topple all the time, but this is the first time it happened while I was there.
The rational thing to do would have been to walk out right then and there. I didn't. Don't know why.
God, I'm stupid.
Welu:
Spent time hanging out with a friend I haven't seen for a while and his nearly two year old son. My phrasing is going to sound really bad but it's cool to have seen this baby become a person, with expressions and a personality and mannerisms other than just cry, eat, poop, sleep. Still don't really know how to interact with him but I only see him two or three times a year, which has added to the feeling of only seeing big jumps in growing and not incremental daily ones. Maybe next time I see him we'll have a kind of conversation, since that was a little out of his range today. It was nice to see him take a liking to me despite my uncertainty.
Although when it comes to the idea of my own I do still feel my uterus curling up on itself in protest. More dogs and guinea pigs instead please.
Carl-E:
Considering your avatar, I think you're safe.
At least you know where they come from, which is more than I can say of some of the tweens having kids around here...
And yes, the local junior high's child care center is now up and running. That's grades 7, 8 and 9, ages 12 - 15.
Welcome to Appalachia.
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