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Thrillho:
So a life update from me forthcoming shortly. If you can't be arsed to read all of it, and Lord knows I don't blame you, if you have any insight into the following question, then please do help:

I'm going to New York in two weeks, for a six-day work trip. I will be outside a lot. We're taking a boat on the Hudson at some point. I have not prepared whatsoever for this for reasons I will go into later on, but yeah... I've never been to New York or even the US before, so HALP. WHAT DO I NEED? WHAT DO I PACK? AHHHHH?

Anyway, boring life rambles.

(click to show/hide)So fate and my own stupidity conspired against me to make the last couple of months extremely fucking difficult. Firstly I put something tremendously stupid on social media that while taken down within a couple of hours led to a disciplinary process at my place of work. I was genuinely terrified that I would lose my job, and this was something that I just had to sit and deal with for six weeks over the Christmas period. And best of all of that was that because it was my own stupid fault (I will never go into what it consisted of in writing, anywhere, ever) I couldn't even let out any righteous anger over it, just sit and kind of... slowly implode. I have not been sober for a lot of January or December. I found out as of last Monday that all is fine, I will have a warning on my record that I can work off in 18 months (which given I want to work here for years to come is absolutely nothing) and all is well. Well, not well, but you know.

With that hanging over my head already, work discovered that my Bradford Factor was too high. For those unfamiliar, and I'm sure I have complained about this before, the Bradford Factor is a stupid bullshit absence equation that multiplies the number of sickness absences you have per year by themselves (a squared basically) then by how many days you have had off. In the preceding 12 months, I have been off sick a grand total of three times, for a total of eight days off. And that was enough to draw attention to my Bradford Factor and mean I had to have a meeting with HR. And then this week I have come down ill with something else too, so that's nice. It's almost as if the stress of being worried about being ill might have, I dunno, also made me even more ill? But then, who knows.

AND ON TOP OF THAT SHIT. Someone broke into an old PayPal account of mine and stole a four figure sum out of my account. Luckily I caught this while it was still in the PayPal account and hadn't been sent to someone else's bank account, but it's taken multiple weeks to get that shit sorted out too, and I got my money back today having noticed that it was missing on the 7th January. It was terrifying at the time because I thought I had just reached the bottom of my bank account through reckless spending and that I was just fucked.

So yeah. Been busy.

Now please help me with New York! I have on my list of things to buy, thermal gloves, thermal underwear and top of some sort to be worn under my clothes, and possibly even a thermal snood, and a decent coat because mine, as much as I love it, will not do the job.

Welu:
Visiting Orlando, Florida in a couple weeks. Most of the days already are filled with stuff but not sure what to do on the free days. Research makes it look a bit hard to get around without a car so hopefully can find some places to stay most of the day.

Is it cold in here?:
There's a deer lying down in my back yard as though it were safe at home.

Welu:
Orlando was a lot of fun. It was a bit of pain to get around because had to taxi everywhere. Needed that holiday more than I even realised.

Grognard:
when in Orlando, we get the cheapest tiniest rental car we can fit everyone into.
last time was a Mitsubishi ...something.  I think the Fiat was bigger.
but it was still cheaper than the taxi.
nnot by much, but had the bonus of not waiting and independence.

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