Welcome to my brain. It’s messy. It’s interesting. And it’s all connected if you stick around long enough. "Believe Nothing: no matter who said it, even if I have said it, except it agree with your own reason and common sense. Siddhartha Guatamo, the Buddha.

Tryin’ ta stay positive,,,

Yah, today was a MuhnDay,,,those are always of the interestin’ sorts,,,

Woulda been a full house today at the J.O.B. cept there was a SNAFU with Burnout,,, Seems his GF had to make a hospital visit and he wasn’t sure when she would be back: He is desperate to get work in, and pulled one of the most BONEHEADED moves,,,, If he hadn’t said anything,,,,

Long story short, he bundled the newborn (born day before Christmas) up and swaddled her in her crib so she couldn’t wiggle loose,

and went to work,,,

No one there to watch the bahbie,,, Two weeks old, alone, in his hovel that needs a space heater to keep warm and that he turned off because he didn’t want her involved in a house fire if things went sideways,,,

Left turn signal, hard braking, turn the Buff back on her trail and take that BOY back home and hard admonishments,,,, Don’t care how desperate you are,,, you don’t leave a newborn ALONE, PERIOD!!!

and that was just the start of it,,, nothing personally hit me, but I felt like Mortars were landing all around me. Bossman tossed a problem my way too: all the panels that I have been making are WRONG wrong wrong,,,, They were supposed to be installed in a building but I made them for freestanding,,,

Some forty some odd panels, are all TOO BIG,,, Dunno what the resolution is going to be, but there is around Eight grand of product that the customer isn’t going to be able to use,,,,

all because one CRUCIAL peice of information was not passed along to the fabricator (IE, ME)

At least the weather is nice today,,,,

I do so hatez muhndaze,,,

And some of the things I want to use to increase the positive outlook,,,, I Don’t even want to mention because i don’t want to jinx things,,,, Maybe a little superstitious, but I am afraid to say ‘Buff is running good’ or sumsuch,,,, I would feel like I were painting a target for Murphy to drop mortars into,,,,

but I am home now, the house is warmin’ up, the lights falling, and I just wanna sit, relax, and not think for a few minutes,,,

more tomorrow,,,

keep on livin’

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3 responses

  1. Jay's avatar
    theboringoldman

    Good grief! He left a NEWBORN unattended?!?!
    Usually I get a chuckle out of your stories of the dingbats you have to work with but this one takes the cake, and there ain’t nothing funny about it. I understand desperation, been there for a good portion of my teen/adult years, but sweet Jeebus!
    You done good Dio. Clearly that boy needs some learning…

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    January 8, 2024 at 7:53 pm

    • diogenesoftherifle's avatar
      diogenesoftherifle

      As soon as I realized what he had done, I danged near locked the tires up to make the U-turn back,,, He wasn’t upset with me (I’d have back handed him if he argued),,, He knew it was a bad choice, and I told him I would cover his absence as needed,,, Bossman was more upset about it than I expected,,, Not that he wasn’t there but that he felt compelled to leave a baby unattended: dunno that there is much BM can do to alleviate the boys situation and a raise is temporary as people always start spending more as they earn more,,, More that could be said, but this is a comment, not a post,,, and I don’t feel comfortable tellin’ his tale without his express permission,,,

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      January 8, 2024 at 8:44 pm

  2. Spud's avatar
    Spud

    It is a common issue for most working poor folk these days. Back in the day , the village took care of issues like child care. Friends , neighbors and family.
    Modern life has destroyed the village with greed , regulation and political hackery.
    Think about tomorrow’s hard decisions…lot of children going to be affected.

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    January 9, 2024 at 7:28 am