02/26/11 11:05 - ID#53741

Creep Center Market

Mike and I went to the Clarence Center Flea Market today. Here is a bit of the creepy.

Still have the post mortem photos for sale. I'm sort of surprised nobody snagged those yet. I'm not sure I would buy those for $35 for the entire set even though I sort of want to see the rest of them.

Creepy bÃ©bÃ©

Bare chested warrior lawn jockey?

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02/19/11 03:24 - ID#53650

For e:mike who is working all day

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02/15/11 07:51 - ID#53621

The makings of a monster

Today I flipped my lid and spent a good part of the day swearing and screaming. Mostly only I could hear me but a decent portion of it was directed at another human being. I really let her have it short of calling her the big C. Without getting into all of the specific details it basically goes like this, I am totally getting screwed over. This stupid company I have to deal with has got all the power and I have none. They can do whatever they want to me and I just have to take it because they are more powerful than I am. They are totally in the wrong and I am in the right but it just doesn't matter.

So I yelled and screamed at this girl who really was being insensitive. Her biggest problem is she REFUSED to have a supervisor call me back. This is when I unleashed my wrath on her. In my opinion, this is absolutely not fair. It is a reasonable request based on the problems that I have had with this company to have a supervisor call me back. So after hanging up on her, I had to call back after a suitable amount of time had passed to calm down to ask to speak with a supervisor. I got some stupid schmuck who wasn't a supervisor of anything, just a glorified schmuck. He wouldn't listen to me and constantly talked over me. Nobody has really ever acknowledge that the company has messed up, they actually try to blame it on me and I KNOW that it isn't my fault.

The thing is that I can be really patient for long periods of time but eventually I will explode. This problem has been going on for several months now. I feel good in knowing that I probably made this girls day worse, but I feel bad that it probably affected everyone else in her environment in a negative way.

After watching this documentary about stress being related to not having any power I completely understand. I need more power. I'm not just referring to this particular situation but just in my life in general, I have no power. I'm not really sure how to change that.

metalpeter writes at 05:23:48 02/16/11 - Comment #60696: I am not in your spot but I get that feeling of no power from being at work... Boos and people in charge make all these stupid rules and there is some new thing (they can now check your car for weapons ... well if what else are they looking for.... You can't be impaired at all aka I get drunk the night before and am sick that is wrong.... You can only use the type of cutter they say anything else is a weapon now it is complete bullshit) What happens if you don't sign it I don't know but I feel like not singing it...... See they have all the power... But if everyone in the place walked in and said "This is Bullshit and here is why..... we aren't signing it" then we would have the power or maybe they would fire all of us who knows.....

In terms of blowing up it sounds as if you let things build up... You think you are cool but someplace things are simmering and then bang giant grease fire hits the walls... Then you turn off the burner and no real damage is done....

In Terms of the girl she is most likely thinking who is this crazy man.... I think part of their training is to push people away or dismiss claims or what ever it is along those lines.......

lilho writes at 10:27:03 02/16/11 - Comment #60692: I think yoga sounds like a good idea, and I work someplace like that and have had many many days just the same. I suck it up because I need a paycheck... One day hopefully you will have some power and you will use it to do good. :o)

tinypliny writes at 09:58:29 02/15/11 - Comment #60687: (e:libertad), come to yoga with me and (e:paul) tomorrow! We are going to hand-to-heart with Erin @ 7PM to achieve calm and push our bodies to our limits while our soul is kind of amazed at it all. :)

flacidness writes at 09:21:55 02/15/11 - Comment #60686: There is nothing more frustrating than knowing youre right and you still have to argue your point. Especially to someone who dosent seem to care about what's bothering you. I hope you don't lose too much hair over this. A little yoga should calm some nerves.

libertad writes at 08:33:22 02/15/11 - Comment #60685: It was actually a National Geographic special "Stress: Portrait of a Killer", I watched it on Netflix. :::link:::

The special features Robert Sapolsky, some neurobiologist genius or something, who talks of the ill effects of chronic stress and the importance of hierarchy in determining the amount of it in our lives.

jbeatty writes at 08:15:53 02/15/11 - Comment #60684: What was the name of the documentary? Sometimes it feels really good to scream at people on the phone.