So... how was your day?

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

I thought that I would create a thread, whereby JWfaners could look back on their day, and comment on it, if they wanted to.

 

I am not at work. I'm not ill, but there has been a diesel leak into the water system, on the island where I live (don't believe me? Google it). Consequently, a lot of businesses (including my place of work) have had to close, for the foreseeable.

Bummer.

I wouldn't mind, but it will be Tuesday at the earliest until my workplace re-opens. In the meantime, no-one on the island can use water to cook, drink, launder, or wash (don't believe me? Google it!).

All my weekend reading material is at work, which has been locked since Wednesday, and I am going stir crazy.

[Yodaschild 1,582]

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[bollemanneke 4,317]

My day ended well. Next trip to the UK in the pipeline, which might include Home Alone live in concert.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

On 17/09/2023 at 8:44 PM, Schilkeman said:

That's rough. I'm sorry that's going on for you. Hopefully it gets resolved quickly.

 

The whole "water" thing was resolved, last weekend. 

Next week, my workplace will be closed for three days, due to industrial action. It never rains...

 

[Yodaschild 1,582]

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[Richard P 5,234]

Sorry to hear that.

 

I've just had covid for essentially two weeks - Thursday before last I realised that something other than our heatwave was going on. It's now basically gone and I'm just feeling a bit more tired than I usually would and sinuses feeling a bit weird, but I basically just had two weekends of lying on the bed not doing very much.

 

... and I'm heading off to the States with the parents and meeting my brother in just over a week causing minor panic in the household whether I can avoid giving it to them. So far, so good.

[Jay 45,771]

What part of the states?

[Richard P 5,234]

NYC, Philly, DC, Shenandoah and some nearby historical areas near the coast.

 

We fly out Saturday and all looks good now.

[Jay 45,771]

Let me know if you ever come to Boston! 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

At the moment, my day is FUCKING AWFUL!!!!!! 

I want to punch someone.

I'm going for a walk.

I'll tell you about it, later.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Yesterday, I needed a stamp so I could send a letter. So, off I trot to the Post Office, and I ask the lady behind the counter for a 1st class. I ask the lady: "Is it Charles, or Elizabeth, on the stamp?". She replies: "It's the baby Jesus".

[Bespin Copilot 10,705]

10 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Yesterday, I need a stamp so I could a letter. So, off I trot to the Post Office, and I ask the lady behind the counter for a 1st class. I ask the lady: "Is it Charles, or Elizabeth, on the stamp?". She replies: "It's the baby Jesus".

 

They found a cuter compromise.

[Mr. Hooper 8,595]

On 12/11/2023 at 10:57 AM, Naïve Old Fart said:

She replies: "It's the baby Jesus".

I would've asked for Paddington Bear!

[filmmusic 3,191]

Well, I'm 418,85€ poorer!  (due to Black Friday purchases. And I didn't buy some film sheet music scores I was interested in too)

But, happy for HOOK! 

[Jay 45,771]

My day's pretty good. Prettay, prettay, prettay good

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

12 hours ago, Jay said:

My day's pretty good. Prettay, prettay, prettay good

 

How was it good (apart from Thanksgiving, and HOOK)?

[Jay 45,771]

That's was it really

[Jurassic Shark 16,346]

On 05/10/2023 at 12:33 PM, Naïve Old Fart said:

At the moment, my day is FUCKING AWFUL!!!!!! 

I want to punch someone.

I'm going for a walk.

I'll tell you about it, later.

 

Was this because of the baby Jesus stamp?

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Thanks for asking, JS.

Not the baby Jesus thing. That was, actually, funny.

It was a very frustrating day at work. For the longest time, I've felt like a fifth wheel. Meetings being cancelled at last minute after I've cancelled something else so that I could attend; staff not returning my e-mails (apparently they are busy. Yeah? Well, we're all fucking busy, aren't we, but I took the time to send you an e-mail about a work issue. Do you think I write e-mails for my fucking health?!); people being no-shows, when I have set aside time for 1:1s.

The usual stuff.

Thankfully, it's going a lot better, now. In the past three weeks, my work has gone from manageable, to manic. Still, it keeps me busy, I guess, and I'm getting on a lot better with certain staff than I have since I started.

We've got Secret Santa coming up, soon. That should be fun.

[Deacon Blues 67]

Hungover from my work's xmas party yesterday. We went on a cruise around darling harbour.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Well, @Deacon Blues, let's hope that you are now "home at last"? 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

I just wanted to post this.

This evening, I needed to go to my local grocery store. I pulled up in the car park, got out, and locked the door. The car park is by a loch, so I went over to the edge of the car park, and I looked out, over the loch to the houses, beyond. I saw the house lights reflected in the still, black water, and I saw the black shapes of wee islands, and I saw the sun going down, and I said to myself: "This place is fucking beautiful".

Just thought I'd share that.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Does anyone live with diabetes? I'm talking Miletus, here, and not Insipidus.

I have lived with it since 2017, and recently my HBA1C (those of you with diabetes will know what I'm talking about) skyrocketed to 62 (based on blood tests from three months ago). It was the highest score, in my entire life.

A recurring kidney issue didn't help matters, but following an operation to remove the offending stone, I decided to cut out all food that might be bad for both my kidneys, and my diabetes, and eat healthier.

That was six weeks ago.

I saw the specialist diabetes nurse one week ago, for another HBA1C, and she called me up, today, with the result.

It's 45!

It's down seventeen fucking points, in three months! How brilliant is that?!

If I carry on like this - and I will - I could reverse the diabetes, by next Spring.

[Bespin Copilot 10,705]

3 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Fifificjif

 

Another finnish volcano?

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Finnish? I live in Scotland, dude  It could be Gaelic, but it's not.

Sometimes, when I am the first to post after my previous post, the system automatically merges the posts, so I type some old gobbledygook to make sure that the posts are separate.

That was not meant to be seen 

 

[Jay 45,771]

35 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Sometimes, when I am the first to post after my previous post, the system automatically merges the posts, so I type some old gobbledygook to make sure that the posts are separate.

 

The system only merges two posts together if they are posted within 1 hour of each other.  Beyond that timeframe, you can unlimited post in a row by you in the same thread

[Sweeping Strings 3,376]

On 13/12/2023 at 1:58 PM, Naïve Old Fart said:

Does anyone live with diabetes? I'm talking Miletus, here, and not Insipidus.

I have lived with it since 2017, and recently my HBA1C (those of you with diabetes will know what I'm talking about) skyrocketed to 62 (based on blood tests from three months ago). It was the highest score, in my entire life.

A recurring kidney issue didn't help matters, but following an operation to remove the offending stone, I decided to cut out all food that might be bad for both my kidneys, and my diabetes, and eat healthier.

That was six weeks ago.

I saw the specialist diabetes nurse one week ago, for another HBA1C, and she called me up, today, with the result.

It's 45!

It's down seventeen fucking points, in three months! How brilliant is that?!

If I carry on like this - and I will - I could reverse the diabetes, by next Spring.

I have type 2, diagnosed in '05. I'm on meds (pills) for it. Last test showed that my HBA1C had dropped from 57 to 49 since the last one earlier in the year. 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Great news, @Sweeping Strings! Keep at it, and we'll beat it, together.

 

Formerly Naïve Old Fart

[Sweeping Strings 3,376]

Best not dwell on what the festive season overindulgences might have done to said levels, lol. Ah fuck it, it's Christmas. 

[Jurassic Shark 16,346]

I had to click on your small avatar as it seemed strangely familiar, @Sweeping Strings, and what a igenius Christmas tree decoration it is! I need this on my tree - where I can get one?

[Sweeping Strings 3,376]

Google should help, JS. I don't own the decoration myself, just 'borrowed' the pic from somewhere that does sell it. 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Google should help, JS. I don't own the decoration myself, just 'borrowed' the pic from somewhere that does sell it. 

 

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

I had to click on your small avatar as it seemed strangely familiar, @Sweeping Strings, and what a igenius Christmas tree decoration it is! I need this on my tree - where I can get one?

 

There's also an Advent calendar, with Hans Gruber falling from the Nakatomi Building.

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Best not dwell on what the festive season overindulgences might have done to said levels, lol. Ah fuck it, it's Christmas. 

 

After being so "good" in what I eat, nowadays (no crisps; no cakes; no pastries; no processed meat; no cheese; no fried food; no "dark juice"; avoiding certain foods for the sake of my kidneys), I kind of let myself go, over the festive season. The thing is, all those pigs in blankets, and Christmas cake, and mince pies... I didn't really enjoy it. I felt guilty that I had, somehow, betrayed my new-found lifestyle.

Ah, well.

It's back to normal, now, with a nice, homemade carrot & sweetcorn soup.

[Bespin Copilot 10,705]

@Slipperman9 Ok, stop that now. Ask Jay or Ricard to update your email in your profile and get back to your true self.

[Jay 45,771]

I worked with him for a while last night to get his accounts combined.  Hopefully he finishes this today!

[Bespin Copilot 10,705]

@Naïve Old Fart Did you understand?

 

[Chen G. 6,009]

My day?

 

Quiet. 

 

Quiet is good.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Illness sucks, doesn't it!

Friday I had a wee cold. By the time I woke up yesterday, I ached all over, was freezing, and I couldn't get out of bed. Today, I have no voice, and my lungs feel like they are on fire. Every time I try to speak, I end up sounding like Harvey Fierstein.

I've had to call work (always an embarrassment, because you're never sure if they believe you), and worse, I had to cancel seeing pupils, and my attendance at a youth club that I helped to create.

Fuck's sake. I hate being ill.

[Xander Harris 9,528]

Ya sick bastard! You're the kinda person that makes this a terrible world to live in!

 

Uhh, wait. Maybe not the right quote. We're sick. I think we're dying.

 

I don't want him to die. What can we do that we're not already doing?

[bollemanneke 4,317]

Well, my day just began two hours earlier than expected. Neighbour's child was crying. Instead of doing what anyone with social skills would have done, namely comfort her/talk to her, the guy let her at it for 10 minutes and then just stormed into her room, shouting 'STOP, STOP!' like a deranged fucking maniac. Prick. They couldn't handle their first child and it seems child number 2 is in for a great youth too now. God, why can't I just not care about this?

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

I can't speak for you, @bollemanneke, but after working with children for fourteen years, their welfare is at the apex of what I do for a living.

If I had heard what you had heard, I would have had absolutely no hesitation in reporting that man to the police. Imho, there are only two legitimate reasons for raising one's voice to a child:

1/ to warn them that they are in immediate danger 

2/ to stop them from hurting themselves, or another person.

Everything else is abuse.

[bollemanneke 4,317]

Yeah, to be honest, I was to shocked to even consider pounding on the wall. We've been talking about reporting them for a long time because the children often spend minutes on end screaming, presumably for attention, something they're incapable of giving them as talking/interacting seems to be a real difficulty for them. And then you can't say that not everyone should have children because HUMAN RIGHTS and DEMOCRATIC.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

Anyone can have children, but not everyone has the skills, the stamina, or even the desire, to raise them. I have worked with children whose parents have repeatedly proven my point, and I have often spent as many hours "educating" the parents, as I have helping thier child.

It doesn't take much to slip-on a condom before penetration, and to avoid the sort of scene that you heard, years down the road.

In the case of the child next door, if you suspect abuse of any kind, I believe that you have a clear moral duty to report your concerns.

[bollemanneke 4,317]

We don't suspect, we have... wondered. But then we're wondering about a great deal of things regarding the people surrounding us, one of which cases might be taken to court. Honestly, the current population of my city is getting worse by the month.

[Edmilson 12,182]

How was my day?

 

Well... Utter, complete and absolute horseshit.

 

 

When you talk more to strangers from other countries on the internet about Harry Potter, Star Wars or on Reddit discussing DC Comics, you know you have a shit life.

[filmmusic 3,191]

4 hours ago, Edmilson said:

 

When you talk more to strangers from other countries on the internet about Harry Potter, Star Wars or on Reddit discussing DC Comics, you know you have a shit life.

I think it's very difficult in real life out there to find people you can connect with in your likings..

[Naïve Old Fart 12,871]

13 hours ago, Edmilson said:

How was my day?

 

Well... Utter, complete and absolute horseshit.

 

 

When you talk more to strangers from other countries on the internet about Harry Potter, Star Wars or on Reddit discussing DC Comics, you know you have a shit life.

 

I wouldn't say that your life is shit, @Edmilson, even though certain aspects of it might be shit. I've had a really shitty week (see my post from last Monday, ffi), and I've been very disappointed that I couldn't take part in the final week's activities at my place of work, but that doesn't make my entire life shit.

Take solace in the fact that you have the opportunity to share what's going on in your life.

I often tell JWfan things that I would never tell my good friends, not because I don't want to, but because they wouldn't understand in the same way that JWfaners do.

Share with us, and gain strength from the sharing.

[Bellosh 4,525]

Keep your head up @Edmilson

 

Based on your posts you're too bright, funny and nice to let it get you too down.  Even though it IS okay to be down at times.  I always look forward to your posts here fwiw.  Things always get better even when you don't realize it.

 

On 28/06/2024 at 6:58 AM, Naïve Old Fart said:

 

I often tell JWfan things that I would never tell my good friends, 

 

Where else can I shit on Dial of Destiny film AND hype up the score at the same time without coming off like a schizo?!?? 🥴

[Mr. Hooper 8,595]

[Xander Harris 9,528]

Please refrain from movie quotes. These are not productive posts. 

[Groovygoth666 1,191]

1 hour ago, Brock Lovett said:

Please refrain from movie quotes. These are not productive posts.