So it's official..

I've got t3h lyme disease.

I landed in the emergency room about a week and a half ago with a fever, and a stiff/sore neck and shoulders and headache that had been with me for two days already. The headache, and the stiff neck and shoulders i could deal with...it's when the fever and weakness showed up that i figured something might be up.

About a week or so prior to my little ER adventure i'd pulled a tick off the back of my leg in the shower...tiny fucker it was. It was full of blood, so i couldn't tell it's real size, but i figure it couldn't have been any bigger than a quarter to a half centimeter in length...no wonder i missed it before the shower..

Anyway, the night before i went to the hospital, a rash showed up at the bite site, and the next day, i had the fever, and weakness. The hospital drew blood, and did a test for lyme, which i figured would come negative, because it was really still too early to be detectable. As it turned out, i was right, Got the test results a week later, and they were negative.

I went to a regular doctor today, because over the course of the last few days, tons of bullseye shaped rashes have appeared all over me. It was really starting to concern me, lol.

Doctor rules out ringworm, and diagnoses lyme, yay..

So now i'm on meds for the next 3 weeks, and i gotta go back to the doctor in 2 weeks, literally the day before my birthday. What a wonderful fucking month this has been....i'm so glad i have health insurance, at least that's one good thing to have come from the merger...

Speaking of work, i'm so fucking fed up with this company. See, it's going under, i knew this was going to happen. When we got bought out 2 years ago, i said, "These fuckers are going to run us into the ground", and sure enough, here we are, on the verge of buttfuck. I mean, there's been no official announcement of cessation of business, but anyone who can read the stock market, and who's been with the company long enough knows things don't look good. I mean, they're talking about ways to try and bail the company out, but frankly, they all sound really fucking stupid. As usual when a company is dying, they're scrambling around trying to come up with newer ways of making the customer happy, only the dimwits that come up with these ideas don't realize that their ideas are actually going to run off business, instead of generating it.

Case in point, they want all employees out on the sales floor at all times (unless they're ringing someone up) to "engage" the guests...in english what that means is they want us to go out there, follow people around, and try to badger them into buying shit that they didn't come in for, and most likely don't want. They want us basically to annoy the shit out of the customer. Wow guys, way to give them a reason to want to come back.

Additionally, the whole "no being behind the counter" thing is retarded. When i come into a store, i expect someone to be there at the counter to say "hi" to me. i don't expect a fucking shout from the back of the store. That shit's just rude. Anyone reading this know of ANY retail business that pulls that shit? Also, the front of the store, behind the counter is where the computers are....ya' know, the ones we use to look up a movie for you when you want to know if we have it and where it is?.....so i walk in, there's noone at the front to welcome me...hmm...do i really wanna shop here?...i'll give it a shot. Hmm..i want a copy of pulp fiction, i wonder if they have it....waitaminute, what the fuck, i gotta hunt for someone to help me?...when i'm in a retail place, and i have a question, i expect to be able to go to a customer service counter, or duty station, and have there actually be someone there to answer my question. I shouldn't hafta hunt for a sales associate to help me, and neither should any of you. Ok, so i've wasted 2 minutes looking for someone to help me. I ask my question, and he doesn't know, so now i've gotta walk with him up to the front, so he can check on the thing for me....it would have been simpler if the dude was already up there.

By the way, the encounter i described actually happened recently. i just substituted me for the guest.

So yeah, just like it sounds, the new policy requires us basically to be rude, annoying, incosiderate to our customers needs, and horribly inconvenient. Doesn't that sound like just EXCELLENT customer service? NO WONDER WE'RE GOING UNDER!

WAKE UP, YOU PRICKS!


god, i hate my job....the sooner i find a replacement, the sooner my blood pressure will come back down to a normal level...assuming i don't have a stroke first....


I know it's a bit late, but lately i haven't had any inspiration whatsoever to post...

What the fuck is up with these goddamn smoking bans?

I go to a bar, i'm having my pint of guinness, and i want a cigarette....used to be able to do that, but not anymore.....god fucking damnit, why did they need to fuck with peoples ability to smoke and drink at the same fucking time? we had our own section of the restaurant, away from the non-smokers...and we had the bar...now we have nothing...we have less than nothing...we have a little fucking spot 200 feet from the building entrance , wtf is that?

Because a few pussy motherfuckers started crying about their pure pink lungs, and how we were killing them with "Second hand smoke", we gotta be inconvenienced? Fuck that shit. Lemme tell you something, your lungs aren't pure or pink....if you had any fucking idea what the fuck you were breathing just in your "fresh" air, you'd light one up yourself. i'm fairly certain there's LESS harmful shit in a cigarette than what you're breathing in most urbanized and developed areas....

Stop looking at us smokers, and start looking at that piece of shit H2 you have parked in your driveway, asshole....

So ol' Jack "i'm a raving fucking lunatic" Thompson is on the verge of being disbarred....halle-fucking-lujah. it's about fucking time....they're only NOW realizing that ol' jacky-boy's off his rocker, and indeed guilty of gross misconduct....i'm really surprised that his circus sideshow antics, and guerrilla warfare-style of practicing law were allowed to continue for this long. Let's all hope he gets disbarred in a timely fashion, so he can stop harassing gamers and the companies that create our favorite distractions..

I've got other stuff i wanna rant on, but i'm i'm out of energy...that's one of the things lyme does to you...you end up tired all the fucking time. It's SO annoying...

Later..