What's everyone up to right now?

[popeyespappy]

Having a discussion with a manufacturer that put undersized pneumatic rams in for a 60" 750 lb. lift. It should have been a 3" bore with a 1-3/8" push rod. They used a 2" bore and a 5/8" push rod. It's an $20k fix to replace all ten of the rams. I am trying to explain to them that $20k is only a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of having one of them fail and someone get injured or killed.

[bladevalant546]

I been having issue with sleep as well....brain simply does not want to shut off. Also, my bouts with depression have not been helping. As for dreams, mine have been odd.

[Clueless Morgan]

Cleaning a fucking clogged drain.

I had to do that a couple months ago; cleaning clogged drains is nasty.

I been having issue with sleep as well....

I know exactly why I've been having sleep issues: Sochi.

Staying up late watching olympics sucks. I hate when they put the thing you want to see at the very end of the program. Put ski jumping in the 10-11pm hour, no one cares about that.

[ElleBelle]

Getting back into my regular routine. Today has been kind of tough and weird, but it's almost halfway over.

[BrokenQuill92]

Being put on hold by med-ride

[ElleBelle]

Dealing with a lot of prepubescent behavior.

[fr0d0]

Beautiful story from a friend: her 6yr old boy Alan wanted to buy a big valentines bouquet for his teacher. His mum discouraged him but he was having none of it, and paid for it from his pocket money. He insisted on carrying it home and went in early the next day to present it to his teacher. She asked who they were for, and he said "who do you think?"

It's no wonder primary teachers love their jobs so much.

[Cyberman]

Fr00d, that's adorable!

Still having rather violent dreams. I don't have a real strong emotional reaction to them, but all the same, I'd like to go back to not remembering them.

Hey! Me too. It's almost 8AM and I feel tired, but as soon as I get a little sleep the nightmares begin. NO more than an hour of sleep all night.

I don't often get nightmares - rather surprising, actually - but I had a couple of doozies last week. In one, I was settling down to sleep in our bed, all by myself, when I realised the bedroom door had opened and some evil unseen thing had come in and was trying to 'possess' me. I actually woke myself up screaming "get out of my head!" at full volume. Fuck knows what the neighbours must have thought.

The other one also saw me waking up screaming, this time for help, but I found it so intriguing I'm working it into a short story. Watch this space.

[FlyingNarwhal]

Haha, my mother just nagged me about rinsing with salt and water - it shall be done in a little bit, just want to cram some lukewarm coffee down my throat first. But yes, I had my wisdom teeth removed. I feel awesome considering.

Careful its not the smoke that gets you, its the pressure difference in your mouth from smoking that you gotta be careful of. I got dry socket in two of the holes from smoking too early, and its painful as fuck. Then again if you got good meds it may not matter. All my doc gave me were perc 5s....basically glorified aspirin.

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Also, I just spent the last hour and a half unloading 2500 lbs of paint by hand because my forklift got stuck in the snow at the bottom of our ramp. I'm gonna kick back for a little before I go sort it all out.

[BrokenQuill92]

Watching True Blood