Eff off:  We lost another co-worker today, she leaves end of July. So we were fully staffed for one week. Now we are down two still and have to train another two. It's exhausting. I'm talking with our associate director today about planning and what to do. There's literally no one to cover her work. I have a long (10 days!) vacation coming up end of July and a huge huge budget planning project I need to get done before I go. Plus all the small stuff we've been doing is adding up and time is a big problem; meeting the program's "never say no" expectations are becoming completely impossible. 

TIRED.

Oh and Eff off to that time of month, again. I bled on my pants. FUN. Thank goodness I'm wearing a long top. 

For lunch today I had the last grilled burger thrown on leftover spaghetti with some basil pesto. It all didn't really go together but I don't care right now. The peach as dessert was excellent.  I love eggs over easy on toast.

Wishing you the best weekend.

I miss your awesome posts. I have to visit more often.

Has been a two egg omlette with Swiss and parmesan cheese and on the side, crispy fried mushrooms (cooked in avacado oil) finished in butter for flavor. Ooo and a slice of rye toast. Perhaps some fresh fruit if I'm extra hungry. 

Yum.

It can get a bit old.

Eff-off Friday.

• #2 was cycling toward the end of the week. His on the spectrum/Bi-Polar crap was turbo  charged.
  • I made a decision on a sensor setting that impacted 300+ measurement points in our plant while he was on vacation a few weeks ago.  Ops wanted a change done today because they think that the fill levels could be higher. He lost his shit about how I did not coordinate with Ops, Safety, etc..  I did actually. The settings were selected after consulting with Ops though I played my I am the maintennace/reliability boss card and went to the low end of their desired range.
  • So he ran around with his hair on fire driving changing sensor settings to get the max fill levels that Ops wanted.   Long story short, part way through his effort to get the techs to reset the sensors, all of the higher fill level bin locations started to over fill and crap went everywhere which was exactly why I instructed the settings to the set levels while he was on vacation.
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  • Did he learn anything?  Nope.
• In his frustration today #2 asked What is it that you do since I do everything?
  • Instead of trying to reason with him as I usually would, I replied.... I tell you what to do. I would appreciate if  you learned to just do it rather than freak out.
    • ​​​​​​​No great HR risk to that since he is on his 4th people treatment investigation since I promoted him in Dec.
    • He really is excellent at his job, but the view is growing weary to the point that it is no longer worth the climb when having to guess at what his cycle rate will be hour by hour, day after day.
• Two more 2wk notices submitted this week.  Just when my team hit 97% staffed, backwards we go.  Both are for promotion/transfers so ..... I am good with it and am happy for them.  Other than the PITA of having to replace them and my staffing metrics bouncing off of the lower control limit for the measure.

F0rn:

I don't eat food. I eat soilent green.  Packaged high protein low fat foods all day, with one actual meal. Usually dinner.  DW and I started on IP again two weeks ago because neither of us are particularly happy with the COVID weight we have put on.  So far, I am down almost 15lbs in 13 days. She is down about 10.  Which drives her nuckin futz.  It is a muscle mass and period thing.  My muscle mass (just being male, nothing I accomplished) drives my weight loss at a faster pace than her lower muscle mass from being female.  And... apparently when it is period week, weight loss is severely curtailed.

But, she looks HOT regardless. I am a fortunate man.  Hopefully she has a good result when we weigh in tomorrow AM with the Coach and the Doc.

Another 80 and I will be at my college athelete weight.  At this rate, if I can stay the course, I should be under 200#s near my 59th and last birthday. I will not recognize any birthdays after 59.  I refuse.

Happy weekend STalkers.

Regards,
Rags

I think any reason to stop hosting family events is fine.  Lol.  I would have an issue with anybody setting the expectation that I would  host.  If it ain't my idea, it ain't happening,  I wouldn't care how much food they brought or how well they cleaned up.  The nerve.

Late due to vacation and time differences worse than normal. 
Eff off to food poisoning. I got a dose from a reasonably posh restaurant on Wednesday night. I had pizza with fresh mozzarella (uncooked).  No seafood.
By midnight I was projectile vomiting like the kid in the exorcist. I won't give the details of the rest of the symptoms. Finally left the bathroom at 5am.

Have managed to leave the house to go to the beach for the first time today. 

Sorry Aniki, I can't do food yet. 

I gave up hosting family events about 10 years ago, on my daughters' 10th birthday. My BIL decided it would be a good idea for me to combine their birthday with those of two nieces ... and I said "no". The nieces were in their 20s and their birthdays were in August. My daughters were 10 in October, being twins neither would ever have her own birthday celebration just for her and there was no way I was adding two adults to the mix - if they hadn't celebrated their birthdays when they happened, well, tuff, not my problem. It was just the last straw for me - for reasons I do not know, when the family came to our place, somehow no holds were barred and they'd settle grievances at my table. Frankly, I had had enough. These days, they still come to dinner/lunch but only one couple at a time. I couldn't face the whole clan descending upon my home at the same time again.

Eggs! How I love eggs in all their forms! I make the world's best scrambled eggs, BTW. One of my daughters (she has Down syndrome) loves a boiled egg for breakfast so I bought her an egg cooker so she could safely cook her eggs all by herself. Then I found out it also made perfect poached eggs (oh boy, oh boy poached eggs on toast for breakfast!). Yumm. I'm fond of runny spinach omemettes too. My top ten egg recipes includes an Indian recipe with hard-boiled eggs in a spicy cream sauce (a "died and gone to heaven" recipe). 

I will give my belated Eff off

Eff Off to management that told me to submit my remote work proposal.. (the 5th time I have been asked to refresh the request by my manager).. AGAIN.. in January.. when I informed them that my DH had a job opp that would require extensive travel but his company allowed me to go all exp paid.. I told them that we needed to know because he had to decide whether to take the job.  So.. they asked for the proposal and I was sure that they would finally come up with some offer that would allow more than the "standard" 3 day in the office away.. I rehomed my dog.. my birds.. I "sold" my horse (see EFF off 2) and he quit his in state job and accepted the new job. 

I have now heard.. 6 months later that it is highly unlikely that I will get any approval for fewer than 3 days in office a week.  I actually went over my direct mgr's head and sent a prompting email to the director asking if they could at least provide some relief because fuel prices are killing me when I am driving 2 hours each way to work.  And it's almost a month later.. and he has not even acknowledged I sent him the email.. but my manager did say last week that it didn't look like they were going to allow anything.  By the way.. my job deals almost all with people who don't work in my department.. and not in my building.. or are outside the company.  And.. my whole group is well seasoned.. no new people needign mentoring etc.. it's just effin arbitrary.

I'm pissed.. if they were going to say NO.. they should have done so before my husband quit his job.. now he is basically not working since he won't go without me.. and all the other stuff I have given up because of this potential job.  

My 2nd Eff off is that because I thought it was imminent that I would be leaving town fairly quickly.. I called a trainer I knew to take my horse and sell it for me.. long story but she ended up sending him to a sale.. which she didn't really give me the straight story on.. and to date I have gotten zero money for the horse she sold that I owned.. I paid about 5K for the horse.. supposedly he sold at the sale for 42 or 4300(number changed in her telling me.. so who knows really).. there were sale fees and transport fees.. to a completely different state.. I had no idea she was sending him with another person out of state either.. I thought SHE was taking him to a local sale.. again.. she wasn't really forthcoming... so I may be out totally... she is giving me the runaround on "not having stamps" etc.. and she will have to sell something to pay me (uhhh did you not get paid by the sale barn?)

Effin eff 3.. my YSD came home to take pictures with her grandparents this past weekend.. and my negative MIL had to tell her she hated the dress.. and just bitched and moaned the whole time.. she invited us to have dinner with them.. and my YSD got there and they had already eaten.. plus she had cooked stuff with food that my DH has told her he cannot eat because it's part of what put him in the hospital last year... sheesh.. and she got mad at him because she had him change the battery in her car and not sure why she is mad at my DH.. it's not his fault she left the lights on.. whew...

Forn

I actually don't like eggs too much..

But we set our crab pots this past week and I picked two pounds of crab meat.. we have had crab salad.. crab balls.. crab cakes!