Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: It appears my brain ceases to function after 36 consecutive hours without sleep.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

It should be noted that the WHO (not the band) classifies processed meat as a carcinogen and nothing Subway sells resembles something that comes from an animal. It's not as bad as, say smoking but it's probably best to avoid it if you can.

Life is a carcinogen.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I always love the little notices that something may be a cancer risk in California. I know it's due to a law there, but I like the thought ot non-carcinogens suddenly transforming into carcinogens the moment they cross the border into California.

 

[Zkribbler]

I don't know if they are a major chain or just local...

From their website:

Sub Machine has been serving the Antelope Valley, with the same great taste, since 1980. All of our sandwiches & salads come with your choice of freshly cut toppings & a variety of dressing choices. With great customer service, excellent taste and our speedy sandwich experts, its almost criminal how low the prices are. We offer the best pastrami in the Antelope Valley! So, come visit us here at Sub Machine, where consistency is key, and it’s so good it’s criminal

 

[H4run]

Looking forward to it.

I met them today, first I met her mother who is born in 1983, mother of 3 child, and still living in her parent house and just lost her job because of the company that she was working with is not in a good condition.

And she is so skinny, almost like a skeleton, she cough all the time during our meeting. So her daughter and her son is living with their grand-parent -they refuse to give them back to her- from the father side (he is already passed away) and she only taking care the little one, I see him and he is such a sweet and a good boy. She told me there are some inconsistency from what the grand-parent told her of what happened with what she heard, like the grand-parent said she went missing for 6 days, while from what she heard it is 8 days, and what she did is (according to the testimony) she just tag along with her friend, long story but I'm too tired now to tell it.

She told me she called her daughter here but she not coming yet, so we just better go there directly, she warn me the grandfather is a very angry man, I say ok no problem but that doesn't mean he can be harsh at me I will not accept a harsh treatment even in his own house, I don't want to position myself to be vulnerable in this kind of situation, if it is needed I will remind them that I go there to help them and not to ask for help.

So I pass a dang lots of alley, the road is just fit for one person, and I went so deep and it is quite smelly, because on my side there is a small sewer where all the dirty water from houses around there going out, I cannot imagine if there is heavy rain around there. But in the middle of those narrow alley I come out to a decently large square area there are two house over-there and one of it is the grand-parent house. The grand-father was sleeping, I can see the ash-tray and his cigarette overthere, so I met with the grand-mother and the grand-child.

I tell what I plan for her to the grandma, but she say she cannot decide it's depend on the grandad. Then I talk to her, she is so silent, and look quite big for 12 years, she seems like 15 years old to me. She told me she just tag along with her friend during that time, the first day she was in her relative house, the second day she is in a mall hanging out with her friend, I know that mall, it's quite near from my house never been there before but my staff said (who also there with me at that time) the second floor (place where she is hangout) is full of empty store (unrented). She lost her phone and afraid to come home, fear that her grandparent will be angry at her, so she stay in her friend house until 4th day, and from then till the 8th day she just spend her time inside the mall. I don't how she able to do it, but my focus is to be able to bring her to lab for check up, enroll for her a psychologist-I already did, the psychologist willing to help me but it must be together with the mother, and my last task for her is to convince her to go back to school. I try my best to talk to her, I told her it's better she work hard now then spending the rest of her life working hard (like many poor people in Indonesia). After long conversation I went back to work.

Man, I'm so tired, sorry I cannot tell it in detail. But tldr, everything is fine I think even my company willing to cover some of the expense.

 

[The_J]

You are doing a good thing haroon .

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Blameit on the profit margins because profit margins are all that matters everything does even when they say We care about the environment and Important Causes its because of profit margins because the shareholders will yell and yell and yell otherwise

Comci Sans is evil

Rant is Ihave so many games and I dont know which one to play because there are so many of them I can't decide.

I like monospace fonts. Thankfully Comic Sans is not monospace. It's an evil font and it must go away. That is my rant.

Three more hours before my medication time then I can finally sleep.

Sleep deprivation is certainly....something.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I actually like Subway just fine...I just agree that their meatball sub is a bust.

It is. I would not consider eating one of their meatball subs, real meat or no.

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Good on you @haroon

 

[BenitoChavez]

Sleep deprivation is certainly....something.

It's "for the week"

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEEK

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

 

[H4run]

You are doing a good thing haroon

Good on you @haroon

I just wake up from sleep, 1.44 am, I was dead tired, well not yet, not until I bring her to lab and to psychologist. The core problem is that she is 12 years old and they give her a freaking motorcycle and let her go around and playing with punks, that is my assumption, but let the psychologist talk to her and get the "real" information.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@haroon Please keep up your good work.

 

[H4run]

@haroon Please keep up your good work.

If it is not for you giving me the short term goal I already give it up already, thank you BJ, and I will try to drag myself to finish this.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Small steps are more likely to succeed!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm in a bit of a manic state now and if I don't figure out how to wind myself down I'm going to be up all night. It's not severe as these things go so I'm not going on a wild shopping spree or working on megalomaniacal plans of global domination but it's manic nonetheless. Still, it's way better than a depressed episode and overall I've become much more even keeled as I've aged so I shouldn't complain. Sometimes manic episodes can be downright fun and I try and ride those like a wave but then it becomes hard to check my excessive tendencies in that state.

Edit: I made it worse and am laughing at my own jokes now like a crazy person

 

[H4run]

I'm in a bit of a manic state now and if I don't figure out how to wind myself down I'm going to be up all night. It's not severe as these things go so I'm not going on a wild shopping spree or working on megalomaniacal plans of global domination but it's manic nonetheless. Still, it's way better than a depressed episode and overall I've become much more even keeled as I've aged so I shouldn't complain. Sometimes manic episodes can be downright fun and I try and ride those like a wave but then it becomes hard to check my excessive tendencies in that state.

Edit: I made it worse and am laughing at my own jokes now like a crazy person

When I feel an over-flow energy of destruction coming out from stress, I just throw it with sweat, lots of it, you should try running or other stuff for your catharsis. Man you are a strong, kind, intelligent and diligent man, just hang on you will come out alright Hobb.

 

[The_J]

The unemployment agency here in NL requires anyone who gets unemployment benefits to apply for at minimum 4 jobs per month, and upload these activities to their online portal.
That's all fine.
Now I reported to them 3 weeks that I got a new job, starting following month.
Turns out that I still need to apply for other jobs to get the unemployment benefits for January.
What o_O?
Bureaucracy o_O

 

[rah]

Now that truly sucks. And the stupidity speaks for itself

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The unemployment agency here in NL requires anyone who gets unemployment benefits to apply for at minimum 4 jobs per month, and upload these activities to their online portal.
That's all fine.
Now I reported to them 3 weeks that I got a new job, starting following month.
Turns out that I still need to apply for other jobs to get the unemployment benefits for January.
What o_O?
Bureaucracy o_O

If it makes you feel any better, this is how unemploymment works here too.

I tried to inform my agency that I got a job and report that income and they rejected the form 3 separate times before finally kicking me out of the system entirely. They would not tell me what I did wrong on the form and I couldn't find anything wrong either. It was fine because I wasn't eligible for any more money at that point but I hate being labeled as non-compliant or whatever.

The whole thing of making everyone jump through hoops just to make them jump through hoops is sad. I'm surprised it's like that in Western Europe too.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Can't have the poors take anything for granted!