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I have this pill that I take called Soma and it does the exact same thing.

Um. . . Is that why you left SWEDA?

As I recall, you were not very happy in those circumstances.

How about something actualy happening now in your life?

Go on, be an existential detective....or posibly excremental detective? show us your shit and we'll show your ours! I challenge you!

Ghost, could you tell me that date of my last SWEDA post? Also, if you're up for it, could you post into this thread a quote or two that are indicative of my unhappiness in those circumstances?

It's been a while and a lot has happened since then, I would like to refresh my memory.

This was your last real post on 3/17. It was the same day you posted this:

Excremental Detective?!? I Love It!

Let's see, goings on in my life?

On 5/5 (my birthday) I was called into management's office and told that I was being transferred from my old job (Cartograph Technician, making maps) to a new job (IT Specialist) and along with I received a $7K/year raise.

I started my new position on 5/9 and while I loved my old job quite a bit, it can't hold a match to this one. If I was in my element before, I am my element now. What little stress I had before isn't present at all in this position and the new stresses are negligible.

My daughter has a boyfriend that I don't like. He's probably a nice enough guy, but she complains about him endlessly… he doesn't call when she wants him to, he doesn't have a job, nor is he intent on finding one… she often talks about dumping him… I tell her this:

"Sweetheart… I don't like this boy. Not because he's sedentary, but because he makes you complain… focusing on him takes you out of alignment. If you could find alignment such that you could date this boy AND be happy I wouldn't care what he was about… but the very things you don't like about him and can't let go of are the things that are continuously brought to my attention by your unhappiness."

I'm not to worried about it… she talks openly about it with us and keeps her eye on her alignment.

My son's report card came this last weekend. He has five classes and every last grade was an F. We've talked about this on many occasions. As a group (my son, my wife and I) we decided to take him out of conventional High School and place him in an independent study program. He is in agreement that his friends are a distraction at school, so he will visit his friends on the weekends and take care of learning at home.

Yesterday, on my way home from work I stopped by my parents house to visit with them. I had a wonderful talk with my mother about how crazy her mother is (she's bat shit crazy) and how that level of crazy is starting to show up in her (my mother). The big difference is that my mother is aware of it and her mother is not. We also talked about how similar disorders have crept down to me and on into my daughter, noting the genetics involved in this kind of crazy.

We talked about letting her mother get to her on the phone. We talked about letting coworkers get the best of you in situations that strangers would have no effect. We talked about triggering people online. We talked about how her cat finally got over a three year bought of diarrhea, and the relief of a cat lover to find a solid turd in the cat box.

Today I joked with my coworkers about some election ads that have been on TV… conservatives point the finger at each other yelling "Liberal"… I want to know how the liberal decides in that situation

I was also notified today that I will receive a performance raise of $2K/yr on this coming Monday.

Oh yeah… and my "Check Engine" light is on.

Thanks Keith.

I was being a dick, Badger. That wasn't cool of me.

Side note: I hate it when people apologize to me for being a dick/asshole because I don't want to have to admit to myself that I let them treat me that way. And also, I think that they are only apologizing so that can establish in both parties' minds that they were in the "power" position. I'm not trying to do that to you.



I love maps. Can look at them for hours and hours.

Me too... maps and technical drawings... so much so that our living room is decorated in leather seating, dark tones and old style maps. From IT I support the software that I used to use (AutoCAD, ArcMap) so I can use them whenever I like still.

No worries, my daughter says that I'm a dick most of the time. I used to get caught up in how others treated me until I realized that I have little to no control over that... again, that 'surface arrangement'... what I do have control over is how I react/respond.

If you're interested, here is the bit Esther (Abraham) does regarding others harassing one into expansion. It was something similar to this that brought me to the realization that I outlined above. (I COMPLETELY understand if you're not interested)