Random Thoughts
- We're through another holiday. As holidays go, Memorial Day isn't ridiculous, normally. This one kicked my ass. I work today, as well, and when that's done, I'll have worked 12 of the last 13 days. We were shorthanded, which was part of it. We've hired a lot of bodies in, which means training. Which means no days off. since last Monday. And in the month of May, I've had 4 days off. I'm tired, folks.
- Summer holidays are tough, anyway. When you work with young people, a lot of families take vacations around those summer holidays, and they go on vacation with those young people during that time, too. It takes a body or two out of your roster.
- Then you've got those who are older, but somehow think they're entitled to that day off, despite having worked with the company for a while. Yesterday's was a "stuck jeep." There were other complaints of ague and ache, that somehow seemed fine when the person was told they needed to come on in.
- And then there were real life issues. A friend whose father was fighting cancer, and who'd had hospice called in, lost that father yesterday.
- I've been thinking a lot on that. Dad's been gone about 15 months now. And there are days here in the past couple of weeks where missing him has hit me like a ton of bricks. Dad went suddenly. While I wouldn't turn down the chance to talk with him again, I'm glad he was spared a long period of suffering. I watched Mom deal with both parents being incapacitated for a long period of time. It's tough. Dad and I had a good, honest relationship. I'm confident we both knew how the other felt when he passed--I don't think there was anything left unsaid.
- I guess what I'm trying to say is that some days, I don't think I'm strong enough to watch a loved one die. Most days, even.
- Working as much as I have over the past few days means I haven't been able to make it out to the movie theater lately. I'd really like to see Deadpool 2. I'm ambivalent about the Solo: a Star Wars story flick, but have heard a couple good things. I'd also kinda like to see Super Troopers 2, which is currently playing at the cheap theater up in Knoxville.
- I'm off tomorrow. Shyam's been working crazy busy, too. April-July is pretty much nuts for her. We see each other at night. We've been living together for a year now. I'm glad of that, because if we each had our own places, we'd probably not see each other that often.