How are ya now?

[Carp]

.... Looking forward to grabbing some tacos from my favorite cantina on the way home.

How 'bout you lot?

[Tracker]

the truth? ive been better

got fired earlier this month.. its a difficult thing to explain, the short version is, they think i have been sitting on my ass for the last year (WFH), and i dont have the evidence that they want to prove them otherwise.. and that was all it took for me to lose the job i thought i was was gonna retire from..

no disciplinary issues.. never even had a warning.. didnt even know there was a rustling in my waters a month ago,,

everything is different now.. was not prepared for this in the least.. its been really hard on me psychologically, question everything ive done and said for the last year, feel like a huge failure, starting to feel like maybe its not them thats the problem, maybe its me? (i realize thats not true, my co-workers dont understand it, my wife doesnt understand it.. anyone who is fully aware of everything says, "that was a written warning at best, what do you mean they fired him?" so i really do have to believe i didnt bring this on myself, but its hard NOT to blame myself.)

thats the day to day right now...

as far as whats next

decided to look into updating my VA claim.. once that paperwork is filed.. ill probably be helping my wife around the house for the next few months, its her busy season for work, and its a part time job in itself keeping things moving in the house.. so, unless something falls into my lap for work before the end of the year, i guess im relegated to house-husband, depending on where the VA claim goes will depend on what kind of work i go looking for.

WE (as in my houshold) are self sufficient, wife makes more than enough now to cover everything, and her pay goes up a lot during her busy season..
we also have our health, financially we are in a really good place, we are in better health than we have been in the last few months, we are relatively young, and i have a lot of years to find another job..

[autococker04]

Good n’ you?

[Falcon16]

Today hasn't been too bad, though Saturday will be rough it's my grandma's celebration of life, she passed on in January at 86. I worked from home for most of last year but lost my job in January ironically enough like a week after my grandma died. I've been taking the time since on unemployment to really think about what my next direction will be.

[RAZRBAKK]

Surviving.

My life has been all over the place since COVID. Career change for both myself and my gf, starting from the bottom, living at home again.

On the plus side I'm absolutely slaying at my job. I'm being put through training in 1/3rd the time they originally outlined for me. They're already talking about me going solo in a few weeks and that normally takes 6 months.

Getting back to the gym, finally. Excited to lift weights again. Oh, and I'm running my first ever 5k this weekend.

[Chappy]

Johnny, thanks for asking man. Seriously, I love this place and it makes me smile. Thank you for taking a site wide homie-check, you got your priorities straight.

I could probably complain about a thousand things that went wrong this week. But instead Ill focus on the positives. We had two people out for covid testing this week and they both came back negative. Right now I can take a deep breath until the next case comes along...

[Headshotted]

Strangely not worried means that things will work out allllllrrriiight. Rootin' for ya!

[Ecapnation]

I might go feral if left there too long.

[Jonnydread]

Motivation is a constant struggle these days. Congrats on the lady, having a good partner in your life just turns the noise down on all the negative stuff.

[snaparen]

Well I found out today I have a hole in my heart, that puts me at very high risk of having strokes, so I'm kind of up in the air right now. But strangely not worried.

[Magmoormaster]

I've been good. I started dating a really wonderful girl about a month ago, and it's going very well. School is also going well. Keeping me very busy. I was on campus until midnight on Tuesday. But I'm keeping up with stuff better than usual. Been really burned out at work this week though. I work from home, which is great. I'm busy enough as it is, so cutting an hour of commuting really helps. But I'm really struggling to get motivated to work right now.

[Jonnydread]

Holy shit man that's a lot of stuff. Go enjoy those Sleepy Bears, you deserve it!

[Jonnydread]

I feel like you need to go get lost in the woods for a while.

[Jonnydread]

Congrats wife! I'm sure once the garage is all sized up to your liking you'll be super happy you put the effort in.

[pirhana92]

I'm doing good this week, last week was rough. It's been a very crazy and stressful summer. In May was wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, she had surgery in July and started treatment in August, she just finished radiation 2 weeks ago and went back to work Tuesday. In August I had my wisdom teeth cut out, was almost completely healed and I got an infection in my jaw, had to be cut open again and stitched up. In the same week the drains backed up at my house and I went to play paintball for the first time in 6 years and before I could even play the reg on my tank blew up and blew the fittings off my reg and asa on my gun so I didn't even get to play.

But, my wife and I are leaving tomorrow morning to spend a long weekend at Sleeping Bear Dunes and I am very much looking forward to it.