How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

Make sure you put every single thing you own through a couple hours of at least 118 degrees F. Or just throw away anything you can't. Luckily for clothes you can just put them in a dryer for a couple hours. That is, if you actually have them in your house, which you'll certainly notice if they are.
I do laundry every week. Not just my clothes, but all my linens too, and towels, washcloths etc. I keep as much as I can on shelves. I live in what I can only describe as a very large, rundown duplex sort of building. I've been here going on three years, and it's been an issue almost the entire duration. Place has had many, many visits from exterminators over the last year or so and they've told me they're positive that my apartment isn't the source-that they're migrating from other units. Those places have all been treated too, multiple times. I had to harp on management for months to bring in professionals, because the pesticide they were using themselves was just repellent, more or less-it didn't kill the bugs. Overall activity has really slowed down, but not stopped entirely. I've never gone more than a couple months before seeing them again.
 
Are you able to find out about the companies from past and present employees wrt culture - like holidays/sick time/how they treat their staff/training and promotions etc?
For the most part. Today's interview was a complete waste of time though, so I'll probably take the one I went to yesterday.
 
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Feeling sad to see friends being consumed by stress and anxiety. They're very creative and lovely people who have been a delight to spend time with but its like watching them wither away despite all my attempts to help ease their worries. Can't make their work and home life less dogshit since that ball is just not in my court.
 
I mean don't let anything whatsoever into a new residence without a good heat treat.
Definitely. I had a previous problem with them in 2019 at the last place I was living, only then they were breeding from within the apartment, and I had to abandon pretty much everything. Left with my computer and the clothes on my back, basically. There was a housing crunch even then, so I stayed with my mom that summer. Couldn't risk taking what little furniture I had, or the bed, etc. I think the worst thing about the little bastards is the scent they emit after you kill them-a low, sickly-sweet kind of smell like rotten bananas. It's fucking revolting.
 
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Finally heard back from that fancy Government Job I interviewed for, and I didn't get it. I do have a screener for another thing tomorrow and a recruiter with a company I applied to called me today to set something up. The Government job was going to be way to process, and procedure oriented for me. I'm just doing this to re-locate to 'the city' and get out of my hometown so I can start tackling some life milestones and pursue some hobbies I can't otherwise.
 
If I may be so bold as to open up a bit more, I applied to some more jobs, I already have one but im barley pulling in 20 hours after almost two weeks on the new one. Not even a part time 30. So unless things change i need to get a second...maybe new one. One place I applied to now, I had previously applied to before.

Had an interview and everything but they gave the job to someone else. Someone who apparently already quit because the position opened up again. So who knows maybe a second time around will convince them to gimmie a chance this time, least i Won't leave after a couple months.
 
Had to deal with the same wonderful people that I had to a couple of days ago for medical reasons. Joy.
Had to take a really unpleasant series of tests to see how much damage this mysterious illness has done. I dropped something like 44% lung capacity and made a doc who is usually stoic, look scared for once. ... Great. I'll make it though. I have many more people to autistically annoy.

On a positive note I beat Sakaki from Azuma Manga Daioh for getting neighborhood cats to come and let me pet them. I don't even have to do "pspspspsps", just say hello cheerfully and one especially will race across the street to flop down for a petting and say hello.

Another note is I was tasked to do the massive backups for data and got that finished after multiple days of work. You have no idea what's out here. But it's done, and I even got a new piece of software that is simple and kind of based that helps a bit. Also if you have to copy the same crap over and over again and don't need it really accessible, zipping / raring that stuff so like 1,000 - 10,000+ files is now one archive copies a load faster than having the computers deal with each individual file. One big file that's like a gig copies faster than 5,000 files that total a gig because I think, I think it's the writing to the file system the names or whatever that slows it down.
The more you blow...
 
I'm... Well to be honest, I'm not doing well at all. My oldest child went to the doctor because she was anemic a week ago and was told today she has cancer. I can't even begin to process it yet. The doc is still doing tests, but is fairly certain it is Lymphoma. It is not only treatable, but curable, but it's not helping much. Keeping up the appearance of holding it together for my other two kids just made me need somewhere to vent.

I'm sorry if I bring down anyone having a good day, but go hug someone you love.
 
The neglectful irresponsible neighbors got a dog a few weeks ago. I know because they pay no attention to it and leave it in their backyard all day. Where it barks. And barks. And barks. The poor thing is bored and doesn't understand what's going on. I can't get mad at it. But don't get a fucking dog if you're just going to add it to the list of things you neglect.
 
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