Fuck fuck fuck fuck. I love my job but I hate my commute. Two fucking hours to drive home in traffic tonight. I have had the same damn vision-related headache for over 12 hours and the bright, blurry blinding lights of the highway were just icing on the cake. I can’t see for shit right now. It was bad. It was bad on so many levels.
I went to the eye doctor about my headaches and blurred vision, and he was basically like, ‘‘Yeah, this is your eyes, not the prescription.’’ My pupils are abnormally large which distorts my vision, plus he thinks my medication maybe is causing this. But I can’t stop taking my medication because it’s the only thing in 10 years that has made a dent in the severe, pervasive depression that used to be a regular part of life.
I feel like I’m always being forced to choose between chronic pain and my mental health. They both suck. And goddammit my head hurts.
bouv good luck finding that check. That sounds like a bitch.
Try sunglasses at all times - experiment until you find a shade that allows you to see but also cuts down on glare. I wore sunglasses from the minute I got up until I went to bed for a month due to a medication side effect. People will give you grief for “going all rock star on them” but if it stops the headaches, who cares?
Hats are also good. They reduce glare and keep dust from making your glasses dirty.
PSA: Don’t use toilet cleaners, then see that they aren’t working and dump some lime away in the mix. Honestly…don’t do this. And really don’t do this in the barn john. And if you do happen to venture into that den of testerone…open the doors and windows.
I have an issue with my eyes dilating too much when it’s dark, which can make driving at night a real challenge. One thing that has worked for me is creating a small bit of light inside the car (I just leave the glove box hanging open since it has a light inside). It seemed like the light closer to me than just the traffic stuff outside the car caused the pupils to close up a bit…or something. It helped though, might be worth a try. It won’t fix your headache (poor baby) but being able to see better would be one less bummer.
They make yellow tinted glasses just for night driving. They are wonderful. Tag Heuer makes the best, but they are outrageously expensive. Do not wear just any yellow lenses, however.
Question from one of the countries where cheques are almost dead: don’t you have an option to pay vendors by direct deposit? I have the same setup (bill paid by the same subcontractor that does payroll, expenses paid directly by my client) and both things come direct deposit.
That is what EFT/ACH is. My understanding is shaky here (because we don’t do it though I have asked some questions of the bank precisely because I’ve been asked multiple times why we don’t do it) but on my end the processing of payments would look much the same except instead of cutting a cheque my accounting program spits out a report that is verified and then forwarded to the bank who do their thing to transfer the funds to the accounts we have set up.
Payroll on the other hand, since it is done by an outside company, they have all that set up to go and we simply pay them a fee to handle it all in addition to the moneys that get sent out. On my side, since I don’t do payroll, it’s a straight journal entry.
Now, once it is set up and you have everyone’s account numbers etc in the system it should just roll along smooth as butter. Here’s the hiccup.
Getting it set up is a very long process. You have to coordinate IT to get a report from the system you run that the bank can understand and get the bank set up to take that report and forward your money, you have to make sure accounting is in on it so that the correct payments are being processed and they understand how to use it. You have to get account information from ALL your vendors, or you will be simultaneously running cheques anyway (which for some companies.. you probably will), and that’s just the info I know about, who knows what else will need doing to get it set up.
For a smaller company? It just may not be worth the headache to get it rolling. Maybe it will be easier in a few years.
Why can’t you just pay the internet bill on time every month? Why? It’s not hard. I pay all my bills on time every month. If I could pay for the internet myself, I totally fucking would. You know I don’t watch tv. The internet is my primary method of entertaining myself, and listen bitch: I’ve got the next 5 days off. I do NOT want to sit around reading books all fucking day. I have plans to get drunk and level my goddamn paladin, and you are royally fucking me over.
I can’t wait to move. I’ll have a consistent WIRED connection at my new place. Suck my balls, you broke lazy ho!
I pit meningitis. I didn’t even know this kid, but I’d been following his progress on facebook and I’m still tearing up about it. Fuck, it really looked like he’d made it, he’d got through the worst, but I guess he had nothing more to fight with.
Ghhrsck? The way my brother does it involves a lot of cursing due to different banks wanting things in different columns, but there’s two possible ways:
individual processing. Via the bank’s webpage and identical to a bank transfer between two physical persons.
mass processing:
a) input details into accounting program,
b) extract details from accounting program,
c) verify whether the format the accounting program spits is directly acceptable by that bank, if not
d) with much cussing and spitting, open report and tweak format, (usually it’s crap such as “must have a blank column up front, and don’t ask me why the fucking multi-colored blazes does this shit need a blank column up front when other banks are perfectly happy to have no blank columns anywhere”)
and when the format is correct
e) upload file via bank’s website.
And yes, there was a transition period during which companies would write cheques and do direct deposit. But it lasted for about as long as it took for people to realize that dd was a lot more convenient.
So your friend, who you aren’t sleeping with, came over and gave you 20 dollars to pay for two weeks worth of cell phone that you can’t live without because of your mom and her doctors and another 10 dollars for a metrocard cuz you don’t need a man right now cuz you’re happy in your place right now even though your sister better come pick her turkey before her government phone flips on the seventeenth cuz you are too busy and tired to get it to her so fuck it all, you got yourself a bag of weed you gonna roll yourself a fattie and watch dish cable that you can pick up on your TV sometimes even though you still havent picked up a converter box from Walmart that’ll let you watch chanel 2, 4 not 11, 31 and ION on which you watched No Way Out with Kevin Costner until 2 am last night that made you so tired you couldn’t visit your mom at the rehab home. . .
Oh my fucking GOD-- shut the fuck up, stranger on the bus. I don’t want to know these things about you, you sound like a shitty person-- why are you bragging about your fucked up life so LOUDLY ON THE BUS?!
I heard a commercial on the radio this morning for Buckley’s complete gel tabs. I looked for it online so I could share with you wonderful people but luckily for you it did not seem to be available.
I’m not generally weak stomached, and words don’t usually create a visceral reaction for me but this commercial… shouldn’t be allowed on the radio. I almost drove into the back of another car trying to keep myself from throwing up.
Commercial description:
They begin by talking about mucous and the inflection the actors use caused the first little quiver in my stomach. Then they started talking about the amount of mucous you produce when you have a cold and the sound effects were of mucous sloshing in a beaker. I don’t remember the rest of the commercial because I was focusing on not killing myself or others by tossing my cookies at 120km/hr
I’m a Buckley’s customer. I like their cough syrup but as long as this commercial airs I’m staying away from their products because I don’t think I can see the label without wanting to be sick. Serious backfire Buckley’s.
Is ~4,000 employees considered a smaller company? Also, it’s the largest university in the state with ~10,000 students?
I tried calling today, but no one was answering…my guess is they all took an extra day off for T-Gives. I sent an email, we’ll see what happens from here…
I’m not donating blood today. I should be, but doing it the day before Thanksgiving is a Bad Idea, as I need to drink to get through tomorrow with my inlaws.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I just decided to do away with contacts altogether and go back to glasses (I’ve been wearing contacts since 8th grade, so… weird.) I picked the frames out today at the office, and am getting both the transition lenses and the anti-glare treatment that is supposed to help with night driving and with computer screens (my two biggest issues.) Hopefully that fixes the headache problem.
Notice to all those who wear winter hats (“tuques” as they call them in my neck of the woods) : If the hat is a little too big/long to fit your head, there’s a proper way and an improper way to wear the hat.
The proper way: roll up the edges of the hat, and then it’s the right size to fit your head. Put hat on.
The improper way: just put the hat on over your head without rolling up the edges, so there’s a big piece of hat sticking up at the top, making it look like you’re wearing a giant condom on your head.
