Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Crow! Tell us the good things going on in your life!

I can picture a whodunnit, where everyone turns out to have a motive for bumping off one of the jury in the deliberating room. A crime to be solved, deciding the fate of one of them paralleling the case they have just heard. Convoluted? Didn't stop Christie! Now, where's me quill...


Yay! Well done Sarky!

And one juror turns out to be the illegitimate child of another juror, while a third one is actually an impostor…

I have something special to give you all in December once it's published.

Looking forward to that, Sarky!

And yesterday was my dad's birthday. It got off to a really bad start when my mom woke up with her right arm burning with soreness. But thanks to Legion Worlders sending positive energy to me, as requested in the Moaning Groaning thread, everything turned out okay. Not perfect, but with plenty of happy moments.

Thank you, Legion Worlders.

sending more positive vibes, Annfie!

Glad to hear Annie.

Thank you both kindly.

Yesterday I was in hospital having a hernia repair. Today I am home again, tired and sore and facing several days/weeks of recovery but I can look forward to my hernia never being a problem again. I feel extremely fortunate to live in the place and time I do where such things can be done.

I totally missed all these over the last few weeks - happy to hear for all the positive events!!

Meanwhile, in the future...

Nurse: The Doctor will see you now stile2186. Your brain patterns are ready to be transferred to your new, vat grown body. That will future proof you against all issues for quite a while.
stile2186: Thanks nurse. I feel extremely fortunate to live...
Nurse: Yes, praise Baron Karza!
stile2186: Wait, what? Wasn't this supposed to be an anecdote about medical advancements...ah, heck...

Glad it all went well, stile!

Glad you're alright now, Stile.

oh gosh! glad you're on the road to recovery, stile!

Thanks everyone. Already picking up faster than I expected. I can now walk around the house almost normally. It hurts and full recovery will still take a while but so much better than even yesterday. Feeling pretty positive about it all. My biggest issue at the moment is the common one with this sort of surgery - constipation. Let the pooping jokes commence.

Here's a whole thread dedicated to pooping jokes:

https://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=806880#Post806880

Seems that you can have more energy in the morning and find things more difficult as the day goes on. Who knew? Still making good progress, just a little overly optimistic this morning. Ah well.

I just pooped, actually! how fitting!

Stile, I had an apendectomy. Everything goes through the gut. It hurt when my eyes blinked. Be well, amigo.

bit of story here.

For the last two years work has been hell. Between having to fight for runs, taking absolute shit just to try to make a paycheck, and dealing with a narcissistic dispatch that likes to micro manage without giving the needed info, having to fight for correct pay, working 70 hrs a week every week and getting home only to have a glass of whiskey to give me a few hours of respite from the beating and pain of running those hours on terrible road conditions, it's just been...mean. I would get home, have my glass, and lay on the bed trying to physically recover over the weekend just to be able to go the next week. I've dealt with constant, never ending pain for nearly 35 years now with my leg, but it was wearing on me. I wasn't mean to Carol and Sam, but I wasn't the man I wanted to be around them, either. Cranky Mcbasstard was becoming a reality instead of just a joke.

Well, a few weeks ago I switched out of the plastics division. I went to cement. Again, long hours, a little less pay, but the new dispatch, Robin, is a joy to work for. Then a dedicated calcium run came up. I grabbed it. Monday, tuesday and wednesday, and the pay was better than cement but less than plastic when it actually ran, and actually paid correctly. There are two dedicated calcium runs. I, being the low man once again, had the rougher run. The better run is Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The run is a long full run over I26 and I85. Problem is, they are currently under construction. This causes delays, and even the slightest delay throws you off schedule. It was literally the only stressful part of the new run. Still, I had shed so much stress, it was literally a breath of fresh air.

Yesterday Robin told me that the other driver wanted to switch to the MTW run and give me the MTT run. I said yes. The other driver thinks this will give him thursday and friday off. Problem is, it really won't. He'll spend most of thursday trying to catch up, and likely be late on his deliveries those three days. But, to do this, he tried an end run around Robin, tried to go over her head and have the terminal manager make the switch without asking me. This pissed Robin off, rightly so. But, he's never done the MTW run, and doesn't know just how rough it is.

I was prepared to run it without saying anything and hoping to get it months or a year or two down the line if he left and I became senior on it.

I said Yes to Robin, and then we really talked. He's been a problem for her, going behind her back, cutting her out of decisions that he should not have, and other things. We quitely laughed because i told her "there's an old saying that covers this..."Fuck around and find out". And then we both started really laughing.

So, instead of the constant, nervous, hard push to make times and make correct decisions with half or less the needed knowledge, I now get a run that basically gives me Wednesday and Friday off, pays very well, and is 90% stress free.

After years of hell, something finally broke my way. And for once, with good news there isn't the following impending sense of "Oh hell, what's the catch/next shoe to drop/impending sense of doom.

I dont' know whether to shit or go blind.

I'm home, not hurting all that bad, and have a smile for my family.

sweet news, Rick! glad that worked out for you, and for Robin too

Very glad to hear it Rick. Your comments over the past couple of years have showed a bit of how hard they have been for you. I'm very glad to hear how things are in a more positive place.

Thanks too for your comment about my surgery/recovery. Fortunately I had laparoscopy (keyhole surgery") so although the repair was in my groin region, the incisions are minor and on my belly. So while I am a bit tender lower down, most of the irritation is higher up and more due to the core muscles repairing, so a little sore and tiring but pretty good really. Oh and pooping has recommenced so good all round.

Thanks Ibby.

Stile, glad to hear it. Yeah, that first time number 2...ouch. I bout shit myself just trying.

Sam graduates from High School in a few months. That blonde haired blue eyed goofy kid with the super fast brain and quick wit has grown into a fine young man. I couldn't be more proud. I know, I'm that dad. The one that just can't stop talking about his kid. Sorry. Not sorry. Feel free to ignore me.

Crow as much as you want about Sam. We love hearing how proud of him you are, Rick!

Yay! congrats Rick!!!