Putting the Labor in Labor Day: ODO 35

 

Putting the Labor in Labor Day 

  

     This week was Labor Day in the US. I mention it being in the US because apparently I'm actually more popular overseas than I am at home. Just kidding, I'm not popular anywhere. But anyway, it was Labor day on Monday, a day where we honor the blue collar working man by giving all the white collar guys the day off.
I actually didn't have work on Labor Day. This is partially because I work for a relatively small company, and our boss is cool like that. But mostly it's because I don't work on Mondays anyway. "Happy Labor Day! Enjoy your regular day off." I'm kidding, kinda. I get holiday pay for this shit. Who am I to bitch? 

     Now I maybe possibly have previously mentioned before, and by "maybe possibly" I mean I've bludgeoned you over the head repeatedly with the fact, that I work overnights. Well, when you have a federal holiday come up like we just had, and your boss decides to give everyone the day off, that work still has to get done somewhere. So the end of my last week was a motherfucker of a bitch. I'm talking 10-11 hour shifts with 3 man crews, multiple mechanical issues with my work vehicles... (RIP van 13) and just generally stress city. So Friday night I end up not getting out of work until about 5am. And for those of you who want to nit-pick, yes I know that's Saturday morning. And, like I've oh so subtly mentioned, I live fucking far from my office. This means I got home around 6am to a big fat "I told you so" from my wife. To cap it off, I had to be back at the office at noon to do a job 2 hours away. Obviously I didn't exactly have the best sleep going into that work night. I was downing so much caffeine on that drive I'm pretty sure I saw a mosquito have a seizure. After all that I ended up getting back home just before midnight, which any other day would feel great. But after the pre-weekend I'd just worked, I was surprised I survived the drive home.

     Of course since my wife was sitting on a 3-day weekend, we had to make use of the time. We had a whole list of things we needed to get done: We had to buy groceries, fix the baby's crib, clean up the back yard, I needed to finally fix that clogged toilet in the hall bathroom... Never mind that there was still the feeding and caring for the 4 small life forms that share our house. And out of all the things we had to do this weekend, we did precisely DICK. I didn't get a damn thing done for 2 whole days. Ok I went to the grocery store for milk and bread. Past that, I spent the majority of 2 days drifting from one nap to another. Don't get me wrong. I don't like that I didn't get anything done, but I was just plain old tired. I realize that pushed every single one of those honey-do's to next weekend potentially, but what better way could I have possibly spent my Labor Day than laying on my couch doing absofuckinglutely nothing? 

Bullshit From the News

Car rolls into river after spider scares teen driver

An 18 year old girl in Australia watched her car roll into a river after jumping out to swat away a huntsman spider. She was only able to half apply her parking brake before jumping out and saw her car slowly roll down a boat ramp and out of reach. I may not be afraid of spiders (much) but from my understanding of the size of the huntsman, I'd probably end up crashing into the river.

Emergency response triggered at Ohio school after forty students eat one of the world's hottest peppers

A middle school student shared a batch of Bhut Jolokia peppers with his classmates causing the school to call for EMT's after they started to become sick. These were at one time considered the hottest chilies in the world. They are rated with an average heat level of over 1 million Scoville, which is, to say the least, really REALLY hot. In so many words, kids are dumb. Kids will eat anything, and peer pressure is a bitch.

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