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 Morning Grump!
 
 
"Hey you punk kids! Get off my lawn!"

who?

ORIGINAL: swift

who?

How old are you? [&:]

look into my profile [8D]

ORIGINAL: swift

who?

You are borderline, but I'd say you still qualify as a punk...[:D]
"Hey you punk, Get off my lawn!"

 

ORIGINAL: swift

Eyebrows aren't bushy enough!

I dont know what the fuss is all about. It's not that cold outside. When I lived on the farm the winter of 81. That
February it was cold all month around 30-35 below. One particular morning 15 Feb I think after feeding the animals
and coming back inside I thought it seemed a bit colder than usual. When I checked the temp guage it was down
to -52 degrees. Well I wasn't too worried the guage went down to -60. Then 45 days later 30 March it was almost
100 degrees. Small to midsize trees were exploding out in the woods as the sap was trying to flow and the ground was still somewhat frozen. It sounded like a war zone grenades going off.  

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

So, Past... to where did you emigrate? 

ORIGINAL: RevRick

ORIGINAL: swift

And no shotgun! [:D]
Eyebrows aren't bushy enough!

Swift is here. Now you'll never get any geezing done. He will completely disrupt that with his irrational exuberance. [:D]

"Hey you punk kids! Get off my lawn!"

 Morning Grump!

Night Grump!
 
For those of us nightshifters.

major grump!!
after two weeks back to work grump [:@][:@][:@]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Night Grump!

For those of us nightshifters.

You've got a better reason than most of us! [>:]

I've been a nightshifter for my entire life.  Even though I've been off work for health reasons for nearly a year {I get to go back early March and I can't wait}, I've remained on a nichtshift schedule.  Even in the hospital.  I had to post a note on the door to my room instructing staff to leave me alone from 0800-1400 {and some idiots don't know how to read and one idiot read it and ignored it because it was inconvenient for her[:@]}.

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I've been a nightshifter for my entire life.  Even though I've been off work for health reasons for nearly a year {I get to go back early March and I can't wait}, I've remained on a nichtshift schedule.  Even in the hospital.  I had to post a note on the door to my room instructing staff to leave me alone from 0800-1400 {and some idiots don't know how to read and one idiot read it and ignored it because it was inconvenient for her[:@]}.

If you can possibly get off late nights, consider this. I did that gig for that least 2.5 years I worked at my last job. For about the last 1.5 years they told us they would be outsourcing us to India in 2-3 months. Problem is, they kept doing that over and over. If in september you were to be out in january, in december or january they would tell you would be out in march. Realize, I don't know if it was the constant delays, and having worked there 22 years I wanted to get out that way, as I didn't want to work 3rd shift in the first place, but I realized at a certain point that demanding a shift change was largely nonsensical when we would perpetually be 2-3 months from being got rid of.

What started to happen, though I didn't harp on any of this within myself very much, was I started having some sort of mental attacks. For that 1.5 years I had maybe 12-15 of these attacks and they would happen at any time. My head would be sort of spinning as though I would lose consciousness, but never would. Only once did it result in some sweating. One time, the first, I actually had some memory loss. I was driving to work and when I got there, I couldn't remember the pasword to my computer, though it must had been at least a three year old one. After the helpdesk helped me, I couldn't remember the pasword to any of the programs. I forgot some other stuff too, though I didn't lose the memory, sadly, of how to get to work. This block in memory and relative inability to recall went on for the next 3-4 hours, though the seizure, if you want to cal it that, had gone on for not more than 30 seconds. The rest of these attacks were of varying length and intensity, and only once omore was there any memory loss, though slight. The thing is, I have no idea what caused that. Was it anger over the delays in being got rid of, anger over being got rid of, or the wear and tear of working nights (and my only working companion being a goof off bum). So that's what I'm faced with now, as I look at the working world and conclude that I better not be working 3rd shift anymore. These attacks were so a part of me, that it didn't take much imagination to conclude I could bring them up at will if I wanted to, but naturally I did not.

Oh, should you conclude that it was something not having to do with my work situation back then, I spent the next 9 months at home, sleeping a normal person's sleep hours, plus almost 2 months after that, and I haven't had a single one of those attacks since. So it's either the hours I was sleeping taking their toll, and/or the anxiety that could had been created by the lengthy multiple delays to when they were letting us go.

I've been on night shift for over 23 years now and never had any effects from it.  I do have problems when I have to rotate my schedule around for a day shift class or mandatory meeting.  I used to be able to rotate my schedule around without problems till I got to be 35 years old, then I found I could not do it anymore.  Geez....you fall apart at 35?  I keep the same schedule when not working {my wife has a late swing shift}.  Her kids all had similiar schedules.  W even do Christmas at 3 a.m.  The first couple of weeks in the hospital were awful.  Then a bright doctor figured out that I needed sleep and wasn't getting any because of my normal sleep schedule. 
 
Next year will be difficult.  We are trying to adopt a baby girl from China.  We should be getting her {she might not even be born yet} early next year.  I don't know what we are going to do yet for schedules {my wife and I are going to work our schedules out so that one of us is always at home with her}, but I may have to take a day shift and I am not looking forward to it.

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I've been on night shift for over 23 years now and never had any effects from it.  I do have problems when I have to rotate my schedule around for a day shift class or mandatory meeting.  I used to be able to rotate my schedule around without problems till I got to be 35 years old, then I found I could not do it anymore.  Geez....you fall apart at 35?  I keep the same schedule when not working {my wife has a late swing shift}.  Her kids all had similiar schedules.  W even do Christmas at 3 a.m.  The first couple of weeks in the hospital were awful.  Then a bright doctor figured out that I needed sleep and wasn't getting any because of my normal sleep schedule. 

Next year will be difficult.  We are trying to adopt a baby girl from China.  We should be getting her {she might not even be born yet} early next year.  I don't know what we are going to do yet for schedules {my wife and I are going to work our schedules out so that one of us is always at home with her}, but I may have to take a day shift and I am not looking forward to it.

I don't know how old you are rm, but I think swinging from tree to tree wasn't too much for me in the younger years either. Oh, the mental attacks I had started when I was 48. Christmas at 3am, it just doesn't get any better than that![:D] You have a family too, which, I guess is good, but living alone as I do, it's just that much more wear and tear working awful hours. Your access to any friends is cut sharply. It doesn't help either, that your days off were sunday and monday nights. Things are so bad with my sleep in those days, that often just staying up an extra hour or two would prove ruinous. The only thing good about getting half sleep one day, is it usually means full sleep the next.