Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, Relationship Advice, and Parking Etiquette

My entire adult life (post HS gradutation on) I've worked a late swing shift or graveyard type schedule. I tried a few times during various phases of training (forced on to a dayshift rotation) and a few times for a month or so here and there to work dayshift, but the result is always the same. It doesn't matter how much I sleep at night (cuz I will generally sleep well), but when I wake up to an alarm clock or even on my own before about 1600 hours, I'm freakin' tired, groggy and grumpy ALL DAY...

It kinda sucks, and I've tried to switch over at various stages of my life (even post-retirement)... After we retired, I gave it a 6 month go cuz there's really nothing going on here after 8pm, but still had the same results. So, I don't fight it. I go to bed at about 0800 and wake up sometime between out 1530 and 1830 hours most days (no alarm) and feel great throughout the night.

It definitely makes socializing and traveling difficult. Usually have to pay for an extra night or two of hotel and burn an extra 2 days of vacation to accommodate travelling at night. So, when we stayed in San Diego for a month each year while working, we'd leave home at about 6pm and arrive around 11pm to midnight and checkin. Hit a late night taco stand, night time beach walks, and in bed around 0700ish. Up at about 3pm and off to do vacation stuff, and repeat.... When it's time to check out, we'd stay an extra day, sleep all day, up in the evening, dinner, beach, etc. pack and leave around midnight to head home...

We did the same thing when using a travel trailer...

 

We have just started calling it Radio Shack cuz that’s all it is good for anymore.

 

Wish I had a cool reason; like it's easier to go out and do some Dexter type shit late at night and rid the world of scum, but it's just me being me and no longer trying to fight it or be 'normal'...

 

Nope.... Radio Shack used to have knowledgable employees!!!

 

You're def in the wrong town for nightlife.
How does the wife mesh with your style?

 

She does what she's told...

 

I know... I'm thinking about opening up a late night topless coffee bar / hair salon / weed shop (and selling lottery tickets on the side)...

 

This suuuuuuuuucks. All kinds of shit breaking all over the place.







Eff you, Mother Nature, you whore!

 

Business would be BOOMIN!

 

You had me right up until the weed shop part.

 

Dang it!
Thermopolis.. what kind of town name is that

 

Soooo.... No BJs, but you're okay w/bewbs in your face, huh???

 

Not in a strip club setting, but if the waitress bringing be coffee is topless I'll enjoy the view.

 

Hot springs town. Not sure the origin of the name, though.

 

What about the hair stylist reaching over the top to cut a little off the top and draggin' em in your face????

 

You do understand though, the only chicks that work in topless coffee shops are strippers that need a day job too, right??

 

They stand behind you anyway. Also, cut hair gets everywhere. I don't imagine it's comfortable for them, which would make me feel bad.

 

It's the atmosphere. A coffee shop isn't a bar, and a topless waitress isn't trying to give you blue balls for a tip. She just brings your order while not being covered.

Though, honestly, I'd probably be beet red and embarrassed.

 

Not at my salon they wouldn't...

You'd be able to count the freckles between her neck and belly button at my place

Just watch out for the stripper glitter... that shit gets stuck on your face and you'll be in trouble when you get home (well, you wouldn't get in trouble since no wife at home)

PS>>> I guess Larry wouldn't get in trouble either, as I'm sure his sister wouldn't mind

 

I bet we could get his sis' to apply. She's hot, you know.

 

No, I don't know

 

That's for his benefit. You know you've done good when he does one of the face memes or when he spells "stop" with extra letters.

 

The funny thing is the only part of her that I've seen is the part your against seeing

 

Also, you clearly have no appreciation for my ability to visit new and old skool topics in the same post delivery

 

I am a bit scrambled tonight. Crap sleep two nights running, and everything at work went sideways-ish for stupid or weird reasons.

Definitely not on my A game.

 

Looking for some shady internet medical advice.

Left thumb to pointer finger has almost no grip strength, going on 3-4 weeks. Holding a cup of coffee in a 10oz paper cup isn't possible right now. Pain is at the base of my thumb only when trying to grip or hold things.

I'm thinking some type of tendonitis/ arthritis/ inflammation. It's not getting any better and getting old quick.

 

That sucks.

Timing is odd though. Literally two weeks ago I learned from a coworker that there's two kinds of carpal tunnel issues. Obviously one is not called carpal tunnel, but it's the same kind of thing. Carpal Tunnel is just for the pointer, middle finger, and thumb and the other one is for the other two fingers.

Anyway, that sounds like carpal tunnel issues.





DON'T GET SURGERY! Go to a licensed massage therapist first, because they can work that band that is compressing the nerve and get it to loosen up without surgery. If you get surgery they basically just cut a chunk out of the middle of that band to give relief, but that results in scar tissue and it's super common for it to come back, but then you have carpal tunnel AND scar tissue fucking it up and surgery isn't an option the second time.