Sobriety Blog July 19, 2025

  Weight: 335.6 lbs ( 152.2 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 55 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: 2x Kroger Meat sticks, Small Bag Chips Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Salisbury Steaks Mac and Cheese Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 6 (Day 209) Keto Day 0 Brain is flat lining again today. I keep catching myself just sitting here at the computer. I blink and it seems to be an hour and a half later. It was quite busy today at work. But the day went smoothly. There was a moment of frustration a kid that was supposed to work yesterday who had a doctors note about not being able to work for the next week or so. The manager didn't bother telling anybody until about an hour before he was supposed to come in to tell anybody that he wasn't going to be able to come in. Thankfully they were able to convince one person to stay late and another to come in on her day off. The frustration there was the guy...

Keto/Sobriety Blog April 23, 2025

Weight: 332 lbs ( 150.1 kg)
BMI: 42.5
Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm)
WtHr: 75%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs
Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup
Dinner: Rib Eye
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster,

Keto Month 1 (Day 32)
Sober Month 4 (Day 126)

I wasn't scheduled to work until 11:30 this morning. I normally work at 11:00. but they had scheduled to close on Sunday and they scheduled me late today so if I would have gotten out late on Sunday I wouldn't get any overtime for the week.

As I was leaving for work there was a National Weather Alert tone that went off on the car radio announcing that there was a severe thunderstorm in the area. And then on the way to work the Classic Rock Station played ACDC Thunderstruck. I got a good chuckle out of that there was no way that was planned.

I had saw the storm coming in so I had went in a few minutes early so I wouldn't be walking through the rain. And that rain came down hard. I could hear it coming down in the break room. And that's a sign of a good downpour. While I was waiting to clock in a lady who works in the Bakery came into the break room talking on her phone. She was talking about how she was worried about how her husband might get deported because apparently he can't afford to go to his immigration hearings. She was worried that ICE was going to come through the town with a list and wouldn't even listen to what he has to say. It sounds a lot like that guy who was sent to El Savador. It also makes me think of the “Leopards Ate My Face” posts from Reddit. I didn't ask about her politics as it was rude enough to listen in on her phone call. But after she finished her call she asked me what the website where someone would go to get a job at the store. I told her the site where someone would go to apply. I didn't ask who she was asking for as I didn't want to seem like I was eavesdropping on her call, and I don't know his immigration status, but if he's wanting a job without being a citizen or an immigrant with legal issues he might have a challenge with that.

A lady got rather upset that I made her ring up all of her items. She had quite a few markdown items. And I noted that there was quite a few people with a lot of markdown meat items. But this lady insisted that I tell her how to turn off the beep noise of the scanner. There is no way to turn off the beep of the scanner. She demanded to know why. I told her it was because we need to hear if it scanned or not. She started yelling about how she wasn't stealing. I thought she was kind of quick to the defense, but that's just to know if things scan or not. Eventually she did get a scale error where the attendant has to clear the error before another item can be scanned. Frustratingly the register doesn't turn off the scanner it just makes the scanner make a different sound. I got her attention, but she tried to scan a couple more steaks. I had to argue with her if it had scanned her items and she was rather upset that I made her ring up the couple of steaks again. She demanded to know why even bother having a self checkout if the cashier is just going to, “breathe down people's necks anyway” Well, you choose to use self checkout. And the cashier has to “breathe down your neck” to keep people from stealing. I'm sorry I have to do my job.

There were a few more instances but this post is long enough without it devolving into a “Mark whines about work" post. I know that there was more that I wanted to say, but it was too busy today to take any notes. It wasn't swarmed for the most part, I just couldn't find any time to step aside to write anything down. And when I got home to write this out my brain kind of just shut down. 

I am glad that I went all day without buying anything. It doesn't sound like much, but a lot of plans I have rely on me not spending money every single day

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