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Servers are heavy. And so are printer trays when you drop one on your foot & it clips your ankle on the way down. My shoulders are sprung & my ankle is swollen.

I got into what is now my storage room at work today. Moved some crap around. There's been a server, some combo keyboard/monitor thingies & a bunch of rails sitting on a cart in there for the past couple of months. I finally asked why the Hell it was sitting in there & it was something we moved from somewhere else & had no place to put it, so on the cart it stayed.

Well, I need that cart, so I shelved everything. Except the server sitting on it - one of my coworkers had to do the heavy lifting on that. On the cart, it didn't feel like the cart was that weighted down, but when I braced the cart & tried to pick the server up, I threw all my weight into that sucker & it would not move. There were some smaller ones on another shelf - I had started to stack them until I noticed the shelf itself bowing & creaking under the weight, but that was like, 4 servers. This one behemoth on the cart probably weighed as much as 8 of those other ones I lugged around. The worst part was that I cleared a bottom shelf especially for the heavy-ass server & then had to staunchly defend my clean, neat empty shelf from people who wanted to put stuff on it. For months at a time, no one would go in the store room until I got into it to clean it up. Then I had a fucking audience. Or maybe they were shelf-vultures.

It gives me something to do at least. Sometimes I hate being chained to my desk & barricading myself in a store room to clean it up is almost liberating.

Writer's Block: Sick day

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Gods, just leave me the Hel alone. Don't touch me, don't pat me, keep your distance!

And I stay home if I'm really sick. Because I am considerate and believe that my germs should be mine and mine alone. That's how things like swine flu spread - people want to go to work, send their kids to school, then they don't wash their hands & get touchy-feely with other people.

If you've ever watched this video, just think to yourself how quickly a major virus can spread. Do yourself & every one else a favor - if you are contagious, stay home. And if you can't stay home, don't touch anyone else, sneeze & cough into the crook of your elbow and wash your hands often, with soap and hot water. Avoid those antibacterial hand sanitizers, if there's soap & water available. Hand sanitizers are loaded w/alcohol that dries your skin out, making it prone to crack, thereby giving germs one more road of entry.