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And back at work... Currently on lunch break.

And i learned that my boss expected me to work on Tuesday. But he never told me, so yeah, couldn't have known. Didn't really want to either, really.

I also got my glasses back, and got an eye exam scheduled tomorrow at 4h30. Cost me 45$, and should cost me another for the exam. I'm trying to avoid wearing my glasses as much as possible today, so my eyes don't get used to wearing them again. I noticed that when i put them back on earlier today, my eyes couldn't focus on anything. So i guess this means that my glasses do make my eyes act different, which means that when i get an eye exam, my eyes are still trying to see as if i was wearing glasses. So of course i'll need them then... But now might be different.

And i'm starting to think i really need to just hurry up and repay my debt. It's not that i don't like my work, but i really think 40h/week with weekends during the week don't leave me any time to do stuff with people. Which sucks. I want to buy stuff, but what's the point if i barely have time to use it.

... or i can just keep myself focused on the idea that i do that now, then from January and now on i can just do whatever and not work.

And random thinking... I wonder if it would work if instead of elections, they just made all the political party write a statement on what they plan to do concerning x or y issue, then instead of making people vote for a particular party, they just make some kind of quizz where you pick the answer that you agree the most with concerning each issue from what the party gave, and the vote is counted according to how much answers were the ones from x or y party.

It seems that it would be maybe a way to avoid the problem with people saying that they are associated with whatever party no matter what they do, as if it was a sport team.

And would force people to actually learn what each party wants to do, instead of blindly voting.

... and i was thinking too, what about being paid for voting. Something like, after voting, they hand you a check for something like 5$ or 10$, just for the effort of going there. That could make sense as a motivation. And well, it could pass as "You pay 2.50$ a year of tax that we'll return to you when you vote." or something like that.

And they need to make political parties make an official "This is what you ask us to do" document, signed and all. And they should be held responsible for failures to do what they said would at the end. And have penalities according to it.

... and lunchtime is over. Blah.

*goes back to work*

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... and today was not much of a day, so far. I had an appointement to go to the optometrist at 4h30, so i had to wake up early. The result of that? I woke up every hour or so thinking i was late, or heard my alarm, or heard my mom shout at me that i was late, or dreamt any of the above. Very annoying.

So when it was actually 4h00, i was so zombie that i entirely missed my mom, my alarm, and my watch. But i woke up at 4h20, ran there, and made it just in time.

And as i was expecting, since i didn't wear my glasses for a long while before it, turns out that my vision supposedly has greatly improved. And that the glasses i have right now are too strong, but my eyes compensate for it. So now i've ordered new glasses, 149$... Ew...

I really can't believe how expensive they are. It's just a tiny piece of bent metal, with two plastic piece. I mean, i could understand if the lenses were expensive, but no. They're 30$ each. And i only got the frame that "cheap" because it was a discontinued no-name model. Most are 250$ and above.

I think next time, i'll just bend a coathanger and hotglue the lenses to it. Seriously, this is ridiculous. And they don't even have the indestructible doubled-frame glasses i used to have. Which sucks. I wanted those for work, not cheap bendy metal ones that snap all the time.

Blah...

And on another topic, i'm starting to wonder if CRTs couldn't be a cause of cancer for cats. It's really just a random idea, but... One of our cat, who was ALWAYS lying down on the CRT upstairs for one of my brother's computer got a cancerous tumor on the side he always used to lie down on top of the screen. One of my highschool friend had a cat who did the same, his cat got a cancer too. Some random fur i was talking to said the same happened to his, who used to be lying down on his CRT all the time too.

So yeah. Hard to tell if the two things are really related, but it would be interesting to know.

On a totally unrelated, but more fun topic, i've finally been allowed to drive the motorised stock picker at work. It's awesome. I love it. It's like a reverse-forklift, you drive standing where the forks would be, and you have a platform there. So since it's based on a forklift, it has some pretty impressive speed and power.

The only thing i don't like about it is that it you can't see how your wheels are placed, as the steering handle has no indicator of how many times it was turned to the left/right, and doesn't recenter. It also lacks powersteering, and to brake you have to put it in reverse. But since foward/backward and the platform movement are joystick-controlled, it's not so bad.

And according to my boss, i'm learning how to drive it surprisingly fast. And i didn't squish anything important yet, other than the classic metal trash can that just goes "crunch" and stays all crumpled after you ran into it.

... time to get ready to leave now.