{"id":223,"date":"2005-10-20T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moremoeblows.wordpress.com\/2005\/10\/20\/welcome-back-stranger\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T21:07:00","slug":"welcome-back-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back, stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6223\/1069\/1600\/gainsborough%20hound.jpg\"><img style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6223\/1069\/320\/gainsborough%20hound.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Been a long time since I made an entry. I see there are two comments on the last one but I suspect I don&#8217;t really want to check out their &#8220;cool&#8221; websites. Do I sound like a cynic? Perhaps it is the simple ambiguity of &#8220;I like your blog, here&#8217;s a cool website you might like&#8221; just a tad too pat. What is it you like about my blog? What makes this website cool and why, after reading these few entries I&#8217;ve made, do you think you know my tastes? <br \/>Anyway, I am going through a pretty tough time these days. I don&#8217;t know if it is depression lurking in the sub-conscious thought routines, sabotaging my actions and leaving huge blank spots in the memory banks or simply a matter of age and hormones taking their toll. I&#8217;m making really silly mistakes at work. No, really silly. And the problem is they all seem to be on various account entries which means the books don&#8217;t balance and it can all be traced back to me&#8230;.Now if I was profiting by this, that would be one thing but these are plain old not-paying-attention-tax dumb ass errors. <br \/>Why does it bother me? because I don&#8217;t make those kind of mistakes. Not often, anyway. Is this maybe some kind of sophmore slump now that I&#8217;m in my second year of work here? Pretty silly. <br \/>And depression is a definite candidate. The black dog has been at my side for several months now and doesn&#8217;t seem inclined to bugger off, no matter what I do. It isn&#8217;t as bad as this spring when I did actually get the classic &#8220;suicidal thoughts&#8221;. That was new. In all the years I&#8217;ve been wrestling with this puppy, I was never able to check off that one on the home diagnosis kit list. The doctor goes through it too, didjaknow. She hasn&#8217;t asked me yet, probably is something she has to do on a yearly basis. <br \/>So, my problem could be a smoldering dysthymia, it fits the pattern. <br \/>In the meantime, it is a really frustrating experience and one I can&#8217;t seem to get a handle on. I&#8217;ve started initialling everything I enter in the computer. Today another ooops came up. No initials on it BUT the question arises: Did I forget to initial it? <br \/>I don&#8217;t even remember entering the document or seeing it but that don&#8217;t mean nuthin. <br \/>When the problem is remembering things, not remembering something is hardly proof of not having done it&#8230;<br \/>Time to go back to work. I don&#8217;t feel any better having bitched about it but maybe it&#8217;ll help when I look at it again in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a long time since I made an entry. I see there are two comments on the last one but I suspect I don&#8217;t really want to check out their &#8220;cool&#8221; websites. Do I sound like a cynic? 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