Happy Hour. Nothing more I could have asked for to end a helluva week. The place we went to was called Navy Strenght. Yes, the first time I heard it I thought it was gym. I mean look at the name?! Anyway, it was a tiki bar. I did not see any female servers there. But there were female bartenders. The servers were wearing tight shorts and button-downs. A lot of people were in costumes, I mean Halloween weekend so no surprise. And yes, to say that I was distracted just because I want to see all the costumes was a huge understatement.

I only had one drink. It was called hot needles. It has scotch, gin, wine, and some other things. And they light it up when they serve it. It was pretty cool. And pretty strong. Hence just having one drink. I originally planned on having two drinks but after the first drink hit me pretty nicely, I decided to not have a second drink. I wanted to unwind, not be irresponsible. It would be a different story if I live downtown and I could just walk to my apartment. But no. I still had fun. Ordered some nachos, a musubi steamed bun, and a chicken steamed bun. They were so good. Food prices were pretty good. The drinks were a little bit on the pricier side but after that one drink, I understand why. 

So Navy Strength had their Nightmare on Wall Street event. This started from October 1 and will end tonight, October 31. They served some scary movie themed cocktails. I ordered Hot Needles (on the left) which was inspired by the movie The Thing, 1982. It has scotch, aquavit, branca menta, lemon, cardamom, and smoked tea. Two of my coworkers ordered SS Georgie based on It, 1990. And another one ordered The Candyman based on the movie The Candyman, 1992.

I really had nothing else to share. Work was busy as fuck. And really have nothing else to share considering that I was swamped with work.  

Let’s just say that today was a clusterfuck at work. We were waiting for our delivery for hours! Usually the packages get delivered between 9:30 to 10:30 but of course that did not happen today. Flight delays. Heavy traffic. Delayed trucks. Yeah, late delivery. It did not get on site until almost 1 PM. Not good. Did we rush processing the samples? Not really. I just don’t like late shipments.

We cleared the cabinets at work today. Threw out all the stupid marketing materials that we have been telling the coordinator to get from the office. So much mess there. Old tech equipment were picked up for recycling. Little things. The only things left to dispose now are the nonadjustable tables and sucky office chairs.

I am currently in so much pain. Back pain is no joke.

Let me see. What happened today? Nothing really noteworthy. The headache was back onsite. And I closed my office door since I really did not want to deal with her. The less time I deal with her the better. I did have a conversation with her about that 4hr block that she scheduled for tomorrow. She titled that BS “Organizing the office”. I asked her what kind of organizing she was thinking. She just wanted some clutter cleared. Throw some marketing materials away, mark chairs to be donated, mark things that need to be disposed of. And I told her that the title of that block was ominous and I was ready to fight her if the “organizing” involves people onsite moving furniture around. And she said fight who. And I said YOU! I just want to make sure that we are on the same page. No one onsite will do freaking manual labor. Period.

I also had a 1×1 with her this afternoon. A 30-minute one that went over to about an hour and a half. Because we had so much to talk about. About my aspirations, but I always moved the focus to my team. How the team has no room to move up. We need to have levels so that they have the motivation to learn more. And so they can get paid more. I was complaining about the fact that if workers at a store or a car wash are getting paid more, then there is something wrong. My guys are handling patient samples and having to catch this and that in an order, they need to get paid better. I told her if all of us walk out of the lab right now, the lab will not run, and the pay does not reflect that. And she says I’m right. We’ll talk about this in December when new budgets are getting discussed. I told her one main reason why I am very hesitant to move on was that I don’t want the PS team to be forgotten and I want them to get what they actually deserve. Did I cry? Yes. I couldn’t help it. I want the team to get the compensation reflected on what they do in one of the most expensive cities in the US. 

Anyway, after work, I got to watch a couple of episodes of Cowboy Bebop with Chris. And a couple of episodes of Ouran High School Host Club and an episode of Dorohedoro with my hun. So far I am really enjoying Cowboy Bebop. My hun is willing to continue with Ouran. But I think he will enjoy it better dubbed. So we will be watching it in English, which is fine. I really think the dub on that anime was really good.

I did read some chapters of Darling Girl last night. And oh boy, there was a part there that made me so uncomfortable. Made my skin crawl. I will not disclose what since that is a bit of a spoiler but for crying out loud. That was just wtf.