Day 5 of Bunny’s recovery. We think he must have had a stroke, and that somehow, we saved his life. I found a swelling on his right side under his ear, and I’ve been massaging it out. Bunny now eats solid foods, but I have to chop it up because he still can’t eat very much.
Bunny is now hopping around, but wobbly. However he seems back to his old self, curious and naggy pants. Baby girl is taunting him by jumping over him on purpose. As if she’s going HA! Now I’m the boss bitch! Bunny can now go to the toilet on his own.
I caught myself today before a moment of outburst at Keith. What would have normally transpired is Keith telling me something which is incorrect, then I would correct him and somehow he would start slapping and banging things because he thinks he’s right.
Today I just _let him think he was right _ the irony. Knowing he’s wrong but just not bothering to say or do anything about it. Here was the problem:
I found some beautiful art paper with Jellyfish, and ordered a sample. Keith said he could reproduce it by photographing the sheet, at 10k, and then giving me the file to work with to tessalate.
Ok right. Inside I knew this was a long way of going about it. Correcting distortion and stitching is not so easy.
So I said: we could just scan it on our lazer printer?
And here was the ridiculous thing: “NO NO NO YOU CANT DO THAT ITS ONLY IN BLACK AND WHITE”
Me: it’s a scanner it can see in colour, just the printer is black and white.
Him: (being odius now and talking down to me like I’m stupid) no it only scans black and white… shaking his head at me and sneering.
Normally I would have blown up at this point and there would have been the man baby ritual of him hugging and puffing around the place.
Today, I quietly went up to the scanner, checked the menu and pointed out: LOOK IT DOES COLOUR, IT SAYS SO…
him: -says nothing- BUT ITS LOW QUALITY NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR PRINTING.
Me: it says it can scan 600dpi
Him: (sneering at me again) OH NO NO NO YOURE WRONG THEY NEED MUCH BETTER QUALITY THAN THAT BLAH BLAH BLAH LECTURE LECTURE
and he won’t see that this is him. But he really is like this. Once he’s decided that he is right, he throws rewriting facts at me to stick to his choice of FOTOGRAPHING lol some fucking piece of paper with his camera.
I shrugged my shoulders and went, oh well if I can scan it and save me a stitching job I’ll do that, you can carry on and take pictures.
To which he DID start slapping things around on his desk and he really is completely unaware he does this. It happened a few times today. (He’s ordering boxes) where I had to correct his language on the telephone to the printer manufacturer.
It’s a Chinese Symbol Not a Chinese letter. (The logo has big letter initials and I don’t want the printer mixing up the Spot UV - just to clarify…
Another:
We can have the printer print a bunch of “handwritten notes” onto which I use the same handwriting to put their name in the blank space. OMG I shouldn’t have gone there. He just couldn’t wrap his head around it and went all argumentative AT ME.
Oh another: MORE TOOTHBRUSHES?! (In the post)
me: Yes I ordered them remember?
Blank stare. But we’ve already…
Me: this was before you ordered that stuff I put in an order from a different supplier.
He understood but he had absolutely no memory of discussing this with me.
I have to say, the only thing Keith and I get along with is business, and movies. Outside of that he is a pig to deal with.
I couldn’t get the lid of a new drum today, I asked for help… he got the lid off and the goop was too thick for me to syringe measure, so I opted to scoop it out like honey.
He interjects: how about I hold the bucket and you pull on the syringe?
Me: WHAT?! I have a spoon and a measuring cup and scales. No amount of force is going to suck up that silicone.
Him: how about we get a pump?
What in the fuck Christ mercy shut the fuck up and leave my lab. Fucking pain in the ass obstacle maker.
I hid the demeanor from my face. I was sick of his constant overwriting of my work, photoshopping (even though I’M THE ONE THAT DOES ALL OF THIS WORK) and honest to god simple workflow he just wants to jack the fuck up. PUMPS? Gimme a break. I can SPOON THAT SHIT OUT.
Apart from that I don’t really know if I’m making progress with Keith, US or whatever. I mean even with bunny, on the way to the vet, I said hmmm this must be vestibular, he can’t balance, his eyes are rolling…. It’s neurological
Keith (while we were driving) no it has to be something pressing on his optic nerve to make his eyes roll like that
OKAY
vets: it’s vestibular disease
No acknowledgement or anything from keith. I mean seriously there never is. Oh I know I’m not a vet, but I can feel bunny I’m pretty sure he’s dizzy as fuck and can’t stabilize.
And it just goes on like that. And I am supposed to play dumb to keep Keith “omnipotent” I mean seriously, it doesn’t make him happy, he’s a pessimist all the time, he just needs to be RIGHT all the time. And if I say anything against it, wow betide I am even right. He slaps around like a man baby.
I am the abusive one in our relationship? Seriously, he says I’m rude and disrespectful to him. Huh. Funny how he is exactly that to me.
We think differently, and emotionally we are not aligned. It causes chaos between us. The only thing we are emotionally invested in - is Nüwa Medusa LLC. I can think of many scenarios that I had to tip toe around his omnipotent fact rewriting. And many times where I corrected him and had to put up with the fallout of his man-silence.
But this time. I predicted it. And held my tongue. Whatever, when I come to doing that work no doubt I will just go to the scanner and stitch it way before his photography and lens fucking around and lighting blah blah blah. I’ll just let him do his work and do mine separately anyway. It’s quicker.