h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just wanted to take a break for my day to whine a little about how things are going at the moment. Mostly because no one else would bother to listen to me, and at least here no one will read this or tell me to shut up halfway through.
I have been trying to do the job of two men for over three weeks now as one of my co-workers has apparently, finally stepped into the void of amphetamine addiction. Not that he has been much of a presence since Christmas. He stopped by two days ago and had severe tremors and was semi-incoherent. He gave his two week notice and I've been left holding up his end and mine. I have been working 6 days a week 12 hour days, no breaks, no lunch, and it's non-stop for the forseeable future. I have been doing the same thing for nearly 8 years now and have seen a dozen men (and one woman) come and go, burned up by the unrelenting pressureof trying to make the shop run. Now it's just me and Tony, with whom I have had a running battle to ruin one-another's career for almost a year now. I feel alienated from the rest of the guys, who are unaffected by the recent turn of events, and are depending on me to keep everything going, to keep the money coming in.
My body is wearing down, I haven't been to the gym in a week. I literally feel myself winding down. The money should be making up for it, 17K in six weeks. But I'm too tired to even think about going out or anything. Top that off with the fact that I'm moving of the 15th, and I almost feel sorry for myself.
Well enough crying about my lot for now. I'll erase this later, when I have recuperated after having Sunday off.

A lot of people are getting stressed out right now either because they're got too much work or can't find enough. And I'm not convinced it isn't being orchestrated to distract from all the other stuff that's getting shoved down the political sewer.

So what are you going to do? Well, you're going to endure until Sunday, one more day, and that's a good thing. And maybe it's better than getting bombed, what do you think?

Oh, and I think maybe there's a pretty good chance it's better than getting strung out on speed.

And maybe you should be glad you're not president with a 200,000 man army sitting out in the desert with nothing to do until you can convince a bunch of French guys that you're not trying to muscle in on their oil concessions.

I really think he's going to binge one of these days and they'll find him under a bridge sleeping on a piece of cardboard, the leader of the New Order, right where he belongs. Hang in there, okay? You wouldn't want to miss it would you?

And just in case you haven't figured out what I'm doing, I'm making it really hard, I hope, for you to erase all this stuff because I think it's important for others to see they're not alone.

I was just ranting, not making a statement. I feel obligated to be a pillar of strength both at work and in my home. I am a leader that everyone gravitates to at work, and they will follow my lead. So if I slack or show weakness then we will slip, and that could spell for bad times for us. So I figured I'd just whine to the void instead.
Drug addiction is actually pretty rampant in the auto-repair business. That's what I do, as if you couldn't guess. We work long hours under intense conditions, I haven't left the shop for lunch since '98, and that was a farewell lunch at the bar across the street. I heard that some shops in Northern California are unionized, but that's just a pipe dream in this political time. So till then I will carry on, quietly.

I know you were ranting but I didn't want you to erase it before more people got to see it. Like I said, they need to know they're not alone.