Anyone who didn’t get a chance to read Trent’s link about Nashville on the end of yesterday’s daily – it’s well worth the read.

 

 

 Thanks Holly for bumping this. So true. I consider myself pretty well informed - read and watch a lot of news. But first heard about the tragedy in Nashville on RA. I then saw a 15 second clip on the NBC Nightly News a day or two later. It's not getting the attention it deserves - even considering the recent terrorist plot and gulf oil spill. 

To those who asked about the shop I am going to manage.........wierd, but really no real progress is being made no matter how much they promise things. I have my office painted and I did some work to smooth up the floor for carpet, and some other misc things. In reality.............everything should have been done Months ago (that's not in my control), and we should be up and running. All the while, they are paying me my salary every week whether I do anything or not .......is that not the strangest thing. To be honest....knowing the owner.....it will be another couple of months before I can see the shop officially open (maybe longer how things are going) Because there are sooooo many things the Owner and His Assistant have NOT even thought of - or dealt with yet, no matter how much I tell them.

My Friends say I have one helluva Gig going on.....true, but I just want to get to work for good!

I will tell you what......and a lot of people I know feel the same way. Things about jobs and employment right now are down right strange and hard to figure out......think my situations takes the cake though. But I do have another "good" job offer from a Collision Center that is fairly close to home....would not have to move. We are separated by salary right now, but we are going to talk again tomorrow.

I am at the shop right now, waiting for carpet companies to come and give bids......every bid the Owner says is too high......then allll the money they are paying me????

Jlynne.......how long did you try with the Vibrams......it really does take a looooooong time getting use to your kinda shoes, or barefoot running.

Tim

During my run this morning, I passed a BP station. See that gas is up to $2.94 a gallon. I wonder who's going to pay for that massive clean-up in the gulf?

*snork!  guffaw!*  Sorry, JLynne, I almost spit my coffee out over that one.  We've been at $3.15 for regular forever.  Mid grade will probably be up around $3.50 by summer.

Sleep-in day for me, even though I had to get up and feed the zoo at 6:00.  I have no trouble crawling back under the covers afterward.  Actually, I probably should've run, even though it's a scheduled rest day.  We ate out last night, I'm going to a seminar luncheon on probates (exciting, huh?), and I'm eating out tonight for my legal association's installation of the new officers. Too much good food.  However, for the first time in 7 years, I'm not one of the officers!!  Woo Hoo!!!!!!

It's a gorgimous day here today!

Here is what  lit me up this morning, but not an angry lit up, just kind of amused.  After my surgery my cardiologist had me go for X-rays as an imaging lab and bring the X-rays to them for review.  This is over a year ago.  Today they call and tell me the imaging place wants them back and for me to come and get them and return them to the lab.  I asked them why they can't just mail them back to the lab themselves.  "Oh, we don't have the postage for that kind of thing."  To them it's a much better idea for me to drive 10 miles to the cardiologist, pick up the X-rays and drive another 10 miles to the imaging lab and then drive home.   Spareribs

  Guess the cost of your gas and time is cheaper than the postage. 

Ribs, that would lite me up big time.  Did you ask for mileage reimbursement?  I had a similar thing at the pharmacy.   I wanted a syringe for one of my medicines, for accurate measurement as opposed to a dropper.  She said they had no more and could not get any more in.  Just aren't any available anywhere.  So what about all the hospitals across the nation, are they all out too?  I think they just don't want to give them away for free anymore.

Trent, thanks for the post, both of them.

Noah and Tag, Tag team!

PDR, I can hardly remember what they are like at that age.  I sometimes just stare in amazement at toddlers and how their bodies move and can't believe I've forgotten all that cuteness.  They say you only remember the good stuff but I only remember the work and exhaustion of having little ones.

Tammy, go crazy, run 10.23 miles!

I got in 7 miles with a stop at the house to check phone calls (had a mystery call on my cell, was hoping it might be for a job - well I can always dream).  Last mile 300 foot incline for fun.  I always save the fun for last.  Legs nearly seized up on one of those hills.

ETA -  Mary, how much were the cats in the cage?  I have never heard of that.  Usually when you bring a cat home it gets free run of the house, of at least confinement to one room for a day or two.  It needs to find lots of safety spots to go hide in, say when a dog comes into the room and also needs to get orientation of everything.  All our cats 4, took about 1 week to get comfortable in the house, then we would let them outside.  They would always come back.

Run done.  Day 31 in the streak.  I need this now more than ever.

Contractor is removing trees and mud.  He is surveying the land around the house.  Waiting waiting waiting for the adjuster.  In the meantime I put in my FEMA application today and our neighbor, a former NO lawyer who dealt with Katrina, and his friend the adjuster, will hopefully also assess the house and advocate our case.

Thanks all for your interest and support.

And for those who missed the story, here it is: We are Nashville

I guess it you have to lacerate yourself  Wednesday is the day, at least in Manchester.  Cinqo de mayo did not seem to affect things much.

 

At least not until later at night.

Mary - Keep putting food out for them, unless you think it'll draw other critters (?).  Hopefully, they're just scared.  If you know they're eating, keep putting the food closer to the garage until you are putting inside.  They'll figure it out.

Trent - I haven't had a chance to read the article, but I'm thinking positive thoughts for you re the advocacy.

Went to a seminar on probates.  A local judge was the speaker.  Great seminar.  Then I found a parking ticket on my windshield because I forgot to put a frigging quarter in the meter.  $23!  Just doing my part as a concerned citizen to help keep our county afloat financially.   I'm supportive like that, you know.