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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
What are they going to do... invade? ;~D
I have to get some gas for the mower but I think I can put it off a few more days. Besides, I have to pick up a bunch of sticks.
Miss Cat is wondering what happened to her little deck area. I think she liked the nappy green stuff better than bare plywood. I put the cat flap in the sgd frame. Wonder if she'll go through or jump over (my money's on jump over.)
If she can jump over, I bet she will!
Maybe you should get her a fake grass rug to scratch on.
I've got a fake grass doormat but the - ahem - "fibers" aren't looped so she can't really get her claws in it.
Well, that won't do!
Actually....they haven't hauled the old stuff away so the cheap green stuff is still out there. Guess I could always try to make a scratching post out of it.
Heh! It's a shallow creek. Might wear waders. He found a gigantic ladder once, during creek cleanup...22 feet long aluminum ladder!
It just irritates me that he's "required" to volunteer his own time to do this (for work)...they do pay him overtime, but still...it's a volunteer conservation organization and the city has him do it because they can brag about how they're involved in protecting the invironment.
I would rather it be TRULY volunteer...Steve would still do it, because it also is something that looks good to his instructors at school. It just rankles me that his job makes him do it. Probably irrationally and I probably wouldn't even be upset if he hadn't been made to "volunteer" for the Household Polution Collection Event just LAST weekend! That was for the Met, you know? The recycling organization?
OT, does your job require you to do all this environmenatal extra credit?
They will fulminate in a quaintly impotent fashion. Then they'll go make some wooden shoes to sell to tourists for pot money.
No it's not required. If I recall correctly, they did have volunteer event doing some clean up last year (might be yearly....don't know...) but they didn't get paid for it. Oh, I think they got a pancake breakfast. I don't know if this volunteer effort makes your personnel record or not.
Well, like I say, I know I probably shouldn't grumble about it...I mean, he DOES get paid for it! And we could use the money! And it will look nice on his resume!
It's just two weekends in a row and I miss him! LOL!!!
Eventually, he won't be in school and I'll hopefully see him more during the week...then things like this won't be such a blow to our time.
So does this mean you're not working on the Bug today?
Well, kinda...gonna take a big chunk out of our time. And any salvage yards that we might want to go to that are open on Sat. are closed by 1pm. He's supposed to be "done" by 1:30pm, but warned me not to get my hopes up. I expect he'll be in around 3-4pm.
So yeah, that's my beef! LOL I want to work on the car! Tomorrow we have church, then we'll have a few hours of time, then the boys have choir.
I need to get the house spiffed up a bit....OB and LSA are coming over tomorrow with tools to help me put a cat flap in the door to the garage. They're also bringing over some plants that need a home.
It is a program, that teaches the kids how to do research, and there is a writing (Composition) program imbedded in TRISMS that is the best as far as most folks on the TWTM users board are concerned. It is called IEW, Institute for Excellence in Writing, and is the only writing program that I've found that Clare actually enjoys.
I really just don't know what is normally expected, I guess...and I would never want to grumble about something that would help Steve progress in his career. But he's been doing this for gosh...4-5 years and never got a pay raise, (as a matter of fact, remember when they took his education assistance away?) So he even got a decrease in pay, sorta.
And he does this once a month...they go out once a month and run samples on a stream or wetland as part of this "volunteer" effort. He was able to get a time slot during work hours, thankfully, or else once a month he would have to take time away from family and school to do this! (Scads of people are doing this at all hours of the day, every day! It really is something.)
Then a couple of times a year they have these special events. Creek cleanup is one, then there's Fish Count (where they trap and document the number of fish in the Illinois River.)
Like I say, I don't mean to complain if this is a normal expectation, but with him going to school and never being home ANYWAY, I feel kinda resentful.
This is a guvmint job, right?
I love tulips. Got some coming up in the yard, but I can't remember what color they are. They'll bloom sometime next month.
Yeah. (City)
They took his ed assistance away when the economy tanked after 9/11...about a year later. Economy improved, but he never got it back.
They let him work on his thesis at work, which is a big reason why he hasn't actively looked for another job...because his thesis paper is also a study that the city needs done. So his thesis is also his job, so to speak.
That really was financially worth a lot to us...
Well he's close to finishing, right? Then he can look for a "real job." :)
Heh! Yep! I just wondered if a "real job" was any better...which is why I asked you if you had to do stuff like this! You have a real job!
LOL!!!!
He's not going to finish in time to graduate this spring though. He'll be finished this summer some time. I kinda hoped he'd go ahead and do the commencement, but he doesn't want to before he's actually finished. :-(
I understand, but I'm disappointed, slightly. Just slightly, now.
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