Posted on 08/08/2005 10:42:02 PM PDT by Mo1
I sure messed up last night's post. Getting old I reckon...
Nobody been around tonight...Did everyone get banned???
So anyway, goodnight all..Have a great one and sleep well....
.....Westy.....
not me, westy.....you have a good night sleep, too. Another beautiful pic...thanks for posting!
I'll help:
In 12 cup drip percolator pot, fill to 6 cup mark with water.
In filter, put 6 heaping scoops of coffee.
Medium roast works best, just make sure it's a robust blend.
Found a maxwellhouse 'medium roast' that was rather anemic.
Put pinch of salt in filter, about as much as it would take to cover the surface of a dime with one even layer.
This keeps the coffee from tasting burned too quickly, it doesn't age well brewed this way.
Brew, recirculate if need be, usually not.
Add sugar and dairy creamer.
Creamora and coffeemate are not recommended unless you like the heart racing that Ranger Pudding gives.
That, and the nondairy creamer will give you both a headache and a buzz with the coffee.
One thing not mentioned was that they did use non-dairy creamer.
I usually put about 8 spoons of sugar in this stuff, it ends up being like Russian Kava, thick and sweet with that bitter overtone to it.
Oh, and I am NOT responsible for seeming demonic possession of the coffeepot, or the coffeepot ending up acting as if it has been damaged.
Be sure NOT to add creamora or coffeemate to the brew, unless you LIKE ranger pudding style heart racing.
When I brew that stuff for myself, I recirculate the stuff to brew a second time, but that's me for my own personal enjoyment, and it may wreck the coffeepot.
Don't forget the salt, it's important to the finished brew.
foflol!!
No somewhere out there are around or coming around....
Good night all of you photo are lovely Westy!
Dark that has got to be the longest reply you ever posted!
I've actually posted longer, but that has been years ago.
Hi Westy,
I love your photo of Mt. Rainier. I spent a few days hiking up there.
I was showing my wife a few things on free republic the other day and I happened to click on your home page, and she noticed that you are the same age as her father and my father. They are both alive and well, and have all their faculties about them, including a sense of purpose. My wife's father still tends gardens for himself and others, working for pay, and my father still works on a farm, drives a van for the retirement community center, and delivers seed to farmers in the springtime.
Don't know of anyone getting banned, quiet today as some Fridays are.
We will be up in the High Uinta mountains tomorrow.
Thanks again for the beautiful pic .. brings back a ton of memories.
p.s. ever thought about putting some of your favorite pics on your home page?
Please God, let me strangle my bosses.
What I would give to record someone with a really deep voice saying that as my answering machine greeting...
When we were at court the other day, my supervisor (who is in the next county) showed me some things she'd been sent for the agenda of their supervisor's meeting coming up. One of them had to do with finding ways to make us (in our county) get everything done on time. It would take me all day to list all the items with time frame deadlines (some that are very unrealistic) that we are expected to meet.
There are over 300 screens per case that have to be filled out, and that doesn't count the time doing assessments, writing affidavits, doing court reports, doing investigation, writing narratives of every contact with any member or the family or contact regarding the family, finding placements (hint: there are always more kids than there are places to put them), visiting families and foster kids, arranging transportation, day care and medical appointments, days spent in court, attending school conferences, consulting with therapists, tracking down stuff than never got where it was supposed to go, running interference between foster parents and others in the case and trying to keep the foster parents happy, filling out volumes of paperwork for every referral for services, compiling hard files, doing home studies on family members, time spent traveling when clients or kids are in facilities or homes out of county or when there is court in another county, writing case plans and holding staffings, attending Lord knows how many useless (mandatory) trainings and the time spent traveling to them, doing one week out of every 3-4 on call...I could go on, but you get the idea.
Anyway, we have roughly 80 active cases and nearly as many investigations, all being handled by two workers, one investigator, a trainee and a dingbat. We do have two aides who help with supervising visitations and scheduling doctors appointments and setting up day care and they help some with the transportation, but they're not allowed to do a lot of the other stuff. The DCFS investigator has some 70+ open investigations and the CACD (state police) investigator has probably another 30. Me and the other worker have 30+ cases each, plus I have been spending a lot of time working with the trainee who doesn't even go to official training for another week and a half. The dingbat has 7 cases and started whining "unfair" when she was assigned number 8, and what work has gotten done on her cases, someone else has had to do most of.
That should give you a little bit of an idea why I'm working such long hours and am just a tad short-tempered of late. 
Uh-oh. This does not sound good.
You've always been nice to me and always sound pleasant here too. I completely "hear you" about the long hours :(
Bluto didn't eat me... this time... rotfl!- though the floors are quaking daily now when he comes to give us our orders. He's been nice lately - and I even feel sorry for him. This year our issue is the "pet" who is vacationing and didn't do any of her work before she left. So we are stuck with 10 - 14 hour days plus weekends. At least we can bond over our shared aggravation.
Sharky - back to the dungeons for me!
Please Darks - I will do whatever you want!
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