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[02 Jun 2004|12:37pm] |
Ignore this if you want, it's just for recording purposes.
I just finished a light preliminary look at the explorer. It seems to be in great shape. Just a few things I noticed:
- The coolant seems to be quite old. It's possible the system might need to be flushed. Well, maybe not need so much, but it might benifit from one.
- The oil needs to be changed. No biggie there.
- The tires are a little worn. Probably good for about another year.
- There's a slight shudder in the engine. It might be relatively normal and I'm just being too critical. Looking at the oil and coolant it may just be time for a tune-up.
Overall it looks like it was well maintained. It's black, 2wd with a 4.0L V-6 with just over 57k miles on it and an automatic transmission. It has rear air- not real familiar with that feature, but oh well- four-wheel disk brakes, four door, tilt steering. It has less cargo space than I pictured explorers having. It's quite clean under the hood like it was just washed. No problem there really, but I would have rather he hadn't done that so I could tell if there are/were any leaks of any kind. It has a Fram oil filter on it which tells me that the previous owner most likely did their own maintenance (dealers use Motorcraft parts). Nothing wrong with Fram, I use those on my truck and the escort.
So next step is that I want to hook it up to a scanner and see what it says. I can either take it to work or see if I can bring a scanner home. All in all I think it's a good vehicle. We could comfortably make a cross-country trip in it with the kids, I think. As long as it's mechanically sound I'm okay with it. Transmission problems freak me out so I really want to find out if there are any possible problems there.
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[02 Jun 2004|02:07am] |
Nothing really journal-worthy has happened lately, so I've been sort of absent.
A few random notes:
- Allison made it through the rest of the school year unscathed. All A's and B's on her last report card. Now the poor girl seems to have a stomach virus of some kind. I hate it when my kids are in pain and I can't do anything about it.
- I finally got around to redoing another hard drive I've had, so now I have twice as much space as before AND windows 98/se. I was hoping it would be a bit more stable, but I've already had the blue-screen-of-death come up a few times. I don't know what's causing it, but I'm thinking it has to do with my firewall. If it continues I'll try uninstalling that and see if it helps. I also have my Linux system back up which I've missed. I still have some configuring to do on that one.
- The job hunt has been on hold for a while. I still have editing to do on my resume and a cover letter to write. Hell, the job-market seems to have tanked again anyway, so it's just as well.
- I'm re-learning the gasoline testing section rather quickly, I think. Things have changed a lot since I worked there last. I have many new engines and test procedures to learn, but it's coming along. I got some overtime in for the first time in a long time and combined with the holiday pay for Monday it should be an above average paycheck.
- There's a pretty little Ford Explorer sitting in the carport right now. A friend of ours is a wholesaler and picked this one up from auction recently. We're keeping it for a couple of days so that I can go through it and check it out. It's a 2002 model, 2-wheel-drive with a 4.0L V-6 engine- very good on mileage and quite dependable. We may buy it, but we have to find financing.
That's about it. Hope all is well with everyone. Sorry I haven't been very talkative lately.
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[24 May 2004|08:21pm] |
| "ACHTUNG! | | daveb may actually be a spider-human hybrid |
From Go-Quiz.com
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[24 May 2004|03:17am] |
I'm tired, so just a few random notes about the weekend.
- Had a great day Saturday. I played with the kids when I got up. Tyler had gotten a new race car track for his birthday so we were playing with that in the morning. I hadn't really seen Allison all week so we got to spend some time with each other. We all went to dinner at Golden Corral in Pleasenton before going grocery shopping at Walmart. Spent too much there, but we had fun. It was a really good day spent with my family, and I SOOO needed that! :)
- Didn't do a while lot today. I hung two ceiling fans in the house; one in Allison's room and one right here above my desk. There's one in every room now except Tyler's bedroom. I'm not sure what to do there. The outlet box for a light fixture/fan in his room has a nearby cabinet door that would open right into the path of a ceiling fan. Option one is to convert the cabinet door so it slides open instead of swinging open, and option two is to find an oscilating fan I can mount on the wall. Don't know which I'm going to do yet.
- Allison's teacher continues to surprise us. Apparently we made a huge impression on her when we visited her a couple months ago. They allowed her to go to the AR store on the last visit- this last Thursday. Allison really wanted this porcelain doll they had in there, but she was about two points short- the same scenario that started all the trouble before. Her teacher told her that she would hold on to the doll that day and Allison could finish the book she was reading, take the test and earn the points she needed for it. Now why didn't she do that a couple of months ago??? We were really impressed and Allison got the doll by the end of the day. She loves it- my sister sent her one years ago for her birthday so she has a little collection going.
- I almost had to work Saturday, but I convinced them they didn't need me so I had both days off. This will require some explanation, but I'm too tired right now.
Have a great week everyone!
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I'm just getting in tonight.
Wednesday night (Thursday morning) I put gas in the truck. I'm only putting in ten gallons at a time- about all I can afford. I paid $1.84 a gallon for it. Tonight I drove by that same station and it's $1.92 now. @#$! bastards! The weird thing is the fact that business where I work is slow. Usually the oil companies literally throw money into research when the gas prices go up but they're not this time. It's like they're getting ready for something.
I finished filling out the admisison forms for University of Texas at San Antonio. and submitted them. I have to wait to hear from them before I can register for classes. The lady I went and talked to this morning was very helpful and spelled things out for me pretty well. I'm looking at around $1200 for two classes assuming three credit-hours each class.
One of the the biggest things I'm hoping to accomplish at UT is raising my GPA. The final count at the JC was a 2.67. Pretty damn sad, really. Ann has more or less signed up for her classes for the summer. She has to call the school tomorrow to get them to change a few things in her records, but she should start around the first of June.
More rumors at work. Now supposedly they're going to go to all automated laboratories and they're looking for any reason at all to get rid of operators. Wait... that's the same rumor that's been going around for a while now. Ah well. Right now I have more "hooks in the water" than the Gorton's Fisherman so maybe something will come up.
Friday is imminent! Brace for impact! Y'all have a good weekend.
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[20 May 2004|01:58am] |
I should really be in bed. I have to get up early tomorrow and go to the transfer advisement center at the college to get my credits transfered over to UT. I hear they're kind of stingy on what will transfer. As long as the calculus classes do, I'm happy. I passed by the skin of my teeth, but I passed nonetheless, so GIMME MY CREDITS! ;)
On that note, Ann took her placement tests today. She'll have to take a few remedial classes, but that's no big deal. She's going and I'm glad she is. The counselor was trying to discourage her from taking math courses over the Internet until she told him "My husband just finished Calculus III" Hehe, he told her "Ah, say no more." It's nice to be respected every once in a while! :)
I'm really looking forward to starting at the university. It makes me feel better about where I am currently in life to know that I'm at least working toward something better. The truth is, I bitch about life and everything all the time, but I wouldn't trade the lessons I've learned from it for anything. Life is just one long class when you really think about it. If you pay attention and take notes, you'll ace it.
Things were a lot worse for us several years ago and through our own blood, sweat and tears we've managed to pull ourselves up a little. I vividly remember back when Ann was pregnant with Allison and couldn't work because of some minor but significant complications. The bills were piling up and I just couldn't pay them all on my salary. I remember Ann (and me) in tears saying "what are we going to do??" which led to the second job I had for a while as a security guard. That was supposed to be a part-time job, but it turned into another full-time job shortly after I started. It was pure hell, but it kept us above water until she could go back to work. AND, indirectly, it was because of that job that I finally got the nerve to go back to college in the first place. I reasoned that if I could handle working sixteen hours a day I could sure as hell sit in a classroom a couple of hours a day.
Anyway, I better hit the hay.
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[19 May 2004|01:51am] |
I am. In fact, you should all drop me right now because I'm so fundamentally moronic.
I guess when you've driven old vehicles for as long as I have and you're as pessimistic as I am, you just naturally assume the worst and most complicated reasons for the many oddities that befall such vehicles.
So I was heading over to the grocery store this evening to get my lunch. I felt like Chinese food tonight so I picked up some for myself and a friend I work with. Coming off of the freeway, I reached for the gearshift to change down into third gear (it's a four-speed) and I couldn't find it. I looked down and saw it under the dash where it had swivelled around. Then it hit me.
See, the gearshift lever is two pieces: one on the transmission and the actual lever with the little ball thing on the end that you actually shift with. They are connected by a collar that is welded onto the upper part that slides down over the lower part and is normally held in place by two roll-pins. I lost the roll-pins the last time I had the transmission out and replaced them with two bolts. Well, every so many years with all the shifting I do, the bolts wear out and the upper part of the shift lever becomes really loose. When I feel like it's in the correct position to change gears, it's slightly off and either doesn't want to go into gear or grinds slightly.
Hence the shifting problem.
I'm quite relieved, but utterly annoyed that I didn't think of this in the first place. It's happened a few times before but it's been a while so it didn't occur to me to check that. I just jumped to the conclusion that it MUST be the transmission or the clutch. Bah! I hate being me sometimes!
However...
The intermittant noise I keep hearing- which I hardly heard at all today- is still likely the throwout bearing, but it's not very serious at this time. I may have just gotten some water from the rains we've had in the last few weeks up in there and the bearing might be rusted a little. So I'm nt completly out of the woods yet, but it's looking a lot better than it did the other day!
So I've fixed the shift lever temporarily and if I shift carefully it will be okay until tomorrow. I didn't have time tonight to really fix it, but tomorrow I will put some new bolts in there and should be good for another year or so.
Live and learn, I suppose.
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[18 May 2004|01:58am] |
Since I answered a couple of these, I'll go ahead and post it. Reply if you like. Don't if you don't. No worries if you'd rather not do ANYTHING with me.
Everyone who reads this, leave a comment telling me something they would LIKE to do with me SOMEDAY.
Then post this in your journal to find out what I want to do with you.
I found out some slightly optimistic news today. I haven't actually been transfered to the gasoline engine testing section in the full meaning of the word "transfer". I've simply been placed on their schedule. I'm still considered an employee of the diesel section and as soon as business picks up for us I'll be back over there. This makes me feel slightly better, although I still have to work in gasoline testing for now.
This problem with my truck is rather confusing. I was sure it was the clutch, but now I'm not so sure. Other than the pedal needing some WD-40, it feels okay. It's an intermittent problem. Occasionaly it's difficult to put it in gear, but not always. Sometimes it grinds when going into reverse, but again, not always. There's a noise that sounds like a small bird chirping that I hear sometimes if I'm at a stop sign and shifting into first gear with the clutch in, but not always. Aye, I hate problems like this because the only thing to do is drive it until whatever it is goes out completly. Then hope that I'm not far from work/home/somewhere I can leave it and work on it for a while.
I've made some improvements to my resume. I emailed my Dad and step-mother a while back and they've been a tremendous help. Jan, my step-mother showed it to the IT manager at the bank she works at and said he seemed very positive about it. Again, it's going to be a work in progress for a while. Next up is the cover letter. This has been a problem for some time now because I just have problems talking about myself. I can write anything- the story I had published I wrote in twenty minutes- but the moment I have to describe myself I just go blank. A few self-esteem problems, I'm sure, but I've got to get a handle on them so I can write a cover letter.
Anyway, not much else going on. Gonna surf a little and go to bed. G'night!
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[17 May 2004|11:21am] |
Got this this morning:
- Based on the career profile you provided us, you might be interested in the following job(s). Please review the job description(s) and if you would like to continue the process, click on the job link below.
054892051604 -- Pool Salesman. Experienced.
A sign, perhaps? ;)
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[17 May 2004|01:22am] |
Dammit! The noise I heard is DEFINATELY the clutch in my truck. It's shifting hard, grinding occasionally and just feels out of whack. $115 for the parts, another $30 to have the flywheel resurfaced. Thank God I can do the work myself. I'm going to try to nurse it through the week, but I really doubt it will make it.
The last time it went out I was in heavy traffic due to some road construction up on the north side of San Antonio. I waved the people behind me off and somehow got the truck moving again and made it back to work. It took me about three days to replace it then. Having worked with this truck so much by now I'm thinking I can have the transmission out in about an hour, pull the pressure plate and flywheel off in a few minutes and depending on how long I have to wait for the flywheel have it back together on the same day. The trick is going to be finding a day I can do it in.
So today I went to help my inlaws with their roof. We did one part of the house a few years ago and now the other side was leaking. Rather than try to track down the leak, they decided to just replace it. I finally got some sun on my body and got a great workout doing it. We didn't finish it but we got the hard stuff done. All the old shingles are off and new tar-paper is rolled out.
So I'm beat. Now I need to take a shower and get to bed. Hopefully my truck will stay together this week.
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[15 May 2004|01:54am] |
Coming home tonight I heared a weird noise that I'm afraid might be the throw-out bearing on my truck. For those who don't know, this is a part of the clutch mechanism that is actually responsible for engaging and disengaging the clutch on a vehicle with a manual transmission. I knew I should have replaced the clutch when I rebuilt the engine years ago, but it was almost new as it was, so I thought it would be okay. So this will be the second clutch I will have put in if that's the case. Since I do the work myself it should run about $100 or so for the parts with an added $25 or so to resurface the flywheel.
If I'm unlucky, it was the transmission itself. Then I think I would have to junk the truck. It's 22 years old, a gas-hog and someday it's going to just disintegrate right out from under me anyway.
Work was okay tonight. There are three labs in the building I was recently moved to: north lab, south lab and two-cycle. North lab is the one I started out in twelve years ago when I first started working for this company. It's a miserable place to work. 90% of the people are rats and brown-nosers that would turn in their own mothers if they thought it would mean a promotion for themselves. Two-cycle, which consists of outboard boat engines, motorcycle engines and just about anything else like that, hasn't been running much the last few years. The South lab is where I worked tonight. This is the lesser of the evils. You still have to watch your back in there, but it's not nearly as bad as the north lab.
As far as work goes, both labs have been kind of busy. They both do a lot of specialized testing, kind of let's-see-what-happens-when-we-do-this kind of work. They also have a lot of standardized testing they do. The standardized testing is to qualify oils for certain EPA standards. If you look on the back of an oil can, somewhere you will see a circle inside of a circle and the words "API Service SL" in it. We're one of the laboritories that qualifies oils for that code (SL this year. When I first started twelve years ago they were on 'SH') SL is the latest code for today's standards, so to the question of what the best oil is, anything that has that code on the back has passed a multitude of tests like what I work with.
Got off on a little tangent there. Sorry.
DDB (Drug-Dealer Boss) has been out all week on vacation. He'll be back on monday. One of my co-workers is going to be starting college on the first of June and he needs to switch with someone and come to evening shift. We're hoping one of the other guys will be able to switch with him, but DDB might not allow it. If that happens, I told him I would switch with him. That would put me on dayshift, which is kind of good but kind of bad. I haven't worked dayshift for almost twelve years (except for the part time security job I had for a while) and it might be nice to be on a somewhat normal schedule for a while. I would actually be able to see my kids every once in a while and actually sleep with my wife. On the other hand, it would put me directly under DDB's nose which is never a good place to be. I guess we'll see Monday.
Anyway, today was Friday. Not much going on for the weekend, really. Just recovering from the week.
Have a great weekend, y'all!
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Long live ![[info]](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20040603200923im_/http:/=2fstat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) thefridayfive!! And thanks ![[info]](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20040603200923im_/http:/=2fstat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) arlia for posting about it. I was starting to miss doing those!
1. If you could live in any city in the world, where would you live and why?
I don't know. I've been in the big cities and the small towns so maybe someplace in between. The suburbs, maybe.
2. If you could speak any language fluently, what would it be?
Russian is kind of cool. German wouldn't be bad either. Truthfully I'd like to speak Spanish fluently because it kind of fits better with the area I live in.
3. When was the last time you rode a ferry and where did you go?
I've never ridden a ferry.
4. What was the longest plane ride you've ever taken?
From Seattle, WA to Tokyo, Japan. 13 hours in the air. It was pure hell.
5. If you discovered a country, what would you name it?
No idea.
A real entry should follow shortly.
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[10 May 2004|07:32pm] |
I have just been advised of a new rule here on my second week in the gasoline engine testing lab.
So we'll call this "strange rule #1":
Operators are not to communicate with the supervisors through email, only in person or on the phone.
In fact, I look for them to take our company email addresses away entirely pretty soon- those of us that came back here recently. The people that have always been here never had email.
Folks, I may tell a lot of stories about this place and some of them may seem extremely far fetched and difficult to believe, but be assured, anything I write in this journal is true and not made up. Hell, I couldn't make stuff up like what happens in here.
So if something happens in the lab to one of the engines, I can't write an email about it. No, they will call me at 8:00 in the morning to ask me about it. Wanna find out how coherant I am in the morning? Call me before about 10:00. I'm told it's quite humorous.
This will likely begin a new topic of conversations here at work. "Weird rules my boss comes up with"
Damn I gotta get out of here.
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Okay, the initial shock has more or less wore off and I'm feeling a bit better. This transfer at work isn't the end of the world- it's just going to have to be the end of my career at this company.
The resume is still a work in progress. I'm also waiting on suggestions from my Dad and step-mother. My step-mother is going to show it to the IT manager where she works and see what he thinks. My brother is going to look at it too and give me his opinion (he works for IBM).
Anyway...
I finished filling out the forms for federal student aid last night. There are two schools I'm looking at: St. Mary's University and University of Texas at San Antonio. I was kind of hoping for St. Mary's because it's right down the road from work, which will be irrelevant if I leave this company but I'm planning on being stuck there for a while. St. Mary's is a lot more expensive than UTSA. I've never applied for federal student aid so I'm not sure how this all works, but I should hear back from them this week or early next.
The other thing I'm going to try to take advantage of while I'm stuck at this job is the tuition reimbursement. The company will actually pay for tuition up-front, but it's a risk. If I fail any courses under that program I have to pay it back and depending on which university I choose, that could be financially disastrous. So if I can get the money to initially start and have them pay me back at the end of the semester I can keep recycling that money each semester. Or who knows? If I can find some side work to do over the summer maybe I can save the money myself.
This part of my education might prove to be a bit easier as I don't have to take any more math courses. I do have to take another physics class so that's going to be fun. Most of it is programming classes and some say it's pretty intense. It's all subjective, I suppose. I need to brush up on everything. I carry a small library with me in the truck and I read whenever I have the chance.
The diet is going well enough I suppose. We've been on it for a little over three weeks now I think, and I'm down slightly over fifteen pounds. My mother-in-law says she can see it in my face.
Happy Monday to all. Hope all is good with everyone. I haven't been the best LJ friend lately, please forgive me. I've gotten pretty weak lately and have allowed things to get the best of me way too often. Thanks for sticking with me (those who have).
EDIT: A slightly belated Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers here.
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I've been transfered back to the gasoline engine testing section. This is one of those things where I'm "on loan for an indefinite time", temporarily permenant, whatever. I don't like this section, I never did and likely never will.
This, I suppose, is God's way of telling me to get the hell out of here. I'm going to try to oblige.
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Well that explains the not-feeling-100% part of yesterday. I caught a cold/flue/something. Just came out of left field somewhere and nailed me last night at work. It's not too bad this morning so I think I can just drug up and limp on into work. I usually don't call in sick unless I'm really feverish or something. That may sound kind of lame, or like I'm trying to give the impression of being a "company man", but it's not like that. I've probably only used around ten or twelve days of sick leave since 1992 when I started at this company. They know that when I call in sick, I'm sick, and they don't question me about it. But see, like last year we had a guy get "injured" about three or four days before Thanksgiving and his doctor signed a note giving him off until around January 3rd. I gotta find that doctor!
In other news, there is no other news. Regrets to my wife for likely keeping her up all night with my coughing and sneezing. They've shut down the Mack lab for the weekend again because there's nothing running in it. It's kind of nice, though, because I leave my lunch there and eat there- a litle peace and quiet.
Right, so now I must go cook again and see what drugs we have in this house that I can take today. Happy Friday!
Edit: I started feeling worse around 2:30 or so, so I called my boss to take aome sick leave. "Oh, no", he said, "I've already comitted to sending you to the gasoline section, you have to come in, they need you!"
I arrived at the gasoline section, the supervisor looked at me and said "What the heck are you doing here? We don't need help!"
I'd go home, but with gas prices so high I can't afford it. I already drove the 35 miles to get here, I'm staying. Bastards.
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Oh how lovely! The bottom left corner of my monitor now seems to be a nice greenish tint! Wonderful, I was getting tired of things working properly around here!
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- I've been working in the gasoline section all week. Well, all month in fact with the exception of a couple of days here and there. It's starting to look a little freaky again. Gasoline engine testing is dropping off now and the transmission testing lab expects to be nearly dead in about two weeks when their current contract is completed.
- Tyler's class went to Sea World today and Ann went with them.
- Allison told me last night that some boy in her class called her a "fat ducky" while they were playing duck duck goose in PE. Dammit I was so afraid of this stuff happening to her! True this kid is a royal pain in the ass anyway, but all it takes is a few of those to ruin a person's school days. She said "Everyone thinks he's great, but he's so mean!"
- I just twisted my monitor around intending to give it a whack on the left side and the green-ness in the corner disappeared. Loose cable I guess. False alarm, carry on.
- I don't know if it's the weather today or this diet we're on, but I don't feel 100% today. I can't even pinpoint what's wrong, I just feel kind of blah. I do know that I really don't feel like cooking today. I feel like I've been working as a chef the last week and a half. I'm down between 10 and 12 pounds.
Alas, if I don't cook I won't have anything to eat, so off I go.
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[29 Apr 2004|11:52am] |
1. Go into your LJ's archives.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
7 May 2001
"He's had his own room for about a month now."
Hehe!
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[27 Apr 2004|11:13am] |
I need to be doing some laundry and a few other things instead of writing in here. Nothing much to write about, really.
We've been on this diet now for a little more than a week. We're both down roughly ten pounds. Not bad, just a long way to go. I've had noticeable weight loss almost every day and now I seem to have stalled. Probably a good thing, though. Too much too fast can't be good. I've heard conflicting opinions as to how much I should lose. By military standards, my minimum weight was 165 and my maximum was 199 (I'm six feet tall) so I was aiming for somewhere in the middle- around 170-175. Some people have told me I should shoot for around 185.
The diet isn't that hard to follow. Some people may not even consider it a diet at all, just eating normally. It's required a lot of changes to my daily routine to account for the time it takes to cook all this stuff. Eggs in the morning, scrambled usually but today hard boiled just for a change. My omelete-making skills seem to have lapsed over the years and they have ended up as scrambled eggs anyway. Turkey-bacon... I have varied opinions about that. No more running to Jack In The Box for lunch, I have to bring something with me. TWO somethings, in fact, because of my work schedule. This usually includes meat of some sort and a vegetable- broccoli is actually a favorite of mine so often it's that.
A few random notes:
- Allison got all As and Bs on her last report card. Definite improvement. She's been kind of emotional lately. Ann had to take one of the smaller kids to class before taking Allison's group to the school and she walked back to the daycare to find Allison crying. She said it was because Ann didn't kiss her goodbye (she didn't know Ann was coming back). These are the things that jump out at me and tell me Allison has a rough road ahead of her. She'll be okay, though. We'll be here to make sure of that.
- I talked to my parents briefly Sunday. They were on their way out to the rodeo in Fresno so I didn't want to keep them too long. Heh, it was a rare weekend that we actually went somewhere like that when I was growing up- now they're always running around to local events like that. Dad was "promoted" in the boyscout group he's involved in- some kind of chairman or something. It's not a paid position, obviously, but he enjoys doing it. He had resuscitated the troop I was in back when I was a kid.
- They told me I should contact my sister as she was having problems with my nephew's teacher very similar to the problems we were having with Allison's. I haven't talked to my sister in probably more than a year. No reason, really, we were just never that close. I might call her later this week.
- I cleared the statistics on one of my online resumes the other day. There's a section on my start page that shows how many times it's come up in a search and how many times it has actually been looked at by employers. For about a week it stayed at 0, 0 respectively but today it shows it's come up 56 times in a search and actually been looked at twice. I'm sure nothing will come of it, but it's nice to know people are looking anyway.
Egad, it's after twelve. I have to get laundry and cooking done.
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