Sunday

"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
Bernard Baruch

Actually I think it is more like 20.   I haven't written in here for awhile.    I think I have cabin fever or some sort  of restlessness.   I am ready for the leaves to come out and the weather to warm up.     The landscape is so bleak,  in shades of gray and white. 

Work  is a bumer.  There were three pages of the schedule on Friday.   Fridays used to be our slowest day and now is it among the busiest.   Actually they all are busy.   I really am tired of working.   I am planning on decreasing my days down to two a week.  It is a real shame that a person has to work to obtain health insurance.   The government workers get it and I am not only working to pay for theirs but to also pay for mine.   The government workers aren't paying for theirs or mine.   Doesn't seem quite right.

The dtr. was to have symphony rehersal and it was/is freezing rain.   Our elevation here in Pgh is about 1200 feet.   In Johnstown it is about 2800 feet.   So it is about 10 degrees colder there and while it is raining here, it is freezing rain there.   Not work risking ones life over. 

 

Friday

"Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood."
Maya Angelou

I love you Maya.   That is the truth.

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy

I guess these are the people who give others lots of advice.   Like childless people tell parents how to raise their kids.

"You are what you think about all day long."
Robert H. Schuller

I think about how nice it will be to NOT work.

 

 

 

Saturday

It is freezing arse cold.   After two years of not so cold stretches the next few days will be COLD.   I even dug out my parka.   And there is the subject of global warming.   They said that it is projected that PA will have the climate like NC.   Personally I don't see that as a bad thing.   We are about the elevation of 1500 feet and no worries about our shoreline here.   I must make a note to myself not to buy beachfron property.

Sunday

I am so excited.   I have been looking into geneology.   I have info back to my  greatgrandparents and found someone looking intoThomas and Bridget too.    He is John and his grandfather and my grandfather were siblings.   I am really excited to get to meet a relative I didn't know I had.   I asked him if he had pictures, I hope he does.

Still out researching the German side.   I may have found a name of a sister of my grandfather.   The last name is so obscure and I know the first name (Minna) was one of  my great aunts.  It also has listed her father and their grandparents too.  This is exciting if it is verifiable.

Back to work tomorrow.  BahHumbug.  

 

Friday

"What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem."
Eldridge Cleaver

I say TGIF. Some weeks seem like they will never end.  And this was one of them.  Our boss now wants the day light people to be relieved at 2:30.    It is sort of like Communism, it sounds good in theory.......  There are never enough people to relieve and who is to relieve the 10 hour people at 4:30??   I won't hold my breath waiting for that one.   Good news though, I think we will once again have two daily 12 hour people. 

It is honesty a never ending saga.   The plot is the same and only the names change.

Wednesday

Somehow, I thought today was Tuesday.  Maybe it is because I am off.  Chuck had his colonoscopy.  He gave us glossies of the procedure.  Emily said she didn't want to see them, that some things should remain unseen.    I feel that way about anyone above 200 pounds.  

Work is getting worse.   What they need is two people on till 7 pm every day.   The calls are lasting till 11pm and beyond and then the idiots call to start ivs.  Glad I quit taking it.   Two other of the people are thinking about stopping taking call too.   It has become torture.   Psycologically I am ready for three days or two per week.

Wednesday

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
Edmund Burke