It's snowing. It started about noon. We were on the edge saying that we could get around 2". Now' we're in a winter weather warning and might get 5". It's looking like it will be a white Christmas after all.
I'm sorry Web, but I am so grateful I don't live in Nebraska.
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The rural power calendar was in my mailbox today. It's made up of photos submitted by customers. I gave them a few of my photos thinking they MIGHT pick one to use. I somehow ended up with three separate months (May, June, & July), and a lightning photo on the back. They must have been hurting for submissions this year.
The rural power calendar was in my mailbox today. It's made up of photos submitted by customers. I gave them a few of my photos thinking they MIGHT pick one to use. I somehow ended up with three separate months (May, June, & July), and a lightning photo on the back. They must have been hurting for submissions this year.
Nope, your pictures are just that good.
Agreed.
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Okay, so someone help me think please. I am finishing up my letter to my boss about a promotion and a raise. In rolloing through thoughts and ideas, I think I need to answer the question of "How would this promotion benefit the company?" I honestly don't know that I have an answer. I am approaching things a little different this time. Ther biggest one is putting everything in writing and I will be sending it via email. Sadly, being a salaried employee, I already do so much "free" work that it doesn't really benefit the company to give me the promotion. While I am working on that, it hasn't been felt or even noticed yet. I don't want it to seem threatening that if they don't give the promotion that I will not be working more than 40 hours a week even though that is exactly what I am going for. I wanted to have this completed this past weekend so I could submit it on Monday. Obviously I didn't get to it and I was too busy to actually do it while at work. Now the holidays are here and all three of us (me, my boss and our boss) are done for the year after tomorrow. I really need to get this done two weeks ago when they started kicking around the budgets. The budgets aren't complete yet and now is a good time to get the promotion worked into the budget.
How would you guys answer the question?
Mema - surely you have had some experience with the correct bs words. Any sentences or phrases that I could borrow?
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Not really. I have a lot of freedom. And I already do a lot of the duties and responsibilities that a manager level would do. I think that is what is making it hard for me to answer. It is not like I have a lot to step up to. I'm not sure it would grant me any more freedom and it would be up to my boss to make the decision as to whether he would give me more crap off his desk.
If anyone wants to read my draft let me know. It isn't like I have another set of eyes her that could do it for me.
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Good day, all. Here we are at Thursday, the eve of "the end of the world" according to they Mayans, Nostradamus, and a few others. I busted out some more Christmas shopping yesterday, and now am down to just the last few presents I need to come up with. Today is very cold, windy, and snowing... and the day before payday... so I will be spending my day baking and wrapping presents. After all, at the end of the world someone should be serving some high quality baked good. That is my view of things anyway.
I was told yesterday that the official Christmas celebration for my side of the family will be held Saturday evening. This leaves me with the unanticipated connundrum of what to do for the actual day of Christmas. Of course there will be (I assume) Christmas morning at my house with the kids and grandkids, then a visit to my mother in law. It is the rest of the day I don't know what to do with. Usually after visiting the MIL, I go over to my mom's house for Christmas with my family. I guess I will figure out something for dinner and scale accordingly with whomever is or is not here. Oh... there is another winter storm supposedly moving in on me for Christmas Eve / Christmas Day... so there is that to concern over.
Web... great job by you for getting 3 months of the calendar. I'm with the others in that it is just that you took some fabulous pictures.
Mz... I feel for your work related misery. It would be so much nicer if people would bother with the details in advance.
Fuzzy... without reading the letter, it is hard to phrase a sentence or more. For the last paragraph, I'd probably go with a summary of the aforementioned points as to the value that you provide to the company, then something about how the company's greatest asset is happy employees who are proud to represent the organization as an employer who people should want to work for. Reasonable compensation for the value that your have demonstrated and in fact have already provided is part of that job satisfaction. Good luck to you! I'm more or less considering how to pull off the same thing. Knowing my people, I'll probably have to resort to slightly harsher tactics than letter writing. Might be time for me to pull the not-so-subtile, "Ya know, I could really screw you over by leaving..." again. It has been several years since I last did that.
Let's everybody try to have a great day!
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Sorry Fuzzy, I'm not very wordy. "I need to be compensated for the work I do here, or I'll find another company willing to make it worth my time."
I took the calendar home and Mrs Web looked at it. She said "Oh yeah, I saw Carol (the lady at the power company in charge of the calendar) at the grocery store and she asked for your number. She said the gal she's working with at the printer wants to call you to talk to you about getting some of your stuff printed on canvas and for sale." So who knows how serious this lady is, or if she'll follow through, but you never know.
I'm glad I took the calendar home to jog my wife's memory enough to tell me about that conversation.
Well, in case the Mayans were right and the world ends tomorrow, I just wanted to say it's been great knowing you all. I consider you all to be in my best of friends and I've enjoyed having you in my life. No matter what happens tomorrow, the spirit of FFR will live well past the earth's expiration . . . ok, maybe not, but it sounded good!
Oh yeah . . . and we ended up with 2" of snow. School was a 10:00am start but Mrs Web's home office (Near Omaha) is out of power and closed, so she's got a "work from home" day. Getting off a day early gives her 12 days of not having to go back in to work.
Right back atcha, Web! It has been an honor and a privilege to call each of you my friend.
I'm pretty sure there will be a Saturday, but I'm having my own little "end of the world" party anyway. There will be cookies and margaritas!
Gonna guess that there are a couple inches of snow out there for me too. I've not yet seriously pondered moving it anywhere. It is supposed to be 39* for the high tomorrow, and 44* (or possibley 1250* with fireballs falling from the sky) on Saturday. I'm guessing it will melt off quickly.
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M - come on over to my Mom's for dinner on Christmas. It won't be fancy and there will be a lot of people around so we could run off to hide and drink.
Web - thanks for thise words. I so want to say that but can't. If I had somewhere to go I would do that. The last time I tried something close to that my boss actually asked me why I am still here. :/
"Ya know, I could really screw you over by leaving..." is another good one. My boss knows it (and has said he knows he is in trouble if it were to happen) but I don't think the bigger boss understands it. Again, it would be perfect if I actually had somewhere to go.
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Agreed Web! You guys are the best bunch of friends I've never met! Yeah, I'm being silly, but it really is true. You're better friends than many people that I've known my whole life.
I think we would be a neat group and a lot of fun to habg out with if we were all closer to another.
Does anyone know this supposed time the world implodes? I mean, will it be midnight tonight, midnight buy the end of the 21st or could it be anywhere in between? I was just wondering so I can plan my drinking, eating, bad dancing and even worse singing appropriately.
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I was on vacation a whole 30 minutes before my boss called me this morning. He was a little freaked because he received two emails in about an hour for somthing he has no idea how to do. It is odd because they have never forwarded them these requests before when I have been off. I guess being gone two billing cycles had them concerned. I told him what was acceptable and to leave the stuff that didn't have an impact on a state with local income taxes. And a thank you to those unknowing two coworkers that once again helped proved my point of he is in trouble if I leave since he has no idea about some of the things I do all day. Now if I could just get him to convince our boss of the same thing. Of course I can hear it now. The bigger boss would ask why my boss doesn't know how to do it. And then promptly say that there are only two of us so he should know how to do it.
Okay, now let's go out into the cloudiness and try to get errands completed before it starts raining again today.
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Treasure that rain now Fuzzy. That's what it was like here yesterday, and now there's a couple inches of snow on the ground. Of course, tons of people are using this as an excuse to take the day off. It's a whole 2" of snow, and the roads are clear. But I'm glad, hopefully that means less people will bother me today.
Oh, and Happy Solstice and Merry End of the Word everyone! I really hope the world doesn't end while I'm at work.
I would certainly try to use that somehow, Fuzzy. Your first day of break and they already need you there.
When we got the snow, it had been fairly nice the day before so the ground was warm which melted the snow, then the air got cold and the melting snow, and snow pack turned the roads to ice. Interstate 80 was still closed pretty much all the way across Nebraska even still yesterday. They would open it, and it would soon be so covered with so many accidents, they had to close it right back down. I saw several fender-bender accidents here in town too.
It's sunny today, but cold. It was 3° when I got up, now it's up to 14°.
We've hadplenty of rain this fall. It never did rain again yesterday. Just looked like it. But we had so much between dinnertime Thursday night and whenever it stopped over night that the creek and river were high. I think I saw we had 1.5 inches. Since I can look out past the backyard and no longer see the water in the creek, I'd say we are doing better. Yesterday we started with the wind that you guys had Mz. Today it is here full force. I had no plans to go out today just because of the cold and wind. I did my running around yesterday. Now dumbass has made reservations for dinner tonight and I have to be dressed nicely. Grrr. I told him yesterday I had no plans to leave the house today.
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Oh, and Mz, you know the boss told me about his snow yesterday too. He said it had been around 50* the day before and then he got the snow. But he wasn't really sure how much since the wind blew it around everywhere.
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My snow has melted, twice. We had snow on Christmas Eve for the first time in years. It was around an inch. It was heavy so it made for good snowballs. It hung around long enough until it warmed up on Christmas Day. Then yesterday we had some afternoon snow. Maybe a half an inch and that only lasted until the sleet arrived and then the temps rose, changed everything to rain and washed everythign away. Today it is still cold and windy. I think we are due for some more snow on Saturday.
I ventured out today to the bank to make a deposit. About once a quarter or maybe only three times a year, I take the change from my piggy bank and put it into the bank. It is not my main account. That bank is a credit union that is an hour away. I setup this account at a local credit union simply for somewhere close by to take my change and any odd rebate checks or tax prep checks. It is a nice little savings account. The past few years I had taken some Christmas shopping money from it. Since I did quite a bit of online shopping this year, I didn't rob that account for spending money. Of course, I stopped and bought a soft pretzel first. I have wanted one for a while now so I fixed that craving. After the bank I went over to Lowes to pick up humidifier filters I ordered. I also found my mom's birthday present - a lighted palm tree. Okay, so her birthday isn't until late July, but she needs it. Yes, there is a story behind it. But anyway, whatever palm tress have to do with Christmas I don't know. Nonetheless, it was on clearance and 50% off so I bought it. She'll love it.
I am trying to decide whether to bore myself with more CPE credits today or to maybe start tackling the editing of my book. Anyone want to come over and play?
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Fuzzy, you want some of our snow? We've got 13" of the stuff.
We used to use a palm tree as our Christmas tree, because we'd rather be in a palm tree environment for Christmas than a pine tree one. So maybe that's the connection.
Now now Mz. You know I don't want any of it. When my boss called yesterday (yes, that's right the boss called again yesterday) he wasn't exactly sure how much he had since some of it was blowing all over the place. I think I'll go find some room to straighten up. There are some clothes in the bedroom that need to be dealt with as they are simply lying around doing nothing.
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Happy Friday . . . I think. Isn't it Friday? I'm not sure any more.
I woke up sick Christmas morning. Finally today, I think the fever is going down. I bounced around from 101-103 for three days, along with congestion, coughing, aches, the whole works. I think I'm starting to actually feel a little better. Hopefully I will be "one and done" for sickness this season.
I called the doctor this morning and talked to a nurse to see if they thought I should go in. She said that there was nothing they could do to help yet at this point. She said if it settles in my throat as Bronchitis, or down into my chest, then I could go in for antibiotics. She said to just stay on the Tylenol, keep eating, and stay hydrated.
The flu is fighting back tonight and I feel worse again, but I'm still optimistic that it's getting better.
I have to break this go to be a little late and sleep in cycle I am in. It will hurt trying to get up for work on Wednesday morning. For now I am up, showered, dressed, had breakfast, checked my email, have a load of laundry in the dryer and the oven is self cleaning. I will go do my grocery shopping a bit later. So, now that it is 11am, what else should we do?
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Yes, I'm doing much better, thanks. I still have a battle with congestion, but the fever is gone. I still can't do much without getting winded. I was able to get the lights down from outside this morning, so that's done.
Mrs Web has it now . . . I'm even less popular than before.
I'm thinking that I am going to do (or try to do) another photo-a-day thing this year. It was somewhat of a drag to get through when I did it before, but I missed the "push" to try to find something to take a pic of.
I'm going to do it a little different this year:
I will probably just post them to an album on FaceBook.
I'm not going to be so anal about the photo needing to be taken and posted that same day. I may "bank" 4-5 on a weekend and them post them throughout the week. I did that with a few events and holidays last time but for the most part they were all taken and posted the same day. That is where most of the stress comes from.
I'm also going to focus more on details. I got a set of "macro extension tubes". They are hollow tubs that fit between the camera and lens to make the lens further from the camera. This allows the lens to focus on things much more closely than without for very close-up, detailed shots.
Happy New Year's Eve everybody! I'm making the family dinner as we speak. Personally, I will be glad to put 2012 in the rear view mirror. Hoping 2013 will bring better things.
It is snowing here. Started early this morning and is supposed to go on all night. It looks to me like there is only about an inch or so out there right now. I think we are supposed to be in for possibly up to 4 inches.
I'm glad to hear you are feeling better, Web. The flu is a misery.
Mz... hope you have yourself a wonderful rest of the day.
Cheers, everybody!
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