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Submitted by Rags on Mon, 09/04/2023 - 7:39pm

I am heading East to visit my parents for a week or two and to go to my 40th HS reunion after my Opthalmologist appt on the 28th.

Mom has a list of yard crap she wants dad and I to do.

Ugh....

Of course... I will submit to the lawn torture.  Though I will give my mother a load of crap.

A nice anniversary weekend.

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Submitted by Rags on Tue, 08/01/2023 - 3:23pm

We headed to Lake Havasu for our anniversary on Saturday after our IP appointment and weigh in.  We both cut most of our Hawaii vacation food fest. 

A couple of hours drive, a nice weekend, a kiss on London Bridge on our 29th anniversary, nice meals.  We will make this a do over for a  short weekend trip going forward. Probably not in the summer though.  116*F is a bit toasty.  Not even hot based on the temps we lived in Qatar and Saudi.  But no doubt toasty.

Fortunatly that was only on Saturday.  Sun and Mon were a dozen degrees cooler.  

O/T - But crooked assed idiots piss me off.

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Submitted by Rags on Fri, 07/28/2023 - 7:07pm

We sold our home last month.  I informed our Lawn Service that we would no longer engage their Services after EOM June.  I left them a V-mail.

Today, I got a text from them to pay my bill. I checked PayPal...they revised a bill adding $100 for July services to the June bill.  They do not invoice consistently. I had not yet gotten a notification of the invoice.

I am a free agent.... work wise.

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Submitted by Rags on Mon, 06/26/2023 - 11:33pm

DW and I flew back  after a week of prep to sell our TX home late last night.  Just as I turned out the light after midnight, I got a meeting notification from my employer for this AM.

 So, I started my first, and last day of work, back from a week off, with my daily morning team leadership meeting, delegated my later 09:00 mtg, and, called into the meeting related to the late night meeting notification.

O/T Never in my life... but maybe now.

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Submitted by Rags on Sat, 06/17/2023 - 9:11pm

I have never quit a job without having another with a Start Date.  I have been RIFd, I have been displaced due to acquistion when my business became redundant, I have been displaced due to my busness being sold to another company. I have never been terminated for cause, nor have I ever resigned just because the situation was no longer tolerable to me.

A Friday from hell.

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Submitted by Rags on Fri, 06/16/2023 - 8:54pm

My direct boss is on vacation defending his Master's thesis.  My customer boss has jumped in hip deep on a report presentation that I have been back and forth clarifying with the Ops director's designee for two weeks. 

First, he blew a gasket on the format of the report.  He was not happy when he got angry about the format only to find out... he had provided the format in a presentation he made.... on Tuesday.

Biggrin

Missed it by ..... half a point.

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Submitted by Rags on Sat, 06/10/2023 - 6:15pm

His mom and I caught up with SS-30 recently.  We are coordinating an upcoming vacation to Kauai.  Next month he will be going with us for a week.  We are all excited about it. We have not had a family vacation together in a number of years.

The USAF E-7 line number promotion list just came out.... SS was not on it.  This is his first cut at E-7.  He missed a line number.... by half a point.

O/T He's ba-ack!

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Submitted by Rags on Wed, 06/07/2023 - 1:01am

But better.  A bit of humility, more cognizant of people.  

He has had a learning journey since he transferred 6mos ago.  He got his ass kicked out of the facility he was leading, about lost his job, and it was by the skin of his teeth that he got me and my customer to take him back. I told him one twitch of inappropriate and he was done.

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