Overtime

Here it is almost 5:00 am and I am wide awake! Why? Since 3:00 am this morning I’ve been pondering an incident that occurred at work yesterday. I missed an important call, luckily my supervisor in head office caught it, called me and gave me a heads up. I am responsible for dispatching, among hundreds… Continue reading Overtime

Coming up for air…

Before going to work… Lately I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed by the poor management at work, wondering why the supervisor doesn’t just make that return phone call to a customer, show up for that appointment on time etc. At the moment there aren’t any checks and balances taking place on his activities, hope the… Continue reading Coming up for air…

Barely here…

Our Internet connection is abysmal tonight, and has been unreliable and excessively slow all summer. Rogers tells us that there have been no changes, but I know differently. Something has definitely changed. It can take ten minutes for a web page to load, on this high speed connection. Country life, ain’t it grand! We are… Continue reading Barely here…

The New Throne

Attila is hard at work this evening. He waited until I arrived home from work, then offered me my very last chance to grace the old throne. It has been retired, at last, to be replaced with a very inexpensive, low-flow, dual-flush model. Mist does not approve. Mist has a thing about forbidden sources of… Continue reading The New Throne