9:00 a.m.
Learning something new is always of interest to an information pack-rat, which might describe me. I’m off this morning to the first (and probably final) session of training on my own time and at my own expense. I will confess that the primary reason I’ve not called them to cancel is that I wonder what the job entails. Always intrigued by new learning opportunities, I just have to find out what it is all about. I don’t trust assumptions, so I’ll suspend disbelief for the morning and see what I find.
And thinking of exploration, Attila and I have decided to go on a road tour late in the autumn. We will pack a tent and some sleeping bags, load up our cooler and our propane stove and head out. I’ll take a break from waiting for calls to work, and Attila will take a break from his six day a week grind. This is the plan. Now that we have a plan we can safely assume that fate will step in to show us who is in charge of the universe; not us I think.
Attila finished the under-the-stair-landing project, so the closet contents can be returned to their proper place. Yesterday Attila also painted one quarter of the soffit and fascia. Rather than climb to the top of a ladder to the top of the second story of the house, Attila bought an extension pole and created two attachments in addition to the roller attachment that came with the pole. One attachment was made from a roller attachment, a BBQ scraper and duct tape; this he used to remove the flaking paint before priming. The other attachment Attila created was made from a roller attachment, a paint brush and duct tape; he used this to paint the small spaces that could not be reached with a roller attachment. Very ingenious and it worked very well indeed.
I’ve been busy with the transition of this site to a WordPress format. I’ll leave it in its present state for now, see how it works before putting any more time into it.
6:00 p.m.
The training session confirmed that the corporation is not willing to provide adequate recompense for the work they want done, at least in my opinion. Too bad, because I really enjoyed the work today, and really liked the woman I would have been working with. If I didn’t need to pay bills and support myself, if I only needed to while away my hours, I definitely would have enjoyed spending time at this job. I turned it down.
I received a letter about the resume I dropped off the other day. They are going to call me to setup an interview in the next few weeks. Maybe this interview is just another learning experience, or maybe it will offer more, we shall see.
We are having a quick spaghetti supper before Attila gets out his extension pole and paint brush again. The soffit and fascia already look better and the job is only partially completed!
Worldly Distractions
Quote
“I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other’s lives.”
Hugh Elliott
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