Friday, October 25, 2013

Fall is falling

I didn't bother to crop this pic but I love this shot of local flora and fauna. 

The temperature dipped a bit here and everyone I see is wearing sweaters and boots.  It's mid-seventies???? hello...that is NOT cold.  Granted the local paper ran a nice little tale how once you are down south your body begins to shed off the 'comfort layer' (aka fat) and you get cold easier but come on...seventy is seriously not winter weather.  I've lived in icy regions and this isn't one. 

That said...it's nice to have a cool breeze and not have to shower twice a day.

Work is still horrific but now I am thinking...NaNoWriMo....a week away...am I going to cave?  I don't have Word on new laptop but a freeware program ...that said gremlins are chewing at my soul.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fall slowly arriving

One of those odd studies came out this past week saying that rats found Oreo Cookies more favorable than cocaine or morphine.  Had they offered the rats pot first wasn't mentioned to explain the jonsing for cookies.  I didn't have any 'normal' Oreo cookies to picture but oddly enough the new vanilla ones...so there may be something to the story.

As my frequent readers know my life tends to flow in odd circles.  My co-workers die or get fired and as of Thursday get demoted and docked $3 an hour and given a month to become perfect.  Cap it off with a sudden call into a 'meeting' for me at nearly 5 on Friday to say I am not nice enough.  Nothing was said about the JOB I am PAID to do.  Just that I get snippy?  Anyone else find that totally stupid?
I already am privy to some of the changes coming up this week so I figure it is a preemptive strike in case I get upset.  I didn't do the stupid things that resulted in the changes causing these folks to be fired and demoted and actually warned the folks it was going to get ugly so I can't speak to that.  I was asked by one of the gals in the mix to head to HR and tell them how horrid my working environment was.  Ah, hello to the no?  I lived through more than one bad job.  Granted I need to add in that it didn't end well for any of the others who've done that in the past four months.  I like my job it pays my bills but this is pretty ugly.
This is the pretty side of my job.  The right hand side of the monopole cell tower my company owns has an osprey nest.  With the protection laws there is limited time to remove the nest.  They missed the window this year from what I heard and the Sprint network rents that platform and can't do any work on it.  You can't see but there are small green parrots called Quaker Birds here that were pelting us with seeds below.  I like that my company keeps track of nature.




Friday, October 4, 2013

October Falling around

With the current state of my job I am taking Fridays off when I get a chance.  This morning I actually went outside before dawn and went two blocks over to catch the sunrise.  Naturally I took a ton of pictures and peppered Sand with them as well as putting them in cyber.  The rest of the day I spent cleaning the house.  Yeah, silly me wasting such a gorgeous day inside - but I still have Saturday and Sunday!  Cleaning hardwood floors and the bathroom and kitchen takes time. 

Still don't think I am doing NaNo but then I've said that before and November first hits and I can't resist.  So we will see.  Until then let's see if that Tropical Storm is going to rain out the rest of my weekend.