It rains off and on but there are not a lot of times when it is not raining. Sometimes, very very hard. I took Anna to the train station the other day and when I went past one of the flooded creeks, the walkway down near the creek was almost under water. When I came back, you could only see the handrails. It was completely under water. And it happened in only about 10 minutes, the water rose about 4 feet in that time. It doesn't reach the road but the creek is the same creek that goes back around to the shopping center and that whole field was flooded. There is a skate park there and you could not see any of that either.
Where we are, there is a creek but it never seems to flood that much. It gets pretty high and we are about 20 metres from it but it is very deep and it has never gotten close to overflowing. You would think it would but at that point, it comes to about 5 feet below the bridge, which is about 5 feet lower than we are. Hard to describe but it is downhill to the creek and if it were the overflow there, it would block us in but it would be a real flood if it were to ever reach our house. Probably about 20 metres deep if that happened. So we don't worry. Although, our front yard floods all the time but that is because it is rimmed by concrete and there is only one little escape for the water, until it gets so full it overflows the concrete. Probably only about 3 or 4 inches deep and slightly sloped so only half of it floods.
On other notes, Juanita came back last night.
I have been away from my desk for a couple of hours so I am not sure where I was. Let me try to catchup.
Juanita came back. She was supposed to be in around 10:00 last night but her flight was delayed in Hobart for two hours. So she didn't get here until around 1:00 am. We didn't get home until after 2:00 am. I had to come to work at 8:30 this morning so I didn't get much sleep. I woke up at 7:00 and it takes an hour and a half to get here so I was late. But, with the crap I have walked into here, I am glad I was late and now I am hoping to leave early, in about an hour or so. It is just really messed up here and I have no idea where to begin to fix it, plus they have their IT support working on things so I don't know where they are or what they are doing so I just am waiting on someone to tell me what to do.
And, to top it all off, they are in lockdown here. Or half the buildings are in lockdown and you have to go around all the buildings that have Covid and come in from the outside instead of walking through the buildings to get to where you want to go. So I am doing nothing until someone tells me where to go and what to do. I have worked on several problems here locally, fixing printers, adding users, general make work, but none of the big issues are being addressed by me. I am leaving it up to them to figure out when and where they need me. Probably get me fired from this job but I am tired of not knowing what they want, what they have changed and what they want me to do about it when it doesn't work. I don't know how it worked in the first place and I certainly do not know what changed and how that would affect the work they do. Plus, with Covid everywhere, they are severely short staff, so no one has the time to sit around and explain to me what the actual problems are.
So, I think you get the picture and I hope you enjoyed that rant. I have a lot more to say about it but it is too frustrating to continue.
The kids have been out of school the last two days. Mainly, they are blaming the rain but it has not closed any of the schools or the roads to the schools so that is not a good excuse. Since we were out so late last night, they did not go today even though I had to go to work. I hope they are learning something from the example I am trying to set. I want them to see that you have to go to work to support your family no matter what. You do not get to take the day off and you do not get to sit at home and do nothing and expect things to get taken care of. I know they have really bad examples at home of what they should not be doing but I am trying to give them the real example of what it means to be an adult and not everyone gets to sit around and let others take care of it. You do it because it has to be done and no one owes you anything. It is up to you to make what you can and do what you have to do.
But again, another rant that means nothing. I just want William to see what I think it means to be a man and to have a family that needs to be taken care of. You do what you have to do and you do not look to others to do it for you. I hope he gets it. I do not say anything but I hope he sees it and realises what it is I do.
Maeghan, on the other hand, can look for someone else to do it for her. I hope she learns to do everything herself and I know she is trying but there are a lot of things she takes for granted and it should be up to her to take care of it. I don't think she is getting it but Maeghan is the smart one, of the family I don't just mean of her an William. She should be able to figure it out and do what needs to be done. Having a handicap makes it hard but she is trying and I feel confident she will figure it out once she has to figure it out. Hopefully, before I have my health become a really big burden for the family. I am hoping for another ten years so they will truly be adults by then and have their own lives and their own priorities and hopes and plans. I just want to know they can take care of themselves before I can no longer do it for them.
Maeghan tells me she is going to have a show at school, or her class is. They will be showing all the artwork they have been doing. I am not sure if it is a public showing or just for the school or what it is but it will be in a couple of weeks and we are looking forward to seeing it when it happens. I am still not sure what the class she is taking is for. It would seem they are just learning how to do different art forms like painting and sculpture and other things. I don't see where it leads, though. Maeghan can already draw and she can paint if she wants to so what is it they are trying to teach her. I don't know. Maybe it leads to something but I am not so sure.
William has started doing his athletics course. Not sure what that one is either, but he has been doing construction type things on Wednesdays and the athletics thing is also on Wednesdays. I don't know if he knew he was supposed to go to both but now they have him doing athletics in the morning and construction in the afternoon. I don't know what they lead to either. I know the construction work is supposed to give him a certificate II or III and that will help with getting a job, although he will have no practical experience when it ends so I am not sure if anyone will hire someone fresh out of the classroom. Maybe it will. I really hope so.
The athletics things I thought was supposed to teach them how to teach and be PE instructors or something but all I ever here him say they do is work out at a local gym. I do not know what they were doing at the beginning when he wasn't going but now, they take them to the gym on the bus and they workout for a couple of hours and then they come back. Or, at least, that is what he tells us they do. He likes it but I don't see the point. Shouldn't there be some kind of instruction involved or something. I know for the construction stuff, he is doing what he calls paperwork right now in that he is filling in forms and stuff and learning the terminology for things but there does not seem to be that kind of stuff in the other class. It is all very strange to me.
Since I have been working almost all full time for the past two months, there might be a lot going on that I am not aware of but I don't think so. I know Juanita says anything that has to do with paperwork or instructions or something, I have to take care of it. Since I do not see any or do not have the time, I don't know what I might be missing or what I might not have done. Eventually, maybe I will catch up.
I do start another six week job next week that is substituting for someone on a helpdesk. In fact, I just got the phone call explaining what is involved in the job. Pretty much the same thing I do here, in that I walk around and see what the problems are and try to fix them. Six weeks, two days a week. Maybe a bit more if needed but it will be up to me apparently. It sounds easy enough but we will see when I get there.
I also have these Bendigo jobs that I keep getting asked to do. Each is short and easy but I have to find a way to work them into my schedule and the users schedule and since the users are usually impossible to get a hold of, they linger out there waiting for me to do them for weeks at a time. Not a good way to do business but now that I will have permanent work three days a week for a while, it makes it even harder to get to them.
Now that I have gone on again with no real content, I need to start thinking of ways to make things funny again. I sometimes go back and re-read some of my old entries and I used to be funny. It seems that part of this have left me and all I ever do anymore is complain and be grumpy. I think I might be old. Seems like it sometimes. Then I just think of all the things I can no longer do and that makes it better. Or was it worse. I get confused and can't tell the difference anymore.
I suppose I should be going home now to see Juanita. Only saw her for a few minutes last night and not at all this morning as they were all sleeping when I left. Maybe they will be happy when I get home and I do not have to carry that burden of making it fun for everyone this weekend. It's a big job but someone has to do it. They are not happy on their own that is for sure. Maybe we will go somewhere this weekend, if the rain ends and I find some money somewhere. I'd like to just go on a picnic or something. Don't really care about the beach but if we go to one that has a nature area behind the beach where I can sit and cook or relax, then the beach is where it is. Not sure if we will make that or not. Maybe a couple of sandwiches and some drinks and chips. Don't spend any money except for a coffee at a café. Sounds pretty good right now but I will probably be too tired and there is way too much to do at home, like mow the grass, weed the garden, wash the clothes, clean up the dog poop in the yard. If it is sunny, they that is what I will have to do but if it looks like rain but does not actually rain, maybe we can go out. It is beginning to look like a plan.
But it all starts with me getting out of here. I am hoping to sneak out soon. Get away before they capture me in here with their non-solvable problems. It might be a good time for me to make my escape.
So, until next time
Later
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