Now, where is here. This is the RAMS jobs. I am moving people from one version of office to another. Not really complicated if it works. A real pain if it does not. And since I have no access to anything, I have to rely on the others to fix problems. So, most of my time is spent waiting for them to fix something. A job that might take 30 minutes per computer can take several hours per computer. I used to wait and do one at a time, but now, I do as many as I can at a time, so I am not sitting around. Gets confusing, but it goes faster.
But on with the show.
Today is Juanita's birthday. Since I am working and not sure how long I will be, we have planned things for tomorrow. Today, again depending on when I finish, I will decide what to get for dinner and whether we are going out of not. I have several possibilities but will wait to see how much time I have before I decide. I could do shrimp tonight; Juanita will enjoy that. Or I could do pork knuckles. She likes those but that means I have to go to Costco, which is always a pain. Or I could just make something from the leftover pork I cooked last night. It will depend on how much time I have and whether I am tired or not. I am always tired, so that is a given, but sometimes I am not tired enough to fall asleep as soon as I get home so I can spend some time cooking. Pork knuckles would be easiest for her, everyone else will have leftovers. As Costco, you can them already cooked so all you have to do it stick them in the oven until they are hot. Shrimp will require a sauce and again, everyone else will have to have leftovers. The other possibility is going out for dinner. Can't take everyone but if I can get away with only us and the kids, that might be good. Takes away from tomorrow, but maybe not. Depends on where we go and how much I spend on it.
We gave her the presents this morning. I got her a Christmas decoration. A light up Disney train. She knew I had it so it wasn't a surprise. William gave her some dress or something she had picked out when he had money. Maeghan gave her a whole bunch of things. At doll, an ornament, a mirror and some scratchy tickets. Not a lot for a birthday but since we are old, I don't expect a lot. I think she does, so I will have to get her something else on the way home. For sure, a card, but maybe something else to go along with it.
Tomorrow, we plan of going to the beach and having fish and chips. She likes the beach. Not sure where we are going, probably Redcliffe or Suttons Beach. That is where we usually go. I might try a different spot but don't want to waste a lot of time driving around and we know those beaches, so we know where everything is. There are some better places, or different places, not far from there but you can't sit at the beach and have fish and chips. The fish and chip places are off the beach across the street. It's better shaded there but you can barely see the water.
I started this entry more than a week ago but am just now getting back to finishing it. I have no idea where I was or what I was going to say. I do not have the opportunity to do this at work anymore, so I have to find the time at home, probably on the weekends. I am typing rapidly in here now, hoping the person I am supposed to meet is late. It is already 15 minutes past when he was supposed to be here, so he could arrive at any moment. But let's press on.
I turned in my card for this place, I am at the care facility again just to train the new guy or show him around. Hoping not to have to work a lot but they have assigned some tickets to me that they want me to do today, so I might not get to leave early. I told them I would not be back, so I turned in my card, but now I am back so we will try to make the best of it. Problem is, I never learned everyone's name, only being here once a week made it hard to remember as I work a lot of different places and I can never remember anything anyway. So, introducing the new guy presents a problem as they all know me, but I will just have to say, here is new guy and not tell him who they are. And I have already said goodbye to everyone, so they are not expecting me today anyway. It is a problem but one I only have to worry about for another few hours, if I can sneak out.
So let's get back to whatever it was or is I am going to talk about. One thing I have to get off my chest is this thing with Black Friday. I know it is after Thanksgiving but everywhere I go for the last week, I get bombarded by these Black Friday specials and Black Friday events. It is everywhere, all the time and it is not really on Black Friday. It has been happening for three weeks now. All the time, everywhere I go. I have to say, YOU PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT BLACK FRIDAY IS. STOP TELLING EVERYONE IT IS BLACK FRIDAY AND STOP MAKING IT AN EVENT THAT YOU ACTUALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT.
Too harsh? Probably. But hey, Black Friday is an American thing. It has to do with Thanksgiving and no other country has a Black Friday after Thanksgiving. Canada is the only other country that actually has a Thanksgiving and theirs is in a different month and they do not have Black Friday. SO, STOP IT. IT IS ANNOYING. And my efforts to explain it to anyone gets real old real fast. I tried to explain Thanksgiving to people when I first came over here. They never got it. They think it has some religeous reason or something to do with American wars or something. I say it is a celebration of the harvest but they say what harvest or what occasion is it. I gave up on trying many years ago. I think I have mentioned that is was always my favorite holiday in America, more so than even Christmas, but when you say that, it is kind of blasphemy here as Christmas is everything and Easter is a close second. Saying Thanksgiving is a better holiday gets you disapproving looks, so I have stopped saying that.
The new guy showed up. I have been away for several hours. I want to go into more things, like Juanita's birthday, Maeghan's last day of school, William's lack of attendance and all the things the other people living with us are doing, but I have no idea when I will be able to get back to this. So I am going to leave it at this, with the Thanksgiving/Black Friday only half done. (I have a lot more to say about it.) I will see if I can do this type of thing at my new job but it might be a while before I get back to it, so hold on and I will talk to you as soon as I can.
Remember
It will all be ok in the end, and if it’s not ok, then it’s not the end.
Until next time,
Later
PS. I need to figure out a way to create a macro that enters these last few lines automatically. 200 entries later, it is about time I did something like that as I like to end them all the same way.
