It's amazing what a week away from insanity can do.......... Yes I'm back from NY and visiting the family. Coming back on the MA Turnpike was and will always be a enlightening experience and will someone please let MA Highway know it's NOT NICE to make 495 into a one lane road at 1:30 pm... Sheesh... Bout got myself smacked up due to drivers not paying attention to what the heck was going on.
I had a friend of mine who asked me what had changed with me since I returned .... I simply smiled and said " a NY getaway"... See this is where I pull myself together all at the same time avoiding a certain in law who always loves to pick a fight. I don't do Upstate NY in the winter SUV or not.... Theres just too many what if's and I don't want to risk waiting in a snowbank waiting for NYSP to find their way out to tell me I need a tow truck.
Also on a positive note..... My Wii Fit arrived !!!!!! A few weeks back I was on a mad search trying to track one down... I got a deal with my Wii and really didn't want to spend the amount that I had seen for them so I waited....Then word came out about the Circuit City's,Best Buys, Game Shops having them for $90 bucks give or take a few pennies..... That made the task at hand more difficult..... A few days before vacation a pop up ad came up for Cir City and I checked it.... Heck they'd send it to my house hehe....Thanks Circuit City great job......
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Passports and tranquility
Mental health days are those in which remind me of playin hookie from High School.... Ok Ok I did it legit filled out the paperwork over the weekend after realizing that waitin till the actual vacation to get the day off would not be a wise choice. My sincere thanks to dear ole' Christopher Columbus for letting me get the day off paid a day late. :)
Me and the S/O have decided to take a trip. Now I totally get the idea of the way the finances are in the world are at this moment but it will not "break my bank" so to speak.... The one thing I've learned is that applying for a passport one does truly feel that big brother truly does want to know EVERYTHING about you...
It's a combination XMass and Birthday Present for me... Going to PDC in Mexico in December and that my dear friends will be "heaven"
Ok time to fly gotta get some stuff done around my office and mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe play some Wii....
Me and the S/O have decided to take a trip. Now I totally get the idea of the way the finances are in the world are at this moment but it will not "break my bank" so to speak.... The one thing I've learned is that applying for a passport one does truly feel that big brother truly does want to know EVERYTHING about you...
It's a combination XMass and Birthday Present for me... Going to PDC in Mexico in December and that my dear friends will be "heaven"
Ok time to fly gotta get some stuff done around my office and mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe play some Wii....
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Budgets and Public Safety
"sigh"
I know as I have read many different news articles throughout the US about staffing in EMS,Fire,Police and the axe that the various state government officials use to trim budgets.
What irritates me the most is that the powers that be in Government feel that Public Safety needs touched. Now I understand that with todays economy yeah we're all hurting. But its the Public Safety folks that will loose funding to provide the services that John Q Public needs.
I realize though too being in my profession a Campus Police Dispatcher it's a wee bit different than "Big City's" 911 comm center. But at least Big City's administration knows that it takes more than one dispatcher to handle calls. I realized that those who I would have vented too would have given me the party line of "it's in the budget it's just pending approval getting a extra body to help"..... The question I really wanted to ask..... "Will I get the help in 15 plus years when I can collect full retirement?"...
My fear as well as the rest of my co-workers is that being short staffed when hell breaks loose doesn't mix very well. It's a situation where we all know in order to be heard change needs to take place and enough of the fluff and false promises that come with it...
I realized too that I have been working a lot. Some of it by my own making and some of it knowing if I didn't work I would be forced too..... I know that in 2 weeks I will be going out of state to visit the family which will recharge my batteries a bit.... When I think about that weeks worth of vacation I realize as well that the World Series will be going on and if the Sox make it maybe I will miss at least a few days of the chaos if the student body at Nameless U decides to have it's yearly riot celebration...
With the upcoming Obama/McCain debate #2 being tonite. I truly have come to the decision that I may not vote.... I hear a lot being said but when it comes to the mud balls being tossed by both camps I think of it being childish and equate it to a school yard bully match.... Theres simply too much hot air and no real ideas on how to fix what needs fixed.
Enough venting for now.
I know as I have read many different news articles throughout the US about staffing in EMS,Fire,Police and the axe that the various state government officials use to trim budgets.
What irritates me the most is that the powers that be in Government feel that Public Safety needs touched. Now I understand that with todays economy yeah we're all hurting. But its the Public Safety folks that will loose funding to provide the services that John Q Public needs.
I realize though too being in my profession a Campus Police Dispatcher it's a wee bit different than "Big City's" 911 comm center. But at least Big City's administration knows that it takes more than one dispatcher to handle calls. I realized that those who I would have vented too would have given me the party line of "it's in the budget it's just pending approval getting a extra body to help"..... The question I really wanted to ask..... "Will I get the help in 15 plus years when I can collect full retirement?"
My fear as well as the rest of my co-workers is that being short staffed when hell breaks loose doesn't mix very well. It's a situation where we all know in order to be heard change needs to take place and enough of the fluff and false promises that come with it...
I realized too that I have been working a lot. Some of it by my own making and some of it knowing if I didn't work I would be forced too..... I know that in 2 weeks I will be going out of state to visit the family which will recharge my batteries a bit.... When I think about that weeks worth of vacation I realize as well that the World Series will be going on and if the Sox make it maybe I will miss at least a few days of the chaos if the student body at Nameless U decides to have it's yearly riot celebration...
With the upcoming Obama/McCain debate #2 being tonite. I truly have come to the decision that I may not vote.... I hear a lot being said but when it comes to the mud balls being tossed by both camps I think of it being childish and equate it to a school yard bully match.... Theres simply too much hot air and no real ideas on how to fix what needs fixed.
Enough venting for now.
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