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Very busy this month. I have a staffing gap until the first week in August having had one of my (two) officers transfer out as scheduled. I planned to cover his job (visas) and let the other still-new officer continue to cover american citizen stuff. What I wasn't counting on was a double homicide which has kept him out of the office for most of the past week, and occupied with that (and a couple of natural causes death cases) when he was in the office. So I'm covering, essentially, for three officers, only one of whom is myself.
My messy desk is developing another sedimentary layer. The bottom layer appears to be undergoing the necessary heat and pressure to produce diamonds, which is nice.
My boss is leaving at the end of the month, his replacement won't get here until a bit later.
There really isn't a system to allow a decent handover of responsibilities in this business. Of course, except for relief-in-place handovers in a combat zone, the military is just as bad at this.
The weather has been much better since T/S Arthur dumped something like 10 inches of rain overnight and drowned more than a half-dozen people in the southern part of the country. There was nearly one American fatality due to the flooding and, during some subsequent heavy rains and flooding, another which can be directly attributed to it.
My messy desk is developing another sedimentary layer. The bottom layer appears to be undergoing the necessary heat and pressure to produce diamonds, which is nice.
My boss is leaving at the end of the month, his replacement won't get here until a bit later.
There really isn't a system to allow a decent handover of responsibilities in this business. Of course, except for relief-in-place handovers in a combat zone, the military is just as bad at this.
The weather has been much better since T/S Arthur dumped something like 10 inches of rain overnight and drowned more than a half-dozen people in the southern part of the country. There was nearly one American fatality due to the flooding and, during some subsequent heavy rains and flooding, another which can be directly attributed to it.