This week, I finally got word on my pay raise, and it's a "whopping" 2.1% raise, so now I squeak just past $14/Hr, whoopty do. That is about 23 dollars extra in my paychecks! Whooooo ( Read more... )

That is, another day, another dollar, and a whole 5 bucks for the week is how I extend that phrase. Anyway, for the past few years, my pay feels more like 5 cents on the dollar, and today, it'll jump to maybe 25 cents to the dollar, perhaps 10-15 cents is more like it. Anyway, got a whole whopping 3% pay raise, beginning with this paycheck, which ( Read more... )

 It's gonna be a hot one, for the most part for the next 10 days.

That is, today, we hit 83F, and full on sun, then we drop back to about 81 for 2 days before we climb back into the mid 80's, and then upper 80's and by next Thursday, 94F. yes, you heard right, we'll hit 91 next Wednesday, and then 94 the following day, and that's the end of the 10 ( Read more... )

I am very cautiously optimistic that things may well be going my way finally ( Read more... )