Still not adapting very well to this 5pm to 1:30am work schedule. Every night, Louise is asleep when I get home. She leaves for school before I wake up. I leave for work before she gets back. We live in the same house, but I haven't seen her in five days. This sucks ( Read more... )

Off to work in a bit, and I have no idea what the situation will be. My lead may be back, taking a lot of the pressure off. She may not. The other teacher who worked with me last week told me Friday she has another assignment this week, but that of course may change, so I will have either her, or somebody else, or nobody else. Oh boy ( Read more... )

Spent the last week teaching a room full of newly-hired temporary ITIN Tax Examiners. I have 29 students, and I'm doing it pretty much on my own. I was supposed to have a lead teacher, one with more experience, in charge while I performed back-up duties and taught a few of the sections. But my lead has been sick all week, and the managers sent me ( Read more... )

The two-week course I'm helping teach to new hires in my department at the IRS started last night. It was, uh, interesting. Materials that our bosses promised would be there, weren't. About 1/3 of the students didn't get the badges they need to get in and out of the building. Issuing them temporary badges killed the first hour of class time ( Read more... )

Interesting times at Faith Presbyterian Church as a frozen water pipe thawed enough on Saturday afternoon to flood our sanctuary. Plans were quickly made and executed to move this morning's service to our Fellowship Hall, a serviceable (if older, smaller, and less comfortable) space ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrote that dealing with an inch or two of snow was "no biggie ( Read more... )

Not going to bore you with a weather update. It's cold, extremely cold by Texas standards, and we're expecting some light snow tonight and tomorrow. No biggie ( Read more... )

Small items from the news desk, following up on older posts ( Read more... )

Spent a good portion of yesterday afternoon trying to work out the problems with some prescriptions of mine. Apparently, the pharmacy didn't get some refill authorizations that the doctor said he wrote. Other refill authorizations written at the same time were handled perfectly, making me wonder how some could be filled and other be lost. But that ( Read more... )

If I had any of those classic little-boy ambitions for what I wanted to be when I grew up -- cowboy, fireman, astronaut, etc. -- I don't remember them. I was briefly interested in a career in music, as a choir director, but then I picked Texas A&M University to study engineering ( Read more... )