Made It One More Week

One more week is down...they seem to be going fairly fast if you look back to the Rally and see how long ago it was. I don't want to wish my life

away but I have been working for 45 years and 30 of those 45 were spent in one building. You see how I could be longing for something new. The plant I work in...like so many manufacturing plants has no windows...nor does my office so I spend a lot of time looking at four walls and no sunlight...trees...clouds. It will be good to spend time in a comfortable climate outdoors.

I read all my journals today and enjoyed them all so much. Everyone has such interesting travels and great pictures. I travel right along with all of them...and they don't even know that I am there...like the fly on the wall. For those of you that are not able to retire and travel now this is a great means of getting away from the day to day humdrum. Read a journal and look at the pictures and you too can be traveling.

Sherri did not work today but I was fortunate enough to draw the short straw and work and go in to baby sit the Press room. We are working on commercial accounts and they will drive you over the edge if you let them. People want the craziest stuff. Their demands are out of sight and sometimes unreal?? We get them as much as we can and then we have to pull back on the rains. Yearbooks are a little easier to work and you do not have the customer looking over your shoulder...in most cases. We do have some big schools that come in and press check their books but not that many...due to cost constraints.

Enough about work!! We are setting here at ten after seven...Sherri is working puzzles and I am posting my journal. We ate hot dogs tonight...didn't we have those the other night. It is hard to think of meals if your tired and worn out. Hot Dogs are a good meal in a pinch. I heard on CNN today that they cause Cancer now. Oh well that makes about 123,645 things now that cause Cancer. GEEE everything causes Cancer. Next thing we will hear is RVing causes Cancer. Now that would be about it for me.

Tomorrow I have to run up to the bank and get the papers on the Truck payoff. I have to have that to get the rebate on my GAP insurance and the Credit life. We are going to take that money and put it towards deductibles on our insurance. We will be covered without the worry of covering deductibles. There are so many lose ends to tie up when you are getting ready to retire. I hope that I can get my Disability re-evaluation in and working before February. I know that is a long time off but getting reevaluated takes so long...you know that is a government thing. I want it behind me before I set my retirement up so I have all my ducks in a row. Like I said there are a lot of lose ends to tie up here.

Well I am still posting pictures from my trip so you will just have to bare with me. Have you ever gone to someones house and had to set through their vacation photos. You know you have to set there and OOOO and AHHHHHH the whole time ....show me that same respect here OK. I love digital cameras...you can take thousand of pictures and never pay any developing. Pick the ones you like and delete the rest. Technology is good.

Speaking of Technology what did we do without the cell phones...fax...scanners...voice mail...email...text messages...chat oh my I don't know how in the world we ever made it. So much of my business is done over the phone lines and Internet. I have had to grow with these advances and learn new systems. When I went to college we did not have computers and any of the technology that went with them...digital printing for example. So I have had to learn all this as time went on. My schooling is about to come to an end. OK I am rambling now...please stop me.

OK I will leave you with these pictures...and best wishes to you all Somewhere in Time.