Going on around here. I've been putting long days at work, Friday was my shortest day and it was 10 hours 45 minutes. I was supposed to have Friday and this coming Monday off, but I have way too much to do so cancelled them. Couldn't pick up the bike anyway because it snowed, and that was the reason I was planning on taking the days, so it's all good.
Snowed twice last week plus was still snowing this morning until about day break. Hasn't really accumulated because the temps are at the cusp of freezing - just enough to make the roads slushy and make the yard white again. We also had very heavy winds a couple of days. Thursday when I got home from work I saw the tarp had blown off the stack of pellets in the yard. That tarp has been on there since last spring and is weighed down by buckets of rocks, a big slab of granite and several pallets, so you know the wind was tooling right along. I got it covered back up taht evening so the snow didn't get to do any damage to the "fire wood".
It is supposed to get into the 50's later next week - assuming the jet stream does what they expect it to. Maybe on Friday I will be able to get out of work after only 10 hours to pick up the bike. Not counting on it, but will see how it goes.
I was gone half the day today getting some legal stuff done and then came home and wrote up stuff for tomorrow's HOG Chapter meeting and got emails out to family.
Noticed that the iris I planted last summer, from Cop Car's care package, have green tops so it looks like the change in climate didn't shock them too badly ;). Will probably take another year or two before they give me any blooms, but they will be wonderful when they do.
Hope everyone's winter finally lets go so they finally enjoy the spring!
Sorry the shoulder is still bummed. Not a great thing for you. It's good to have a good job; but, the long hours can get to you when things hit and it isn't a matter of choice. I know that you don't get overtime, but is there such a thing as "comp" time for you?
You just have to keep on top of things at all times, or it gets away from you. Glad you noted that the tarp had loosed its moorings.
I'm waiting to see what our 18 hours of below-freezing (half of which was 18-19 degrees F) did to our irises. They are about 10 inches tall.
Posted by: Cop Car | April 08, 2018 at 11:54 AM
No - no comp time. I've never worked for a company that had such a thing. Not that comp time would do me any good since they take away unused vacation time over 40 hours at the end of the year, and I always have more than 40 left because of cancelled vacation days.
This last year I got lucky; since they required hourly people to work overtime, they suspended the "use or lose" rule so I kept it. However, I will just lose at the end of this year. I currently have 100 hours of vacation time available and still have 7.5 months of accruals to go.
Posted by: bogie | April 08, 2018 at 03:56 PM
Bummer! When I was at BDM, I "lived on" comp time for about 5 months - when there was no program on which I could work. One of our customers kept telling us they would sign the contract - but - never did. I (and my team of 5 other engineers) had worked on that program for some time before that - enough to accrue the comp time.
Posted by: Cop Car | April 09, 2018 at 09:43 AM