I've got a pretty full day. First and foremost on the schedule is yard! Then there are a couple of more house projects. I am hoping for five hours on these. Then bring on the menial tasks!

I am hoping for a phone call this week. I applied for a job last week and rumor has it the business hiring is begging for workers. I left the position applied for as "any". It doesn't cost anything to see what is available. Scuttlebutt has it their lowest paying job pays $15 an hour! Lots of overtime is probable, workers are guaranteed fifty-four hours a week! I'm willing to bet when they get going there will be weeks that workers might have a hundred hours a week, especially when they are trying to make up for weather related delays. Shoot, I'll do anything. From forklift to truck to babysitting to dispatch, safety, compliance, payroll or tax reporting.

I think I need something different for a while!

Trc brought Krl home yesterday. A phone call would have been nice! Her return I'm sure was much to Trc and her family's relief and I know to my dismay. I had a full day of race cars and ball games planned. The kicker was I only had one thawed steak. Talk about a downer!

Ollie called yesterday wanting me to write her a thirty second ad copy to take to work this morning. She begins her new job as an advertising account manager. Her last job, which she just worked there one day, saw new management clean the entire employee roster. I almost did the sample ad copy about why people shouldn't shop at her last employers store! Ollie already has the new job, but the GM wants to spend some time with her to see how much ad training she is going to have to have. I've always thought it would be lots of fun to record the ads. Sometimes I am amazed by Fearless's (of KEAN 105.1 in Abilene) versatility. Other times I am appalled and change the station due to his repetition. Either way he is a corner stone of the market in our area.

At the seasonal jobsite the plant supervisor and the girls in the office would get a kick out it when I would catch someone going across the compound and call them up on their cell phone. (You have to hit the code to mask the number your are calling from.) I would do my very best radio voice (from PA address work in an earlier life) and I would say, "Thank You for listening to K-L-I-E 109, do you know the name of our mystery tune?" The funniest one was Roy, a former employee, he kept asking "do what?" I would repeat it and finally he said "I don't know!" I asked, "Why did you call?" and he said, "I don't know!" I would scold him and tell him "We called you! About then he realized he was the butt of the joke. Well, at lease the rest of us got a laugh out of it!

I just made a barefoot test run across the yard and it is wet! Darn the luck! I would love to get this project done early! Actually I was wanting to make sure the dumpster was out just in case the city came by early. Any more they are about as predictable as the mail man. Some days it is early some days after five. One thing about it, on Saturday, it will be shortly after noon!

Well, I had better get my day going. I can't wait to see what goes wrong!

Have a day!

FATHER, take control!