No cops on my route. Just crossing guards. At signals. WTF is up with that?

We have a lot of overnight road work around here. The reason given is that if it is done at night the traffic won't be as bad in the day. For the most part it is only done to major roads that aren't in residential areas.


I have a dilema today. Do I go out tonight, so I don't have to fix dinner or do I stay home, cook dinner and pack?

Most of my stuff is suitcase reayd, just one small load of laundry left. As always, I seem to be packing enough for a week instead of just a few days.

I will be kitten-proofing the house over the next few hours.

And, why are her paws wet?

Peet's Coffee. Vanilla Freddo. Makes My Day. Enough Said.

Soooo....
 

NA it's probablly cuz she got into water somehow. Absyenian cats usually like take to water. Trust me Jovi Girl does the same thing. She hopped into the bathtub last nite after my shower and waits for me to turn on the water facuet so she can play with the running water with her paws. She will literally take their drinking water in the kitchen and (it's only a tupperware bowl) take it with her teeth pick it up and tip it over so she can "Play" with water...lmao She is so easy to give a bath too. I've never seen a cat take to water like she has.

Well, my daughter was crossing guard back in the day {but we had no signals, probably why we had cops a lot...}. I think they do it to make the kids presence more known. And, to help guide the kids.

But, unfortunately, they also had to be OSHA {?} and the kids were told to hold the signs a different way. To me, less visible. One morning, I saw this little girl, safe in the crosswalk with the signs 'down' by the crossing guards almost get hit by a car, driven by a mother who was totally oblivious. I thought I was going to see this girl flattened, the mother never stopped. I think she came thisclose to her. Seriously.

Oh how cool about the cats liking water!!! I wish mine did.

Some questions are better left unanswered.




Though this may not be one of them

So, seeing as I'm sitting at the front desk of our Newport office today, I'm in charge of checking all faxes that come in as soon as they come in, in case it's a time-sensitive offer/acceptance/etc. But most of it is cr*p. After one mortgage company sent me two consecutive and identical two-page faxes, I'd had enough. I took the biggest Sharpie in my drawer, and wrote "STOP SPAMMING THIS NUMBER" "STOP SPAM" "NOBODY READS IT BUT RECEPTIONISTS" and "TAKE US OFF YOUR LIST" on the pages and faxed it back to them. Felt good.

Now they know that somebody at your fax number actually reads the faxes. Expect more.

Betty - I only had time for a quick skim of what you wrote...

I think it's important to register a complaint, since, if no one ever does than it's not on record. However, if you're one of the first to finally step forward, it's an awfully long road to having anything done about it. I see my aunt go through this all the time as a teacher, her horror stories of other teachers who simply aren't doing there job and there's little to nothing that will be done about it over tenure. And worse, it's situations like this that make teachers on the whole look bad. My aunt lost her tenure with Long Beach schools when she left to have my cousins, came back and was on the bottom rung. C'est la vie.

On the other hand, tenure is good, because it protects teachers (hopefully good ones) from being replaced left and right for reasons like lesser pay, yada yada... you get what I'm saying. While it protects the ones that are doing well, it also protects those that are pieces of crap.

Hopefully registering a complaint, or more, will at least put a ding into her.