Archive for July, 2008

Time To Produce

After asking my Account Manager this week about being moved to production from hourly status, I found out I was put on production last week because I had exceeded my hourly pay.  Woot!  This means I am now paid by the line.  The only drawback is the mandatory overtime that is called for on some [...]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

SOS

We hit 106 yesterday.  It’s supposed to be a mere 102 today.  Of course, that’s what they said yesterday and look what happened.
The sky is beautiful this morning.  God has his paint box out.  There’s a large line of clouds on the radar north of us.  Dare I hope that we could get anything from [...]

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Welcome to Death Valley

We reached the predicted 102 yesterday for a high temp with more of the same this week and Lord knows how many more.  *sigh*  We began an effort to rescue our almost-dead St. Augustine in the front yard by watering yesterday morning and this morning.  May be too little too late, but time will tell.
On [...]

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Is it Monday again?!

Bad Karma this morning.  I unintentionally made my husband upset this morning, talking about his job.  *sigh*  Then, I logged in to do some work and my pool was empty.  They offered to have me learn another account, but I am struggling as it is to get my line counts up enough to go on [...]

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Hello Dolly

Hurricane Dolly made landfall yesterday at South Padre Island, near my sister in Corpus Christi. I hope she’s ok. I need to check up on her. Flooding was the main concern with this storm, which was a Category 2 when it hit.
Of course, we did not see a drop of rain from [...]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008