Anne N. Mouse: Blog

Okay the weather is pretty ugly here... Not raining or snowing but I've been going to work when the temp was in the teens (degrees F) which means it is cold to start. At the end of the day before the sun sets it can get into the low 50's (again degrees F) which is actually fairly warm for winter.

The good news? On a personal front (except that I'm still so exhausted that the little man fails to stand most days) I'm doing fairly well at work (even though today I looked like I'd bathed in sawdust) and the shop foreman (not the floor supervisor but the manager for the whole shop) stopped by as I was waiting for work to start and said that as soon as orders stabilize he wanted me on the payroll rather than working through a temporary agency.

But that brings me to the bad news, my hours have been cut to the point that I have none next week! That means that I'm in desperate trouble unless I can find other work elsewhere. They said we return to a regular schedule on the 2nd of Dec, which is hopeful but if I have a month of Dec with as few hours as this month has had it is going to be a very spare Christmas. It is already a very spare Thanksgiving day coming up, even if the most important thing about it is that you are with family.

For those interested in my writing, the little man does not absolutely have to stand for me to forward some of my stories, and Helluva is moving, if a bit glacially... At least it isn't as frozen as before where I wasn't even sure I'd make glacial progress on it.

I reread what I have of It's a Helluva Job and did a bit of proofreading/editing it to amend what I do have down in bits stored somewhere in my computer... I found very little that I absolutely thought should be changed, which is, I suppose a good thing. Hopefully I shall soon have another chapter ready to post, though I'm holding out for completing the story before I do post more. The good thing about that is that I actually have an ending written that I'm finding quite satisfactory. The problem is that I need to write at least a couple more chapters in between where I left off posting and the ending I wrote.
On a personal front, I HATE!! HATE!!! HATE!!! WALMART!!!!! No service, a lot of times they don't have what I want in stock, and you can't order in the store (did I say NO SERVICE?!!??!) I hate ordering off the web, for some reason I just don't trust websites to keep my info private... I wonder why (EXPERIAN anyone???) that might be?
Anyway I was at another store looking at Carhartt jeans. I had bad experiences with ripstop fabric in the army so hadn't been too impressed with the idea of buying such, but... I looked at the cargo pocket jeans by Carhartt and may try a pair. Handling them convinced me that whatever else they were they were heavier weight than most jeans that I've looked at except the double front carpenter jeans that Carhartt sells. However I have a love for cargo pockets... After all I have my cell phone, a folding knife and my ring knife all in my pocket(s) on the side of my Dickies cargo pocket jeans right now... and don't have to worry too much about reaching for a set of keys and cutting my fingers up on the ring knife... After all I can put my keys in my front pocket when I have cargo pockets and keep them segregated from sharp objects! With regular jeans the ring knife ends up in the same pocket as my keys... Carpenter jeans? The side pocket is too narrow for anything except my folding knife, so again my ring knife ends up in my pocket with my keys... So I'm always shopping for cargo pocket jeans that are tough enough (Dickies qualify) to stand up to the places I work...

And do you really care? I suppose some people who are my fans might think that my opinion of a story carries some weight. So, let's see... Double time (Aroslav is one of the better writers on the site right now) next BluDraygn is an up and coming author who's work is well worth perusing. Then of course there is Re: Trailer Trash. The author of this work is one whom if I had any better income would get some of my money! Beyond that well, I like Bigcloset, SEE and its offshoots, and Whateley Academy, what can I say? I might be perverse!?

Oct 23 is 90 days at my job. I'm feeling quite confident that I can be and will be hired from the temp agency to the payroll of the Longe Woode company (Note: name changed to protect the innocent [if there are any]) For myself, I'm pleased to believe that I will be hired, even if my plan is to start placing more resumes, that I may move from such a labor intensive job. At 55 I'm finding it to be quite a challenge to do the lifting and carrying that the job requires. I think I can keep at it, but am not sure if my body agrees!

I posted a short blog which happened to have the address of a story on this site that would appear in the first few words, and thus violated Laz rules. I understand those rules, but do hope you all will go visit the story I referred to. It is one of the best in the apocalyptic-post apocalyptic story genre that I've read. The author thinks out his scenario very well and presented a very good and complete story. Have at it my friends! Oh, you'll have to visit my blog here to see yesterday's post to get the address :P~ ain't I terrible?