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.