Anything noteworthy happen to you today?

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BBP - 8-11-2015 at 14:54

I hope so too...

In the mean time, my sister has her old best friend from high school over at our place, she hasn't changed a bit!

punknaynowned - 10-11-2015 at 03:05

I'm sorry to hear about your woes Bonny. Hope it gets sorted and you are on the mend.

I'm okay. Working, paying bills, keeping the lights on.

polydigm - 10-11-2015 at 10:56

Just had an exam and in spite of all the stress it went quite well. That's one down and one to go and then I can get back to my music again.

BBP - 10-11-2015 at 17:53

Went to my eye doctor's today. She found my astigmatism is not the cause for my recent problems, but thinks that it's been there for a long time and that it's why my left eye is dominant. So she's on a dead track. I had retina photographs, but there was nothing special on it. Next Friday (the 13th, yes...) I'm getting another test, for the vision field.

Welp... got a busy day tomorrow, today I folded a lot of cranes.

BBP - 11-11-2015 at 16:50

Today I had class, got to visit a stylist and had an application talk with Manpower. Not every woman gets two pairs of shoes in one day!

Huck_Phlem - 11-11-2015 at 23:14

After almost 11 years in this neighborhood in Pleasanton CA I have to move out. My landlords are selling the place and gave me very little notice.
My family is going to have to all go their own ways now. Both kids are adults but still this sucks.

I have decided to move back to my hometown of Martinez CA as I have childhood friends there and not many here in this town. Plus there is a pretty good music scene there and I will be able to play music again.

I do have one restaurant that is interested in meeting me and giving me a try out.

I will be staying in a friends garage until I can find a place.

BBP - 12-11-2015 at 23:22

Sorry to hear about that Huck, that's miserable...

polydigm - 15-11-2015 at 02:03

aquagoat - 15-11-2015 at 08:34

Quote: Originally posted by Huck_Phlem

After almost 11 years in this neighborhood in Pleasanton CA I have to move out. My landlords are selling the place and gave me very little notice.
My family is going to have to all go their own ways now. Both kids are adults but still this sucks.

I have decided to move back to my hometown of Martinez CA as I have childhood friends there and not many here in this town. Plus there is a pretty good music scene there and I will be able to play music again.

I do have one restaurant that is interested in meeting me and giving me a try out.

I will be staying in a friends garage until I can find a place.

ha, dude, that sucks, hope the situation will get better soon.

aquagoat - 15-11-2015 at 08:36

polydigm - 16-11-2015 at 00:40

Plook at zappa.com seems to think that all we need to do is isolate them and then blow them all up. I've always found him a wee bit ignorant, but that takes the cake.

Anyway, I need to concentrate, my next exam is only three days away and I'm nowhere near as prepared as I was with the last one.

BBP - 16-11-2015 at 18:39

Good luck with the work Poly!

First day of work at external location - spent 8 hours ironing. I'm now the Ironing Master, not to be confused with the Irony Master, that is still my achilles heel. And I only took a couple of burns for damage. Less damage than I got from wearing heels earlier.

polydigm - 16-11-2015 at 22:58

Work for the dole ... ironing? Where were you doing that?

BBP - 17-11-2015 at 11:20

It is a heel-face-turn, yes. It's about 45 mins of cycling away and since I have to be there at 8 and wanted to take my tendency for getting lost into account, I had to get up at 6AM. It's a major company called Ergon who make a fortune by getting free labour like that.

punknaynowned - 18-11-2015 at 14:06

hey! have you ever tried wearing those big foam sneaker-shoes? I call them boats, instead of boots and You'd have to get used to the bigger shoe/ toe-point ... but that might be easier than high-heels? :bouncy:

BBP - 18-11-2015 at 20:35

Poly - how about before WW2? Between the wars and just before WW1 there was the mass colonisation which left us with a fair share of tensions in the colonies in Africa and Asia. And WW1 was an extension of the Franco-Prussian war and the fall of the Ottoman empire.

polydigm - 19-11-2015 at 07:30

I was not intending to come across as absolute. Many an imperialist war has been won without weapons, requiring merely a suit, a briefcase, a little paperwork and a pen. The point we are discussing is the current upsurge of terrorism and trying to make sense of that, but yes, imperialism has been around for a long time along with various reactions to it.

Anyway, I finished my last exam for the year this morning and all of sudden felt somewhat empty.

BBP - 19-11-2015 at 23:20

Enjoy your holiday Poly!

BBP - 20-11-2015 at 22:33

Found Danzig's album 4 in a second-hand shop today but decided to hold with buying it until I'd tried listening to it first. Am trying it out now, can't say I like it.

polydigm - 24-11-2015 at 09:11

Just busying myself with all the boring chores I've been putting off while studying. I'm just working my way through all my online accounts that use a certain email address which I'm going to dump because it gets drowned in spam. Told you it was boring ...

BBP - 24-11-2015 at 17:01

Bird flew and hit the window, killed him. :crying:

polydigm - 24-11-2015 at 23:40

We have a lot of blackbirds in our area. A juvenile one flew into one of our windows recently, depositing a big splat of bird poo. It didn't die though, but I had to go out and rescue it from our dogs.

BBP - 25-11-2015 at 23:09

From next year, one neighborhood in my city is chosen to get "supportive benefits" - with all the complaints about the demeaning labour, one party opped the idea of giving people the freedom to make extra money on top of their benefits and to end the benefit "duties" of either the forced labour for the able workers, or the 5 sollicitations a week. Let's hope I won't need it.

It is indeed a very demeaning situation - numerous of the smarter people in my group have experienced depressions over this insult to injury. Last Friday, there were 5 of us - and 4 of us were emotionally so shattered the group leader let us go home early.

I have been having a lot of problems there - mainly migraines, which I never had until I was forced to go to a building with bright red floors. Today was extra terrible. I lost a lot of sleep last night over depressions and hadn't recovered, was still shaking and crying... al things put together the group leaders decided to suspend my work/learn-company duties to get me in contact with another support group. I'd get more infos about them but their website is in need of serious TLC. I'm at least the 3rd of the group to leave for this reason.

polydigm - 26-11-2015 at 13:57

Hang in there Bonny.

BBP - 27-11-2015 at 14:36

Thanks Poly! {hug}

aquagoat - 27-11-2015 at 19:31

I'm a hug you too, dear, really hope the situation will get better.

BBP - 27-11-2015 at 23:33

Thanks Aqua! How are you? :forumsmiley8:

Huck_Phlem - 28-11-2015 at 08:09

I had to move out of my home of 10-1/2 years and nth kids kids have gone their own way. My son is doing well but I am worried about my daughter as she is living with her mother and they can't seem to find a place to live. I am currently in a friends house and stay in a cold garage but it's not outdoors and have to look for a new job since my good one is way too far away now.

aquagoat - 28-11-2015 at 09:47

Quote: Originally posted by BBP

Thanks Aqua! How are you? :forumsmiley8:

I'm fine, dear, I'm fine.:grin:

BBP - 28-11-2015 at 12:15

Sorry to hear about all that, Huck...

BBP - 2-12-2015 at 21:43

Had a letter from the hospital, I now have an appointment on Dec 21st.

I think I can remember that date...

BBP - 3-12-2015 at 23:07

Made this photo yesterday:

polydigm - 4-12-2015 at 00:13

I hope you're not feeling so down Bonny and I hope your situation is improving Huck. You probably may not want to hear but I'm having a great time. Just got my exam results and I got two high distinctions for physics. It seems I'm back on track after the first half of the year was kind of wiped out by my surgery in March. I've been using the spare time while on summer break to work on the garden and do some work on our two vehicles. One's a VW Transporter van which we bought new back in 1998, upgraded with two rows of removable seats in the back as a people mover and the other is a Peugeot 206 which we got back in 2002 - a tiny car in comparison.

They've both got pre USB and BlueTooth music units (they're called head units in the trade) and we'd been using a cheap add on solution with terrible sound output so I finally, with the help of my eldest son, tracked down a really good special on replacement head units. I had helped him install one in his car a while back, which involved a lot of soldering work because the old one was an aftermarket system that had not been installed properly. I learnt a lot doing that and was prepared for difficulties when doing mine. I didn't just fit new head units, I also installed phone brackets and microphones. This was easy in the van because it's got plenty of dash real estate but the Peugeot was quite a challenge. I also managed to repair a few other faults in both vehicles at the same time while I had their dashes open.

I like a lot of variety in my life and this has been a refreshing change from full on academic study. I found that going out in the garden and doing various maintenance chores for a short time each day helped me get through swot vac without going crazy. I've also been working on upgrading my musical setup and got a RAM upgrade on my laptop and the latest version of Logic Pro to get ready for some serious music development time. My next courses don't start until March next year, which is a ridiculously long break.

PS: What is that in the picture Bonny?

BBP - 4-12-2015 at 22:54

Great to hear you're doing well! I imagine it feels odd to break a couple of bad news messages. Likewise I didn't yet want to post the picture I made in the Zappa - What Happened To You Today topic yet, with all Caputh is going through.

The mushroom is the Eindhoven landmark Evoluon. I posted pictures of it before, but this one I made today is so lush with the colours...

polydigm - 4-12-2015 at 23:50

Yesterday, again with the help of my eldest son, we drained the fish pond, scraped out the mixture of fish poo, algae and gravel from the bottom and then removed the old lining. It's a big pond and was originally a school project constructed by my youngest son about three years ago when he was still in high school. It's a feature of our front garden that we have really enjoyed, but there have been some issues with maintaining it. It seems our algae problem was related to overfeeding the fish and having gravel on the bottom has turned out to be a really bad idea, so no more gravel. We're going to use small porous baskets with gravel in and various plants to jazz it up. Also, the plastic that it was lined with was not really the best for the job and had deteriorated and was losing water at a ridiculous rate, so we've replaced that with some specialised heavy duty pond liner. The picture shows where we got up to yesterday. All that remains is a little shoring up with more dirt under the edges, the replacement of the edging stones and another plant box in the deep end on the left with some lilies.

BBP - 5-12-2015 at 13:16

Nice pond!

I'm baking speculaas now, while listening to Hot Rats.

polydigm - 6-12-2015 at 23:26

BBP - 7-12-2015 at 10:24

Poor fishes, I hope they can take a lack of oxygen like that... If we have weather like that, the fishes end up floating.

I did take a picture of speculaas. You can make dolls and such with them indeed, you need a plank for those with the cutout, but this one has almond filling, and then you can't really manage any special form. It should be rectangular but it now had a bit more of a wavy shape. I was in a hurry. Turned out we'd run out of brown sugar, so you have to get some - it needed to be done before dark, because I wanted a picture of it, and I also had to wrap some gifts and write verses so it was a tad hectic.

polydigm - 7-12-2015 at 22:14

The fish are fine, the edging is not wide enough to cover the whole pond and even if it were there's a lot of water in there.

I was wondering about your speculaas because I'd checked out a couple of articles online, which indicated that they're traditionally made with various shapes and patterns.

BBP - 8-12-2015 at 13:00

There's a crispy variety that you make little figures with (and large ones, that would be traditionally decorated and given to a sweetheart but that isn't done very often these days) and a softer, stuffed variety. I've made both but the stuffed one is liked the best here, so that's the one I make. It's incredibly addicting sutff, you can't just have one.

polydigm - 14-12-2015 at 02:34

I don't suppose it's possible to make gluten free speculaas?

BBP - 14-12-2015 at 11:17

It should be... seen some around. Are you on a gluten free diet then?

polydigm - 14-12-2015 at 13:34

I just thought I'd try it to see if it made any difference. One thing that has stopped is the manic itching I had on the skin on my legs. There is a detailed explanation of what it is about the gluten that ultimately causes the itching and I won't go into that, but abstaining from it appears to have worked.

BBP - 14-12-2015 at 23:06

The recipes I see use almond flour. I wouldn't recommend it with the soft filled speculaas, that would be avoiding gluten by eating a lot of cyanide.

polydigm - 17-12-2015 at 04:24

BBP - 18-12-2015 at 10:55

Heat waves aren't really the kind of weather for speculaas.

Good job on the tree base!

BBP - 20-12-2015 at 21:29

Going to the doctor tomorrow for my eye... brrr.

BBP - 22-12-2015 at 00:48

Had a tear test. The outcome of all the tests was nothing unusual that could explain the sudden blurriness, so now I have an appointment with the neurologist for Wednesday.

aquagoat - 22-12-2015 at 08:42

fuck, Bonny, when will they find what the problem is?

BBP - 22-12-2015 at 09:31

Beats me...

BBP - 23-12-2015 at 11:27

Quite a day and it's not even noon...
The neurology appointment was today, after the intake and the preliminary testing I was set up for a VEP-scan (with electrodes on the head) and an MRI-scan. The MRI takes time to plan, but for the VEP I am "lucky", that's tomorrow.

Worse was the Christmas card we had from my uncle, informing us that they found cancer on my aunt.

Calvin - 23-12-2015 at 12:48

Merry Christmas! (Oh, and your aunt has cancer.) Not a very uplifting card.

BBP - 23-12-2015 at 19:59

Well, they're not as laconic about it... It was clearly written by my aunt out of the name of both of them. Auntie is a dear, but she's not the brightest crayon in the box. And when you visit her you'll mimick her speech for a fortnight.

BBP - 24-12-2015 at 16:42

't Was the day of the VEP test. VEP stands for Visual Evoked Potential.

For this test I was not allowed to wash my hair or use any hair products or make-up today. You get a very, VERY tight hat on, like a swim hat, there are electrodes on that. The assistant then makes scratches on your scalp so the electrodes are in better contact with your nerves. That was rather painful.
My hair was rather high after the ponytail was removed, so I got a tight strap around the chin that wasn't exactly pleasant. I sat in front of a screen with a chessboard pattern on it, with a yellow square in the middle. I had to focus on the square while the chessboard pattern switches colour. The total time for the test is about 20 minutes, in total 2 minutes of staring for each eye.

aquagoat - 25-12-2015 at 10:20

The way you describe it conjures up this image in my head, Bonny:

polydigm - 27-12-2015 at 23:07

So, I hope there weren't any untoward results from that last test Bonny. Are they any closer to knowing what's up?

BBP - 28-12-2015 at 11:45

I don't know. The assistant couldn't tell me much and now I'm waiting for the MRI-date.

aquagoat - 28-12-2015 at 15:00

:mad: Computer died, computer nearly learnt to fly by the window, computer was dismembered and thrown in garbage can, baby computer is on its way.

BBP - 28-12-2015 at 17:28

Sorry to hear about the PC, that blows... hope you didn't lose much data!

aquagoat - 28-12-2015 at 20:57

well, most of it is copied on an external hard drive but a few recent folders are gonna be missing, I hoped my computer would start one last time so that I may transfer the mising bits etc, etc, but it didn't want to. The boring thing is that I'll have to reinstall a bunch of softwares, etc on the new one, but well...

polydigm - 28-12-2015 at 23:36

Did the internal drive itself break down? If not, the data can be pretty easy to get off of that.

BBP - 29-12-2015 at 11:50

It is recoverable but if the experience with my sister's crashed external drive is any indication, recovering data from the PC is going to be expensive.

aquagoat - 29-12-2015 at 12:21

I've kept the internal drive to ask a friend what he can do with it, I'll see if he can get something back.

BBP - 29-12-2015 at 18:11

MRI is scheduled on 29 January.

polydigm - 29-12-2015 at 22:54

So, what actually broke down in your computer aqua? Was it a hard drive crash or a motherboard failure or what? There was a motherboard failure in one of my children's computers once, but it was a manufacturing fault and they replaced it for free. I'd bought that one second hand, so it turned out to be a real bargain.

aquagoat - 30-12-2015 at 08:55

well, you know it was quite old, and when I'm home it's on all day long, it had been working badly for a year now, took ages to start, was pretty slow, couldn't do two things at a time, etc, etc, plus the multiple shocks it had received didn't help.

polydigm - 30-12-2015 at 10:03

It'll be nice to get a new one then.

polydigm - 30-12-2015 at 11:29

Apparently MRIs give a lot more detail than cat scans. I had a fit about ten years ago after a very gruelling five set squash match. I had to go and see a neurologist to see if I'd somehow developed epilepsy in middle age. The hospital had given me a cat scan and I took the films along with me to the neurologist's appointment. You expect medical specialists to be pretty formal and serious about their profession and this guy just said that a cat scan was as useless as tits on a bull. After some pretty intense testing he concluded I didn't have epilepsy and had had what is known as a syncope. My potassium level was too low and I was very dehydrated.

BBP - 30-12-2015 at 13:02

I once had a second-hand computer with three drives, one was real big... I used the big one for games. This was at my Gabriel Knight addiction, when I was playing GK3 it suddenly stopped working. The drive gave in because one of the dealies of it had broken down. Smoke was coming out of it 'n all.

BBP - 30-12-2015 at 17:29

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm

Apparently MRIs give a lot more detail than cat scans. I had a fit about ten years ago after a very gruelling five set squash match. I had to go and see a neurologist to see if I'd somehow developed epilepsy in middle age. The hospital had given me a cat scan and I took the films along with me to the neurologist's appointment. You expect medical specialists to be pretty formal and serious about their profession and this guy just said that a cat scan was as useless as tits on a bull. After some pretty intense testing he concluded I didn't have epilepsy and had had what is known as a syncope. My potassium level was too low and I was very dehydrated.

Have you ever been through an MRI-scan? I'm worried, to say the least - half an hour of laying still in a narrow tunnel... I do have a slight touch of claustrophobia that I hope to overcome within a month.

Today I called the radiology department to ask if my ankle's pins were going to be any problem. No, fortunately - but there's another catch.

There's a huge list of things I have to check upon - if you bring your hearing aid in, it'll break with the magnetism. People with pacemakers can't have an MRI. I'm not allowed to wear make-up, mascara can still contain traces of metal, but that won't be a problem. Neither will tattoos or permanent make-up be a problem for me, but it's interesting: the tattoos won't explode, but they may run out. That must be terrible, permanent run-out mascara.
People who have had a metal splinter in their eye can't take an MRI without getting a photo first to check for scraps left in. This means that I can't bring dad with me: he had a splinter in his eye back in 1977. It's been drilled out of course (eek eek eek eek eek eek) but there might still be remnants, and for people accompanying they won't take any photos.

polydigm - 30-12-2015 at 22:43

I had a nuclear bone scan once and that involved being strapped up and closed in and lasted ages. I hate stuff like that with a passion but somehow managed to get through it.

aquagoat - 31-12-2015 at 10:35

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm

It'll be nice to get a new one then.

I already have a new one, lol, mine died on monday, I got a new one on tuesday.

BBP - 31-12-2015 at 12:17

Nice! How's it working out for you?

aquagoat - 2-1-2016 at 09:21

Just fine.

BBP - 2-1-2016 at 22:40

Beat my sister at Scrabble. First time I won that!

polydigm - 3-1-2016 at 00:40

So now you can put your feet up and retire.

aquagoat - 3-1-2016 at 09:06

Congratulations, Bonny!

BBP - 3-1-2016 at 20:58

I'll get my cosy little footies now...

BBP - 4-1-2016 at 14:41

Seriously I'm ready for the nursing room. Went to the second-hand shop today when the shop assistant pointed out to me (while I was going in) that I was wearing odd shoes.
Spent my etire visit manoeuvring trolley and bag in such a way that they wouldn't be easily noticed, and I haven't heard anybody else burst into laughter (besides Dad when I told him) but man, is that embarrassing!

polydigm - 5-1-2016 at 04:06

I did that once, but then again, I'm an old man ...

It's easy enough to do if your shoes are in a pile and have a similar style.

BBP - 5-1-2016 at 13:23

They are both dark,but one is a tidy shoe and the other is a sneaker that has a bright orange rim.

BBP - 6-1-2016 at 11:08

Noticed yesterday that my bicycle tire is about to explode - luckily I noticed it in time. So I don't think I have time to bake an epiphany cake today.

BBP - 7-1-2016 at 17:35

Got drenched when I went to buy potatoes. Brrrrrrr....

polydigm - 7-1-2016 at 22:32

You must have been in a real hurry with those shoes. Auto pilot is a very important part of being human, but it can get out of control. Auto pilot is what puts sugar in the tea pot instead of tea leaves when you haven't quite woken up yet. The longer you live the more elaborate your auto pilot gets and I probably rely on mine far too much. I figure that's how I will eventually die - death by auto pilot.

So, you're getting soaked and frozen while we're getting baked. Although, we've had our air-conditioning system revamped and it is now keeping the whole house properly cool.

BBP - 8-1-2016 at 18:19

Today was a nice day for it though. I went to the market and the flea market to meet my old bosses. Henk's eye problems are still terrible unfortunately, but he did manage to reassure me for the MRI.
And I saw a 10 million Mark note from 1923, the era of hyper-inflation. I wonder what it would've bought at the time. It was only valid for two months.

BBP - 11-1-2016 at 19:51

Am absolutely freezing after a trip to the 2nd hand store. At least I got two calendar clippings of Mucha for free. And I bought a knit book, there's a great Celtic knot on it. Hopefully I can design celtic knits myself someday. I can do celtic drawings.

polydigm - 16-1-2016 at 01:04

I've been busy in the garden again. I got rid of that other tree stump. There's one more troublesome tree to come down before the front garden is finished and a next door neighbour has offered to get rid of that. The front garden is looking really good now. The next big projects are in the back garden.

BBP - 16-1-2016 at 15:47

Watch out for your back, Poly!

polydigm - 17-1-2016 at 01:32

Funnily enough, the garden doesn't appear to have done me any harm, but I did hurt my back recently moving a piano. It seems to be muscular and is getting better slowly.

BBP - 17-1-2016 at 02:05

If Laurel & Hardy didn't warn you sufficiently about moving pianos there's a story I could tell you about the time we had to move the piano to the hall to fit new carpet...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4nVg_W_6Y

BBP - 18-1-2016 at 17:44

It took me 6 attempts but I managed to make the knot!
http://bonnzai.deviantart.com/art/Celtic-Knot-Knit-585169112

polydigm - 18-1-2016 at 23:44

Knot bad.

As far as L&H's piano goes, it must have been a toy piano. There's no way two people could pick up a solid modern upright piano that easily. And dropping it on his back from that height would followed by his funeral.

aquagoat - 19-1-2016 at 11:29

That's really cool, Bonny

BBP - 19-1-2016 at 12:45

Yeah I noticed that. But even if it was light-weight the lowering onto his back was a very stupid idea that would have resulted in a hernia.

aquagoat - 21-1-2016 at 09:32

Haven't worked since monday because of the cold weather. It gives me time to fill the forms for a new passport.

aquagoat - 21-1-2016 at 09:35

Always be very carefull with moving a piano, I've seen may persons having back problems because of that.

BBP - 21-1-2016 at 13:04

Fill forms for a new passport? Whoa...

Don't worry Aqua. We have absolutely no intention of moving the piano in the near future.

aquagoat - 24-1-2016 at 12:21

Good news, Bonny, good news!

BBP - 24-1-2016 at 23:41

:bald:
We had some weirdness here. Dad and I often play a card game of the Rummy family in the evenings, usually a best-of-5. Getting the deck properly shuffled is difficult, but we found a system where we deal the cards in 3 stacks and shuffle the one unused stack with the remainder after the 13 cards you start with have been dealt.

Since it's a rummy game, you have to form groups with them: either sets of the same value or series of the same suit - and with our dividing system I was surprised to start on the first game of the evening with a 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of clubs.
Second round: Dad is dealt 7, 8 and 9 of clubs.
Third round: Dad is dealt 7, 8 and 9 of clubs.
Fourth round: Dad is dealt 5, 6 and 7 of clubs.

(cue X-files theme)

punknaynowned - 26-1-2016 at 07:19

People here are also talking in excited tones about the return of The X-Files. It's hilarious.

I work at a homeless shelter. There's a couple hundred people we see regularly with 130-150 staying routinely any night. Especially when it's cold.
It's challenging work acting as temporary nurse, cop, judge, jury, mom, counselor, teacher, stern warner, harsh critic and sometimes friend. But I love it despite daily having to decide on/do something I've never done before, without any training or warning. And hopefully before shit gets out of hand. Constantly I'm having to set priorities for these actions, do them as quickly as possible, while not forgetting the lesser important things I've been asked to do along the way, and then often having to defend these immediate judgements if necessary for someone who thinks their needs must instead be the priority, while remembering to praise people for their patience, when justified. Expressing continual gratitude for everythingfolks volunteer to do, from cleaning the bathrooms, washing the dishes, picking up cigarette butts or answering the phone, trying to steer people from claims of a sense of entitlement toward expressions of gratitude, with or without snark.

And everyone has a story, experience, memories and hopes. So many stories, so many people. It can be wonderful and amazing, but is often tragic.
I get paid just under 8.3 euros an hour. We are very much understaffed. My schedule changes radically every few months with hours worked thru the week also changing frequently, as this or that person gets sick and shifts need covering. We're so tightly scheduled - money-wise - that to bring on another staff member during peak hours means I have had to cut back on my hours. And I've just learned that to bring me on at all (six months ago) meant a couple longer term staff took schedule cuts without my knowledge. But they did it without a word of it to me or a hint that it cut into their hrs worked/dollars earned. Remarkable. Both staff and guests seem to have accepted me with open arms and for this I can only be grateful. I need to reciprocate.

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