Good morning EWally, zcm,
                           Its 21* and clear here on my hill.
                           Dave............Congra tulations getting the vacation approved. I'm sure you'll have some Cabin Porn for us.
                           Wally............Have an awesome day on the lake.
                           H2l...............I hope the Walleye have a good spawn this year. How soon will the docks be put in?
                           Zcm.............I think it's only in the education field can get more than a month of vacation time. Except for politicians.
                           Fish..............Here teachers have a choice, the can receive their salary in during a school year and get a bigger weekly check or drag it
                out over the entire year.
                           Steve...........When I was in the Navy, I was on a submarine repair ship, when a sub came in and had to have work done on the reactor
                they would transfer the contaminated water to our ship and when we went out to sea for three days,  we would slow dump the waste water overboard.
                I guess they figured dilution was the solution.
                           I took advantage yesterday morning of the cloudy weather and washed some windows.
                           I hope everyone has a good Thursday either at work or out. Stay Safe and Healthy.

                IW


     

 27, clear and calm

 Good evening ,period of light rain this morning . Still having freeze watches during overnight early morning hours. I have received no news on how things went for my great aunt today hoping that means all went well with the procedures.
Ice wanderer pace your self with the yard work and fire wood stacking. The company doing the closing/clean-up of the Indian Point nuclear plant claims the radio-active waste water releases will be similar to what was done with the waste water during the sixty years plant was in operation.  Another issue is how to transport the waste water and spent fuel rods from the plant site and where to take them.
Hunts2long politicians rely on their aides/staff to read through the state budget and give them a report. given the high number of pages in each year's printed out budget many things get hidden among the pages and are passed. During an election year if a candidate needs vote they may comment of how the budget process works and then once reelected d fall back in line following their Parties leadership's wishes so they get a bigger slice of the pie for the respective districts.
Wallyworld glad you had a nice first bike ride of 2024.
Eddie happy to read things went well at the doctors . may the blood work results and different scans all come back with good results and you only have to visit the doctor every three months. Nice idea on the no budget no pay idea since the legislature controls their own salaries do not see it ever passing into state law.
Fish/hunt4ever may things go well for you during coworker's absence and during the coming turn around.
Drifter congratulations on getting your vacation time approved. may this Summer be a better one for you and all sections of Canada affected by forest/wild fires last year. Enjoy the Stanly cup playoffs.
Zcm-82 hopefully in a couple of years you will receive more vacation time. may all be good with you and the family.

 Keep safe and stay healthy.
    Steve

Ah. I went to school with the intention of teaching when I was done, but then I discovered I can't stand being around people that much... funny how life works sometimes 😏

I can't actually complain too much with the gig I've got. The hours are good and the money is ok-ish.

It's just an extreme tribal knowledge place once you get above the grunt work level, so I can only take time off in little chunks. The bus factor is basically 1 for most of admin/management roles.