I'm sure you know that Bandit is not "just a cat" to me, but I still don't feel right asking someone else to pray for a cat. (Doesn't matter how much I do it.) I will however ask you to pray for my wife Claudette. If you've ever loved a woman who loved a cat, you'll know it's about the same thing.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Bandit Update
Bandit took a turn for the worse over the weekend. My wife and I are now in the waiting room at the LSU Vet School Small Animal Clinic, Bandit has gone back.
Friday, September 27, 2013
How long?
Two weeks. Seems longer.
I usually do drafts using notepad, and store each revision on my Google Drive. (Those who know me won't be surprised by that.)
Right now it's Friday, 12:16 PM, and I'm sitting at the bar in Lucy's waiting for my lunch. This is the first time I've actually used the Blogger app on my iPhone.
I haven't felt like blogging for a couple of weeks. I've told y'all a little about my cat ..., okay, my wife's cat, Bandit. She hasn't been feeling well. She and I spent the last 3 Saturday mornings at the vet. My wife and I took her back Monday. She's still there now. This morning's report shows the improvement we've been waiting for. We'll probably leave her there for the weekend and bring her home Monday.
She wasn't feeling well in this picture. She had a little hiding place under this chair. What she probably has is FIA. But at least she tested negative for FeL and FIV. Fever's down and red cell count is up, so I think she's on the mend, and I feel like blogging again.
My lunch came while I was telling you about the vet's report, above the picture (although I did upload the picture first.) I'm back at a desktop now.
I can retire in 505 days. I'll probably blog next Wednesday, to celebrate the 500 mark. Until then, get off my lawn. (Ironically, I'm feeling particularly obstreperous today myself.)
Friday, September 13, 2013
Allow me to bore you
Last week I started to blog that I didn't feel like blogging the week before. But I decided you didn't care. I guess that's never stopped me before. On 8/30/13, when I didn't blog, I had taken the day off for a funeral. I've reached the age where funerals start me thinking. That night I started to think about writing a blog and started thinking about the two funerals I blogged about earlier in the year. Specifically, I began to wonder why it was just occurring to me that I might blog about this one. I think I felt the need to talk about the earlier funerals because I had been unable to attend them. I guess I'm still sort of thinking out loud.
I'm not on the clock right now, but I am at my desk. It's Friday the 13th. My last day of work will also be Friday the 13th (of February, 2015.) 74 weeks from right now I will be down on 3rd Street having a drink.
I was a little puzzled by Blogger last week, but I think I figured it out. When I checked my blog stats right after I posted a blog, I saw that it said I had 124 page views in April of 2011. I posted my first blog in April of 2012. Also, that was my only post that month, and it has only 64 page views. Then I moused over the graph and saw see that September 2011 was immediately followed by October 2012. That should answer my question. I meant to show that little quirk to my boss, but he's gone for the weekend. I'll check Monday to see if it's still like that.
According to the website I use (http://www.timeanddate.com) I have 355 work days left. That comes to 2840 work hours. My available sick leave balance is 2,561.93000 hrs. (I also have 526.93000 hrs of annual leave, for a total availble leave of 3088.86 hrs, but I'll ignore that for now.) That means I'm short 278.07 hours of sick leave before it equals my remaining work time. I earn leave at a rate of 7.3840 hours per pay period (2 weeks) so I will earn that in 18.8 weeks. In other words, because I earn leave while on paid leave, if I got sick today, I would easily earn that in the 74 weeks before I retire. Just sayin'.
And since my last day of work will be Friday the 13th, as is today, I have exactly 74 weeks (or 1 year, 5 months) left to work (even though it's 520 days until I actually retire.)
So get off my lawn.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Roy Elliot Corcoran
Elliot Corcoran passed away on Monday, August 26, 2013 at the age of 73.
He was a good man. You can tell that for yourself if you read the obituary at the link above. We attended church together for several years. When I petitioned to become a Mason, I asked Elliot for permission to list him as a reference. I was honored to be asked to conduct the Masonic Memorial Service at the funeral home, and my thanks go out to Worshipful Brother Paul Martin of Feliciana Lodge # 31, F&AM for conducting the graveside service. I don't have a picture, so there won't be one in this blog.
Having said that, I can retire in 527 days. So get off my lawn.
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