It's another day of plentiful staff at the testing center, so I took today off. Boss is a good guy who "will not cut hours", but we know he has a budget to answer to, so Party Girl, Sarge, and I tag team on making ourselves scarce.
Thing is, we're currently overstaffed. Grandboss allowed Kitty to move from a different campus to our campus (closer to where she lives) because of the impending birth of her baby. This is her last week before going on an extended family leave. So it's been a bit of musical chairs.
Today's day of hooky included the fun and excitement of getting the emissions tested on one of our cars. We have to check emissions every two years, and time was up. As is typical, the emission test place was staffed with friendly teenagers and young 20-ers. There is a permanent help wanted sign posted noting the perks:
- On the job training
- No evenings or weekends
- No HS diploma required
Then the hitch - "Must be 16 years old and able to drive a manual transmission"
I wonder how many prospects the manual transmission requirement weeds out. Anyway, vehicle 1 (manual transmission😊) passed. Vehicle 2 is up in another month.
On Sunday, we got together with Wolfgang and Meego to acknowledge Wolfgang's recent birthday. After a delicious lunch where we watched some of the USA women's rugby team literally run over Japan's team, we checked out Wolfgang's new apartment. Nice, modern, priced for the prime downtown location. Pay no attention to the railroad tracks.
It's another hot one today. Despite that, I indulged in a bicycle ride and am now typing this from the downtown library, where the air conditioning is much appreciated. Adding to the heat struggles, our air quality is in the tank. We've got a [wildfire] burning just over there. It made itself known yesterday, late morning. I'm sure my lungs are mad at me.
This fire is in the same area that burned back in 2020, just when we'd thought 2020 couldn't get much worse. Magnum and I went hiking near there just a few weeks ago.
If anyone has tips on rainmaking I'll take them. I might wash a car later, that often works.
5 comments:
Glad your car passed emission. I think that is great that you took the day off to give someone else a chance and save your boss money. It was so dry here until a week ago and now all it does is rain. Wish I could send you some!
Chatty, I also wish you could send us some rain! Forecast is hot and dry all week, rain next week. Fingers crossed!
LOL true story: wash your car (or in my case, add water to the pool) and it's bound to rain!
Dance till it rains? I always loved this quote from Sherman Alexie:
“ Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.”
Allstarme79, neighbor across the street was out washing his vehicles with the power washer. Rain dance!
Fresca, by George, you're right! Sneaky.
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