Starting A Long Weekend
It ended up being an extra long weekend for me. As soon as I got up out of bed on Friday, I took care of logging onto the internet and emailing myself off for the day due to a medical concern, sent the email off to the office, and went back to sleep. Or at least I thought I would go back to sleep.
Before I logged off another email popped up on my screen. It was from another job application for driving a bus for another county. I was requested to call them asap. I took the hint and called. They wanted me to come down there immediately to file the paperwork and get everything situated for start of class coming up in in a couple of weeks.
No rest for the weary! I got ready and flew on down to take care of the paperwork. Wow! The paperwork to go through to be a bus driver is awful but I guess where children are concerned, it pays to be cautious about who they are hiring to transport them.
The paperwork ended up almost complete. They found an error between my social security card and my current drivers license that would need to be corrected before I could enter class down there. On my driver license its states I am a JR. On my social security card it states I am not, but it is signed with the JR in my signature.
I hope the fifty miles I drove to get that corrected will be worth it. The office in Culpeper confiscated my old card and I should expect the corrected social security card in the mail within two weeks. Now, to the world, I am not my father.
Advising others on trips
I seldom plan anything without checking the Internet first. That especially goes for planning trips and vacations.
I’m a member and regularly visit dozens of sites that specialize in travelers’ reviews but I rely mostly on TripAdvisor. Its system is super simple, but quite effective and there are so many users on there that I can also look up other reviews that users have written so I can trust their reviews based on what they thought of other sites and destinations I’ve gone to.
I regularly write reviews myself of attractions that I think are really outstanding or absolutely horrible. I also like to include video clips of trips to give the other users better ideas of what they’re getting into and the reason I reviewed something a certain way. I recently decided to Get Wild Blue so I could upload these easier and watch others’ videos too that dial-up wasn’t loading or playing at a decent speed.
Since then I’ve gone on a few weekend trips with friends that I’ve reviewed a few destinations for but I try not to get too crazy. Writing those reviews are pretty time-consuming.
Kool Aid
I used to love Kool Aid as a kid, as long as it was Cherry or Black Cherry. These days I’ve been drinking iced tea and I’ve become a bit tired of it day in and day out. Yesterday I was at the grocery store and I saw that Kool Aid was on sale so I picked up a couple of packets. Yum Yum
New to website creation
My cousin has been talking about starting her own business in the next couple of years. She actually has a good idea for a non-profit organization that is going to be helping people who have served time in jail for non-violent crimes. The ex-cons that don’t have friends or family waiting on the “outside” to help them get their lives back together will be able to come to her business and get some help. She’s talking about building a large campus with dormitories and apartments on site. I would love to help her out with her project, but she lives hundreds of miles away from her.
I was reading a webhostinghub review about how easy it is to create a small business website and thought that maybe that is one way I can help my cousin from afar – I could help her with her website. I’ll offer to set it up for free and help her out that way. I’m sure that will be a relief for her. Now she can focus on her fund raising and picking out a location for her business and all of the other hundreds of decisions that need to be made when you plan something that big and great!
Family fun
Some of my favorite childhood memories are about taking a short break from the rigors of life and going away for a long weekend with the family. We had a small Avion travel trailer and we would use it a few times every year to take the whole family on a trip.
I can remember taking it one year to Gettysburg during a spring break. It was unseasonably cold there, and even though we had the heater cranked up as high as it would go, we were still freezing! Then there was a Christmas break down to the some islands off of the coast of the Carolinas. I can’t remember at the top of my head what the name of the islands were; I just remember how my parents had the smallest artificial Christmas tree I’ve ever seen perched on top of the dining table!
My parents modified the trailer so that one of us actually slept in the bathtub, one of us on top of the dresser in the bedroom, one of us on a cot in the kitchen, and two of us on the sofa-bed, while my parents slept in the double sized bed in the bedroom! Looking back, I think my parents were crazy, but I have to give them credit for trying!