Okay, well coming into work, I find a message sent out to everyone from the general manager. News of people moving around from one location to another. The one that got my interest was about the inside salesman that is moving out of state. As I said in an earlier post, I put my declaration of interest in the position to the manager who is over such on Friday. I am going to look on the job board and see if that position is listed. It's a fact that almost all of the guys that are working in inside sides right now had absolutely NO previous experience when they moved into the position. Yes, they are "fluent" now but it took them quite some time to get to that point.
Do I have any chance at all? Dunno, but I can always hold out hope. The manager that was here stated that they may not even replace that position at all and just dump the work on everyone else.
Phoenix Suns won last night! Woohoo. Home court advantage made a difference. Okay, what really made the difference was Stoudemire coming out with guns blazing, he was playing and extremely aggressive game, it was obvious from the git-go and it was a much different Stoudemire than the first 2 games of this LA V Phoenix series. It paid off. Fry - needs to go home, permenantly. Lol. Holding out hope that when they go back to LA, it's a tied series.
South Korea is now, finally, making demands of NK. Obama, of whom I have regarded as a yellow-belly when it comes to war and the things of war, apparently is changing his tune concerning this situation in offering the U.S.'s full support to SK and instructing the military commanders to prepare for come what may. I give very little kudos to Obama for much of anything, but, this is one arena where I will. I personally believe we should totally pull out of Afghanistan and let that nation live in the stew it has been brewing for - ever. NK is an enemy that I would support our troops being involved with if war were declared. I am not a big fan of wars, but if we must, it must be something that IS worth the lives of our troops, because there ain't too many wars that I ever heard of where one side has everyone surviving and the other everyone dying.
I haven't heard the NK rhetoric machine pumping out it's filth, I'm sure it's just around the corner
Ponds. I have been looking at the pond ads on CL for quite some time now. The guy with the huge ponds came down in his price - still far out of my reach. Well, not far-far, but $150 is more than I can afford right now, that's all. Another guy who has 9 new ponds also came down in his price. A large pond for $65. IF they are as big as he says they are, that's a steal.
Patience is a virtue. Someone will come on there eventually having a ridiculously low price on a large pond - one did a while back but I didn't want it at the time -- just to dump the thing. That pond? It was 8 feet long. For a preformed, that's a good side and twice the size of either of my existing ponds. My existing ponds could, if I do get a bigger one, simply be used as water plant ponds. Once the plants mature, it is a very eye-catching sight. Plus they will have that nice waterfall - if I ever get done with it, lol.
My son's birthday today. He turns 17. It is a 2-sided coin in seeing him grow up. One side says, wow, where did all that time fly off to, the other says, yes, he's going to off to college! I love my son, yes. Great kid.
I went and looked at an apartment for my friends that are returning to Phoenix from the boonies somewhere in Indiana yesterday. Not bad - not fancy, but it is nice. It's 1/2 mile from my house. They asked me to check it, I didn't know they were planning on coming back until they said the VA hospital where they are living at is 90 miles away. Ouch. There was some bad news: Their daughter (in her 30's) has colon cancer. Man oh man. What life delivers sometimes, it's crazy. All the more impetus to get back here. She lives in Tucson, about an hour an a half drive the way they drive.
Well that's enough for one entry. It cooled down considerably overnight - 53 degrees this morning. I shut the AC off last night - if tenants complain, oh well. I am not running the AC when it's that cool. In fact, the AC won't come on anyway, the temperature will be far lower than that of the setting on the thermostat.
Anyway, have a great day!
ben
2 comments:
So you want to go fight in Korea again? Seems we been there done that and have nothing to show for it. Someone somewhere better figure out what 'broke' means, pull our troops out of SK and station them in Cal, Ariz, NM and Texas where our tax dollars will do some good. Let CHina pay to protect SK; they have all the money.
We're already there.
I would rather see our troops pulled out of Afghanistan - the Russians tried that (war) and they gave us a little hint: get out while you can still save face and save your troop's lives, these people don't WANT to live any differently.
North Korea is a threat to world peace, period.
It is a good thing to have troops stationed there, pulling out would also mean losing a very strategic position as far as I can see it.
We have national guard to place on the border - the Feds don't want to pay for it.
Also, I said "IF war were declared" not that I want to see our boys going back into harm's way. But if they are, I can certainly see the necessity of it in this instance, I don't see it in Afghanistan.
China is friends with NK, apparently - they're both communist nations. Why would China pay to protect SK? Why would you trust a nation such as China which regularly kills it's own people to protect a country that isn't in alignment with their political views? China is as bad as NK as far as I'm concerned. I hear the stories most people don't hear about concerning the underground church in China and it's pastors being beater, hauled off and either never to be seen again or showing up bloodied, bruised, broken bones, same with the followers that go to those churches. China is an EXTREMELY oppressive nation when it comes to human rights, I have no respect for the Chinese government.
Shall we also pull out of Japan? Japan is facing Chinese patrols going through it's waters. What shall we do, mr. or mrs. anonymous? Send everyone home and hide our heads in the sand? Wait for WWIII? Do nothing? Sit on our hands? Please illucidate.
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