Nada...

Happy Do Nothing Day!!!

G-man and friends has been waiting for a snow day and cursing the school superintendent every cold day there is not one....

So today, finally, their curses were heard and answered...

And what did they do all day? Nada...nothing....celebrated the day as it was meant to be celebrated....

But, wonder of wonders, by noon they were complaining that there was nothing to do - they were bored...

Having played several hours of halo through the night and morning to reach level 16 or 17 or whatever, they were bored....

Friday afternoon and nothing to do...

And then I got on facebook and noticed that a few other kids I know (yes, AR) who were just the other day complaining about homework and not getting a snowday, were just as bored as G-man.

Sound like anyone we know? Kids never change...

Back in the day...when I was growing up, we did not get snow days....

And we walked to school...three miles one way...

Uphill both ways...

With no mittens...

and...well, you know...

More fun in the snow...

Peyton PHlaCe updates...

I decided to work from home today because I had to take care of some business that I could not take care of in the evening (yeah, bankers have the greatest hours - if you are a banker).

I could probably have taken care of things at lunch but I had a lunchtime meeting with my boss and coworkers who reside farther west (Wisconsin and California).

So, rather than have to leave the office a couple hours before lunchtime or after the normal lunch hour, I just did not go in....

While I was on the phone with my boss, I got an email from corporate informing all full time employees that, in addition to the recent cost-cutting measures recently put into place, Peyton PHlaCe will not be increasing salaries at all this year with the exception of promotions.

What recent cost-cutting measures?
In early November they laid off quite a few people, but opted to pay them their regular salary through the end of the year, provide benefit coverage through March, provide outplacement services immediately, offer severance packages to be paid in Jan, and pass their work along to those who were not laid off....
Then, just when the severence packages start to kick in (at the start of the new year), they rehire some of the previously laid off employees - through contracting agencies.
So now Peyton PHlaCe is paying severance, full benefits, and a much larger salary to a contracting agency for employees they could not afford to keep 6 weeks ago.

Since those cost cutting measures did not work out quite as well as they thought they would, they will try a different approach. No raises - unless they can find a way to promote you...of course, all this during a delayering reorganization still in process...so it may not be in anyone's best interest to seek a promotion...

What are the chances that that lotto ticket I bought is THE winner????

I am not a fan of winter...

...but when Mother Natures gives ya snow...

Mom's wisdom...

2-1/2 year old Suzie has just been given a little 'tea set' as a gift. It was one of her favorite toys.

Suzie's Mom was out grocery shopping, and she was left home alone with Dad. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when the Suzie brought him a little cup of 'tea', which was just water.

After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, Mom came home. Dad made her wait in the living room to watch Suzie bring him a cup of tea, because it was 'just the cutest thing!'

Mom waited,and sure enough, Suzie comes down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up.

Then Mom, in her infinite wisdom, asks Dad, "Did it ever occur to you that the only place she can reach to get water is the toilet?"