For the past few weeks at work, we’ve been working on rewriting the educational booklets we hand out to people about different mental illnesses. The state used to write and publish them but has since become cheap and doesn’t anymore. My boss didn’t want it to be a huge undertaking and divided us up in groups. Each group had a job to do. It worked wonderfully until yesterday, when the editing group decided to tell us they hadn’t edited everything. Oh yeah, this was an hour before my boss was going to send the final drafts off to the printer. Nice, huh? Needlessly to say, no one is happy with the editing group this morning since they’re basically holding all of us up. And the funny thing about all this is – on Friday, when we were supposed to hand everything in, the four people responsible for editing were goofing off and spent most of the day hanging around in the break room.
Anna’s soccer season is coming to a premature end next week. Everyone received letters yesterday, saying they’ve decided to start redoing the field a few weeks early. The YMCA got a grant to redo the soccer field and the baseball diamonds and they weren’t going to start until the last week of July. They didn’t explain why but promised to refund our money since it wasn’t a full season. I think this is pretty crappy since they’ve barely gotten to play any games.
When I got to work today, one of the tech guys was standing in the parking lot, having a cigarette. As a former smoker, things like that don’t bother me because he’s outside. We started talking about the statewide smoking ban that goes into effect on July 1st and how stupid and selfish it is. You can’t smoke in any public place, even if it’s outside. So, for example, you decide to go fishing along the lake, you can’t smoke. I mean, god forbid you give the fish, which are already living in polluted waters, cancer! I could get behind it if the state was doing it to help people, but they aren’t. It’s all about the money. Seriously. One of the places you can still smoke at are casinos, which make the state millions of dollars in tax revenue each year. This whole ban is going to cost the state more money than it’s worth.
Until later…
