I am out of coffee and I don't really feel like moving from my chair.
My daughter is here to help me but she is fighting off something she apparently picked up visiting me in the hospital and is sleeping in. My wife is at work.
I have been trying to come up with a good solid future plan.
I think I need to get my certification for Sports Turf Management and pursue the offer with my local country club.
I seem to have some really good contacts in the Regenerative Agriculture world, I have no capital to spend and I suspect my efforts will be for naught.
I keep hearing from people from my old job. The low level bitterness that is/was the undercurrent of Uni job is amazing. Several people feel I was made an example of. Although no one understands what I could have possibly done to get fired but not banned from campus or escorted out by security. I am surprised that everyone was not given a sticker and a piece of candy and told they were special after my departure but I guess they just went for the bury it and it will go away program. It doesn't really matter. The texts will taper off in the next couple weeks and it is just as well.
HR has not actually taken the steps required to continue my benefits through the COBRA program. I have not called them. They don't want to work any harder than they have to. They probably don't actually know how to do it. The past is any indication of the future, everyone with experience has quit and the office is understaffed with new people who have no idea what is going on.
I shall continue making lists of ideas and soldier on.
I have been encouraged to "write." I have no idea what to write about. Apparently this blog is not particularly interesting to anyone other than grumpy farmers. This is a diminishing group!
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There should be no shortage of grumpy farmers. I used to be just a complaining farmer but now I'm grumpy too.
ReplyDeleteOK that's weird. My brief comment posted which means either you deleted my 1000 word comment or I screwed it up or the Chinese deleted it.
ReplyDeleteThe short version of the long comment is 'just write.' You do produce posts on equipment repair and breakdowns (I'm fond of both) which are good and would actually make good video blog pieces. But I can see that you like words, as do I and that may age us. Even as I mention video blogs, those are outdated; everyone wants 'reels,' a brief video, addicting but a waste. TikTok really is destroying America and the world. Just write about anything for an hour a day. Turn off the music. Throw the dog outside. Avoid excuses.
You could write about turf, your co-workers, found objects and students. That was more interesting that the college politics and quirks. You might find the country club gig less political although the country club crowd has its' quirks. I'd suggest watching Caddy Shack every day for a week or two, blow up some gophers with fertilizer explosions for practice and make a run at it...when your leg won't shatter again.
ReplyDeleteMy long post was about my re-start of a series of short stories about a woman from a small town whose Irag War veteran husband dies in a elevator bin clogged with corn. She's been on the road and is now returning on the Megabus. Each day I write about another of the passengers. I am better at some sort of combination of reality and fiction and pure reality.
Art, No 1000 word response. Watching Caddy Shack was exactly how I prepared for my job interview and how I maintained working at my University. I have been trying to follow your writing formula. The point is to write and become better. What I am writing about is less important.
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