Got a bit of good news on Friday - we're getting a bonus on Wednesday. It's not much, mind you; just a flat $200 per person if you've worked here at least a year. It's been 4 1/2 years since the last time they did this. I know because I hadn't been here long enough to get a check. But $200 is $200... makes taking this trip to Maine a little easier to manage. Has anyone checked the Weather Channel lately? I need to see the forecast...
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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