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I see a CBC News thing on hopes to raise income for some of the Canadian populace that is the 10% that is below the poverty line at present. I am not there but well below average income.

Now I do not worry as I am 72 years old and this plan is for a 12 year spread (good luck on that). By then I will be gone I suspect (didn't expect to live this long).

What bothers me is the next generation as some darker power seems to be soaking up inflated production earnings as a rate unequal to the alternate lessor folks (living on Lien) time ... you can see that borrowing on the future as if written on a night wall ... not aspiration but opposite of a dream ... cares blossoming? Some don't worry anything but the subject-I've bin told ... a pit-ah?

There's those that live entirely in the moment ... awaiting impulse? Is the room for such essence ... nothing much in a world of increased avarice make a'sense ...

But you must be mute or transmuted ...
 
I really don't make much, the majority of people on a fixed income have an income greater than mine. I would be shocked if there is someone at the company who makes less than I do.
 
Hi folks.

I am putting up my feet. having a glass of wine.
It's been an interesting week or two on many fronts.
I am kinda hiding, licking some wounds, doing some self-care, and doing my best to help those that I care about in my various workplaces.

There was a possibility of seeing two good friends this week, but, I didn't. I just needed to not make any committments, even though I know that i could bail.

My sister is coming for the week. we will spend time with a wee one. we will get massages somewehre.
 
Sister week will be good. As will massages. And wee one time ... snuggle up! Glad you are taking some time for yourself.
 
Sounds like a good plan Pinga. Things here have been a little rough, stuff going on beyond what I have mentioned, it directly affects Chemguy.
I had my massage the day after I got back. Time with 2 little guys is needed soon. I need the smoke to let up though, another bad day is predicted tomorrow but then we get rain. There are plans for Saturday already, but hoping I can arrange something soon with my sister. I'm trying to remember the last time I saw them - I think it was the day before she went back to work, too long!
 
I can't imagine the smoke. I was driving, and had earlier read an artile on tent cities due to a post, and was pondering the smoke, and how are those who are unhealthy and dont' have ways to clean the air -- how are they surviving. Are buildings opening up like they do hear for high heat or extreme cold?

what a mess we have the world in.
 
i'm feeling disappointed.
We are looking to rent a cottage for a week.
I have never rented a cottage, and presumed if people say it is available for a week, it is.
I also was doing it serial, we picked this one...send a request, wait for a reply, then respond with info, wait for a reply.
Turns out, that people do NOT update their availability. I even had one, where i lost 3 days as she checked if her parents were using it, as they had been offered it. Yup, they were.
Another one, kept me going, say, yes, and can you send me your info, etc....only to be told, that week was taken, but, we can have the week before or after.
I know this is a first world problem, I know that the ability to go to cottage is a privilege.
Just disappointed as my son and significant other were really excited by this cottage, after the other ones fell through.
 
Pinga said:
i'm feeling disappointed.
We are looking to rent a cottage for a week.
I have never rented a cottage, and presumed if people say it is available for a week, it is.
I also was doing it serial, we picked this one...send a request, wait for a reply, then respond with info, wait for a reply.
Turns out, that people do NOT update their availability. I even had one, where i lost 3 days as she checked if her parents were using it, as they had been offered it. Yup, they were.
Another one, kept me going, say, yes, and can you send me your info, etc....only to be told, that week was taken, but, we can have the week before or after.
I know this is a first world problem, I know that the ability to go to cottage is a privilege.
Just disappointed as my son and significant other were really excited by this cottage, after the other ones fell through.
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Sounds like they're kinda disorganized?
 
ChemGal said:
Most of the people who request things of me have never met me, it's all via email. They don't really understand the nature of the hours that I work, they all have work phones, I don't. If my husband gets an email at 9 pm, he typically looks at it fairly quickly to at least see if he needs to be out of town or something (rarely responds at those times, unless he knows there's an urgent project beforehand). Whereas I can get an email at 11am, and am out somewhere and might not see it until the evening.
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How about having an automatic reply to your emails telling them your “ hours of work” or whatever you need to communicate.
 
So disappointing, Pinga. Hope you find some other fun way to spend time together. I'm heading out to our Church Camp today....the source or much of my summer drama, and, I understand the 'lick the wounds' of which you speak, Pinga. I'm nervous about seeing everyone after the latest disaster. I'm nervous about doing chapel time (first time ever, so a newbie), and I'm nervous about whatever kind of fallout will be coming after these summer shenanigans. The good thing is I will see the young people...the campers and those who are running the camp who are refreshingly good young people. My next worship service includes preaching on a passage from the book of James, who urges the doing part of our faith. That is what is keeping me going today.
 
I will probably go out into the back yard ... with beer and peer into a closed tome so I can see what comes to light there ... due to previously closed status ...

Those wishing you to remain steady ... would rather you not know anything alien that they didn't because of opinion about alien flights of fantasy ... into the unknown as we can't escape what we don;t know ... thus Eire 'd ... out there in thought!

The tomb of dead thoughts as not raised lately ...
 
Inannawhimsey said:
Sounds like they're kinda disorganized?
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I think a lot of people kind of just go "hey, let's rent the place out on the weekends/weeks we don't use it" and throw up an ad without thinking about it. Our family cottage was often in use most of the summer once we were all grown up so it was never an option.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
How about having an automatic reply to your emails telling them your “ hours of work” or whatever you need to communicate.
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Mrs. Anteater, we think alike. In this case, there is a primary person who is being forced to do the job. If a crisis occurs or knowledge needs to be transferred, there is a gateway person who can authorize contacting me. So, the out-of-office states to now contact person x for all tasks, plus an email was sent to all active engagements advising them that person x is now the contact. In addition, a plan was put in place regarding how the gateway person can reach me, and how the service is negotiated, ie there is a max hours they can request of me per week, and that diminishes over time. What we are trying to avoid is what is happened in this place before, all of a suddent there is a panic, and they need 40hrs / week , but, i have two other contracts, so end up working 80hrs to try to help them. Setting expectations and all that. Not fun.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
How about having an automatic reply to your emails telling them your “ hours of work” or whatever you need to communicate.
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Everyone already was informed not to expect things the same or next day. I think having set hours would just create more expectations on response. If it becomes an issue it will get discussed, but I rarely get urgent requests. Most of the time I only get things where I can bill a few hours at a time. Larger number of hours typically are more complex things and usually involves back and forth as they rarely send all the info I need for those.

This was unusual, it was all the simplest task (typically 1-3, maybe 5) but was over 12 this time.
 
Oh, it is a shared activity. I probably should have used "we have one" . Facebook chat, fun on Saturday researching. None of us have rented a cottage before so it is a learning experience.
 
One thing you need to be prepared for is a crappy mattress - lumpy, saggy, past its prime. In my experience of renting cottages and hanging out in friends' cottages, every family cottage is the second incarnation of the family's replaced mattresses.

I still have fond, hilarious memories of the cottage we rented in Parry Sound for our honeymoon. The thin mattress had a distinct slope towards the wall, so we spent the week practically on top of each other..which is fine for newlyweds, lol.
 
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