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Company has come and gone (here for just about a week), caught up on some chores this past week, and now trying to get house stuff done and oranized so I can start living out at the cottage. Of course we will go back and forth between there and town (about 30 minute drive) - for many reasons - commitments, taking care of house and yard in town, and being a support and help to my daughter. I am looking forward to cottage season - getting back to gardening, quading (need to check with my eye doctor to see if I can do this), kayaking, boating, campfires, etc.

Enjoyed our company and our visits with them.

@Seeler - I hear you about your disgruntledness with the changes you experienced with your volunteer work. One of the areas I volunteer at within our church has recently incurred some changes (not in affect yet, but soon) . . . and I am trying to be positive about it, but I'm not sure about how well it will work. Change is hard, but the change you are talking about appears to be taking away from the intended ministry - hope there is some resolution here for the good of the folks that come to this outreach.
 
Oh Seeler - how unfortunate. Is the new lady scared of the clients? Or maybe anxious to 'keep them in their places'? To me it sounds like the volunteering she is doing is all about her not all about serving the visitors. A table set up with utensils is much more welcoming than standing before a serving window and picking up your own cutlery and food.
 
Oh Seeler the locked door is a fire inspector no-no. Perhaps it is time for a meeting off all the volunteers and a "plan" that everyone can support. It does sound like she is isolating herself.
Personally I think set tables are more respectful than grabbing cutlery as you pick up food.
 
I think I've treated attack number 6 now. Scary how much my dentist pushed for me to get them out when I was younger, when I didn't know and had no meds. They claim it's easier when the roots aren't matured. I don't understand that though, back then they were both impacted into my sinuses. Now, the one that hadn't broken through yet was the one that's causing me the most amount of grief, and was the most difficult to remove.
 
whew! Delivered my 3 quilts for the show to my friend who teaches across the road from the show. She took them over -as they needed to be there from 9-10.-luckily she was free at that time. i wasn't. The sense of relief is great. I hadn't realized the pressure until it was gone

and so I have learned:
I like sewing for pleasure-and gifts more than for a show
I overestimate my productivity and underestimate my time available
and I learned to put on hanging sleeves
and the iron the freezer paper on the back of fabric and put through printer does not work on my printer
 
Is that sooth saying about the subtle tooths ... one can't be too subtle about the bite ... when dwelling with back bite Ayres !
 
Congratulations on the quilts getting in, Tabitha. I get the overcommitted, underestimated bit.

Seeler, I wonder if this person is concerned about food safety and too many people in the kitchen or people touching stuff or coughing around food. I am trying to think why the person is having the issue. (Now, having said that, I too have dealt with people who don't have control in their own lives and come into a place and try to drive control, and their foolish ideas, rather than working through stuff as a team)
Can you ask her?
Do you have times when you all gather to discuss items? can you bring it up there?
Conflict can seriously deplete volunteers, but, so can moving from a co-operative approach to a controlling approach.
Good luck navigating it, but, I know you have the capability to do it..
 
*** waves at Beloved. Welcome back to the cottage. How much fun is that. So nice to have one so close that you can return.

I was at the show last night on a work (team) outing. We had VIP seats which are pre-reserved, have a waitress and you can have dinner & alcohol in these lovely big seats with little table.
Watched the Avengers. It was a fun evening.

Today I head home to a busy weekend. Party for my brother-in-law's 65th and mother's day.

I also am getting closer to setting a date for retirement. Not there yet....but, things are moving into place.
 
Chansen,
Be cautious, absolute authority doesn't like sharp people ... could burst the idealistic bubble ... you know ... red roses and yellow balloons and all ... have a good dash at it ... evaluate the hue of your leader! Ensure they're not an adz ... not into well-rounded experience ...

I once 'adz one of them ! Some say hadz ... when believing in possession of the total Z's ... an oppositional conflict!
 
Laughing gently with Chansen. I remember once my ex-husband showing up at a branch office-and no one was there for the day.
 
chansen said:
Sitting in car, first day at new job, waiting for someone to come open the office, lol. I'm such a keener.
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Waterford is the second church I have worked in with a security system. Unwisely we have two access points with keypads.

But now I know that if I'm in my office I cannot get out without triggering the alarm. If I've merely stopped to freshen up in the main bathroom area I can access the keypad without triggering the system and I don't need to pull any mission impossible maneuvers to do so.

Of course our alarm company immediately dials in and asks whomever answers for a password before notifying police. Try having that conversation when nobody has told you the password.

The operator was pretty sharp though. Kept me on the line long enough for me to identify everyone else who would be on the call tree. Once she was satisfied I was not a criminal mastermind she asked me to guess the password. Trying to be clever I went through the history of the congregation trying to pick a reasonable password. I was stumped.

She finally told me and I boggled. "Really?" I asked. "How is that secure? That's like using password as a password!"

"But sir, I've had you on the phone for five minutes and you never thought of it."

I paused for a moment. Caught in that trap.

"If I was a criminal mastermind I would never have answered the phone I'd have been getting out ASAP."

Out of that trap faster than Batman.
 
Saw my RMT today. It's amazing what a massage can do. My face looks so much better now, she really managed to get a fair bit of fluid out of my face. I'm feeling much better too, sleeping in the hospital bed, on the couch, etc. really wasn't doing the rest of my body any favours.
 
that's good news chemgal

Rev. John sounds like you need to sit down with your property cmttee and review (and change) passwords
 
I`ve calmed down about the incident on Wednesday. I do believe that this person has some issues and it is possible that she was asked to volunteer to keep her involved and boost her self-worth. She has health issues that prevent her from working full time. I think she is goal oriented (rather than people oriented). She sees a job to do - prepare a hot meal (usually soup) for thirty or forty people; she does it. Another person makes sandwiches and a few others help -like I would if she would let me.
The issue of the locked door. No we don`t want a lot of people in the kitchen. We`ve usually kept the bottom half of the door closed and a generic sign says something about Authorized People. But it was easy to reach over and turn the knob to get into the kitchen. Volunteers passed in and out between the two rooms. Clients might occasionally step inside to ask for some paper towels to wipe up a spill, or to have a milk picture refilled, or bring out some dirty dishes. We long-time volunteers have learned which clients we can depend upon as sort of client-volunteers - and the few that need to be watched for one reason or another.
But I`ve mentioned what I see as a problem. Now I will step back and try to avoid confrontation. I am quite sure that she is doing her best.
 
aaah, seeler, glad you were able to process.

hey, revjohn. the passwords that I have seen. sad, sad. sad.

I once was sitting with a peer. We were working on a security installation. The tool had been present before, we were doing a fresh barebones install, but, had left the old one up to watch it. He took care of the hardware layer, i was at the application layer.

We were sitting in a room, when someone we knew walked in with someone we didn't know. The stranger proceeded to write Pap3rT0w3l on the board. I didn't recognize it as anything? figured it was a puzzle or something going on. The other guy turned 10 shades of red.

Turned out it was the password for the primary server side account. Not one that I knew. One that he had inherited.
Within 20 min the password was changed to a 40-character random set of characters (upper, lower, numbers, special) which changed every 3 days.

The gentleman was a professional hacker brought in to test certain envs. Took him less than 10 min to get in.
 
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