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Thursday, Aug. 08, 2002 - 4:33 p.m. So, I have a few minutes before I have to head to the ball diamonds to spend my Thursday evening scoring. No, not the good kind of scoring. I am happily married, after all. No, I mean the kind of scoring where you have to keep track of balls and strikes, outs and runs. Official scoring, you might call it. The men�s state softball championship tourney. And not even the best teams. No, today I found out that we are scoring two games for teams in the �B� tourney. I just can�t wait! Someone at work said it best: �You need to learn how to say no�. Nope. Not gonna happen. The guy who asked us has helped us out (sports-wise) before. So I didn�t want to leave him shorthanded. But why couldn�t it be the boy�s Pony state championship? At least baseball games have a few runs scored in them. Men�s fast pitch softball games usually end up 1-0 in extra innings. Sorta like soccer, without strange haircuts. And, if they score a run, they don�t tear off their jersey and go into some pre-planed �spontaneous celebration�. There. That ought to do it: I have found a way to piss off both soccer players and adult men�s fast pitch softball players in the same entry�� I found out a little more about the audit I will be subjected to at work (next month). And I have come to this conclusion: I am basically fucked. The auditors want to see a paper trail from when I picked up supplies (a filter, say), to until it was installed on a vehicle. In between, I should have a way to show them when I bought it, where I inventoried it, when I brought it downstairs to give it to a shop monkey, and when it was charged out to that piece of equipment. I can�t do that. I can show them the papers from when I picked the supplies up. I can show them where I registered the supplies in my files. I can show them when I moved the supply into our storage�s supplies downstairs. But I can�t show them anything more. Doing inventory in the year 2002 using anything but a computer is slow, wasteful, and it�s nearly impossible to do when your job duties include ANYTHING besides keeping inventory. Since I still plow snow, mix brine, and have other duties year-round, I can�t be sure of every single bit of my inventory. I might have mentioned it before, but if not: I don�t have a computer. I have a set of flip-files that has the date �1937� stamped on the backside. I am down to my last set of cards for this antique, and then I will be out of luck. That is, unless I can find something over at the state surplus warehouse from, say, the 1940�s that I can use for a few more years. Will we ever get a computer for this job? Probably not while I work for the state. Remember- I can�t retire for at least 12 years. The state never moves quickly����.
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