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Tuesday, Jun. 03, 2003 - 7:25 p.m. This morning, while I was making my breakfast (English muffin with nectarine butter on top), I noticed that our furnace was running. Since I had the thermostat set at 60�, waiting for the switchover to the air conditioner, this was bad news. It�s June the 3rd, folks. The high temperature today was all of 56�! The rain that started around the time for the first pitch at Codeman�s final high school baseball game, hung around until late this afternoon. It fell most of the last 12 hours or so as a very fine mist, keeping everything wet for almost 24 hours. In that time, my rain gauge only registered 6/10th of an inch of precipitation. Since it fell so slowly, it did the gardens more good than any common 1� downpour ever could. Still�� It�s not a good thing to be setting record lows this late into the year. All of my warm-weather crops are suffering. Tomato plants have yellow leaves, beans are slow to germinate if they do at all, and my pepper plants aren�t much bigger than they were when I planted them almost a month ago. Somehow, I just know the mercury will shot up to the mid-90�s in a week or so��.. While on the subject of gardening�. Tonight�s stir-fry contained the following: Chinese celery cabbage, Oregon Sugar Pod II snow peas, Bok Choy, and garlic (last years) from the garden. Shrimp, Korean squash (a sweet zucchini purchased in Collegetown a weekend ago), red bell pepper, and Vidalia onions from the market. I cooked a pack of deluxe Korean ramen noodles (Shin Run� brand- with a spicy hot sauce mix that will be used at a later date), threw all of the above together with bottled stir fry sauce, oyster sauce, and a little instant chicken broth. It might sound like a lot of work, but it wasn�t. It took about 10 minutes to clean and chop the produce, and another 10-15 minutes to cook everything. I guess if you include the time it took to actually grow the veggies, then it took a lot longer to make�. Opened the newspaper today to see an article written about our new department head here at the NDDOT. Seems he don�t think much of us. He said that he believes that 10% of our NDDOT highways employees don�t work for their paycheck. He said that he has found one crew with a man sleeping in the cab of his truck, and another with someone reading a newspaper. From this, he deduced that our department is riddled with fuckoffs? He has instituted a new program that involves slapping bumper stickers on all of our trucks with a toll-free telephone number included with the usual "How's my driving?" info. If you find a state crew doing anything you don�t like, you just call the number up to rat on said employees. Some of the things he mentioned as �punishable offences� included parking alongside the roadway, stopping at a service station, parking a state vehicle on any business or private parking lot, and the stereotyped-image of an employee �leaning on his shovel�. Gee, thanks a lot, boss! We have one of the most public jobs on the face of the earth. Most of us realize this, and go out of our way to not leave a bad impression with the public. But there are times when you don�t appear to be working. These periods, in the rest of the working world, are known as �break time� and lunch time�. Where exactly would he like us to eat our lunch? Should we all return to the storage, no matter how far away the job site is, to not be seen parked alongside the road? This man has been a school administrator for the past decade or so, so I am sure he knows all about road repairs and maintenance..... Our new Gov. also mentioned in a speech recently that 1,500 NDDOT employees would have to be �eliminated� due to the budget crunch. This, after he promised our union that maintaining the roads was one of his highest priorities, and that he would hire more maintainers, not laying any present workers off. Our union took the bait, and they recommended that we vote for him. Most of my fellow workers didn�t, though. We have heard these kinds of false promises before. Whenever someone runs for office and makes so many promises that he sounds like Santa Claus, I tend to look more closely at voting for his opponent. Santa Claus had elves to make all of his �gifts�. A politician who tries to be just like him has to take money from taxpayers to pay for all of his �gifts�. And when they realize they can�t keep all of their promises, the first thing they want to do is cut jobs and raise more taxes. Just like our newest Santa/Governor���..
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