Thursday, New Things Happening!!
It is not smart to wait for specific things in a disaster to come clear before you write about them. Events overtake you and you are left without a story. The VIC and the DMORT facility is on a very short time frame by now. We had been waiting to find out if state and New Orleans officials were going to send DMORT in to search the 9th ward for additional victims. Turns out today is the day for that decision, but it is just a mission to recover bodies, they will not be coming to the VIC at all and our data mission is over. There is an orderly withdrawal of people and equipment, it has to be refurbished and restocked in preperation of the next disaster. This package goes to California, the one that was in Mississippi went back to Ohio.
I have been reassigned to the JFO again, and according to the network manager over there he wants me to be a floor manager.. I guess he is short handed with some of the people cycling out permanently. This should be an ok bridge back to unemployement in April and give me a chance to see the JFO in the midst of its transition to a different type of disaster employee. The demand for people has been so great, and the mission so long that the Feds are making a new kind of federal employee...... These guys are going to be 3-5 year "temporary" employees and will assume most of the responsibilities here for the duration of the disaster. Almost all the contractors are gone, or converted to local hires to help reduce costs (no rental cars or per-diem for them now). Presumably the last ones out this cycle are the DAE's like me and I believe they are trying to get our class of workers some rest before the next round of disasters this summer..... (none of you really think this will be a year without a disaster do you?)
Went to eat at Golden Corral the other evening and had quite a show. There was a brunette there, 20 something wearing a turquoise tube top and spray painted jeans... a classic beauty and she knew it. She was eating alone and every eye in the place was on her. Trena was laughing her ass off at the guys and teasing them for the jaw dropping displays they put on. This gal ate in about 20 min, chatting on the phone the whole time, completely above the fray and swayed out of that place with eye prints all over her smiling like a great big light bulb. Apparently exceptionally attractive people are rare here... :-D.......
For those of you that might want to live as I do, I might point out that tax time is a real headache. My mom has done a ton of work for me this year helping with my tax preparation but it has been a nightmare. one of my 1099's is 9 pages long.... close spaced small print and 9 pages... holy cow.... At least it is going to be done this weekend.. and likely am not going to owe very much.
Spring is fully here, trees are out, flowers are too... it is nice!!!
I have been reassigned to the JFO again, and according to the network manager over there he wants me to be a floor manager.. I guess he is short handed with some of the people cycling out permanently. This should be an ok bridge back to unemployement in April and give me a chance to see the JFO in the midst of its transition to a different type of disaster employee. The demand for people has been so great, and the mission so long that the Feds are making a new kind of federal employee...... These guys are going to be 3-5 year "temporary" employees and will assume most of the responsibilities here for the duration of the disaster. Almost all the contractors are gone, or converted to local hires to help reduce costs (no rental cars or per-diem for them now). Presumably the last ones out this cycle are the DAE's like me and I believe they are trying to get our class of workers some rest before the next round of disasters this summer..... (none of you really think this will be a year without a disaster do you?)
Went to eat at Golden Corral the other evening and had quite a show. There was a brunette there, 20 something wearing a turquoise tube top and spray painted jeans... a classic beauty and she knew it. She was eating alone and every eye in the place was on her. Trena was laughing her ass off at the guys and teasing them for the jaw dropping displays they put on. This gal ate in about 20 min, chatting on the phone the whole time, completely above the fray and swayed out of that place with eye prints all over her smiling like a great big light bulb. Apparently exceptionally attractive people are rare here... :-D.......
For those of you that might want to live as I do, I might point out that tax time is a real headache. My mom has done a ton of work for me this year helping with my tax preparation but it has been a nightmare. one of my 1099's is 9 pages long.... close spaced small print and 9 pages... holy cow.... At least it is going to be done this weekend.. and likely am not going to owe very much.
Spring is fully here, trees are out, flowers are too... it is nice!!!
posted by Steve Morse- Adventures in Disasters at 5:22 PM
3 Comments:
Have you checked the weather in Colorado Springs today?
Thanks for the update.
Hello my good friend! I truly appreciate you sharing your experiences and opinions of the events in NO,LA. You have given me many more reasons to thank God for keeping me safe! Things have been going much much better for me as well. Hugs to you, and you are missed. JJ
::::throwing snowballs and hoping for a big blizzard when you get back::: O;-)
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