Behold....Quiet

J. is out campaigning.  Walking neighborhoods, knocking on doors and asking people to vote for the candidate.  J. enjoys it and is good at it - though in this town, I feel worried about him constantly. We swing a little (way) more left than 99% of the people in our town....and I always worry about him walking around knocking on doors of people who swing way, way right - and have guns.

But he enjoys it, it's contributing to our party and our town and region - so yeah, J. .  Keep on keeping on.,  Just be careful.

H. is somewhere.  No idea where.

There's so much happening at work that I wish I could write about but I won't.  I'm sure I could craft it all in a way that would protect the innocent - and I sure would like to just get it all out on paper....'cuz writing has always helped me sort through a bunch of stuff.  I did seize the moment after a meeting my boss and I were both attending - and as the meeting cleared, I brought up a subject I've been concerned about for a bit.  Was grateful it was a good conversation and he listened and I think 'got' what I was saying.  He reassured 'we'll get there'.  As in the collective 'we' (district).  I hope so. It's a long, hard road these days.

I often think if I were in my 30's, I'd be totally up for it all.  But I'm in my mid-50's and I'm just not. But I need to work so nose to the grindstone; get through it and do what needs doing.

I was working on depreciation today for our audit and my boss said 'what are you depreciating?'.  I said 'everything we own - land/buildings/equipment.  Decades of data.  I did finally have a wonderful friend at the County Office assist me in re-tooling the spreadsheet.  It had so many formulas and it would recalc each cell after every single entry/action.  We've got it only recalculating the current year's info and striking a balance for the current year we need to report.  Saves tons of times - data entry is a gazillion times faster than it was in the old spreadsheet.  My boss seemed surprised that was part of my job - guess he thought the auditors do it.  They don't.

B. isn't coming home - no road trip.  Guess their six week excursion that ended up being only three weeks wasn't enough for two weeks off.  They all got a four day pass...so not enough time to take 2 days each way to/from.  We will see him in Phoenix in November and can't wait!

The floors will be another 10 days away from being installed.  The custom risers are on order and take a long time to get here.  H. moved the study closet stuff out into the garage - so I'm back to parking outside again for a couple weeks.

Very much looking forward to the weekend.