23:56 - 27.07.06
Flambe
The air quality was so bad yesterday that I spent most of the morning trying to get my lungs to work. That incremental amount of herbs and meds so that the least amount of damage is done you see. It had been nearly impossible sleeping the night before. There was also this sudden pressing intuition that I had to get one block of paperwork completed immediately. I finally gave up and got up for the day at 5 in the am. Between the lungs, the paperwork and the cats wanting to cuddle it took me until 10 in the am to finish up the written part of the report. The one that had to be sent in with my invoice for the pre-election work.
Checked my email after that and found a schedule for the next round of preparation for the next election in my inbox. Assignments being sent out next week. Also a voicemail from my second in command asking for a specific type of tax document. She needed it for her own personal use. She said she had made several calls to the finance help line, but that no one was taking calls nor was anyone returning her voicemails. Sigh. Sent off an email to the one person responsible for tax things and then one to my assistant just letting her know that I had made the effort. Everything in writing with that type of issue, don't you know. Got an email back from the tax specialist this morning confirming that document was in the mail.
My voice - because of the air pollution - now has that gravelly, bad cold sound and it hurts to talk. Time on the phone isn't something I really crave right now. I think I must be fighting off some sort of virus too, since I definitely was fighting a fever as well yesterday. I had just assumed it was the heat outside that was making me feel so uncomfortable. Then I realized that the actual air temperature was lower than it had been for several days; although still in the 90s F/ 30s C. Took an aspirin and several showers - one about every two hours - just to bring the body temperature down to normal. At least no one could complain I was stinky, eh? I subscibe to a lot of free on-line newspapers because I find it helpful to look at things from different points of view/lifestyles. Yesterday this Miami paper had a really useful article on dealing with summer heat waves. They would be experts on that. Right now in our news are reports of air conditioners being shipped to the Arctic, for heaven's sake. What's up with that?
Number three son called in the early afternoon after I had finally fallen into a real sleep. Oh well. Could he come by to pick up his ticket for the folk festival? Sure thing. Maybe that was the reason I felt the need to get that paperwork done - an intuition about his visit. You see the post office is a bit of a walk from my home. That is normally a good thing, because I count it in as part of my exercise program you see. However, with my lungs inflamed and the temperature so hot it would be risky for me to try and make it over there on foot. However, since it is the invoice for the work I've done the past three months for the next election, it really needed to be submitted so I actually have some cash flow. The ride there and back again in his vehicle was definitely a boon. As it is, I likely won't see a payment until September but at least now it is in process. I hadn't submit it earlier because it wasn't until mid-July that I got the message that everything had been received and no further work was necessary. Gave it another week just in case that changed. After all I was still dealing with the office rental issue at the end of June when the deadline for completion had been mid May. Of course I am not being paid for that ...... and some bad thoughts too. Anyway just trying to be prudent given we are still under a Mr Mercury retrograde. I am so glad that that stations late Friday - tonight.
When number three son arrived around dinner time he noted his buddy in Vancouver was still trying to persuade him to move out there. Cost of living is even higher there than here. Number three son said he had just received a phone call telling him he had got the job he interviewed for last week. No way would he move out to British Columbia unless the new company opts to transfer him out to the coast including paying him the cost of living differential and moving costs too. He is going to offer to stay on call at his current job, since they are so short of staff. He is going to try and arrange a trip out to visit his buddy as well. Once he is settled into the new job that is.
I'm still sending out resumes too. The one respondent said "Oh, you do forensic audits, how scary". Well they've never been limned quite that way, but it does happen sometimes. What is bothering me is that I get a lot of call backs when I submit my resume and a lot of positive feedback both on the interview and the resume itself. I'm not certain where I am falling through in getting work though. I know a couple of interviewers have mentioned the wage thing, but I won't work so that I am falling deeper in debt each month just so shareholders and the company they own can dine out at my expense. Add insult to injury their investments and operating costs are often deductible and many pay little or no taxes. That part is fair game, but not at the expense of the workers who are making one wealthy. Do the investors/owners not understand the direct link between the poverty that is so evident on North American streets right now and themselves, or do they just not care. There is the ethical investment movement where exploitation of workers overseas are given some consideration, but not one's fellow citizens. Why is that? That brother's keeper thing going through my head. Are those shareholders going to look after me if I have another health breakdown or when I retire? I think not. As you can tell dear diary I am fairly cranky right now - just the heat I guess. Anyway time for bed I think. Good night dear diary.
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