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Friday, June 6, 2008

Taking A Vacation This Year?

Are you taking a vacation this year? I know I'm not. Who can afford it? Dang, it costs me $30.00 to fill half my tank with gas, and that's just to get to work! And who wants to go there? Not me!

You know how it is. You get to work, and the day starts out fine. Of course, it's 6:00 a.m., and only a few people are actually there. No wonder it seems so nice.


Then, around 7:30'ish, people start straggling in. And you slowly start getting irritated.


I actually sent an email to HR today, because I was fed up with the state of the refrigerators. Here I was, just trying to retrieve my lunch (an apple and a can of Diet Coke), and, in order to get it out of the fridge, I ended up knocking a couple of half-filled bottles of water on the floor.

So, there I was, crawling around on the floor, trying to catch the rolling water bottles, all the time muttering, "give me a break!".


People are so rude.
In the fridge, I noticed that someone had stored a DOZEN EGGS!, a container of sour cream, a LARGE tupperware bowl of "something", a carton of (sour) milk, and various unknown foodstuffs, and I just reached the point where I'd had enough! There's approximately 350 employees in our company, and, I'm estimating, THREE refrigerators to handle all the lunches.

Who, pray tell, needs to bring a dozen eggs to work?? Are they frying up eggs for lunch? All we have is a microwave, so I don't know if they're whipping up omelets in the 'wave or what, but, c'mon!


So, you see, work can be annoying.


Of course, I digress (as usual).


I started out ruminating about vacations, and here I am, grumbling about rude and inconsiderate morons.


But tonight, since I get these ideas in my head, and I feel like I have to act on them, I went through some old photo albums, and scanned some of my vacation pictures from years past.
It sort of calmed me down. So, I thought I would share some with you.


DEVIL'S TOWER, WYOMING

NO, THIS IS NOT A POSTCARD - I TOOK THIS PICTURE!

ANOTHER VIEW OF MT. RUSHMORE - NEEDLES HIGHWAY, SOUTH DAKOTA


SYLVAN LAKE - CUSTER STATE PARK - BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

NEEDLES HIGHWAY - CUSTER STATE PARK - BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

STAVKIRKE CHURCH - RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA

ABANDONED GOLD MINE - GHOST TOWN OF ROCHEFORD, SOUTH DAKOTA

LIVINGSTON, MONTANA

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS - YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

CHAPEL IN THE GRAND TETONS

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

JACKSON, WYOMING

RIVERBOAT ON THE MISSOURI RIVER, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA

SAILBOATS IN THUNDER BAY, THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA