TalonRider

Amazing how mention of the Awards brings the goat out of hiding. Welcome back CJ!

What I think is funny, is that Andy Reed still can't beat Payton Manning OR the Colts. W_L: We'll find out this weekend.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

Thanks everyone!!

I didn't watch the start of the game but when I did turn to it, I thought Holy shit! The snow wasn't to start until around half time of the game and be a light snow, not start a hour before the game and dump 8 inches on the city.

BBC America is showing the Doctor all this week.

I don't know if anyone has noticed or not, but Circumnavigation has moved into the 4th most reviewed story. I'm still set to receive notifications for when new chapters were being posted. Any time someone leaves a review, it shows up.

During the RFI, there were several groups that came thru on a tour of the facility. As to who those groups were, I don't know. The changes are all due to the same reason for most branches of the government, debt. Montgomery County is the second richest county in the state and property taxes haven't been raised in several years which of course means there's less money coming in than is needed. When it comes time to work on our budgets, we've made all the cuts we've been able to do and asked to do by the Commissioners in office at the time. It looks good on paper until after the first of the year when other government agencies announce their reimbursement rates for the year. When that happens, then the County has to cover our short fall. The company that is buying the facility, own several different facilities in Philly and thru out Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. We do know that our wages won't be changing. We will be able to carry over up to 15 vacation days over into the new company so that we can take paid time off instead of waiting a year, as most companies do when you start with them.

The last few months have been interesting to say the least. For those of you who don't know, I work for a County owned and operated Nursing Home in southeastern Pennsylvania. When the current set of Commissioners took office, they slowly began down sizing and consolidating different departments. The even sold off one of the County office buildings only to turn around and lease it back. I think the main reason was to get out from under the debt from the purchase incurred by a previous administration. Looking back, the old hospital building should never have been purchased. It was remodeled to accommodate offices, a Nursing Home section, and an Assisted Living space. The Assisted Living lasted about five years before it failed and closed. The Nursing Home section never opened. Earlier this year they turned to us. They started out by sending out a Request for Information (RFI). The Commissioners wanted to see what their options were in dealing with the Nursing Home. Do they keep the Home, turn it over to a Management Company, or do they sell it? An RFP, Request For Purchase, was then done and we were sold for 39 Million dollars. During this time period, it's been hard to maintain a positive outlook on things. Everyone wants answers and they want them now. When I could find out anything that I could pass along to my staff from the Administrator, they wouldn't believe it. It got to the point that I didn't want to deal with people in any form or fashion. Doing this blog entry is probably the longest I've been online for sometime. We're slowly learning things now that matter to people. The County Pension personnel will be coming out to the facility to talk to each person further about their options. If things go as stated by the Commissioners, at the end of the year, I will be losing my job and starting a new one at the same time.

At least one thing amusing about that storm, our new CFO started work that day. Here's she's sometimes called Hurricane as her name is Sandy.

As Indiana is where I was born and raised, it's no surprise to find High School Basketball listed. The state is big on basketball.

Welcome for the resident Bird of Prey.

Your score: 63 Gender: Male Age range: 60-69 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1970

HAVE A WILD ONE, STEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently, there are issues already and the County IT Department has issued a statement for employees using County issued Apple devices not to upgrade their device at this time.

Happy Birthday, Robert!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CIA!!!!!!!

Trust me. You don't want to see a picture of this fish.

HAVE A GREAT DAY MIKEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At this point in time, it would be an anniversary celebration.

Here's an example of a round robin. Collision by the Collision Crew. It's also found at Awesomedude and CRVboy websites.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!!!!!!

While those of you in the western part of the States suffer from a Canadian High, those of us in the eastern part are being hit with a Bermuda High which brings with it high humidity and isolated/scattered storms.

It arrived in my mail box at 6 am eastern so I have it.

He was last onsite earlier today. Other than that, I've not heard anything from him.