Jonah picked a cheap diner for lunch that’s been around for decades, but which we’ve never been to. The parking lot was mostly unusable because the roof was being replaced. There were roofers on the roof, a vat of tar out front, shingles everywhere, and everything smelled like tar. We picked a seat and sat down and Jonah asked the waitress, “What’s cooking outside?” The waitress looked as confused by the question as I felt. “Our roof is cooking outside!” she said. Apparently Jonah had confused a tar vat with smoke coming out from it with a barbecue grill. “I’ll…
Well, today was my first day of training for my new position. We went through all the open cases and discussed what stage they are in. I answered the phone a few times and was able to help one guy with answering his interrogatories presented by Respondents. I’ve pretty much done everything that I need to know how to do before once or twice, so we’re feeling confident that I’ll be just fine. We’re going to set a hearing date tomorrow, which I haven’t done here but have done at my previous job. Then we ran out of things for…
A company here in Colorado Springs has bought the company my dad works for, and today he accepted the new company’s offer to work for them…here! So he and mom are coming out here mid July to look for a house. Of course, they now have TWO houses to sell because they bought Nathan and Stephanie’s when they moved to Seattle. So we’ll have to see what happens. The other big news is that my boss walked into my cubby today and said that the girl that had been hired right before me had just given her two week notice…
Joanna apparently has company coming over tonight, but I’ll write more soon.