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So, other new developments at work. My whole department has been granted the status of having state-issued phones. For me, there's not a lot of reason for it. Other people, who need to interact with customers or vendors or such, have good reason to have one. There's no desk phones, and anything you do state business on can be subpoenaed if need be, so there's excellent reason not to want to do that on your personal phones. The approval for this, and the updating of tracking information, was thrilling to people who are not me. As mentioned I don't have much need for telephones in my job and even if I did ... I mean, it's just a company iPhone, how thrilling can that be?
Then about 1:45 today they rang. They all rang, picking up on the Emergency Alert System. There were severe thunderstorms rolling through and we got a 45-minute tornado warning dropped on us. So this makes the tornado drill we did a few weeks ago, which went awry when nobody told us it was the tornado drill and not the fire drill (so we all went outside instead of to the shelter), look that much wiser. This time, better informed, we went to the shelter room (a conference room that, in the building's earlier incarnation as a bank, had been the vault) and hung out, with a lot of people checking the storm's progress on their newly-issued phones.
After about a half-hour we got the all-clear, and re-emerged to look out the window and see that it wasn't raining nearly so hard anymore. So I guess everything went successfully, except that the new hire got a weird impression of what the in-office days are like.
The new hire incidentally commutes from Farmington Hills, a spot a little over an hour away and where Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum is. Me, I don't understand why people are getting jobs with insane levels of commute, even if it is only two days a week. For what it's worth the agency head confirmed this week their preference for hybrid schedules and that they don't figure to change things unless instructed to by ... well, the governor, so here's hoping for reasonable governors for the years to come.
Reasonability of governors aside, how about some chickens and rabbits from the Calhoun County Fair of last year? Thought you'd like that. Here goes:
Couple of chickens who don't want to be in this picture.
Now there we go, that's getting a heroic pose for one of those chickens with the fluffy legs.
I one again think I'm in trouble, this time with the chickens.
I don't know where the coloring-book stuff came from or why there were only four bunny pictures posted up considering the week was near its end.
Californian rabbit wanting to know if I have been helped and if I have, then might I kindly leave then?
Californian rabbit wanting to be drawn like one of your French lops.
Trivia: Before signing its 1921 military accord with Poland, France insisted on receiving economic concessions, particularly to getting payment in oil and other Polish natural materials and manufactures, as well as ``partial alienation of the state refinery at Drohobycz'', and granting French products most-favored-nation status in Poland without reciprocal favor for Polish goods in France. Source: A Low Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930 - 1941, Paul N Hehn.
Currently Reading: Cosmonaut: A Cultural History, Cathleen S Lewis.
PS: What's Going On In Flash Gordon? Are you covering Flash Gordon regularly? January - April 2024 and it looks like Brian Blessed is up to no good!
