You're welcome Sigmar. [img]smile.gif[/img] After all you invited me to your place so I had to do something in return. :D

Wellard, never fear, some of us haven't seen the sun in days! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I saw it two days ago for a WHOLE day and that's the entire summer for us so far...and most of the spring! *sniffle* It's probably hiding down in TX....did you say something to offend it? :D [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

Someone send the sun back, I need to dry out the mud in my yard! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

You must have brought some of the bad weathern with you! There was a really bad thunder storm last night, the funny thing was that my dogs and cats had started miaowing and barking outside my front door beforre there was any indication of a thunder storm, how do animals know? The little fellas were rewarded with access to my room for the night :D I woke up with one of my cats looking into my face and the other lying beside me...the dogs were asleep at the foot of my bed :D

Do I get my coffee yet?

And today is the start of a hellish week. Belive me, sitting in a classroom with a piece of paper in frount of you... yup... EXAMS!!!!!


Help me... :(

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Morning all, its the day after the night of storms here...loads of lightning asnd thunder and wind and rain [img]smile.gif[/img] So now its starting to get hot, just wanted to add that for Wellard ;) </font>

Happy Exams Dragonshadow! Good luck!

Oh it's been so long! I haven't been on IW for like... a day!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img] We had a bad storm two nights ago that screwed with my net connection. The Ethernet card on the old computer got screwed up and so now I am on my old computer that had a working one. Me and dad will switch out the cards today. Ah it feels great to be back! :D [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Eef, glad your pc didn't get fried in the storm, SG! Switching the cards sounds simple enough, hope it works ok!

Morning all. How are you all this warm summer day? [img]tongue.gif[/img] Sorry wellard, couldn't resist :D

I think I'm on to something here at work. I (for some reason I'm not clear on) have had a shift of attitude. I suddenly woke up last week and decided to be more proactive about making some changes to my work environment. It started with coming up with suggestions of what management could do to help our group feel more like a team and improve moral. Well, 2 days after I started working on that, my boss's boss had a meeting in which he asked people to come up with just that type of thing, so, good timing on my part.
He and his boss were out here this week, so I pitched my ideas to both of them and they were both very pleased not only with my suggestions, but that I spoke up at all. They've given me the task of coming up with some more concrete suggestions of how to implement my ideas, so now I'm meeting with other managers and employees to see what they've done that helped. I'm also going to set up a meeting next week with the group with no managers to see what ideas they might have.
Unfortunately, many around me are shaking their heads and sarcastically saying "good luck", but I'm taking that as a good omen. Everytime you hear of a truly successful person, it was that they went against the grain, took chances, and didn't give in even when everyone around them was telling them to do so.
I'm even hating work less, even though nothing has changed, this shift in self empowerment is really helping me feel more charged. Although, I think the fact that I've started Tai Chi recently might be helping that too!!!

Ok, back to our warm weather, butt showing, iced tea drinking discussions. :D