Sunday, February 22, 2009

Migraines

I have one right now so bad I had to call in sick to work, and the weather map says the pressure is 30.18.  I want to keep track to see if I can predict these a bit better.
 

Monday, February 16, 2009

Fewer chickens

The chickens just lay too many eggs.  Theoretically this is a good thing, and I did enjoy taking the extras to the Tolleson Food Bank when I was working at Manheim's.  But now there isn't a convenient charity to deliver them to, and I really can't afford to keep feeding so many chickens with no recompense in the form of produce anyway.  The Tolleson Food Bank gave me lots of stuff leftover from their distribution days whenever I delivered the eggs.
So, my 7 hens have been reduced to 5 but they are still giving 4-5 eggs per day.  Bill's 8 hens are still giving 2-5 per day.  Looks pretty lopsided, doesn't it?  It was really a stretch for me to understand why we would butcher MY hens, who lay every day, and keep HIS hens who lay about a third of the time.
The reason is that HIS hens will go broody and maybe raise chicks for us to eat or add to the laying flock.  But we need to keep at least some of mine so that we can eat their eggs and keep HIS eggs to be sat on.  I don't know why his hens can't just set on my eggs, but NOOOOOOO!
Oh well, I have brought myself around to it by reflecting that he can just buy the chicken feed since he now owns most of the chickens.

YouTube - SOUTH CENTRAL FARM: OASIS IN A CONCRETE DESERT AFI FEST 2007

YouTube - SOUTH CENTRAL FARM: OASIS IN A CONCRETE DESERT AFI FEST 2007

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Monday, February 09, 2009

I do love my job

I finally went online and signed up for the part-timer's medical insurance at my work, and it is a good thing. You are required to sign up within 45 days of your hire date or else wait until open enrollment, and I would have missed the deadline if I hadn't started asking questions and not getting answers when I did.
When I got to work the next day I did fill in the new manager about this, and he made sure that packets were printed out and given to all the other part-timers that very day. I am the second newest employee though, so everyone else will have to wait until open enrollment if they want the insurance. That is only till May for this plan, but it would have been too long for me. My COBRA benefits run out only a few days after my new plan takes effect.
So my assertiveness (a nice way to say pushy) paid off in this instance.

Be Informed about Common Poultry Products

Be Informed about Common Poultry Products

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