02
Jul
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Boardman Views,
Humor,
Jobs Careers
Some of you may be aware of my love for a true literary great, Patrick F. McManus, author of, among many other McManus classics, A Fine and Pleasant Misery.
I first became aware of this Master of the Understatement back in about 1990.
I had just signed in for my shift at Community Transit, where that day I was to “sit report.” Since the transit industry runs everything by the minute in its attempt at keeping buses on time, they actually pay drivers to come in and wait for other drivers to not show up for work. If a scheduled driver doesn’t show up, the report driver goes out and drives the miscreants piece of work. These paid lallygaggers are called “report drivers” and that day in 1990 I was one of them.
I had just signed in and walked into the Driver’s Lounge, ready to assume my usual position on the couch, when Read more…
Does it really take rocket science to realize that while we’re trying to figure out how to cool down the planet we still have to function?
Anyone who’s read much of Boardman Country realizes that I am not a participant in the Global Warming Scam. On the contrary, I’m stomping down the biggest carbon footprint possible without straining myself.
That doesn’t mean I deny that global temperatures rise…and fall (and by the way, they’ve been falling more than rising recently, especially here). I simply don’t buy into Read more…
24
Jun
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Boardman Views,
Family,
Jobs Careers
A few posts back I mentioned that I retired from being a bus driver and an associate pastor in order to work full-time as the Executive Director of Home For Good (HFG), a non-profit organization. HFG’s mission was to develop and own accessible rental housing for disabled folks.
The agency actually began as a means of providing a long-term housing solution for Susan. The folks knew that as she became an adult and they got…you know…older, the prospect of them having to continue doing the heavy care would become less feasible. Susan would need to have her own place and hired help would probably be necessary.
Any parent who has a “special needs” child Read more…
