We stayed close as the snows came Friday and didn't go out until this afternoon for Starbucks. We got there just before they closed early (understaffed due to bad roads and people had worked all day ( Read more... )

As Twelth Night has passed, it seems that the winter weather is coming upon us ( Read more... )

morning ( Read more... )

A good day of tasks and efforts towards what needs to be done for year end and year beginning for my Secretary-Treasurer duties.

Home and relaxing before the work day tomorrow.

Happy Christmas. Happy Chaunakah.

My new resolution to return starts with today's posts.

I hope to add a picture soon.

My best to all for this holiday season and for the New Year beyond.

With the historic Supreme Court rulings this summer about marriage equality, what was impossible before is now a possibility. As a Federal employee, with marriage, Brett has the full rights as a spouse to all benefits, retirement and social security too. Armed with this knowledge, we are pursing a civil marriage in the District of Columbia to be ( Read more... )

With the passage of a Constitutional Amendment, I have been named Secretary-Treasurer of my APWU Local. Humbling and also challenging. All those details in doing things right. The IRS isn't very forgiving. But have two former Treasurer's to seek counsel from and lots of technology to aid me. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

one complex job, one clerical position that also has to be office manager (part time), learning to do Treasurer duties (possibly officially this Saturday), dealing with excessing inside the Norfolk Plant (we are no longer a Processing and Distribution Center - P & DC) and helping with one non profit while trying to be active and a contributor to ( Read more... )

By August 13, 2013, the postmark for the Hampton Roads area will cease. All cancellations will be done at the Sandston facility outside of Richmond.Mail will be delayed, people's jobs and schedules are being turned upside down. It is a special torture to be a steward dealing with all the things management is thrown at the public and the workers for ( Read more... )

With the Supreme Court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act, The Office of Personnel Management, the federal agency that oversees the federal workforce, has issued guidelines to be in compliance with the new legal status of same sex married couples. Having never really pondered it fully (being in the south - it isn't a real possibilty at the ( Read more... )