Wednesday, September 14, 2005
We don't have much, but we'll give what we can
As I mentioned previously, I have decided this month to donate 10% of my Watkins proceeds to Hurricane Katrina relief funds. A couple of weeks ago when a local company was taking food donations, I donated water, Gatorade and canned goods. Well today, another trucking company is taking donations of clothing and will be driving it down south on Friday. I stopped by there this morning with 4 bags of our clothes that we’ve grown out of (3 were James’), and ended up staying for about 3 hours to help them sort thru the several dozen bags and boxes that hadn’t been properly sorted. The Red Cross won’t take clothing unless it is properly sorted apparently. And Hardee’s (hamburger chain) donated lunch to those of us who just happened to be there volunteering for the day. One of the guys called them up and they said “sure, how many do ya need?” Cool eh?
The organizer of the clothing drive said she will be having a BBQ for the volunteers probably tomorrow after the truck is loaded up. I left my business card and a couple of catalogues so she could call me to let me know where and when. I had mentioned my 10% donation pledge to her already while we were eating lunch, and said I’d leave a catalogue or 2 so she could check it out.
And I wasn’t wrong about the shut off notices the other day. This morning in the middle of trying to surf somewhere, my cable connection went out. So I checked the pile of mail, there was no shut off notice from the cable company, but there was one from the Power Company. Already 8 days past the date they said they’d shut us off. Which is why I never pay attention to their shut off notices, they send them whether we pay or not, and then never follow thru with their threats ;-) The cable company however does not send notices of any kind, they just shut ya down. Big meanies. I paid them, but had to dig into the savings account to do it.
I’ve been looking for a job, but there’s not much here in town, and at minimum wage (which is about all that’s available even in surrounding towns) I can’t afford to pay the gas to put in the car to get to a job. I sent an application to the city the other day; they’re looking for an admin assistant. I probably won’t hear back from them. I never did on the 3 other applications I sent them earlier in the year. I’m probably over qualified. Or they’re worried I don’t speak English :-p
I suppose I could go wash dishes somewhere. ¶ 5:48 PM
The organizer of the clothing drive said she will be having a BBQ for the volunteers probably tomorrow after the truck is loaded up. I left my business card and a couple of catalogues so she could call me to let me know where and when. I had mentioned my 10% donation pledge to her already while we were eating lunch, and said I’d leave a catalogue or 2 so she could check it out.
And I wasn’t wrong about the shut off notices the other day. This morning in the middle of trying to surf somewhere, my cable connection went out. So I checked the pile of mail, there was no shut off notice from the cable company, but there was one from the Power Company. Already 8 days past the date they said they’d shut us off. Which is why I never pay attention to their shut off notices, they send them whether we pay or not, and then never follow thru with their threats ;-) The cable company however does not send notices of any kind, they just shut ya down. Big meanies. I paid them, but had to dig into the savings account to do it.
I’ve been looking for a job, but there’s not much here in town, and at minimum wage (which is about all that’s available even in surrounding towns) I can’t afford to pay the gas to put in the car to get to a job. I sent an application to the city the other day; they’re looking for an admin assistant. I probably won’t hear back from them. I never did on the 3 other applications I sent them earlier in the year. I’m probably over qualified. Or they’re worried I don’t speak English :-p
I suppose I could go wash dishes somewhere. ¶ 5:48 PM
