CoCo's Corner

About two weeks ago, maybe a bit longer, I got an email that I had been "selected to attend" this event that Delta does a few times a year.  I was very excited.  I have an idea as to why I was selected, but I am not sure.  As far as my station goes, I was the lowest in seniority to be there.  This entailed flying to Seattle on Tuesday morning and flying home on Wednesday night.  Delta paid for everything, my hotel, my food, a gala event on Tuesday night.  It was a BUSY two days.  I am still trying to get my feet back under me from the whirlwind.  I spent most of my two days just exhausted. However, that is not what I want to gab about. I spent 32 years in a job.  It was a local government job.  I have been through my fair share of "leaders" in my 32 years there.  This would include mayors, police chiefs, deputy chiefs, captains, directors and such.  Some of those leaders were good; i.e. the chief from 2000 to 2006 was an am...

Chaos:  noun - a situation where everything is confused and in a mess I am living in chaos right now. We are in the process of completely remodeling my living room.  I mean completely.  We have torn the fireplace out from the middle of one wall and are moving it to a corner.  That meant tearing walls out and then having to mud and patch where the holes and such were.  The tile that was in front of the old fireplace spot has been torn out.  The carpet in the one corner has been cut away.  There is a hole in my wall where the fireplace will vent to the outside.  There is dirt, dust, sheetrock gunk and general ick around everywhere.  Once the fireplace is done, painting will need to be done and the new flooring laid down.  Once that is done, then we can put in new furniture and decorate.  But, in the meantime, my living room looks like a hoarder's dream, little pathways between boxes and furniture.  Boxes of DVDs, knickknac...