Sunday, September 04, 2005
News
Hey, Dad, I remember when you came back from that New Orleans conference. I think it was a brochure of the Preservation Jazz Band that facinated me. Whitey and I have been to New Orleans a couple of times. It's a gorgeous, unique city. Any night of the week, any time of year you could walk through the French Quarter and hear jazz playing in the bars. The last time we were there was when we were driving across country with nephew Adrian. We stopped there for the last night of Mardi Gras. Now that was a thing to see. After one night in N.O. we then drove to Biloxi for 2 nights to recover. I for one am appalled at how slow the response has been to help the people there. It is great that they are finally getting it but the number of people that died just because they didn't have water is shocking. Maybe because we can relate to these people feeling there is no hope and having it take so long before they got help. I personally expect more from our government when things like this happen.
On other news, things are happening here at the marina. On Monday, the bookkeeper/admin person who has been at the marina for 23 years gave her notice. She's the one we all liked the best and Lars & Nancy have relied on for assistance on the corporate side. And she has been the best attitude towards Whitey and I being here. Immediately, Lars says that Max will take her job and to start training me now. So I'm very excited about that - working Mon-Fri, more money, learning knew skills, etc. But I would have to work in the office with the person we all like the very least. But yesterday the harbor master gave her notice as well. We are all thrilled about that. She had been in her job for almost 5 years and had a horrible attitude about anything new happening here. For now, I will be doing it all with help from Whitey. We will work out how the work flow should go. It's not really a 2 person office, but there is more work than for one person. But we would rather work a bit harder for a month or so and then see what type of an assistant we need to bring on.
The other good news is that it looks like we will have our residency approved for the lighthouse soon. Not 100% yet but should be soon.
So things are looking very good for us now. We're happy. Hope everyone else is.
Love, Max
On other news, things are happening here at the marina. On Monday, the bookkeeper/admin person who has been at the marina for 23 years gave her notice. She's the one we all liked the best and Lars & Nancy have relied on for assistance on the corporate side. And she has been the best attitude towards Whitey and I being here. Immediately, Lars says that Max will take her job and to start training me now. So I'm very excited about that - working Mon-Fri, more money, learning knew skills, etc. But I would have to work in the office with the person we all like the very least. But yesterday the harbor master gave her notice as well. We are all thrilled about that. She had been in her job for almost 5 years and had a horrible attitude about anything new happening here. For now, I will be doing it all with help from Whitey. We will work out how the work flow should go. It's not really a 2 person office, but there is more work than for one person. But we would rather work a bit harder for a month or so and then see what type of an assistant we need to bring on.
The other good news is that it looks like we will have our residency approved for the lighthouse soon. Not 100% yet but should be soon.
So things are looking very good for us now. We're happy. Hope everyone else is.
Love, Max
// posted by ytmax @ 8:50 AM 
