Doubtful. It exceeds my tolerance for bullshit.
I just (virtually) walked out of a (virtual) UPS Rehire Job fair.
Back in 2024 (I think) I signed up for a seasonal job with UPS. I figured that it would get me out of the house, keep me more active than I would be at home, and make a few bucks. I got a job as a Driver Helper. That’s the person who sits in the jump seat of the truck and runs packages to the doorstep.
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I attend a week-long lapidary class at the William Holland School of Lapidary Arts in Young Harris, GA.
It all started when I watched a YouTube video about lapidary intarsia. I thought the resulting cabochons were very cool and had the potential to help my take my jewelry work to the next level.
Some definitions might be in order before I go on:
A look at the things I like and don’t like about my new car.
Earlier this month, I blogged about buying my new Toyota RAV4 Plugin Hybrid. It was a (typically) long post that covered a lot of my thinking about buying a new car and, specifically, a plugin hybrid, to eventually replace two of the vehicles in my “fleet.”
To recap the decision making process, I was interested in four things:
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I buy a new car a lot sooner than I expect to because — well, why not?
For a single person living alone with no kids, I have a lot of cars. I occasionally refer to them as my fleet.
My Jeep in its younger days, crawling over rocks in Sedona AZ. It’s on its third soft top now.
I add a new post to my old Writing Tips series of posts. This one focuses on simple tools to get the job done.
When I sat down to write this post this morning, I thought I was starting a new series. But then I looked at my list of about 3,100 blog posts here and realized I already had a series it could fit into: Writing Tips. So with a little bit of editing, I wrangled what I’d written today to fit that series. I do, however, want to start with a new introduction.