The Moon Pie High Jump
Posted on | January 24, 2008 | No Comments
If you know any psychology students working on their masters degree or doctorate do them a favor and tell them about this site. At least then I will know someone is getting some use out of it.
Has your neighbor lost his house yet? My personal feeling about the economy and this mortgage mess is that things are even worse than we may know.
Look how long it’s been since I took time to post to the blog. I’ve been working every day since then and am still behind. Most of what I’m seeing now are “no contact” inspections and the work is pretty dense. Just for grins, I made a few notes today. Here’s the times for a few inspections: 1:11, 1:16, 1:22, 1:32, 1:35, 1:42, 1:55; and it was like that most of the day. It’s been like that most of the month.
The times above were from one street in one neighborhood. That’s scary! It looks like real estate investors will soon be able to buy entire neighborhoods. Convenient but scary.
I’ve been coming in in the evening with fifty, sixty, or seventy pictures. The younger inspectors around here are doing more than that: ninety-six pictures is the record so far! Pictures and inspections are almost one-to-one; not always – but close. By the way, about half of those pictures are the free kind; you know, the ones that cost me absolutely nothing to take and then upload. Magic!
We finally called in the reserves. We’ve got more people in the field and more in the office and dusted off some of the older workstations on the network. Time will tell.
I guess you might be wondering about my meeting with the HUD rep. Well, it was as we thought. Wrong property. Hey, if astronauts can ride on rockets built by the low-bidder, I don’t see why it won’t work for HUD. After all, HUD doesn’t have a personal investment in the ride. The Honorable Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, has a long way to go.
Speaking of HUD. I called four regional offices today. I thought they may want to know about The Rep Report. As it turned out, they didn’t. In fact one HUD employee told me they wouldn’t even give her a password to get on the computer system and internet. She spoke English but I didn’t ask. I hate to lose so I called the Washington DC HUD Office and asked for the Public Affairs Office. “Sir, my directory does not show an extension for that office; it’s blank”. God, I love consistency!
I figured you would ask so I’ll go ahead and tell you. The unpaid invoice is now being handled by our attorney.
I thought I would get a little down time but as you know, married men should not be allowed to think for themselves. I came in with my pictures and my dog and was sent out to handle “just one more. It’s a RUSH and they’re calling about it”. I think the problem I had is probably due to a gene defect or maybe it’s just a southern thing but I couldn’t get in the dang house. I was supposed to take pictures of the outside, the address and every room inside. Kinda hard to do when you can’t get in. The instructions were clear enough, “Use code YYY to open lockbox”. All I could find was numerals. One to nine. Clearly a local phenomenon.
It’s Mardi Gras season here. Things are already getting stupid. I set in a turn lane today about fifteen minutes waiting on my turn to see the “No Left Turn” sign. Hmmm! Barricades everywhere. I hate to think of the amount of money the city has invested in those things; and storage. Opportunity? Well, you sometimes have to travel a half mile to make a turn. All the other turns are barricaded. Parade route!
All over town today I saw people out preparing for Mardi Gras parades. I saw a lot of people evidently practicing their Moon Pie Sprint and an unusally high number of guys practicing their Moon Pie High Jump. It’s serious business around here.
I’m going to get out of here for the night. You know I could go on and on but maybe I should save some of it for later. One last thing though. I do try to use correct spelling, proper punctuation and all that stuff. I even do a little research once in a while. I was trying to find out who said the stuff about the low-bidder and the rocket. I thought it might be John Glenn but I couldn’t find definite proof. I did find out though, that I am right about one of my beliefs: one person can change the world. Read this about John Glenn and then visit www.BasicMissions.com. Sign their guest book and help change the world.
Comments
Leave a Reply
Meta
Pages
Polls
Loading ...Content Categories
Digital Field Services, LLC
Recent Comments
Polls
Loading ...