I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Hi Everyone,

Blue ... love the pictures!  Especially the flowers in the horse's mane and the baby deer eating the flowers.  Is that a real cat in that picture?  How can a cat be that big???

Gumby ... holding your aunt in my thoughts.  Is she doing okay? 

My first day on the job yesterday was outrageous.  I'm lucky if I'm making minimum wage. But I'm also grateful that I finally have a job.  I had today off. My regular accounts start next Tuesday, so after that my time will be very limited, as I'm hanging onto my other clients as well.  I did pretty good yesterday.  Got off to a rough start.  You're supposed to type 500 lines a day at 98% accuracy the first week, then it goes to 750 for week two and ending at 1,000 on week three.  Well the first report I did yesterday I had a score of 74%.  I knew for sure I was going to get fired!!  But it got better .. I actually made 98% on a few of the reports, but only cranked out about 380 lines.  It's very difficult to make your line count cause you're always having to stop and look stuff up that the training did not provide!  It's a very screwy system they have.  All the various account information is just randomly put in a document.  It's impossible to find the information you need.  Don't understand why they don't have the account specs separated by facility and doctor.  Oh well ... I got a new keyboard today.  I can actually see the function keys on this one!  Only $13 at walmart.

hugs to all,

Bren

Jackie ... I don't let people hunt on my property, so the deer love it here.  They have a few places they like to hang out and not be bothered.  The only time they are unhappy is when I walk the dogs in the fields by the woods.  Tank will only chase them about 20 yards, then he stops and comes back. Hahaha!  I think he's afraid to get too far away from me.  They also love the back yard cause I have pear and apples trees.  They really do like to eat flowers ... I tried to put in a rose garden, but they ate them all.  How many acres do you have?  From the picture you posted a while back it looks like you have a really neat place.

hugs,

Bren

Bren - sorry it's a rocky start, but REEEEELAX, and it will get better..good on you for going for it - and give yourself TIME to adjust to what it needs.  Sounds SO stressful, but I think that will ease too as you get more used to it. 

Blue - that deer nibbling flowers, is, well, so dear.

We're having a heat wave - it's gonna be 30 tomorrow!  Imagine...almost high enuf to melt some snow???  Everyone, everywhere here, is complaining about feeling SO TIRED....

Read online about something called "kidney warmers" - I want polertec ones.  Only see them for sale in the UK = guess we could make our own.

Kam - did you get to touch one? Their fur is SO soft. I'll check out what a Devon Rex looks like

Bren - keep at it - you'll be scoring 100% in no time once you get the hang of their system.

Morning Gal Pals,

First the weather update ... it's damn cold outside.  But enough snow has melted that I can start walking the dogs again on my lunch break!

I'm logged into work and waiting for some files to download.  It's kind of frustrating as they only give you about 3 files at a time ... that's about three 1 1/2 page reports.  And then when you finish you have to email and request more.  I waited an hour on Wednesday to receive more work after I emailed that I was ready.  It seems like a slow way to get work done.  Don't know how a person could make the line quotas this way. WTH ... not going to give up ... just going to keep at it!

Kam .. I have never heard of that kind of cat before.  Not sure what they look like.  I don't know much about cats, I thought they were all the same ... just with different colors!

Suzie .. Thanks for the pep talk ... going to stick with it and not give up.

Jackie .. Two acres is a lot to take care of.  I mow about 3 1/2 acres and the rest I leave natural.  My property line is along the line of where the woods and stream start.  I'd mow it all down if I could, but I can't get through the HUGE blackberry shrubs.  I hate those things.

big hugs to everyone,

Bren

Animal Planet website has some interesting stuff on different cat breeds.  Type in "Devon Rex" and you'll see the site listed in Google.

Feeling positively balmy in Niagara this morning  - temp is 1 C and no wind!

Kam, we buy our meat in MacDoel. Have done so for years. This time we bought a quarter and then split it with my BIL. Normally we buy more but that was all we could get this time.  Because of the unknown pass conditions further north, we drove back to Weed, got back on I5 and continued north.  Otherwise we probably would have continued up 97.

We appreciate all the warm thoughts of Hubby's aunt.  We've not received any further info yet.

Bren, relax!! You'll do fine.

Above - I think this is an adult - she sort of rings all the bells for a Devon - profile, ears, ear tips, fur.

Well, that's about all I had luck linking too.  They are so variable - face, color, fur.  They molt too!

Kam -- Don't count on it -- they've had plenty of time, and made a few promises too - to get us Mac users in sync with BCO.  Arrgh!

Seems as if I can do one pic at time - well not all pics, but some.  Just so random.

They play fetch too!  This Youtube is of the white cat above:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-X-v9ggFGw

Ofcourse, I had to type above, cause us Mac users cannot cut/paste either 

Apparently a lot of people are obsessed with Bengals based on that cat show I was at, Yorkie.

Yorkie - the Devon kittens that you posted, while very cute, are not the pinnacle - they don't have that well-defined stop to the nose.  Once I saw them in person, I got it.  Of course, it is all personal preference, but while the fur and big ears are what first attracted me to them, once in person, OMG, it was that face, as in the last pic I posted.