It has been a year since Techoblade passed away and the community has not forgotten. You can go to YouTube and search Technoblade and a plethora of videos will pop up. It's insane and amazing what Alex accomplished in just a short time. Alex you are definitely missed!!! 💓
Izzy, from Tea With Dragons, did the tribute video below called The Life of Technoblade.
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He
does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the
plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of
all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare
minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for
himself.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
I have not read this book since my school days and I think I need to add it to TBR list.
It was so busy!! Even more so on a regular zoo trip day!! There were so many kids and you could really tell they were having a good time. My pictures were limited, but I am sure I will be able to get some better ones next visit.
As a lover of all winged creatures, especially any type of waterfowl, these little guys never fail to amuse. LOL! It's Pink Flamingo Day in honor of the guy that made that little pink bird lawn ornament. 😀
I don't have any of the pink lawn decorations at this time, but these were my new Christmas lawn deco last year.
It may be the official first day of summer, but let me tell ya - it's been summer in Texas for weeks!!!
I have been following the submersible, The Titan, for the last couple of days now and my heart is heavy. I knew OceanGate was going to launch a dive this year, but they had listed no dates when I had checked last, only that they were doing one dive because of weather.
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!
And to my wonderful husband - Fabian - I hope you enjoyed your day just chilling at the house. So thankful to have you as my amazing husband and the best daddy ever! 😍
Swung by the zoo today again. It's so nice having a membership and be able to just drop by if we decide to just up and go. LOL. The zoo is only 15 minutes away from our house. Got 'mooned' by Bubbles today!
This week was our newest Tarrant county router's first week and let me tell you, my head hurt all week just watching. The case reviews are a complete mess and look nothing like the ones that I usually email to the workers. I am sure how she is copying and pasting, or what browser she is using, but everything is left-aligned and difficult to read. Some cases sat on the workload for almost an hour before being routed out and she was everywhere in the assignment log. I couldn't tell who was up next in rotation and some workers had up to three P1s when others didn't even have one for the week. My unit was slammed with P1s today, which prompted a call to me from one of the acting supervisors for my unit. 😐 One of my workers had called her in tears and she was absolutely dumbfounded as to the high number of cases for my workers when their caseloads are usually under 20. I have one worker over 30. Needless to say, this supervisor said she was going to call our PA and see if they can get a mental picture as to what is going on. And let's not even talk about communication. Oh my word! When we get requests for transfer cases or courtesy visits, all the routers are notified. Well, I happened to be the only one that got the email on a transfer case, so I added both of the other routers to it and mentioned I was not routing this week but another router. She never responded to any of the email that was sent back and forth about this transfer case that had accidentally been changed from the primary worker. I tried to call her, no answer. I even emailed her, no answer. The emails continued between the supervisors for almost 40 minutes, and I finally jumped in and made the correction myself, and then sent out an email saying the corrections had been made. Communication!!! And right now, me and this new router do NOT have any, and this is going to pose a major problem since it's only going to be me and her routing for the time being. Ugh! 😖 I wanted to pull my hair out! I feel for my supervisor. She literally took these weeks off to do a reset and she is walking back into absolute chaos.
And of course, today was Michelle's last day. She sent out a good-bye email and I sent her a reply back telling her that it was a pleasure working with her and thanking her for all the knowledge and training she provided me. I really am going to miss her. Michelle sent me a private email giving me her personal number, so I must have at least made some type of impact on her. LOL! Not sure who is going to be my back-up admin now.
What a week!!! 😜
It's amazing how much easier it is to focus and process things when you are in a cool environment. LOL! After two days of being without AC, our tech finally sent out a crew and replaced our unit. I was so happy to hear that compressor kick on and then actually feel cool air. 😊 Honestly, so many of us do not even know what it feels like to go without and we forget that there are people out in the world that don't have central air or heat. They live this every day. And I did indeed feel like I was reliving a portion of my military days.
I took a sick day from work today because I didn't sleep well last night and my arm is still hurting pretty badly. I probably should have taken the week to rest my arm, but I just feel bad taking that many days, especially when my supervisor is on leave and I have a couple of workers out sick. I watched my work phone blow up all day and I know I am walking back into utter chaos tomorrow but I needed extra hours of rest and needed cool air. One of my workers texted me earlier and I called her and had an hour conversation about what is going on and how the morale of our caseworkers are being tested. I feel for my caseworkers. Their job is not easy. Social work by its very self, is NOT easy. Not when you are dealing with kids. And not when you are dealing with adults and elders. I have already drafted three email to send out tomorrow morning in response to a few that I saw come through. We shall see what the morning brings. Right now, I think it's time for me to head upstairs and open my kindle! 💕
Ugh! Our house is sitting at 90 degrees. 🔥 This is when a portable AC unit would come in handy! We have yet to hear from our AC tech, but he did say they have been swamped with calls over the weekend. I feel like I am reliving my military days sweating like this. 😂
Last minute trip to the zoo and tested our wagon and cooler bag. Definitely going to be a lifesaver to bring water and snacks. We visited MOLA and stayed until 5:55pm in Texas Wild and then security started running us out.. 😃 It was a bit hot today and this is nothing for Texas! LOL!
In the wake of the closing, two staff members Joey (Sir Max) and Jeremy (Fat McStink), discussed the potential revival of the game. With the help of a band of players, a contest was held and the winners won a registration key (alpha key) to play when the game was launched in October of 2013. The revival of ToonTown was now real. Semi-Beta and Beta opened in June of 2014, but if you did not have a beta key, your playtime was limited. One year after Disney announced the closing of ToonTown Online, ToonTown Rewritten announced that all players would be able to login and play, celebrating their grand opening and first anniversary with ToonFest 2014.
Today we hopped on and played for a few hours. It sure was great having the four of us together again.
We went to the Fort Worth Zoo today. So happy the weather was nice and it was not too uncomfortable. Baby Bruno is so cute and we finally got to see Travis!! He is so adorable! 😊 I wanted to feed the Giraffes but the Ostrich, more than likely Ruby, was the only one that wanted lettuce. Maybe next time I will get to feed them. LOL! I did get a close up of one the giraffes. I think I took over 250 pictures! 😂 Can't wait until we can go back.
