February 8, 2014
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Happy Saturday…
Today I woke up and drove E to work so that WahE could participate in the pine box grand prix he had entered. We got him there in time and he went through the motions of practice runs and such. He was consistent 1st or 2nd for 8 runs. Then races began.
He placed 2nd, 2nd, 3rd and 2nd again. Sadly he didn’t win. HE didn’t win even second place there were just too many other competitors and they had more tools to have their cars made than I have here. He was a bit disappointed but then I pointed out we now have a year to perfect his car and get it made right so that next year his car can run faster. That made his day.
Then he realized…. the other kids have a year to do the same and he may not get that good.
At this point I reminded him that there were those that placed 3rd and 4th so he was above average in his car’s runs.
He was happy once again.
In other news, BigE is turning 22 this month and LilE is going to be 12 this month as well. BigE has been getting a lot of extra hours for the last 2 weeks as well as next week. He was told that they can’t schedule him for more hours till he has worked there for 6 months and he just started in the middle of October. Last week he worked 36 hours and was told he isn’t supposed to work more than 32 till he has worked the 6 months.
They are waiting till that 6th month point to train him for all the other departments they want him trained for. Then when he has trained for those departments they want to start to train him for assistant manager . He has been asked as it is to do some of the duties of ass. mgr.
One of the ladies that has been there for 3 years was whining that she isn’t being trained for anything like that. Then when they said who it was we were talking about (BigE) the whiner said.”Oh it is BigE I understand that now.” quite calmly she walked off. He is a charmed kid.
