One quick question

Just a quick question and then I am finally going to bed for a few hours.

Here is the question:

How can you tell when Hillary Clinton is lying?






Her lips are moving.

The Rookie in Training

Before I get some sleep, I just wanted to note that my brother is almost done with his second week on the job, and the first week in the field. He is seeing firsthand what it is like when important supplies needed as part of the job, such as the machine bases, are not delivered as scheduled. Dave told me today that he feels like he isn't earning his money. I had a little meeting today. I can't go into all of that, of course, but suffice it to say that when my boss asked how the rookie is doing, I told him about how Dave feels like he isn't earning his pay this week so far. My boss just said, "Not to worry... it will get really busy again soon, and then I am calling in that I O U." Then, he will feel like the company is getting its money's worth out of him.

That is how it works in this business. Sometimes you work like crazy, until you are so tired you can hardly concentrate, taking service calls on your days off, and providing telephone support at 3 o'clock in the morning. Then, there are days when you spend hours driving, and very little time doing difficult work in the field. Well, when my brother is knee-deep in the hoopla, troubleshooting a game with an ambiguous heat-related issue, with an assertion failure, or a brain box constantly rebooting, and he has tried every remedy he can think of, to no avail, he will definitely see the flip side of the coin. Sometimes, we don't work that hard for our money, and sometimes, the company reaps the rewards for investing in the techs, rewarding the company in spades. This is time for my brother to learn the ropes, including the hardware, the technical support aspects, the customer service expectations, the importance of face time, quality performance, and the basics of the business.

In no time, Dave will feel like a pro, and he will understand what I mean. By then, he will understand the difference between the days when you are the windshield, and the days that you are the bug. So far, he is the windshield, enjoying the gravy, but what happens tomorrow is anybody's guess. After two weeks of work, seeing not-so-demanding assignments, here is a question for my brother, the rookie in training: Dave, are you a betting man? If so, this is the right business for you (in more ways than one).

Flat Land, No Trees

What does a post with a title like that mean? Well, this will be a quick post, as I have to get to bed and get some rest. The title refers to my working agenda for tomorrow. I am working in North Dakota, beginning the drive from home at 4 a.m. The drive to the location is four hours, so I hope to arrive by 8 a.m. and head home by noon or 2 p.m.

If you haven't ever been to North Dakota, the area where I will be working, a couple hours north of Sioux Falls, is flat as a board, and there really are very few trees in the area. It is always windy (probably due to the flat land and lack of trees, obviously). The people in the area are laid back but when they aren't working, I honestly do not know what a person could do to stay occupied, other than watching TV (or maybe planting trees!) I don't mind the drive. As they say, its a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Good night. That's all folks.

Today, MEA Break, & Lousy Public Education

I worked at the same location today. I didn't get done, but I got mighty close. I actually think that I got more done on my own than I did with another tech helping me, though that may have been because I got into the rhythm today, not sure. Sometimes we have really productive days, and sometimes we deal with delays and problems. In any case, the work will be complete tomorrow. Basically all that is left is audit, accounting, and the compliance checks. I have to leave earlier tomorrow, but hope to get home at a more reasonable time. I didn't get home until 9 tonight.

Dave was at the house and dropped Josh off while he went to look at another rental up near his future territory. The MEA weekend is going on. It is so nice to see the teachers having workshops during the school year, when academic achievement stinks more with each passing year. Why don't the teachers interrupt their summer vacation for three weeks of workshops, instead of interrupting the school year for three lousy days of training?

Ultimately, the Minnesota Education Association and the teachers' union agenda of incremental moral relativism only affects this household in a "public policy" sort of way, though there are obviously direct effects from second-hand exposure to public school's implicit encouragement of ethical standards in decline. Heather and I are completely in agreement. Our children will never attend a public school, no way, especially with the indoctrination agenda that is incrementally getting more extreme. Speaking of that, I see that in one school district in Washington, the school board voted to authorize the nurses to administer and make available birth control pills and other forms of birth control to the students. Okay, the real problem here is that a student is not allowed to even have an aspirin in their locker, and yet, the nurses are allowed to give the students birth control. The biggest problem of all here is that this is an explicit school district endorsement of irresponsible behavior among children. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders ARE CHILDREN, and they do not know what is best for themselves, least of all irresponsible sexual behavior. Most important of all, dealing with this is neither the right, nor the business of the schools. The parents should make those decisions, and the schools should butt out, and should try to ensure that American students graduating from high school have the same quality education as middle schoolers do in more than 30 other nations. Hey, now, to be fair, that would be an improvement for American students.

Gabriel's Halloween Pictures

Gabriel and Jericho have a bunch of Halloween pictures. I plan to take more, especially since Jericho's Nana and Grandma sent him other costumes that he can wear while his camera shutter-obsessed Dad takes plenty more pictures to share with both sets of grandparental units in Minnesota and Indiana.

In any case, here is a picture of Gabriel, taken last weekend. I posted Jericho's Halloween photo, so I figured it was only fair to post a snapshot of Gabriel, too. Here he is! Buzz Lightyear! To infinity and beyond!

Gabriel, still two years old, but not for long!

Installs and removals today, general thoughts

Sorry, no clever tag line or weak attempt at being punny in this post. This is just a quick comment or three, and then I am hoping to get to sleep a little earlier than I have been lately. By the way, it looks like Heather's parents are coming to visit this weekend. We are expecting them sometime on Friday afternoon. They haven't met their grandson, Jericho, yet, so this should be a good time and a happy introduction. I do have to work on Friday, but if that involves a trip to North Dakota, I expect to leave the house by around 4 a.m. so I can return home by mid-afternoon on Friday. I haven't seen my in-laws in months, so I don't want to miss this weekend either. Besides, I am trending towards way too much overtime. Uncle Sam collects enough of my money, so I should try to avoid the OT and the excessive income tax when I can!

I started three system installs and completed three system removals near Bemidji today. It looks like the install work will last at least through tomorrow night, though I will be surprised if it is completed without a third day of work at that same location on Thursday. I still need to work in North Dakota again this week, but in that regard, I wouldn't be surprised if the ND work gets pushed off until next week. The monitoring room won't be happy if that happens, but there are only so many hours in a day, and I am temporarily short-handed. One of my techs is on vacation through next week, so I need to cover his service area as well as my own (actually all of the MN service areas are mine either primarily or as a backup. I supervise areas where the other guys work). Speaking of North Dakota, when the primary jackpot got hit this weekend, I was informed that the casinos located in eastern North Dakota just became my responsibility. It was news to me, and at 12:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning, it wasn't the news I wanted. In any case, I have plenty of job security.

Everyone has been sick off and on around here for the last two weeks. I just have a sore throat, but occasionally feel chilled. Heather was surprised that I didn't have a fever, and has been guessing that for some reason, my cold or whatever this thing is, has not shown its ugly head in the form of a higher than normal temperature. I haven't had much sleep since Saturday morning, and that could be part of it, too. I have to wait for a UPS delivery before I can leave in the morning, so I think that I will sleep in at least until 7 a.m. tomorrow. I will take what I can get when it comes to sleep! It isn't always this way. Once in a great while, I stay in bed until 8, but those selfish pleasures are for weekends. Sleeping in late rocks!

Jericho's Halloween Picture

Jerico will be 3-months old at the end of this week.

Where does the time go?

Just a Couple More Thoughts

I am shocked that the Vikings managed to win the game against the Bears. I watched the last part of the game, and it was pretty sloppy. The Vikings had a safe margin with only a couple of minutes left in the 4th quarter, and yet these jokers did everything in their power to give the game away. The bright spot on the Vikings hasn’t changed, other than that I think this racehorse may be getting better and even more motivated to steamroll his way to breaking offensive records. Adrian Peterson played his heart out to win, and he did, in fact, break at least one record today. He has gained more yards in one game than any running back has ever done in the history of the Minnesota Vikings. If the Vikes could only get a team full of cloned Petersons, they would be hard to beat. Until that happens, I will resign myself to the prediction I stated a while back. The Vikings will win four games this year. That stinks!

I am going to bed soon. I hope that the rest of the work is posted this evening, so I can get that done by morning. I think I will get out of bed at midnight or 4 a.m., somewhere in that timeframe, and will finish the team assignment so that I can post a preview for the team by the time the rest of the group get out of bed in the morning. I probably won’t sleep much the next day or two, but I will make up for that later, when I get really sleepy. Life is too short to oversleep!

Saturday Morning, Sunday Morning, Its Just a Blur

I worked on the greenhouse Saturday afternoon, and we finished assembling the whole thing, other than the door. I had to modify the roof vent, but I am used to that. Anything we buy, I find that there are better ways to assembly the thing, and usually the hardware is the cheapest and most malleable junk the manufacturer could find. This was no exception. Eventually, we finished the greenhouse, but the tomatoes and flowers in pots are still under plastic in a makeshift greenhouse made of two ladders and electrical conduit. We will probably move the plants to the greenhouse in the next couple of days. I still need to put river rock on the floor of the greenhouse, but we will use the greenhouse in the meantime and add the gravel in spring, if the weather trends toward wintry weather soon.

Saturday night, we planned to watch Evan Almighty. Dave and Josh spent the weekend, so that Dave could look at housing situations in the area where he will be living when he gets trained and situated in his service area. To be accurate, the rest of us abandoned Dave, who watched Evan Almighty, while Heather and I planned to go to bed. I had just closed my eyes, literally, and the telephone rang. There was a primary jackpot in North Dakota at 12:15 a.m. So I got out of bed and hit the road. I didn’t get to the casino until 4:30 a.m. and didn’t get back home until 11:00 a.m. I slept about 45 minutes today, and didn’t sleep at all last night. It was a big jackpot for this area, just a few thousand under $3 million dollars, not a bad haul. I was pretty tired when I left the house, and when I got home, I figured I would sleep so well, after about 30 hours without sleep. I woke up Saturday morning, and here I am, still awake, and the Sunday sun is setting.

Picture This!

Yesterday was an eventful day. Little did I know, the day would become a lot longer than I had expected. In the morning, we took Gabriel and Jericho to get their pictures taken. We get a large picture of Gabriel in his Halloween costume every year, and this year, we added Jericho to the mix. Then, we had Christmas pictures taken, too, though the only people in those pictures are the boys. We just had a family picture taken in July, when Jericho was two days old. I figure that once every year or two, I can get in front of the camera, though I definitely prefer to be the one taking the pictures. I will start posting the pictures of Gabriel and Jericho soon, though I did order some pictures for Nana J, and for my parents, so they don't have to worry about printing out pictures from the blog. (Yes, I am speaking to the grandparents on both sides of this family!)

Followup: Something I realized

When I woke up this morning, for some reason it dawned on me. The reason that the Democrats cried foul when W used a PHOTOGRAPH of himself at Ground Zero and yet, it is perfectly acceptable for Hillary to use VIDEO of herself in a surgical mask at the WTC is obvious. The Dems know that George W. will never publicly criticize them for doing precisely the same thing that they criticized him for doing. Further, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media are two cogs in the very same political machine, and the Dems fully know and realize that their media machine (also known as CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Herald, AP, Reuters, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star and Sickle, et al.) will blast G. W. for his actions, with loud and ugly outcry. Yet the Democrats further know that they will never be criticized for doing exactly the same thing, supposedly exploiting 9-11.

What a bunch of hypocrites and phonies. All they care about is their political power. They certainly do not care about the welfare, safety, and longevity of the United States, as long as their dirty tricks keep them in power for another day. Beware. These people cannot be trusted!

Gabriel in cowboy mode

Hey, guess what??? The Minnesota Vikings didn't lose this week. Don't be too impressed. It was their bye week. No worries, though. Next week, the Vikes will be back in the game, and will have no problem losing. Again. I figure that they will win about 4 games this year.

In better and brighter news, this is my kid, Gabriel. He will be three years old in a few months. Where does the time go???

A Brief Observation

Does it ever occur to anyone else what a bunch of hypocrites the Democrat politicos really are? Here is my brief example for the day.

In 2004, during the presidential campaign, W used a picture, a photograph of himself meeting with firefighters who risked their lives at the World Trade Centers during the cleanup after the terrorist attacks. The Democrats were outraged, saying that W politicized 9-11.

This week, Wannabe madame president Hill has a campaign video running, showing herself in a surgical mask at Ground Zero. The voice-over for the commercial says, "She stood by Ground Zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives, and she kept standing up against this administration's inaction."

Why is it that when Dems use footage from Ground Zero, it is an honorable thing to do, while when anyone else uses footage or even a still photo from the WTC site, it is gratuitious politicizing of the victims of 9-11? Why is it an offense against hallowed ground, exploiting the victims of 9-11, when W or any Republican mentions the WTC attacks, but it is perfectly acceptable for Dems to do the exact same thing?

That is the epitome of hypocracy in America today. But what is new? The Dems are a dangerous bunch of gas bags and, in their lust for power at any price, the dirty tricks the Democrats will use to feed their hunger for power simply knows no boundaries. They will sell out American interests at every turn in their hunger for power at any price. Do not trust these people. Do not be fooled by their trickery.

America's future should not be subject to political gamesmanship from either side of the aisle.

It's raining, it's pouring (finally!)

Finally, the rain that we have not had all year is coming down. I feel a bit like Noah, here, if only in that this is the third day in a row that it has rained. Please understand that this is not a complaint on my part. After all, the ground moisture is very low. We need all the rain we can get before the ground freezes, so that the trees can get rejuvenated. I think that if it had not rained, we would lose many trees over the winter. Fortunately, for this area, this is a nice, light to moderate rainfall, and it has continued for three days. Thank God for the rain.

Dave and Josh came to visit this weekend. They arrived Saturday and stayed until Sunday night. We didn’t do much Saturday night, just worked on the greenhouse, in the dark, during a break in the rain showers. Then we watched an old movie that is interesting and engaging, though there is an underlying implied commentary about things that the U.S. government did during Viet Nam, experiments with psychotropic drugs that were used on soldiers without their knowledge. That is part of the storyline, but it is not preachy, so it doesn’t get in the way of the story. The star is a raving Marxist wacko in the real world, but he is a gifted actor, so I can only separate the acting from the delirious political rage of the actor. The movie? Jacob’s Ladder. The actor? Tim Robbins.

Dave and Josh drove up to Hibbing on Sunday morning to have a look around. Sometime after the end of November, Dave will be living in the Hibbing area, so he wanted to familiarize himself with that area. He sounded upbeat about the amenities there, and located the school (filling Josh with unending joy, I am sure), the stores they will frequent, and looked at places where Dave’s Significant Other, Melissa, will work. It sounds like she will be in Minnesota soon. Dave is in high spirits and that is a good thing. I am glad for their whole family.

I finished part 3 of the paper I am writing about business proposals for the island of Kava. That is for my critical thinking in business class. It is pretty bogus, and if I remember correctly, it is the third critical thinking class I have had in three years of college. I know that a large part of college is training the mind so that an employer can be confident that you know how to learn. Then, a college graduate gets a job where the employer retrains their mind again anyway. Rather ironic, but that is how I see it. In any case, I finished the third part of the paper. I have two group assignments left for the class, and I will finish the class this weekend. I do not remember what my next class is, but it will start a week from tomorrow. Moving on….

I could walk five hundred miles (or drive it, I guess)

I put on a lot of miles today, working at Grand Portage. The round trip included ten hours of driving and six hours working at the location. I worked on scheduling and work-related email for another hour after I got home tonight. It is so odd to leave before the sun rises and not get home until long after darkness falls again, but what the heck… it pays the bills, I suppose. The one thing I really dislike about the long trips to the end of the gaming world in Minnesota is that I miss seeing the family at all that day. The two best things about the trip this time of year are that the autumn colors along the North Shore of Lake Superior are breathtaking right now, and that this involved five hundred miles of driving today. That makes this five hundred miles closer to getting new tires on the service truck. The reason I mention that is because on Tuesday, I was driving home from Fortune Bay and it was raining pretty hard. I kept the speed to fifty miles an hour, because the tires have little tread left, and even though the truck is one heavy beast, with that little bit of tread, the truck was still slipping around on the road, like butter in a hot frying pan. (You just pictured melting butter in a pan, didn't you?) Our maintenance company is ridiculously tight-fisted with OUR money, and won’t let me get new tires yet. I think that when I go in for an oil change again, I will be able to finally get new tires. In a way, I don't mind, because I will have brand new tread for the winter. Oh, and I plan to tell them I want A/T tires instead of the cheesy road-tripping crap that is currently on the truck. For the uninitiated (Heather and Mom, this means you), A/T means the tires are all-terrain and have meatier tread. That is useful for Grand Portage trips in the winter.

While I love the scenery along the North Shore, the winter weather can be nuts. I have been on drives to Portage and in the course of twenty miles, it changed from sunny skies and clear roads to white-out blizzard conditions and glare ice, and then back to sunny skies again. Superior is such a big lake; it literally induces its own weather. I personally think that getting two feet of lake-effect snow in one day would rock! Heather would agree with me. Since our lake country winters have yielded the most pathetic snow levels lately, the idea of all that snow sounds like a blast. Besides, Gabriel is getting old enough that he can really begin to appreciate the snow. I want a snowstorm that is hardcore, the kind of storm that keeps you snowed in for two or three days straight. Those were the days!!

Come on. Let it snow!

postpartum lecture

I went to my OB/GYN today for my postpartum check-up. The whole thing started out with Gabriel seeing his picture on the wall in the waiting area and saying, "He's funny!" He likes Dr. Leland's sense of humor. The man has as great of a bedside manner for women in labor as he does for children. He always gets a high-five from Gabriel and makes him laugh.

After befriending Gabriel for the millionth time, he proceeded to ask me if I am having the baby blues. I said that I was generally feeling fine. He asked me how long I planned on breastfeeding. I told him that I would probably do it for a year, like I did with Gabriel. He asked me if I was having unprotected sex. I told him that I don't care if I get pregnant again and wasn't really worried about getting pregnant since I was breastfeeding so often (the wonderful child likes to eat just about every hour and that is why he is such a pudgy thing) and I have yet to have a period. He looked at me and said, "Now...you realize that you can get pregnant without a period and while breastfeeding?" I acknowledged that breastfeeding is not foolproof birth control, and that it was my husband's fault that I have two boys. He just laughed and said that he guessed that I knew how it all worked and what made him feel better about the conversation was that I started it all out by saying that we didn't care how soon we had another one.

Help?

Does anyone but my mother read this? Any mothers out there. Here is the deal: Maybe the child is just a night-owl. Today is a prime example. Gabriel woke up at 8:30am, fell asleep for a one and a half hour nap at 1pm, and is still awake now at half past midnight. He only slept more than a hour for a nap, because it is impossible to wake him up. Factor into this that the child is currently sick. You would think he would need to sleep more. I've tried eliminating the nap. He isn't ready for that. That will just cause him to sleep at 5 or 6pm. He never lasts an entire day without sleep. So what do I do? Wake him up at 7am? I know that part of the problem is that I can't wind him down. But, if I can't manage to get him to sit quietly in front of the tv or with a book, then what can I possibly do to get him to slow down and get tired?

Gabriel

Gabriel at the mall

Jericho

Jericho, October 1st, 2 months

Gabriel

Gabriel, 2 1/2 years old, September 28 at the mall

Billary Clinton, Universal Health Care, and the 10th Amendment

Let me quickly remind you of what the Tenth Amendment says before I get on my soapbox for a bit:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Hillary Clinton has been promising that there will be guaranteed health care for everyone. This drives me crazy, and indeed, bugs the shit out of me. What is happening here is that Billary Clinton (that is not a typo… Billary = Bill + Hillary “the Mad Dog” Clinton) is using the scare tactics that she claims the conservative side of the aisle use against the common folk out there. Don’t believe that, for it is a bold-faced lie used tirelessly by the wacky socialist left in this country. Face it: too many people just do not know the facts. Seriously, nobody in the United States is denied health care. They may not have health INSURANCE, but in no way is that the same thing as not having HEALTH CARE. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something, and again, Hillary is my “snake oil” selling case in point.

Do I dare say that Hillary is a big fat liar? By gum, I just did. First, she has no right to make these ridiculous campaign promises assuring universal health care to the gullible American sheep (the naïve sheeple) following her lies. Furthermore, the entire U.S. Congress and the federal government, in fact, have no constitutional right, to authorize federal health care, to fund it, or to mandate it. This is a states’ rights issue, plain and simple. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the federal government is authorized to mandate, sanction, finance, subsidize, or provide universal health care. This is more of the socialist agenda of the left wing welfare crazies in the wacky loony bin of the left.

In our governmental system, arranged as it has been by the Founding Fathers, one thing that Hillary forgets is that the states are the de facto and constitutionally provided uppermost governmental authority, and the states themselves are constitutionally subservient only to the willful consent to those governed by the states, the hard working citizens of each singular state. The states have the power to bring suit and legal action directly to the U.S. Supreme Court (the court that has the original and premier influence), in order to dispute the constitutionality of federal regulations at the national level.

The individual states also have the power to join in a constitutional convention to approve amendments to the U.S. Constitution entirely without U.S. Congressional approval, through the constitutional conventions process. These are some fantastic powers. The states’ governments (collectively) unconditionally have the authority to rescind or substitute part or all of the U.S. Constitution if they so choose. Say the states choose to do this, the likely means would be to use the process of creating amendments to replace the Constitution entirely, or to take back the powers that the federal government has illegitimately stolen through the years (and I say firmly that ‘stolen’ is the validly descriptive term for what the U.S. Congress has been incrementally doing for decades… stealing power from the states. I am frustrated in saying that the states are by no means becoming fragile or defenseless against uncontrolled authoritarianism from the federal government, despite the many higher court rulings attempting to misappropriate state powers and reassign these states rights to the federal government against them.

What frustrates me is that the states do, in fact, seem to be losing ground to the federal government. It is in reality a case where the individual states do not have the nerve and the resolve to step up to the plate, to shelter and secure their constitutional rights. Why? The states no longer stand up for their rights and demand that the federal government back off and let the states govern their people as each state sees fit to do.

The cynic in me says that while the states are the final check on the federal government’s power, when the U.S. Congress does not act in their interests, the states just do not have the guts to take back what is rightfully theirs to begin with. Hillary Clinton cannot offer you universal health care. It is not her right, nor the right of the United States Congress or the federal government to make those promises. To put it bluntly, it is a states’ rights issue. For the federal government to adopt a socialist stance and provide health care to the sheeple not only breeds dependency and fosters the state of welfare addicts demanding more and more welfare benefits, the fact is that socialistic medicine is blatantly and absolutely unconstitutional.

Update on Dave and the job

Here is an update on my brother and the company. He is waiting for the official job offer. My boss has assured him (and me) that the offer is forthcoming. Dave will start working around the 22nd, after the background investigation is complete. I was grandfathered into the company when the Borg of gaming acquired us, so I did not have to go through so many investigations. I do still have to have my fingerprints taken and new license applications filled out from time to time. Now that South Dakota’s service area has been folded into the Minnesota service territory, I have to be licensed for both North and South Dakota, so I got to fill out all the regulatory paperwork again last month. It is not a big deal, but then I have documentation of every place I have been for ages for this specific reason, to simplify regulatory applications.

Dave will get used to all the regulatory documentation… eventually. Will he become accustomed to the telephone calls in the middle of the night? Oh, he will, without a doubt, though it gives me smug fulfillment to know that he can see what I have been going through for eight years. Hehe… a slightly malcontented gratification, but he will come to appreciate what a great occupation this can be, if he works it effectively. I am elated for him and wish him much success. Besides, he works for me, so it behooves me to want him to succeed. That plainly will make my life easier, too.

Dave gets his shot at the big leagues

Dave got a job with the company. He starts today. I was not sure about whether he got hired or not, because my boss called me on Friday and wondered why he hadn’t gotten a call back from the brother. Of course, I called Dave right away and mentioned that the boss was trying to reach him. Dave called the boss and found out that they wanted him to come in on Monday for “20 minutes” and that he was then being cut loose for the week. Apparently, that meant that he was working in the office all this week. After that, I am guessing he will go for training in Reno or Las Vegas for a couple of weeks, but the good news is that Dave got his foot in the door. This will be a good opportunity for him. He deserves a shot, and having trained him on automated robotic equipment in the past, I know that he definitely has the technical ability to learn all of this. Not having experience is going to be a challenge for a while, but if anyone can learn this, that would be Dave. He picks up on technical subjects quickly, and I truly believe that he will do the same thing again. Besides, once he is in the field, I will almost certainly be providing his advanced training, the same training I have given other techs who now work for, and with me, all over Minnesota. Dave will do fine.

The long-term plan is for him to be a remote technician with a home base wherever he chooses to live up near Hibbing. This could be a life-changing turn of events for him. I hope that he really applies himself. If so, I think that he will become one of the techs who really make a difference in the customer service field. I would not have given such a strong recommendation if I did not believe that he could do this so well. After all, he will be working for me, and I do not need any headaches or to baby-sit for guys who don’t know what they are supposed to be doing to stay busy. I figure that he will work hard and become a great success in the field. He is a total rookie with zero experience today, but he knows that this is a big break, not having previous related work. I honestly believe that he will do great things. We will see, but today, he gets his shot in the big leagues.