Keebles World

Most of you guys know where I live, and yes, I live in the town that got hit by the tornado on Saturday. Normally, when bad weather moves through, if I'm at home (which is a trailer), I take the boys up the lab and we wait it out there. My office is "technically" underground and the building is made out of concrete and steel. If I'm at work, I rush home through whatever weather to get to boys and take them back up to the lab. But being this was a Saturday, we were at home, and this time, the very first time ever, I didn't leave the house. Everything happened so quickly, had I left the house, I either would have been caught in the middle of it, or wouldn't have been able to get back home for a couple of days since work and home are separated by the path the tornado took. I had the local weather up on my phone and, before it went out, I saw the tornado drop in the middle of town and heading my way. I called my Sister. I apologized for not getting out, ...

COVID-19 is a serious thing, definitely not to be taken lightly, speaking from the healthcare side of things. I'm seeing it from the medical point of view and it's definitely frightening! But even from this view, there are still people in my environment who aren't taking it seriously, but that's probably because this is still middle America where it hasn't gotten bad (yet). I started taking things seriously two weeks before everyone else here and I'm not the germaphobe type, I'm usually the opposite. But initially, the 14 day quarantine (when they still had beds available), was hospital only, and the thought of getting locked up in yet another hospital, this time for 14 days, terrified me to death! Yes, I know I'm looking at this from the absolute WRONG perspective, but it worked, and I've been doing everything I can to self-isolate a lot longer than most everyone around me, only going to work. Whether or not it will help, is another matter. S...

I left off with Alice and the B's here like WEEKS ago: And literally got five days worth of stitching on them (and sucky stitching at that) ever since, so I only made it here: But, Go-Live on our new system was two weeks ago, and there are still TONS of bugs to work out. My work schedule still hasn't slowed down much, although I didn't have to work this past Sunday, which was a first in a while. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep up this pace. This whole mess was "supposed" to make my life easier, not harder, but I really don't see an end to it. Everyone is starting to settle in and has calmed down quite a bit, although I did find a rather nasty poem that a co-worker wrote about the software and go-live that I took VERY personally. She was one of the people who refused to pre-train or help build her world in any way, so all the issues she is having is her own problem. I am just trying to keep my chin up and hope everything starts slowing dow...