I am glad to have last week behind me. By the time I had made
the trip to the University of Texas Arlington OSHA Outreach Center twice last
week, I got to feeling pretty comfortable with navigating the route. It was
never less than 90 minutes to get there. It was never less than two hours to
get home. Tuesday and Wednesday nights, I worked in the office until about 8:30
getting a presentation ready for peer and instructor review Friday. The presentation
needed to be 30 minutes in length and cover one of the topics spelled out in the
OSHA 1910 regulations. The information was not a problem to gather. Making the
presentation interesting was the challenge. Fortunately, we had been split into
small groups in the class and one of the students in my group had chosen the
same general area of the regulation as I had. So, we coordinated the
presentations to avoid too much overlap. That impressed the instructor.
Tuesday and Wednesday, I looked closely at the lecture material
and the notes I had taken and was a bit alarmed that I could not see fifty
questions worth of material that could be extracted from the lectures or the
class handouts. I asked the instructor about the test material and he promised
to look at the test to see if we had covered the material sufficiently. When he
came back to class Thursday morning, he told the class that he had looked over
the test and was going to spend the next several hours pitting the three groups
against each other in a game that would help us review some old material
relevant to the upcoming test. It was a good thing he gave us the time to refamiliarize
ourselves with the material we had been tested on in the class that was a prerequisite
to this class. We took the test first thing Friday morning. Everyone passed.
Several, just barely. After lunch, the instructor wrote the scores over 90% on the
board – all four of them. Mine was a 100%. I was shocked. I had called Mama
right after I finished the test because she was praying for me knowing I was anxious
about the test. I had told her that I would be happy with a passing grade
because there were six questions I was completely unsure of. But I prayed about
each one. God did the rest. With that behind me, I have the last test in FBI
tonight and the Christmas Cantata Sunday night. After those two items are
completed, I will feel like I can finally relax.
Saturday, I woke to serious issues with my colon and had to
spend the morning resting. As I sat, I worked through the questions for the
test in FBI tonight. By about 10:30 everything had settled to the point that I felt
like I could go outside and work in the well house. I put some wall stiffeners in
at critical areas and cut down one wall to fit in a window that Mama had
requested be left with us when it was replaced Tuesday. (Yes, the installer
finally got all the windows properly installed.) Having the window in the north
wall really adds to the look of the well house. Saturday when Mama looked it
over she called it “cute”. Mission accomplished. I will have pictures when it
is done – maybe next week,
Victoria has three of the five pups sold so far. I am very
pleased with that.
Norman came by Saturday to look at the fireplace. I have
put it off because I am not ready to fool with it, but Mama wants a working
fireplace by Christmas. What Norman discovered is that the damper had been
welded shut to accommodate the gas logs now sitting in the fireplace. He is
going to update the logs, plumb in the propane and have it operable by the end
of next week. Mama is thrilled. I am pleased to know that I will not have to
redo the chimney to accomplish Mama’s desire to have a fire. In light of that discovery,
I am going to tear off the bulky old chimney and seal it with a concrete cap.
That is on my list of projects for the home.
On the fun side of things, Alex Chen is going to give us
cooking lessons. We are all excited about that.
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