This will be a short post because I was late getting back to the house. More on that in a bit.
The bad news is that I didn’t get the promotion at work. So, no big increase in pay and a longer period to get debts paid off. I have a suspicion that an employee already at the lab is preparing to retire from the state’s law enforcement side of the retirement system, and will be hired then on the non-law enforcement side for the job. It is kind of like “double-dipping” within the same agency. It wouldn’t be the first time that has happened.
A lot of times when it happens, it does so because someone has skills that are really hard to replace. We have one gentleman who used to be an investigative agent. He retired from that, but because his skills in forensic reconstruction from bare skulls are so good, he was hired back in that role.
Another was both an investigative agent and electronics whiz. He retired from the law enforcement side and was rehired as the electronics guru working with specialized equipment and with video recordings. One of his designs was to put a very small camera into a replica of a mud dauber’s nest and attach it on a suspect’s front porch.
However, even though I didn’t get the job, I am one happy camper because my new lens arrived today. I was late getting home because I had to wait at the UPS facility for the truck to come back into the terminal and get my lens to the pick-up facility.
I am now excited because Jo came up with the idea of driving over to Muskogee, Oklahoma this coming Saturday and seeing the memorial at the USS Batfish. The Batfish is an old WWII submarine that was active in the Pacific of that war. While the 70-200 lens will be useless inside the submarine, it will be good on the outside.
So, in honor of Mother’s Day, our youngest son will take us to lunch and we’ll tour the facilities there at the Batfish. I’ve wanted to get over there to see it, so I’m just a wee bit pumped tonight with the arrival of the lens and the anticipation of the weekend trip.
That will be my first opportunity for using the lens, so maybe I can show something off in the future in the form of photographs.
Your agency sounds interesting. Like Bones or CSI, but I bet you don't have their cool toys (does anyone?). I've always worked in research, which means it helps to know how to make equipment out of beakers and rubber tubing.
ReplyDeleteSorry you didn't get that job. I hope it will become obvious soon why it's a good thing.
Oh, ho. Now I'm going to step in it, Roxanne. A friend at work commented that I might not have liked working at the lab anyway. Her comment was, "those folks are just strange."
ReplyDeleteSo, very quick-like, I answered with, "Well, they are scientists."
You can slap me down now since I now know you've worked in research with "beakers and rubber tubing."