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Good Evening, FS Warriors! It has been an interesting couple of days - the best of times, the worst of times. And it isn't even like some events were bad, and some were good. More complicated than that. Last night, we had worship practice. Apparently, some of the congregation has written letters saying they wish we had more contemporary Christian songs. Haha, the "Worship Wars" have hit our little church. I try and throw a contemporary song in every now and then, but I have purposely tried not to go overboard because, well, we have an older congregation for the most part. And it's the older crowd that is complaining. Well, not really complaining - so far. It's more like "You're doing a great job; could you do more of what that other guy used to do?" Well, I could - if I could play like Chet Atkins and improvise on the fly - which I can't. But anyway, I'm plugging more contemporary stuff in and trying to keep it lively. We have a pretty cool congregation that likes to laugh and joke, but you can't please everyone. Plus, some of the contemporary stuff is a little more complicated, and I'm not going to throw that stuff in for Sunday worship, if they don't show up for practice during the week. I'm really not there to entertain them anyway. If they want to be entertained, then they should show up at the Nursing Home gigs. There, we do a little bit of everything. There's always a little bit of drama in everything, isn't there?
Today was a very interesting and exciting day at work. First, I get an email that the CEO has a special message to share with the whole world, then the Group President sends an invitation stating that he wants to talk about the CEO's message, and finally the VP sends an invitation that she wants to talk about the CEO's message this morning. My thoughts immediately deduced that the CEO was stepping down - Wrong! The message focused on downsizing and restructuring - and specifically downsizing concerning management. It didn't come as a big surprise, considering the global economy. What did surprise me was that all management employees over the age of 55 were offered a pretty generous incentive to take early retirement, for the purpose of voluntarily reducing manpower, and limiting involuntary reductions in force. This option had been offered a couple of times during my tenure here, but I was ineligible, for whatever reason at the time. I figured those kind of offers would never come my way again. Well, it did today, and I couldn't say yes fast enough! DW was not so exuberant when I shared the news. I told her before that if the opportunity ever presented itself, they wouldn't have to ask me twice. I've been looking for a reason to retire, and this was a good one. She never gets excited about anything, so she kind of takes the fun out of good news, but this time, she is not raining on my parade. I have now retired from the service, and I will be retired prior to the end of this year from this company as well. I'm not going for a third company; I've got plenty of projects to do as it is, and I'm going to enjoy doing them.
Anyway, stress meter is down, but now I'm eating to celebrate my good fortune. Haha; there's always a reason to eat. At least now, I will have more time for building the pool, working out and running. Today, life is good! Toodles!
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