**Sniff**

I hated retirement until I found mylot and I did not miss the branch manager that did not have the guts to tell her second in command that' she really did not want to let me go as I had done nothing to warrant being fired. but headquarters found out that i was fired because i was almost 80 and the second in command did not like elderly people working in what she thought was her library.Anyway headquarters fired them both and asked me to come back. but alas I was in the hospital having a shoulder joint replacement because I had had a f all and smashed my left shoulder so bad I had to have a bionic shoulder joint. even with a lot of therapy I have not regained much use of my left arm. so my days of shelving books were done for good.23 years on that job.

It's nice to have someone care enough to call and check up on you.

Great Courses are both audio or video formatted college level courses that are not-for-credit but for continuing learning. It was held on the independent living side of the place my mom lived, and when she still lived there, she went every week. I used to take her over and then to the dining room for lunch until I was told they really didn't want her eating the "regular" food, only the mushed up stuff. When I started going the man who arranged it was starting the videos, but he go to where he was forgetting how to do it, and then he spent the summer in the health care center, so I said I would start it for them, since I had pretty much taken it over already because he had been forgetting. We did a lot of history and biography. Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Mark Twain, were some of who we learned about. We learned about medical break throughs by means of biography of the men/doctors who discovered them. Another was Great Civilizations of Asia Minor. We did China, from Tao to Mao, and the Vikings. Very educational! http://www.teach12.com/greatcourses.aspx?ai=16281

I could've except that I changed my work hours and now work during that time

That will do it alright.

I see thought you were talkingabout work place @ pm good time to get off. mine was 6 am to 3 pm but I did alot of over time to get orders out!

so sad!

Thanks! That would be the Irish Orthodox Church, right? "O'Christmas?" I love that quote, too; wish I knew who said it! I just swiped it from some site that posts quotes. I change my quote daily, usually. Glad you enjoyed it! Maggiepie "The air of Heaven is that which flows between a horse's ears." ~ Arab proverb

well, I do, because we do have some family friends who live there too.

Well, I changed my hours at work so I'm working 5 hours every day. Yeah, I could go over, but I really like that Wednesdays are as long as used to be. Wednesday is also my "cat litter" day, so when I get home from work I have to do the cat litter, it used to make for a very hard day what with going to work, going to mom's, going back to work and then coming home and doing the cat boxes. I have been thinking of stopping by, but so far I've not had a lot of free time, and since I'm in a borrowed car, I am trying not to drive it too much.