Just Give me the Money

I take the train in to and home from work as much as I can. Not only is riding the train easier the driving taking the train is cheaper especially when the state reimburses me at 90 percent of what I pay. So I pay $27.00 a month now and get $24.00 and some change. This makes my transportation costs for work less then a dollar a day! This is a real deal. So I purchase the pass on my own dime then I have to fill-out a document and submit it to my office who in turn will submit the paper work to the State and about a week and half later I’ll get a little check in the mail I will carry round in my back pack and cash the check a week before pay day so I’ll have coffee money. I am pretty conscience about some things and getting this paper work done and submitted is one of those things. However, during month of the Freedom Tour and the impending Russian visit a lot of things got shifted to the “back burner” and three submission of my July mileage was one of those things. In fact I lost the receipt for the month. This is the first time this has happened. Really, I can let a month go and I would be ok, actually I could even buy the pass with out the state reimbursement even at 27.00 for transportation for a month and this is not only work, but anywhere any time the transit authority is operating weekend AND holidays.

All day long Marriane has been in “hover” mode making sure the forms are filled in correct and on time. Then she finds that I have not filled in the paperwork on the July Month and we are having to start sifting through the piles on my desk trying to find the receipt. We never do find it but I have been warned that it is time to clean my office and work on keeping the place clean—then she announces that if I can still exhibit the sticker on my bus pass for July then that sticker should act as a receipt since I would have had to pay the sticker ergo, I paid, and so I will have something to submit for the month of July—I will be submitting two months this months meaning ,. When they DO cut a check I’ll be getting nearly $50.00. Sweet.

Marrianne dumped an empty garbage can in my office this morning and announced I was to cleanse my office over the next week, which means to throw-way any and everything which is not bolted down by the end of the week. Last Friday the contractors started ripping up the carpet in the conference room and putting down new carpet…next well the contractors be painting the walls and next will be our offices and things will have to be clean for that—so welcome to the lost week. I guess I’ll just be answering phones.