Could They??

Today's Train Person--taken from the archives

Another front pushed through last night not a killer front but a big enough system to clean out the air. The local air had been dirty and congested for the past week or so...burn warnings and car pool adviseries have filled the air waves but last night's storm blew it away today—but where did it go? So today we had blue skies water dripping off the icicles on the west side of the house. We will have a few days of cleaner air and looks like we will in for a group of storms coming into the area the end of this coming week and the beginning of next. The quiet and solitude of work is now beginning to slip in to memory as the calendar get closer and closer to the new legislative session. This year's legislative session looks as if the session will as fiscally deadly as the last maybe worse when one considers all the fat and now most of the muscle has been cut. The talk says the legislative boys will be going for 11% in cuts-this is not surgery any more it's just dissection. But, I am OK for some reason. I know I am cool until July 1. I have been working with Frank and Claire trying to develop some sort of game plan if the worse case scenario should occur. Somehow, I don't think the worse case will happen. True this might be naive, I mean how could they get rid of me Mr I&R? But THEY could. THEY have gotten rid of a lot more important and valuable state workers then me.

Its OK, I am not scared—the one thing I have learned over my sixty years is that life goes one no matter what happens, it does not stop for anyone even me. I have decided to start emptying my office little by little until July. I learned from my last exit, from Utah Independent Living after being there for over ten years just how much junk I collect. Well, I have been with State for over ten years and guess what? I have a bunch of crap I need to clear away. I better start tomorrow.