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| DRAC office locked up tight!!! |
I'm
such a committed idiot! I do something if I Samba to do it at least
I'll try the best that I can to make that commitment. As you know I
I'm involved with our you could say that I volunteer with Disabled
Rights Action Committee or DRAC. And once again if you type DRAC into
that search section at the top of the blog page you should be able to
get a fairly decent history of why I have volunteered for this
organization over the 30 years or so I've been in Utah. DRAC is going
through some reorganization right now and is taking a concerted
effort of a number of the volunteers to meet and hopefully bring the
organization through to its new reiteration. I have the time and the
conviction so why not regardless of the weather.
Overnight
the temperature dropped by at least 30° it seemed yesterday the
temps were in the 70s and today it was the 40s the threat of snow and
lots of wind as significant amount of rain. Cold day to be sure
making the experience of traveling in a power chair on city streets
riding public transit the challenge plus my butt hurts. Since today
is Wednesday that means it's home health visitation day. Dana is
coming I'm so excited. But she was a bit late and I've learned that
she always notifies me when she's going to be late and I didn't hear
any noise from my cell phone but I've learned to check because my
stupid phone has developed a habit of silence in itself – – I
think just for the fun of it – – and sure enough there is a
message from Dana indicated she was running late. There is also seven
messages which blew me away. I really should check my phone more
often. Well, most of the messages were duds, a couple from kids and
one from my positions office robot let me know that I have a doctors
appointment this morning! The message came in on Sunday afternoon but
like I said I didn't hear anything. 9:45 AM that was my appointment
time. The first thing Dana said when she came in was the have
anything to do today I would cancel it. That would've been nice but
now it's a trip to the Intermountain medical Center's campus then
inbound to the DRAC office 30 streets north.
I
dressed in layers even taking my having ready and lain across my
legs. I was wearing shorts of course. I didn't have to endure the
punishment of the elements too long and I got to the doctor's office
with about a half an hour to kill so I called the DRAC folks just to
make sure the meeting was on. I couldn't get anyone of course. I
called the one guy I really thought was on top of things he really is
a busy person I quite like him. Left a message on his cell phone as
well as is landline. I never heard anything back so I figured what
the heck is going to be a meeting and I will be there. I took Route
100 N. bound which is State Street getting off at 3900 S. and for 300
S. it's three blocks east. It wasn't raining it was just cold and
windy but I made it the meeting is for 1 o'clock I got there about
12:45 PM and of course the door was locked to the office. I figured
as much but still I was just glad to wait inside. 3900S and third
E.'s a bit of a rough neighborhood, broken sidewalks, fast food,
check-cashing and money loan joints are all around. DRAC's office is
in a office complex that truly is seen better days. It's kind of
spooky. For an organization that services people with disabilities
the building is not all accessible nor is the office they doing and
have a lever handle on the door. Thankful to be in sight at least
waiting I decided I would follow-up with another call to my buddy Ron
our current executive secretary and financial guy for the operation
and who I remember was one who called the meeting every Wednesday for
the next couple weeks at 1 o'clock. I pick up and we have this weird
conversation rethinks I'm another Mark Smith that he works with until
he finds out that it's me and then I find out there is no meeting
today. He didn't remember there being a meeting and there was no
reason to be a meeting because they met Monday I had no idea.
Is
no reason to get mad or upset just accept things as they are and move
on and that's what I did as soon as is able to figure out a way to
open the door to the outside of the building which was very much
inaccessible…
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