MORE LIKE CHRISTMAS From the chaos of boxes the once a year living room take-over emerges, and it's good. Although it is true that you may place any ornament you wish on the tree, understand that the OH will move it. I tried for a couple of years but gave up having any say on the orientation of said tree and I'm ok with that. The daughter, however, still thinks she can do it - ha ha. However, she did help us move the myriad of boxes upstairs. Wonder if she's coming back to take them down again? Must be why they scheduled a trip to Fla right after Christmas. Now that's going to extremes.
BIRTHDAY WEEK Daughter and family celebrated birthday dinner with us last week. She knew exactly what she wanted (Mom & Dad spoil our only) so no big surprise what was in the giant box which was actually under the tree. Being born two weeks before Christmas has been the bane of her existence though it does fit her Sagittarius vibes. We clearly demarked the period between her birthday and Christmas, but others would do the "oh, this is for both events". Pooh. She asked me once if we could celebrate her birthday in June. We gave her this massive NINJA coffee maker that makes hot and cold coffee, tea, cappuccinos as well as casseroles and mai-tais (I assume), etc. while whistling dixie apparently. The epitome of millennial must-haves. As she was pushing it to the door the OH reminded her of another little person getting his dream rocking pony that whinnied and pranced and spoke cowboy pushing it to the door as we debated whether it would go home with the 2-year-old or stay at Nana-Grandpa's. He decided while we were still debating. Best gift ever.
SURPRISE! I will post a rare comment. marmie has actually done something I approve of! By calling journalists, mostly women, stupid, nasty, ugly and piggy he has made us feel sorry for the media and illustrated who are the most intelligent ones in the room. Their overwhelming calm and respectful courage asking questions we are interested in while being roundly insulted also shows who's the adult in the room. Finally, it reveals he is very afraid of intelligent women lol. Also some cracks are showing in the "r" ranks.
PODCASTING Doing two podcasts four days apart is a challenge as I have to jump "frames of reference" between each. There is a reason I script these somewhat. Last weeks was about workplace violence where I mispronounced the dude's name, like every time I said it. I told him I'm sure people probably didn't attempt it asking for his badge number when he was a patrol officer. It is spelled that weirdly. I practiced saying it and then when we met up in ZOOM I had him say it again which was totally different than what I thought.
Interesting topic of course but, if OSHA doesn't get dissolved, we will be seeing requirements for each workplace to have a written violence mitigation plan and training. As he charmingly pointed out, the police won't be there until shots are already fired and mayhem has ensued, so better get your people up to speed of what they're going to do. Considering there were at least two major "surprise" attacks this weekend (Brown University and an Australian beach) he's not wrong.
He said some of it is people not realizing and/or reporting when someone says something or does something out of character which is potentially violent. Also, he's a big proponent of background checks. Off camera I mentioned one of my own experiences when I was threatened to be blown up with the building because he didn't like the rule I was laying down (which was expecting his girlfriend to come to work). Upon reporting his behavior to his supervisor, I was told I was over-reacting. Yep, I'm such a wimp, and unfortunately, he shot his girlfriend (she survived) several months later, probably because she over-reacted to his temper. Remember when we didn't used to have this happening every other day? Sickening.
Monday's poddie is with a very experienced safety expert with 500 articles and several best-selling books to his credit on culture, leadership and strategic safety planning. Plus, he claims he started the first "safety" podcast. Our whole interaction has been through his assistant. I should be so lucky. Intimidated you think? Nope, I'm just thrilled that he's been interviewed so many times, this will be a piece of very excellent cake. I just have to wind up and let him go. We're following my loose set of questions so no sweat. Peace out/stay strong/love your neighbor 💚 💙💛
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