Test Delay

Drove to work last night instead of taking the bike. Rode to Coffeyville this morning to get the rent check instead.

The bad thing about having a vehicle that could use some work is scheduling an appointment. A few years ago I could get my car worked on this week. Now I am lucky to get one in less than two weeks. What’s even worse is calling is now a waste of time since there is no one to answer the phone. You have to go to the shop and talk to the mechanic. Not so bad if you live in town, but I have to plan that visit around other errands like getting the rent check. At least I got an appointment next week.

Getting back on the bike

I had not ridden the bikes all year, but I finally got them off of the porch and prepared them for riding. Coffeyville’s football stadium is about five miles from my house. Unless the high school goes deep in the playoffs, this is the last time both the high school and the college are at home this year.

I could either go to the high school game Friday night featuring the top two teams in the class 4A West, but have to deal with traffic at night on roads with no shoulder of any kind. My other option is to go to a rare Saturday afternoon game featuring two teams that really suck, but I am less likely to get killed on the way to or from the game. Since I work weekends, this will most likely be my last chance to see either one

Avoiding work

When I am not working at Wally World, I try to avoid the place. Unfortunately, when you have insurance from Walmart, Walmart is your drug dealer. My prescriptions are ready, so I will run a bunch of other errands that I otherwise would have delayed until next week when I get back from vacation.

Even though gas is still under four dollars a gallon, I do not want to waste it just to pick up some drugs. Speaking of not wanting gas, I want to get back on the bike and ride to work one day a week. The temperatures are going to be ideal for the next month, but lack of daylight will not be.

Tag renewal

I had to go to the tag office to get my tags renewed this week. I figured I could get off work, have breakfast and get to the tag office as it opened at 8am. When I got there at just after 8, there was a sign saying that due to a shortage of employees, the office would open at 9am until further notice. Even though it was the end of the month, there were only half a dozen people in front of me and only three people came up before the office opened. Fortunately they put all of the people who needed time consuming title work in one line and the rest of us in the other two. I still got home just after 9:30.

KSHSAA reclassification

The Kansas Board of Education released enrollment figures for September 20, which determines state funding of schools. The same numbers are used for grouping schools of similar size for activities by the Kansas State High Schools Activity Association.

The only direct change locally is Neodesha moving up to Class 3A for football starting next year. There is an indirect change in 4A affecting Independence, Labette County, and Coffeyville. Among the schools dropping to 4A are Lansing and Wichita Catholic powerhouse Kapaun-Mt. Caramel. Labette should stay in the 4A East with Lansing. If you look at a map of Kansas, you wouldn’t think Indy and Coffeyville could be stuck in the 4A West with Kapaun, but it has happened twice in the previous four cycles since 4A went to the current format.

If you can’t be busy…

…look busy. One of our suspects on overnights can’t seem to figure this out. Instead of doing his job, he tends to go on walkabout throughout the store. This might not be so bad if he at least walked around with a piece of paper as if he was reading it. Instead he is looking at his cellphone which in this case is not the high tech equivalent of a piece of paper. It is a red flag to any manager that you are goofing off. Maybe some time in the unemployment line might give him time to reflect on the errors of his ways. I could do a whole week of posts of how this guy is screwing up.