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5 Days to Christmas
Dec. 20th, 2005 08:56 amCaroline and I are going to "Mommy & Me" today if she is feeling well. She still has a sniffy nose but if that is all she has then off we go. Then I need to run one or two errands. Wednesday is catch-up day for the week and then Thursday is pack and go. House sitter is already up here and ready to take care of the house and the cats. The weather so far is cooperating.
I have been having the song "Hazy Shade of Winter" running through my head. It was not one of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs when I was a kid but as I got older the lyrics resonated with me more and more. Now I think that I have had a kid even more so. There are some songs that can take you back to a place and a time and there are others that move you forward or change meaning as you get older. "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme" is still my favorite song by them but "Hazy Shade of Winter" is getting closer to the top.
The transit strike started today. I expect to be hearing the horror stories with tomorrow's paper and this evening's news if I care to watch it. It boils down to a bunch of people (lie the city of New York) being very inconvenienced by a few people who happen to believe their union's rhetoric except being written up for going to the bathroom and taking too long. That I agree is stupid on the part of management because a couple of people abused their bathroom privileges the whole workforce has to suffer for and suffer they do. I am hoping that this gets resolved by the New Year. The one upside as to when they struck is that many people were going on holiday any way. Just speeds it up for some. Now understand that I belong to a Union. I am a member of Actor's Equity Association and I have followed the rules and the negotiations for some of the things we needed like something possibly approaching a minimum wage for work done. But a lot of this is about what is going to happen to the people not hired yet and the cost of all the people that have been hired and retired and are still getting paid by the MTA. This is a number that is rapidly increasing and that is one of the sticking points. I don't have any fair answers but I don't think the union is going to like what they will have to live with in binding arbitration where the MTA is compared to other city payrolls.
I am grateful for cats as footwarmers.
I have been having the song "Hazy Shade of Winter" running through my head. It was not one of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs when I was a kid but as I got older the lyrics resonated with me more and more. Now I think that I have had a kid even more so. There are some songs that can take you back to a place and a time and there are others that move you forward or change meaning as you get older. "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme" is still my favorite song by them but "Hazy Shade of Winter" is getting closer to the top.
The transit strike started today. I expect to be hearing the horror stories with tomorrow's paper and this evening's news if I care to watch it. It boils down to a bunch of people (lie the city of New York) being very inconvenienced by a few people who happen to believe their union's rhetoric except being written up for going to the bathroom and taking too long. That I agree is stupid on the part of management because a couple of people abused their bathroom privileges the whole workforce has to suffer for and suffer they do. I am hoping that this gets resolved by the New Year. The one upside as to when they struck is that many people were going on holiday any way. Just speeds it up for some. Now understand that I belong to a Union. I am a member of Actor's Equity Association and I have followed the rules and the negotiations for some of the things we needed like something possibly approaching a minimum wage for work done. But a lot of this is about what is going to happen to the people not hired yet and the cost of all the people that have been hired and retired and are still getting paid by the MTA. This is a number that is rapidly increasing and that is one of the sticking points. I don't have any fair answers but I don't think the union is going to like what they will have to live with in binding arbitration where the MTA is compared to other city payrolls.
I am grateful for cats as footwarmers.
