Alright

This week work wasn't so terrible. I still don't like my boss but this week he wasn't around much so I didn't have to deal with him too much. And I found out that listening to my ipod when I'm on the computer makes my boss much more tolerable. I spent a LOT of time working on GIS maps while agonizing over how slow the program I was using was and how much it made me want to hit my head against the wall. Unfortunately I still can't do anything by myself on the computer that actually concerns our customers - meaning I have to have someone else log onto my computer and then log in to the program that we're using for mapping. I can't even access my own time sheet yet. If you ask me the NRCS is going overboard with security.

On the opposite side - my family could really use me at home. Last week my grandmother broke her hip and had surgery to fix it, so she was in the hospital for a bit and then take to the sister nursing home of her independent living. A couple days ago grandma had some more bad luck and had a stroke. She couldn't move her right side and wasn't really coherent. Fortunately they gave her some medication just in the nick of time for it actually being able to work, which may or may not be why she's doing a little better now - she can move her right side again and she's somewhat coherent. Unfortunately she can only remember who my mom and I are and I'm not even there. To my mom's dismay the rest of my family doesn't think grandma should be moving back to her assisted living apartment if she gets better. Grandma needs to have someone watching her.