Hump Day

I was supposed to have two trips, one today and one tomorrow.  The main MBros guy is going, though, and he doesn't like turbulent or rough days, and we have thunderstorms, wind and clouds both days, so he drove today and probably will tomorrow, too.  So there goes some income, unfortunately, but for the good news, at least I don't have to work my way around a bunch of weather.

We had the painters come in today and paint Kaylee's room.  It is now a light tan color, two coats, they were done by like 3 pm, and it looks great!  The room is brighter and bigger looking.  The last thing to paint is my bookshelf. Most everything else in there will be black furniture--she has a black and glass desk, for example, so we're painting it black to match.  We're pleased with it thus far, the black and tan.  I think the floor guy is coming in next week to rip out the old carpet and put in wood flooring.  It's going to look nice in there!

Kaylee's internship has only lasted for like 4 days here.  This morning on her first meeting, they said they wanted to keep her, and basically offered her a full-time job in the future, contingent on her getting into the Master's program for Social Work (she will), and on her being interested in doing it.  She was excited, she'd felt like she wasn't doing enough, but they said she was articulate, had intelligent and constructive feedback, and even this early in, they wanted to keep her.  So THAT'S cool.  I also saw the class of people who were hired for these internships.  1300 people applied, 28 were hired, and they made a big deal about their diversity hires.  You look at the pictures and names of everyone they hired, and Kaylee is one of the only non-minority people there.  So in this case, the odds weren't in her favor to be picked anyway, considering they really wanted to hire various other ethnicities other than pale red-head.  :)  So she got hired, and then in a few days, she impressed them enough for them to offer her a full time position in the future.  Very cool!!  

We've had some issues.  Our 172 has a bum engine with bad "lifters" that we can't find anywhere in the country.  Our second 172 ended up having a flap failure that actually tore up and mangled the flaps.  Also down.   Bad timing, as we get busy, to have both our main trainers down and stuck.  Steve was not having a good day trying to figure everything out.  I think today is a little better, at least.  Just a lot of money going out. :o

Yesterday Kaylee and I went out to Olive Garden for dinner. She was supposed to be go out with a friend who had to cancel, she still had the craving, so she asked if I'd go with her.  I still have leftovers. Good stuff, and we had a nice chat.

Kaylee's meds that were $886, after insurance, in case I didn't mention it, she went online to their website and applied for relief.  I took a code back to the pharmacist, and when she started to ring it up, I said "Well, before you do that, what does it bring the cost down to?" I was trying to decide what price tag would still be worth it to go ahead and pick it up. She leaned in and whispered "zero".  "ZERO?" I replied in shock.  Yep, zero.  So she's going to give it a shot and see if it helps. I'm not sure if I hope it does or does not.  

Friday morning Steve has a doctor appointment in Indy to run a test after his PSA numbers doubled in a short time frame.  I'm going with him.  Afterwards depending on how he's feeling, we're looking for a good time to go see "Top Gun: Maverick".  I want to see it in the theater. I like airplanes on big screens and loud speakers.  ;)

It's interesting listening to Kaylee talk in all these meetings.  Our little professional on her laptop, with people using words like "let's circle back to that" and my favorite that made me eyeroll at her, "Watch out for microaggressions like telling someone they sounded really sharp and articulate on that presentation".  Because telling someone that is a micro-aggression and not a compliment.  Ah, corporate America, how Woke Thou Art. 

Ann has on multiple pairs of socks at once sometimes, instead of changing them, and takes her dirty clothes and folds them up without washing them sometimes. I'm going to try to go get her to do a "Happy Birthday" for Cathy, and I don't know which Ann I'm going to get when I go try it.  We shall see...