Day 23, "Every picture has a story"
As I ate my breakfast, with FP as the staple, I had memories of 1970 when I read this in the Wall Street Journal. PAY CYCLE was a big thing back then at the North Dakota School for the Deaf. There was no such thing as "direct deposit" and your paycheck came once a MONTH! There also was not the choice of getting paid year around so a person was stuck with once a month pay for the duration of the school year. I had worked at Lake Ready Mix during the summer driving one of their red trucks with yellow 6 yard drums which had red polka dots. There actually was a purpose for the polka dots, it was so you could tell if the drum was going around or not. My pay for delivering cement in this huge truck was $1.90 an hour. (The next summer I walked out of the office when Duane would not raise my pay to $2.00. He did catch me before I drove away and said OK.) Even with costs back then that was a low paying job. It helped us pay the summer bills but barely. I worked as many hours as I could, usually 45+ a week, but still the money was hard to come by for groceries etc. I worked through the Saturday before the start of school work shops. We started work on Monday the 24th of August. For some reason the state or the school administration didn't count our workshop days as school so our first paycheck was the September check which would come on the first Monday of the next month--October 5th! If one wants excitement try working at a $1.90 per hour job until August 22nd and then living on fumes for the next 6 weeks!!! I do not remember what my salary was in the school year of 1970/71 but I do remember signing a contract for the 1969/70 school year for $6000 for the year. That was a full time teaching job plus helping to coach football and basketball! Oh, I should add that I was asked to get my bus driving license, which I did, so that I could drive the team bus to away games. No extra pay of course. I am NOT complaining in any way as that was a time of a more simple life BUT it certainly reflects the difference between yesterday and today! I stopped at Starbucks yesterday to get an Americano, medium size, and at that cost I would have had to work for 2 hours in 1970. I know one would not get paid 70 wages today but still it is kind of fun to think about it. By the way it is my first Starbucks stop this season and we have been here 3 weeks. Way to go Carmen.
I forgot to mention that Terry and I voted Saturday. We had about a 20 minutes wait and the judges said during the week the wait was about 90 minutes. Of course we voted for the RIGHT things and the RIGHT people. Often when I vote I think of Judi and John as I think they often cancel each other out when they vote, at least they used to!
Tennis schedule today is 9:00 and then tomorrow it is 7:30. Wednesday we have a match away and then I will not play tennis until the following Tuesday as I will be sitting in a deer stand Saturday in MN. I have asked Terry, a guy who usually schedules our weekly matches, to not put me in everyday. I may be sitting on the sidelines a lot before I can get in with some of the 3.0/3.5 players. That is IF I can get in at all!
We are in a bit of a cool down weather wise. It is supposed to be a high of 81 today and there is not a 90 in the 10 day forecast. The hardship that causes is one is chilly when you get out of the pool!😟
No this is about it for now. I may go over to the courts a bit early as there are 2 open at 7:30. It is good to practice my serve. If a person has ever heard of the saying, "practice makes perfect" I want you to know in my case I have not seen it to be true!
I just walked into the kitchen and drained the FP pot and now I have about 4 delicious sips before I start the day.
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