Inventory

Over Christmas break, I discarded a lot of old t.v's and a scanner and an old printer. Now the principal is coming around to ask about the serial numbers of our equipment. I must say that I did write the serial number's down on the work forms but did not keep a record on the computer. The district is looking for the equipment so I am looking for the numbers. Maybe it will take a trip to the AV graveyard./storage area.

Today I assigned the kids a section of the fiction shelves that it was their responsibility to keep up. Every day they are responsible for shelf reading and making it neat. One of my smart ass TA's said, "as long as it's neat no one will ever know if it's in order." I said " I will know." "If we need to find a book and the author is a COO and it's in the S section we won't find it."

Another beautiful day in CA.

I'm taking inventory. May I say this has never been done before and a lot of things are missing...or misfiled.

That's why in other schools and the public library it's done each year.

Something to think about...

met with the long term disability insurance guy today and he gave me a rate of 286. per month and it was 25 percent more because of my weight. If I drop it I drop the rate 25%.
Not to pressure me or anything but if I do it today or tomorrow it will go in at 54 and be 10 dollars a month less than in tomorrow. The policy is with John Hancock thru NEA. National Educational Assn. It pays 70 percent home care, skilled nursing or assisted care. There is more involved questionnaire to come and a 30 min. phone conversation with the company and then they contact my doctor.

They figure I'll be paying for 20 or 30 years and then it will be much more expensive. Not something to take on now and have to drop it when times are tough.

It takes 90 days for the underwriting to go into effect.

Marilyn called last night. She would like to have disability insurance. The social security money she gets is used up in insurance and drug payments.

I remember trying to move Kim's mom from a chair to a bench and it was hard with someone. Usually she only had a tiny Filipino woman. You have to figure the kind of people that generally take these home health care positions are resident aliens and are low skilled. Yet, we entrust them with our well being and care. AN assisted living facility but the state may have 7 people in them. They can run 75,000. a year. How many years could you afford that? Could you afford to stay in your house?

If Mom and Dad hadn't died I was envisioning their care taking. Dad at 350 would have been very difficult to move. I would have needed help if I could have kept him at home. There would have been a person to care take while I was at work and to help shower him and so forth depending on the level of impairment after his stroke.

Mom too as much weight as she lost would have needed help bathing getting in and out of the tub or shower. It would probably need to be the shower because even with help we couldn't lift her out of the tub.

Caro who took care of her Mom used to do this every day. She also gave all the injections for her diabetes.