BA> Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Roy Witt:

 JO>>>> Have a pleasant holiday season..

 RW>>> There is no other holiday to find pleasant, other than
 RW>>> Christmas.

 BK>>  There was Thanksgiving, and there will be New Years. Both of
 BK>>  which have their advantages. Seems I will be working almost
 BK>>  every holiday next year. A rather pleasant prospect. I will work  the
 BK>> same days as always, do the same work, and get a lot more  money for
 BK>> it.

 BA> I pretty much ignore the holidays - except for the food.
 BA> Been that way the past 45 years or so.  When I was working

 I only worry about the family type holidays. Christmas and
 Thanksgiving, and the plant shuts down those days.

 ...

 BA> Christmas both, Archbishop Bergan Mercy Hospital provided a
 BA> free dinner to the staff on duty - I'm not entirely
 BA> altruistic (and Alegent Health - locally referred to as
 BA> 'Alleged Health' - which took
 BA> over the hospital in late 1995, most likely did away with
 BA> that little benefit; Alegent is
 BA> far more concerned with reducing costs than with providing
 BA> top quality care, which
 BA> is the main reason I left the company in early 1997).

 Yeah, and the quality of health care in this country is more and
 more "alleged".

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... To Sunkist, drying in the sun is a grapes "raisin d'etre".
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