I was talking to my cousin this weekend and it amazed me how quickly he turned into a '30 year old' with all the weight, debt and kid problems that comes along with being in your 30's. This cousin is 6 months younger than me, so I have to stop asking myself why I don't get ID anymore. I did get ID a couple of weeks ago though - at a football game. But he got heck by the rest of guys working at the beer garden because all of the rest of them recognized me as the son of the 'deputy grand pooba' of the Knight's council at my parent's church. I don't fret age though - with age, we learn things and gain the experience to handle thing we could have handled before.
Work is busy. But it's not stressful - I know the material and I can apply it well. One lady called me today very upset. And she certainly had reason to be. She did everything correctly but she is probably still going to get rejected for funding just because of the way the system is set up. But I was able to explain things to her, calm her down and tell her why she was going to get rejected. I also presented one more alternative. I advised her that it probably wouldn't work, but at least she got a straight answer from someone. So often the client is told 'go to this office' and then told 'nope, not our problem, try this completely unrelated office' and then off to another office that really doesn't know what it is doing and then told to go back to where they started. And our office is no better - we don't make any decisions, so we still have to refer out. But we've made a point to know our material and to try and help the client the best we can.
Well, that should suffice as an update for today. I know it's really a bunch of nothing, but at least it's something.
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