No politics today - house plants and doctors

[malada]

The hostas I planted last year are mostly coming up and doing well. I'll be planting a few more this year.

My mother-in-law moved into a new housing complex and she needs some outdoor decoration and plants. I think I'll plant some hostas for her - they need zero attention. However, there are deer in the area and they likc hostas so I may need to do more research.

At work they're going to redo my office! It's been long overdue with the previous occupant having two walls painted dark maroon. Also, I'll be getting some real off-air monitors instead of the 3 dollar TV I brought in. It's given me incentive to do a good cleaning which the place sorely needs.

In medical news, my insurance company has rejected the latest medication my dermatologist has offered me. I think this is the second or third script they've given the thumbs down on. Having psoriasis sucks.

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[acelightning73]

I worked at the college radio station - WVHC (now WRHU) at Hofstra Univerity on Long Island, where I grew up. I got a First Class licence; I bought an electronics textbook and studied it very hard. I took the test several times before I managed to pass it, but then I applied to every radio and TV station in the city. United Nations Radio hired extra technicians when the General Assembly session took place, and they hired me. Then WNBC and WOR radio hired "vacation relief" engineers for the summer, and that's how I met Wolfman Jack and Long John Nebel and Alice Cooper and Murray the K. Dear gods, the UN was in 1970!

I was very good at it, which got me hired back for every UN session and every summer vacation. I joined NABET and IBEW, and got paid quite well for the time. I got married and we lived in the Bronx and I took the subway into Midtown. I did wind up smoking a lot of weed - one of the other techs at the UN was the son of the ambassador from Sri Lanka, and all sorts of interesting things got brought into the US in the diplomatic pouches.

There were two things I wanted when I was a teenage girl. A kit to grind my own telescope mirror, and a ham rig. I didn't want a gorgeous prom dress, or a car of my own. I wanted to live in a world where men PREFERRED intelligent, capable women, not brainless bimbos whose bust size exceeded their IQ. (I was not capable of looking "beautiful", nor even "pretty'. Stringy hair that wouldn't hold a style, glasses, zits, I was bit on the chubby side, I wasn't any teenage boy's ideal date. I also wanted to join the AV squad in high school, but girls weren't allowed to be on it because they might wind up alone in a projection booth with a boy, which would irreparably destroy her morals and her reputation.

I did work in manufacturing - I got a summer job at Grumman Aircraft when I was in college. My father worked there, and I competed for their scholarship program. Any student who was the child of an employee was eligble to compe who was planning to major in a science or engineering field in college. They gave them jobs in the factory so engineers wouldn't design a plane in which the wiring harnesses needed to be installed by midgets with prehensile tails. The last phase of the scholarship competition involved a brief interview with Leroy Grumman, one of the engineers who founded the company. He told me they'd never had a girl apply for it before. I didn't get the scholarship, but I did get a guarantee of a summer job at Grumman to help me pay for college.

Oh, dear gods, the stories I could tell! :-)