Going offline soon
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 4:17 pm
Hello everyone,
I need to quit my job at the chicken plant and move away from my present location in Arkansas. The reasons for this are not related to my recent TG transition last winter, as both management and coworkers have dealt with this better than I had ever imagined they would. Reasons for my leaving include carpal tunnel syndrome, threat of reduced hours, and want of compensation - We have not even received our cost of living pay increase in three of the last four years, and they are cutting things which I had never imagined they would axe. I need to work somewhere that will hopefully be easier on my hands, since I am not up for retirement until at least 2034, and that would pay well enough that I could save the money to get the penectomy that will finally finish my drawn out transition process.
I gave my two weeks notice on Monday of last week (May 5th). My last workday will either be Friday the 16th or Saturday the 17th, depending on whether the boss still wishes me to come in and do some painting for him on Saturday morning. Then I will drive up to Kansas City and spend several days at a friend's place so I can find a place to rent, then return to Arkansas once more to rent a moving truck, close my utility accounts, get my last paycheck, and then move my stuff up to Kansas City. Then I would begin looking for work.
I expect to close my internet account this Friday the 16th, and will be effectively offline after that time. Right now I don't know when I will return online. This will depend on whether or not I get good wages on my next job, and I also need to get a new computer. The one I have now has not been upgraded since 1998, and I now access internet by TV cable connection, but if I have to accept dial-up connection in KC, I think my modem is only 28kb. I could be offline only weeks, or it may turn out to be many months.
I do intend to leave my website up. I don't know how to insure that it will stay up, so I just hope that Yahoo doesn't take it down during my absence. I do have my pages saved on CD-ROM so that if anything did happen, I might get the pages back up again someday. But I hope my site will stay up, because people have written me that the site was very helpful, and I would so hate for it to not be available.
My friend will let me use her computer when I visit, so I will try to peek in here from time to time, and may post an occasional update until I do have my own ISP again.
I will miss all of you very kind people, and hope things work out so that I may return soon.
Sherry Joanne
I need to quit my job at the chicken plant and move away from my present location in Arkansas. The reasons for this are not related to my recent TG transition last winter, as both management and coworkers have dealt with this better than I had ever imagined they would. Reasons for my leaving include carpal tunnel syndrome, threat of reduced hours, and want of compensation - We have not even received our cost of living pay increase in three of the last four years, and they are cutting things which I had never imagined they would axe. I need to work somewhere that will hopefully be easier on my hands, since I am not up for retirement until at least 2034, and that would pay well enough that I could save the money to get the penectomy that will finally finish my drawn out transition process.
I gave my two weeks notice on Monday of last week (May 5th). My last workday will either be Friday the 16th or Saturday the 17th, depending on whether the boss still wishes me to come in and do some painting for him on Saturday morning. Then I will drive up to Kansas City and spend several days at a friend's place so I can find a place to rent, then return to Arkansas once more to rent a moving truck, close my utility accounts, get my last paycheck, and then move my stuff up to Kansas City. Then I would begin looking for work.
I expect to close my internet account this Friday the 16th, and will be effectively offline after that time. Right now I don't know when I will return online. This will depend on whether or not I get good wages on my next job, and I also need to get a new computer. The one I have now has not been upgraded since 1998, and I now access internet by TV cable connection, but if I have to accept dial-up connection in KC, I think my modem is only 28kb. I could be offline only weeks, or it may turn out to be many months.
I do intend to leave my website up. I don't know how to insure that it will stay up, so I just hope that Yahoo doesn't take it down during my absence. I do have my pages saved on CD-ROM so that if anything did happen, I might get the pages back up again someday. But I hope my site will stay up, because people have written me that the site was very helpful, and I would so hate for it to not be available.
My friend will let me use her computer when I visit, so I will try to peek in here from time to time, and may post an occasional update until I do have my own ISP again.
I will miss all of you very kind people, and hope things work out so that I may return soon.
Sherry Joanne
