Back from Cheraw/ back to Cheraw

I still haven't found the river park. There's supposed to be a river park somewhere in Cheraw, but I haven't found it. Actually, I haven't even found the river yet, even though it is the GREAT Pee Dee River. If it's so great, why can't I find it?

It's really hot in Cheraw. It's warm in the mornings, hot by noon, nuclear by 4 PM. Luckily, we usually have thunderstorms in the late afternoons, which tends to cool things down a bit.

The fact is, though, that I haven't spent much time outside anyway. I get up at 6:15, get ready, have a quick breakfast, and get to the Stanley plant by 7:15. I work until lunch, usually between 1:00 and 1:30 in the afternoon. After a 30 minute lunch, I return to work and stay until 5:30, sometimes six. Last week, I had help. This week, I'm on my own. Monday- Thursday won't be too bad, but Friday is week end and month end billing. I only barely know how to do week end billing. I have no clue how to do month end billing. Bill's supposed to come back by Friday to help me with billing, and I truly hope he's able to do so, but his home site in Greer is having its own problems, and they possibly need him there worse than I need him in Cheraw, so I guess we'll see how that works out.

Tomorrow, I will have been an IDG employee for 5 weeks.

Chauntelle is planning to come to visit me this week. She may come up as early as Wednesday, depending on whether she picks up any work this week. We're planning to spend next weekend in the eastern part of the state. Next Saturday, Chauntelle's old friend Maggie will be coming to Cheraw to visit her parents, and we will be seeing her then, which will be pretty cool (Chauntelle hasn't seen Maggie in at least 6 years). Sunday, we will be standing in line for the Borg Assimilator at Carowinds. It's good to have something to look forward to.

Anyway, here's how I am. Happy to be in South Carolina, thrilled to be Greenville when I'm actually in Greenville, doing my best in Cheraw, where I will probably be at least through 8/11, maybe longer. All I can do is my best. All I can do is hang in and rise to the challenge.


Still, it does kinda suck.