However, your use of the word cripple - heck you feeling the need to actually describe the woman you fired strictly by her disability would be something her attorney would have a heyday with.
Sorry to be a downer; voice of experience here.
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However, your use of the word cripple - heck you feeling the need to actually describe the woman you fired strictly by her disability would be something her attorney would have a heyday with.
Sorry to be a downer; voice of experience here.
Don't worry, I sent a link to a buddy of mine at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. You should be getting a call from one of their crack investigative reporters shortly.
But no one will ever know.
Kinda cool news. We've made some good progress tracking down some of the ancestral lines of my mother's side of the family. My father's geneology has been pretty well traced back to the 1400's, but there was very little knowledge of my mother's side. A lot of that has to do with the lack of effort and enthusiasm by most of the people involved.
One interesting note is that my mother's maiden name was found in Niederwampach, Luxembourg, roughly 8 miles from Bastogne, Belgium (one of the cities of my father's surname). 4000 miles away, and hundreds of years later, in northwest Iowa, my mother and father grew up 8 miles apart from each other.
One interesting note is that my mother's maiden name was found in Niederwampach, Luxembourg, roughly 8 miles from Bastogne, Belgium (one of the cities of my father's surname). 4000 miles away, and hundreds of years later, in northwest Iowa, my mother and father grew up 8 miles apart from each other.
My family was believed to be 100% German descent. That was until my great uncle on my dad's side started working on our family history in depth and found some Russian background in the family. He was even close to linking us to be very distant relatives of Catherine the Great. Unfortunately, he died a couple years ago before he could finish his work.
Since I have a history degree, the family has asked me to take a stab at trying to complete his work. Unfortunately, my great uncle lived in Alaska when he passed, and getting his work to me has proven to be difficult.
I recently was offered a job in Le Mars, but I had to decline the offer after feeling low-balled.
I took a phonetics class in college (big part of my "major") where we learned the phonetic alphabet and each week we would have a spelling test of sorts where we would have to spell words phonetically. I had grown up close enough to the MN border that I had the slightest "Minenesota Accent". When I would get certain vowels wrong, I blamed it on that. The professor (also my advisor) didn't think that was legit enough to count them right.
Okay, now admit if you had to google phonetics.
Not at my age! However, does it strike anyone else as ironic that the word "phonetic" begins with ph, not f?
Good move. I grew up in a smaller town east of there and the only reason I go back is for my parents and the occassional reunion. There hasn't been a lot of progress there in the past century or so.
I gave myself a self-tour of the town after the interview, and I just didn't feel the place had really progressed in a while. Even if I was only going to be in this position for two years tops. Relocating to Le Mars was going to put me at least three hours away from all friends, fiancee and family.
If you have interest in your family history, I'd strongly recommend trying to get as much info as you can while your good resources are still around. Those ties to Catherine the Great would be pretty cool to pursue, distant or not.
The road block right now is getting the in-person/physical work/records he collected to me from Alaska.
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two marked and two unmarked cop cars at my apartment complex seems excessive, no? One is waiting down by where you choose to go into my garage or the other building's. Then I watched the other three walk into the building. Some people came out and took photos of the entrance they came out (I didn't notice anything as I drove in). Then more cops walking back and forth. Odd.
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