[Magdalen] Updates, Changes, and Re-Treads

[Judy Fleener]

Prayers for healing and doing taxes.  Bill otherwise known here as the
Fleenerdude is currently working on ours and he wemt to bed at 8:15..
Judy

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:04 PM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear ones,
>
> Sort of a status report -
>
> On April 1 the company division I work for, HPE Enterprise Services,
> splits and merges with a division of CSC to form a new company. What
> could possibly go wrong on April Fool's Day? Scott Knitter - are you
> also moving to the new company?
>
> The main contract for CMS on which I continue to work remains the
> same. The environment remains challenging. As far as I can tell, it's
> the nature of computer tech work now to expect too much of the
> hardware, software, and people involved. My job and its expectations
> has expanded exponentially. Some of it is easy. Lots more is really
> difficult - no training, no orientation, limited support. More for
> less.
>
> Medications and symptoms from the "massive saddle P.E." are, after 3.5
> months, finally beginning to stabilize and recede. I've been sleeping
> a great deal, and have had very little energy for anything but the
> rock-bottom basics. It's typical of a recovery, neither easy nor
> straightforward.
>
> Our choir director/organist quit Wednesday. She leaves a hole and an
> improved (if tiny) choir. We use the organ and choir ONLY for our 11am
> service. That service is soon to be combined with the 9am
> family-friendly service (they are very lucky to have a wonderfully
> talented folk musician for their service music) as we're too small a
> congregation to sustain both services plus the 'standard' Rite 1 8am
> eucharist. As usual. It's not the changes we know and prepare for,
> it's the ones we can't see and can't prepare for!
>
> Feeling very much out-of-sorts, wishing for faster healing, hoping for
> enough energy this weekend to begin gathering data for tax returns,
> praying for renewal.
>
> hugs & prayers - Cady
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan