No funny pictures today. Recent events have taken away the humor needed to create. MIL has improved but her best is not good. Actually, she is probably enjoying herself most of the time by visiting with family we can no longer see. Her future may be short or she could hang on for several years - who knows.

The job has gotten worse. Only me and one other investigator for 12,881 inmates in 8 units scattered from Houston to Beaumont. That does not include half-way houses and the Parole Division investigations we have been assigned. NO relief in sight! We swap on-call duties, meaning I am on-call for all of southeast Texas every other week. Then management wonders why we have lost 12 people in Region B (11 in the eastern part) in the past 10 or 11 months. More might be leaving soon. One would think such attrition would tell them something, but I guess not. There might not be a Region B soon. But, of course it is never management's fault.

Oh well, enough griping - does no good anyway. Time to get to bed so I can put in 10 more hours tomorrow. There is one bright spot in the future - the Federal guys told me I might get to fill an opening in their ranks in just 4 weeks!! YaHooo!!! No case load, supervisors with smarts, no on-call, weekends off, EVERYTHING needed is provided, and no more Zanax!

Bye Ya'll!! Flatbroke Kounty is signing off for the night