Hittman's Hideout

[FranC]

Glad your leg is better.

 

[hittman]

My youngest and her boyfriend are off at a Sam Smith concert tonight so the wife and I went out for dinner and rented a movie.

 

[FranC]

Sounds like a nice quiet night.

 

[PTJD]

Good Morning. Sounds like a nice night Hitt.

 

[FranC]

Good morning,PT

 

[hittman]

Good morning. We rented Life of the Party with Melissa Mcarthy. It was a good movie.

 

[FranC]

Good morning,Hitt

 

[hittman]

I’m going to have to get out and mow before it rains this afternoon. We’ve been getting more rain the last week or two.

 

[FranC]

We have to but none today.

 

[hittman]

It rained on and off all afternoon and evening.

 

[PTJD]

Good Morning. We are getting to where we could use a little rain.

 

[hittman]

Good morning

 

[FranC]

Good morning,Hitt and PT

 

[hittman]

My youngest is playing tennis again this year. The school has a $50 sports activity fee which is pretty standard. However, the coach wants all parents to pay another $40 for uniforms and snacks. I'm ok with that. Then Friday my daughter came home with a fundraiser for tennis. I'm rather burned out on fundraisers. I guess they want to buy two sets of uniforms. The fundraiser is supposed to pay for the second one. I brought it to work but doubt if I'll sell even five. Most of the people are tight with money. I can however always count on my boss and one other guy to help.

 

[FranC]

School sure is pricy nowadays.

 

[hittman]

You've got that right. About 70% of our personal property tax goes to the school also. The thing that gets me is that everything is online or email now so they hardly ever print or send anything printed home so they are saving all of that money on supplies. We have to end up printing everything on our printer at home and I'm sure you know how expensive printer cartridges are. Most of the kids books and homework is online since they give them laptops to use. That's another fee kinda. They offer insurance on the MacBook air computers for $50. It's worth it though. If the kid damages the computer you could have to pay 800-1000 to replace it. With the insurance it's covered.

 

[FranC]

What happened to the good old days??

 

[hittman]

I guess they are long gone. Half the classes don’t even have real textbooks.

I sold five boxes of cookies at work so far with a chance for two more tomorrow. My daughter will be happy about that.

 

[FranC]

Around here it's the girlscouts selling the cookies.

 

[hittman]

We always buy too many of those and they end up going stale before we finish them.