Current Life Learning. Fleet Safety

My most pressing occupation at the moment is to read, understand, digest and implement the Fleet Safety Compliance Manual so that I can be qualified to be the Fleet Safety Officer for both of our companies.  As of this moment, I am on page 16 of the personnel section.  I have been working on reading, understanding and digesting this information for 4 days so far. Yes, that is right, 4 days 16 pages, that averages to 4 pages a day and I am spending HOURS a day reading this information.

 Try just this bit on for size:


§ 40.13 How do DOT drug and alcohol tests relate to non-DOT tests?
 (a) DOT tests must be completely separate from non-DOT tests in all respects.

(b) DOT tests must take priority and must be conducted and completed before a non-DOT test is begun. For example, you must discard any excess urine left over from a DOT test and collect a separate void for the subsequent non-DOT test.

(c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, you must not perform any tests on DOT urine or breath specimens other than those specifically authorized by this part or DOT agency regulations. For example, you may not test a DOT urine specimen for additional drugs, and a laboratory is prohibited from making a DOT urine specimen available for a DNA test or other types of specimen identity testing.

(d) The single exception to paragraph (c) of this section is when a DOT drug test collection is conducted as part of a physical examination required by DOT agency regulations. It is permissible to conduct required medical tests related to this physical examination (e.g., for glucose) on any urine remaining in the collection container after the drug test urine specimens have been sealed into the specimen bottles.

(e) No one is permitted to change or disregard the results of DOT tests based on the results of non-DOT tests. For example, as an employer you must not disregard a verified positive DOT drug test result because the employee presents a negative test result from a blood or urine specimen collected by the employee's physician or a DNA test result purporting to question the identity of the DOT specimen.

(f) As an employer, you must not use the CCF or the ATF in your non-DOT drug and alcohol testing programs. This prohibition includes the use of the DOT forms with references to DOT programs and agencies crossed out. You also must always use the CCF and ATF for all your DOT-mandated drug and alcohol tests.

Got it?  Now explain it.   

At home, or at work while I am walking on the tread mill I am also reading a book by Laura Vanderkam called What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. This is a book on time management and the way we look at our world.  My goal is to finish that book this weekend.  Yes, I said that last weekend and then didn't do it.  But I am planning on reading Sunday whether my house gets cleaned up, or laundry gets done or not.  This is important and the things it will bring in to my life is also important so it will get done. 

New day, new pages,  And the end of section one Personnel... now on to operations..

The Olympics are HERE!!!!!

Every two years, I go on vacation with out ever leaving my house.  I sit down I front of my television and watch as much of the Olympic games as possible.  I am sitting here right now watching the opening ceremonies.  I displeased several people today but I gave them what I thought was plenty of warning that TODAY AS THE DAY.....

I am praying every moment of every day for the safety and well being of every single one of the athletes who will be participating. I am praying for the safety and well being of every coach and trainer and every other person who helps in any way this event.

I so very much enjoy watching the culmination of a lifetime of effort for many of these athletes,

  Not to mention the sense of humor that they display!!!



The dedication against adversity of you know.... no winter



The balance and flexibility

 

The ability to fly!!!



And as much as the whole thing for me is just about the skill and participation.... I wouldn't be an American if This......

Did not bring tears to my eyes every time!!! 

 

GO TEAM USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

My Life Verse

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."


Every Day is a Choice for us.  How will we, then, choose to use it.  We read this, sometimes in a negative way, the word "against".  But what he is saying is that each day a choice is put before us.  God is ROOTING for us to choose the best of the choices. 

Christmas in the Holmes Fire Circle.

Later this evening I will be beginning my thoughts about Christmas time this year.  Im not quite sure where it will go, but they say when you have writers block.. just write, even if its just a grocery list. 
So, based on that thought.. whats going to come out of my brain is just as much a surprise to me as it will be to you. 

Month of Gratefulness Recap

I started this with a thanks to an internet friend of mine last year.  I think I made it 5 or 6 actual days last year.  This year I actually made it to the middle of the month before busyness took over and I got too far behind to catch up.  That is better and I am thankful for that. 

I know that the whole thing annoys some people out in cyber space for sure, and I can certainly understand that.  HOWEVER,  I really am not doing it for anyone else's entertainment, but because of any desire to remember what is truly important. 

So I believe that my decision at the end of this month is,  I truly need to sit down once a week thought out this upcoming year to recap each week. 

This week, I am thankful for the ability to have been a stay at home mom for a big part of my kids lives.  I did not enjoy much of it at the time, but now as they are all grown or almost grown, I can see things in them that probably would not have been there if I hadn't been there for them.  I am also grateful that our life style has always been "Out of the Norm" of life, as I think I have equipped my children to more effectively roll with the punches that may come their way.   

I am grateful that I was taught through various means that everything we are presented with in life involves choices that we make.  The individual situation we are place in may not be by our choice, but our reactions to those situations, our ways of dealing with those situations, how we continue to live our lives on a daily basis after being placed in that circumstance, is our choice. 

Several days of Gratefulness all rolled in to a Saturday

Saturday November 16 brings forth several things to catch up on.   So we will be counting this post for several days.  

First thing in the morning.  Its a toss up. I'm not sure which was the best part of waking up.  Waking up next to THIS amazingly handsome man or a cup of THIS being served in a jug from Disney land with the seagulls on it saying Mine Mine Mine Mine... hehehe  Or maybe it was the kiss that came as he handed me my morning cup of coffee in bed.  I am thankful for the abundance of Love that my husband and I share for each other. I am thankful for simple things like him introducing me to a wonderful flavor of coffee just because he thought I would like it and now he makes sure I have it in the house. 

 

 

From there we move to item of the day number two.  A MASSIVE Garage Sale.  It had een planned for yesterday but due to weather, we have actually postponed it till next weekend.  This is a good thing because we went on with allowing people who came in to go a head and shop and then the other people who are planning to sell things also will be there next weekend, weather permitting. 

So, what am I thankful for here?  Abundance.  This si a yard sale involving things that are still around from my grandparents that I honestly thought went to others who needed them about 7 years ago, there is the stuff we hauled down here from the mountain when we moved back down the valley way too many years ago for it to still be there.  There are items from my daughter and her husband that have sat in storage also for several years, unused.  My 2nd daughter and her husband brought items that were sitting unused in their house.  My niece has items that she is unable to use at the moment as she is living in a very simple situation and those things are taking up space she does not have.  Add to all of that are some items that we were left with from a previous customer.   This has been the most amazing thing to look at all of these things, think of the history behind each item and then realize that someone else needs to use these things, but what I am most grateful for is that we have been so blessed as to have all of these items when we needed them.  

 

 

Move on through my day past the yard sale and we have to race up to the pick up station for my Bountiful Basket delivery.  I know that we are having a large group of family for Thanksgiving week so I knew I needed to stock up.  It turned out to be more than I really expected but it will be used and appreciated by all who eat it.

 Do you see the ginger hidden in on the table? 

Today will be a very busy day taking care of all of this as well as the things I already have in the fridge waiting to be taken care of as well.  After church, here I go. 

I am grateful for the abundance I have to provide for my family and make our times together "filling" in more ways than one. 

 

That leaves us with our 2nd Amendment Right which also brings fun and family time in with the training and practice that is required in my mind if you are going to participate. 

I don't have any photos of me shooting My new pistol because, ummmmm yeah, I'm not very good at it YET!!!  But I will be shortly.  I have a great teacher who will make sure I know what I need to know. 

 

My abundance is overwhelming.    

 

November 9th Quizzing