recap

not much to post today – things are good here (still feeling pretty damned fine in fact)… i’ve been swamped with union work all day (as opposed to my job work), including writing letters, politicking, updating our website, writing meeting recaps, providing member representation and advice, and working on contact lists. now it is almost the end of the day and i still have a full inbox of job work that is not going to get done until some other day in the future.

i forgot to mention earlier – but as of thursday treasury board employees (that would be most federal government workers like myself) have got a new collective agreement. that means retroactive pay, which means being taxed at twice the rate you would normally (if the money was paid out over time as opposed to in a lump sum). someone pointed me to a tax exemption form today which i am going to fill out – we will see if that helps any. i am very glad the whole process is finished as this has dominated my union-brain since sometime last march, and i really didn’t want to go back on strike.

i didn’t manage to get nearly the amount of work completed this weekend that i wanted to – but i did have some downtime which was needed. sometimes, i think i work too much.