Why?

Why did I choose TODAY to make a salmon casserole? The house was stuffy enough with the warm temperature outside and the lack of a cooling breeze. Why did I think it would be a good day to use the oven?

Don't answer that. I already know. I've been craving the casserole and bought the ingredients yesterday. That pretty much meant I had to do it today or I'd end up having to toss the ingredients. Even waiting until tomorrow would have been too late because Michael's leaving town on Wednesday. I always make too much and if he's not going to be here to eat the left-overs, it's a waste of time and money to make it.

He's got this job...with a big corporation. He's been with them for about a month now and they just realized that they don't have a physical on file for him. He went to the clinic about a week and a half ago but they won't accept the doctors note, for lack of a better term. They said they'd rather choose the doctor, so rather than accept this piece of paper that says he's healthy, they're going to find someone else to administer the exam. Fine. It's their money...getting it done here was free.

We thought they'd send him to town. We thought wrong. He received a fax on Friday with his itinerary. They're sending him to Anchorage on Wednesday...via Seattle. Crazy! It takes an entire day to get to Anchorage when you go to Seattle first so that day is pretty much a waste. He must have an afternoon appointment because they don't have him leaving Anchorage until almost 7PM Thursday evening. That means he won't get into Town until well after 9PM so he'll have to overnight there before he can come home on Friday. 2 nights, 2 hotels, all for a doctor's visit. A visit that will more than likely tell them what the doctor here already tried to.

But, I guess that's a corporation for you. They have to do things their way even if it inconveniences everyone and costs them thousands of dollars. I say thousandS, plural, because they're sending my cousin with him. Travel alone is over $1,100 just for one of them. That's not counting hotels and doctor's fees. They could have paid $23.00 a piece to get them to town on the ferry and have it over and done with in one day. Sheesh!