How David. If a Federal Employee wants to go the distance, they will keep their opinions very close. Not air them on a public forum. My brother works for the Forest Service, and will talk to me, but never where his opinions can be overheard. He's NOT watching the news, and doing woodworking projects. Perhaps fretting about his mortgage next month, a bit.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 2:48 PM David <dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote: > There is all sorts of stuff to talk about, yet it seems quiet out there on > CaveTex. > > Any of you affected by the gov't shutdown. > > I recall there is a caver who works for the Border Patrol or something > similar to that. > > I know a semi-retired caver it east Texas ( who would prefer to remain > anonymous ) has > been on furlough. > > I imagine there are cavers in Carlsbad or that work for caves on land > controlled by the > Federal Government, that might be affected. I can only guess they are > using their > spare time to go caving. > > I do not think the shutdown is affecting me. I sometimes deliver court > summons for the > Federal courts, but that is not really any significant part of my income. > > The news media is making a faithful effort to make it sound like > Armageddon is about to begin. > > There is plenty of fun exciting news going on, but you have to hunt for > it. Watching YouTube, > occasionally one will find an interesting video. There are other places > on the web with interesting > videos. ( I do not watch much tv. I just found out yesterday that, I > missed Season One of Star Trek > Discovery ) > > On a lighter note, > > an enormous gigantic wall is being built in Houston. This wall serves > several purposes, > but one of which is security. It is only a mile long though, and is > much more sturdy than they walls shown > along the southern Texas border. Yet, not a single person is > protesting this wall, paid for by Texas taxpapers. > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >
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