great ski trip, tough week at work

I've been a while getting anything up, because I was on vacation skiing at
Breckenridge, Colorado, and when I got back, things started to fall apart at work. I've been totally exhausted for two weeks.
It's going to take a couple of posts to talk about the trip(I'm still to tired to do much at a time), but the place was bigger than any place I've skied before, and very popular with Europeans, Australians, and Asians.
First about work, it wasn't a people problem this time, just that a bunch of things went wrong at the same time. Before we could even get one thing fixed, two more went bad. Sometimes it happens that way, especially with systems as old as ours. Hopefully we're getting ahead of things now, so maybe I will have more energy.
I'll talk about the trip later (hopefully not too much later), but I will say that I'm sure (well, I think) I saw a well known actress in a bar there. If so, it's the first one I've seen at a ski area that I know about.

going out west , I really need it

I'm headed out to Breckenridge, Colorado this weekend for a week of skiing, and I really, really need this vacation. It's still one crises after another at work, and I'm still doing things that management should be doing. Now I'm trying to get decent raises for all my people this year, most of them are barely making a living wage. The city has really treated the new employees like garbage, and I'm the one that has to try to keep up their morale. I'm going to do my best, but too many people above me in this city just don't seem to care a bit about the people doing the work.
What's going to happen is that the lower paid people will start to look for better jobs, and I will have to train a continuous turnover of new people. No way to run a public works department.
Well, I'll try to put these things out of my mind for a week and have a good time.
On another subject, my phone went out at home, and it took the Verizon THIRTY TWO hours from when I called to fix it. No wonder people are going to just cell phones.