Mama Carol

Ernie's in Powder Springs?

A lot of the people around here that we see with them are Navy pilots. Doubt those guys (and gals) are losers or slackers.

Nope, I'm sick and tired of it, too.

NONE of which has to do with a fire at McDonald's. Yes, and PLEASE don't come to Florida. Go to Alabama. Or somewhere else.

I think the people of Georgia should write their representatives and ask for equal rights and equal protection.

same old, same old.

not that kind of scorecard. One to keep up with the players, IOW, where the McDonald's that are on fire in Paulding County are located. I don't give a ratty's furry behind about your scorecard and I seriously doubt anyone else does either. Totally irrelevant to McDonald's and a fire.

some fields seem to draw employers like that, too.

There used to be a podiatrist in Smyrna who hired on a regular basis for the same position, like every 3-4 months. I worked with a woman who had worked there and she said she knew why. The man was a jerk, much like the Marietta physician I had worked for.

and a scorecard.

My husband and I used to eat breakfast regularly at a restaurant in Douglasville. There was another regular who we had seen through the years. In the beginning the man was there with his wife, who was in a wheelchair. Later, he came by himself after she passed away. We went in there one morning and all the servers were coming over to look at a picture he had. He had completed a full back tattoo. It was incredible! The artistry was mind blowing. He did it in memory of his wife. The man was in his late 70s. It was his first tattoo. He had tears in his eyes when he spoke of why he got

Is there a McDonald's ANYWHERE in Paulding that is on fire?

WOW. A bookkeeper's nightmare. I bet that is a position that gets filled over and over, too.

If the national average is 23 percent, obviously some areas have a zero percent. It HAS to be closer to 60-70% of people here have them. We were at the doctor's office on Thursday and of a half dozen people in the waiting room, we were the only two in the room without a tattoo. Even the nurse had one!

They must be really good at that to know exactly how many days pay you need to qualify. Even I couldn't tell you that and I've worked doing payroll since the 1970s.

I remember 50. Vaguely. It's been a while. And yes, 80 is old. 50 used to be but not in about 15 years.

You're going to be 80 on Wednesday????????? To me, looking at 60 in about 15 months, 80 is old.

It's $40,000 and change that you can make in a year if you're full retirement age before you lose any benefits. Can't wait to turn 62.

Working impacts how much Social Security you have to pay taxes on. Minimum wage jobs aren't likely to have any effect on Social Security in the benefits you receive You could work a minimum wage job for 40 hours a week for an entire year and still receive full SS benefits if you are not full retirement age. Once you reach full retirement age, you could make $20 an hour and work 40 hours a week for 52 weeks and not lose benefits but more could be taxable.

Well, my brother was building back in '06 and '07 when things were booming in Altamonte Springs. I think this last house went a lot faster. Let's hope everything goes as planned and scheduled with yours so you and the Mrs can get settled in by the end of the year. Be sure to bring a fat wallet. You'll need it when you go to get your car tags, drivers licenses and carry permits.

From Georgia DOL: Your claim is based on insured wages earned in the base period, which is the first four of the last five calendar quarters completed at the time you file your claim. You must have earned qualifying wages in at least two of the four quarters in the base period. So in other words, in your case, it wasn't that you didn't work long enough but that your wages weren't high enough. Correct? It will be here before you know it. And it looks like it is going to be a beautiful house. Mapquest is telling me it's only 6 1/2 hours from here. Ah, the wheels of construction

How's the move going? Is it December yet?

Sounds like a place I'd really like.

My daughter and I tried to set up a similar program at Cobb Hospital and never could get any help from Wellstar. We wanted ours geared toward the families patients in NICU. Wellstar kept giving us the run-around about starting it. We really wanted to do something, too. NEEDED to do something. I looked it up. Think I'll bookmark it.

I like that.