Ketchup?! Oh, Catch Up

OnSIS has decreed that each of my ten jurisdictions must prepare a catch-up plan detailing how and when they will complete last year's school reports. And OnSIS has been able to convince the Ministry of Education (MET) that we will not be informed of our budget until we get those plans duly developed, signed (in blue ink—gotta watch out for those electronic signatures, can't accept none of that stuff in an electronic program!!) and returned to them.

And so, I begin. I am struggling to get some of my jurisdictions to even understand what OnSIS is, let alone what they're demanding of us. Of course, I can't travel to explain this to them, no budget. I hope NSRA will keep paying me! No money coming in, none has since last February! I hope they'll keep paying me!! I work to convince OnSIS and the MET to accept something other than blue ink signatures—eventually they agree to accept faxes as long as I round up the blue ink for them some time. Well, that moves things a lot better. I make up the plans, fax them out, call them to cajol them into signing, and faxing them back. Then I fax them in, and voila, my budget is approved! What a meaningful exercise that was!

Anyway, my budget has been approved as requested and the money can now flow. Hurray, let's get the program going!

Kristian Leif Ulrich

Kristian Leif Ulrich arrived into our lives on 16th September 2005, and he continues to be a delightful addition!

He has had a bout of the flu recently, but is now back at work running his grandmother into the ground, and his mother to distraction. It seems he can mess up a living room in less than five minutes, although it is also true that he is an equal opportunity messer-upper! He can destroy any room in less than five minutes!

An almost endless series of photographic evidence to the above assertion can be found on line at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristianleif/
And just for the sake of convenience, I'll post this one on his first birthday!