Published September 28, 2020
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Wow! I'm back! Well, what's been going on? A lot, or at least it seems that way since school has started up again. Us school employees came back to work at our school on July 24th, and students came back soon thereafter on September 1st. Since that time, life has been back in its "mile a minute" kind of pace.
Our school is under new leadership this school year. At the end of last semester*, our Superintended died out of the blue (not related to COVID), and the contracts of our Principal and the Director of my immediate department were not renewed by the school (so those two managers were forced to leave). We were all wondering how things would kick-off when this school year started, with a new Superintendent, Principal, and Director of our immediate department, and so far (knock on wood - I don't want to jinx anything!) things have been much better than they ever were in the past.
Our new departmental Director is actually willing to release the money that I have known was there all along (but have always been told doesn't exist) to our department to buy much needed supplies and materials for our teaching teams! She is also actually willing to say "Good morning" and encouraging things to her employees - you can actually see her out and about (outside of her office), walking through the halls talking to teachers - rather just hiding in her office and calling people in to get a "reaming" from her if they did something "wrong" or "bad" (or something perceived by the Director as "wrong" or "bad"). A 180 degree turn around from the last three school years - two of which my wife and I lived through directly, and one of which we only know about through local oral legends!
In the midst of all of this, on September 18th I still managed to successfully release the 2nd Edition of The Pullmanic - Promoting Pullman, the newsletter associated with The City of Pullman Portal website. This edition featured two local Pullman business profiles - one of Palouse Games, a local...or I should say THE local...gaming store, and one of Rico's, Pullman, Washington's, oldest bar and grill. I also published these two interviews as separate, stand-alone interviews on Biz Opp Empire's Meet The Entrepreneurs page as well. In addition to these local business profiles, this edition of The Pullmanic featured a resident profile of a couple who has called Pullman home for the past almost 30 years, as well as a story on Pullman's waterways.
As usual, Biz Opp Empire and The City of Pullman Portal remain "the focus" of my website work; however, I am also plinking away at others here and there as well. At the end of this past August, I started to put together a site of children's craft recipes from a large document I had bought some time ago on Fiverr that was one of those (supposed) "royalty free, copyright free, do whatever you want with it" documents. It looked like a giant forum list from the early web of the 1990s. Anyway, you can check out what I have done with that so far here.
Anyway, that's about it for now. Until next time!
Cheers,
-Andreas
Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises
*The Spring 2020 crazy extended COVID Semester! Unlike schools in the U.S. and elsewhere, we had a much, much longer, more painful school year as the result of COVID instead of a shorter one!
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