Daily Archives: October 14, 2016
SiteWatch Waiting . . .
After our move yesterday, today was a rest up / goof off / wait to hear from SiteWatch day.
Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
We did rest up. We did goof off. But we didn’t hear from the SiteWatch guy.
But in fairness, we were told it might be Monday, anyway.
One thing we’re going to have to do is to get our Level II Security Guard Licenses redone/renewed or whatever. We both first applied for them in April 2012 when we first started working for Gate Guard Services.
What was kind of strange about this is that my physical license came back very quickly, being issued on 5/1/12, just a couple of weeks after my application went in.
I don’t know if it had anything to do with how quick it came back, but I wondered if that was because of all the security clearances I’ve had with the DOD and NASA over the years.
But Jan’s license was a whole ‘nother story. First off, she had to have her fingerprint card done twice more after the original one. And all three were done by the police. But finally, 17 months after her original application in April 2012, her license finally came through on Sept 9, 2013.
So while my license expired two years later in May 2014, Jan’s expired in Sept 2015. But back in 2014 when I talked with the Gate Guard Service office in Whitsett, TX, I was told that since we would still be working for them, they would take care of renewing them when the time came. But that didn’t happen.
When Mike Crosby, the SiteWatch guy, ask about them, I told him GGS said they would renew them, he kind of laughed. Apparently he’d seen this before.
And when I went here:
https://tops.portal.texas.gov/psp-self-service/search/index
and checked the status of our licenses, I found both of them had expired and had not been renewed. Oh, well.
And from what Mike says, it looks like we’ll have to start all over with it. Oh, well.
So it looks like we’ve been UN-Licensed Level II Security Guards for the last couple of years.
But then no one has ever ask to see them in the entire 5 years.
The more Jan and I hear about the guard shack deal, the more we like the idea of it. Of course that may be because we haven’t done it yet. But after going through a 25 degree sleet and ice storm down there in 2013, a heated and cooled guard shack, with a microwave and a refrigerator sounds kind of nice.
I spent the morning and early afternoon working with an old client, and a website I last worked on for him in 2010. But now when you Google his site you get this.
And when I logged in to his account, I found his site HAD been hacked, with some malware files left on there. But there was no sign that they had been, or could be, activated. So I cleaned everything out, double-checking any possible access openings, and then I changed the master password.
Later, as the client and talked things over, he decided that now would be a good time to redo the site, since it was actually about 8 years old and looked pretty dated.
So we’ll be talking that over the next couple of days.
About 4pm Jan and I headed up US 71 to Ellinger to have the Friday buffet at Peter’s BBQ. But before we left I got our South Dakota Absentee Ballot Request Forms ready to mail off. That way we can drop them off at the Ellinger PO on our way.
Thought for the Day:
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac? — George Carlin
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