What a fun job this one turned out to be! I should have been paying them instead of them paying me. The first thing the boss said was to play games on the computer! There were two of us from Manpower. The other one was a friendly, outgoing, bubbly young woman named Lynn Valdez. She had spent four years in the Navy but is now a civilian, married to a Navy man and expecting her second child in about three months. We spent maybe half an hour playing a card game on the computer, which was a super-deluxe IBM with WINDOWS and everything under the sun. When the boss finally gave us some work to do, it wasn't data entry; it was checking the entries he and another person had made. It was a cinch. We were through by 4:10, but the boss told us to put down 4:30. So we'll be paid for three hours' work and probably actually worked one of those three hours, and it was easy and fun besides.
Lynn was very much interested when I told her I lived on a boat, so I invited her over. Roy had just gotten back from a bike ride (it's a lovely, warm, sunny spring day). The three of us chatted for an hour or so. Lynn invited us over to her place, which is near the Navy base. She said she might be able to take us on a tour of a sub.
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