I JUST RECEIVED THE FINAL MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEE OVERTIME LIST FOR THE TOWN OF CHESHIRE CT. THIS IS THE GROSS FOR FISCAL YEAR 09/10. UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER THIS TIME SO IT WILL BE HARD TO COMPARE. THE LAST LIST WAS BY THE HIGHEST EARNER. I AM GOING TO GO THROUGH THE LIST AND PUT IN BY HAND THE LAST OVERTIME FIGURES PER EMPLOYEE FROM APRIL AND THE FINAL GROSS OVERTIME EARNED. IT WILL TAKE ME A WHILE AND I AM ON DEADLINE WITH A PROJECT SO BE PATIENT. I WILL PROBABLY DO THIS ON SATURDAY.

BTW: UNOFFICIALLY (because some of the figures I was given did not make sense, I don’t know if some digits were left off but that is OK people make mistakes.)

This was a BIG list. So the SUM OF THE  GROSS OVERTIME EARNINGS for Cheshire CT Municipal Employees for fiscal year 09/10, June 30 to June 30 WAS $613,441.37!!!

As my dad used to say: “Keep sitting in front of the TV”!!!

I got home around 2:30 p.m from my daily trek to work. I was getting ready to go upstairs and finish working on a project when I saw the mailman. I went inside and started praying–OH GOD IS IT HERE?

I went to the mailbox and opened it, I saw an envelope with “DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES” on it. I grabbed it and felt around-I felt something hard. I KNEW IT WAS MY LICENSE!!!

I opened the envelope and voila-there it was along with an official “RESTORATION NOTICE”

I started crying, I still am. I still have tears in my eyes. I am going to have to give myself a few hours to get over everything that has happened. It is a RELIEF I can’t tell you. It was like being  in prison and not knowing when you could get out-FOR WHAT??  I looked at that license, I thought, boy this thing has traveled a few places!! No one is EVER EVER TAKING THIS AWAY AGAIN-EVER!! BELIEVE ME!!

I went out to drive ALONE which was risky, but I want to tell you it doesn’t feel the same. When you essentially have your freedom taken from you (which your driver license really is-especially in a suburban or rural area where mass transit isn’t that good), you never forget-you appreciate what you lost. I look at driving now in a different way. THIS CAN BE TAKEN FROM YOU ANYTIME!!!

I looked at the postmark-it was dated July 19th which was Monday. That is the day I called State Rep. Elizabeth Esty’s office and Speaker of the House Chris Donovan. Remember, Mr. Donovan helped with the unemployment telebenefits line that was tied up several months ago.

I know Ms. Esty’s office had everything to do with this. They obviously got on it right AWAY because of the postmark!! Yes, now EVERYONE in the state knows the crap that goes on in this town!!! GOOD!!!

My hands are still shaking and probably will for a while. It was like being locked in a dark room and not knowing anything. Something is WRONG when A DUI DRUNK HAS MORE RIGHTS THAN A PERSON WHO HAS A CLEAN DRIVING RECORD AND HAS FOR OVER A DECADE-SOMETHING IS DRASTICALLY WRONG AND IT WILL WILL WILL BE CHANGED. YOU CAN BET ON IT!!

I want to thank GOD, my family and friends for driving me practically everywhere I had to go without ever hesitating. My poor daughter just got her driver license and she gladly drove me everywhere.  Finally, thank you Ms. Esty who saw through this and came to my families aid. My husband took time off from work to drive me places (and of course when I am a passenger, I expect you to drive THE WAY I DO and if you don’t I YELL) So I thank him for putting up with me. This incident put a strain on my family and had a profound effect both negative and positive.

I will continue to walk and bike and even take mass transit for a bit because it was bad but I started to get used to it believe it or not. And, I did lose weight walking. Now I am back into that which is good.

Let me go now and relax. Then, back to work.

PHEW!!! LESSON LEARNED!! Now I have to wait for the court.

MEANWHILE LET’S CELEBRATE!!!  FREEDOM!!!

OK THE HERALD DOES HAVE THE RICHARD CHEVROLET STORY. KUDOS TO THEM. THEY SAID IT WAS FIVE CATALYTIC CONVERTERS. WHATEVER. I HAVE TO GET MY INFO ON THE STREET. NOT BAD. YOU KNOW WHY THEY HAD TO ADMIT TO IT. YEARS AGO YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD NOTHING!!!

I am still waiting to get my driver license in hand. When I do, I am OUT OF HERE but the people who are responsible for this mess will be dealt with LEGALLY!! I am filing charges against the town of Cheshire CT with the Attorney General of Connecticut for FILING A FALSE REPORT FOR ONE.

My spouse was  driving with a lawyer for the ACLU on Monday, July 19th  and yes, we hit paydir:t a police car parked in the Congregational Church parking area around 10 a.m. My spouse drove down the street, turned around and by the time he got back, like a minute later, the car was gone!!

A civilian cannot make false statements to law enforcement. It is a crime A VERY SERIOUS CRIME. It works the other way too. IT IS  ALSO CALLED DEFAMATION, LIBEL,SLANDER. AND THIS TIME THEY ARE NOT GETTING AWAY WITH IT!! THEIR BULLYING TACTICS–FAIL!!

Sadly, I will NEVER be able to drive in Cheshire again and I won’t. I can’t afford to have this happen again. I will drive one more time with about 20 people following me to celebrate my license return and then, THAT IS IT!! NEVER AGAIN!!

I LOOK DISHEVELED, I DRIVE ERRATIC AND HAVE BEEN PULLED OVER FOR IT MANY TIMES BEFORE. YES THIS IS FALSE IT IS SLANDER AND DEFAMATION AND I HAVE SUFFERED HARM!! IT IS ALSO CALLED PERSONAL INJURY.  SEE YOU IN COURT!!

Definition of DEFAMATION, LIBEL, SLANDER

The people who run this town can ignore the problems with this Police Department but eventually the you know what will hit the fan. If they had stopped and not embellished things would not be where they are going to end up. I will always know  what they had in mind to CATCH ME DRIVING IN CHESHIRE.

They underestimated and they should not have. I WAS TRAINED TO DEAL WITH AUTHORITY AND THEIR VINDICTIVENESS. AND I KNOW SOME OF YOU THINK YOU ARE PERFECT. NO, YOU ARE AN ASSWIPE. YOU LET PEOPLE SHITE ALL OVER YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY. YOU PLAY IT SAFE. YOU TURN YOUR HEAD. YOU KEEP SILENT. YOU SEE THE PROBLEMS AND ELECT TO SAY NOTHING. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

I can’t still believe no one on the Cheshire Town Council EVEN QUESTIONED THE EVENTS OF THE PETIT SITUATION–NO ONE. So if they kept silent in public about that, you can imagine what else they don’t say!!! NICE!!

I had to learn from this experience, and I pray to God I have. You can’t even imagine what a nightmare it has been. And I can’t even imagine what the local resident is going through whose mother was taken from her home only to die three months later from gangrene in a nursing home. There are other situations that have occurred with a few other people in town but I am sworn to secrecy something this town is GREAT AT. Why do you allow yourselves to be kept in the dark? To be spoonfed information? Why?? BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO BACKBONE, YOU ARE SPINELESS AND THESE PEOPLE IN POWER ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE.

YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW HALF OF WHAT GOES ON IN CHESHIRE IF IT WERE NOT FOR UTH AND YOU KNOW IT. BUT I LOVED DOING IT AND NO PRICE WAS TOO HIGH. MY JOY WAS GIVING YOU THE INFORMATION. THAT IS WHAT I BELIEVE IN AND THAT COMES FROM MY HEART AND NO ONE IN AUTHORITY CAN TAKE THAT AWAY EVER!!

I am still also waiting for the final Municipal Employee overtime list. I am looking forward to receiving it soon.

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone

Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi”

I am not going to be posting for a while. I am really depressed over this license issue, I will be honest. This is my Achilles Heel-restricting my freedom of movement. I am a very mobile person and I need a lot of sensory stimulation. If this is taken away, I have a hard time dealing with it. I don’t like to be confined AT ALL.

I am still waiting to hear about this “Failure to Drive Right” ticket I received June 3. I did notice the court now says “To be Scheduled” so now I don’t know what to do or think. If the court does not nolle it, I am asking for a trial so I can present evidence because you can’t say anything to anyone in regular traffic court.

I  am at my breaking point. I can’t go anywhere without involving several people, I have to wait for rides. My work is suffering. This job is up in the air now.  People are sympathetic but they really don’t understand. In a way, this is what it feels like to be incarcerated or at least under house arrest. My movements are restricted, because let’s face it, you CAN’T WALK EVERYWHERE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE and mass transit TAKES UP TOO MUCH TIME. And I don’t care what some of you think, I did not abuse my driving privilege EVER!!!

IT SUCKS!! Don’t EVER take for granted your driving privilege because think about it-if you could not drive starting today, how would you feel and what would you do?? I know when I get the license back, I am driving to Kansas-non stop ALL THE WAY!! I will drive and drive and drive and drive until the damn tires fall off the car.

I knew a man that was sight impaired. I always marveled at his temperament. He was so upbeat. He was born sighted and an illness caused him to lose his sight. I always used to ask him how he did it. I told him, if I could not see I would probably jump off a cliff. This is what makes the story of Helen Keller so AMAZING!! No sight, no hearing, no speech and look at what she accomplished. I did notice though that many handicapped people are very sensitive about their disability and demand their rights. NOW I KNOW WHY.

I NEVER ABUSED my driving privilege NEVER. As I have said before, I have never harmed anyone in a motor vehicle, I have NEVER CAUSED AN ACCIDENT in 37 years of driving. MY RECORD IS CLEAN AND HAS BEEN FOR OVER 10 YEARS. I know it is over this time period because I was going to get a CDL and they go back 10 years!!! You saw my driving record on this blog–NO POINTS-IT IS CLEAN. I don’t drink or take drugs. I take driving seriously. A drunk driver has more rights than I do. UNREAL.

Just not knowing when everything will be resolved is really wearing me down. At least if I had my license suspended for DUI or not paying a fine or speeding, I would KNOW when I would be getting it back and would be able to get a work or school permit. I CAN’T GET ANYTHING AND I AM TOLD NOTHING.

Anyway, here is the information that Heather from Sprung Instant Structures emailed to me the other day. Apparently, the pool enclosure I ran a few weeks ago that showed the openings on the sides, is an extra cost. The cost to construct this is approximately $45 a square foot WITH INSULATION and approximately $42 a square foot WITHOUT INSULATION. Heather did say this structure could be attached to an existing building and would take approximately TWO WEEKS TO PUT UP. But the cost would be around $800,000 to $1 million. It is LESS than the Openaire, but I am sure the voters would NOT APPROVE THIS. It still is worth a look, even if a smaller pool is built at the high school, this structure may be able to be put over it. Worth looking into I think.

CLICK ON THE RED ADOBE SQUARE TO OPEN UP THIS PRESENTATION.

Sprung_Sports&Rec (email).pdf 4784K

If you haven’t ever been to Sonic, ( I have when I lived in Kansas) it is a treat. It is not the food, so much as it is the way they serve it, people on rollerskates and they put the tray on your car. It is a cheap fast meal and their drinks and shakes are REAL GOOD. The food is well, ok I guess. Go to Wallingford and try it. I wish Cheshire had Sonic, but of course, this town is too paranoid about who might come here so they continually shoot themselves in the foot and miss out on opportunities. Too bad. The first Sonic in Connecticut is on Rt. 5 in Wallingford on the old Yankee Silversmith property. ENJOY AND HAVE FUN!!

I will be posting the info I got from Sprung Instant Structures. I spoke with Heather Reichwien. I need to start my trek to work and I have to go to several places today. I just got a call from a friend in New York who said he wants to do a flashmob at the police department. That would serve them right. We will see. I did speak with the Town Manager of Cheshire. It was private but I think he is moving in the right direction and finally UNDERSTANDING there needs to be GUIDELINES AND CONTROLS at this police department!!! Well, as I always say, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!  What I can tell you is the Town Manager said he is going to do a ride along with the Police Dept. I applaud him for that but what do you think?? OF COURSE THEY WILL BE ON THEIR BEST BEHAVIOR!!!  It is unfortunate he wasn’t on the ride along on Tuesday night when someone contacted me and told me they were turning right into Stop and Shop and the police car WENT INTO THE PASSING LANE TO PASS THEM. THE POLICE CLAIMED I DID THAT AND THAT IS WHY I GOT A TICKET FOR FAILURE TO DRIVE RIGHT!! THAT IS THE PROBLEM IN CHESHIRE, NO COMMUNITY RAPPORT AND THE RULES DON’T APPLY TO THEM!! Change these two things and everything will fall into place.

Here is the definition of a flashmob.

OK let’s take a break and rock it out with that old Aerosmith Song:

Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

Alright all you ladies, make this full screen on your browser, click on the button all the way to the right, so you can see Steven Tyler’s attributes!! You will have to click on the video to get it to play again once you enlarge it and it does take several seconds to load but it is worth it. Of course, this is when Steven Tyler was YOUNG but he rocks out in this video. BTW: Steven Tyler IS ITALIAN!!!

Now we are going to wind it down a bit:

Jane’s Addiction: Just Because (by request)

Click to enlarge (button on right) for best effect.

ALSO: Before I begin my work, I HAVE to get a ride because I have a huge blister on my right foot and million bandages on them, I am going to link you to “How to Manage Anger and Aggression.”

Well the author of this article makes it seem as if anger and aggression is bad ALL THE TIME. IT ISN’T. Anger and aggression if channeled in a positive direction can result in positive changes. We did not like slavery in this country, so we used ANGER and AGGRESSION to put it down. Our world did not like the Nazi Hitler Regime, so we used ANGER AND AGGRESSION TO DESTROY IT.

You have to remember, these emotions do have something to do with control, but as I stated before I always worked in professions where I for the most part CONTROLLED THE OUTCOME. So it is very difficult to just ‘move on” for me to let go, but I know I have to. I do have a need to control and you know what, in this town, I NEARLY SUCCEEDED in getting my way with a certain entity.

Here is the THIRD document I had trouble scanning the other day. LOOK WHAT IT SAYS: “PSYCH” NEG-NEGATIVE!!! GENERAL APPEARANCE: AWAKE, PLEASANT, COOPERATIVE-YES COOPERATIVE COOPERATIVE, AND  ORIENTED  YES ORIENTED!!!

Remember the police report said I was TOTALLY UNCOOPERATIVE, DISHEVELED, AND UNAWARE OF OTHER MOTORISTS!!

These people are so dead in the water legally I pity them. I let it go years ago when I was LIBELED by an email from a member of the finest. I turned my head and let it go. The email said I had “no morals” amongst other things.. I am religious, but my name is NOT JESUS CHRIST, and I am tired of turning the other cheek.  I get my license back the SOONER THE BETTER, everything is over EVERYTHING. NO BLOG NO ME NO NOTHING. GET MY DRIFT??? The longer it drags on, the worse it is going to get because I channel my negative energy towards the people who made me negative!!

! I just went by the Congregational Church in Cheshire around 3:15 p.m. with my daughter WHO WAS DRIVING, and I swear (now I could be wrong) I saw a blue Honda Civic Hatchback, it was dark blue with a black ski rack on top that curved upwards on the right hand side and SOME MAN with YELLOW short sleeved shirt sitting in the driver seat. The car was about 20 feet from the end of the Church’s driveway.  I could not get a photo and I just glanced but I noticed it because my eyes are trained to spot ANY police car and any color uniform. Many times police wear that yellow day glo shirt when they direct traffic and that was just the color.

You see how good I am?? I did not get a photo, but the image of that car is burned into my brain.  I will get another chance I am sure.

Again, click on the document to enlarge. You can also click on the magnifying glass to enlarge further.

UPDATE: Thank you to many people who have contacted me with positive comments. I am getting ready on Monday morning to trek off to work. I will be honest, the SECOND I get my driver license back, I AM OUT OF HERE!!! But of course I would have to do one celebratory drive through Cheshire CT before I left.

On Sunday, I received a call from a relative I  have not heard from in a while. We spoke about the old days, when I was young child living in Bridgeport. She is my aunt and I love her so. We talked about different members of my family. My aunt is very religious and I told her about what has happened to me. I mean look, two wrongs don’t make a right, they really don’t. I have look inside myself and learn from this. And guess what?? I DID. I LEARNED TO COPE. I took what happened and channeled it. I hope to God this doesn’t go on too much longer, but you know what, I am happy to say I learned from it. I hope I will be a better person for it.

I told my aunt I never ever forgot that I believed when I was a young girl, that God called me to become a nun and I NEVER ANSWERED HIS CALL. I know some of you are laughing, but believe me EVERYDAY I THINK ABOUT IT. Thank God he let me go on and live my selfish life and gave me a wonderful family.

Now, I can make it up to Him by learning from this incident and being a better person for it. Sometimes, I don’t like the person I am. But I know God knows my heart has good intentions. Now some of you out there are feeling stressed out as I am. You don’t know where to turn. You have to turn to Jesus. He knows you and can help you as he is helping me.

I am sorry for  some of the things I have done and some things I have said that  have hurt people. Hopefully, I will be able to move forward in a positive direction. Here is a good prayer article for you to meditate on. Good night.

Jesus Help Me.

Thanks to a reader for “SPEEDTRAP.ORG. This site lists all the “speedtraps in Cheshire CT and all over the country for that matter. I know two places the police better not be and everyday and night it is checked. The excuse is “residents are complaining” Fine then let’s see the complaints which are public info under FOI. Maybe I should FOI all the supposed speeding complaints in this town. I bet you I would end up in an FOI hearing!!!

Bottom line: Don’t underestimate your adversary in life and in business. Some Department did and it backfired. Why?? Because I really believe the police thought I would get angry and DRIVE ANYWAY. Guess what?? WRONG!! I did not get this far in life being a stupid jerk. I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction.

Ugh. Everyday the mail comes and yes—no driver license. It’s nasty. Oh My God, to think people who drive drunk have more rights than I do. Maybe I should drive drunk like some people I know. God,at least I could get a temporary license to go to work.

Anyway, here are the medical documents FROM TWO SEPARATE HOSPITALS showing my “FITNESS MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY TO DRIVE A MOTOR VEHICLE.

The first document is from Midstate Medical Center where I was taken on June 3, 2010, the date of the incident. Now in all honesty, if there were something mentally wrong with me, or even physically which would endanger the motoring public resulting in the loss of my driver license, DON’T YOU THINK THE HOSPITAL STAFF WOULD NOT HAVE RELEASED ME THREE HOURS LATER WITH A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH AS THEY DID??? LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. IT SHOWS WHEN I WAS RELEASED!!!

CLICK TO ENLARGE BOTH FORMS. THEN CLICK AGAIN ON THE MAGNIFYING GLASS TO ENLARGE FURTHER.

This second form is from Hospital of Central Connecticut (also known as Bradley Memorial) in Southington. I went there on June 15 because I felt a little dizzy when I first started walking and it was hot. I ended up OK but I had every test under the sun, including blood tests and EKGS, you name it. LOOK AT WHAT THE DOCTOR WROTE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE REPORT AS FAR AS DRIVING IS CONCERNED–”AS TOLERATED”!!!!! THERE IS NOTHING IN BOTH DOCUMENTS TO INDICATE I AM UNFIT TO OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE OR UNFIT MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY I had another document, but apparently it did not scan. I will try to scan it in later.

This is complete utter madness that I don’t have my driver license!!! Unbelievable and in my opinion, a complete misuse of authority. Do you know how much grief I and my family are going through right now? How much money I have spent trying to get around. How many people are affected by this who are helping me? I thought about it the other day and wondered, what if I were still a newspaper reporter? How WOULD I GET AROUND TO GO ON STORIES?? Well, you guessed it–I WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. THERE WOULD BE NO OTHER WAY!!!

I know this happened for a reason. But someone who has power in this town has to WAKE UP and take control of this Police Department NOW!! When a new chief is selected, someone in town hall HAD BETTER SET SOME GROUND RULES. I am not going to say the name of my general practitioner that I had sign those DMV medical forms, but he told me, he signs these ALL THE TIME!!

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS TOWN??? HOW IS THAT STATUTE BEING USED??

I will also comment on this idea of regionalizing police dispatching. They do this in Kansas. Riley County where Kansas State University is located is the size of Connecticut. Believe me, they do not have police in all of these towns. They have RILEY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT based in Manhattan Kansas. They MUST have regional dispatchers that HAVE TO KNOW EVERY INCH OF RILEY COUNTY!!!

Here is the website for “Riley County, Kansas” with a link to the RILEY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. Great Police Department, I have a LOT OF RESPECT FOR THEM. THEY ARE TOUGH BUT FAIR.