I Need It Yesterday....

Since when did patience lose its status as a virtue? Early this afternoon I received a phone call asking me if I got the email that was just sent to me. In this email there was a request to revise my proposal for the adult/dislocated worker program and the budget, and oh, by the way, it needed to be forwarded by tomorrow. I'm a fairly quick learner and what do you know, it works! I responded by stating that if I had answers to a few questions I could get it submitted by the deadline. It only took two hours to receive a response instead of the usual two weeks. Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Shortly after this exchange there was a conference call to discuss elements of our youth program. Having done my homework, I felt very confident in discussing the program needs and design. The most difficult task in this process is trying to get people to understand that we are very different than a big city and our methods may not exactly match theirs. Our county is composed of over 10,000 square miles, but the population is not even 5,000. We're not even classified as rural, we're frontier! This makes implementing training programs for "demand occupations" in the area a bit more of a challenge.

Forward motion is always a good thing. Of course, convincing people that change is sometimes necessary is a little bit harder in this area. Does anyone have the number to a good canine training program?