Friday, February 25, 2011

Getting better all the time....

Well, I still owe you a post on Drill.  Maybe tomorrow.

It's been a while since my last post.  It's been a busy 3 weeks.  My contract gig turned into a permanent full time job.  Its pretty gratifying to receive that kind recognition so fast.  It could be because, even though I'm a pretty senior geek, I'm willing to do scut work or whatever needs done.  Regardless of the reason, it looks like its gonna be a good, stable job, which is really cool, given the state of the economy. 

"But what about the commute?" You ask?  Well, that has a couple of solutions:  1) I figured out when I need to leave the house to catch the Max at the right time.  That helps.  Plus, as a permanent employee, I can park in our building for free.  That cuts my commute down to about an hour.  That's doable.  For 6 weeks of vacation a year and nice bennies, I can do a 1 hour commute.  OH, and then there's the best part - they let me telecommute 2 days a week.  That makes such an incredible difference!  It really makes the whole thing doable.

So, that's been my life for the last month or so - go to work, come home, go to drill practice, coach OHSET practice, get up and do it all again.  But the paychecks are coming in now and, with a full time job and a part time job, I am finally able to fix some things we've been putting off.  Yay.  We now have electricity back to the front of the house.  Amazing.

And that's my life in a nutshell.




 

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