Got a new job

Just when I thought I had all this time on my hands after getting let go from my job, I have a new one. I gotta be honest: being home for a month was not that bad.

Now it's back to CAD. I working at a company that does commercial signs for businesses. I do the fabrication drawings for the shop workers who actually build them. It's completely different from the civil engineering and survey CAD work I was doing for the last 4 years, but it's a nice change of pace.

NFL: Joe Flacco is my homeboy. The Raven's are 6-3 and still in this thing. They've got the Giants this Sunday and even though New York should be able to win this one, I think Baltimore is in a good spot to get the upset this week.

NCAAF: Maryland went down to Virginia Tech and laid an egg and then the Hokies picked it up and smashed in the Terps' faces. North Carolina next. Florida State too... sigh.

NBA: The Mavs can't finish games. They're starting this season 4-2. Maybe Avery Johnson wasn't the problem in Dallas. Huh, Mark Cuban?

I just got a Nintendo Wii. I've been playing with my Wii a lot. My hands and arms are so sore from playing with my Wii. I've been working up a sweat I've been playing with my Wii so much. That's enough Wii jokes.

Up, up and away!

It's the middle of the NFL season, my Baltimore Ravens are 4-3.

The Maryland Terrapins are 6-2 in the ACC.

The World Series has been bizzare to say the least and since the Orioles have been sad for quite some time I've been looking at Tampa Bay as my fall-back team this year in the playoffs. They're down 3 games to 1 to the Phillies, but as this thing has played out so far... anything is still possible.

And the NBA is getting under way and the Dallas Mavericks play on Thursday.

So... getting laid-off at the end of October has given me plenty of free time to watch SportsCenter and somehow get back into sports(I've even been watching soccer!).

I'm not really sure what I'm writing about, but I somehow feel like writing again. We'll see what happens.

Appetite for Destruction

Man, work was something this week or at least the second half of this week was. I had a lot of very large issues to deal with concerning more than one of our larger clients, and after jumping through all the hoops and putting in the long days it seems to have paid off for everyone. So I'm looking forward to weekend, it feels earned.

A few of the guys at work thought we should do a guys' night out this weekend. The plan is to go to Club La Vela out on the beach and see a Guns N Roses cover band tomorrow night. One of my co-workers has apparently seen these guys before and said they were worth going to see and since it's not much to get into La Vela, that's the plan for Saturday. All the guys spoke to their wives and it would seem that we've all got our signed permission slips from home to go on the trip.

Sweet.

Kodak moment

I need to start carrying my camera with me at all times again. I haven't taken a decent photograph in forever. Soon I will reduced to taking snapshots of myself solemnly brushing my hair. Lame.

Work has been pretty sweet lately. I went from having my own office in a shitty building to having my own cubicle in a brand new three-story complex, so that's a trade I can feel like I broke even on.

My book on Gunther Howell, the first person to die at Disney World, is in the rewriting phase and my editor, Jill, feels confident that we've got a winner on our hands.

Also, I've taken up a new hobby. Auctioneering.

CAD Meeting

We had a CAD Meeting today at work for all the CAD Techs in the company to talk about the new software. Even amongst CAD Techs it seems that the Survey Dept. is odd man out. We didn't discuss a single issue that our Dept. has and the entire time was spent talking about civil and engineering bullsh*t.

I wasn't having a single issue, unlike almost everyone else, so I doubt I'll be bothering with another one of these meetings. I hate office politics.

The end of the year

Christmas is now past and it was a good holiday. I think my wife and I got the most expensive bag of gifts we've ever had since being married. I have movies to watch until the end of the time.

My back is feeling better slowly, so that's another good thing. Been seeing more of my family, going to my Dad's, talking to my brother, Josh.

Kind of slow lazy short week at work right now.

I'm gonna have to post something more in the way of original material than just these update posts as of late. I think New Year's will bring me some inspiration.

Wednesday

Work has been pretty damn uneventful. Spent most of the day trying to quench my recent thirst for job-related knowledge by actually going into some of my fellow employees' offices adn reading books on their shelves. Some CAD Drafting material, but mostly Land Surveying subject matter like three-wire level notes and other such things.

I've been getting a lot of praise for my job performance lately. I find it kind of strange since I'm probably in one of my lowest levels of work volume that I can think of in quite a while. I think it has more to do with the fact that we've had several longtime employees leave and go elsewhere, and I've been given their workloads. But it really turned out to be almost nothing. Kind of strange really. Plus we've been given new software and I've been told I'm one of the few not to complain about it or struggle. I attribute this versatility and adaptability on my gaming skills and youthful mind. Most of my colleagues are near my father's age and seem to have a healthy disdain for anything involving "change".

Other than that, my back has been killing me since we've moved into our new Apt. and it's turning me into an angry person (I've got to do something about it soon). I've always ignored pain, but this is some real ridiculous stuff, it has to be a pinched nerve or a herniated thingamajig, know what I'm sayin'?

Later.