The “newness” of Facebook has worn off after roughly a month of using it almost daily. Yet, I still log in almost daily and either play a game or two or at the very least change my status message. I’m not on it three and four times a day like I was in the beginning, but it has remained a part of my daily routine, and this blog has suffered for it. I once used this blog to keep my friends informed about happenings in my daily life, and occasionally to vent frustrations. Over the last month that I have been an active Facebook member, I think I have updated the blog three times, but that may be over estimating it. I suppose it’s time to break that cycle and get back to journaling on here again.
School is, well going. I am 4 painful weeks into my final six weeks of classes before a much needed summer break. May 14 I will once again be free to spend free time writing things I care about and want to see completed rather than one essay after another form my painful Cultural Diversity class. The class title alone evokes instant headache pains, and did long before I knew what I was in for. I am an open minded culturally aware person, the exact opposite of who this class was designed for eons ago. I was not looking forward to taking it and decided to just get it out of the way now and be done with it, mistake number one. I am also taking a World Geography class, figured it would go well with a cultural class, mistake number two. These two classes combined mean that I am writing one to two essay papers a day, every day. All of them have a minimum word count in the 200-300 range and some come with a maximum word count of 500. Failure to keep it in the word count range means point reductions in Geography and 0 points in Cultural Diversity. As much as I hated my C++ and Java programming classes, I would gladly take them again if it meant I wouldn’t have had to endure this semester with these two classes. The saddest part is that I have yet to learn something I didn’t already know in EITHER class. I have been reminded of things I learned in high school, but nothing I didn’t already know about. There are still two weeks left, maybe I can get something out of these two classes other than a mediocre grade yet, but I won’t hold my breath.
Work, it’s work. Same stuff, different day and week. Disaster Recovery testing went, and as it typical not all of it worked as planned, but within 24 hours of the building being totally destroyed we know we can have the core business back online and process orders again. Whether we could write checks, or look up sales data historically is another story, but we could process payroll so long as you have direct deposit, which most of us do, so I’m okay with that. NooB is improving, or my tolerance for his mistakes is growing. One of the two, you make the call which it is. The bottom line about work, I still have a job. That is something more than many of my friends and Jen effective last Friday.
That’s right, Jen lost her job Friday. Thank you President Obama for extending those UE benefits out to 79 weeks, and for the State of Michigan who increased the UE benefit maximum. Our checking account will appreciate it I’m sure. Now if only I could add her to my insurance so we didn’t’ have to pay the COBRA on hers … that would make this just about perfect timing. We knew it was coming, just didn’t expect it so soon, nor did we expect it to happen the way it did. I’m actually happy she’s not working there any more, she was miserable. I would rather have to foot the full bill for her insurance than see her so miserable Sunday through Friday and occasionally on Saturday too. She has been looking to get out of there for a while and has a couple of leads on a new job, but if nothing else, 79 weeks of UE will allow her to spend some time with Mom and get us back into the trading game with the little bit of capitol we have managed to save over the last year.
That covers the major stuff, nothing has happened with Unconditional, I haven’t done much work on the new project yet, and I’ve slacked off on searching for an agent to represent Unconditional. School got in the way. I have my motorcycle from Mom and Dad’s, but with a busted tail bone I can’t ride it. Maybe by this weekend I can stand a short ride with Jen. I reconnected with some old friends, thanks to Facebook, and haven’t found the time to even send Jack an e-mail let alone hang out with him. Vermont vacation has been canceled for this summer and instead we are taking a long weekend to Tennessee over Memorial Day weekend and a 7 night camping trip to the U.P. in August. So far we think Tahquemenon Falls State Park … but no reservations have been made yet.
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