Day 9 at the new job. So far it's been pretty interesting. Good people. Sharp developers, lots of things to do. Keeping me on my toes and really busy. I've been constantly on the go, only slowing down due to checks and balances in place for process control. Unfortunately, it has to be that way for quality, but it's a good thing.
Before you hit me up and ask me, Anything really eventful happen today? I'll go ahead and be right up front with you. No. Not really.
Got up, Showered, Walked to the train station. Harassed K and R, they tried to give me free coffee. I declined. Honestly don't need to feel indebted to that pair.
Yes, I rode the train into the office today. Definitely miss that from time to time, miss getting my reading in and getting a chance to just organize my thoughts , or just sit and be, or people watch.
Today, apparently, there were a few guys from out of town, a couple of mid 40's black gentlemen, though they'd laugh if they heard me call them that, were catching the train this morning as well. I'll come back to it. It's an amusing story.
After my amusing train ride, I walked to work, also uneventful, but a nice brisk 20 minute walk to wake up. Not too far, but in the cold it can be a little much.
Once I got into the office, it was pretty much work, work, work, wash, rinse, repeat.
It was pretty much moles and trolls for the next 180 minutes. Took the new employee been here a week survey, oh wait, no. That was yesterday morning... this morning was just moles and trolls.
Then, did lunch with a colleague. He picked up lunch for me today, I grabbed the tip, told him that I'll catch the next lunch. We caught up a little, was really the first time we've had to talk since he left our last contract together. He's a genuinely nice guy and reminds me a lot of one of my past colleagues and mentors. We talked about how things have been going for him, asked how things were going for me. General conversation about the gig, the family, just good conversation. Kind of odd, considering don't have that many of those with new people.
We ate sandwiches at a place called DeliTech? I dunno. I think perhaps M. said it best. "Sounds like they'd be a place that fixes deli's equipment... not a sub shop."
After lunch we walked back to the office and worked until 5:15 - 5:30-ish, it is at this point that the girls when the girls come to rescue me. Only, the elevators don't work. Doh! To the stairs!! Crap. I have to locate the stairs. Where were those stairs??
Once I found them, it became pretty obviously that someone more than likely had put them out of order to work on them. Unfortunately 6 flights later I'm not as enthusiastic. I run out to the truck, hope in the drivers seat, which J. was vacated, and we rush out, braving the rush hour traffic, which i'd just been informed, was "not pretty"(TM) and off we went!
Once in the thick of things, we made our way back to mi casa... it didn't take too long and we made it in one piece. well, 5 individually wrapped pieces i would rather say. As one piece might be rather uncomfortable and awkward to explain to anyone.
Anyway, i digress.
So, once home, M. and I again venture out to kick her ass into work. Poor thing. :(
Then I return to the house. I ran and checked my email, before playing some xbox games with the kiddos for a while.
After playing for a few, I fix sammiches. By this point it's a bit later than I expected and I'm having to scramble things realize its late and get a grumpy M. face made at me, because I should have done it 30 minutes sooner than I did. But hey, I was hanging out with my guys and I miss being able to do it.
But yes, we all lived.
Once the children had nommed thier dinners, we shuffled them into their various showers and I gave T. his shower, oversaw the daily operation of pajamifacating and tooth brushing that needed to happen and managed to get them shuffled off to their respective beds.
M. is studying for school and I'm not here. typing. so i guess that mostly gets us up to speed.
OOOOOh! except for the amusing guys from this morning. right. so .... Couple of black dudes from the west coast in town working a construction job out past Nine Mile, have no idea how the light rail / bus transfers seem to work. These guys were a trip. Got one one stop after me this morning, talking smack to each other about how the other's "bright idea" has cost them an hour of pay and they're "going to be so late." Apparently they'd caught a bus and it'd taken them to littleton, instead of taking them out to Nine Mile, or they thought they were going to transfer to the rail at a different place, or something. But anyway, they managed to get to the rail, get on going the right way finally and bitched the whole way to broadway. I was amused. As we hit the transfer, one of them started off the wrong way. I happened to notice and let them know they needed to basically follow me if they wanted to have a chance of catching the right train... they were heading off toward the lot, not the next line over.
His buddy ribbed him about starting off on the wrong foot already and then they both wandered over toward the train i was getting on.
They talked casually about cali, and how "the last time I was here..." and made jokes about "Englewoooooood east-side!"
Just seeing how they interacted with each other was amusing. They didn't have any qualms calling each other out, they weren't family, but acted like it.
As i hit my stop, I'm still kind of laughing to myself at their banter, "You know Kelly?" "Yeah..." "Yeah, That girl is Fine! I asked her the other day if she got half naked and danced around and shit. She looked at me and said 'no man, those are belly dancers, I'm Indian' or something. Then she told me she don't get freaky like that. Told me to look up the Kama Sutra so see how she gets down. You ever hear of the Kama Sutra?" "No, don't think so..." "Aw son, let me tell you a thing or two...." Their voices trailed off as the train door sealed behind me and I exit onto my platform to wait on the next transfer.
Small glimpses into other peoples life's make mine a little more real from day to day.
Now to finish Nomming my fries.
I guess for a non-eventful day it wasn't too bad. I seem to be remembering more. I have noticed a down turn in over all mood, I've been rather blue. No real reason. But then, I've always gotten that way this time of year, so maybe its just seasonal. Could be related to the change in dosages in the new meds, or it could just be one of those things. I don't know. Figure it's worth noting.
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