Home is where the rump lands, as they say. We’re home, after a huge Moving Day that saw large amounts of assistance from family. If it weren’t for Mom and Dad and my cousin, Tandy, her husband, Brian, and, to some extent, their toddler Will, I have no idea what would have happened.
Getting all your stuff from one place to another is fine and good, but putting it where it belongs is another arduous story in and of itself. It will be three weeks come Friday, and that is still what we are doing. Picture will be on their way, as soon as we have something that’s worth recording. It’s looking nice… but not nice enough.
After a week’s interlude in Massachusetts, we came back down to the new home to put things together. It was nice, being back in the area. My friend, Geoff, and his girlfriend Lee, came over this past Saturday and we introduced Lee to the wonders of Settlers. The next day, being only about 20 minutes from their house, we went over there and played a rousing Game of Life, which has been updated to include a “Computer Technician” career. To facilitate money-making for this new career, Milton Bradley turned Life’s trademark spinning wheel into a bigger piece of junk than it already was. If a player knocks it off its tracks, the Technician gets $50,000 from the bank. As an up-and-coming Computer Technician, I made somewhere in the neighborhood of $800,000 this way before my fellow players figured out how to stop screwing up the dial.
Monday was my first day at the new job. It’s eerily familiar, to be honest. My new position is a bit different from my last one, in that I’ll be focused on one primary task, and not spread thin like the last bit of mayonnaise in the jar. In three weeks, I’ll probably know more about search engines and search engine marketing than any person has a right to. It’s nice, having a solid foundation, and learning more about something that I’ve always found fascinating is a great thing to be paid to do.
We’re off to Wilmington this weekend for some much-needed time in a home that’s already put-together.
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