Miscellany
Where did the month go? I can’t believe how hectic the past few weeks have been. So much to catch up on…no time to write by the time I get home. Snow today, mostly north of us, but I still had to drive through it. I have no problem driving in the snow…many others who live here however…no, I best not start that rant. “Oh look, a snowflake! Let me drive my car into something…”
So I had several job interviews, and have another one tomorrow. Why do they all keep asking me what I want to do? Am I really supposed to know that by now? Unfortunately making a choice about what my next job should be has never been something the Army has burdened me with. Now I have to choose. I think today however I was able to put a priority list together. Proximity to home is the highest consideration (the two and a half hours of driving each day are getting old). Next would be something I’m willing to do (even if it isn’t a perfect job) for more money. Then, something I’d like to do for a bit less money. Then (how I hope I don’t get all the way down here on the list), something in DC, that I don’t like doing, for not much money.
We had plumbers in the basement last week putting in pipes (which proves I put the wall back in the right place this time), so the luxury bath is roughed-in. Now all I have to do is finish the ceiling framing and get the wiring in and we can get it all tiled and inspected for the final installation of fixtures. We’ve decided to do a partial inspection and get the one room out of the way completely. I’ll post pictures when it is all done. Roman bath here we come…
Helped a friend build a basement room last weekend as well. I am in a husbands co-op with two other guys. One Saturday a month we spend a whole day working on the honey do list at one house (which is usually one major project). We put in a hardwood floor one Saturday and built a room (framing, wiring and plumbing) last Saturday. In March they”ll come here and help me with some project, most likely in the basement. All the framing should be complete by then so perhaps we can finish wiring and putting up the canister lights.
I am very aware that I owe an installment or three on the Thraveon project. Life continues to intervene. 
If only I could slip as easily into the nexus as Grey Connor…
Popcorn.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:55 am
I was starting to think that some thing odd had happened to you.
Well, odd is a relative term.
I need to write up my bad month on my blog as well.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:01 am
*fingers crossed that you get an awesome, high-paying job, close to home*
The husbands’ co-op is a great idea. What a fantastic way to accomplish more in less time! Jeff & I have always found that chores go much more than twice as fast (or easily) when we do them together.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Most of us never know what we want to be when we grow up, or if we do, the best way to get there. I’m still looking. The nice (and scary) thing about a job/career/life after the miliary is that, in the end, the decisions are yours (with a little help from family and friends).
had an opportunity to see the basement this weekend — looks great
thanks for the popcorn :-]
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Oh look, a snowflake! Let me drive my car into something…” Never a t rueer statment. I live in Indiana. I just shake my head when it snows here. First those who drive too slow for the conditions. Those who go to fast chasing that Snowflake you commented about. Those that know how to drive in Snow.
Good Luck on Getting a Job that matches your priority list.
Marcharit.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Interviewing is pain. I still do it from time to time even when I’m not looking for a gig. The non pain part is meeting new folks, getting a line on new technology and inovative viewpoints on stuff I’ve been doing for years. Still it’s a draining and tiring process fraught with conflict on ones own wants and needs. Desire to have a gig that one enjoys strains under the pressure of making sufficient cash and fitting correctly into the real world.
Fun is huge. Fun is often rare. Fun is found in unlikely places with unlikely people. Fun emanates from within while walking the tightrope of the the imaginary and the “too real”. Fun is as much mindset as circumstance. Fun makes me work harder and keeps me focus’d.
But in the end what’s really fun … is getting paid.