Job

Well, its not with a law firm, nor is it a long-term solution, but I have a new job starting on Monday. I will be working document review (staring at paper/computer screens) for the next month or so, and will be working 40 hours per week. I am going to keep my job with Banana Republic, so along with attempting to play softball for my church on Mondays and Fridays, my weeks will be pretty full. However, this is at least a step in the right direction. I'm going to try to get my hours at Banana decreased for the next few weeks so I can actually see my wife and puppy some time, but we'll see how well that takes.

Lauren is still loving her job. Her direct superior has been out for the last week after a surgical procedure, so she's been doing the job of both of them. Still, its the kind of stuff that she finds interesting, so its not like when she had to work 12 hour shifts when she worked at the store.

Connor is doing well, but I have a feeling he's going to be a little sad the next few weeks. With me working during the day, he'll be home by himself for several hours. Lauren may end up coming home a few times a week at lunch so that he can go out, but he'll still be lonely all day. On top of that, he'll be spending the next two weekends (after this one) in a kennel while we're out of town. The being home all day is something he'll have to deal with though, I suppose.

My dad got a clean bill of health from the doctors in Minnesota today, so it appears that for now, he's healthy again. It has been a long road, and if the last five years has told me anything, it is that I shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Twenty Seven Years

Yesterday was my 27th birthday, and we didn't really plan anything exciting. We went to church and then ate at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. After that, we were planning to go hit some softballs in anticipation of my first softball game earlier this evening. We got there and had to buy tokens to do it, but after we got out there, we realized that the machines were broken and ate all of our tokens. We tried to get our money back, but their policy is not to give cash back for tokens. So we had to take a "rain check", and they ended up giving us an hour's worth of batting cage time, but they didn't really have a long-term plan for repairing it, so we'll see how that pans out.

I had my first softball game of the season for our church team tonight. I got to start at catcher, and I really enjoyed it. I had two hits in three at bats, and the second at-bat might have ended in a hit, but the umpire called the ball out of play, and then changed his mind when the outfielder actually caught the ball, so I was out. I was a little peeved, as was the rest of our team, but the rules state that the umpire's decision is final, so we couldn't argue it at all. We almost won the game, and probably should have because the ump pretty much said we were in the last inning, and we pulled ahead, and then we ended up having to play the field for the next inning and they ended up getting enough runs to win the game. Still, we played really well, and if we'd had a different umpire, we probably would have won.

Lauren is still loving her job. Next week her "boss" will be out for some surgery, and she was supposed to do a big presentation for her on Monday, but she found out today that its canceled. The job that I interviewed for ended up falling through. The experienced attorney they'd talked to told them that he wanted to come on with them, but it sounded like they were interested in my services if that hadn't happened. Its hard to pass up an experienced attorney though, so I don't blame them at all. Still, they said they might be looking for someone else in six months or so. I hope I have something lined up at that point, but if I don't, or I'm working document review, I'll probably be interested. Either way, I have a meeting tomorrow with a company about an upcoming document review project, so hopefully that will result in a job that will give me some kind of experience, and more importantly, money.

Rob will be coming into town this weekend to visit, and I've asked off for the weekend, so I'll have plenty of time to hang out with him. We're planning to go to a Charlotte Knights game. The Knights are the AAA affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, and they're playing the Phillies' AAA team, so hopefully we'll see some pretty good baseball. I also have another softball game on Friday night, so hopefully I'll keep up the hitting and maybe we'll win.

At any rate, 27 feels an awful lot like 26. Gas is still expensive, the weather is still hot, and Family Guy is still funny.