Okay, the style page just got hosed, deleted or something. The blog you are seeing is mine, but it is a cookie cutter template. It looks like I’ll be spending the New Year reconstructing this thing.

Well, a sad ending to the year. You see, this cooler below (please excuse the poor picture quality) has been in the last 4 or 5 games stores in Memphis, comprising the last 15-20 years. Well, something gave up the ghost this evening and it spewed Freon and smoke all in the store.

As it is likely too expensive to fix, as a final indigant end it will be hauled to the curb like a piece of trash. Good night, dear friend, good night.

Well, I have completed my second week at my new job. Everything is still going great, and I do not regret taking this position.
The other news is, yesterday I went to the Social Security office to get them to cut off my disability pay, so I didn’t get into an “overpayment situation.” The lady I was talking to said that I had a disability review underway (which I had totally forgotten about) and that I should wait until after I got a notice from them to do something.
I got home to a letter from Social Security, and they said that I was no longer disabled and that my benefits would stop as of December 8th.
This only proves to me that someone is looking out for me. The timing is just too eerie not to be. To have it cut so close is just astounding.
So, now I don’t have to worry about overpayment, or underpayment. My benefits have stopped, and my new job picked up the slack at the same time.

Well, I survived the first week. I spent the week setting up all of my HR stuff, which was 100% done electronically. My supervisor even verified my I-9 paperwork electronically. Once all of that was done, I started in on about 25 hours worth of CBT’s (computer based trainings) which had me learn about the history of the company, as well as the ethics and integrity of the company, and just about everything else down to a CBT on ergonomics.
I also got my computer, a 2gHz laptop with 2 gig of RAM, and best of all, running XP! It came with a docking station and 19″ flat screen monitor. Now I supposed to either take my laptop home to do more work, or lock it up on my file cabinet.
This is a great company. It holds itself to a very high standard, and expects all of the employees to uphold the same standard. This is a Fortune 30 company, and it got there by not slacking off. There is no room to be at anything less than your best, ethically and any other way you want to measure performance.
I have no qualms working for this company. They take care of their employees and expect nothing less in return. I can work here without a problem.
This comes literally less than 60 days from the tenth anniversary of when I first crawled into the closet and started screaming. I have been shaped by the last decade into someone who is truly able to help people who cannot help themselves.
You can look back into my archives and see how I have changed, just in the past five years. I have been through the forge and come out all the stronger. I am not the same person I was the day before the closet. I am a better person, and I thank God for it.
Change never is easy, and this has been extraordinary tough. I didn’t think I would make it through some hours, let alone days.
Now that I am here, I am glad to repeat something that my IOOV teacher told me.

“I am now, I always have been, and always will be in the right place at the right time to complete the mighty work for which I was so magnificently created.”

I suggest you go though your life with that in mind, and see where it gets you.

The first day at the new job went okay. As with all new positions in a big company, they didn’t know what to do with me. It took a while, but they found my cubicle, and I have a loaner laptop, upon which I am doing computer based training.
Now starts day two, and my boss has come down from Nashville to help me kick the job off. I can’t wait! Really, that’s a good thing, not a sarcastic remark =)