Pete's Log: recap
Entry #1338, (Life in General)(posted when I was 24 years old.)
My log (or blog, if you will) has experienced some lengthy downtime of late. So there's lots to catch up on. Let's begin.
The rest of December was filled mainly with holiday activities. We spent Christmas with Meg's family in Springfield. I recall there being a variety of good food. We got some fun gifts as well.
The weekend after Christmas we spent at Meg's aunt's place with some of Meg's extended family. We watched some football and I beat Charly twice in chess.
Nothing exciting happened on New Year's Eve. We stayed at home. The next day we went to Brian's family's place and watched some silly bowl game. I think the team I was cheering for lost.
Then we spent a week in Colorado. I taught Meg some basic skiing skills. She picked it up pretty fast. We also got to spend quality time with my family. Mamie returned to South Bend with us.
The next few days were spent packing, preparing to leave, and trying to hang out with people one last time. Unfortunately, I failed to see many of the people I wanted to see before I left. My apologies.
We rented a 20 foot truck and a car carrier. We completely filled the truck and both cars. My car got to ride behind the truck. Meg and Mamie drove Meg's car, I drove the truck. It was a stressful experience, in part because there was a big snow storm while we were driving through the mountains in PA, in part because the truck's windshield wipers sucked, and in part because I never did figure out how to back the thing up with the trailer attached.
But we made it. Mamie flew from here to Connecticut and Meg and I managed to unload the entire truck by ourselves. Just the two of us. I'm amazed we succeeded.
Mamie came back a few days later. Since then, I've been trying to find a job and such. There are still plenty of unpacked boxes around the house, but it's getting better. The house is smaller than our apartment was, but we fit. And the yard is huge. The dogs love the yard.
Since the tech companies around here aren't really hiring anyone without security clearance or at least a lot of experience, I interviewed with a couple temp places. The one place is going to get back to me early next week, but the other place found me something immediately.
So now I'm auditing files at a medical services/hmo sort of company. They have 27,000 or so files they need checked and 20 or so temps doing it. Meg interviewed at the same temp place and is working at the same place. It's tedious, but not too bad. Most of the other temps there have been working on this audit for three weeks now. On our second day, Meg is already the fastest. I'm trying to keep up, but there are still four or five people that are faster than me. We do this for another two weeks.
Last week we visited the Washington monument and rode to the top. It was neat. I definitely plan to see everything there is to see in the DC area. I don't want to be one of those people that lives in a cool place but never really sees the cool sites.
Life is pretty good. I could stand to have a better job, but at least I'm working. At my temp interview, I typed 77 words a minute with 0 errors. I know I can do better.