Where have I been?

I haven't posted for over two months. Where have I been? I dunno, busy, tired, lost, at least my focus, my head, my ambitions. I did manage to switch employers. I'm now at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, which is oh so much better than RadioShack.

Today is December 23rd, and I just started a ten day stretch of vacation, six of which are paid! I've never had this much time off in December without being on welfare. I'm going to spend tomorrow finally decorating the house and cleaning, and maybe end the evening by driving through Interlochen and Diamond Loch looking at the rich peoples' Christmas light displays. Logan couldn't be bothered to put up any lights this year, not even his fantasy light display: a doe and buck making merry, if you get my drift. He laughs every time he talks about it. He'd make it just like those animatronic figures, with the hip motion going like a rabbit on the buck.

Anyway, my new job is so much better than my old job at RadioSucks. I mean RadioShack. I tried to find the website, radioshacksucks.com, but it looks like the corporate lawyers finally got it shut down. So much for first amendment rights. I did find out there is a Yahoo! group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radioshacksucks/

Well, I don't have a lot to bitch about in regards to RadioShack. I mean, well, nothing specifically, that isn't pretty endemic: low pay, crappy benefits, neurotic supervisors, and a corporate mentality that crushes the spirit out of its employees.

So maybe you can understand why I'm so happy to be at UNTHSC. The pay is about the same as I was making at RS, but the benefits are so much better, and the atmosphere is lightyears ahead. It somehow makes a difference to me to be a part of something where people are striving to learn, to grow, and to make a difference. I may be just paying the bills, but the people for whom I'm paying them are much nicer people.

Well, it finally feels like winter now that we're experiencing temps in the teens and managed to get a peppering of snow yesterday. I lost my gloves, and thought I would freeze my hands off in the time it took me to walk from the parking garage to the building. This weather just ain't nach'rul. You'd think we was Yankees or sumpin.

Gotta go top off the cup of wassail. Nothing like cold weather to make a body want to get drunk and curl up on the couch with five cats and a grouchy old curmudgeon.

Merry Christmas, Y'all!!