Well today was the day. A little guilty about moving on from Golden Staffing but it’s not a crippling guilt. I did get comfortable there in only a few months. It was a new day, a new job. Last night Bill and I hung out and watched the Sopranos which was excellent and Entourage which was amusing and a bit touching. It stopped raining for a bit and I brought in the pots and pans in the hallway. A few hours later it poured and the neighbors put out their pots and pans which made for a risky navigation on the stairway this morning.

Bill was up and out before I was. I got up earlier than usual. Got up at 6:00 instead of a half hour later which made things that much more interesting. Bill and I bumping into each other and I was a bit of an ogre. He was great as usual, letting my non morning persona roll off his back. I was grouchy. I’m sure my sibling in Arcata can relate or her husband and son at least. I had my coffee, my cereal, and a kiss goodbye from my loving partner.

I walked out the door, sidestepping the pots and pans and walked out into the remnants of the Nor’Easter which even though it wasn’t as bad as they said it would be, a large wall collapsed in Union City by the 14th Street Viaduct a bit north of the Doric apartment tower. And there was also a fire a few blocks away in Hoboken but that was in the afternoon, the wall collapse happened around 10:00PM. The power also went out last night for less than a minute which made Bill and I miss the first moments in the Sopranos. But that was all yesterday and last night.

Today I rode on the bus, reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I’m really enjoying it, there are some really funny lines in there. Of course it’s all about religion, but it’s written by an atheist for atheists. It really does make sense. Got to the Port Authority earlier than usual and this is how it’s going to be from now on. Early rising, different, more frantic commuters. A whole different mindset to these commuters. It’s funny how things could change in a half hour.

Got to the new building at 50th and Third Avenue. I checked in with the security team in the lobby. Sinead O’Connor playing over the PA system. Got up to the fourth floor and found myself to be the first one in. The door was locked but with a slight tug I gained access. So much for security. I turned on the lights, walked around. No one in yet. It was 8:05 and I made some coffee and put my things in my cube. People came in eventually. The space is leased by my company, DNA Inc. and subleased to two other companies. So there are people I work with directly and people I don’t. But everyone seems nice. Very low key office, I filled out tax forms, and health forms and who to call in case of emergency forms. Bill is top of the list, my brother Frank who would probably be annoyed is number two. He’d be annoyed at the phone call, not his placing on the list.

Here’s a few of the things that I did today:
Fixed security lock on door
got signatures on contracts from the CEO (Vivek) and the President (Greg Stevens)
canceled hotel reservations in Boston
ran an errand
checked with vendors regarding deliveries
moved large table
hung pictures
polished a conference room table
made some copies

See? Number one was fixing the security lock on the front door. I saved the company some money already.

Tonight Bill is at his folks so he can take his father to the VA hospital tomorrow morning. I’m hanging out.

Today in Virginia the country was given 33 reasons for stricter, stronger gun control laws.
Melt the guns now.

live blog from the Virginia campus, cut n’paste:

http://ntcoolfool.livejournal.com/

It’s a rainy Sunday. Nothing but rain rain rain. So far the high winds haven’t hit but it’s been pissing all day. Some streets are flooded, the skylight outside our apartment in the hallway has a leak and I had to put some pots out there to collect the water and I’ve been popping my head out there to make sure they don’t overflow. I called Peter Amin, the landlord about it but so far he hasn’t shown. Not that he could do anything about it in the middle of the storm. This happened a few years ago and it was fixed then, but once again soggy carpeted stairways abound.

I think I’ve been outdoors more times today than I was yesterday and yesterday was the better day to be outdoors. I went out for the bagels and went to the supermarket and also played nurse practitioner to Julio and Stine’s headaches. Seems like the pipers union was in town for them this morning, due to the fact that they had gone out the night before, Julio not eating, and mixing the grain with the grape, drinking wine, champagne and beer, and Stine having something to eat, with just a general hangover, i.e. Dehydration. I hung out with them for a bit this morning after the emergency call for aspirin, or Tylenol, or Advil and luckily for them I had all three.

They had quite a good time it seemed at a surprise party for Julio’s cousin’s 40th birthday. Julio turns 40 next year which should make for a good reason for a great party. I’m sure Stine will come up with something.Last night I hung out and watched Volver, Almodovar’s latest. It was good but not as good as All About My Mother or Talk to Her. Penelope Cruz was great and it was wonderful to see Carmen Maura in an Almodovar film again. Almodovar’s films have definitely evolved over the years from when Julio and I first saw Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Bleecker Street Cinema in 1987.

And it continues to rain. Just looked out onto the pots and there’s maybe an inch of water in both of them. It’s supposed to rain for the next couple of days actually. I’m taking the rain to be a good omen for me with the new job. When I first interviewed with Wanker Banker it was during a deluge and tomorrow promises to be exactly that. I’m pretty much psyched for it. I just looked at the list of responsibilities for the job and looking forward to doing each and every one of them since they were cherry picked from my resume, so I have no doubt I can do this.

Julio and Stine wished me good luck this week and then they went about trying to decide to go to another family party out in NJ somewhere or go back to bed. They were really struggling with the decision when I left and I don’t know what it was that they decided to do. That’s about it for this rainy Sunday, April 15, 2007.