Where am I on a Tuesday night? I am in Hoboken. I started a new gig yesterday, and it has been going well despite the voice in the back of my head telling me otherwise. The coworkers and the manager have been so supportive and understanding.

I am a lucky guy. I was set up with this gig by a company that places people in various jobs, and this one was amazingly fortuitous. I’ve been trying to load my bank information for over an hour, and I have been getting a message saying: An error occurred while processing this request. If you continue to experience problems, contact your system administrator with the error code. Error Code: 100.

I sent an email to the woman who placed me at this job. She’s in Seattle, and I am in NJ. Perhaps this will be cleared up tomorrow. I hope so, I do want to be paid. The manager at this job has been reassuring me that I am not doing much of anything this week, just observing what my co-workers are doing. That is this week.

I am also meeting with other people in the company, interacting and doing my best to charm them. It is wholly 180° from working at Bratty McGrotty. I am surrounded by friendly, upbeat people as opposed to the back-stabbing vipers in the legal office downtown.

No Filipino former male nurse, set deep in a walk-in closet, married to a wife and a kid, to prove that he is not a homosexual. It’s only day two at the new gig, and I still have a way to go. If this continues, I would like to see if I can get Mike a gig somewhere down the line.

I think he could do well if everything falls into place. I mentioned this to Mike last night on the phone, advising him not to get his hopes up right now since this would be later in the year, if at all.

There has also been a problem with my phone. The slot where it gets charged hasn’t been behaving well and is not accepting the cord. This has been going on since last July i Ocean Grove. Lately, it has gotten worse.

I suppose it may be time to trade the phone in for a newer model. I was resisting that since I do love the Bloom 10 app, which was created by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. I bought the newer phone in 2023 and returned it immediately when I found out that the new phone did not support the app. Nowadays, it might, but I want to know for sure.

I am waiting to hear from someone from the other side of the world to tell me whether or not it does. I am presently number 3 in line for chat assistance. So work was fine, it is just the machines at home, the PC, the smartphone, and Bill’s tablet that have been telling me that it will not go through or work.

I’m stressed, but not from the job. There was stress about that job, but that was from anxiety about starting a new job on Sunday. I did not sleep well, and I struggled to get through the first day at the new job, but I do not think that was noticed.