Okay. So both of you are probably wondering why I haven’t posted more details about the new job. I’ll tell you now. I accepted a job with Company #1 (the names have been changed to protect the innocent). An hour later Company #2 called and said, “Hey Dude, wanna interview?” Now, I know two people who work at company #2 and hear it’s a great place to work and I’d sent them my resume about 3 months earlier. I figured, I’d hear what they have to say. I went in the next day.

Well, two and a half hours into the interview (that was really more of a conversation) I had pretty much decided I wanted this job. They seemed to like me too. I get a call the next business day from the VP and he asks some more questions. Then I call to find out what the deal is…and a couple of days later go in for another interview. I’m like…okay…it’s cool….

Meanwhile Company #1 is asking me things like , “Wanna go to our annual family thingie?”…I’m like uh-oh….I stall.

The 2nd interview rocks. It’s in the bag I think…I wait…I wait…I call…I wait..I find out they’ll be making an offer…they make an offer…it’s good…I say yeah, but I need it in writing so I can tell Company #1 I’m out. It finally comes….

Problem is…I’m supposed to start at Company #1 on Monday. So I’m kinda screwing Company #1. This is a much better opportunity though. I think I can learn stuff here, and advance, and it pays more to boot. Rock on..

So that’s the story….
I try to avoid saying who I work for…it let’s me bitch and moan with less fear of repercussions…

Time is ticking away here at the ole job. I’m in my last week here and have been pretty bored. I’m spending today trying to do a knowledge dump. It’s been going alright so far. I gotta tell ya though…I’m BORED!

In other news….Insurance companies suck. Apparently, nine only covered 62 days consecutively of physical therapy. That means, that if I only went once in that period, that’s all they’d cover for that condition. Last week the doctor prescribed an additional 6 weeks. I can’t afford (and choose not ) to pay for it out of pocket completely, so my mornings will be filled with the glories of lower back pain! I feel 65 …and I’m not even half that!

I saw a rehearsal on Saturday….I must say we wrote some seriously funny shit….

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Well, I spoke with the Tampa Tribune. We’ll see how it turns out. I’ve got this fear that I’m going to look like a pretentious asshole.
Article comes out in Baylife on Sunday the 27th. That’s probably the day I’ll ping the other blogs…get some ticket sales happening. And in case your interested. I don’t get paid for this. I just get the pleasure of seeing something I wrote be performed.

Went to the first run through of Jobsite’s next show Murder Ballads today. It has a piece I co-wrote in it, and everything is going great. I’m amazed at how quickly things are coming together! There’s still the occasional mishap, but the pieces all look great and it’s going to be a lot of fun! Take a look at the site, there’s some artwork for the show now!

Forgive me as I take a moment to rant.
#1 - The neighbor is either
         A) getting his piece of shit Geo Tracker fixed and borrowing someone’s truck or
         B) traded his piece of shit Geo Tracker for a truck.

#2 - Just cause you recieve mail at your place of employment does that give your employer the right to open your mail?

Okay. So, I called the cops and said I think his car is damaged and never heard anything. Life goes on.

The neighbor came home some time after we were asleep. As I drove off this morning I looked over and it appeared that their front passenger side bumber was bent upwards a bit. Which it would be having pushed our car about 2 inches.

Update: I called the police and left a message. I called the # that was on the officer’s card. I’m hoping they go look. I’ll call again this evening when I get home.

So, we asked the people across the street if they saw anything. We think they did it with their geo. After I asked the woman (who says she wasn’t home yesterday) they both came out, looked at the front of the geo and drove away.

We have a refletor that was sitting next the scene of the crime.
If anyone can identify GM part 5973678LR2 (or part 16500312 2) from a GEO tracker. Let me know. I’d like to know for sure if it is or isn’t him.

Update:I called the police. He seems to think that it was some teenagers in stolen cars. He doesn’t think it was the neighbors. I still find it suspicious they looked at their car and drove off. I hope to catch them coming home so I can see for sure.

Not a good week…

So, this fell from the tree next to our house today. We’re VERY lucky that it didn’t hit our house or a car. That’s about two feet thick.