Man, it is weird how time can get away from you. Blink your eyes and 4 months have passed! That's how I feel anyway. I knew it had been a while, but 4 months! That's not really acceptable. Now I want to try and catch you up, and for some reason my word processor thinks every word I'm typing is misspelled. That is also not acceptable. However, I have spent enough time messing with it, and am ready to carry on with my entire document underlined in red. I guess I can take the function off. There, that's better. Now I'll have to check for errors the old fashioned way. That's okay, I usually do anyway. Yet some still slip through. I'm often surprised at how many things I still do the old fashioned way. But, that seems like a different topic for a different day. I guess today will have to be a catch up day. It's been so long, I had to read my last post to know what I was up to. That seemed like forever ago! It also amuses me that back then I was apparently trying to suggest that I was attempting to get away from going over the mundane details of my day to day life, and yet here I sit on the precipice of filling you in on the mundane details of my month to month life. I can't say it will be much more interesting, but I can say that I should probably stop saying that I'm going to make some attempt at not going over the mundane details of my life. My life is, after all, all that I know. And we are expected to write what we know. And since I spend the majority of my day isolated from others, this is what I shall write about.
To catch you up from the last post, (I hate to leave people dangling) everything is alright now. I have my car back, and it is working properly. I have a new phone now, and it is working lovely. Although, I will say that it is quite bigger than my old one. I was not able to get one close to the same size. I feel like I'm practically carrying around a tablet! But it's fine. Actually, now I'm just about used to it. It always takes me a little while to get used to things that have changed. Now when I look at my old phone (I still haven't thrown it away yet) I think it looks so dinky, and wonder why the change was so tough. The studio we were rehearsing at did close down. I'm not sure how much of it was from the complaining neighbor, and how much of it was from the realization of the founder that his dream was not realized. Either way, we had a lot of fun, and have moved back to renting a spot every week. It's a little more expensive, and a little more of a hassle, but at least we still get to play! It was amazing though, when I think about it, all the other studios were shut down because of Covid. This studio came into our lives exactly when we needed it. It lasted just as long as we needed it, and then it went away. I am blown away by that every time I think about it. It really seemed divine. I let the founder know as well. We wrote an album there! I just wanted him to know how much we appreciated it, and him. I really don't know if the bands would have lasted with that much time off. It literally was a godsend. Now we wait for our own room.
Besides all of that, and I'm pretty sure the reason this has taken so long, my wife was fired! We were really caught off guard. She had been at that place for 11 months. She finally got to take some vacation time. We do a yearly camping trip with some friends of ours, and she finally got to take some time off. We had just celebrated our 2 year anniversary. We were gone Friday through Monday in the middle of September. She went back to work that Tuesday, and was let go. She was home before 9 am! They accused her of being dishonest on her time card. However, it was a brand new system, and she told them that she was having problems. They never seemed to care. The thing that got me was, they never even wrote her up. She wasn't given a chance to explain herself, or get re-trained on the system. It was just “Goodbye.” That was so fucked up. And, the worst part is, it felt like her co-worker was the culprit. There is no way anyone would have had any idea when she got to work, let alone whether she clocked in properly. It seems the only way that anything could have been “discovered” was by the nosiness of her co-worker, trying to get her in trouble. I know that can seem like imagined drama, but this person really is a monster. If you even knew half the story, you'd see that this person was beyond typical office drama, she really was a word I shouldn't call a woman. What's weird though was, that Monday night, before she went back, my wife said “Do I really want to go back?” It's like she knew. She was miserable, all thanks to the co-worker in question. So no job for 3 months! I guess I didn't want to be in here pounding away at the keys while I had the opportunity to be with her. She has gotten another job! She loves it way more than she could have ever loved the last one. It really is true that sometimes a blessing can feel like a curse at first.
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