laundry day...

I have a headache today. I've been sleeping on a couch much of the past week and I finally get a chance to go home for the weekend and I stay up too late and sleep in and wake up with a headache. Does that sound right? No I didn't think so.

So in honor of being home I went to see a movie last night; Casino Royale was pretty good. My friend had a problem with it being a prequel that was not set in the time the first 007 movies were made. I told him he was hung up on a very minor issue. If you ignore the flashy cars, enormous jumbo jet, cell phones and of course the AED in his glove box there isn't a whole lot to suggest any specific period of time about the story or the characters.

Also, it seems to me that all of the movies based off of Ian Fleming's character live in an element of fantasy compared to other action movies of the spy/intelligence agent variety. There is no need to attach them to a specific period of time or suggest that they follow any kind of chronology even though Star Wars for example, chose to.

Well, other than that I stopped by the Bungalow for a minute last night and there are some interesting changes but it looked about as busy as normal. I'm not sure I like the changes personally but at least they are trying. I didn't see any of the old staff (I was there only two weeks ago) and the guy tending the bar said he was the owner. I found that kind of hard to believe but he was pretty bad at it so maybe he is.

Well for those of you keeping tabs on me the new job is going well. I finished my chemistry training yesterday and Monday I start microbiology and collection/processing training in the mornings. I think I figured out why they have so many younger, less experienced people though. There is talk that their recent affiliation agreement was a kind of bail-out and that even several years ago they were in financial trouble and offered their more senior employees a chance to retire early. That could explain why even my boss is much younger than my other bosses had been, not to mention the people in charge of certain sections don't seem that much older than me. That can either be a good thing or a bad thing if these people stick around too long it may be hard to move into their positions! HA!

I think overall this will be a better group to integrate with. So far most of them seem to think like me and of course I am convinced that is the way it should be! Training will continue through this week and then they are putting me on night shift starting the 4th of December. I only know that first weeks schedule and it is full. Hopefully after that first week I settle back to 3 or 4 days per week so I can spend more time working on loans for people. It also means I can spend more time here instead of living out of suitcases up there.

Well, I am working on some laundry today and as soon as I am done I need to get out and go to my mom's art show. Yep that was today and I overslept so I'll be getting there toward the end. I'm sure she will be uber happy with me over that! I was also going to put some of my photographs out but obviously it might be too late for that.

She hasn't called today though so maybe she is too busy with guests and that would be a very good thing. Let's hope that is the case.

Well, enjoy this new song from Damien Rice. I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting for this album. This has been a great year for so many of my favorite artists to be coming out with good follow-up stuff but this is definitely the must have of the year!

Peace,

Brian