Life as we know it...

Wow what a week... well its been about 12 days, but still busy busy busy.

Lets see, I finally sold this thing I like to call, " "My second worst investment ever". This house is the worst. Don't get me wrong, its a great place and I have done a lot to it, but its more suited to a large family. There is just to much for just me and my son to keep up on. I bought a condo that is just perfect for us. 3 bedrooms, with his being very secluded in the back, he loves it.

Work. I was on-call for most of this time. Most of the companies I have worked for have been professional, entity owned companies. What I mean by that is, 1 network to work on for 1 company. When I did on-call for them, it was a pain, but at least I knew the environment and did not question my knowledge or skills. Two years ago, I took a job with a hosting data center company. Many many networks.... On-call for them is crazy, and I don't know a 100th of the environments I am working on. It gets crazy. With the "follow the sun" model, I especially enjoy the 2 in the morning calls where communication consists of someone on the other end of the phone speaking 15 miles an hour, and me saying "can you repeat that?" 100 times!

Then there is tax season! Does anyone like this time of year? In the US, it is actually unconstitutional to pay taxes.... However, the IRS finds a nice little way around this by telling you that if you don't, we will take you to court and make you pay everything you owe to us, with a chance of loosing the case and being double screwed! Normally I wouldn't mind the screw... I mean lets face it, it has been awhile, but monetary screwing is not fun and puts my son at risk... so I pay. The exciting news is, that I usually don't put to much thought into my W2 deductions, so I always end up getting something back. However, the procedure of paying to waste my time and energy figuring this crap out to then petition the government to give me back money that they owe me.... EXHAUSTING! I also got a notice that I didn't file in 2009, I didn't, so I get to do it two times this year... YAY!

I haven't seen Brenda since our date and my mothers big revelation. However, her and I are supposed to have coffee tonight after work, so I will save all the inner turmoil for tomorrows post.

Being this busy is very nice. I didn't even realize how much time had actually gone by.