Training Finished

Bay City, Texas

Weather: low 80 degrees, high 95 degrees, mostly clear skies

I finished my training and orientation late this afternoon at the new job. I'm still waiting for my security clearance to come through, and that may take a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I can start doing what I was brought in to do. It will require having an escort whenever I'm inside the protected area. That's fine with me.

The hours on the job at this time amount to working ten hours a day for four days a week. That means we have three days a week off. In about four weeks, we will be going to an outage schedule, which means we will be working 12-13 hours a day for six or seven days a week for about five weeks. At the end of that time, I will probably be finished with what I was asked to do. There has been some discussion about me doing the same thing beginning in February or March of next year. I have not made a commitment on that yet.

Carolyn is still helping Terri in Tuscaloosa, and she reports everything is going well up there. We haven't decided when I will go pick her up, but it will have to be before I start the longer hours here. If I don't go get her by then, We'll have to wait until the job is over. I don't want to think about waiting that long. The obvious question that most people are probably asking is why not have Carolyn fly down here. The answer is that her vertigo will not allow her to fly. Believe me, she would rather fly than have me make that long drive up to Tuscaloosa and back down here in a three day period.

That catches me up on what's happening here.

On my way home from work, I stopped at the public library to check out some books. There was a time when it seemed that whoever picked out the new books for this library had the worse taste in reading that I have ever seen. I'm happy to say that the selection of new books is much more to my liking, and I was able to check out the new novel Wicked Prey by John Sandford. They have several other new books that I plan to borrow before we leave here.

I went for my daily walk this evening, and the weather was not too hot. There was a nice breeze with a cloud that hid the sun. It's amazing how much cooler it feels when there's a breeze or cloud.

Good night, Dear.

More later, be safe.

Today's Town - Atlanta, Georgia: Gate City Of The South

Not all who wander are lost.