Scott's Thoughts

And then she was gone

Josie has left. She is now in St Louis persuing her Masters Degree. I will miss her. I will miss her more than she knows. While I am saddened by her leaving it is probably for the best. It's hard to pine for someone that only thinks of you as a friend. Now that she is gone I can put my infatuation behind me and move on.

One of the ladies at one of our clinics was going to try and set me up with a person she works with but I found out today that person is going to be leaving us for another place. I probably shouldn't date people within the company even though we don't work for the same department or building - people here like to gossip. There was enough gossip about Josie and I and I was probably only hearing half of it.

So I'm back to square one but this time much better armed. I don't think I will wait as long to ask someone on a date because apparently women must have it established up front that it's a date and not just hanging out - meh. Maybe the minds need to be set into different modes.

We've finally managed to eliminate most of the high-end problems that have plagued us. We are still growing like cray but now it's small sites again and not great big, takes all week to setup places. I've managed to accomplish some work once again even with our other tech out (in fact I got a lot more done without him than with him around). He's back once again helping out and I plan on hitting several locations and catch up on tasks as well as start the install for a new site here in town.

I've kept in touch with the recruiter for jobs. The first one I applied for has moved on anyone and sounded like they might have gone with and outsourcer to handle their needs instead. She also had me apply for a position at The Wynn but I haven't heard anything from them. Too many techs competing for the same job most likely and without a degree, I get over-looked. My boss comes into town tomorrow for a few days. I may have a talk with him about bring my salary up again. When we talked orginally the plan was to raise it in several increments until I was near a local average.

I'm still pretty stressed out over things. Work is slowly calming down but not very fast. I paid for a massage from Sam's friend Glenda just so I could relax. She goes good work and it helped my muscles considerablely. I'm looking forward to going back and working out with Sam. I think the bit of physical exercise and talking with her had kept my stress levels down.

posted by Site Smith Scott @ 4:28 PM