Scott's Thoughts

Some things change

It's been a bit and I actually have several new things to write about. I wanted to update more a while back but I'll go into why I haven't been able to.

The most notable change is that I have a new job.I am now a netowrk admin for a timeshare marketing company in town. The pay is much better and it's a raise in title. From what I've seen so far my work load will be half if not a third of what I had before and most of our remote sites have low-level techs to help them out so I only have to worry about the 2 Vegas offices plus no place is running anything high-end or a vast suite of programs. The most critical thing I have to worry about is email and connectivity. Basically it's a job I'm doing less and getting paid significantly more.

I really needed this change as my old job was getting much too stressful. I was doing the workload of 2 people with the responsibilities of 3. I'll miss all the people I use to work but I needed to move on.

Now as to the reason why I couldn't write earlier I was involved in an auto accident. I was on a business trip in the rural Nevada heading towards Eureka, NV. Earlier tis year I had an accident involving a deer walking in front of my truck. This time it was a coyote darting across the road in front of my rental vehicle. I slammed on the brakes when I saw the coyote and that car immediately fish-tailed and I ended up in a ditch down an embankment on the opposite side of the road. I was told later that I was very fortunate that the car hadn't flipped over. I walked away but my arm had been hurt. I wasn't in any pain but a little dazed from the accident. A guy with a satellite phone happened to stop and help me out. I had the ambulance people take me back to the clinic I had just finished some work at since my injuries weren't severe. Found out at the clinic that I had a small crack in one of my wrist bones and major bruising and some torn muscle tissue in my arm. The put my hand in a splint and I put ice on the arm for almost a week to reduce the swelling. I had little pain the whole time including the broken wrist which I couldn't even tell it was broken. The annoy thing I did have was that I kept pulling the muscle in my bicep several times a day for the first 3 days or so. I still have a knot in my arm and it been over 3 weeks but it getting better each day. I ended taking the splint off after 2 weeks instead of the 3 I was advised because at the time I absolutely needed to have my hand free to type. I was asked to document as much as I could for my company before I left.

At home my room mates just bought a new big screen tv for the xbox360 (our old one couldn't support the higher resolutions). With my previous success at building a stand for the old one they asked my to build a new one. I'm done with the construction of it and just need to finish the sanding and painting. Richard also wants me to build a display cabinet for his minitures and a gaming table. I'm going to be busy with projects for a while.

I called and spoke with Josie last week. I felt sorry for her; she sounded like she didn't have a whole lotta people to hang out with and spent most of her time at home. Winter is also almost here and such things tend to depress her. I really miss her. I told her I was going to send her something for christmas as well. Sam hit me when she found out was I planned on getting her not so much for what it was (an alpacha blanket) but because she couldn't understand why I'd be getting one for Josie and not for her. I wish I could explain why I let that girl affect me so but there is no logic for it anymore.

posted by Site Smith Scott @ 8:57 AM