Home at last

Actually, I got home yesterday around 1 in the afternoon.  I stopped by the office to unload the company van and to warn everyone about the pervading odor caused by the bottle of cologne that broke in my bag and then I went home for the rest of the day to detox on the couch.  I think I spent enough time sitting in the driver’s seat of that company minivan to be legally married to it in 9 states.

My afternoon was spent hovering between catching snippets of Rush Hour and Norbit on HBO and dozing off on the couch.  At some point, I stirred long enough to fire up a PC and check e-mail.  I even debated logging into EQ2, but the couch was singing sweet, sweet melodies to me to come back.

This weekend should be interesting.  I have a long list of things that need to be accomplished and I’m quite certain that only a few of them will get done.  For as tired as I was, I didn’t sleep that well last night which means I’ll probably sleep long and hard tonight.  It wasn’t the napping on the couch that killed me.  I never sleep well the night after a trip.  I think it is the whole disorientation thing.

So, this weekend, I need to change the oil in my truck, go to the grocery store, move about half of the furniture in my apartment, clean the apartment, start exercising again now that I’m finally fully healthy again, and start working on some paperwork.

The paperwork is for a complete career change that I’m contemplating.  How serious that is remains to be seen as much will hinge upon my getting active again, staying active, and staying healthy.  I have until early September to make it all happen, but there are many steps along the way such as a physical, an initial physical condition screening, background checks, and various other potentially uncomfortable situations.  Will talk more about it later as things progress.

I’m also hoping to get a little EQ2 time this weekend, but with this new professional goal in my sights, gaming will be a secondary concern.  I will be consciously reducing my game time in favor of this new direction because I know me.  It is too easy for me to get distracted by gaming and say, “I’ll be good tomorrow.”

I’ve just reached a point in time where the reality of my situation has arrived… I’m not getting younger and “older” is sounding more like “now” every day.  If I am going to make a drastic career change, it needs to be sooner rather than later.  I’ve finally about realized that I’ve gone as far with IT as I’m likely to go, so it’s time to either embrace my current job fully or make the major change.

I’m going to pour myself into this new direction.  As I said, I have until September to get it all going.  It is entirely possible that I will be rejected before then anyway, but I am not committed until September.  That is when the training begins and I will officially have to leave this job.  Until then, it is a goal.  Once the training begins, I no longer have this job as a safety net.

I do wish that this day would speed up though.  I’m about 15 minutes of boredom away from having qwertyuiop tatooed on my forehead.