Catching up

I’m not sure where the time went, to be honest.  I worked a little late each day to make up for the time I missed to go pick up the car.  But who knows.  I did some reading and such, just didn’t get around to blogging.

So, the car is pissing me off.  Carmax clearly didn’t inspect it.  It has no windshield fluid.  Today I put a full gallon in and I still can’t see it in the tank, so this thing had to be empty.  I can’t see the coolant, which is a much bigger deal.  That means it’s very low, and they are going to get a piece of my mind tomorrow.  There is something not right with the starter.  It takes far too long to kick over, especially for a car with only 25,000 miles.  How were they storing this car? So yeah, I’m just a little pissed off at this shoddy work.

Work, however, is going well.  I’m a bit ahead of schedule, though I’m not sure I’m retaining enough yet, so I’m going to spend more time studying when I’m not in class this week.  I know I need to get the different communication bands better so I don’t screw that up when talking to people.  I also want to spend more time going over my systems so I’m able to follow things in meetings and emails.  It’s nice to have the video lessons to learn from though, as it’s easier to stay awake and pay attention to that than the manuals.

What’s been interesting this week is I have dreamed about work related stuff every night.  I’ve never had a single space dream before that I know of, and now it’s present all the time.  They aren’t stressful or anxiety filled dream.  Instead I have this sense of training or preparing in my dreams, which is interesting.  I’m so fully dedicated to this job, even though it’ll be a while before I’m doing much more than studying.

Thursday I took part in an interesting team building/communication exercise.  I’m thinking it would be good to try for the Jedi community online because it actually requires that the participants are in different locations.  So we’ll see if it’s useful or not.

On the home front, we discovered that the piano is a really great way for Carrie to process and communicate what her subconscious is dealing with.  I’m quite glad I bought it, it’s already been a great help.

I guess that’s it for now.  We’re waiting on housekeeping since we have to be here with the cats around.  Then we’ll drop off the rent and head to Galveston for some water de-stress time.  It’ll be fun.