Miss Selaneous

The Sunday before the first day of the rest of my career at my current employer.  I am transferring from a hellish situation to what I hope will be a much more palatable one.  Unfortunately, I'm still not doing what I want to do at work, but how can I possibly complain when:

1)  Although I was demoted they didn't cut my salary.

2)  I know people who have been out of work in my industry for almost two years.

3)  I'll be working for someone I like and respect.

4)  The doctors and staff in the new territory that I met seem great.

So until something newly bad happens I propose that I will enjoy a job that I did for the first time when I was 26 years old, nearly 3 decades ago.  That is not to say that I will not continue to look for a different situation where I can get back to being a leader and helping others to achieve their goals, because after all, that is what I love to do.  I lived with my father for 23 years, and he used to say (in spanish) better to be the head of a mouse rather than the tail of a lion.  (It sounds much better en espanol, es mejor ser cabeza de raton, que cola de leon.) 


This afternoon the Yankees won 12-3, Phil Hughes pitched 7 shutout innings, Teixeira had 4 hits, Swisher , Gardner and Cano hit homers.  They have won 7 out of the first 8 series this year, and that's with Tex hitting a buck twenty, A-Rod hitting 2 Home Runs all year and the replacements for Damon and Matsui doing jack.  Still it's going to be a long year with Tampa Bay playing even better than the Yanks, but with Boston sucking and the Yanks kicking ass, life is good.

Shows I'm gonna miss.  Ugly Betty, Saving Grace, Medium, Numbers.  Shows I can't wait to see again, Royal Pains, Drop Dead Diva.  I'm glad Army Wives is back, and Fringe, and Chuck although they may  not bring that one back.

Just read a book by a former sniper, Jack Coughlin with Donald Davis.  I highly recommend it.  Anything by Matt Reilly is fun reading.   Harlan Coben,  Lee Child,  John R. Maxim,  Catherine Coulter, Stuart Woods, Dick Francis, Stephen Frey, Jack Higgins, Lisa Scottoline some are old friends some are new friends but all of them share the most important characteristic I look for in authors that I enjoy, they entertain me.  In memory of the old Alka Selzer commercial, try it, you'll like it!