So, I’ve been at the new job for four days now and I’m deep in onboarding training. Some of it is highly interesting and some of it makes me want to take a nap. Pro tip: Do not sleep at your desk. No matter how boring the videos or training content might be. You must not sleep.
In the plus column, I’m being treated as a full-time employee rather than as a contractor. So, I’ve already alerted the media that I’m taking a few hours off in March for various reasons. My manager is cool like that. I have no idea how the contracting company will feel about it, but I don’t know that I need to tell them. If I make up the hours, they won’t know. A conversation for next month.
On the drive home today I was deep in thought about ways to get home from the office. I was so engrossed that I missed the exit I have taken for years. I had to go about 10 minutes out of my way to get turned around. I actually had to take a completely different highway to get home. When I told the better-half, he commented that I found another way home. Ha!
Actually, I was thinking about ways to avoid the immediate interchange and bridge because that bridge is not long for this world. I suspect when a major project is finally completed a few miles down the road (dear god let it end) that the Shockoe Valley bridge will be next. It has been patched so many times that the patches have patches. A couple of years ago as some patches were being laid down, a co-worker and I joked about how we could see through the bridge. Not a comforting thought when you are sitting in traffic.