Hi everyone,

How've your day's been?  I've had my second day at work, and it's been good.  I've pretty much completed the induction process, and also had a meeting with the partner who'll be my other manager.  I think we'll get along just fine.  Oddly, I kind of feel, for the first time in my career, like I'm being treated as an adult.  I know that sounds weird, coming from a 34 year old husband and father of two, but there you have it.  That Garth Brooks song, "Much too Young (to feel this damn old)" in my case usually felt like it applied essentially in reverse.

The morning got off to a good start when I got this in the mail from the recruiter who hooked me up with this job -



along with a phone call inviting me for a lunch later on.  The parts of the morning I didn't spend in training were spent wading through a file and forming a few views on it, and this pretty much also covered my afternoon.  I spent part of lunch editing a historical piece for one of the newspapers I've submitted a column to; God willing the editor's interest will be sustained - the edits have been made at his suggestion.  And the piece I drafted on camp Security has c caught the interest of a newspaper in Pa, so I'm hopeful there too.

Incidentally, this is the view from my office window (as of lunchtime today) -





I left the office about 6pm and came back here.  I stuck to my promise to go for a run and went as far as St Mary's and back.  I made some extra pasta to have with the remains of last night's fettucine (carb heavy, I know, but I didn't have the patience to prepare the vegetables for smothered hamburgers!).  And now, blogging and bed.  Hope all your days are going along well too.

See you tomorrow.