Wow, I've been slacking.

But to be fair, the last month or so hasn't really been inspirational, and most anything I couldve written about would have been mostly negative. Although, most of the negative makes the cut for this blog, so in hindsight, I should've just written about it as it happened.

On 11/23, my grandmother, Joan Wetzel died. She was 76 years old. She died at home, and not in pain, which his how she wouldve wanted it. It was sudden and unexpected. She will be greatly missed.

(*note:anything else negative seems almost trivial by comparison, and in reality it is. the worst part about the other negative is that it dragged on for almost 2 months, and was more of a major annoyance than anything else*)

So, the company I worked for providing Emergency Services here at IBM, Grubb and Ellis, lost their contract. The new company, Wackenhut, took over 12/1. We found out about the take over probably around the middle of October. And then didn't hear anything from Grubb and Ellis about relocation within the company, or from Wackenhut about their retention goals, for close to 2 weeks.

At first we were all leery of Wackenhut. We've hear, and researched, horror stories and found most of them to be based in fact. This amplified the uneasiness we already had since we still hadn't heard anything.

We all finally went for our Wackenhut interviews, and some of our fears were subsided whilenew concerns rose. The high point for me is that got a 2 dollar an hr pay increase and now make $16.50 an hour. Grubb and Ellis found some positions, then opened temporary positions for any one who wanted them, but I went with Wackenhut because I need the guarantee of a job, not the prospect of one.

So far the transition is working out allright. I work 3rd shift so its always easy going. I am working a shit ton of overtime right now while we get the new people trained. Time will tell with Wackenhut I guess. All of us (the 6 that were here before Wackenhut took over.) are pretty much all looking over our shoulders right now, cuz its hard to know what to expect with so many new people at once.

Taylor and I are doing great, as always. She and I and a bunch of friends are going to see Avenged Sevenfold in AC on 12/12. Can't wait for that. then on 12/14, I'm going to see the Jets play the Bills!!!!

So yeahh. I'll try to update more often.