That's Why They Pay You For It

A quickie today because I don't have loads of time. I got a job. Like the kind where you do things for people and someone pays you. This job is a 3 month contract gig. In other words, I'm a temp. A scab. I am there to perform a menial task for a short time and go away. The good thing is, I can do this from home. The bad thing is, I have to do it a 2:00 am. I'm working for a company that is installing wireless data infrastructure (Wi-Fi stuff) in a grocery store chain on the East coast. There are teams of installers and my job is to get them started, and wait... wait... wait... until they're done and then I log into stuff remotely and turn everything on, perform a coverage test, and tell them goodbye. Its work a reasonably intelligent monkey could do, but maybe that suits since it is happening in the middle of the night. Of course it has to happen in the middle of the night because if it were a day job, I would have had too much competition for the job and would still be complaining about something else.

So, we've worked out a schedule where I can sleep in a bit and my wife can still do what she needs to do for her job. Tonight is the end of my "training", for which I actually had to appear at the company's local office at 7:00 pm for 4 days, err, nights. After tonight, I will actually be staying home to do this. I have my temporary office set up in the basement with a network connection and everything else I need to do this, like the TV and popcorn. I'm going to have to steer clear of the beer unfortunately.

It's making me feel better to contribute to the family's cashflow but the demands on my sleep schedule are high. They say when you're sleep deprived, you eat junkfood. I say when you're me, you eat junkfood, and when you're me and tired you eat TONS of it. I'm a little worried that all the progress I've made on my body weight will be diminished, possibly significantly. Our house, as in everyone in it, has just gotten over about a month or more of colds, flus, etc etc. Just passing some damn bug between us for weeks on end. So, I haven't been to the gym in a few weeks and now with my new schedule, I might not now either.

We will see. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I swept the garage floor today, which was amazingly therapeutic. Who knew?