The First Thirty Days

Posted by: Elliott Swain  /  Category: Elliott, Work

So, approximately 30 days have passed being at my new job. I have really enjoyed it so far as I now work with several kinds of technology: computers, servers, network infrastructure, phone systems, wireless phones, and a few other small things.

My being away from home hasn’t been the easiest thing in the world for me, but I know it has been really difficult on Kellie and Hannah. At least Hannah has taken really well to Skype, so I can interact with my daughter visually.

My business is effectively at a standstill for the moment, as I still do not have a routine that I would call “normal.”

So long, and I hope my next post won’t take so long.

Lasagna Night

Posted by: Elliott Swain  /  Category: Elliott, Hannah, Kellie, Work

While I sit here trying to stay warm and watching Reba on TV, I begin to think on how my day went. So far it hasn’t been too bad, for a Monday.

There was plenty of snow to drive through this morning, but traffic wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Work was OK. The college had its first day of classes for spring 2010. It’s always good to see students back on campus.

I also see signs of hope as Twitter accounts are being used by the college. I feel it is a sign that social media is now viewed as more relevant by the college, and perhaps the community.

On the home front, my business is getting a lot of customers, which is always good. Unfortunately, this evening has been too busy to get to all of them.

This evening, I helped Kellie with making lasagna, while she was out getting a few needed items. I then played with Hannah for awhile, keeping her out of mommy’s hair. I then proceeded to feed Hannah, and then let her play in her room, since our dinner was taking a bit longer than usual.

We then started putting up the wall border that we had ordered. The project will look great once it’s complete. Soon after, we got Hannah ready for bed, gave her a bottle, and put her down for the night.

Afterwords, I finished up this post while watching Kellie do some more wall border detail work.