by ktrout » July 21st, 2007, 5:20 am
Good morning everyone !!!
I won't bore everyone with all the details but suffice to say, the last year has been quite the challange in my personal life. I've job-hopped a bit and finally ended up in a very nice position at an insurance company data center. I work for the contractor that manages the engineering plant for the insurance company. The funny thing is that I used to work here about a decade ago for the insurance company itself prior to them outsourcing the trades who ran the plant. It was like old home week coming back as I still know most of the crew and many people at the client.
My hours are a little strange... I work nights, 1900-0700, 4 days on, 4 days off. The schedule seems a little screwy, and it is, but it does provide for my wife and I to actually see quite a bit of each other. I'm home for breakfast and dinner every day when I'm working and while it took a little bit for her to get used to me being gone during the four nights, she has gotten used to not having to listen to my snoring. I sleep in the guest room upstairs during my 4 days on shift and it works out pretty well.
One benifit is that the cafeteria at work is closed by the time I get there !!! We have a little kitchen set up in the plant with microwave, coffeepot, fridge, ect. so that's not a problem. I also have almost 800,000 square feet of office building to use as an indoor treadmill all night. Its one of my responsabilities to tour the building at least twice a shift so I strap on an iPod and walk all the floors twice in 12 hours.
I did gain back quite a bit of what I lost the first time on MF but I still well below my all-time high.
I restarted at 281 last week and as of this morning I'm down to 274. The goal is 200 by who knows when. The sooner the better.
313/228/200
1-1-2006 Start Date
7/15/2007 ReStart Date