Goodness gracious, it’s been a while since I wrote anything substantial here, hasn’t it? I guess I fell out of the habit of writing. That’s not to say I lack at least one good excuse, but I really shouldn’t neglect this thing so damned shamelessly. It’s not that I’m worried about “my readership,” but more that the therapeutic value of the journal-writing itself is being lost through my quiet inactivity. Nevermind that the longer I put off writing, the more I forget to write about, thus rendering useless the concept of this site as a journal, an “aide-memoire” for future use.

So, let’s recap events of the last nearly-a-month, shall we?

During that first week, I accomplished quite a bit, albeit entirely along the lines of cutting ties with my former workplace. (I hasten to point out that in almost all respects, my former bosses and coworkers behaved with the utmost professionalism and courtesy, and operated within guidelines laid out by Sarbanes/Oxley protocols. My only complaint is with the amount of time it took to get full closure and retrieve all of my possessions.) I got a new number and phone (much like the old phone… this one’s a Treo 650, and I am almost wholly thrilled with it), I moved the six websites I’m responsible for (to Infinity Internet, who by-and-large have provided excellent service; the occasional downtimes have been due to not enough damned RAM, a problem scheduled to be resolved next Monday), and put my resumé together (with considerable help from The Imperial Princess of Cute, which is to say “all I did was provide the info, she did the heavy lifting”).

Somewhere during all of this excitement, my dearest came down for a week-long visit. The ostensible reason was to do job-hunting prep, but it mainly ended up being a recovery period for us both. We were both way, way too damned stressed and depressed and what-not to function very well. I know I’m certainly feeling better about things now, even if I’m still thoroughly terrified about my job prospects. (I’m not a database admin, and I don’t have strong Microsoft-centric SysAdmin skills. Apparently that cuts my options way, way down. Argh.)

So, apparently this is a time of change and growth for me. (“Oh, goody, another learning experience!”) All that remains is to land a job and see how I can stretch & improve myself in the process.

Anything’s possible, right?