It was the first time anyone had every actually introduced me to everyone. Most of the time, I was assured that that was 'normally' done, but they just forgot in my case. I never really cared much, since I usually had my little area/thing to do, and it didn't affect a lot of other people.

That's one of the things that should be different at the new job. They told me that I'd be a resource-person for powerbuilder, and probably be the person people asked questions of. Probably not right away, but eventually, I hope.

I put my machine together. I love unboxing a new PC! And this one is pretty nice Pentium Pro200 64 Meg of memory..NT..the works. Even speakers and a nice soundcard!

The only pitfall about the whole thing is, that the customer service (help desk) types were kinda miffed that I'd done it. But I'm in IT, and we can screw up our own PC's.

Monday night, I headed home, and checked over my journal, and realized that I had a court date the next day! I guess this journal is the only place I actually wrote it down correctly, so, given the consequences of missing a court date, this journal just proved it's worthiness once again. The whole thing just made me shake off whatever was keeping me from working on it, and made me make a commitment to restarting things. As soon as I dealt with my court stuff.

Luckily, I had to be downtown anyway on Tuesday, for my employee orientation. So I went to that, got myself bonded (or at least began the process), and headed for court. I was able to get it continued again, this time until November 18, but I've really got to take care of it this time.

The rest of the week went really smoothly. I was in a wonderful mood all week. I terrorized the cats, chasing them around the apartment, relaxed with Azura and Squirrel (Moose was too 'tired' to do much, so Squirrel came over alot.) At one point, I realized that part of the reason I was so happy was because I was beginning to really fall for Squirrel. We were doing couple things (of course there were three of us) like shopping, and groceries, and dinner. Nothing overt, but just hanging out together. Perhaps if Moose had been there things would have felt different.

The other thing that happened, was something that always happened with Lysistrata. Squirrel started telling me her problems. Like with Moose, and life. I'm a pretty good listener, and can sometimes explain why someone is doing something from a different perspective, so I think it's helpful sometimes. My question is, why am I always attracted to the women who do this to me? Well??? Somebody tell me.

On Friday, my boss walked around to everyone's cube in IT and invited them out to lunch. Most of the development group (his group) went, and I got to really talk to the people I work with. All I can say is, I really really Like my boss, and as far as I know them, the people I work with. And that's part of why I'm so happy this week, too.

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