Well, I know that I've been promising to get some information of a better
sort out for awhile now.  I've finally got a chance to do a pretty decent dump
of some.  You may have seen bits of this in other echoes, so I'll keep portions
of this brief, but there are some other things that I can expound a little more
on in here, as well.
  Obviously, given my few years of significant financial struggles as a single
father, the biggest positive right now is the fact that I nailed down not just
one, but two job yesterday.  One is a 'paycheck'...  That is, doing some
kitchen work now that I've passed the requirements for security badging at the
airport where the place is that gave me the promise of hire.  It's not a lot of
money, but it's enough to try to make sure that the gleaming axe of
homelessness over my head is starting to dull a little bit.
  Next up, I finally broke into the world of IT.  I thought that the personal
recommendations bit and how some people were saying the job was pretty much
gold was overstated with this guy who was looking to outsource some work, but
the phone interview yesterday _started_ with a 'you're hired, this person's
word is good enough for me', and ended with some really great words about pay. 
I should be able to not just tread water, but work from home, when I am most
productive, for a significant enough source of income to be able to finally
start saving again.  It'll be so nice to be able to do some nice things for my
son and get him a new wardrobe that I don't even know how to start...  I'm
still kind of in shock about the whole thing.  I mean I've applied for so many
friggin' IT jobs over the past 6-8 months, courted so many recruiters, and then
this one just falls into my lap and it's like ideal.  I'm very happy and
optimistic about it.  Looks like it's going to be some simple wordpress and
e-commerce stuff for starters, and then after that short 'proving ground'
period a little more challenging work and definitely more hours to be had.
  So...  Other than that.  I got my son's bike into working order and we got
everything we need to be street legal.  Finally got his bike modified for his
slightly smaller stature, too.  So we're going on a nice bike ride today and we
did several miles the other day.  I'm having an interesting time teaching him
the rules of the road, being as this is a metropolis and I'm used to
smallville, but I'm trying to make sure that he knows how to use the roads the
right way, and making sure that he also knows the proper techniques for riding
in the road, as I'm pretty sure sidewalk riding is illegal here.  I'm hoping to
be confident enough in his ability to start letting him out to ride to the
closer parks that aren't beyond any major thoroughfares fairly soon here.  I'd
say he's about ready, actually, it's just that I'm nervous because of the
assholes that park so close to the corners that you can't see when there's
traffic until you're out into the middle of the intersection.  Drawing that
line between being a good parent and overprotective is tough, especially with
the only kid I've got.
  Anyway, there's some other stuff, too, but I'm gonna leave it at this for
now, and write a little bit more later.  I've got some other things I need to
get done in the interim.  :)  I hope this is a nice change after all the shit
of the past few months/years of disaster and stress.

  -D
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