Yesterday was a busy day full of new things for all of us. Of course, just to make things more interesting, the battery in the car died and we had to have AAA come to bring us a new battery for the mini-van. Then, as I drove to work, I noticed a TON of cars backed up at the entrance to Wake Tech. There were about four wrecks that had occurred. I quickly called Lorena to tell her to take the back route to the college. Fortunately, she was not at the entrance to the college already because, it would have taken her an extra half hour if she would have tried to get through the front entrance.
Still, the kids got into their first classes without too much hassle. They met some old friends from the YMCA swim team and made some new friends. I think they are going to do just fine. My job went well, too. I have a very difficult challenge for the first two-three weeks of the job, but that is expected with this type of work. My new title is Senior Research Engineer and I have an absolutely killer new computer with two screens (7.5 performance score). It turns out my work is only a couple of blocks from a little dive restaurant and carniceria that hand makes their own corn tortillas. My new boss, Igor from Russia, who is my old friend from my job at Centice took me to lunch there. That is the place that sells arrecherra, the excellent, but probably not so healthy, Mexican style cut of meat that is so good for grilling. I have good feelings about my new job.