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.
Congrats to all of you! College!!! Hope the school year goes great, and the new job continues to be interesting. Like your new blog look…. look forward to reading more posts : )
Thanks Youngin! We are looking forward to some time off to work on our NCSU project with Troy.
Good luck to you in your new job, Ken, and to the kids as they begin this new chapter in their schooling. What are you going to do with all your extra time? I am sure that you will find yourself still doing a bit of homeschooling as you assist Kelly and Christian with this first semester of college. Tisse is taking an introductory chemistry class at the CC and a Digital Electronics class designed by Project Lead the Way at a school site. It will be good for some of her classes to be managed by someone else :). I still have some homeschooling years here at home.
Isn’t Lorena taking classes as well?
Thanks Ruthie. Wow, it sounds like Tisse has a bit of a rough schedule this fall. Chemistry and ANY electronic design class are both hard and time consuming. I know EXACTLY how you feel on the class management. It is amazing how much time it takes to do all that planning on a DAILY basis. I am sure I will look back on it nostalgically one day, but right now it is a bit of a relief.