So I owe someone a blog post. Frankly, I'm horrifically overdue. I'm just terrible at upkeeping these things and I doubt that it'll ever change. Oh well, might as well do the dirty deed and slap what I got going on up here, so here goes:
Life has taken a very drastic and pleasent turn. It involves a very dear love of my life, her two kids, and the fact we all live together finally. That's a big point. Drea (a letter short of 'dream' and an anagram for 'dear') is finally permanently in my life. Very good thing. We're finally the unstoppable team we always knew we could be if we ever got out shit together. Well guess what, suckahs! We DID!
Now she's doing the writer thing, gonna be published and all, and I'm doing the paycheck thing. I work for a website company called Cobalt. They make website for car dealerships. Doing very well for themselves, provide their employees with great benefits, have a very open and fun attitude, and quite frankly I'd be content with sticking with them for a good long time. Especially since they seem keen on the idea of telephony - working remotely. Since my job entails me making changes to websites and the like and not (see NOT) talking to customers, I could do this from ANYWHERE with a net connection.
Which leads me to my next persuit. I have not given up on diving. It's just on hold while I establish my life a little more solidly. The company I technically work for, Seattle Dive, hasn't called me since February, not even about their website, which is "under construction" until they get me four stinking pictures so I can finish it. As such, I haven't done any real dive work since September. This makes me very sad. I really enjoy commercial diving. I love being under the water, I love doing manual labor, and I love making things... and destroying them.
My current goal is to stay at Cobalt full time and work remotely when I'm on a dive job, which I'm hoping to get at least two to three weeks every other month. That would be a good start. Then I hope to go back to school. I've really determined that if I'm going to get anywhere I need that stupid piece of paper. The current endeavor: a masters in hydrological engineering. I'm pretty sure it exists. Not terribly interested in hydraulics, but researching and designing new and improved tools for commercial diving. I have a couple of fantastic ideas that, I feel, will revolutionize the industry... but I don't know how to execute it. For obvious reasons I shall not share those ideas online.
So there we are. Life is good, things are going smoothly, and all is well. Nothing has exploded yet and we're doing okay. Hopefully I'll work a little harder on keeping this up to date, especially since I have a live-in nag to make sure it gets done. Cheers all.
