Well… I’m working again. Both of my job leads from the first of January started to come to life, with one lead starting and then stopping and going silent, and the other finally taking off and producing work. In fact February has launched (like a rocket) with a full week’s work next week, as well as me doing prep work this week for the week to come. I’ll be so busy I won’t have the “leisure” time needed to post entries, and I probably won’t until the week after Valentine’s Day.

I’m glad to have the work and the pay that goes with it. And working by the hour, every hour spent counts and gets billed. Which means that if certain members of the group I work for decide to waste my time the way they did when I was a salaried guy, they will pay for every hour and every fraction of an hour, with all my work billed with attendant reports in exquisite technical detail as to why. After a quarter century working as a defense contractor I can CYA with the best of them.

I’m going to enjoy this burst of work next week, and not just because of the pay. It’s nice to know I’ve still got the knowledge and the skills to perform the work asked of me.