day two begins

decided to fall asleep during the football game last night and so i was up early this morning and decided to wake jackson who was asleep when i got home at 8:30 last night cuz she slept 10 hours and that's enough for a work night and after some friendly resistance we put on sneakers and took happiness for a walk and slight jog and she's stretching now and she is doing some light yoga and happiness is resting, pant pant, pant, and i will be jumping into a shower and eat something and head out to day two of orientation...

pondering the changes... starting a two week orientation to be followed by a week or few of transfer-of-powers does not provide a clear demarcation of changing a life or lifestyle, though waking before the sunrise and putting on office clothes and driving in rush hour traffic to sit in a room and listen to others for nine hours yesterday for the first time does make for a reasonable crossover from the life of leisurely semi-retirement to the rat race of the working life, so the new job starts here... cue the waterboys... or queue...

day one was as expected, definitely on the positive side... i met six people in orientation who will be starting at my place, four new nurses and two direct care workers... first impressions were good, though one of the nurses seems on the lazy side and used arthritis as a reason to ask another staff to get her coffee from the break room... not a good first impression, but typical of a 20 year nurse set in her lazy ways... my role and the environment here is different from the last place (which was toxic, dysfunctional, i had no direct supervisory power, and strong undermining was going on) and i am feeling very positive about the possibilities...

the orientation was typical, the usual meet the ceo/president and hear the mission and values and compliance program and risk/safety and quality program and hr rules and so on... room for improvement as they are just initiating the new QA and RM departments in the past month and the new QA/RM had car trouble or something so the training director did his part so most of my questions about the new program will have to wait until i meet the new guy... today is online training in the stuff mandated by the state and federal government...

and so, the new life begins, day two... i hope that, no matter what challenges life may put in your way today, that at least some moments life is smiling for you too :)