life away from here

here being the internet and this blogging life, which is usually part of the same experience but a very busy fun weekend and helping some friends and a very busy weekday schedule as i start working full time has left me tired and crashing when i get home so i do not turn on the computer and, yup, this blog has been quiet for a few days or longer (time away is counted so differently, after all)...

life is good, challengingly good, fun good, busy good... softball has been much fun and i've been near the top of my game this past week and even though we (jackson and i) decided we will not return to play sunday afternoons and we told the team which was kinda sad cuz we started that team some six or more years ago, it was a great week for softball... friends were occupying much time as party fun filled a couple of nights and much energy and time went to helping as well... jackson is digging her way through the aftershock of her relationship ending and i took her out for several dinners and lunches and spent most of our home time with her... love life can be so challenging and while she is hurting, i am dancing to find ways to help in any way i can... we shall survive... and work, the new full time job has taken most of my weekdays... the long vacation was wonderful while it lasted and while part of me mourns the loss of free time, much of me is enjoying the new experience of returning to the working world... i see entertaining challenges ahead within what appears to be a very supporting environment even as it is a do or die position (administrators can become the scapegoat if organizations have regulatory or financial issues and this place has some they didn't tell me about during the interview process, but i've cleaned up much much bigger messes and hopefully will motivate cooperation and teamwork in this new place so i can make it home for a decade or more)...

there is a bit of catch up on life outside of blogging for us... here in this blogging life, the comments moderation feature seems broken and if you have left a comment it is still pending cuz blogger/google will not let me get to the comment moderation page... that's been since last week... i just don't have time to wait for the blogger server to pop up... one comment did finally make it through (yay and thank you) and hopefully whatever is blocking the comments feature will be fixed soon (they seem more interested in pushing google plus than in maintaining blogger these days, but we persist cuz blog we must, ya know)...

i hope life is not too challenging and you are finding and creating reasons to smile... i shall adjust to the new schedule eventually and be back to babbling and you ought to know by now how much i appreciate your patience (and comments) and sharing... i will make some time for blog reading this week too... for now, it is time to shower and head out to my first formal day in my office as i will be meeting with all three shifts for the formal introductions (first impressions, ya know) so i hope to find the right words and posture and all that to present myself well and win them all over and start the new work life with a rousing success...

i'm off to see that wizard now :)