T.A. Michaels

It's snowing outside. We are expecting to get between 12 and 18 inches here in Rhode Island. While the white out conditions are good for relaxing, I would have preferred to start my new Job this coming Monday rather than having it pushed back by a week. With that said, I'm grateful to be starting a new job at all. This feels more like a real job than the last few that i had. There is no 90 day wait period for benefits. They start on Day 1 which gives me some hope that the company i am going to go work for is a real company and not just a few Techs in a room servicing 200 Companies. I realize now that the difference between 10k in salary was me getting a question wrong during the interview. I didn't necessarily get the question wrong... i just didn't know the answer and i told them that i didn't know the answer. It was probably better than telling them the wrong answer and bullshitting it. When it comes to IT terms, it's either true or false.  This week coming up...

We are 7 days into the new year and it reminds me of a game i played with a friend a few times - 7 Days to Die. Now, I'm not saying i have an onslaught of Zombies chasing me around a build your own world game.... but some days it does feel that way. I don't have many goals for 2026 but the ones I do have count. I'm 40, and obese so my first and primary goal is to get my weight back to the "overweight" category. For my height... that is roughly 185 lbs. I haven't yet decided exactly how i am going to lose the 45 lbs to get me to this goal... and considering basically everything i have tried over the last few years has failed.... i figure it's a matter of trying something new and different to get the job done. The first of which is switching all drinking to strictly water. I figure if instead of Red Bull or soda a few times a week... i am only drinking water... it might improve things. And switching out my Morning Cold Brew for Strictly water might help some...