So.. I got a new job. It's not that incredibly different than my old job. In fact it's in the same building. Doing most of what I was doing before, though more of the customer service and less of the developing, for now at least. It's not even really that much more money then what I was making at RISC, though I'm salaried now, which helps since business was slow at Risc and it was costing me hours.

The new place is nice, more organized in a business sense. More people here too. I will be doing some development on the side of my support/customer service role, and someday could be moved to full time development. All in all it was a good move for everyone really. Jesse (the guy who was running RISC) didn't enjoy dealing with the software business really, and is going to move on. ECI (the company I work for now) may even decide to buy out the RISC system and add it to it's list of services. I'm working longer hours now, earlier and later, but that's going to get adjusted a little as I get settled in better. I'm also going to be backing up the hardware/networking guy, which really isn't my strong suit either, but since I was pretty much the only one doing that at Risc too, and now I'll have someone showing me what needs to be done this isn't a big deal either.

Apartment is pretty good still. Not a lot going on there. Family is doing alright, though they apparently have to replace the roof of the house, so that's the suck. Bryan is taking classes at COD and has decided to go into law enforcement, which is better than what he had planned previously which was nothing. He doesn't like the community college atmosphere though and has plans to try and transfer out.

Mom's birthday is next Saturday, so I'll be going home for that. The day after that the Bears play Miami and I'm taking my dad. It should be a good time. In order to get the extra tickets to a few of the games, we had to give up others though, so I didn't get to see Sundays game from my seats in the north endzone. Kind of sucked, we'd been to every home game this season so far, but oh well it'll be fun going with dad. He's planning on staying Saturday night at the apartment so we can get a fresh start with tailgating... hopefully it's as nice next week as it is today, because it's pretty awesome outside.

( transitions are for suckers )

When I started out playing poker, I didn't really keep track of how much I loaded up to the site. I've played on a number of different sites now, so I can make a rough estimate on the amount I've deposited all time, but it's not that important really, it was always disposable income. Either way, I can say pretty positively that I'm a winning player now. I had to cash out money from a few of the sites I play at, and it was definately more than I've had to ever put in. Congress passed the Safe Ports Act. They tacked on a rider that says it's illegal for US banks to accept transfers from off shore gambling sites. Instead of dealing with these regulations, most of the sites have jsut banned US customers from playing at their site. So that sucks. Thanks alot Bill Frist, effer.

So what else. Halloween tomorrow. I love Halloween. Oddly enough I don't ever really do anything for halloween anymore, we went Bowling saturday, which was fun but not really a halloween thing. I live in a coach house behind a gated brown stone building, so chances are slim we get any kids over, but I aughta pick up a bag or two of candy just in case. Of course most likely that means I'll have a bag or two of candy to eat.. and I will, which also kinda sucks, but such is life heh.

It's hot up here today. but luckly slow so that's nice at least.

Payday tomorrow. Payday is always nice.