New Job

So, I started working in the Nashville area this past week, Wednesday to be exact. Mostly, I have been working down around the Brentwood area, in Antioch. The store there is nice, and all the people I have met are really cool and intelligent. It is different for me to have to be up and moving by six in the morning. But I have gotten used to it. This morning I got up at eight thirty without an alarm clock. I am generally falling asleep by eleven lately though, so my days as a night owl appear to be done.

There is not much to tell about my first three days, I have learned some things, but it has really just been a general once-over of a lot of stuff. I have been bombarded with lots of information that it will take me a while to digest. Friday, I attended a Walmart class workshop to learn about our new Inventory Management System. Loads of fun let me tell you. Later that day, I actually got to see my store for the first time. It is not a Supercenter. It is a small, old school store. It seems out of place, because they built this huge, nice Sams Club right beside it. The managers there are cool people, and like I said, I knew the store manager, and it was cool to see him again. I learned some scary things though. The crime in the area is apparently pretty bad. A car was stolen from the parking lot while I was there for three hours. The manager told me he had his stereo stolen from his truck twice, and the second time, they saw it on video and it only took them twelve seconds to steal it. So, needless to say, I won't be leaving my stereo faceplate or my ipod in my car anymore.

I anticipate it being a challenge, but I am looking forward to it. I still have five weeks of training left before I get released on my own in my store and start making the salary checks. That is going to be nice.

It is April and I am trying again to complete the poem a day challenge. So far, I am four for four.

I have neared the thirty page mark in my novel. I've reached a bit of a lull though, because when I get off work, I am so tired, I don't feel like doing anything. The problem isn't the job, it's the traffic. The store I have been training it and the store that is my home store are really only thirty minutes apart. At four thirty to five when I have been leaving there, it has been taking me an hour and twenty minutes to get back to the home store. And then it is another forty-five to an hour to get home. Driving in that traffic really wears on you. I hope we move soon. I was going to write some today, but got caught up doing other things. I will get back to it though. Not going to let it sit unfinished this time.

It is Easter. I'm an atheist.

Get me a bologna sandwich.