8:01pm

Hiya kid!  Having a good night?  I’m off until Tuesday! 

Headed down to Long Island tomorrow.  Hubby’s group is working a convention. 
We’ll be on the 1 pm ferry across the sound from New London.  Whee!

8:36am Voted!

9:05am Phil

A little nervous. Lots of things to learn and a different environment. Gotta find a place to live but I’m in the system at a senior level which is not easy anymore. Did exactly one interview. I expected this to be much harder. It was a brutal interview, tough, pointed questions that I was comfortable and conversant with but I expected to have to interview dozens of times and settle for something at half the pay. I did not expect to walk in at the top.

Appreciate the congrats, I’m a little stunned, nervous and excited

11:02am

You will be fine.  You know better than most how to walk in, figure things out and roll!

When will you start?

11:04am Phil

Don’t know yet. I’d like to live in Arlington, rent a condo so you can walk to everything. Probably end up in Md.

6:23pm Phil

I suspect some time in December.

6:24pm

Wow!  That’s fast!

6:53pm

Ask for January 15. 

6:59pm

Will they pay for you to move?

7:00pm Phil

Military pays for the move

7:00pm

Nice!

7:02pm Phil

Yeah, I want a three-story town home near the METRO with a fenced yard

7:03pm

Let me get out my magic wand…

7:05pm Phil

Ha ha, I’ve got a magic wand for you

7:09pm

Mmmm… can’t wait for you to bippity boppity boo me!

7:15pm

Just don’t turn me into a glass slipper by mistake!

7:21pm Phil
[photo of him with his son toasting the camera with beers]

6:41pm

9:58pm

Is it a football night?  Hope it’s a good one, kid!

10:45pm Phil

Good game. Taking the DC job, back with the military as a civilian

10:47pm

Wow!  Congratulations!   Relieved to have that settled?

3:21pm Hiya kid!  Payroll’s done, nothing else to do.  Bored!
Hope you’re having a great day!

6:43pm

Happy Halloween!  Hope you’re having a spooky night!

6:51pm Phil

You too! Have my second interview for a fancy job in DC. Would make my year to land that

6:51pm

Fingers crossed for you!

6:51pm Phil

Closer to home, great town.

Thanks, great money and lots of friends around town

6:52pm

Would you go back to being a “geographic bachelor?”

6:54pm Phil

No, my wife hates DC but she will go.  Has no intention of working.
I’d like to live on the river or maybe in Maryland

6:54pm

Interesting work?  Nice people?

6:55pm Phil

Interesting work and I have friends there

If I get the job, there will be a very expensive bottle of scotch to celebrate. The job involves travel and I like that.

6:57pm

That’s a civilian position?

Sounds like what you did before…

7:00pm Phil

It is a civilian position that pays well. I can survive on that and my retirement which is about the same

Will keep me in decent cigars and scotch anyway

Similar to what I have done before

7:01pm

Survive?  Ha ha

7:02pm Phil

It’s expensive in DC!

There will be Thai and Greek

7:02pm

Will they send you to New England ever?

7:03pm Phil

Gotta get the job 1st. It’s down to two of us

Yup

Lobsta!

7:03pm

Right.  I’ll pray!

7:05pm Phil

I have no clue what people make. My retirement pay will be about $xxx. Is that good money these days? I have no clue. It’s what a zillion years in the military and some luck got me

7:06pm

It’s big

I make half that

7:07pm Phil

I just assume most people make the same

7:07pm

some people make a lot more…

for the work you’ve done, it seems low

But you also got housing and stuff

7:10pm Phil

I’m a little out of touch. I think my taxes are going to suck with the addition of the job. I’ll get 95% of what I make now plus about the same or so from another job. I’m never going to be rich but I hope to be comfortable. Got no debt

I’ll be able to pay for a lobster dinner anyway

7:11pm

: )

7:11pm Phil

Gotta find another cool place to eat

7:12pm

I need to take you to The Boat House in Tiverton… sooo good

7:12pm Phil

If I get the job I’ll get there

7:13pm

: )

7:13pm Phil

Congrats on the Sox by the way! Happy that they won

7:13pm

MIght also tell a gal if she could meet you on one of your trips…

7:13pm Phil

Ahhh

7:13pm

Thank you.  I appreciate that!

What a wacky Series….

Did you see any of it?

7:14pm Phil

Yeah but a great one

Oh yeah, rooting for the Sox the entire time

7:14pm

Interference by a prone guy?  Walk-off pick-off… beat out a pickle!

I am shocked!

7:14pm Phil

Fun baseball

Gotta root for the American League

And I love Fenway Park and Boston fans

The city deserved it

Now the Patriots, never

Ever, fucking ever

7:17pm

Heh… it did seem like a fitting lid to put on all the crap after the bombing

And they made it so fun with the beards and all

and Big Pappi and Uehara…

7:25pm Phil

It was fun. Good for Boston

7:30pm

Still talking to the beach gal?

7:47pm Phil

Yeah but there are issues. Would unravel my family, she hangs at the dive bars near her house and they are nasty, drinks too much. Fun and carefree but with a lot of uncertainty. My Mom calls my wife “my princess” and not in a good way. The entire “she’s retired” thing makes my blood boil. I cook, clean, buy flowers. She flops in, eats dinner, pours her wine and then flops on the couch. I remain conflicted

7:48pm

I hear you.  Thanks for the update.  It is sooo good to talk with you!