The bennies just keep coming with new job! Yesterday, my boss asked the office if anyone was interested in tickets to the local Triple A baseball team, the Louisville Bats - so, of course, everybody said "yeah" (and to boot, it is going to be "free cap night", too!). In the interest of fairness they put all of our names into a hat and let our training boss pull out the lucky recipient - which just happened to me, your own Ushiku Person - Horray! Now, I am basking in the warm afterglow of random-lottery victory, chilling at home. See, the new schedule calls for my team to work 4 days a week, 10 hours a day - this a new experience for me, and I must admit that it is addictively awesome. I mean, ten hours at work can be a little too much, but getting Fridays off (effectively, a three-day weekend for the forseeable perpetual future) is nice. Got the big mug-o-milk coffee, and looking outside at the warm damp greyness of a Kentucky morning..
This weather, though, is great for the foliage, as the grass around the apartment is growing at an astounding rate - in fact, one of our neighbors had allowed their lawn to get up to savannah levels. Which was threatening to engulf their dog's fenced-in compound - when they finally mowed it yesterday (and it was seriously choking thier lawn mower in the process) they still left the tall grass inside the dog's area - way to go guys! It is like some sort of contained duck blind, where you can only see the upper part of the dog's wagging tall as he scoots around in there during the day
