First night at work went well! Commuting there takes a long time but it's relatively straightforward. Going home, I got a lift to my door from one of the other techs who lives in Brooklyn. Hopefully we can work it out so he'll do that every night. That would be ace.

Friday Andrew came over and we went to my local post office to apply for his new passport. Turned out, my post office had a clueful woman behind the counter. She was careful but helpful! What a shock ;) WIthin the hour Andrew's papers were certified and accepted for processing. He didn't need me at all- which is how his local post office *should* have done it on Thursday. I really hate incompetent civil service people, esp USPS jerks who seems to make a complete speciality of being the biggest jerks possible.

Anyway, having a relaxing weekend. Work starts for real on Monday.

So it's all set. I go in tonight for a training session, then Monday start a 3 week work contract. Get paid for the training tonight and paid each week. I'm a happy bunny.

Just spoke to Andrew. He has to renew his passport and his local post office are not only complete morons but giving him grief about it. He's going to meet me tomorrow morning and we'll go to my local post office instead and he'll renew it there. If there's any aggro, I can legally "identify" him.

Looks like I've got a 3 week temp gig doing an XP rollout for some financial institution. It's in NJ but not a bad commute from the Port Authority terminal. It's at night so my days will be free to continue job hunt and interviews.

My contact for temp jobs says my resume needs redoing. He's right, I haven't been happy with it. I -HATE- doing resumes.

Anyway, this means cash flowing in to Chez Barb again. I'm much relieved. If I could be sure of a steady supply of temp jobs I would be tempted to stick with that for a while. I'm in the middle of making some major life changing decisions - and this would give me some wiggle room untill I know what country I really want to concentrate my job search efforts on.

Ah well, we shall see. First I need to do this work successfully. I've already googled the specific tasks involved and done some serious refresher studying.