Minor movement on Knight Commander, mostly plot stuff.

Started a plot outline for Untitled #26, which is my salute to the West Wing, Hope Station-style I won’t actually write it until I finish Knight Commander’s chapter ten.

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First, thanks to , I’ve been somewhat engrossed in baseball history with This Great Game.com. If you’re a baseball fan, or a baseball historian (which I would hope precludes the former), go there now and absorb. Awesome site.

Secondly, I spoke with my boss at length about the future. He wants to make me his second-in-command, but there’s no head count for it. He knows I would make an excellent executive officer, and so far he’s been picking my brain for operational changes, but there’s just no way I could get out of working in the actual NOC. Which is what I want. He suggested having me resign and then return as a contractor to work weekends at a higher rate of pay to just do documentation and maybe back up the NOC. He thinks I could do this through April, but I want way less time in the NOC. The cool point about working weekends only is that I could literally work another gig for supplemental income, and since I’m getting married in April, this is not a bad idea.

Of course, then I would zero time to myself, but at least I could get out of debt faster and have the free time to do that. I could use the extra money. Bleh, I’m just so sick of NOC work right now, but if I don’t get the HP job then I can’t really just leave my job with any kind of common sense left in my brain. Maybe, before, when I was just thinking of myself, I could’ve, but not anymore. I have a larger responsibility to see to, now.

I’ll figure it out.

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The true mark of how good a Mexican restuarant is lies with how well they do the simplest things. I can order up a plate of tamales and be dazzled by the kaleidoscope of taste from the more complicated dishes, but if I ever really wanted to test the traditional nature of a restaurant’s style of cooking Mexican food, all I have to do is order a regular ol’ burrito with beans, cheese, carne asada, and nothing else. Those three things, if done right, will tell me if the place I’m eating at is good or not. If you relish the taste of that burrito, then the rest of the menu is gold.

That’s my eating tip of the day.

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