Still here

Friday
Had a three hour interview a few days ago, so much fun :-) I spoke with 5 different people one on one. Basically I gave 90% the same interview 5 times. Being shuffled from person to person gave me a bit to collect myself in between. Felt fine enough to go grab some vietnamese from a restaurant near our old house for lunch. Was mentally tired for most of the rest of the day.

With another interview the previous week, maybe I will be employed again soon. Tired today, but hanging in there despite not being productive. Feel like I could use a nap. Acupuncture later today.

Saturday
Went and did the Farmers market, making this now a weekly trip as I've been the past 4 weeks in a row. Better weather, less people, how does that work? Anyway the merchants I've been buying from seem to recognize me. And the anxiety level of going is down/gone.

Sunday
Spent 20-25 minutes at ping pong and worked up a sweat against a very enthusiastic opponent. He must be one of the Wednesday people as I haven't seen him before. Need to keep up the activity level.

Monday
Woke up to a call from the tenants, icefall had taken out the gutter and lines running to the house from a utility pole. Called police in case it was power lines even though we had power. Police and fire identified them as phone/cable lines. So I cleared the mess from the driveway, getting good excercise in before 8am. Figured I deserved a donut for that. Went to the donut place and they didn't have anything at all, broken oven or no delivery to them or something, went to Panera for a muffin instead. Well deserved after the morning's work. Then called the phone/cable companies to get them to come out and reattach their lines to the house.

I tried to view this as a test of my progress since it was Valentines day several years ago that I had couldn't get out of bed depression because a huge snowstorm had left several feet of snow in our driveway. Anyway once this was all done (at least what I could do, no reconnecting cables to utility poles) I felt like I'd passed a test.