Update

I know you all have been waiting, breathlessly, for an update on the new job.

Well, wait no more.  Here ’tis.

I walked.  I walked a lot.  I mean, I walked A LOT!

Mott is not a big campus.  Walking from one side to another takes about ten minutes.  But when you walk back and forth, numerous times, the mileage quickly adds up.

The first day I met about a thousand and a half people,  of which I remembered about a dozen.

The second day, I worked a thirteen and a half hour day, minus a half hour for lunch.  It made me nostalgic for news again!

Morris Dees, a prominent civil rights attorney, spoke on campus that evening.  Which meant we spent a sizable part of the day setting up.  We set up the audio system, including a mult-box, and worked a long time getting the hum and hiss out of the audio.

Then, we set up the modulator to sent the video and audio to a second location for the over-flow room (which, it turned out, we didn’t need), and had to spend another sizable period of time getting the static out of the video.

He started talking about 715pm, finishing at about 830, and we spent an hour tearing down everything. That was a long day.  When my head hit the pillow at home, I was out like a light.

Friday was a relatively easy day, just trouble shooting stuff, getting acclimated to the  campus some more, until just before quitting time when we discovered a problem in a conference room.  We decided it didn’t need to be fixed ’til Monday morning, since no one would be using the room ’til then.

I like the place.  The people are friendly, the campus nice (of course, autumn is my favorite time of year), and the hours are good.  I’m happy to have made the move.