I'm doin' alright, the best that I can

Wow, it's been almost a year and a half since I posted anything here. I guess it's time to take stock at where I am these days.

I started this site to help sort some things out in my life. I also wrote more in my own journal. I think it helped a lot. In reading it, I could take a little bit of a distant view at how I was feeling, what I was thinking, what I was doing. I've now been at my job for slightly more than 17 months. It's a job. It doesn't excite me, it's really not anything I envisioned myself doing yet it's become a routine. I don't know how long I'll stay at it.

I know that I like to keep the status quo as long as things aren't going badly so I don't see myself going out and looking for anything else. Something would have to pop up and grab my attention. I guess I'm in this job for the long haul and that's OK. I've got a good supervisor and some good people with whom I work.

I also just moved. After two and a half years in a house that was "temporary" I'm basically living in a boarding house. Great husband and wife own the place, it's clean, it's comfortable, it's close to the school and less than 25 minutes to work. My boat is stored about three miles away so location is great and, honestly, I'm fine living in this place. Would I like to have my own home? Sure, I wish a had a job that supported that and a little better life style.

However, I don't need much in life and I've got a job and the little things in life that make me happy, mainly the ability to hunt and fish.

As Bruce Hornsby wrote in Jacob's Ladder, "I'm doin' alright, the best that I can." Although I may want tomorrow to be better than today, as long as it's as good as today I'll take what I can get.

Jacob's Ladder (Bruce Hornsby)
I met a fan dancer down in southside Birmingham
She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand
She said he's tryin' to save me
But I'm doin' alright, the best that i can

Just a pair of fallen angels tryin' to get through the night
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher
Step by step, one by one, climbing Jacob's ladder

Comin' over the airwaves the man says I'm overdue
Sing a song, send money, join the chosen few
But mister I'm not in a hurry, and I don't want to be like you
All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher
Step by step, one by one, climbing Jacob's ladder
All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher
Step by step, one by one, climbing Jacob's ladder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJBrk8mYEs