It's been awhile

Hi gang,
I know it's been awhile since I've posted here and I just wanted to pop in and say hi and let you know what's up with me.

I started working a graveyard shift at Allsup's, a C-store chain that's huge in New Mexico and west Texas. Seriously Allsup's is every bit as prevalent here in NM as Circle K or 7-11 is anywhere else, in fact Allsup's bought out several corporate owned 7-11s in NM and Texas several years ago.

Anyway it's been mostly work & sleep since then, we've been adjusting my meds, etc., etc.

My wife and I have been bickering a little more since I started back working.
I guess she worries about me, but I think it's more, on some deeper level, that she enjoyed being able to say she was carrying the whole load & supporting her sick husband.
Not that she's not bearing most of the load, I make a third what she does, maybe just short of 1/2.

The job itself?
It's OK, nothing special, it's boring & repetitive, which seems to work for me.
After less than 2 months I'm full time graveyard shift manager, not by merit, but because every one else on the shift has been fired or quit (depending on who you ask).
I started as a part-time grunt worker whose main purpose was covering off days, truthfully that's all I was looking for, I was trying to avoid responsibility and thus minimize stress.

Now I'm # 3 in seniority in the store (including management).

I'm still working on my book, progress is slow but with the advice given by 'The Beautiful Percy', I think it's going pretty well.

In short, I'm grinding it out.
Just like everybody else, kinda nice actually.

My boss, aside from a few needed concessions, treats me the same as everyone else.
The customers and my co-workers treat me pretty much as equals.

The best part of my job is that it's not Wal*Mart.

We'll talk again,
The Greeter