A few updates...

Man, it's been a while hasn't it?

A lot of things have happened since the last time I wrote in this blog.  When I last put fingers to the keyboard I was doing my annual post to honor the memory of my daughter, recovering from the passing of my Mom, and one of the more tumultuous years of my life was heading towards the door.

Needless to say, a few things changed in your faithful narrator's life in the time since we last spoke.

First off, I'm employed and you'd NEVER guess where.  Remember when I posted the picture of the Stormtrooper meme from Star Wars that was captioned "FIRED: THOSE WERE THE DROIDS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR"?  Well, in what has to be a true "Twilight Zone" moment in this guy's life, I have been rehired at the correctional facility that unceremoniously let me go in April, 2012.

Sort of.  (Huh?)  I'll explain:

Well, I work in the same building I was escorted out of in 2012, but the facility is owned and run by a different company.  A company, as it turns out, that is one I'd worked for nearly 15 years ago at the Tulsa County Jail & was laid off from.  Instead of returning to the job I left in case management I returned as a guard, which is a bit of a disappointment but after six years beggars can't be choosers.

It closes the circle on a rather dark period of my life in which I was fired by a corrupt man who was in the profession putting profits over people for a shitty reason.  I like to say I don't really hate on anyone for purely hate's sake but as I've told my co-workers a number of times since I started in November, that man is on a list I reserve for people I wouldn't piss on if they burst into flames.

So I guess you could say that for the first time in my life I managed to regain employment and as a bonus, it is in my life's work.  Not only that, but instead of stringing a series of jobs out over the year like I did in 2018, I've stayed employed through the balance of 2019 as of this writing. (Nine months altogether).  It's hard work...painful at times, (more on that later), but it is my life's calling as I mentioned before.

As a result I have money in the bank and despite a few close calls continuing the nearly 50-year history of  Lohman owning this house.

That's not all, boys and girls...oh no.  There's much more.

One of the things I've been dealing with this year, and indeed since my mother's passing is the separation from my family.  I have become estranged from my sister since my mom died in 2018 and though the reason for the estrangement is something I do not regret, the fact that I'm not recognized by her eats at me.  I'll discuss this in a future entry , or more than likely entrIES but for now just know that life is a lot more empty without at least seeing and talking to my one and only sibling.

Between work and that there's only my personal life, which outside of my relationship with my son is basically non existent.  That may change soon, I hope, but with all I've had to deal with in the last two years I really haven't had time for much. 

I'm also driving again, which is cool, and I can go places.  No great analysis of that is necessary because I have to to make money.  Simple as that.

See you next time, because I need sleep.