Digitized again

Yesterday was an almost completly analog day. The folks working on the fiber optic cable project in front of our house (no, we won't have a direct fiber pipe to the 'Net, unfortunately) apparently hosed the "temporary" (it looks like we'll live with it for at least six months) phone line they put in. Probably accidently drove over it with the heavy equipment of something. I couldn't get online all day, even though I had another 1,500 words for "The Wronger." heck, I couldn't even call out from my house.

My interview to be the manager or an assistant manager at the new Family Video that's being built as you read these words went well. I even took a shower before going there. But I told the Sherwin-Williams folks I'd most likely come to work for them. For seven bucks an hour. *Sigh.* As you may be able to tell, I have some serious reservations about this, but here's my so-called logic:

1. Sherwin-Williams *really* wants me to come work for them. It's great to be wanted, especially considering my recent employment history.
2. In thinking about what I really want to do in the world, three things keep coming up:
   • Being a great husband and father
   • Sailing
   • Writing
   So I'm going to have the time and flexibility to be our kid's primary care giver (read "house husband") which is something that scares the crap out of me from a can-I-do-it perspective, but is also something I've really wanted to do ever since we started talking about being parents. And being able to take care of our kid is worth in the neighborhood of a grand a month. I'm going to try to fit writing in around the edges of my father and husband responsibilities. Yeah, early mornings or late nights and I will become well acquainted. Sailing is probably just going to have to wait for a couple years until the kid can fit into a little PFD.
3. Call backs for the second round of interviews, etc. for Family Video happen sometime early next week, and Sherwin-Williams knows that I'll (hopefully) be going there to talk more about work possibilities because...
4. Nothing at this point is carved in stone. If Family Video comes back with a good offer (say, for example, that they ask me to manage the store, I'd be making about 35k a year, a big chunk more than Northland paid me to manage their biggest PR outreach program.), I can take it.
5. If I stay at Sherwin-Williams, there is some potential for me to climb their ladder, as much as the thought is distastefull to me.

So I guess that's where things are at for the moment.