Hurry up and wait

Now that I've finally found some free time for the ol' blog I'll fill you guys in on my current situation.
Here and now, I am sitting in a newly furnished 2-bedroom apartment in Terre Haute, Indiana and typing this on a company laptop (Dell Latitude). The apartment is about 1000 square feet and in a quiet neighboorhood. I'm very happy with it. The laptop has become an extension of me. I don't know what I'd do without it.
For the first 2 weeks on this job I flew home on Friday and back to Indy on Sunday. I stayed over on the 3rd weekend to get some extra work done. Then I flew home again last weekend to see Miller before she leaves for the summer.
About the job... it's definitely a positive career move for me. I realize now just how primitive and ass-backwards things were at the old company. It's probably similar to a baseball player making the jump from the high school junior varsity squad to the major leagues. At first I was a bit intimidated. But now I'm really starting to get the hang of it. The reason for the post titles is that seems to be the way things go around here. We get rushed to deliver some documents and the project manager gets her panties in a knot. So she gets on us to get them done. Then we get about 10% into the work and find that there is not enough information available (the clients fault) to complete the task in time. Also, the reviewers here change their minds every 5 minutes.
Most of the people I work with are great. There's a core group of about 6 or so that I really enjoy hanging out (drinking beer and cracking jokes) with. They're all either young in age or young at heart, and that makes for some good times.
The apartments were ready Friday, so I stuck around to move in and get everything situated. Also, someone needed to be here Saturday to check-in the new equipment that arrived. So after putting in a full day yesterday I went to the Big Lots and the Kroger. I love the Big Lots. I got a decent (cheap) little BBQ grill for 20 bucks and put it together last night. Today I'm going to cook some steaks and grill up some asparagus.
Next weekend I'll be making the trip to the Guadalupe and floating the river with the crew from Beaumont. Hopefully Dwight and Sparky will come too. Miller might even make it if she's still in town.
Speaking of Dwizzy, it seems his house will be ready for us to move in soon. I'm pretty excited about that. He and Sparky have been keeping Mak for me while I'm gone and doing an excellent job of taking care of him.
Okay. To summarize, life is good (but hectic) and I miss Texas.