Last year, I didn’t jump ship when the time was right, and my employer went under, and I lost my job and became a ghost for a while. This time, I’m keeping pace, I’m moving, and I’m not going to let external events hit me like they did in 2009. Jumping ship is great.

Things are ramping up as I fade from one job and into another. I’m working quickly and effectively on the first paying gig for my side business, and we’ve got more looming fast on the horizon. Things are going to get big.

The last two weeks of a job so far seem pretty easy. It would be nice if I could take a break between the old and new jobs, or if I didn’t fill the hours between 5 and 9 with work on my own side business, but so far this is easy.

I’ve never really given a formal resignation from a job before. Today. I did that. The work situation was erratic, and I decided to be proactive and find myself another job, and I did, and now it’s time to move on.

The other day at a thrift-store in Tampa, I found a vintage record player that works perrfectly, and it works perfectly with the theme/mood of the agency I’m starting, which has a Sixties bent. Things are getting started, big things.

We’re moving fast, lightning fast, impossibly fast. The personal project I’ve been working out is bearing fruit in the form of clientele, and we’re blasting through our first gig faster than any project I’ve ever been a part of.

Today, I drove out to Tampa to visit a friend and check out the Yuengling brewery, seen here. We also hit some thrift stores, and I found quite possibly the best thrift store find ever, a 30-year old audio system with 8-track and record player and all, for $7.

It might as well be a Friday today, because I took a vacation day tomorrow and it’s the last day of the work week for me. It’s been relaxed around here lately.

Today, I got some good news, and tonight, I went out to see a movie at the Aloma cinema, which was delightfully low-rent. I guess me and Michelle are putting in as much time together as we can until she starts the semester in Sarasota.

I had a meeting today, and it gave me a taste of what could be, of a change, of things to come. Things are getting different, better.