We did finally hear back from Alex's friend; apparently it's taken several trips to the courthouse to try and find the correct record. Possibly due to it being a fairly old record (purely speculation on my part, but I assume it's pre-digitization, and it wouldn't surprise me if it were buried in some file box in a storage room that hasn't been organized in a couple decades.) It still would have been nice for him to maybe... call and let us know that this wasn't going to be done by the date we were aiming for, but at least we now have... sort of... an idea of what's going on. Makes me even gladder it didn't come down to flying one of us out there to try and do this in person, since if it's taken several days, that would have been a serious problem when we were trying to check flights with the intent to fly in and out in a one or two days.
Today was the last time I'll see my manager from the field office I work at. :( There was a really dumb game of manager musical chairs about six months ago, which moved my manager to a different location, and the Denver manager to my office. While I missed my first manager, I also liked the woman who came here from Denver, but she put in her two weeks last weekend, and her last day will be mid-week. I'm happy for her, because she'll ditch the center manager stress and get time to focus on her degree, but I'll still miss her, and it's a complete unknown for who will replace her. (Though a part of me is just very slightly laughing at the panic this is setting off... they've made several Bad Choices in hiring lately (which could be a post in and of itself), some of which were what forced me from my previous position to my new one without any say in the matter. While I'm happy with where I'm at now, it's still just a tiny bit satisfying to watch them reap what they've sown, lol. I don't pretend to have completely gotten rid of my petty streak.)
Other than that... I'm glad for it being time to "Spring Forward". It being light after I get off of work is always a better part of the year. It's been that way for a few weeks now, but it's still often sunset or after by the time I actually get home, so it'll be nice to have a bit more daylight during non-working hours. And it gives me hope for an end to the snow-mud cycle, haha.
I've completely failed to realize it's already MARCH 9TH somehow, multiple times, causing brief misunderstandings when scheduling people. Part two of that, holy fucking shit, my birthday is Monday, and I *didn't even realize it*. Like, I knew it was soon, but I keep feeling like it's a week away, at least.
And my "weekend" was actually really nice the last couple days. I managed to spend my leisure time pretty well, despite the usual executive dysfunction that haunts my every waking moment. I watched a horror movie (maybe I'll review it?!) and read, and played a video game, and actually got a lot of words down on my current silly fanfic thing. (Two days in a row of over 1000 words! Close to 3000 for the week!) So I felt pretty good about it.
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