Some Updates

I've been off the blog for a couple weeks, so here are some brief items to catch you up to speed:

1) The Reformists fell short. At GW, the first place showing by the Coalition for Reform fell away in the runoff, but only by 31 votes out of 1900. At UF, the reformist incumbent Impact party soared 17 pts in the runoff, falling short by just 53-47; their second ballot surge outstripped FSP's in 2000 (14 pts) and Access' last year (12 pts) and is probably the strongest ever, but they started too far behind to win.

2) My alma maters didn't last past the second round of March Madness. Too bad.

3) I didn't get the management job I went up for, although ironically their first choice turned them down because they didn't offer enough money. After all, if you're doing the same exact job at your current employer, why would you leave except for money? So, they are still searching. Haha.

4) I did put in my app for a promotion (still a "classified" job, though). Special Payments Analyst - a high level pension-related job that deals with things like QDROs - the provisions in divorce papers giving the ex-wife a portion of the pension. It relates to my current job and as long as no one more senior applies, I have a better than even chance of getting it. The department director convinced me to apply after I expressed uncertainty about it.

5) I will be working on 3 different writing projects over the next 8 to 16 months. "Confirmation" is the third installment of the Mike Adams franchise. "Tales from Riverdale" is a multiple point of view collection of novellas that are interconnected in a small town. "Penny Thoughts" will be an anthology of some of my written work to date, including fictional speeches I've done for online games.

6) I'm going to revise and release "The Proxy Senator" (the second Adams book) after I finish the first draft of "Confirmation". I'm aiming for either my 24th birthday (mid-August) or the end of the year (anniversary of the first book's release) for those stages in the projects.