Taking the Scenic Route

The good

Zach had his phone interview this morning and felt like it went well.  He will hear back in 7-10 days if they want to do an in person interview. We are really hoping he gets this job.  It is for a good company, with decent benefits and pay.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Zane said “hi, how are you?” to the people at the desk today.  He had to be heavily prompted to greet the therapist, but at least he got the initial greeting without prompts.

The bad

Well, money, but what’s new.  I hope he does get the new job and I hope it pays pretty quickly because we found out that his first fall paycheck won’t be until September.  So, he gets a paycheck on July 13th, but they are taking out double health insurance than normal and it leaves us very little after we pay our late July rent.  Then we get one on the 29th, that we have to pay August rent and have to try and live off the leftover until September.  Our September rent will be late unless we get another job, but we should be just fine from then on out.

The ugly

A lightening storm tonight killed Zane’s Gamecube.  This is a big deal for him because it was a major source of enjoyment for him.  I jokingly told dh that we should just get a Wii since it is backwards compatable.  lol.  Yeah, like that is going to happen.  We think the Gamecubes, if we can find them, are around $70-80ish, so it will be a while for us to replace it.  He does still have a Nintendo 64 and a few games on that, and, of course, the computer, but it sort of figures that the Gamecube would be the one that bit the dust since that is where most of his games are. 

I guess in another “good” is that just minutes before the lightening flash that killed the gamecube, we got our computers shut down and unplugged.  There was a surge not long before we unplugged them, so we still might have some problems, but they seem unscathed at this point.