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This is a living now...

Submitted by doug-doug the mighty on August 17, 2007 - 9:56pm.

(...for those of you familiar with Terence Trent D'Arby...)

following up on my saga=, here is the latest update.

I spent the better part of the summer working at a local company who specializes on pooltables, pinball machines, arcade games, home bars, juke boxes... the good stuff. The do both home sales (talking about folks that own million dollar condos on the beach here) and rentals (nasty dirty dive bars where folks are drunk before 9AM, regularily). I enjoyed the job a lot and never new what I was going to do from one day to the next, beit, shovelling asphalt into a hole in the parking lot or heaving pooltable parts up stairs in a nice home, or watching a senior tech's back while he works on a juke box at a bar during peak hours.

I am now a teacher at a local high school, teaching Physics and Chemistry. School starts Monday. For those following along, you know I have been preparing for this since October. I will have more to tell when it all starts. I have been busy getting lesson plans ready and getting myself oriented to what is going to happen this year.

And now the fun begins...

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Congratulations, Doug-Doug.

Submitted by cwsmith on August 19, 2007 - 1:22am.

We've all been pulling for you here at the 'Fritter. Hope things continue to go well for you.

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...and change things do...

Submitted by doug-doug the mighty on January 12, 2008 - 12:48am.

Now that the school year is pretty much half over, I can honestly say that much has changed.

The biggest thing of note is that the divorce finalized in the end of August, I went down, I went up, I fip-flopped a couple times, had thereapy, had pills, did some drinking, did some drinking on the pills, cut back on the drinking and did more praying, did some soul-searching, became a popular teacher while all this was going on, and kept my focus on my (personal) kids.

Also, I set up a myspace page as a teacher to connect with my students. I also set up a personal one. While out there, I searched for old girlfriends/people I knew. I fould a girl I had known for almost two years before I met the then-wife. We had "some" history and I reached out to reconnect. Long story short, we are an item after 16 years. She has a (tween) kid and I have three. We are getting on great.

I still have rough days and still have much to do as far as healing and adjustment goes. Things with the new gf are happening so easily and comfortably. We are mindful to not let this be a rebound thing, since neither of us want that.

I still wish that things had been differently with the wife and have always believed that when things are tough, you have to stick with it. Thankfully, the new gf feels that way also.

I am crazy busy with my kids, my teaching, my students, my gf, her kid (as a surrogate daddy), and several Macs needing ,my time and affection (I mean attention).

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As long as you have a lot of

Submitted by Jon on January 12, 2008 - 1:54am.

As long as you have a lot of love, keep on spreading it. It sounds like you must have a lot with a stable of loved ones like that. As the song/saying goes "when it rains, it pours," but "it can't rain all the time." Smiling

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