There is good news on the job front. The company I've been contracting with offered me the job two weeks before my planned start date of April 19.

I received an offer letter on Thursday with a little more money than what they originally promised. YEAH!!! I also had to take a take a drug test this morning, but that's standard for most jobs.

I start as a permanent full time employee on Monday. I'm happy because I can relax a little now. Once again I have a permanen t job with benefits and it's a very good thing.

I hope I can now begin to establish an after work routine of writing and working out. I need my extracurricular activities back in my life.

I've been wading through the new company's benefits package tonight. The vision and dental suck! At my last company, the vision and dental benefits were good and the medical benefits were so so. The new company has a bit more benefits than the old one, so I pay a little more.

I have a massage theray benefit, and I'm definitely going to take advantage of it. And they offer flex spending for the costs that the company doesn't offer. The vision plan isn't bad if you visit their eyecare specialists, but I've been going to the same guy since the mid 1990's and I really don't feel like changing. My dentist isn't covered and I have decide if I want to pay more to go see him, or switch to this dentist that my chiropractor in Berkeley is recommending.

I almost feel like changing my PCP as well, because my old PCP was starting to get on my nerves. I really like the PCP I had with the last company, but she's not on this new company's list of doctors.

My boss said I was in some kind of company bonus incentive program, have no idea what this is. I think it probably means that if the company does well, I'll get a bonus equal to the percentage in my offer letter. This is a new thing.

I may have good news on the job front, but I don't want to write about it and perhaps jinx it till it happens. In this shaky world of ours, I'm not going on anything till it happens in real time. Talk is cheap and action is the only thing that really counts.

Check this book out, The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shin. I read this book whenever I'm looking for a new job, and it helps, it really really helps somehow.

I wonder if San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez's announcement that he won't run for reelection is just some ploy to get his supporters to beg him to stay in politics. Talk about a great way to get publicity.

Announce your leaving politics forever, have your supporters start a campaign to beg you not to leave, and then tell the media how everyone loves you and supports you too much for you to leave. Announce your triumphant return to San Francisco politics.

We shall see.

I was on the 41 Union bus that goes through the Marina tonight, on my way to a roastery to buy coffee. A chick gets on the bus with another girl carrying a Coach shopping bag.

The two women sit down and the chick takes a shoe box out of the bag, and starts to show her friend her new Coach brand flip flops, ie rubber slippers. They're called the Carin Sandal.

Okay, so I know it's like Coach and all, but $70 for rubber slippers with a 1 1/4 inch heel. Come on. How Marina girl can you get?