Back to work on Feb 1

This is my second months long (this time seven months) stretch of unemployment in two years, but it is finally coming to an end. Unfortunately, my old work never did get funding back, but I found a job doing technical writing for a proposal and SR/ED company. They help businesses get tax breaks for R&D work and apply for other government grants. It isn't ideal, as they offer lower pay (7K less than I was making), the health insurance doesn't start for 6 months, and it's only 2 weeks vacation (I'd be up to 22 days/year at the University), but it is permanently work from home unless I have to go to a client site which is once or twice a month, and only after Covid. Hopefully I wow them, because I can renegotiate after the 6 month probation period.

In the meantime, I'm trying to get things organized for work. Vv is already quite independent with the online school (unless she has to write — how can my kid be so anti-writing?), but my desk is a bit of a shambles and I'd like to get some of the projects I've been poking at finished. I've got a baby sweater on the go for a friend, and I'm almost finished transcribing Grandpa's letters from 1942 (only 4 more years to go, yay). That would put me in a good mental place to start.

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