And awaaay we go...

I've been working at a senior living facility for the past year and as much as I love being there, I can't afford it. So I gave my notice and reached out to a tour company, where I spent a couple seasons as a Captain, and a friend who manages the city's bridge tenders. 

The tour company hired me right away and got me back into training. And then Greg got back to me with a possible temporary position on the bridges that may turn to full-time in a year or so. 

I was telling all this to a friend and I thought with all the downtime on the bridge I should probably start up a blog. Maybe call it 'Off My Meds' because how funny would it be to be a bipolar bridge tender who wasn't taking his medication? 

But offmymeds.com was taken so I snagged backonmymeds.com instead, which is not only more accurate, but certainly smarter career-wise. 

It'll be probably a month or so before I'm sitting up on the University or South Park bridge with enough downtime to start posting blogs about how interesting it is to raise and lower one of the city's five drawbridges. But I'm starting this blog anyway just to push myself because that's what people do, right?

I may write about the amazing people I work with at the senior living facility. People who lived through WWII and are considered part of the Greatest Generation, which is a huge understatement. And I may rant about the greatest threat to our democracy in my lifetime, donald trump. And I may just tell a couple stupid stories. I don't know yet. We'll see. 

Check back in a few weeks.