My first overnight assignment....

Tonight I will be working my first overnight security gig. I start at 6pm and work until 6am Friday morning... (just like my other job without the heavy lifting). "Good Guys" is having a car show out at WestWorld and there will over 2000 custom hot rods and muscle cars up to the year 1972 on display for three days... (with my luck they'll put me as far away from the cars as possible). But maybe I'll be able to wander the grounds a little. More on that tomorrow.

Stopped by the new digs for the security company on Wednesday and filled out the form necessary to get my credentials to work the Insight Bowl on December 31. It involves yet another background check... (my third this year--I didn't realize that my background was so important. Seems to me that there are plenty of people the government and companies should be looking at other than me, but I don't want to invade anyone else's privacy). When those creds come I better get my gig in the visitors tunnel because that is the sweetest spot I could get for a football game...(besides being on the sidelines). But I digress... What, you may ask, are all the background checks for? No, I am not running for political office, nor am I in training for the Secret Service (although I could pull off that look). The first one was for a Arizona Dept. of Public Safety Fingerprint Clearance Card and the second was for my substitute teacher certification. You are now reading about a newly certified substitute teacher in the State of Arizona. I can now apply to school districts in the state and be put on their rosters as a sub. I hope to be able to do that for the spring semester after I return from my jaunt in the Carribean.
This was a step, I hope, toward the dream job of coaching on a golf team or at least being involved in teaching golf at some level. We will see what we will see. But don't worry. I'll only make my students call me Mr. Mullady. :)

I have begun a special project that I will work on while on the beaches of Aruba... (I seem to be inspired by nature's beauty and between Arizona and Aruba, there is plenty to inspire me). I don't want to divulge too much about it because it is in the infant stages and I don't know how the process will work out but there are some of you who know what I'm working on. It is quite fitting that this will begin in earnest around the Thanksgiving holiday because I have very much to be thankful for, not just around the holiday, but every day I am able to live in this beautiful place and have the friends and family I am blessed with. More will be forthcoming as the project proceeds...