Jon And I Usually Don't Agree

Because I wasn’t there for the one held last Monday, this morning I went to a new hire orientation at work.
I discovered that, as I’d been told, the benefits package is pretty much the same as AOL’s, but considerably cheaper.
I also found out that there’s an actual pension plan in addition to the 401K program, which is cool, and pretty rare these days.
The other cool thing I found out is that even though I’m on salary, I won’t have to deal with the semi-monthly pay schedule, but will instead be paid bi-weekly. This is cool because it means that I will actually get to have some three paycheck months, whereas I would not if we were on the semi-monthly schedule.
Tomorrow I’ll be getting some training on the ticketing system that the NOC uses, which will help give me a better understanding of the kinds of issues that I’ll be running into in reviewing their tickets for problems, and then I’ll actually be sitting in the NOC to get a feel for how they operate.
Two recruiters contacted me today, one of them for a job in Atlanta – no idea why she thought I’d be interested in it – and I let them know that I wasn’t interested, then went to Monster to make my résumé no longer viewable, as I’m done with dealing with recruiters.
There’s a Shoppers Food Warehouse right by where I work, so I’d intended to stop there on my way home and pick up the things I forgot to buy when I went shopping yesterday.
I didn’t really want to, as getting in and out of the parking lot with all of traffic in that area would be a pain, but I told myself, “We’re stopping there after work,” to which I responded, “No, we’re not.” I then said, “Yes, we are,” but I knew I didn’t have it in me to force the issue, and by late afternoon I said to myself, “Fine, we won’t stop there, but we will go to the Shoppers in Leesburg on the way home,” which I found more agreeable.
(I don’t refer to myself internally as “we” out of any sort of royal pretentions, but rather because there are essentially two Jons living in my head. There’s the Jon who makes decisions about what I’m going to do, and then there’s the Jon who either ignores those decisions or chooses to go along with them. Depending on the degree to which there is disagreement, I sometimes go with “I” and “you” rather than “we.” My head is a confusing place.)
I was going to take 267 to 28 and 28 to 7, but I kind of spaced it once I got on 267 and forgot that the exit to 28 was right ahead of me, so I drove past it and ended up taking the Greenway home. This meant that, given that I didn’t take the exit to 15, as taking the Greenway stripped away some of my resolve about going to Shoppers, I would actually have to drive right past the street that leads to my house if I were to follow through on my intentions regarding shopping. My resolve did not hold, and I ended up making the turn and just going straight home.
We’ll see if I can manage to hit the store tomorrow.
And apart from having a squirrel waiting for me in the trap with its bags packed for its trip to the enchanted forest where I bring all of the squirrels who find their way into my attic and into the trap when I got home, that’s pretty much been my day.