Today was the first day at my new job. There are a lot of new things for me to learn but they are built on concepts I am already familiar with. I've worked an IT help desk like this one before. In 2002 I was employed by a company that had a contract to provide IT people for the state of Alabama Department of Human Resources.

My desk is located on the second floor and I plan to use the stairs every day. There is an elevator I could use but I know I can use the exercise. I also don't plan on parking in the spots near the door.

I had two surprises on my first day:
Surprise 1: Even though we are closed for the 4th of July I still get holiday pay for it!
Surprise 2: My right kidney spit out a stone this morning and I got to pass it at work!

If you guess that one of the surprises wasn't so good know that you are correct.