Misfirings from my Neurons

Year 2 Day 1 or just 2.1 perhaps... anyhoo sounds better than Day 366.... weekend, yay.... massive house cleaning begins with my brother visiting for Labor Day weekend and school about to begin...l

Day 365 August 22nd 2002 was my last day in the building as an employee of Lucent Technologies... although technically I was on the payroll til Sept 20th later changed to Oct 20th (long story).... what an odd day that was... I had already packed, having failed to find a new position with the company... so I just went about saying goodbye to my boss, General Manager and other folk... Had one last lunch in the cafeteria with Joe Gangemi and some friends of his... Got tired of sitting about, left my PC running Progress Quest and headed out into the "sunset" (mid-afternoon)... I wonder if my PC is still on... I have heard our offices are closed and mostly untouched given that hardly anyone is in the building.... dust everywhere I would think... People have scattered to the winds ( Wisconsin, Horse farm in upstate New York, boats in Florida), some have found work ( BAE, Inrange, Northup-Grumman etc.) and some haven't ( me, Steve, Ernst, Robert Dalton, etc.)... Am still trying to keep in touch... network, network, and more network.... sigh...

New Matrix Revolutions trailers on the web.... I did like Reloaded, probably more than Heleen did... looking forward to the winter with both Matrix 3 and LoTR 3 coming up...

Day 364 Ever notice how when you are employed - time and deadlines and such tend to work in terms of weeks and perhaps days ... but when you are unemployed, time seems to work in terms of days and perhaps hours... especially when waiting for people (co-searchers, recruiters, whomever) to respond to your contacts.... Monmouth Networking Network (is that redundant??) does have local meetings, check out their Yahoogroup for details...

Day 363 The search continues.... Rich Previtte pointed me towards a Ryze-like service called Spoke, which I am not sure whether they are a service or a product... hmm. Requires some looking into eh? Otherwise YANG-OC continues to grow, 44 members now, most virtual but perhaps the local meetings wil begin to pick up...

Day 362 Busy continuing the job search... target list of companies.. Gruensfeldering people... etc. This afternoon, training seminar at the UI office... see what is going on with Workforce training grants...

Poke the Penguin nyuk nyuk

Day 361 Another week and lots of stuff to do... revised my target list of companies.... continue to Gruensfelder people... Got an update that an old colleague, Gary Roes, is not doing well (he has been suffering from cancer for a while)... everyone should pray or think of him...

Day 360 Heya, giving the Beta for the next EQ expansion, Lost Dungeons of Norrath, a try.... We'll see how it goes... Otherwise the weekend wanders to an end...