I took Friday off in an effort to Get Stuff Done. Part of that was to call and check in with the Potential Milwaukee Boss. They opted to go with another candidate. This is entirely cool with me. I admit to simple relief that I can simply work for the balance of April, take care of stuff in early May, enjoy Ethan's graduation and our trip to Canada ( Read more... )

You've all heard me talk about the fact that my current employer is up for sale. We have a buyer lined up, and they're in due diligence. The unfortunate bit is that the buyer wants two more weeks of due diligence time, and we're running out of cash to keep the doors open. They opted to put all but 5 of us on furlough for the rest of the month to ( Read more... )

As part of the jobhunting thing I'm doing general-appearance improvement stuff. Friday I got my hair dyed professionally- a rich cocoa brown with red-brown highlights. Today, Sally and I went shopping. This can be a dangerous thing, but we really scored ( Read more... )