Surprisingly, I can’t sleep in! I figured I’d be able to, but, around 6:30-7 I’m wide awake. I’ve pretty much decided based on current and prior experience that finding a job is like fishing. You get a bunch of lures (resumes) out into the water, and wait for someone to bite. After a while, you reel in a few and find you have sticks, garbage or other undesirable things attached to your hook, clean it off, and recast. I put a few more lures today, made a couple contacts, and found things to keep me busy. Fortunately I have a personal assistant to help me on my job search. She’s kinda lazy, and generally complains if I try to get her to do anything other than lay on top of my arms while I’m trying to use the computer. But, its nice to have some kind of help (If you can call it that).

Before I was let go one of my teams had a lunch or dinner planned, so we went ahead and did it anyway. The funny thing was apparently so did every other team who lost a member and about 25-30 of us ended up at Rock Bottom. Pretty good reunion! I’ll miss the guys, that’s for sure.

Someone sent this along to me. Its a short satire on the US Job situation (Wrong, but funny)

Some of the gang and I went mountain biking after their work (Since well, I don’t work right now). Its furthering me towards my goal of my stomach not touching my knees when I’m pedaling. I think Thursday I’ll have to take a day off riding since I went Monday, Tuesday & today (Wednesday). Tomorrow I pick up the remaining stuff at the office and drop off the signed gag/severance letter.