Oopsie ...

Yesterday I went down to the unemployment office to "certify" that I was eligible for unemployment. According to their records I had last certified on 10/7 (~month ago). The clerk was snippy but processed the paper work and insisted that I use the phone to certify in the future.

Other news ...

Mark's bedroom is now upstairs. His new bed (a birthday present) was delivered yesterday. Lila will continue to organize upstairs and down.

Kathy Vosta, my Right Management couselor, is peeved that I quit talking to her. She will call this pm or tomorrow.

I finally fixed the power adapter for my vibrating back pad yesterday.

Lila, Mark, and I will attend Chris Florek's (third) wedding this weekend.

"Randy" from across the street acted interested in finishing our dining room ceiling but backed out due to a heavy work load.

Keena visited her house next door yesterday. She and Lila talked for a bit.

Brother Don invited me to stay with him in Iowa for a weekend next January to see the Jayhawks play the Haweyes and I tenatively agreed.

Leo still has fleas but Lila treats him every month.

I raked the front this weekend but still need to finish bagging the leaves.

I worked a little to design a PCB with OrCad. The demo package restrictions are really making the job difficult.

To do a search on a specific web site, you just add "site:www.websitexxx.com" into the Google search string.

Attacking my diet with renewed vigor this week. I had dropped weight to ~300 lbs but then I had started gaining again.

Probably more non-news if I thought about it but this should satisfy the blog-beast for now ...

-SPW

P.S.

Honeywell announced last week that the Springfield plant (my employer until August) will close in 2010 and its product lines relocated to Mexico. On Monday, Al Cable, my old Engineering Manager was laid off and the remaining six Engineering employees heard that they now report to a Honeywell plant in Michigan. Once the Springfield products move to Mexico next year two ME's will move to Michigan. Also, the three Marketeers (Tony Wilson, Ed Gerken, and Zach Spraetz) now report to Golden Valley MN. One marketing position will be eliminated, evidently. Nore news as this develops ...