I am grateful for several things today:

• It will be 75 tomorrow.
• It's not snowing!
• I've had lots of nibbles toward a new job.
• The damn check is still in the mail, but it should be in my hands today...
• I'm paid up at the hotel until the 15th.

Duncan spent last weekend (including Monday) doing some sort of Math Modeling Competition at which they used dating service algorithms to predict the likely next locations of serial crime ( Read more... )

UGH. Finishing the FAFSA for Duncan at Midnight on Feb 26 when the thing is due on Feb 28th is not good planning (especially since I had to do my taxes first). BUT....

Since I was unemployed all last year, he is eligible for a Pell Grant. So, perhaps the effort (we were scrambling to find my PIN somewhere in my email archives) was worth it....

A new set (I haven't gotten my trip pictures up yet, alas ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever had a job where I literally had no messages in my email inbox at the end of a day, much less at the end of the week.

I'm very pleased, tho, that one of the Bosses has asked for me to do a special writing project in Compliance because she likes how well I catch on and my style of writing policy. Hooray! (More hours!)

Today as I was coming home, the traffic just STOPPED on 183 N, and several huge firetrucks roared by. While I was stopped I realized that the whole ramp on my side of the road was filled with those TV Satellite trucks. Looked Left, and  -- Whoa! That charred thing on the left (S) side must be where the plane crashed. It looks much like the M. ( Read more... )

On the NPR station this morning I barely caught an announcement that the Austin Lounge Lizards (www.austinloungelizards.com) will be performing this Saturday on Campus, for their 30th Anniversary Concert. I called up noxcat, she wants to go with, and I have acquired tickets!

nitnorth, Hyla_regila, and motogrrrl introduced me to these wonderful folks, and I've been hoping ( Read more... )

Have clearly had an excellent Valentine's weekend! Altho the groaning floorboards are a little disconcerting! ;-)

(And thanks for the lovely hugs, cellio!!

The contract here in Austin is currently scheduled to end on March 30. However, the Recruiter has asked for a lunch date on Wed., I'm getting tons of praise, and Dell has positions open 15 miles N of here, which I'm applying for. Work, work, must have work. However, I also now have current work experience!