Monday the 27th (June 2005) was a dark day around here - of the ~30 of us in our web-services software section, five were given notice. Looks like they get two weeks to locate jobs elseware in the company or they get the nine-week layoff package.

Lay-offs loom around site - Back on Wednesday the 13th of April (2005) our section manager and functional manager let our section know that the IT budget has been cut (OpEx) and our group was in a dire deficit. We could stand to lose up to 15 folks to the axe. Yucky feeling and nightmares that night. And my project is cut, seemingly randomly. The past two weeks have been OK though as we scramble for recovery, outside funding and realignment. Maybe most/all of of software types will make it th

Just another post, 11 August 2004 - what is an online journal supposed to be to me? I can't trust slashdot entirely, so no major secrets... shall I just recap the recent past?

Work has me traveling more. Soon to travel to France for 10 days on business. Going to a coworker of Erin's wedding in Salt Lake City soon - Betsy and Rob. Should be fun.

This morning (1 Feb 2003) I woke up at 5:40PST to go out in the dark of Oregon with my dog to try to see the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry trail. It was suprisingly a clear sky - it is usually raining around here. I was supposed to be able to see the trail at 5:54am. Didn't see anything, I thought perhaps mission control had the shuttle come down on another pass, 90 minutes later. I came back inside to check the status of the landing on the web - only to eventually learn that the sh