Friday, finally

It's been a somewhat miserable week for this blogger. Sick family at home and I've been about half sick myself. Not fun when you just don't look forward to going home. As of today, everyone seems to be feeling better and I'm hoping we've crossed a divide with respect to this flu outbreak.....

Never did get the test results back from the Dept. of Health and/or CDC to see if GC #2 had the swine flu. Since they never called, I am going to assume she didn't.

At work, not too much going on. Got through the 2nd half of 2009/2010 planning meeting without bloodshed. Got let in on the fact that our HR manager is probably going to get cut and we (my acctg folks) will be taking over the operations in conjunction with people from Tulsa. I'm not too sure I like this idea, butI know I've had problems with her, and in the final analysis the decision isn't mine to make.

Starting to see a very few signs of life in the job market. Still not a lot out there, but I've had a couple of contacts this week from people. One wanted to know if I knew anyone interested in a position she had and the other wanted to know if I was interested in a position in NY. Obviously neither is for me, but it's nice to see some stirring around in the market.

Now I need the "green shoots" that our esteemed president referenced to start growing like the freakin weeds in my back yard.

Had lunch with my old boss while I was vacationing. He had some interesting stuff to say, especially how it relates to the carbon tax/cap and trade and how it would affect the oil industry that so much of the Gulf Coast relies on. He and I both believe that it is going to absolutely devestate much of the coast from Corpus Christi all the way to Mobile. Kind of makes you wonder if I should really be working all that hard to try and get back there, or at least nearer to there. My initial thought is yes, I should, but I guess we'll see what happens over the next year. I don't think I can weasel out of our house without a huge loss for at least another year, and I really don't want to take a huge loss unless I get laid off/fired and absolutely have to.

Got a little work done on the Jeep over the last week. Have pulled the dash off, and soldering up all the wiring for the lights. Since everyone has been sick, it hasn't been easy, but in the evenings we've been going outside briefly to water plants. I let the girls water, and fire up the soldering iron to get a couple of connections done. In general the plan for this weekend is to get the soldering finished and wire up the dash. That will also require running grounds from the dash to the ground blocks I bought, and wiring the ground blocks to the frame. Once the dash is on, I can re-install the steering wheel and all related parts, and start thinking about the clutch. Frankly, it scares the shit out of me, because I think I'm eventually going to have to drop the tranny to replace the clutch, but we'll blow up that bridge when we get there.

Later