Dark Horizon

So, I read through the termination package and feel like I can relax for about a week or so.
I've continued to reach out to friends and family to let them know about my layoff.
Similar to your own experience, words of comfort and condolence return amid the occasional echo: Russ said their company had a round of layoffs recently as well.
Seems that everywhere you look, you can see the pucker factor is picking up steam.

While I'd like to find a new job and maintain my current, or, to be more accurate, my recently deceased lifestyle, it is becoming more and more evident that even if I were to find comparable employment that it would most likely be temporary.
To echo a former co-worker's parting words to me: this is only phase one...there is more to come.

So, while I will maintain my current heading for the next few days of reaching out to everyone I know and doing my best to reconnect with those I have lost contact with due to busy schedules and fatigue, I can't say these efforts and motivations remain unaffected by heralds of a wider catastrophe in the making.

I may need to start considering, more seriously, my plan of homesteading on the family farm.

I think it is time to jettison some of the dead weight.