Relativity

So I guess we officially have a new president. Exciting news, indeed.
So many people seem to have this idea that Barack simply being in office is going to somehow magically make all of our problems disappear. I recognize I may be oversimplifying and jumping to presumptuous conclusions here in all fairness, but regardless of that, he hasn't helped me yet. Seems like a nice enough guy, though. At the very least, we are finally rid of Bush who I am fairly certain had an impact on my well-being during his 8 years.

At any rate, I took the last couple days off to relax and hang out with a couple of old friends I haven't seen in too long.
Tinkered around with some of my hobbies to keep my mind occupied.
My younger brother finally received the playstation 3 I bought for his birthday, so I spent part of yesterday helping him get online so we can video chat using the eye toy.
Seems like family visits are becoming more and more of a logistical nightmare since most of my siblings have children now, so facilitating this kind of communication makes me feel like I am helping to compensate for the reduced travel and visits by making it easier for us all to see and hear eachother.

Last week, when I was broadcasting news of my unemployment to they who I thought should know, my old manager from my previous job pinged me back letting me know they are keen to hire me back so long as they can afford to pay me. Maybe not the best prospect, but far be it from me to look a gift horse in the mouth. I haven't heard from him on how that is developing so I might call him this afternoon to work out the details, but his interest certainly helped me to relax a little bit.

Still planning on taking it easy for the next few days and seeing what strikes my interest first of the deeds that need doing in order to sustain myself.

Tomorrow, I will return my company laptop, badge and schedule my final exit interview.

I would almost say I was working for my dream company and feel that same loss. A local and globally successful software company with household name recognition. I felt like I had finally hit the bigtime and would be able to move around the company trying out various roles until one finally clicked and then I could really take off. I had just put in a little over a year on the grave shift and that's about when I would have been able to bid for a new schedule...join the land of the living.

By the time it became clear this wasn't going to happen, it was too late to do anything about it.

There will be a new dream...there always is.