Dangerman's mumblings

Those of you who are in warmer climates and are wishing for a white Christmas will just have to grin and bare it. We have it here! Idaho and Utah have the White Christmas. Come here if you can. Of course, you will have to take the driving conditions along with it, tee hee. Yes, it is beautiful to look at and nice to know that we will have the moisture in the mountains come spring thaw. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We went to Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving and stayed at my wife's brother's house for thanksgiving. It was an enjoyable trip. Unfortunately, it is over and now Christmas is on its way very quickly. It's going to be a tight Christmas, all dreaming aside. Best holiday wishes to all.

Last night we went to the Daily Herald news paper and along with several other students from her school, my daughter, Grace, read a news story that was given to her randomly. It so happened that it was about the new Cinemark theater in Orem that we went to for the BSA movie night. Thus she had been there and was familiar with the building the story was talking about. If you would like to see the results of the news story at News Kids for Tuesday, November 11. Her Story is Cinemark.

it has been a crazy day. had to get the care repaired so it can hopefully pass safety and emissions now - about $400 later. Yeah, happy b-day to me. Tonight was a local BSA fund raiser night; a new Cinemark theater is doing its grand opening tomorrow night, and they decided to do a fund raiser for the BSA, all the concessions went to the BSA. It was crowded. We saw the movie Egor. It was different. Not something I would have picked to see-the kids picked it. It was PG. Other choices were PG-13 and we had not previewed them and with the crowd as it was it may have been tough to get into much else either. If my scanner was not dead, I would scan the program and show all the movies they showed, but I cannot, oh well. Still no job yet, but I do have a phone interview tomorrow and an in person interview on Monday, two different companies. I hope and pray for something soon because things are really getting tight.

It is amazing who you can meet when just out and about... My wife and I were out shopping for my B-day present, and while at the Distribution Center we bumped into Aunt Beth and her daughter Connie. I went up and said, "Hey, I think we are related. What was your name again?" and aunt Beth asked what our names were, and we answered and Connie and Aunt Beth asked where we lived and we found that we all live withing a few blocks of each other, and see each other not very often. It is amazing who we can run into when out and about.

first if getting laid off isn't bad enough, then my laptop hard drive crashed, and I lost at least a years worth of my yahoo accounts email. Still no sure job offers. I interviewed with SOS temp yesterday and a job - mozy.com - through SOS technical, that would be on a contractual basis. I was told that I should find out about that one by late afternoon on Friday.

I went on some errands and during that time I stopped at the post office and while there asked if they were hiring, mentioned that I had been laid off. The woman mentioned that she had read about TNI laying off 85 people in the news paper. So for those who have not seen that article - here it is- Heraldextra article I think that it is rather enlightening, myself, for a public release. and then the SLC Tribune had some similar ones: SLC_Trib1

just in case any one wanted to know, getting laid off is not fun to do. Wednesday, the 1st of October, the first phone call I received on my cell phone was from my manager. He asked me to come back to the legal counsel's office. Just before that, my co-worker was bring me up to spead on what had been rumored or discussed the day before about lay-offs. She figured that if anyone in our helpdesk would get let go, she probably would since was low person on the totem pole. Well, I guess I should have been listening to myself, because I just got through saying something like it doesn't matter, it could be any of us. I walked back to the legal counsels office, and there was my manager standing behind the head legal counsels desk with a pink/burgundy folder with my name on it. It was explained to me that contained in the folder was a check for my pay up till 5 pm that day and the rest of my vacation days. I would be given time to back up my data if I wished, since I knew how to do tha...

Nathaniel and I went to SEUSSICAL: THE MUSICAL Nathaniel needed to go to a musical thing for a requirement for his choir class. It was an enjoyable show; a lot of energy up on the stage for those actors and actresses to dance around and sing, especially for the two main parts, the Cat in the hat and JoJo.

Gagets and gizmos and the ability to edit html and place things in different spots on the blog makes things more interesting to me. Maybe I will post and play around more often, hmm? gotta go to bed now.

I sure wish that house hunting was easier. No one told me it would be this hard. Of course when it doesn't help that we don't qualify for much and that the market is really weird and that any house we qualify for is old and that townhomes are hard to get into because of HOA fees. STRESS! All I can do is take one day at a time and keep praying that something will come of it.

I took a quiz today at http://www.quizmeme.com/color/quiz.php and the results are below and it was a surprise to me. YELLOW You are very perceptive and smart. You are clear and to the point and have a great sense of humor. You are always learning and searching for understanding. Find out your color at QuizMeme.com!