((((Teppy))))) Please listen to the wise people here. We're here if you need us.

Hil, as I think I. May have already mentioned, what you have been describing lately sounds very much like my anxiety attacks. FWIW, they never come when I am feeling particularly stressed. I tend to have them at the movies or out to dinner with friends or just relaxing at home.

What everyone else said, Teppy.

Oh Karl, love. I am so sorry. Anything on the horizon, or have you not had the power to think about it yet?

Happy Birthday, Sparky!!!

Aw, Karl, that sucks. It's nice to see you here, but the reason why you have the time is crappy. Much job~ma for you.

Oh, fuck, Karl. I hope you can find something else quickly.

{{Karl}} I'm so sorry! Any chance of a severence package of some kind?

(((((Karl))))) I'm so sorry.Best of luck finding something new.

A few possibilities through former colleagues. Unfortunately, most of these take the form of brilliant schemes without funding, and the startup world of Northern California lives and dies by the whims of the venture capitalists, who are, of course, excreting a collective brick over the current economic asshattery.

I'm thinking it might be time to take a big honking pay cut and try to find something quiet and socially meaningful, like maintaining servers for a progressive non-profit. Startup culture is toxic after a while, anyway. It'd be good to do something that made me feel like I was actually making the world a better place. Doing that and keeping up on the rent ... well, I'm a bright boy. I'll think of something.

ETA: Sail, I'm paid through the end of this month, which, yeah, Thursday and Friday were holidays already. They'll pay my medical premiums for the next two months, but that's about it as far as severance goes. The fact is, they're just plain out of money.

{{{Karl}}}

Oh that's just massively sucky-- here's hoping something new turns up.