I'm sorry, Scrappy. That truly sucks. (Although I, too, went to a "who fires the firers" place for a sec.)

I read the termination letter and said "well, I know what this says, since I wrote it."

Ouch, Scrappy.

sj,

I'm glad that Laura gave you some info. I have not actually used any of the sites to do background checks in a number of years.

omnis,

hang in there. you are a good son, no doubt.

Omnis, you have recieved excellent, sound advice. That is scary stuff.

Speaking of scary stuff, a few minutes ago I noticed a strong smell of smoke/burning here at work. The supervisor was all "no worries, we'll just shut off the external air intake" and then a couple minutes later someone else noted that there was distinct smoke in another room in the building, so now the fire dept is en route to their dispatch center to investigate. Awesome. Total business as usual. This reminds me that our protocol for an actual fire on the operations floor (or any other distaster) is to stay at our stations and continue processing calls until a supervisor personally relieves each one of us. Good times. Can I go home now?

Crazy day at work. Rather frustrating outside rental. Ballroom dance school is renting the big theater to do a big recital. They know nothing of production. And were very non-caring, and not realizing they were asking for things not part of the rental package. And then imposing their schedule on us...as in, "Oh, we can't go pick up the rental mics you need to patch in, but I have to go run some errands. So Matt will bring those around 4pm"... even though I said I need to be on the road by 3pm. Ugg. Thankfully home now. Just in time for the sunset. It's pretty, but nothing fab. There are some high altitude formations of birds flying in formation through it. Cool, but no chance my iPad camera will see them.

Soon, I gotta change clothes and head out on the triple date thing. Kinda nervous. Never dated 3 folks at the same time, not to mention on the same date. But, I suppose, since there will be 2 other guys there, it's not quite like a regular 1-on-1 date. Shuold be interesting. Two are teachers, one is an xray technician. As for the guys, one is a property management person, "real outgoing guy". and the other works at a paper plant, and is quiet. At least, that's what the matchmaker gal said. We shall see. Wish me luck!

Then tomorrow, call Mom, and hopefully W isn't up visiting this weekend. Ugg.

I hope tonight is a lot of fun, o-a.

How far away is your mom? Is a in person visit possible?

10 minute drive down the freeway. It'd be shorter, except for the construction traffic at her exit.

Wishing you much hard convo~ma, OA.

The format of the 'date' tonight sounds kinda interesting to me. Not as much pressure as a one on one, yet not as overwhelming as speed dating.