Weird day. My company, Scantron, is not doing well financially, so today they layed off 10% of the workforce. I was fortunate enough to make the cut and my job is safe, but a very good friend that I work with was let go. She not only was a good friend, but I worked with her a lot on the projects that I had to do, so now I will not have a resource at work that I have counted on. So basically, I will have to work harder and more because my division has less people. This is the so strange to experience. My friend who got layed off, Suz, and I had a feeling the layoffs were coming, but we just didn’t know who. The last few days I have been a little stressed about it, and now I’m just sad that I lost a good co-worker. There were two others who were let go from my division as well and they were both great people and will be missed. As of now there is no plan for another round of layoffs, but who knows these days. The thing I have going for me is that I am literally the only tech writer on staff, and they need one, so unless my performance at my job goes down, I will likely keep my job, but you never know. Keep me in your prayers. I guess this is a reality of today’s job market and economy. This stupid war isn’t helping either. Oh, I almost forgot, the biggest surprise of the layoffs is that my supervisor is being forced out of her position. She may stay with the company, but not as the CTO of software division. She was a cool person and is the one who hired me in the first place. So now I have to get used to someone new as my supervisor. The guy who is taking her place actually works with Scantron already and is a cool dude, so the transition will not be that bad, I really like him, so that’s cool. But just a sad weird day.

Other than that small thing, had a great night last night with the guys. We went out to The Field for dinner and then had some more cigars downtown. Tonight we are going to the Superdrag/Ozma show, should be fun. Michele is in town as well. She drove down from SF last night. The guys have been busy burning mp3 cd’s from my 25 gig collection. Mccan actually bought blank DVD’s so he can take my whole collection, good man. Joel is starting his CD collection over from scratch cause his got stolen when his car got stolen, so he is going big and lavery as well. Joel leaves tomorrow, and the other guys leave Friday. Michele leaves Friday as well. It’s supposed to be a perfect weekend in SD coming up, that’s too bad since I will be inside watching basketball all weekend. The Indians manager was on Jim Rome today, he sounded pretty cool. Also, Jim Rome is doing a tour stop in Cincinnati in April, you should go Justin. And I liked your line in your blog about hindering the spirit at youth group, nice.