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.

Happy birthday Mike, you being 19 is weird. Since we are in the days of blogs, I don’t have to call you to wish you happy birthday, also weird.

Don’t have much time to write today. Saw Cush Friday night, they were amazing. Lars and crew did not get in till 3am Friday. Saturday we drove to Joshua Tree to camp. Saturday night was amazing, had a camp fire, some beers, cigars, lars on guitar and great conversation, very epic. Sunday we drove through the park, it was very strange, not beautiful, but strange and weird, but worth seeing, at least once I guess. We did a little rock climbing and that was cool. Yesterday I worked a half day and then the boys and I surfed at dog beach in OB, pretty solid time. Then we went to a good Italian place for dinner, then boys went to Hemingways in Old Town for cigars and more talk. Joel got to go to the AZ briefly last night as well, quality. Not sure what the rest of the week holds. Wednesday night we are supposed to go to a Superdrag/Ozma show here in SD, and I think Lars has to head to LA on Thursday. Work sucks and has been making me sick on and off for the past week from working so much. And now its even harder to work with my good friends in town and NCAA going on, ah, the troubles of life.

A few other quick notes, CBS screwed joel and I over. We tried to tape the UK game on Sunday and had the right time that was listed in the paper, but apparently CBS got permission to change times so they could cover more war crap, so we only got the first half of the game, bastards. I wish we could have seen the Arizona/Gonzaga game, but we were camping. UK is looking strong, and why can’t Duke and Kansas tie in their game and we just eliminate them both?

The Oscars sucked, we missed the first half cause we were driving back from Joshua Tree, but I am totally disappointed, except for Chris Cooper and Spirited Away. They screwed Gangs and Day-Lewis. Sorry to those who liked it, but Chicago was one of the most boring things I have ever seen, and that’s just personally. I respect that it was well done and had great acting and singing, but I guess I prefer people getting sliced up by a butcher over cheesy singing. I think the only movies I have ever liked with singing or singing numbers are the dream sequence in the Big Lebowski and all of Christopher Guests movies (well, the mockumentary ones). And nice job Adrian Brody on the Halle Berry suck face, dude, what is up with that? Ok, I have spent too much time writing, it will prolly be another while till I write again. No more talk of night sweats, and go Butler!