Crazy But Able

As some of you already know, I got laid off the Monday I got back from our honeymoon. What timing, eh? My now former employer had to make some hard restructuring decisions right at the beginning of September, and they were faced with a real dilemma, whether to tell me before, or after, the wedding. I’ve had several people tell me that they probably did the right thing in telling me after rather than before, and now that I’ve thought about it, I agree. It was a good job and I learned a lot from Tony and my other co-workers, and I got a lot of helpful experience.

As a result of Monday’s news, Peggy and I are retrenching and changing our financial plans and goals in light of the new employment situation. I’m working on my resume and I of course I appreciate any tips or leads towards getting a new job. Drop me a line at jowilson at jowilson dot org.

That having been said, in my mind, humor is the best way to deal with tragedy. And the upside of not having a job is all of the new free time. In light of those two things, here’s my top ten list of things I’m going to do with my free time after getting laid off:

• 10. Finally get around to sorting all of the files on my computer based on whether they have an even or odd number of 1 bits.
• 9. Learn Klingon. Who knows, it might come in handy if I ever get around to attending Dragon*Con.
• 8. Unpack from the move!
• 7. Continually monitor my beard to ensure that it only ever contains a prime number of hairs.
• 6. Learn to type with my toes.
• 5. Invent a new martial art based on wedges of cheese.
• 4. Continue procrastinate on editing and posting new pics and getting image upload functionality working, just to annoy Keir and Corey.
• 3. Explain to Peggy why blogging and making up useless top ten lists is thereputic and helps me find a job faster.
• 2. Translate Virgil’s Aeneid from latin to pig-latin.
• 1. See if I can figure out this “internet” thing everyone keeps talking about.

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