Repeat after me:
A 12 ALWAYS beats a 5. Always.
I thought I was so smart, picking Mississippi State to go to the Final Four. Good team, weak bracket... They played Kentucky almost dead even. Good pick, I thought. Even the ESPN guys thought so (not that they know any more than the rest of us).
But that's why they play the games.
Thank you, Butler, for making a mess of my picks. Hope you win at least another game or two, and wreck everyone else's.
Drat.
Had this strange feeling lately that it's really 1991. A Bush in the White House, CNN on 18 hours a day, and stuff blowing up in the middle east. Strange how events seem to wander all over the place from year to year, and yet it seems like you wind up right where you started.
Almost, anyway, considering since 1991 I've gotten married, had three kids of my own, added several nieces and nephews, lost my father, almost lost my mother, lost my sister figuratively, changed careers 4 times, gained 25 pounds, lost the ability to hit the open J, gained the ability to change diapers, improved my photography ever so incrementally, and so on, et cetera...
And yet, here we are, 12 years later, worrying about Saddam Hussein and Scud missiles again. Weird.
Oh, wait, that's right, Iraq doesn't have Scud missiles any more. Right. Forgot.
Two weeks from today is my last day of employment.
I've known March 31st would be my last day since last summer, but it knowing hasn't made any difference. I've been looking for a job for months, even had a couple interviews, but no offers. I was offered a job last December, a GIS job, for what I was making in 1997. I couldn't afford that salary then, and especially couldn't afford it now. At the time, it still seemed possible that something would come up before my legs got cut off.
I know of unix admins who have been looking for work around here for over a year. I can't say I'm feeling too optimistic about my chances.
I'm not normally an optimist, so I'm trying hard to approach my impending unpaid vacation as positively as I can. Lots of time to spend on stuff that's needed doing, like weeding the yard, painting various rooms, learning Farsi, etc. Even more free time than would otherwise be available, since we won't be able to afford broadband internet or the DirecTV subscription.
Sigh. There I go being negative again, dangit.