Filing for Unemployment

Filing unemployment.  Wow.  Pride.  Never, ever took a "handout."  Didn't even want to, but this may all be part of the lesson I am being taught, if you believe in that.  I'm motivated to work now, but nothing happens over the holidays.

Thanks to Sean at Vertex Computers in Frandor and Susan at DBI Office Interiors of Lansing. They helped me beef up my business ... most appreciated.  If you need computer help or unreal deals on Office Furnishings, please refer to them!

Day - ?? I Forgot!

Well, I am pretty sure it's Monday the ______.  First thing in unemployment land is you start to forget.  That and the holidays screw everything up.
Oh yeah.  It's Monday.  I do have appointments.  Seeing some folks.
Word on the street is that XXXXXX will keep Deb Hart on board as they simulcast an out of town show from Grand Rapids.  My fear is that once there is some illusion of continuity, she will later be broomed out the door. 

Reading Grandma's Bible

Well you find out quickly who your real friends are when you "change employers!"  Thanks guys/gals for touching base with me.  The others are either too shit scared for their own neck or they are the corporate spies who keep watching this space seeing if I'm going to spaz out on my old boss.  HA! 
With the new website will come an open BLOG.  Kinda nervous about it because I can't baby sit and I am Libertarian in that Free and unfettered speech is not as ugly as one controlled by a dangerous government (FCC - are you listening)?

Spent an hour reading my Grandma's old Bible last night.  In King James ... ugh.  Why do we turn to the ultimate source only when we are scared?  What a shame.  Truth is, some exciting things are developing, but it's vacation season right now

my new gig ... Rich "Cindy Lou" Michaels for Maytag

Christmas in the Digital Age & an Email

This is cool!  Christmas in the DIGITAL AGE.  Check it out:

 And then I got this incredible email:
"What if" .... you are exactly where you are suppose to be in life and are experiencing exactly what you are suppose to be experiencing? "What if" this is happening FOR you, not TO you? What if this is the road that is laid out for you to get you to the next "level, place in life..."... a job you are supposed to come across and take....new people you are supposed to be introduced to because they will play a positive role in your life going forward....maybe this is the road that you are to take to meet that "special person" who's waiting ahead..."What if you needed more life lessons/reminders about the importance of friends and family...maybe you're going to come out of this with more open mindedness in an area you needed to be more open and understanding to?... Maybe you're exactly where you're supposed to be, feeling exactly what you're supposed to feel and being prepped for what's ahead...What if everything that has happened in your life, good and bad, is exactly what was supposed to happen? What if? Side note - I am not religious or a Christian. Agnostic...maybe? Simply interested in people and life and the possibilities and try to be open and accepting of everyone. We're all just trying to get through life the best way we know how. Keep an open mind and look for the positive, it's there in almost everything. I'm curious to see how your life unfolds ahead of you. Merry Christmas.

And I don't mean to go overly religious, but when you are seeking answers, it is the place to go.  Found this:
Consider the roll call of Gods imperfect heroes:
 Noah got drunk.
Abraham lied about his wife.
Sarah laughed at God.
Jacob was a deceiver.
Moses murdered an Egyptian.
Rahab was a harlot.
Gideon was fearful.
Jephthah made a foolish vow.
Samson had serious problems with lust and anger.
Eli failed as a father.
David was an adulterer and a murderer.
Solomon married foreign wives who turned his heart toward idolatry.
Elijah struggled with depression.
Jonah ran away from God.
Peter denied Christ.
Paul argued with Barnabas.
Barnabas compromised the gospel.
James and John wanted special seats in the kingdom.
All the apostles argued about who was the greatest.

Day 2 - Unemployed

Todd sent this over.  Even if you are not religious, you cannot ignore the wisdom in this Biblical passage:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.