Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday: Wii
So my parents got here on Saturday, and then yesterday we decided to break out the Wii. They are thoroughly enjoying it!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sunday: the mornings conversation
Amanda: I sequestered your waterbottles to use as cooler coolers. Hehe, I've never been able to use that word twice in a row.
Ben: Compared to using the water bottles in the fridge, would you consider them cooler cooler coolers?
Ben: Compared to using the water bottles in the fridge, would you consider them cooler cooler coolers?
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Thursday: almost Friday
Yay! It's almost Friday. I'll admit, this week hasn't been that bad. But it is rather depressing packing everything up for the possibility that it'll never be looked at again. The tension is high because everyone has their own idea for how things need to be done (which will really, really matter if we start working again down the road) and because there is a limited amount of time to do things.
The weather has turned warm though, which has been wonderful.
The layoffs were on Tuesday. Neither Ben nor I nor any of our friends got laid off, but we both know people that did, which is sad.
Last night I was in rough shape...two cankersores and two foot owies. They all seem to be better today.
The weather has turned warm though, which has been wonderful.
The layoffs were on Tuesday. Neither Ben nor I nor any of our friends got laid off, but we both know people that did, which is sad.
Last night I was in rough shape...two cankersores and two foot owies. They all seem to be better today.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Tuesday: movie night
Tonight we had a movie night with our bible study and watched "yes man." It was actually a pretty funny movie. And everyone brought snacks and we chatted a while afterwards...it was fun.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday: rumors, take 4
Today, rumors were dispelled as the stop work came through. It actually came through on Friday, but everyone was nice enough not to tell me over the weekend.
Everyone, at least in my small department, seemed in good spirits though. We sat around until 2pm, at which point we finally got some direction. It looks like we are going to have two weeks to close everything up and get documentation in order, and I expect we'll need most of that time. My tech lead thinks it'll be easy to place us in other jobs for now, although my manager seemed rather silent today (silent as in not around) so it's hard to know for sure.
In some ways, this might work out for the best...management doesn't want to get rid of us in case we get to go back to work, but if it is a termination then we will hopefully all have other jobs that we're already doing to get us through this uncertain time.
Also, in some ways it's nice that it happened so everyone can stop being on an emotional roller coaster.
Everyone, at least in my small department, seemed in good spirits though. We sat around until 2pm, at which point we finally got some direction. It looks like we are going to have two weeks to close everything up and get documentation in order, and I expect we'll need most of that time. My tech lead thinks it'll be easy to place us in other jobs for now, although my manager seemed rather silent today (silent as in not around) so it's hard to know for sure.
In some ways, this might work out for the best...management doesn't want to get rid of us in case we get to go back to work, but if it is a termination then we will hopefully all have other jobs that we're already doing to get us through this uncertain time.
Also, in some ways it's nice that it happened so everyone can stop being on an emotional roller coaster.
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