Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I really had a great day.

Thinking about making the next trip in retrograde, and get a year younger.

Love you all.

The docs want a second chance to fix my heart, cause the pain is worse now than before the procedure on June 1st, so I am going back to hospital Tuesday, July 27 for another PCI, and possibly bypass surgery if they find more problems. Will keep you posted.

...are greatly exaggerated.

Those of you on Facebook may already know but here's an update for the rest of you.

I spent four days last week in the hospital while the docs unblocked one of the arteries in my heart (circumflex - for the medical among you) and put in a stent. I'm feeling much better, but still have a bit of a
struggle as the endocrinologist tries to debug my metabolic system.

I'm resting now. Hope to be back to myself in a few days. Love to all of you. Thanks for the calls, cards and emails from those of you who knew.

I'm here everyday reading anyhow. May as well continue to post here.

I've decided, based on a variety of reasons, to post my journal entries on Dreamwidth.org instead of Live Journal. Mostly, I hate the LJ advertising model, and idea of using my links to gather money for themselves via affiliate programs. I will probably import all my LJ entries at some, although I'm too busy to do right now.

Still active on Facebook, because the entire family is there.

TweetJeebus: If St. Paul really wanted an Epistle to go viral, he'd have found a way to get kittehs into his text.

http://twitter.com/TweetJeebus

A good job. I start Monday. Decent salary, nice co-workers, short commute. I be happy now.

Still here..still job hunting, although perhaps I am closer to the capturing my prey. Of the 24 interviews I've had in the last two months, 15 are still pending in their hiring decision, 4 have postponed the decision due to budget, 3 have hired someone other than me, and 2 have scheduled round two interviews. I'm still sending out multiple resume submissions each day, and will continue that until I am hired. I've pretty much decided that my salary requirements are the problem. Most of them don't want to pay what I was making before but if I ask for less than I was making, most companies are sure I won't stay. It's a dilemma.

I had the worst interview ever yesterday..a phone interview with a large (not-Google) search engine company. Rude and disrespectful little twerp..I told the hiring manager that if I had to work for or with that guy, I didn't want the job. It's a 38 mile commute, Java and JavaScript coding, and the money wasn't great, and I'm sure not going to deal with that kind of work environment.

However, I do have a face-to-face on Monday in the city. No Java or .NET, so I won't have to break my brain, and the money is better. Really hoping this will be the one, but if not also have an interview for later in the week with a large SAS company in the city.

Lots of intense family stuff happening, both good and bad. My health is stable at the moment, hoping it stays that way. Minimum pain, mostly just the stomach stuff, which has been going on for so long that I usually just ignore it.

Housing is still a problem. Staying with a friend because I don't want to commit to rent on another place until I get a job. Friend owes me big-time, so it's cool for now that I am sharing the place. Sleeping on my air mattress in the spare room under the fluffy blankets I got for Christmas. It is surprisingly comfortable.

I've lost ten pounds since the first of the year, for a grand total loss of over 170 pounds. Most of the remaining weight is loose skin which I'll have removed IF I ever have work again and can afford it.

Love you all. Miss you all. Will try to visit LJ more.

CW

The only thing I can take for pain is Tylenol, which promptly puts me to sleep. In fact, it puts me out faster than Morphine does. I need to be awake and pain free. This truly bites.

I'm about 99% of the way to a great job. Please keep fingers, toes and other body parts crossed for me. I really need this.