In a message dated 6/29/99 9:41:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > HELLoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou ? > > Closing applications for process eng. next week ; how's your barge floating > ? > > Yo' still talking to me ? > > paul Hi ya Paul (and all the other Technetters)! First, I wanna apologize about being so quiet this past month, changing jobs and relocating can be a handfull...not to mention all the bloody stress that goes along with it...(geeze, I wonder how many ulcers I've given myself?) But, I gotta job! YAY! It's gonna be in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a company named LaBarge. So now I'll be a "Okie" (GRIN). Not there yet, still got the fun stuff of packing-up and loading a "U-Haul" to make the 1,800 mile trek...figure it'll take me about 5-days to get there. Really looking forward to it, relocating that is. VERY happy to be leaving "Silicon Valley" for a whole bunch of reasons. One big reason is purely the "quality of life" out here. Heck, it might sound like a good deal when a company says they'll pay guys like us (Manufacturing/Process engineer dudes) 50-70K a year, but when you wind-up paying $885 a month for a studio apartment (like I've been doing), and have to deal with the gridlock of traffic anytime you wanna go anywhere, plus pay a $1.80 gallon for gas, that 50-70K a year don't seem so hot. Also (I know not all people are like this out here) most people would think you're strange if you tried to introduce yourself to your neighbors in the apartment complex you lived in...that's the way it is. I've lived in my complex for 4-years and don't know the people living on either side of me, sad. Anyways, I just wanna say that it really feels good to have people like you ask questions about what happened to me...really means something to me. Thank-you very much! Just gimme a few more weeks and let me get settled in out in Tulsa, (provided I don't git sucked-up inna tornado!) and I'll be back with my usual banter...hehehe. -Steve-