Time to replace that broken window

Another slow day on the job search front. Nice lunch at NYAJ's with colleagues. Possibly we will soon all be contractors working for foreign employers? No cat pix today, both of them are snoozing the day away. Good time to try to replace that second floor window, I guess.

Yard waste went to the pit this morning, cross that off the honey-dew list. Should I go sailing on Thursday? Friday? Are we supposed to eat dinner with SeaQuester tomorrow? So many things going on...

Why did this guy tweet me last month? This sounds like a variation on the "driveway sealcoat scam". I can just hear this - "we were in your neighborhood, and we just painted your neighbor's lawn, and while we are on your street we can give you a big discount, today only. All we have is this lovely turquoise color left over, but it will be 1/2 off the price, today only."

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Monday honey-dew list

No pix for today, cats are sleeping upstairs for a change. Grady adopted the laundry basket as a bed now. Not much on job search front, have to step up the activity level a notch and do more research. I should be holding "open house" martini lunches and taking CTO's out to dinner at McCormick and Schmidt or similar.

Filed down the remaining sharp corners on lexan instrument cover for the boat. Removed the protective paper, I consider it "ready to use" now. I think I finally got the front storm door to latch properly. Well, compared to how you had to slam it three or four times before I started messing with it. Front doorbell button replaced, feels like a good day so far. Oops, shop vac the basement still. Is that aerobic?

Must read up on smaller companies around Massachusetts and try to make more LinkedIn contacts. I'm going to have to violate a rule and take my laptop with me on vacation on the boat this time. I suppose I can check online radar scans if the weather gets iffy.

The supposed education discount for new computers did not materialize, so stop thinking about a new iMac and see if I can justify a new MacBookPro at some point.

Apparently there may be a couple of SmartGrid positions to be had, at work. This week is the deadline for a decision, so I suppose that is something to look forward to as far as "good news once removed".

Sunday Sailing was pleasant but breeze was all over the place, zero knots, twenty knots, westerly, southerly, northerly. Gave up at 2:30 and took rookie sailor into Marblehead Harbor for a quick tour. New Dax winch handles seem to be keepers, kind of like switching from a standard transmission car to an automatic. My thumb keeps searching for the locking lever, which isn't there anymore.

Wrapping up job search activities for today, have to mow the lawn before the rain. The cats finally settled down at the usual morning hour, but Grady took longer than usual to burn off his morning calories. He eats anything on the floor. He tore his latest paper shopping bag to shreds. He tried to eat the blue milk cap ring that his sister likes to play with. He gnawed the ballpoint pen that was mysteriously on the kitchen floor this morning. The lamp in the family room was lying on its side when I got up this morning.

Looking forward to Sunday Sailing, I have a few crew guys showing up. We are only a couple of weeks away from a boating vacation now too. I hope the house survives in our absence, the furballs seem determined to chew, claw, sniff or eat every single knick knack or in fact any object they can see, in the house. But they do like to be held and scratched, once in a while.

Here is the Gracie pic from yesterday, while I was conducting job search activities.

That piece of paper in my pocket is the receipt from the dentist for fixing a filling that came loose Monday, they got me into the office the next day after I called them.

Added iptvtwit to my following list this morning, just in case it matters.

A couple of colleagues have landed safely at companies doing stuff that seems important, like data center management and SmartGrid.

Thinking of getting a couple of new computers soon, I may be free lance programming, and our desktop is ancient, with full disk drives.