Edwin Wise

Almost There!

Michael at NI called yesterday to let me know that they have tentative approval on a job offer! Woo-hoo! They have to get it signed by the board, and the board meets Monday. So I'll know what the offer is by Tuesday.

I'm a bit nervous that they might give me a lame offer. We'll be putting me into a non-engineer-titled job to start with (specialist or something, I dunno) which is bound to pay less. The understanding is that we will work together to get me a degree pronto, whereupon I get a promotion and better pay.

So I just hope they offer me enough to pay my bills and get caught up in my debts. Otherwise I'll have a heck of a dilema on my hands.

Every once in a while, I get the urge to track down old friends. Not long ago the name Shannon Bunyard popped into my head, so I Googled her and found a reference! Keen! We hung out a long time ago, about the time I was breaking up with my first wife. That was a rough time, and she was a good friend then, so it's good to be back in contact.

There are other people I try to find from time to time, as well. My most best friend from California, Robert Cook, is one. Where the hell are you, Robert? I can't find you! Of course, he knew me as Brian Crouch, so it might be a trick for him to find _me_. I found Randy Eubanks, a mutual friend, but that contact didn't work out as well as it could have. I briefly found and then lost Sanjay Gidwani, you bastard, why did you disappear?

Then there is Megan Snyder, of the Eugene Snyder clan. Sally Kim from junior high in Long Beach, California (as if I'll ever find her, hah!).

I'm somtimes curious what has happened to Dennis Petrie, of Eugene. I still have the tapes for that show we did, "74.7".

And there are others. Right now my mind is blanking on their names, which is part of what slows down my searchs. Like most of the crew of the Starship Maelstrom... argh!

So if you knew Brian Crouch of Long Beach California (Lindbergh Junior High, Long Beach Polytechnic High) or Eugene Oregon (South Eugene High, University of Oregon), give me a ring, I'm feeling nostalgic this week.

As if this blog plea will do any good... who reads these things, anyway? But it certainly can't hurt.

Posted by Edwin at January 30, 2004 08:15 AM