Hello and Good morning BAP!
Glad to hear your super computer is back up and running.
I have several "anvils" in the fire so to speak right now and am really anxious about them.
I am hesitant to talk about them openly.
Let's say that I need some divine help on Tuesday as I meet with long time suppliers and friends as we have built up long standing relationships after 25 years of faithful service with one another. I have watched these people's families grow, one get married and have three wonderful children who are now teens and another whose daughter married last year after graduation from college.
I really hope to be able to bring some wonderful additional vibrancy to his company in a role I would be awesome at, sales engineer and consultant for his company. I like him a lot and he has been a true friend over some long years together.
He still sells me powder at my 1987 price for my powder coating system.
A really great break from my normal occupation of being pretty much a manufacturing expert in the area of sheet metal fabricating.
I am praying daily for God's help and provision for me and my wife.
Truth is though, I am at perfect peace being unemployed. I have ZERO stress right now going to that plant, which had really gone downhill rapidly.
Glad to be out of there and I should have quit from this place a long time ago. Much relieved and don;t hate to go to work anymore.
I feel very badly for my hand trained crew who is left there, but at least they are working and have no changes in their lives other than I am not there.
Time to move on with life. I cannot take care of everyone all the time.
Anyway, that is what's happening in my world right now. I have no routine, I have filed for unemployment for the first time in my life, but am really hoping to get back to it soon, even if it is after the first of the year, I can wait and in fact, prefer it that way. This way I can enjoy my Christmas and go visit my grandchildren and daughter in Virginia.
I am alright monetarily but hey, if I can collect some unemployment to supplement, I'll take it!
Hope all is well with you and your wonderful wife!
My best to you,
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