Back on UI

My contract with Microsoft ended officially last week. It was kind of anticlimactic... I had completed and submitted my rewrite of the content two weeks prior, and was waiting for the publishers to come back with feedback and suggestions. They never did, so I spent several days waiting and checking e-mail... and then my time was up. I hope it all turned out ok!

So I reopened my unemployment claim, and am back scouring the Internets. News arrived this morning that Microsoft laid off 3000 more people...that hurts the neighborhood, it does.

But it's a busy month, already. Rusty and I will be moving into "the principal's office" -- the office rooms of an elementary school that is being leased to local artists for studio and living space. We'll have both -- living space and a music studio. Rusty is on tour with Ottmar Liebert again, so my job is to pack up the old apartment and paint the new. Next week I'll be visiting mom for Mother's Day, and flying out to New York to see Rusty play at the Blue Note (!!), and when we both return, it'll be time to move!