Thursday Re-Cap.

.....Well, it happened as I thought it might today. At about 3PM I get a phone call from Human Resources with the news that I was being offered a new job. About five minutes later I get another phone call from our Chief Administrator who wants to see me first thing in the morning to talk about the possibility. Seems the Big Boss is no longer opposed to my going away. However, the Chief Administrator wants to talk to me about taking a demotion when, in his opinion, I've lasted this long in my current job and I would be taking a pay cut if I accepted the new job.

.....Nothing is ever easy. Or, rather, when you ask the Universe for a favor? Then the thing you should do is be clear on what it is EXACTLY you want from it. More to follow. I'd better figure in what direction I want to go.

.....Just found out I missed a planning meeting this evening. I didn't have it written down anywhere handy. It was a meeting arragned about three weeks ago. I had a couple of actions to get done and had most of it complete. Not that it was exactly good news, as the places I was investigating weren't exactly panning out. But I did have some further actions to find more information.

.....TBT and I keep talking about new cell phones with the capability of keeping our schedules on them. I currently tend to write everything down. Which means that I lose a number of scheduled events. But if I could keep all of this electronically, with alarms and electronic reminders at appropriate intervals, maybe I'd remember these meetings I keep forgetting.

.....Would be nice to keep an electronic roll-call of chores I need to get done. Maybe important deadline dates that are coming up quickly. How about important birthdays, and anniversay dates.

.....Would be nice to have the ability to take quick notes on things that come up during the day, like sales you see in the local paper or activities you see advertised on the local bulletin board at work.

.....You know, this electronic scheduling system would be rather cool. Especially if you could synch your schedule with your spouse so that you could SHARE your schedule with them and COORDINATE your plans with them. What a concept!

.....I think that I'd like this device to act as an e-reader as well, something like a Kindle. A small screen might be annoying, but I could work around it. Especially considering that everything I want electronically is located in one device.

.....The ability to access and download e-mail would be a bonus as well. I could send messages to people from anywhere, which would be especially brilliant if a reminder on something important needs to be sent.

.....Well, since we're dreaming here, let's make this device an MP3 player of some type as well. :-)

.....Maybe someday I'll have such a device. :-)

.....But for now I'll just be jealous of Brighid's new Blackberry and Achaxe's Droid. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.