Yesterday's interview: disappointing, as expected. I do believe that I impressed the girl from Human Resources that interviewed me, but that doesn't mean much. She said several times that the boss lady had stressed that she wanted someone with a degree... and someone who was registered in ultrasound. Then she quoted the salary range; $4.00 less an hour than I'm making right now. Very strange... registered ultrasound techs are in demand right now, starting off right out of school for about what I'm getting. Degreed techs, ditto. A combo like what they're describing would expect more, of course.

Somehow, I get the feeling that they're excluding me from contention. Duh. Gee, why didn't I see this coming? *smile*

More interesting stuff: I went over to fishing buddy Doug's and redid his internet connection, getting his the latest MSIE and mail programs. His email (MS Exchange) never did work right, so that's eliminated and everything else is working well. We spent quite a bit of time talking about work, and not much time talking about fishing. In about a month, we'll get the fishing fever and get the catalogs out and start preparing for the March Fork Trip (Notice the CAPS?) Just writing it out has got me excited.

A recent fishing tragedy in Kansas: three guys were drowned Sunday at Wolf Creek, a power plant lake about 60 miles south of here. This lake is supposed to be really hot, what with the warmer water from the power plant and the fact that it's been off limits since it was built. It was opened up this fall to restricted fishing. Anyway, these three guys were out on the lake in a 15-foot boat in very cold & windy weather. Two of them were found with their life jackets on. The third hasn't been found yet. They all leave small kids and young widows behind. Very sad. Most likely cause is a small overloaded boat on water that was too rough.

Two years ago there were two guys in a fifteen-foot boat at fork that had about the same thing happen to them. We were fishing in the area where they were found, and we found their chart monitor.

You just never can tell.

This was going to be the day that I actually got started on the rental house, but Karen has lost the keys; she gave them to someone at work who was interested in renting it, and they gave them back to her, and now she can't find them. And, of course, there's only one set.

So I'll spend the day playing on the net and catching up on the journals. I also need to do some re-wiring here so I can actually have grounded outlets for my computer. This is the last room that I need to change over, then the whole house will be up to code. I need to write Karen's seasonal poem, too. I sure do love that woman!