1) It's really amazing what you can live without. I've learned over the last year that I really don't need that whole 10x20 storage unit of stuff that's still in Wyoming. Not spending for the sake of spending is like any habit... it doesn't happen overnight (unless you're forced to stop spending *raises hand* for some reason). It will take discipline and responsibility. Oops! Look who I'm talking to. Never mind. :)

2) Joel has an interview in Denver tomorrow for that company I was telling you about that is the premier Oracle DBA provider...with possible doubling of the income!!! Maybe there's a reason I haven't found a job in the Springs yet.

Well, we can keep our fingers crossed about the job situation. :) My own employment is looking...shaky, these days.

I know. Discipline and responsibility aren't exactly my middle names. But I'm getting *old* and I spent some time figuring my retirement today and it was *scary.*

Retirement... isn't that the wonderful time that I'm supposed to get back all the money I've paid over the last fifty-one years to Social Security?

Oh wait, no..., I'm supposed to be funding my OWN retirment plan now while STILL paying into the bottomless pit of No Returns.

You know, Pares and I had a really depressing conversation this afternoon about our employment prospects. Maybe it's time I got together a gang of flimflam girls and embarked on a project of dubious legal viability. What do you say?

I'll join the flim-flam girls. :)

(L-i-K-S - I'm obsessing recently over retirement. I predict I'm going to wind up living in an alley.)