timing is everything

It is more then just a saying. It is a reality in my life right now.

I haven't said anything around here because, well because I am a lurker
that has maybe four or five cigars a month. Also, because I am trying
not to throw myself a pity party, but...

I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more. I am unemployed. I am 34
years old and have been working for 22 years and this is the first time
I have ever filed for unemployment.

So today, as I am puttering around the yard doing some stuff, the mail
carrier pulls up. I walk out to great him, as is customary here in rural
eastern Washington state. What does he do?? He hands me an explosive
device from Colorado!! I tried to turn and run, but it was too late.

The foreign explosive devices that were within are foreign to me and I
am very anxious to see what kind of power they possess.

Now it would be coincidental enough if this package had arrived at the
end of a very hard week arguing with the state about benefits etc (which
it did). But, I have to say, it is even more coincidental that it
arrives from a Dr. (Acey) the very same day that I sign up for the local
RN program at the community college. Do you have contacts on the inside
that are trying to keep me out with home delivered ordinances?

All kidding aside. It wasn't necessary, but it is greatly appreciated! I
will find a time that I am burdened with too many studies to study each
and every one of them.

Ryan

Ryan Case wrote:
<snip>
> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more. I am unemployed. I am 34
> years old and have been working for 22 years and this is the first
> time I have ever filed for unemployment.

Send snaily to kpos3wt at comcast dot net. If'n you're going back to school,
you'll need a bigger supply to tide you over, even at 4-5 per month. ;-)
Good luck with everything. In my experience, these things usually work out
for the best.
--
TL,
Tim
-------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:
> Ryan Case wrote:
> <snip>
>> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
>> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more. I am unemployed. I am 34
>> years old and have been working for 22 years and this is the first
>> time I have ever filed for unemployment.
>
> Send snaily to kpos3wt at comcast dot net. If'n you're going back to school,
> you'll need a bigger supply to tide you over, even at 4-5 per month. ;-)
> Good luck with everything. In my experience, these things usually work out
> for the best.


Thanks,

I am pretty sure that I will be better off in three years time. It is
just the financial gaps that I will be facing in those three years that
scare the shit outa me right now.

I think I am going to go have a home brew.

Thanks again,

Ryan

On Apr 26, 1:36=EF=BF=BDam, Ryan Case <use...@jamesrobert.us> wrote:
> Tim J. wrote:
> > Ryan Case wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
> >> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more. I am unemployed. I am 34
> >> years old and have been working for 22 years and this is the first
> >> time I have ever filed for unemployment.
>
> > Send snaily to kpos3wt at comcast dot net. If'n you're going back to sch=
ool,
> > you'll need a bigger supply to tide you over, even at 4-5 per month. =EF=
=BF=BD;-)
> > Good luck with everything. In my experience, these things usually work o=
ut
> > for the best.
>
> Thanks,
>
> I am pretty sure that I will be better off in three years time. It is
> just the financial gaps that I will be facing in those three years that
> scare the shit outa me right now.
>
> I think I am going to go have a home brew.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Ryan

HEY Ryan,

send me your snaily! I always have a bunch a very smokeable cigars
that I collect for the troops, but I can surely spare a few for a
newbie from my personal also not fancy stash! These won't be the "hot
stuff" ones, but very smokeable! A terrific male RN pretty much saved
my life a few+ years ago when I was very-nutropenic from chemo (almost
negative white blood cells)... he shared a cigar with me when I
recovered!

So study & work hard and send me an e-mail! NOW! <G>

Mary

Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us> wrote in news:fuuetj$pa5$2@aioe.org:

> It is
> just the financial gaps that I will be facing in those three years
> that scare the shit outa me right now.

Yeah, it's scary. I did a year without working not too long
ago. It turns out that a guy pisses away a lot of money
without realizing it. We cut back, of course, but our standard
of living didn't really change during that time. So, yep,
RDWHAHB, and I'm betting that you'll be surprised at how well
you can live on much less income.

B.(And just think of how much you'll save on taxes!)

--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.

Bart Goddard wrote:
> Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us> wrote in news:fuuetj$pa5$2@aioe.org:
>
>> It is
>> just the financial gaps that I will be facing in those three years
>> that scare the shit outa me right now.
>
> Yeah, it's scary. I did a year without working not too long
> ago. It turns out that a guy pisses away a lot of money
> without realizing it. We cut back, of course, but our standard
> of living didn't really change during that time. So, yep,
> RDWHAHB, and I'm betting that you'll be surprised at how well
> you can live on much less income.
>
> B.(And just think of how much you'll save on taxes!)
>

We were more or less a single income family. Wifey has had to start
working again and I am playing Mr. Mom in the afternoons when the boy
gets home from school. We'll make it work. Just won't always be as fun
as it could be.

No kidding on the taxes part.

On 2008-04-25 19:13:18 -0600, Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us> said:
> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more.

Shit. I was just telling the wife how I needed an RV more than hops! ;-)


> The foreign explosive devices that were within are foreign to me and I
> am very anxious to see what kind of power they possess.


Don't worry too much. I don't have Dr. Marc's experience (or leather
tongue). Those "foreign" explosives are on the mild to medium-powered
end of things.


> Now it would be coincidental enough if this package had arrived at the
> end of a very hard week arguing with the state about benefits etc
> (which it did). But, I have to say, it is even more coincidental that
> it arrives from a Dr. (Acey) the very same day that I sign up for the
> local RN program at the community college. Do you have contacts on the
> inside that are trying to keep me out with home delivered ordinances?

Congrats and welcome to the dark side. Medicine is fun, and boy, do we
need RNs! You'll do great; besides, you unfortunately have tons of
"amatueur medical experience."


> All kidding aside. It wasn't necessary, but it is greatly appreciated!
> I will find a time that I am burdened with too many studies to study
> each and every one of them.

Enjoy them!

--
Acey

Jonathan Acey Albert wrote:
> On 2008-04-25 19:13:18 -0600, Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us> said:
>> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
>> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more.
>
> Shit. I was just telling the wife how I needed an RV more than hops! ;-)

Tell me about it. Ten years there and I don't even own an RV. Some
employer huh?

>
>
>> The foreign explosive devices that were within are foreign to me and I
>> am very anxious to see what kind of power they possess.
>
>
> Don't worry too much. I don't have Dr. Marc's experience (or leather
> tongue). Those "foreign" explosives are on the mild to medium-powered
> end of things.

So they might take out a Volkswagen Beetle, but a bus would be o.k?

>
>
>> Now it would be coincidental enough if this package had arrived at the
>> end of a very hard week arguing with the state about benefits etc
>> (which it did). But, I have to say, it is even more coincidental that
>> it arrives from a Dr. (Acey) the very same day that I sign up for the
>> local RN program at the community college. Do you have contacts on the
>> inside that are trying to keep me out with home delivered ordinances?
>
> Congrats and welcome to the dark side. Medicine is fun, and boy, do we
> need RNs! You'll do great; besides, you unfortunately have tons of
> "amatueur medical experience."

You play the cards you get. I am not one for folding.
>
>
>> All kidding aside. It wasn't necessary, but it is greatly appreciated!
>> I will find a time that I am burdened with too many studies to study
>> each and every one of them.
>
> Enjoy them!

I will, thanks again.

"Ryan Case" <usenet@jamesrobert.us> wrote in message
news:fuuer3$pa5$1@aioe.org...
> Jonathan Acey Albert wrote:
>> On 2008-04-25 19:13:18 -0600, Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us> said:
>>> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
>>> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more.
>>
>> Shit. I was just telling the wife how I needed an RV more than hops! ;-)
>
> Tell me about it. Ten years there and I don't even own an RV. Some
> employer huh?
>
Really! Bummer, dude.

I worked for the old McDonnell-Douglas Helicopter for nine years and every
year I'd get up on Christmas morning expecting to find an AH-64 Apache
parked in my driveway.

Every year I was disappointed!

But take the dots out of my address and send me your snaily - we can help
you get through the lean times and even send some Blue Jamaica coffee to
help get you through the long study sessions.

(I got laid off for the last time at 52 (sixth during my career), and of the
nine companies I worked for since college, only two are still in business.
My BIL worked as a contractor for 17 companies in 24 years and only three
are still in business. We often wonder how we could have missed those last
few...)

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:36:45 -0700, "Tom S." <t.m.s.work@cox.net>
wrote:

>
>"Ryan Case" <usenet@jamesrobert.us> wrote in message
>news:fuuer3$pa5$1@aioe.org...
>> Jonathan Acey Albert wrote:
>>> On 2008-04-25 19:13:18 -0600, Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us> said:
>>>> I lost my job about a week ago. The company I was designing RVs for
>>>> closed. The Alpenlite brand name is no more.
>>>
>>> Shit. I was just telling the wife how I needed an RV more than hops! ;-)
>>
>> Tell me about it. Ten years there and I don't even own an RV. Some
>> employer huh?
>>
>Really! Bummer, dude.
>
>I worked for the old McDonnell-Douglas Helicopter for nine years and every
>year I'd get up on Christmas morning expecting to find an AH-64 Apache
>parked in my driveway.
>
>Every year I was disappointed!
>
>But take the dots out of my address and send me your snaily - we can help
>you get through the lean times and even send some Blue Jamaica coffee to
>help get you through the long study sessions.
>
>(I got laid off for the last time at 52 (sixth during my career), and of the
>nine companies I worked for since college, only two are still in business.
>My BIL worked as a contractor for 17 companies in 24 years and only three
>are still in business. We often wonder how we could have missed those last
>few...)
>


And here I was thinking I was good at causing companies to fold up! Of
the six employers I've had in the past 25 years or so, four of them
are gone for good, one was in bankruptcy when it got bought out by a
competitor, and only the most recent employer is still in business.

The others were gone within a year after we parted ways, and I was
fired from my most recent gig only 6 months ago so I've still got my
fingers crossed.

Maybe I should sell that company stock soon.

"Ray" <chigarayREMOVE@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:11o6141562299pkngdtobrn2kr9a42elbk@4ax.com...


> And here I was thinking I was good at causing companies to fold up! Of
> the six employers I've had in the past 25 years or so, four of them
> are gone for good, one was in bankruptcy when it got bought out by a
> competitor, and only the most recent employer is still in business.
>
> The others were gone within a year after we parted ways, and I was
> fired from my most recent gig only 6 months ago so I've still got my
> fingers crossed.
>
> Maybe I should sell that company stock soon.

How about this for a career plan:
"Pay me, or I'll come work for you."
;-)

Alex W. wrote:
> "Ray" <chigarayREMOVE@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:11o6141562299pkngdtobrn2kr9a42elbk@4ax.com...
>
>
>> And here I was thinking I was good at causing companies to fold up! Of
>> the six employers I've had in the past 25 years or so, four of them
>> are gone for good, one was in bankruptcy when it got bought out by a
>> competitor, and only the most recent employer is still in business.
>>
>> The others were gone within a year after we parted ways, and I was
>> fired from my most recent gig only 6 months ago so I've still got my
>> fingers crossed.
>>
>> Maybe I should sell that company stock soon.
>
> How about this for a career plan:
> "Pay me, or I'll come work for you."
> ;-)
>
>
>
shouldn't that have been?

<guido voice>
pay me, or I'll come work for you
</guido voice>

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:12:10 -0700, Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us>
wrote:

>Alex W. wrote:
>> "Ray" <chigarayREMOVE@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:11o6141562299pkngdtobrn2kr9a42elbk@4ax.com...
>>
>>
>>> And here I was thinking I was good at causing companies to fold up! Of
>>> the six employers I've had in the past 25 years or so, four of them
>>> are gone for good, one was in bankruptcy when it got bought out by a
>>> competitor, and only the most recent employer is still in business.
>>>
>>> The others were gone within a year after we parted ways, and I was
>>> fired from my most recent gig only 6 months ago so I've still got my
>>> fingers crossed.
>>>
>>> Maybe I should sell that company stock soon.
>>
>> How about this for a career plan:
>> "Pay me, or I'll come work for you."
>> ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>shouldn't that have been?
>
><guido voice>
>pay me, or I'll come work for you
></guido voice>


And if I get enough companies to come on board with that plan, I'm set
for life. I can be hired to not work pretty cheap and with minimal
benefits. I'll need insurance coverage and a good profit sharing and
pension plan, of course. An employee discount on stock purchases would
be nice, but not a deal-breaker by any means. Now, about that company
car...

In article <ieu614dnke754fbfqno61aquvfjt7ntf16@4ax.com>,
Ray <chigarayREMOVE@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:12:10 -0700, Ryan Case <usenet@jamesrobert.us>
> wrote:
>
> >Alex W. wrote:
> >> "Ray" <chigarayREMOVE@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> >> news:11o6141562299pkngdtobrn2kr9a42elbk@4ax.com...
> >>> And here I was thinking I was good at causing companies to fold up! Of
> >>> the six employers I've had in the past 25 years or so, four of them
> >>> are gone for good, one was in bankruptcy when it got bought out by a
> >>> competitor, and only the most recent employer is still in business.
> >>>
> >>> The others were gone within a year after we parted ways, and I was
> >>> fired from my most recent gig only 6 months ago so I've still got my
> >>> fingers crossed.

> >>> Maybe I should sell that company stock soon.

> >> How about this for a career plan:
> >> "Pay me, or I'll come work for you."
> >> ;-)

> >shouldn't that have been?
> >
> ><guido voice>
> >pay me, or I'll come work for you
> ></guido voice>

> And if I get enough companies to come on board with that plan, I'm set
> for life. I can be hired to not work pretty cheap and with minimal
> benefits. I'll need insurance coverage and a good profit sharing and
> pension plan, of course. An employee discount on stock purchases would
> be nice, but not a deal-breaker by any means. Now, about that company
> car...

I once had this idea to make my living not-raising pigs... ;)

--
Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.

"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked.com> wrote in message
news:Misc-DDE84B.15240226042008@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...


>
> I once had this idea to make my living not-raising pigs... ;)
>

That would work well in Saudi Arabia ....