It's been a while but no one reads this anyway.

I swear this blog is like a diary that keeps falling behind the desk. I find it, look at it, then disregard it. Anyway, to get my thoughts out: I have been unemployed since Oct. 1, 2009, moved back to OH from WI, haven't found work yet, and have watched my severance/savings dwindle rapidly to nothing. I don't want to touch the Emergency Fund but if I don't make some income soon it will be an emergency. I need to sell stuff that just sits around collecting dust. Unfortunately most of my comic books are well read, worthless, or were destroyed in a flood in 2006 (some guy ran over a fire hydrant and flooded the yard all the way to the back of the very dry garage where they were "safely" kept). We have some jewelry, a 3/4 violin with case and bow, and I have a magazine or two that might be worth something. Bleah.

As for the job, I was laid off when my entire department was eliminated in favor of a duplicate department in a lower tax/cost of living/labor cost state. Makes sense from a business standpoint, but I miss the job and the people I worked with. I didn't want to take a job in the same building that I pretty much see as ripe for layoffs within a year or two, but in hindsight perhaps I should have because some income is better than no income.

It's nice to be near family, which is the main reason we moved back to OH, but I don't see them much anyway. Strangely enough my Father said it best when he said, "Move for a job if you have to." That may be the next step, and we are eying Southern states possibly along the Gulf of Mexico (or Tampa Bay). Of course I have many applications out, and there is one job in OH that I am waiting to hear back on which I really hope I get. It sounds like a great fit for me and the employer (no details, sorry but it's confidential) as well as a "turn things around" challenge. Anyway, enough for now...time for bed.