I don't know what happened, but they are not planning to extend an offer at this time. That was a fantastic waste of 3 months. Well, off to other opportunities.

Putting this with Intel's decision to seek more candidates, I am feeling a little undervalued.

I think it went well. We had lunch together at a Carlsbad Tavern. It was a fun place that I may have to visit with Karen. We talked about running development shops and owning your own business.

Direct Alliance called back to say my salary was not out of range and I was still being considered.

Intel seems to be out, though.

Tomorrow is ON! reduced from a full day of interviews to lunch with the principals, but it's on. I am stoked! (I am old enough to use the word stoked. I have a license, really)

Purdue has now voluntarily pulled Palladone from the market due to an unknown interaction with alcohol. This is like watching a plane crash onto an auto wreck. Where is this stuff originating? What else can go wrong for my friends at Purdue?

One more time I travel to Assist Technologies for a Multiple interview. I think. They keep canceling these interviews so we will see.

Well, our stuff arrived, mostly. A few things were lost in the move and we need to file claims for them. Several things were damaged in the move. They crushed our curio cabinets by placing "too heavy" things on top of them. The particle board gave way around the cams and shafts. I don't think I can repair it, just replace it.

The have the screw to assemble some of our lights. They don't know where they are, but they have them. As predicted they "lost" my hand truck so my arcade is still in the garage and I have to go buy another hand truck or wait until they find it in their warehouse.

They mashed my new work lights, again by placing something on top in a stack that was more than the top bar could bear and it began to tear out of the support pole. They took apart my nice new tool chest for some reason. then managed to bend the it in a way that prevents me from assembling it again.

They bent several floor lamps so much that the threads in the pole section stripped. So now I have wobbling lights. Some even have bent metal shades that will never return to round.