Dear Lazy Web

1. I was told to hold off on quitting my Sprint cell phone account (been with them for centuries). Hold off on getting the Instinct(suppose to be better than iPhone)
2. I was told Sprint is selling all of it's cellphone towers
3. They are in the process of converting the cell phone system into Broadband
4. I was told Broadband is better. That it will be phenomenal
5. So is Sprint doing this?
6. Is Broadband better? What's the difference?

work gossip

A resident came in the office yesterday, about some odd issues, then we started talking about jobs
She said
1. Genentech (SSF's largest Co, the company that she works at) is still trying to be purchased by Roche.
2. However they can't get bank financing due to the loan/economy squeeze
3. Many employees are not thrilled. Roche is a coat and tie outfit. Genentech, like Apple (the CEO and Jobs are god friends) and many others in the area, are a blue jeans and T-shirt company
4. Genentech is offering many early severance packages
5. They are still hiring, but many existing contracts from various vendors will not be renewed

She said one thing. "Last year I would get up and say, do I really have to go in today? Today I say, I am glad they need me.

tonight

I am feeling better, so off to Don Ho's NYE party in the Castro
What I am not doing
1. Getting plastered. I want the 1st of January to be productive, not being in bed all day sick
2. Not going to the Castro bars to bring in the New Year after his party. They are so crowded
it is not fun. You can't even get your arm up to drink it's so crowded. And the drink line is long, which takes too long to order. Very very uncomfortable. (I always think,"what if there were a fire?". We would all die.
3. Nope. I'll go home before midnight.
4. Of course, I have a weak mind. If they sway me enough to go. I might.
5. Nope. I won't. That's it
6. I really would like to go to a romantic dinner with someone I love, go home, cuddle, and ..... through the new year ;). Maybe next year.

THANK YOU - And Happy New Year (an early wish)

I never said THANK YOU. Thank you for the opportunity of reading your words, your humor, your candor, and your comments. And thank you for reading my words, my humor, my candor, and my comments. Thank you for letting me get to know a little bit more about you. For your sharing. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to meet new friends, many of which I hope to meet in person some day. Thank you LJ friends. And thank you to all my family and non-ljfriends.
Happy New Year.
Hugs
Rick
My wish to you for the new year and for many years to come:

New Year's Past

In order that the New Year might prosper, the old year - and the
spirits released by the solstice season - had to be buried or driven
away. In villages from Britain to Austria, the old year - in the form
of a straw dummy called Death - was carried through the streets and
then drowned in a stream or buried or burned.
Other people in other villages had more high spirited customs. On New
Year's Eve, costumed and masked as a disguise against malevolent
powers, people paraded through their towns, striking their houses
with sticks, beating drums, clanging bells and cracking whips. The
noise of the "town rattling", as it was called, drove out the ghosts
of the dying old year and brought the New Year safely in.
From "The Book of Chrismas", Time-Life Books