Okay. It's been an age since I filled out a job application. My last job, I was wooed and won - yes, I had to fill out an app, but I already had the job. The job before that one was an app filled out twenty years ago.

So seeing that they actually wanted addresses and phone numbers of these places was a shock. Because, you see, both of my old companies, adding up to sixteen work years, are gone. Virtualis was sold to Allegiance Telecom, which was sold to XO. Candle Corporation finally gave up and sold out to IBM.

And I've been unemployed for 4 years. I don't know, maybe it's me. But it looks kinda suspicious, don't it?

I knew this whole job thing would blow up in my face. But I'm plugging along. As soon as I get some real detail, I'll be sending an application to the hospital here in town, to Borders books, and to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.

Hey. Work is work, ya know?