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I haven't blogged about my life in depth in a while, like three weeks. Its been really weird but not all good weird.

It all started with some person, scumbag, frauding my credit card for a couple thousand dollars. I eventually got it straightened out but it was nerve racking and a pain.

Then September 11th came. Not my favorite time for several reasons. I was working and my junior boss was in town, that is the only way I know how to refer to him. He is a good guy and we got along just fine. He knew that our company was making too many stupid decisions that were costing our department a bunch of money. He was in town for just a week trying to straighten up the project management stuff. He came into my office and joked for a minute, then he changed his mood and asked for me to follow him out of my office to an office that wasn't being used. Inside was a woman that I didn't recognize.

I was told that CBS was deleting my position. I didn't understand. I asked if I was being fired. I was told I wasn't being fired but laid off. The CTO of CBS and the Director of CBS Radio Online decided that they didn't need my position any longer possibly because of the CBS Interactive or CNET merger.

That part of September 11th sucked.

I called cnelson and told him what happened. He told me he would meet me at Big Dean's and buy me beer. We got to Dean's at 2pm and he listened to my relief and rage. Rage because they were secretive about laying me off. My junior boss knew Wednesday, others, like the vendor, knew before that.

We stayed at the bar until we were hungry and went to another bar, Barney's Beanery. We got some food and another beer. We shouldn't have had that last beer because we were headed to Eliot's for Edward 40 hands. If you don't know what Edward 40 hands is check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fortyhands. The twist is that we added a horrible movie (Godzilla vs. King Kong) and you couldn't change it until you were done. Long story short, I puked. I shouldn't have done that post layoff, pre-party drinking. We even did bar hopping after the party.

September 11th ended and the terrorists won, September 12th started and it was a better day. We headed to the New Beverly Cinema to see Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo. This was great. Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers and Lucinda "Special K" were there for photo opportunities and Q&A. The movie was hysterical to see on the big screen again especially with a lot of friends.

The next week, September 19th, I went to see my pals Alex and Dave from Project Dynamite perform at Lobsterfest.They did a great job and I got a poster that I hung on my wall. Later, we joined the Tuxedo Tyrants for a night at the Magic Castle. It was a great night. We got to see a bunch of great performers but the unfortunate item was the group was too big to have everyone to be together for every show. It was a fun night and a good reason to wear my tux.

On the 26th, I performed for the second time at the Bar Show at Magicopolis. So many of my friends showed up. I have video but it shows that I need to project my voice more. I had some good effects and some of the pictures came out good.

Now we are in October. I have my Halloween costume ready and I am excited. This weekend is first though. Me and the gang are heading to Toorcon. I have to get up in the morning to catch a 12:25pm Surfliner train to San Diego. I don't know if I am riding down with Dan Kaminsky or not, he twittered me asking for a ride but we will see tomorrow.

Well it looks like I have to head to bed. My ass hurts but thats from riding my new moutain bike a bunch. I feel bloated and bitchy too but I think thats from the estrogen filled 30 Rock tonight.

posted by tommEE # 10/22/2009 11:05:00 PM 0 comments

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