Back in the unemployment line, Day 8....
Oct. 8th, 2009 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1So I've taken a week off from most everything, as I went through some paper records and futzed with the computers.
I filed my unemployment claim the day after I was laid off. (To recap: The project I was working on was running over time and over budget, as software projects tend to do. As a result, the client had to make some budget cuts. Part of those cuts included letting go of two contractors. C'est la vie.) Now I wait for the nameless faces in Columbus to decide whether or not to give me unemployment compensation.
Yesterday, 6 months' worth of receipts from 1999 went into the shredder. They were still printing entire credit card numbers on receipts back then. I'm glad they don't do that any more. As for the receipts printed on thermal paper, it appears that the printing has faded on a lot of them.
Before I was laid off, or even received word that I was going to be laid off, I purchased a refurbished computer on overstock.com: a Dell Optiplex GX620. This will replace my current 9-year-old desktop. The vital stats: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Ghz CPU, 1 Gb memory, 40 Gb hard drive, with XP Pro. In the coming weeks I hope to get a larger hard drive (target size: 160 Gb) and more memory, along with other peripherals and utility software. I've already transferred most of my data and the Firewire card to the new machine, which has the name "orac MkIV". I want to use this machine for audio/video editing, which the other desktop (orac MkIII) wasn't powerful enough to do.
Shout-outs for today: happy birthday![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dragonfeydaile!
I filed my unemployment claim the day after I was laid off. (To recap: The project I was working on was running over time and over budget, as software projects tend to do. As a result, the client had to make some budget cuts. Part of those cuts included letting go of two contractors. C'est la vie.) Now I wait for the nameless faces in Columbus to decide whether or not to give me unemployment compensation.
Yesterday, 6 months' worth of receipts from 1999 went into the shredder. They were still printing entire credit card numbers on receipts back then. I'm glad they don't do that any more. As for the receipts printed on thermal paper, it appears that the printing has faded on a lot of them.
Before I was laid off, or even received word that I was going to be laid off, I purchased a refurbished computer on overstock.com: a Dell Optiplex GX620. This will replace my current 9-year-old desktop. The vital stats: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Ghz CPU, 1 Gb memory, 40 Gb hard drive, with XP Pro. In the coming weeks I hope to get a larger hard drive (target size: 160 Gb) and more memory, along with other peripherals and utility software. I've already transferred most of my data and the Firewire card to the new machine, which has the name "orac MkIV". I want to use this machine for audio/video editing, which the other desktop (orac MkIII) wasn't powerful enough to do.
Shout-outs for today: happy birthday
dragonfeydaile!
