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Happy birthday, ursulav.

Science marches on.

I'm still looking for a job, since getting laid off last February when the plant closed. But the criteria for the search has changed.

Since I last wrote about this, qtrhorserider sat down and made me consider the possibility of going back to school full time to zonker that bachelor's. After my next birthday we'll both be past the half-century mark, and there's no sense wasting time on things we don't like doing. I was convinced.

But that led to something else that I'd been thinking about for longer than I ought've gone without resolving it, like, more than one semester. It seems to me that a computer science major oughtn't be someone who's only interested in coding when he has a class assignment. And there are pretty fundamental concepts, like interfaces, that I can only define when I've been studying for a test. So I saw my adult education program advisor and changed my major to English, focussing on British literature, with an eye to going to grad school for Arthurian studies.

So now I'm looking for a part-time job that I can keep when school starts in August (I did summer semester once. Not doing it again. Everything goes in one ear and out on the test.). Meanwhile, qtrhorserider has been laid off. She can use the time for studying for the bar - she's determined to pass this time, having missed it by three points last time - but making ends meet until September when the results of the test are announced and the candidates are sworn in may be a little tricky.

The last time I brought up this subject in this space, you may recall, in conclusion I said that I had done so largely to record that the eyelid tic I get when stressed was occurring in my lower right lid, so that the next time I got one I could look back and see whether it migrates. Today it's in the lower left lid.