MOTM

Sorry to those of you that were expecting shipments this week/Terry A.

I was *fired* from my job without any warning whatsoever on Wed AM.

I have been a bit 'shell-shocked' all week, just now getting sleep (I didn't 
sleep for 30 hrs the first 2 days).
The firing occurred the day after my nice 1 week vacation with my wife to 
Arizona.

Rather than go over and over why/how/etc I have to get back into getting 
another job at age 54, what chances are
will be a 20-30% pay cut (military electronics is well-paid). I really don't 
want to be an FAE any more because
it always includes sales droids that think I'm "not a good fit for the team" 
which means "Paul won't put up with by BS".

Anyway, what's done is done.

I will have more time now for MOTM *in a sense*, because now my #1 priority 
is finding a new job here in a
somewhat fragmented geographic location (I operated out of my 
house...nice!). I am strongly considering going
back to school and becoming a Patent Lawyer or Patent Agent. This is one 
area where age is NOT held against you,
in many cases it's seen as a plus (in law, age = wise experience. In many EE 
jobs, age = old guy that is clueless,
probably uses DOS on a 286 and thinks Java is a coffee nickname).

I am slowing getting 'back in the saddle' in the MOTM stuff. It will take me 
1 more week to get running back at full
speed. Shane the tech is going to come over this week for ~ 15 hours to help 
out. I'm going to have him
kit up the last 5 remaining kits while I work on the assembled backlog. He 
just finished up some assembled '800 boards
and up next are '700 and more '440s. I still have a hold on the '480s, I 
need to test  the pesky CA3280s (I was
2 hours away from starting that when I got "The Call.")

I am ordering more rails and wire this coming week. I am going to split the 
rail order between 2 new vendors hoping
one of them can read a blueprint. I am ordering 100pr of rails, this should 
last a while. The price of the wire has
*doubled* but not much I can do there (4 pieces of coax = a 32-bit DSP 
chip).

Please cut me a bit a slack this week as I get my head screwed on straight 
and figure all this crap out.

Paul S.