Cut The Body Loose!

Due to mumblemumblemumble my “day job” is gone.  What on Wednesday was to end on Dec 31st is now ending now.  Well, they don’t need me starting now, but will pay me to the end of the month.

I can expect good references, although at 58 and with some health issues I have made no secret that it is time for me to focus on making my own good job rather than looking for one.

Still, I am busy processing all of this change again, the things I won’t be doing as my “routine” every day any more, and the new things I will do instead, as President of Terrific.IT LLC.  Money is always the issue, money and time.  Gotta turn time into money somehow and do it efficiently so I still have some time.

Is this blog a use of time with no return?  No, given the cost of therapy while this is free, its a bargain.

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As in “How’s the job going, doing, coming, etc?”.

You mean what I have just lately come to call my “day job”.  I work for a company in Houston, but I just go up the river a ways to do that, at a location I’d like to keep vague.  I understand they miss me there, I have been on a health leave for several weeks.  On Monday I will return to work, at least I think so, and then I am told the position will not be funded in 2011 so it ends Dec 31st 2010, five and a half months work, maybe six with a notice at the end.

So I will be happy to go back to work there until the end of the year, and I will use my spare time to work on growing my side business, Terrific.IT LLC , such that it will support three couples or six adults and their children to come starting at New Years Day 2011.

Best regards,

David W.

David E. Wadleigh
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A collection of facts about the BP oil geyser from today, the day the geyser quit finally.

• Scientists now estimate that 35,000 to 60,000 barrels (1.4 million to 2.5 million gallons) of oil have spewed daily from the breach. The high end of that range would mean that about 215 million gallons have leaked out since the disaster started.
• By comparison, the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound amounted to 11 million gallons, and the 1991 Persian Gulf oil disaster intentionally caused by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein spilled 240 million gallons.
• Oil, in forms ranging from a light surface sheen to tar balls to thick red-brown sludge, has washed ashore along the Gulf Coast from marshes in western Louisiana and Mississippi to beaches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Tar balls were found July 7 in Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, Louisiana.
• More than 3.15 million feet (almost 600 miles) of boom has been placed in the water to serve as a physical barrier. In Louisiana, temporary sand berms are being built to protect barrier islands.  Skimmers aboard boats and ships are trying to capture floating oil.  Absorbent booms and pads are being used to soak up oil floating on the surface or clinging to plants, boats and structures.  Commercial fishing and shrimp boats are being used in many of these operations, providing a source of income for some idled workers.  About 1 million gallons of chemical dispersants have been sprayed on surface oil in hopes of speeding its breakdown and evaporation.  Pools of floating oil are set on fire in controlled burns.  The massive converted cargo ship A Whale is being tested for its ability to separate oil from seawater. Its operators say it can skim 21 million gallons of water a day.  The federal government sent a bill this week for $99.7 million to BP and other responsible parties. BP and other parties have already paid three bills totaling $122.3 million. In addition, BP has placed $20 billion into an escrow fund to pay damage claims.
• Birds: 1,866 collected dead; 1,120 collected alive; 505 released.  Sea turtles: 463 collected dead; 197 collected alive; 9 nests transported; 56 hatchlings released.  Mammals (including dolphins): 59 collected dead; 5 collected alive; one released.  The number of fish, shrimp, oysters and other sea creatures killed or harmed is unknown.  Commercial fishing in the Gulf of Mexico earned $659 million in total landings revenue in 2008, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service. The region accounts for 73 percent of the nation’s shrimp harvest and 59 percent of its oysters.
• Deepwater drilling in the Gulf employs more than 10,000 workers directly and 25,000 indirectly in support businesses. The overall oil industry employs 55,000 people in the region, according to government statistics.  Less one on Dec 31, 2010 – me. Tourism brings $20 billion to the five-state Gulf region, the government says.  Countless stores, gas stations, restaurants, hairdressers and other enterprises rely on money from those industries flowing their way.
• The government has suspended deepwater drilling and closed 35 percent of the Gulf to commercial fishing. Oysterman Vlaho Mjehovich found “95 percent casualties” in his oyster beds this week. “Everything’s dying,” he said. “There’s no oysters out here. … It’s dying now; it’s going to keep dying. I’ve seen areas [go] 10 years … without oysters coming back.
• “This is not something that’s going to be done and fixed overnight. People have to understand: This is going to take years to come back. And it’s like, what do you do? I had a business. My business was taken away from me overnight.”
• Drilling of two relief wells began within days of the Deepwater Horizon accident; officials have said the wells should be completed by mid-August, but some have expressed optimism the job could be done sooner.  Now It seem the new cap just may be able to keep the well plugged, David comments.
• The federal government is issuing a new moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico effective until as late as November 30.  Obama administration officials  indicated their intention to reinstate the moratorium since the initial ruling. Thousands of people and businesses depend on income from deepwater drilling operations. The Gulf offshore operations produce one-eighth of U.S. domestic oil and a quarter of its natural gas.

Extracts from – CNN July 15, 2010 modified to shorten as much as possible, David Wadleigh

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